Hey there, Earthman - love your work

"Vegetable rights and peace, man"

Doing my bit for the planet and all that (my misanthropy seems to be clearing up - that cream really does work), I've got a couple of links to enhance your awareness of the challenges our beautiful species face (as if you, dear reader, needed such enlightenment).

Firstly, there's an article where the BBC puts the boot in on Climate Change deniers. (thanks to Boing Boing for the link.)

The most illuminating point I felt was raised in the comments section under the Boing Boing article...

"1.) Anthropogenic carbon dioxide production exists. We burn fossil fuels for energy, a lot.

2.) Carbon dioxide acts as an insulating filter for infrared radiation. This can be demonstrated literally with a fish tank, a lamp, and a thermometer...

3.) Therefore, we are significantly increasing the retention of solar energy due to human produced carbon dioxide emissions."

Quite simple, really - ignore the harvesting of the evidence to prove matters, look at the logical rationale. Oh, and whilst you're at it, read "The Party's Over" by Richard Heinberg, then go find a nice comfortable cave for your grandchildren to live in.

My second titbit of gloom is from last Sunday's Observer, where Juliette Jowitt puts the case for less procreation. Who'd have thought it, eh - Malthus had it right after all, just a few hundred years too early. Where's a plague when you need it - sorry, misanthropy is playing up again. Anyway, now you've all booked in for your family planning clinic appointment, come and join Drop the Pop (what do you mean you're not on Facebook?!) where you can think long and hard about how to get the rest of the world to stop rutting so much, without sounding like a patronising Western shytehawk...


On the plus side, Soy Bean Futures are up 1.21% to $1069 as at 05.12 this AM on the Dow.

The name's Michael, not Mickey.