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Stop! In the name of love
On the rare occasion that a desperate chase ends in actually catching the bus, we always end up plopping our disheveled selves next to someone loud and smelly. To people who find love on public transit, we say: no fare!
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Par for the course
A little birdie told us that fewer bogey men are still sand-trapped in the golf club. On the hole, the golfing green ain't green, so swingers are gonna need to get a grip. OK, we'll stop 'fore this gets old. Tee hee.
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Grease is the word
Breaking news: Dirty hippies smarter than we thought.
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Welcome to the mile-high club
Like a Virgin, a biofueled plane launched for the very first time this week (landing in Amsterdam, natch). Founder Richard Branson celebrated his nut-powered conquest, but eco-activists were left unsatisfied.
Photo: Cubbie_n_Vegas via Flickr
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That ain't my bag, baby!
Ohmigod, are you still wearing clothes and carrying things in plastic bags? That is, like, sooo embarrassing. Obvi, you need to start wearing the bags and carrying stuff in the clothes.
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The Grist List, 29 Feb 2008
From Bus to Busted 2
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29 Feb 2008 3:32 PM
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Sarah K. Burkhalter is Grist’s project coordinator.
Sarah van Schagen is Grist’s Seattle editor.
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billydave Posted 5:23 am
29 Feb 2008
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GonzoDon Posted 4:58 am
02 Mar 2008
Seriously, though, it seems to me that the current global population of 6.5 billion, estimated to rise to around 9 billion before it levels off, could easily be decimated to half that number by the end of this century.
But not because of "global warming". I don't think we need to reach that far. With or without global warming, we'll see a contraction in the human population due to simple over-shoot, which will be brought into sharp focus (in 10 or 20 years at most) by peak oil and peak natural gas.
How does a planet support a population of 9 billion once ag fertilizers, product transport, and even the cost of pumping water from aquifers becomes ten times what it is today??
We can't, I suspect. Which is why I'm not very optimistic about the outlook for those 9 billion individuals in 2050.
But this has little to do with global warming ... heck, a warmer climate and higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere may actually boost agricultural production in much of the world.
At least, until the cheap fertilizer runs out. Then things start getting ugly.
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