news of the world...
as someone has posted, sanjaya gaya! :) of course not before he managed to get himself invited to the white house journalists' dinner. i think he'd make a great bitch for condi rice. they should hook up.
in other news, apparently paris hilton hooked up with my man k-fed. must see: k-fed's performance at the nickelodeon awards. man what a grade-a looooosaarrr! he could possibly be a hip-hop aaron carter.
it's so bleddy hot men... and everyone is worried about what may is going to be like. dude, worry about what the next few years are going to be like. global warming is going to take off on a never-before seen scale. so what, you cry, we've got a/c's at home and work. well, the poor don't, and say, have you heard about the whole energy crisis thingie? don't worry, even if you haven't it's coming soon to a town near you.
it's truly, truly amazing how freaking myopic everybody is about the whole deal. it's all about gratification now, tomorrow can go fuck itself. the developed nations have started the carbon-credit system, which is perhaps the most cynical way of 'protecting' the environment i've ever heard of.
it works like this - i'm a major polluter (automobile co, petrochem, whatever). my country has decided that i can't release more than x amount of pollutants into the biosphere. however, if i have to do so, i pay a certain amount of money to the government, based on how much over the limit i'm going.
there just so many points that this could go wrong. who defines the limits? the epa or equivalent body. who runs this body? usually a bureaucrat, not a minister. whom does the b'crat report to? a politician technically. either the president in the u.s. (though the prez is actually waay up the ladder) or a minister in other countries. and who's paid for the politician's election campaign?
that's just one angle, there's much more. for instance, who performs the audits? come on fill in the blanks. this thing's got more holes than swiss cheese.
anyway, we've got about 20 years (maybe less) before the manure starts to really hit the fan. today's leaders probably figure they won't be around and even if they are, they'll be ready, cushioned by the billions they're sitting on.
the poor? as always, they're another story. the vast majority of the world's population lives in littoral areas. where will they go? expect forests, jungles and reserved areas to be the first to go. next will be tribal areas, deprived areas, lesser countries.
and finally, anarchy.
there have been 5 extinction events so far - ordovician, devonian, permian, triassic & cretaceous. each of these events resulted in mass species extinctions and in some cases the extinction of entire genera. the best known event is the cretaceous - everyone knows that the dinosaurs died out (65 million years ago) suddenly.
but most scientists (70% of biologists) believe that the 6th extinction event (the holocene) is going on as you read this. in the last century, it is estimated that between 20,000 to 2 million species minimum have become extinct. that sounds like a very broad between, but each number represents an extreme interpretation of available data. they're estimating that the current rate of extinctions could be up to 140,000 species a year.
never in the history of this planet has there been an extinction this rapid, nor has any (to the best of our knowledge) been triggered and sustained so thoroughly by just one species.
in the face of this, the very least we could all do is save water and electricity, use public transport, and reduce our general consumption patterns.
of course, the best option (for the rest of the planet at least) is for us to kill ourselves. starting with k-fed.
in other news, apparently paris hilton hooked up with my man k-fed. must see: k-fed's performance at the nickelodeon awards. man what a grade-a looooosaarrr! he could possibly be a hip-hop aaron carter.
it's so bleddy hot men... and everyone is worried about what may is going to be like. dude, worry about what the next few years are going to be like. global warming is going to take off on a never-before seen scale. so what, you cry, we've got a/c's at home and work. well, the poor don't, and say, have you heard about the whole energy crisis thingie? don't worry, even if you haven't it's coming soon to a town near you.
it's truly, truly amazing how freaking myopic everybody is about the whole deal. it's all about gratification now, tomorrow can go fuck itself. the developed nations have started the carbon-credit system, which is perhaps the most cynical way of 'protecting' the environment i've ever heard of.
it works like this - i'm a major polluter (automobile co, petrochem, whatever). my country has decided that i can't release more than x amount of pollutants into the biosphere. however, if i have to do so, i pay a certain amount of money to the government, based on how much over the limit i'm going.
there just so many points that this could go wrong. who defines the limits? the epa or equivalent body. who runs this body? usually a bureaucrat, not a minister. whom does the b'crat report to? a politician technically. either the president in the u.s. (though the prez is actually waay up the ladder) or a minister in other countries. and who's paid for the politician's election campaign?
that's just one angle, there's much more. for instance, who performs the audits? come on fill in the blanks. this thing's got more holes than swiss cheese.
anyway, we've got about 20 years (maybe less) before the manure starts to really hit the fan. today's leaders probably figure they won't be around and even if they are, they'll be ready, cushioned by the billions they're sitting on.
the poor? as always, they're another story. the vast majority of the world's population lives in littoral areas. where will they go? expect forests, jungles and reserved areas to be the first to go. next will be tribal areas, deprived areas, lesser countries.
and finally, anarchy.
there have been 5 extinction events so far - ordovician, devonian, permian, triassic & cretaceous. each of these events resulted in mass species extinctions and in some cases the extinction of entire genera. the best known event is the cretaceous - everyone knows that the dinosaurs died out (65 million years ago) suddenly.
but most scientists (70% of biologists) believe that the 6th extinction event (the holocene) is going on as you read this. in the last century, it is estimated that between 20,000 to 2 million species minimum have become extinct. that sounds like a very broad between, but each number represents an extreme interpretation of available data. they're estimating that the current rate of extinctions could be up to 140,000 species a year.
never in the history of this planet has there been an extinction this rapid, nor has any (to the best of our knowledge) been triggered and sustained so thoroughly by just one species.
in the face of this, the very least we could all do is save water and electricity, use public transport, and reduce our general consumption patterns.
of course, the best option (for the rest of the planet at least) is for us to kill ourselves. starting with k-fed.
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