AN EXCERPT:  World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid “a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills”, warns a major report from the Royal Society.

Contraception must be offered to all women who want it and consumption cut to reduce inequality, says the study published on Thursday, which was chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston.

The assessment of humanity’s prospects in the next 100 years, which has taken 21 months to complete, argues strongly that to achieve long and healthy lives for all 9 billion people expected to be living in 2050, the twin issues of population and consumption must be pushed to the top of political and economic agendas. Both issues have been largely ignored by politicians and played down by environment and development groups for 20 years, the report says.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/26/earth-population-consumption-disasters?newsfeed=true

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Uk-40vkDnGw

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The above video shows what happens on the ground when the US bombs people from afar with flying robots.

It’s a timely reminder because the Obama administration has today granted the CIA’s wish for expanded authority in this secret-only-in-courtrooms drone war. Now, as the agency is already authorized to do in Pakistan, the CIA has Presidential approval to execute via drone those people it suspects, but isn’t really sure, are terrorists. Not only that: now the CIA doesn’t have to worry about actually identifying the people it means to drone bomb into bug splat in Pakistan or Yemen

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“The report, which looks at how the internet affects economies worldwide, finds that 21 percent of Americans would rather give up sex than the Internet for an entire year. 69 percent would give up coffee, while 77 percent would forgo chocolate and 7 percent a shower.  To compare the United States with a couple of other countries surveyed: 78 percent of Indonesians would give up showering for a year to keep the Internet. And 56 percent of Japanese would give up sex.” (Business Insider)

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AN EXCERPT:   “The United Nations estimates that the global population will stabilize at 10 billion in 2100, assuming that declining birthrates will eventually yield a global average of 2.1 children per woman. At a rate of even 2.6, Dr. Guengant said, the number becomes 16 billion.”  New York Times

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AN EXCERPT:    A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is “almost certainly” man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study.

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey said that for the three decades until 2000, seismic events in the nation’s midsection averaged 21 a year. They jumped to 50 in 2009, 87 in 2010 and 134 in 2011.

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From Rolling Stone:

On March 5, he wrote an email to Dylan Schneider, the treasurer and volunteer coordinator at Peaceful Uprising, a climate activism group co-founded by DeChristopher. In the email (you can read the whole thing below), DeChristopher discusses the fact that an unnamed corporate donor who contributed to his legal defense fund is exporting U.S. manufacturing jobs and laying off workers.  DeChristopher is not happy: “I feel like I have some influence and hence some responsibility to do something,” he writes.  “If they are saving money by screwing their workers, I can’t in good conscience accept some of that money.”   He then says that he plans to send a letter to the owner of the company that made the donation, explaining why it bothers him.  He writes, “This letter will include a threat to wage a campaign against them if they don’t reverse course and keep the plants open.”

According to Shea, five days later, on March 9^th, DeChristopher was pulled out of his minimum-security camp and told he was being moved to a cell in Herlong’s Special Housing Unit (SHU).  “When Tim asked why,” Shea explains, “he was told that a U.S. Congressman had called and told prison officials that he was threatening people outside of prison.”

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THE ZEPHYR WANTS TO KNOW…

WHO IS THE CORPORATE DONOR?????

AND WHO IS THE CONGRESSMAN???

New Moab Strikes Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagain!

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MOAB — The line outside the Moab Valley Inn on Sunday included people clad in full cowboy garb, Native American men with their waist-length hair in traditional braids and dogs of every breed….There was even a woman carrying a bullwhip…..”It’s normally on fire,” Melissa Strickland said, after cracking the whip during an open casting call for extras in Disney’s remake of “The Lone Ranger.”

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Johnny Depp as Tonto?

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“The Russian Federal Space Agency and NASA are saying that this mysterious titanium structure is nota part of any of their satellites, rockets or spacecraft. The Russian agency seized it and they are trying to determine its origin.

“According to the villagers of Otradnesnky, in Siberia, Russia, the 440-pound (200-kilogram) titanium object with a ridged dome fell in a nearby forest on March 18. While local journalists claim it may be part of a fallen Meridian satellite or a ballistic missile, the Russian Federal Space Agency says it is not…”

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The April/May Zephyr should be online by 6AM April 1