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"If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows." Lord Louis Mountbatton I know a slightly different version: "If WW3 is fought with nuclear weapons, WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein. Maybe he was ...

Well apparently it's not such a biggie after all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonic_plague Since 2001, the WHO has reported six plague outbreaks, though some may go unreported because they often happen in remote areas. Between 1998 and 2008, nearly 24,000 cases have been reported, including abo...

Same thing happend to me a few months ago (maybe four??) - the PFAF site was down, and I thought to myself - 'well, that's the end of that then :( ' but was up and running as normal a few days later!! :P I think they have been looking for someone to look after one of their sites... not sure, just re...

RalphW wrote:
I've always said we could adapt Western society to a low energy future, but that we wouldn't.

We aren't and we won't.

Party on dude.

I agree, sadly

RGR wrote:

monster wrote:http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/clima ... l-20090728

I would rank this article as so-so.

Does that mean it's pretty good then?

Hmmm... I personally know a person who had just recovered from swine flu, he said it was not nice. I also know a person who's brother and his partner have both had swine flu for the past week and a half. They said it is not nice and they are not over it yet! I know the Head of Nursing of a major hos...

RenewableCandy wrote:It's not going to get very far in Afghanistan/Iraq/Sudan izzit? No greenery.

Maybe they need to work on a robot that feeds on dussssssssssssssstt

Moving away from spelling issues, I loved the use of the term 'sustainable growth' in the article... it's like saying 'hot ice'

clv101 wrote:Brown's right. If/when the economy picks up and tries to use anything like the amount of oil we used last summer the price will rocket.

That's absolutely right, I've heard this phenomenon is called 'Peak Oil' (just pulling your leg clv101 )

Speaking of boiling frogs, have you ever heard of the 'boiling frog syndrom'? It goes like this - if you were to boil a frog (just for clarification, I do actually mean a frog, NOT a human of any nationality), the best way to go about it is to place it in lukewarm water and slowly heat it up. It wou...

Great! That might just be it then, the last nail in the coffin of population explosion.

bigjim wrote:I'm surprised that Andrew Kadir-Buxton didn't think of this first.

MAN!!! Who is this guy??!?1!!! That stuff is priceless!!! I might try it on my boss tomorrow morning

Very interesting indeed. Thank you.

I think with slight alteration, the headline could read: 'Humans! The greedy b*gg3rs consuming the Earth'

Have we missed the boat on this one? I ask because while talking to my Granddad yesterday he mentioned that we 'would be on Mars by the end of the century' End of the century?? Some of us are on Mars already (like the economists for example), others may have not gone as far but are certainly on our...

biffvernon wrote:Will economics sink the carriers?

Economics, in its current form, is a pseudo-science (a pile of sh1te based on a fantasy, in simple terms). It will sink much more than just the carriers.