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Environmental Meme

This type of stuff is a meme that has been growing steadly the last couple of months. It is interesting the this kind of news coverage doesn't come from the environmentalist main-stream, as it usually does, but actually from a few "rebels". If anything the debate on environmental issues has been rather quiet (from my point of view) lately, and this kind of coverage can only be a good thing; whether you are for or against.

I haven't quite made up my mind about this, but I must admit I'm leaning towards to point of view expressed in this article. It wouldn't be surprising if this ends up being implemented way before the 500-ton enviro-movement has managed to turn around on this topic. If that happens, they'll probably end up completely marginalized.

Darwinian Communism

Freeman Dyson wrote an article called The Darwinian Interlude, which -- amongst other things -- talks about biological history and how things will progress from now on. Although the article is very interesting in itself, the weird (and even more interesting) thing about it is how it parallels Marx's "redefinition" of history in the "prehistorical" communist era, way back when, when everything was shared etc., through feudalism, up to capitalism. From there the appearance of a communist "state" would be an inevitability. In this article it seems evolution is following a similar path. Not sure what that means though...