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	<title>Empty Plates Tomorrow ?</title>
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	<description>Why we face a food shortage and what we can do about it...</description>
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		<title>Random thoughts of a tourist in Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tourism in Cuba: undermining the Revolution?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/07/18/random-thoughts-of-a-tourist-in-cuba/</link>
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		<title>New 14-19 curriculum threatens small community schools with closure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new 14-19 curricula in England and Wales threaten to be impossible to provide sustainably in rural areas unless education authorities are willing to create different, imaginative ways to bring a wider range of courses to small community schools. Will Carmarthenshire do this, or take the easy short-term option of closing schools down?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/07/10/new-14-19-curriculum-threatens-small-community-schools-with-closure/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Emergency Budget&#8217; Strictly for Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After chewing over George Osborne's 'Emergency Budget' for a few days, I am less and less convinced by it. The idea is to force the UK economy into a dramatic shift, away from dependence on consumer spending and towards a shiny, high-tech exporting economy on the German model. The unanswered questions include.....]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/06/27/emergency-budget-strictly-for-business/</link>
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		<title>BP, the Gulf oil disaster, and a warning for all of us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Risk and Responsibilities
Thoughts on the Deepwater Horizon explosion
Deepwater Horizon, the semi-submersible drilling rig now on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, gained the world record for deep-water drilling with the discovery, in 2009, of the Tiber reservoir holding perhaps 3 billion barrels of oil, perhaps more: oil reserve calculations are notoriously fragile even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/06/20/bp-the-gulf-oil-disaster-and-a-warning-for-all-of-us/</link>
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		<title>Time to Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘I haven’t had the time…..’ An excuse that tends to be seen as a lie, even if a white lie. There are 168 hours in a week, full-time work is supposed to take 40 hours or so, sleep maybe 45. Mmm, 83 hours left.
I haven’t had the time to work on ‘Empty Plates Tomorrow’ recently, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/05/03/time-to-care/</link>
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		<title>Waning Oil part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updating 'Empty Plates Tomorrow': as China strides across Central Asia, US influence is, like the oil supplies on which we depend for food, fuel and our whole material civilisation, in decline.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/04/11/waning-oil-part-4/</link>
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		<title>Waning Oil part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of deaths and billions of dollars: the costs of the 2003 Iraq war are ghastly for Iraq and heavy for the USA and its coalition. Oil supplies were a principal objective -- but now the world demand for oil is such that western companies cannot dictate contract terms, and both Russia and China have emerged as determined and winning competitors. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/04/04/waning-oil-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Waning Oil part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oil, gas: reserves to last just a few decades? Client states, flashpoints, misinformation, denial of information.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/03/27/waning-oil-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Waning Oil part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Abbreviated from Empty Plates Tomorrow 
(Over)confidence in  technology
“The facts about our energy resources are sobering. The rapidity  with which we are finding ways of spending that energy, often without realizing  it, is shocking. The problems attendant in tapping unused reservoirs of energy  are discouraging. Just the same, no one should say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/03/20/waning-oil-part-1/</link>
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		<title>What Has The NHS Done To Us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NHS, it appears to me, has turned us into a nation of ill people dependent on machines and drugs to try and restore 'health', and I think we need to re-examine the purpose, scope and costs of the service.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.emptyplatestomorrow.com/2010/03/14/what-has-the-nhs-done-to-us/</link>
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