A fine 25 minutes run yesterday but no time to write.
This morning the UK news is dominated by the collapse of the biggest private care provider ( for 31,000 people), the government's simultaneous plan to open up everything except the military and the judiciary for possible privatisation, and more wallowing in the sordid mess of Murdoch's News International.
And yet the most shocking report, in the Independent, was that the oceans around the UK are so over-fished they can only meet demand for 6 months each year, and the situation is even worse elsewhere in Europe. For the rest of the year our fish come from poorer developing nations, so depriving them of essential food supplies, which they then have to replace with expensive imports. A stark reminder that unsustainable food consumption is yet another way in which the "developed" world is sucking the life out of the planet !
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