QOTD

Larry Summers:

For reasons rooted in technological and demographic change...the global economy has difficulty generating demand for all that can be produced.

Emmanuel Goldstein had a solution for that if I recall correctly...

Oh wait, we already tried that ?  Shit !


Via Kevin Drum

No Shit, Sherlock

Erm, I knew this when I was young enough to count my age on my fucking fingers...  But now, you come out with this, and...won't act on it in my lifetime, should I live a century longer.

Chemicals deemed safe to humans may blend lethally together inside the human body to cause cancer, a report says.

Researchers, including New Zealand scientist Dr Linda Gulliver, have released findings into possible links between common chemicals and the development of cancer.

Their results, published in the journal Carcinogenesis, show mixtures of chemicals used in our environment may be acting in concert with each other inside the body to trigger the disease.

Gulliver, from Otago University’s faculty of medicine, says on the back of the findings of the Halifax Project, “considerable attention” needs to be given to investigating the concerning links.

A high-profile taskforce was formed in 2013 by the international organisation Getting to Know Cancer, which was concerned that cancer research was focused primarily on the role of heritable and lifestyle factors as triggers.

This is despite evidence that as many as one in five cancers may be caused by chemical exposures in the environment that are not related to personal lifestyle choices.

Chemicals are tested for carcinogenic links, but only one at a time, leaving questions around the possibility that a fusion of these chemicals may instead be causing cancer.

Bloody bollocking hell !

For no reason whatsoever, here's a cute bunny-rabbit off the Internetz...

Earth Hour

As John Oliver might say, How is this still a thing ?

If it makes you feel good about yourself for participating in this ridiculous act of tokenism, then yeah, go ahead, knock yourself out.  But if you think this will convince your right-wing climate-change-denying neighbour, then you're delusional.  And if you needed this annual event to remind yourself personally of the reality of climate change, well...

Vote out the right-wing fuckers that keep kow-towing to their/our Big Energy overlords and pushing a Globalisation agenda that is simply relocating industrial production and all its attendant problems (i.e. including pollution) to third-world nations if you really want to make a difference.

Oh and can someone put this painfully dire video in a time-capsule ?  It'll give the aliens a laugh when they come across the rotting corpse of our civilisation.