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"The economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way round." Gaylord Nelson.

This table is a new feature for this domain. The webmaster and several of his friends are convinced that lifestyles are going to change in the foreseeable future, whether we like it or not. Some changes to how we live can be guided by choice, other likely changes are going to be imposed by nature and circumstances. Some valued old notions are going to have to be discarded, but which ones?

Here is a good theme. It's from an environmental activist. Barbara Finch (via Gaylord Nelson, January 2009), of Armidale NSW Australia - where this website lives - "The economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way round, and we can't put the environmental crisis on the back burner." Barbara Finch (via Gaylord Nelson).

So what happens when we put concern about environmental issues on the front-burner? (Remarks here are by the Editor unless otherwise indicated)

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Africa: A continent where grown men had better behave like grown men who know useful things, otherwise there'll be revolutions, as the continent has had since World War II, which hardly looks like an enjoyable future.

CCC

More to come: More to come

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Economies (now synchronised): Ian Varrender, SMH,

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Globalisation: research on: Friends of this website have lately recommended a useful website on issues of globalisation. The website is produced in Canada and is sceptical about globalisation, to say the least. See: http://globalresearch.ca

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Hollywood and its ills, again: This website is highly amused to read in The Australian newspaper (30-3-2009) a story that actor Dustin Hoffman has decided to accept an offer to head-up a movement to agitate for the writing of much better-quality scripts for sci-fi movies that feature better-informed views of science &c &c. This website cries out, Hear Hear!

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Oil: Oil Shock II: Cuts in investment and low prices could curb future oil supplies by almost 8 million barrels a day within the next five years, a study released yesterday shows. It is the latest warning that the world could face a new energy shock when the global economy recovers. There will be reduced investment in oil production and probably, low prices for oil. Report is by Cambridge Energy Research Associates. (w/e Sydney Morning Herald, 28-29 March 2009)

Outsourcing: According to some critiques of the Harvard Business School, it might become evident that when large companies begin outsourcing certain kinds of work, it may be because that company's management lacks expertise in industry in which they are engaged, and don't actually know what to do next. So they outsource. That is, the management consists of mere number crunchers who are ignorant of how to manage an arm of an up-and-running industry. The disease is called "content free management", and it contributed greatly to the 2008 world financial crash. Expect to see "business schools" around the world change their curricula.

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Middle East: Peter Rodgers, Arabian Plights: The Future Middle East. Scribe, 2009, 250pp. D. Springer, J. Regens and D. Edger, Islamic Radicalism and Global Jihad. Georgetown University Press, 2009, 320pp.