If hunting has degraded to mere pest control I wouldn't call it hunting anymore. Most of today's "hunting" is a fabrication.

Cumulative radiation dosage from the background radiation kills us eventually. That would give maybe a few hundred years. The late years we'd be rather sick. Maybe tin foil clothing would help.

The poorest people are hit hardest. It's altogether different to live in a nation which produces industrial foodstuffs than to try to cope with the change with what you have by yourself. The international treaties are there to prevent mass migrations and the crash of social order.

It's this why the third world countries are so eager to support global action. They experience the effects first.

In Soviet Russia, puns think of you!

Exactly. I can't but fathom the determination of the Kenyans as they plough through their daily lives with multiple TV's, gaming consoles, computers, kitchen appliances and hybrid pluggable vehicles. I bet a sizable amount of Kenyans have a multiple kilowatt solarium installed for the days when the sun is momentarily behind a cloud.

Anyway, per the GDP your current electric bill in Sweden should be multiplied by 22.5 to make it equal to the share of the Kenyans. So yes, it's expensive.

Exactly.

All of the countries in the world are on the same path, and the societies are homogenizing - http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

Shouldn't this be appraised as the first crowdsourced space program? And look how cute and friendly the puppies are! No full body scans either!

Credit cards or checks are not involved at all at least in Finland. I don't know if using them is even possible. The company sends a bill by email or then the monthly amount is directly charged from the given bank account. The customer, bank and a company can have a direct charging agreement. I'm also able to postpone the due date without an extra charge at least with my provider. Practically all of the bills are paid online and there isn't a culture of credit in the same sense as in the US. Anything paper related comes with an extra charge. The bank I use doesn't even provide cash services in their offices.

True, but they won't do that because there wouldn't be any consumers left. The revenue sources need to be kept alive and in control.

But the terrorists already got a pair too :(