What the world eats in one week:

The United States, obviously. You can tell from all the junk food. I don’t know if these are actors or not, but most Americans would be a lot heavier eating this kind of slop. Notice all the packaging waste in developed countries. (more…)

While the world continues to heat up, the US Supreme court is going to wait until next summer to “decide” if carbon dioxide is a pollutant. Meanwhile, the Ross Ice Shelf threatens collapse, with a corresponding (and dramatic) rise in sea levels.

James Lovelock say’s that an 8c rise in temperature is already “built in“, no matter what we do, which efforts are “morally commendable, but wasted”.

Personally, I suspect he’s right because the feedback mechanisms take a long time to reveal themselves. (more…)

Videos you should watch (and they’re free, on the Net):

The Corporation

Iraq For Sale

An Inconvient Truth

V For Vendetta

1984

Loose Change

From Freedom to Fascism

The End of Suburbia

The Fog of War

Why We Fight

The Future of Food

I don’t usually follow this stuff too closely, because everytime they make a “prediction”, another white rabbit gets pulled out of that and things manage to grind on for while longer.  But this article, say’s that we’re over our limit.  Make of it what you will, crash soon or crash later, I dunno.

This is a interesting argument that essentially concludes we really do live in a computer simulation matrix.

This is gross - and a prime example of everything that is wrong with our culture.  Irresponsiblity, massive overproduction, consumer consumption, corporate waste, greed, capitalism, you name it, it’s there.

These pictures speak for themselves:

Australia, North West Shelf, water depth about 70 m; first photo taken in an area where trawling has not been allowed; second photo taken in an area heavily trawled by pair-trawlers.

*Yawn… Another useless report, ranking nations by democracy.

I say “useless”, because the conclusions were meaningless. Here’s why: (more…)

“They sold us out. First of all, they sold us out a long time ago. But taking recent history as an example, the Democrats sold us out over 9/11, and the Iraq war. Now that they are back in power in Congress and the Senate, they’ve made it clear already that they’re going to keep selling us out too.”

We were still in the garden and Frank had grabbed a spade to help out. That was pretty cool, because he’d done it without asking. I had just gotten done with dumping a whole lot of information on him with regards to the empire system we all labored under. The huge difference wasn’t lost on me. Frank had volunteered for this ‘help’, unlike the empire which had shoved it down our throats. (more…)

Anybody can “build” one of these, a low-tech solution to storing food products that need to be kept cool. This is also a pretty cool website (no pun intended), you should bookmark it.