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POPSThe Great Biofuels Con It is a crime against humanity and a crime against nature. Cutting down forests for monocrops of any kind is ecocide.
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POPSIt Isn't Morning in America Anymore -- It's Dusk on Planet Earth - Part 1 Can people learn to "turn on a dime"? Or will humanity continue to plunge headlong into the abyss like the Gaderine swine? Those who turn fastest, decoupling themselves from the growth / money economy, for example, by NOT consuming, doing with as little as possible, taking as little as possible, and giving back (to the earth) as much as possible. All people have to do is change their minds about what is important.
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POPSLiving in a world of $200 oil This scenario is being painted in a Financial Times editorial. You can't be much more mainstream than that. Pity the SUV owner / driver. Or could it be Divine justice?
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POPSThe U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing? An important article about an under-discussed topic. The investment required to keep the grid from falling apart is billions (hard to find at the best of times, harder in the "credit crunch"). Will the result be re-nationalisation and e-rationing?
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POPSSurvey shows rise in U.S. honey bee deaths From a selfish (human-centred) point of view, here's another reason why food prices will continue to rise at an accelerating rate. From the point of view of the bees, it must be even worse.
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POPSFood Riots Erupt Worldwide The real culprits are the economic ideologies of free trade and interest driven growth which, masquerading as science, drive disastrous policy decisions.
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POPSSewing machines make a comeback A definite sign of the times, as the new age of thrift arrives. Sewing machine manufacturers would be a good investment, too ... not to mention Adam Smith's favorite - pin manufacturers
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POPSExposed: the great GM crops myth There you are! A real hard-headed reason to dis-invest in GM technology, rather than unproven fears that it will cause some kind of unforeseen environmental catastrophe.
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POPSCanada warns US over oil sands Per capita, Canadians must be the worst ecology destroyers on the planet. And yet they think of themselves, and are thought of as relative innocents. As a Canadian resident in the UK, I know.