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15 Dec 2006
These are dark days indeed. Apparently the world is facing a new danger, to join peak oil and peak gas in an unholy Trinity, peak blogs. The BBC reports that apparently the middle of 2007 is when the world will hit peak blogs, and from that point total global blog post production will go into a relentless and steady decline. Although total global blog production currently stands at about 1.3 million individual posts a day (about half of which is the steady stream of over-optimistic nonsense churned out by Transition Culture), it is estimated by the analysts Gartner that the world will peak mid-2007 at around 100 million blog sites. Kenneth Deffeyes has not yet been quoted as saying anything about Thanksgiving Day, but it is surely only a matter of time.
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13 Dec 2006
So one of modern history’s great murderous fascists has shuffled off this mortal coil, having successfully spent his final years avoiding justice. Margaret Thatcher’s courting of and support for Pinochet was yet another thing to add to her dreadful legacy, and as ever, who better to document both his passing and the Great White Witch’s role in his Presidency that the great Steve Bell. This is one of his simplest, most powerful and somehow, most furious, cartoons.
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12 Dec 2006
Last week I watched the new peak oil film, **Crude Impact**, produced by Vista Clara films, which has just emerged on DVD. It describes itself as “a film about how energy use, particularly fossil fuels, has impacted the earth, mankind and other species”, and is one of a couple of new peak oil films coming out over the next few months. I had been looking forward to seeing it for some time, and I found it to be an extremely well-made film which clearly and passionately presents the argument that we are at or near the peak, which will be a transition of historic importance.
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6 Dec 2006
Tony Blair, despite talking about climate change as being the greatest threat facing humanity, has just announced that he intends to renew the UK’s Trident missile capability, at a cost of £20 billion. Good move. Of course we could have spent the money on a huge programme of energy efficiency and building of local food and energy infrastructure which would have made us less oil dependent and thereby less of a target but no, Trident it is. Among all the column inches on this subject, my favourite is a letter in today’s Guardian from David Collins. *”Why all this fuss about the need for a new Trident? We haven’t used the old ones yet”*.
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22 Nov 2006
Here is another exercise from **Earth Education** for getting people observing a woodland in a different way. String a length of washing line between different trees in the wood, wandering off through the trees. Tell the participants that they are all amazing artists, and have been invited to contribute to an exhibition in this, the most prestigious art gallery in the country.
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These are dark days indeed. Apparently the world is facing a new danger, to join peak oil and peak gas in an unholy Trinity, peak blogs. The BBC reports that apparently the middle of 2007 is when the world will hit peak blogs, and from that point total global blog post production will go into a relentless and steady decline. Although total global blog production currently stands at about 1.3 million individual posts a day (about half of which is the steady stream of over-optimistic nonsense churned out by Transition Culture), it is estimated by the analysts Gartner that the world will peak mid-2007 at around 100 million blog sites. Kenneth Deffeyes has not yet been quoted as saying anything about Thanksgiving Day, but it is surely only a matter of time.
