Links to interesting articles for thepanelist.net readers…

Poverty and a billion starving people in Africa? Whisked away like dust. Overpopulation and water shortages? Waft, waft. Global warming and climate change? A little brush and they’re gone. Jeffrey Sachs explains how to save the world.

The Earth’s temperature may stay roughly the same for a decade, as natural climate cycles enter a cooling phase, scientists have predicted.

The financial crises of capitalism, written by Samuel Brittan at The Financial Times.

Economic Recession? It’s a Guy Thing.

The global free market for food and energy is facing its biggest threat in decades as a host of countries push through draconian measures to hold down prices, raising fears of a new "resource nationalism" that could endanger world food security, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph.

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