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Combining this piece on the Oil Drum (one of the better Peak Oil sites, overwhelmingly US-centric but with a good mix of technically minded economists and geologists) about the UK's energy supply and Smokewriting's comments on the externalising of costs by the developed world, I've come up with a thought: as the end of cheap/relatively clean fossil ( Read more... )

Who do we go with on the future of the world's food?

The Economist

OR

Jonathan Porritt (the George Monbiot of the 1980s)?

Needless to say, they both display their expected biases through the omitted linkages/justifications of various bits'n'pieces.