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Arithmetic, Population and Energy, a presentation by professor Albert A Bartlett

"Normally a small pleasant town with a population in the low thousands, Hokitika is being transformed every March by it's annual Wilde Food Festival. This year festival was celebrating its 21st anniversary."

"Lava from a volcano in a sparsely populated area of the Democratic Republic of Congo is threatening rare chimpanzees, wildlife officials say."

"A survey of about 600 scientists published this week found that a majority think it's time to consider conservation triage - focusing resources on animals that can realistically be saved, and giving up on the rest. Those that fall into the too-expensive-to-save category, it has been suggested, might include the panda and the tiger."