Energy Efficiency

So what does Pakistan and Australia have in common as far as energy production go?
Both may well run out of a key liquid; oil for Pakistan and water for Australia, specifically Victoria.
Pakistan may plunge into the worst imaginable energy crisis as virtually all their refineries are teetering on the verge of financial default and [...]

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In early 2008, Saudi Arabia announced that, after being self-sufficient in wheat for over 20 years, the non-replenishable aquifer it had been pumping for irrigation was largely depleted.
In response, officials said they would reduce their wheat harvest by one eighth each year until production would cease entirely in 2016. The Saudis then plan to [...]

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So if global warming is the second biggest threat, what is the primary threat you might ask?
With the Australian population hitting 22 million, it is exactly that.
While not having access to local data (given budgetary and political constraints placed on the CSIRO, Weather Bureau and DPI by the various political parties in controlling the [...]

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Premier Bligh admits to using chemicals, says Botox is no big deal and ‘assured’ Brisbane residents of an ‘extremely minimal health risk’ from poisoning by fluoride in our water supplies and admitted to ‘occasionally doing stupid things’.
Well I don’t know about you, but putting chemicals on your own hair, injecting your own face with Botox [...]

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