Daily doomslot.

I don’t mean to be this way, but in the Times runs a piece about the coming food crisis (in the northern hemisphere, anyway: large parts of the world have had one of those for years, along with a disease and water crisis).

BBC’s terrific Farming Today programme was given over to the rising price of wheat.  £90 a tonne a year ago, £180 today.  It goes into cattle and poultry feed, bread, pasta, weissbier and petrol tanks, and is behind much of the rising cost of living.  And no, there isn’t any more land to plant to meet rising demand.

Meanwhile in The Guardian’s blathercorner, their ethical living correspondent Leo Hickman tells James Lovelock not to be so gloomy for his recent interview.  James Lovelock says the ‘ethical living’ which is so fashionable in the media is pointless, and Mr Hickman disagrees, since he makes his living etc. etc.

A nice dogpile on Mr Hickman is developing in comments.