Over 10,000 people have lost their island. Lohachara island in India, drowned beneath the rising waves, displacing thousands of people. It’s not the first island to disappear, but probably the most inhabited “to date”. This will continue to happen, eventually displacing millions and millions of people. Estimates run as high as 500,000,000 will eventually be displaced around the globe.

From another article:

This is the moment when the world seems to get the message at last: climate change is serious and unavoidable.

The rather pathetic attempts by ignorant politicians to curb climate change are still stupidly being scheduled for years and years from now. Of course, this makes absolutely no sense at all. Every year we delay these belated and meager actions, will greatly increase the effects of climate change we will experience.

It takes decades for the effects of climate change to reveal themselves. What we are now experiencing is the effects from 1970’s emissions. Our pathetic “reductions” today and in the years ahead won’t even be revealed for at least 10 - 20 years, and by that time, we will be experiencing some of the worst effects caused by our human-activity.

Consider this: Governor Schwarzenegger of California is embracing the environmental “movement”. His plan is to reduce the emmissions to “1990 levels” - in 13 years.

This year he signed the nation’s first environmental law of its kind, committing the state to lowering its greenhouse gas production to 1990 levels by 2020 and setting up an international program that provides manufacturers with incentives to lower carbon emissions, which is supposed to begin by 2012. He has vowed to fight any attempt to drill for oil off California’s coast.

What politicians seem to fail to understand is 1990 levels helped create the conditions we have today. And waiting 13 more years to “achieve” this “reduction” only guarantees with certainty an uninhabitable future planet.

But only the naieve can believe that we could simply stop our toxic emissions, and no politician would last more then a year in office if they tried. This means only what it can possible mean - it is up to each and every human to voluntarily reduce their emissions and consumption. This is the message that should be being shouted from the housetops by government, politicians and even the corporate culture. The political process is glacially slow while rivers of melt-water are being dumped into the oceans.

The Environmental Protection Agency has long been a road block to effective legislation. They are beholden to political (corporate) interests and have had their fingers caught in the profit-mill more then once. Expecting a political solution is foolishness, in my opinion, because it will continue to be resisted by those that stand to profit the most - and these are the same people that control the resources, media, markets and public perception.

If you read it, they’ve already been putting this into the food supply all along.

Breakfast: Blueberry muffin, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns and some sausage TVP from Rainy Day Foods.

Lunch: ABC Soup with some freeze-dried chicken, and a buttermilk biscuit.

Dinner: Albacore Tuna with noodles and Apple Almond Crisp for dessert, both from Alpine Aire.

Breakfast: I’m a hot breakfast person, but tried the Blueberry Honey Granola from Alpine Aire. Even with the milk, I liked it. It also seemed to stick with me longer then the other breakfast foods I’ve tried.

Lunch: Bandito Scramble from Alpine Aire. Breakfast at lunchtime!

Dinner: Beef Stroganoff from Mountain House. This is one of Mountain House top sellers, and it’s easy to see why. Tasty and filling, I managed to eat more then I usually do. The two person serving was huge, but I made a big dent.

I’ve gone ahead and published the 2007 price list, updated the catalog, yada, yada. I did this today for two reasons. There’s a heavy snowfall happening right now, and I’m likely to lose Internet access again. And there’s always one or two who try to slide in under wire and make orders at the last minute. The cannery won’t honor these “old prices”. If they weren’t received by close of business Friday, then it’s already too late.

Prices went up substantially on some items, but not as many as I expected. I even lowered prices on some other items.

I haven’t seen the new prices from Alpine Aire or Richmoor yet, so these remained stable for now. Rainy Day foods had over 1200 price changes and Mountain House has already published their 2007 prices. So there will probably be some more changing forthcoming, but I don’t know when.Food is still a fantastic investment. The Why Buy Dried & Dehydrated Food is still as valid today as ever. Just consider that your supermarket prices are going up week by week. This gradual creep isn’t really noticable at first, unless you monitor it closely. But energy costs are still climbing, whatever happens in the Middle East has world wide repercussions on prices of everything. Food purchased today and consumed “tomorrow” (even in ten or twenty years) will have been purchased at a fraction of the cost it will cost then.

My 30 day diet experiment is eating food I’ve had stored for years. Some of these containers I’m eating from were opened over five years ago. But it’s working out great, the food is still fresh and edible and it’s very cheap compared to what I’d have to be buying at the supermarket.

Update: I’ve been able to modify the shopping cart to track individual product line purchases, so now we have $25 minimums, making our prices and minimum orders the lowest in the country!

Breakfast: I repeated yesterdays experiment, but used freeze-dried blueberrys and buttermilk pancake mix. This is probably my favorite!

Lunch: Spicy Orange Chicke from Mountain House. Always goof!

Dinner: Leftowver Friendship Soup. I had plenty of this and it was even better the second time around.

Breakfast: Buttermilk pancakes from Rainy Day Foods.

Lunch: Creamy Potato Soup from Rainy Day foods and some fresh bread. Part of this bread mix was rolled out to make dinner.

Dinner: Pizza! You can make your own pizza dough from scratch, or from a bread mix. I used Rainy Day Foods honeywheat bread mix and their Pasta Pizza Sauce mix for the sauce. Added cheddar cheese, sausage tvp, rehydrated onions, mushroom slices (for everyone else) from Rainy Day foods, and freeze dried chicken from Mountain House. This could have been better, the cheese was too runny, fresh cheese would have worked better and some pepperoni would have been nice! This was my first pizza attempt and I could just as easily have made tacos from this mixture.

Breakfast: Quick Rolled Oats from Rainy Day Foods.

Lunch: Seafood Chowder from Mountain House, and a buttermilk biscuit from Rainy Day Foods. Their biscuit mix is good and very easy to prepare, just add water and bake.

Dinner: Lasagna from Mountain House. I’m a lasagna lover, one of my favorite foods and this was good. Imagine eating this on your next backpacking trip!

Breakfast: Hashbrowns, scrambled eggs and a blueberry muffin from Rainy Day Foods.

Lunch: White rice, chicken tvp, chicken gravy, peas and buttermilk biscuit from Rainy Day Foods.  I prefer a hot lunch and it’s kind of cool when you can either have left overs or make up something like this for lunch.

Dinner: Hearty Stew w/Beef.  This was great, what can I say? Everything Mountain House makes is very good.

This is perhaps the funkiest thing I have ever seen: Snail Systems For Humans.

Want to know where to put it? There’s more here, rooms, shops, factories, fishfarms, even rocket systems. Take a good look and stop laughing. I’m not laughing. Their message is pretty clear.

And coming soon to a supermarket near you:

This is allegedly for real, television ads on eggs. Tip of the hat to “Dirt“, original at the NY Times (use www.bugmenot.com for those pesky password sites). I agree with Amy, raise your own bloody chickens and bypass the corporate monstrosities that will soon be lurking around the toilet bowl too.