M. Sarkozy

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He may be a diminutive man, but President Nicolas Sarkozy has a huge carbon footprint, equivalent to that made by 1000 of his fellow French citizens, an ecological magazine said yesterday.

C'est pas bon, M. Le President. Il faut sauvegarder la planète!

Eat kangaroos to help global warming

The sad fact is that many of our Australian species are under threat because of global warming and national apathy. We'd rather build and clear land than care about our animals because you don't make money looking at plants and animals. The antilopine wallaroo is the kangaroo most under threat , so it would be nice if we could actually adopt a practical approach to all of this. Kangaroo meat is very good for you and a healthy alternative to red meat. It does save carbon and there are times when we have too many kangaroos in once place. Our answer is to kill them because they are in the way. We forget we build on their land, we take away their food and we don't consider them at all. We probably would pay more attention if we ate the ones which are surviving . We'd look after them and we'd give them proper places to live.We are not a nation which tolerates fat because we are a hot climate and kangaroo meat is low in fat. I think we need to look at the positives and work with those and avoid our lackadaisical approach which is allowing our native species to dwindle alarmingly.

Climate Change Affects Great Barrier Reef

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"On the Swain Reefs, in the southern reef, the number of brown booby nests has dropped from 350 in 1975 to less than 30 since 2000."

The Great Barrier Reef is home to about half the world's species of water birds and the report is alarming. Thre are so many birds which are now severely affected and there is no sign that the numbers are picking up or changing. The contrary in fact. The warmer top waters force the food the birds eat further down into the ocean.  This , coupled with the lists today of threatened species across the planet is painting a sad picture of what we have done to our world. We don't seem to be inclined to move very quickly on this and there are all sorts of excuses for not doing so. We have been very destructive as a generation because it is all going into decline in our stay on the planet. So many of our native species are now threatened and we do not seem overly concerned about it. Not enough to make some dramatic changes to allow our planet thrive again.Lots of pigeons and weeds are on the horizon.

SA has the highest male infertility rate

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Well, that's not good but it has improved slightly. There's talk of pesticides , oestrogen in the water …oestrogen in the water??!! What is going on here? Where has the oestrogen in the water come from? There's also talk of smoking , drinking, weight….the 3 things which have always been here in SA. There has to be more to it than that because it is part of a world trend. Along with share prices, male sperm counts are going down. Global warming? Heated car seats? There has to be a reason for this. At the moment I want to know why we have oestrogen in the water. The experts don’t seem to be clear about it, so I think we need to start digging for clues. It doesn't seem to be affecting the number of women who are pregnant. They are everywhere at the moment and that's a big change.