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POPSRace to nuclear power generation The costs of decommissioning nuclear power plants is proving to be orders of magnitude greater than anticipated. Who will pay them? Will our children and their children have the money? See yesterday's clip: Nuclear clean-up costs 'to soar' http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D62BF5D1-BB89-470A-B2CF-19C6F5ED6749/
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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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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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POPSLow Spending Is Taking Toll on Economy "Growth" is now clearly a meaningless concept. On the necessities side -- food, fuel etc. -- inflation is counted as "growth". (No more food or fuel is being produced or used.) This is balanced against deflation and recession in the discretionary economy, and is interpreted as positive growth. These are two different phenomena and cannot be added together in a meaningful way. Yet achieving this growth is what economics is supposed to be all about. Just another reason why the so-called science of economics is literally nonsense and innumerate to boot.
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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.