Muck and Mystery: Eco Nutters

Organic farming solves nothing. It is insufficient. It's a boutique activity that charms emo activists, but it's a cruel joke for the food insecure of the world. Nothing is sustainable except the struggle, and simple decency requires one to plainly state that the poverty, misery and hunger of developing nations is not something that ought to be sustained in any event.

But note that there's been no significant warming since 1995: "Poor" prognosis for our planet | smh.com.au

When An Inconvenient Truth opened in 2006 it was generally supposed we had a window of two or three decades to deal with climate change. Last year that shrank to a decade. Last month Australia's chief scientist, Penny Sackett, told a Canberra gathering that we have six years to radically lower emissions, or face calamitous, unstoppable global warming.

Six years. Given that this problem is usually described as a process unfolding over centuries, how can it be that things have spun out of control in such a short time?
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John Collee practised medicine before turning full-time to writing. His screenplays include Master And Commander, The Far Side Of The World and Happy Feet.

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Heard on BBC News: "Like David Beckham and Marmite, climate change divides our nation." Eeerrrmmm...