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Population and consumption: two sides of the coin

New UK population projections published this week provoked concerns that food and energy supplies cannot keep up. But it’s not just our numbers that are straining the limits.

Published October 25, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, consumption, population, UK
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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things