mad world

A Green Party activist, was searched and then arrested at the entrance to the Climate Camp ... for alleged 'possession of a controlled substance'.

He was handcuffed and taken away by the police to Medway Police Station in Gillingham, where he was put into a windowless cell without proper drinking water or toilet facilities for the next five hours. His fingerprints and thumbprints were taken, and a DNA swab from his mouth, thus putting him onto the national police database.

Only after nearly five hours was the substance in question actually tested by the police and found to be, as Mr Wootton had explained from the start, vitamin C.

Two thirds of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere originates from the G7 countries, with currently 13 per cent of the world’s population

... for the poor to get slightly less poor, the rich have to get very much richer, implying patterns of consumption which, in a world facing climate change, cannot be sustained. It now takes around $166 worth of global growth - made up of all those energy-hungry giant flat screen TVs and sports utility vehicles - to generate a single dollar of poverty reduction for people in absolute poverty, compared with just $45 dollars in the 1980s.