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12 comments on A visit to Botswana

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LoveOregon on March 13, 2008 - 11:05pm

Thanks, HO, for a most informative report. We benefit from this more fine-grained analysis of how PO is playing out around the world, both at a country level (like your post) or even moreso (IMHO) with finer-grained ethnographic accounts of the effects on the everyday lives of ordinary people...particularly from sub-Saharan Africa which is a region many of us think will bear the brunt of PO. Chris Vernon's post from Senegal some months ago pointed in the direction you've taken here. We need more of this middle-level, case study sort of reporting.

TOD seems too often to veer between macro-analysis of trends (if not outright dataless projections), useful as they may be, and anecdotal "here's what's going on in my (typically US or UK) neighborhood" reports. Your post is as refreshing as it is sobering.

Thanks.

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Kiashu on March 14, 2008 - 1:03am

"TOD seems too often to veer between macro-analysis of trends (if not outright dataless projections), useful as they may be, and anecdotal "here's what's going on in my (typically US or UK) neighborhood" reports."

This is possibly affected by the TOD travel budget, which when I last checked was $0.00.

Ideally we'd have accounts from people in each country or region. Unfortunately the areas first affected by fossil fuel depletion are also the areas lacking internet access.

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records on March 14, 2008 - 7:49am

My wife was on the phone to her family in Odessa, the Ukraine last night. They report that petrol (gas) rationing has now been put in place- fuel can only be bought with ration tokens. Rampant food inflation is also being observed, such that the local market prices, for the like of cucumbers is doubling from one day to the next.