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From Bus to Busted

29 Feb 2008

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.

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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.

Seen something weird, wacky, or wonderful in the environmental world? Think it deserves a place on The List?

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Sarah K. Burkhalter is Grist's news producer.

Sarah van Schagen is Grist's assistant editor.

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Too late

I read an article in Rolling Stone stating that it is too late to do anything about global warming. That %95 of the earth's population will die in the next 50 -100 years. So I say unto thee, "have a good time all the time." If you would like to check out my video regarding my presidential candidacy, please go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlnyWEuMAuw

billy dave

by billydave at 12:23 PM on 29 Feb 2008

Huh?

At the age of 48, I count myself as one of the 95% of the earth's population that will die in the next 50-100 years. (If I'm lucky enough to make it another 50!)

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.

by GonzoDon at 11:58 AM on 02 Mar 2008

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