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I assume it was after this interview that the Labour government committed £22bn in funding for CCS. A shame they didn't consult with James Dyke first.

I find the discussion fascinating about the circulation of nutrients and minerals from the rocks on the land to the deep sea, and then down back into the rock to resurface millions of years later. I believe there is a cycle that goes the other way, from deep sea organisms, through whales, and then fish and birds back to the land and again sequestered over deep time into the earth.

Here's to a happy collapse!

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I have been consoling myself that in some sort of collapse - whatever that might look like - having set up the local means to produce power and food we could ride it out as it just seems so unlikely that oil producers will decide not to produce if it still pays.

This small shred of comfort was ripped away recently when I read about the effects of the collapse of the AMOC which would severely reduce temperatures in Britain and so our ability to grow anything.

It's enough to test the patience of a saint - and I am no saint!

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