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THE BULLETIN BOARD of DOOM
From Mudd, Stiles & The Heath Monitor Files
Carbon
dioxide emissions per person in China reached the same level as those
in France last year, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
said Thursday.
Fast food ‘fuelling Asia diabetes boom’
“A
study by Australian and Vietnamese scientists found about 11% of men
and 12% of women in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City had undiagnosed type 2
diabetes.”
Emissions from China and India “com
pletely nullifed CO2 emission reductions in
pletely nullifed CO2 emission reductions in
the industrialized world,” the report said ......
The increases in China came despite a dou-
bling of wind and solar energy there for the fifth year in a row, the agency said.
bling of wind and solar energy there for the fifth year in a row, the agency said.
One thing we seem to able to count on as the Blue Green Ball rolls onward is that it’s just gonna get weirder.
“Just like a New Yorker shouting to be heard in a crowded deli, whales must shout to be heard in ever noisier ocean waters, a new study suggests.”
“Of
50,000 wells drilled over the past six decades in the Gulf, 23,500 have
been permanently abandoned. Another 3,500 are classifed by federal
regulators as “temporarily abandoned,” but some have been left that way
since the 1950s, without the full safeguards
of permanent abandonment ..... Melanie Duchin, a spokeswoman
with
Greenpeace, said she was “shell-shocked” by the AP report and upset
that government wasn’t ‘doing a thing to make sure they weren’t
leaking.’”
What’s next - Cetacea tinnitus?
Did they say 50,000 wells in the Gulf of Mexico? Calling Al Gore!
Across
the world, in some of the planet’s deepest jungles, seemingly far
removed from the illustrious global village, “Time has long stood still
in the innermost reaches of northeast Congo’s Ituri Forest — a remote
and crepuscular world without electricity or cell phones that’s so
isolated, the Pygmies living here have never heard of Barack Obama or
the Internet or the war in Afghanistan.” At least, that’s the way MSNBC
spelled it out. But of course, that’s hardly the end of the story.
For
as Irony would have it, African hunter-gatherers are discovering the
insidious effects of what the rest of us are all too familiar with -
industrial consumerism. Back to MSNBC - “But the future is coming, on
a tidal wave of demand for game meat that’s pushing an army of tall
Bantu
traders ever deeper into Africa’s primordial vine-slung jungles ..... It’s a
demand
so voracious, experts warn it could drive some of Africa’s last
hunter-gatherers to eradicate the very wildlife that sustains them, and
with it, their own forest-dwelling existence.”
Perhaps
it’s a stroke of Cosmic weirdness, but even the Pygmies are on a fast
track for a lesson in carrying capacity. Let’s hope they appreciate
living in squalid border towns with open sewers and urban diseases
(including what passes for culture on the edge of the “developing
world”).
Sugar is the new health food. Apple is larger than Microsoft. And Wal-Mart is now the world’s biggest environmentalist.
Welcome to the Dimformation Age!