Choosing Choice
Comedy Break, Global Warming/Climate Change — by Marc Roberts March 10, 2010
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Many folk are wondering just how to get the seriousness of this thing across to a willfully ignorant section of society:
Comments (8)Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
Comedy Break, Global Warming/Climate Change — by Marc Roberts
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Permafrost is not so permanent after all – here, here and here.
Comments (0)Sons of the Sod
Comedy Break, Consumerism — by Marc Roberts March 8, 2010
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Hitting Methane Tipping Point?
Comedy Break, Global Warming/Climate Change — by Marc Roberts February 23, 2010
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This strip, from June 2008, fits just as well into today’s news.
Comments (0)Peaking Early
Comedy Break, peak oil — by Marc Roberts February 15, 2010
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With oil running out, and biofuels not being the answer, perhaps humans should grow and trade their food closer to home.
Perhaps we suffer from collectively traumatised amygdalas.
Comments (4)December Emissions Peak Addressed
Comedy Break, Consumerism — by Marc Roberts December 18, 2009
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Frank’s Shovel, and Day 8 at Copenhagen Update
Comedy Break, Global Warming/Climate Change — by Marc Roberts December 16, 2009
Editor’s Note: This is a repost from Marc Roberts at Throbgoblins. Be sure to comment and encourage our Frank in his permaculture ambitions. We’d certainly love to see him taking regular breaks from his passionate activist endeavours to recharge in nature and build some resiliency for himself against these troubled times. (But please, please, no making fun of his thirty five year old singlet….)
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This cartoon was a response to a suggestion by Craig Mackintosh of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia – who has been a valued supporter of Frank over the years. Craig points out that what should be on the negotiating table at Copenhagen is:
Comments (2)On the Rebound
Comedy Break — by Marc Roberts May 17, 2009
Researchers suggest that our self indulgence might cancel out our cleverness, as we consume more of what we save in a “rebound effect“.
Which is, apparently, a variant of the Jevons Paradox (thanks to Marc Hudson).
What price water and food when there’s no water and food.
Elsewhere, Russia reserves the right to wage its own wars for oil; the planet becomes increasingly unbalanced; marine wildernesses go the way of all fish.
Some fine urban pollution materials here, at Urban Emissions.info.
I haven’t been through this, but it looks very interesting – Recalibrating the Law of Humans with the
Laws of Nature: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Intergenerational Justice.
Infernal Combustion
Comedy Break — by Marc Roberts May 10, 2009
Frank is feeling a little better today. Thanks for asking.
While the UK entrenches itself up to its neck in car culture, the scientific world debates whether it is best to starve us all and destroy our biodiversity in the name of biofuel or bio-electricity – whichever gives most miles per acre. Motorists, as ever, expect to be coddled through without inconvenience.
Those on two wheels had better watch their backs.
So many choices, so little accurate information.
What price action?
China and Italy invest heavily in renewables.
Comments (0)Surface Reflection
Comedy Break — by Marc Roberts May 5, 2009
Whilst the world’s media squeal about Swine-flu and worry about the sex lives of the rich and famous, some other stuff has happened
Al Gore has been talking about Black Carbon particulates, whilst temperatures at the top of the world soar. The Himalayas enjoy L.A. like pollution levels and record CO2 recordings. Burning down the planet may have something to do with it.
To combat this the only wind turbine factory in the UK closes down whilst the US steams ahead.
Perhaps we need to look at why we behave this way, and how we can stop it.
Meanwhile the oil shale monster ratchets up a perfect storm (thanks to Susan Anderson for this)
And the squillions at stake for the nuclear industry prompt the usual shenanigans.
Comments (0)From Each According to Their Ability?
Comedy Break, Economics, Global Warming/Climate Change, Society — by Marc Roberts April 25, 2009
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The wealthy in the UK are throwing all manner of hissy fits at the very idea of paying their fair share to help pull our collective fat out of the fire. They are once again threatening to leave the country in droves unless we all pucker up. Perhaps a concerted drive is needed to finally establish a clear distinction between the concepts of ‘earn’, ‘receive’ and ‘deserve’. These people are deeply confused.
From each according to their ability. To each according to their need.
As the emissions of rich nations continue to rise, the push for carbon capture picks up steam in a last ditch attempt to create tools to save the likes of orchards, fish and humans from the consequences of habitual greed.
Comments (0)Earth Day – The Lotto Way of Thinking
Comedy Break, Consumerism, Global Warming/Climate Change, Health & Disease — by Marc Roberts April 22, 2009
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When Fixes Need Fixing?
Comedy Break, Food Shortages, Global Warming/Climate Change, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Water Contaminaton — by Marc Roberts April 20, 2009
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Grist provides these two links to reports of pending agricultural collapse in the Punjab due to (profit driven?) over-exploitation of resources. [Editor's Note: for more on this, head here]
The Huffington Post posts this, by Lise van Susteran, on Moral Obligation.
Fred Pearce, on consuming vs population. Did I post this already?
I just saw this – Ian Tomlinson’s death at the G20 demonstrations now being treated as possible manslaughter.
Comments (0)Small is Beautiful
Comedy Break, Global Warming/Climate Change, Society — by Marc Roberts April 10, 2009
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with etc etc.
As ice sheets crack off and ice cover thins, police crack heads and numbers break records.
Some of that mouse shit might be raisins!
Comments (0)More Nails in Satire’s Coffin
Comedy Break, Consumerism, Economics, Global Warming/Climate Change — by Marc Roberts April 9, 2009
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Truth is far stranger and dumber than fiction.
Noel Lynch brought the Tesco idiocy to my attention thus:
Today’s Guardian has a half page advert for TESCO. It is headed ‘Turn lights into flights’. It shows a low energy light bulb and says that if you buy it you can get a clubcard voucher that you can turn into 60 Airmiles. So save a small amount of energy by buying a low energy light bulb and then consume a large amount of energy by flying an extra 60 miles. Doh
Quite so.
The Earth Hour folk also drop a bollock with Alanis – really quite breathtakingly numb of them:
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