the duchy of hetkettle trophish

*bing*

“martha.”

“‘are climate change, peak oil, peak soil, water scarcity, food scarcity, ocean damage, slums and money inequities, public health vulnerabilities, and a new world-round arms race the end of the world?’”

“ahmmm… the judges are saying they need more.”

“i don’t… i mean…” *bzzzt*

“anyone else… yes. clarence.”

“‘are climate change, peak oil, peak soil, water scarcity, food scarcity, ocean damage, slums and money inequities, public health vulnerabilities, and a new world-round arms race the end of life as we know it…?’”

*ding*

ps. all life’s in jeopardy… baby… oooo, a-ooo-ooo

it doesn’t seem that wordpress.com brings changed posts to the top of feeds, how blogger does, and i can’t find a setting for that in the wordpress control panel pages. if it does, tell me! otherwise i’ll throw in a few update notices once in a while if i think they’re interesting.

f’r'instance, the driving on dry land piece has been updated several times, out of panic.

via email, validation of the suspicion.

said Sonja Merchant-Jones, a former public housing resident who is active in Baltimore ACORN, “but together we’ve been able to confront elected officials, banks, and the utility companies, and get them to meet with us, negotiate with us, and change things. But I’m disappointed that I never see things like this on The Wire.”

ps. cuz we promised.

pps. well, when i say we, i mean

ppps. ‘course when i look at that chart i don’t think that top line’s stolen from the present, i think it’s stolen from what could have been a safer, greener, more prosperous future, taken in the form of borrowed money, fee-for-prevention, and delayed maintenance.

pppps. so, see? there’s our sustainability strategy. it’s going up, up, up!

The Guardian newspaper reports the British government has sent out letters to more than fourteen hundred Iraqi refugees ordering them to return to Iraq … The British government says it believes Iraq is now safe for the asylum seekers — but is still asking them to sign a waiver absolving Britain of responsibility for their plight once they return to Iraqi soil.

who make me angry. build momentum with others and drag the daddy-dependents up to speed in our wake. don’t fight, don’t fight, got to win.

and of course the fucking oil companies want to run this through the federal government. they hate being bossed around by the state-level petitions of real consumers. sucks to be them!

the lester brown book is invaluable. i know why it was talking to me from the shelves of the stores, too — it’s the first time i could read something like that, make sense of it. i guess that’s what i’ve been up to, with the random speculation; getting with the show; to read the real material.

he’s really aggressive. this is a plan for 80% emissions cut by 2020. he’s trying to beat the oil crunch completely — replace the manufacturing capacity — so that further building is done from the renewable grid — so’s not to wreck lives in poor countries. i gather. not finished yet. that’s what i’d do, though.

eradicating poverty, stabilizing population. restoring the earth. feeding billions well. designing cities for people. raising energy efficiency. turning to renewable energy.

mobilizing. do it or lose it.

meanwhile there’s rumblings that other experts of experts are going to start pushing for zero footprint by 2030 or sooner. you knew this was coming, right? mr brown’s got guaranteed health care in there, too. he’s all about stability.