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Let them eat their Greens via Skin Flicks July 4th, 2008 at 13:16

Okay, so first the global warming advocates tell us we need to cut down fossil fuels because of carbon emissions.Then Green politicians start demanding more biofuel use to replace the oil and petrol that's running out.Then, because foodstuffs are being diverted to biofuel production, grain prices soar, other food prices follow, and 100 million people end up starving, according to a top secret World Bank report that got leaked to the Guardian newspaper.I have a potential solution to the problem. Reverse the production of biofuels immediately. And in the interim, while the world's starving await the next harvest, let them eat their Greens.When will these back-to-the-middle-ages, yoghurt-knitting hobbits stop concocting junk science to justify their Luddism?And when will the rest of us stop...

The Pacific is our dustbin via Skin Flicks May 18th, 2008 at 23:52

The Pacific Ocean is officially now our dustbin.Look at the image here, drawn up by the nice people at The Independent newspaper.Those two dark blobs represent much larger blobs of bobbing plastic, garbage, trash, rubbish, call it what you will. Our detritus.Effectively, this floating bin now stretches from Japan to Hawaii, and from Hawaii half way to the US.The amount of ocean fouled by this trash is twice the size of the continental United States.It really is time to recycle, people. This is not a green fantasy anymore. What happens when we run out of ocean to piss, shit and dump plastic into?...