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POPSWhy Britain faces a bleak future of food shortages It's a hard truth to face. Without the food, the population will not continue to grow. As babies starve, then people will have fewer of them, and the population will decline. As for the science having another green revolution up its sleeve, it is in way over its head. GM has proved very disappointing when it come to increasing yields.
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POPSIf climate change doesn’t grab you, meet its evil twin This catastrophe is in addition to over fishing, trawling seabeds, massive "soups" of poisonous plastic particles thousands of miles wide, not to mention all the other pollution that ends up in the sea. Mankind's abuse of its life supporting environment is almost to enormous to comprehend. What is happening in the sea is clear for all to see, even if the climate science is slightly foggy at the moment.
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POPS2010 could be warmest year on record (1) Nobody talks about consciousnes change leading to a new way of understanding what wealth means beyond the very basics of survival. If everyone just did everything they could to assist in the grand project of helping to heal nature which (some) people have harmed so grievously, then there may be a chance. All real wealth is co-owned and co-created by all life and the planet for the mutual benefit of all the stakeholders, both human and non-human. What is required is no more (and no less) than to redefine the purpose of life.
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POPSThe Evolution of A New Trust Economy I have re-clipped Wildcat's finding, so I can tag it into our '1-self signifying' collection See tags on www.openintelligence.amplify.com. (I do so wish that Categories and Tags would be on Amplify's Newsfeed page.) I also emphasised the sCRM angle, as I wote a report a few years ago, called Beyond CRM which was about a new "buyer centric" economy.
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POPSJapan GDP revised heavily downward Governments took a bet with stimulous policy: double or nothing. And they keep doubling. Any betting man will say this bet a very easy way to lose a lot of money, and is a sign of complete desperation.
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POPSGreece downgraded over high debt Europe is falling. What will the order be: 1) Greece, 2) Ireland, 3) Italy, 4) Portugal, 5) UK, 6) Spain? What could Germany and France do then, but follow. What happens then is the $64 trillion question. Hyperinflation? More deflation? Nobody knows, but they will know soon. The knowledge is liable to be depressing for believers in eternal economic growth.
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POPSAmericans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food First people need to learn to care about themselves, as well as others. The servings in urban fast food fast food outlets are obscene. The price of fast food calories will have to rise drastically. A tax on MCDonalds etc. would be able to fund price reductions in far less wasteful slow food and collaborative cooing strategies.
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POPSWhy We Find it so Hard to Act Against Climate Change (2) Be the change. Jump out of the industrial mindset, first. The rest becomes an adventure with no certain outcome. In my experience, the journey is fun and rewarding. See www.worldwidewood.wordpress.com to see an example. Updates coming soon on Amplify.
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POPSThe Complexity Myth I think the author means complicated, hierarchical control, not the 'complexity' of chaos theory and living systems. Still, it's his idea of 'simplicity' that's important.
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POPSDominic Lawson: Roll up, roll up for the great Copenhagen emissions-fest And that's not counting the media flying in from everywhere. The very concept that politicians have the power to restrict climate change to 2C or 3C is as absurd as waving a magic wand. No wonder many people are skeptical about what they are doing. It doesn't change the sad facts of glacier melting, water poisoning, mass extinction, deforestation etc.etc. which are the direct consequences of industrial civilisation.
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POPSUK output signals weak start to fourth quarter Double dip leads to double debt. Yesterday, I bought a 145 'Maine' branded, made in China, winter coat for 45. That's the state of the Chistmas retail market, even before the stimulous has been switched off.
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POPSBreak-in targets [Canadian] climate scientist The Canadian authorities are controlled by Stephen Harper's government -- climate change deniers in the Bush mode. Who are really behind these people? Holy rollers? Oil companies? Is it something to do with psychology of greed?
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POPSCanada - The criminal, ecocidal state (3) This weeks clips on the issue: Is Canada Criminally Negligent on Climate Policy?: http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2009/12/03/is-canada-criminally-negligent-on-climate-policy/ Alberta’s Tar Sands Make Canada a Climate Criminal http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2009/12/02/albertas-tar-sands-make-canada-a-climate-criminal/ Look up '1-tar sands' in our Amplify tag list. Please do something.
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POPSIs Canada Criminally Negligent on Climate Policy? So the Canadian government is breaching its own Laws on two counts: 1) High Treason, 2) Criminal Negligence. See yesterday's Clip: Alberta Tar Sands make Canada a Climate Criminal - http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2009/12/02/albertas-tar-sands-make-canada-a-climate-criminal/.
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POPSAlberta's Tar Sands Make Canada a Climate Criminal I became so worked up about Canada's tar sands policy that I made a short video, 'STAND ON GUARD, O CANADA: Treason and Ecocide in the tar sands' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgBGwsLILic. There is original music, too. Please pass it around. Resist Canada's criminal government. Organise Canadian flag burnings.
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POPSThe Collapse of Finance The wave is breaking. Time to start surfing for your life. Experiencing the moment, while anticipating what will happen next must be vitally important in preventing wipe outs.
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POPSTwitter and the Global Brain In fact, judging by Twitter's Trending Topics, the re-tweeting process does not point to either good, or important content. Of course, it may not be right to assume that a global brain will be smarter, and real significance will be lost in the tsunami of celebrity drivel.
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