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Elective Deafness
Climate Change Action — [image] This weekend many of you will be celebrating the annual festival of Easter - when we commemorate the point at which our nation traditionally goes into ecological debt - consuming beyond our means and damning us and the rest of the planet to a joyful future of instability , expensively shagged soils and dry taps . We celebrate this with over-packaged chocolate eggs to demonstrate that we are blessed with the requisite amount of kiddy-friendly blind faith, and that we really couldn't give a toss. The prognosis is poor, and we ...

Food & agriculture - Apr 14
Energy Bulletin - — ... but equally on social and international relations, which in turn will impact directly on the security and stability of world politics". The warning comes ahead of the very first meeting of the G8 leading economies' agriculture ministers later this month in northern Italy. The gathering was prompted by last year's spike in prices for agricultural commodities such as wheat and rice, which triggered riots in more than 30 countries from Haiti to Bangladesh. (7 April 2009) Related www.countercurrents.org/lee100409.htm . It doesn't look like the report itself is available online. ...