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Food versus Energy T he World Economic Forum showed what respondents across the world deem to be the technologies of the highest strategic importance. It highlighted an interesting dichotomy, the Global South’s focus on agricultural technologies and the West's focus on energy and climate change mitigation.  Source:  World Economic Forum

  Bad times make bad language Forecast for a very stressful year going forward. There hasn't been a lot to like about corporate earnings over the last year, so you may not be surprised to learn that the number of  four-letter words recorded during earnings calls  set a new record in 2022. ​ The biggest culprit was  Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary . Below is a transcript: I’m not a customer of Heathrow, I have no time for the (expletive)(expletive) that comes out of Heathrow, which is one of the greatest overcharging monopolies anywhere in Europe at smarming on about need for large cost increases when they can’t burn a pizza in a brewery. . . . I do not have great confidence in the Boeing management in Seattle. In fact, I have very little confidence in them. And therefore I expect them to continue to (expletive) up deliveries or have delayed deliveries despite the fact that they have very few deliveries to make next year. But that’s where we are with Boeing.

 China Population decline is a massive issue Morning Brew China  recorded  a population drop in 2022—its first in over six decades, government data shared on Tuesday showed. The last time this happened was around 1960 when the abysmal Great Leap Forward economic initiative caused widespread famines. This means that more money is spend on the elderly and positions can't be filled by the younger generation to maintain or increase GDP.  The young can't pay for the elderly pension from the state.

 Do what we say not what we do? Hesham Elsherif/Getty Images   Greta Thunberg hauled away by police at German coal mine protest.  The climate activist and other demonstrators were  detained  (and later released) by police yesterday while protesting the demolition of a village to allow for the expansion of a coal mine. Protesters had been trying to defend the town, called Lützerath, for years, turning it into a symbol of government hypocrisy on climate change. But the energy crisis spurred by the war in Ukraine, and Germany’s desperate search for more energy sources, lent new urgency to the coal mine’s expansion. Last week, hundreds of protesters who had been living in Lützerath were cleared out by police.

FOWPs Regardless of how you look at it, offshore wind farms are a growing, recession-proof industry. There will be a 10-year boom market in offshore wind farms starting now. Here are the types of FOWPs: FOWPs are a relatively new  science. There is one proof-of-concept farm that has been in operation for the past five years, consisting of five turbines running off the coast of Scotland. 

Food Investment and local growing  Good news to be grown locally, with less energy, water and feed. (Photo Credit: 16:9clue/Flickr)   Move over energy giants. Big Food faces a similar backlash as an industry that’s turning a tidy profit amid a plethora of globe-spanning cost-of-living crises. Anti-poverty charity Oxfam released a report on Monday calling for governments to impose windfall taxes on large food companies. “Very large food and energy companies are making excessive profits,” Oxfam International’s executive director Gabriela Bucher told the   AP . The greed-shaming was timed to coincide with The World Economic Forum kicking off in Davos — so the world’s wealthiest may feel a little more guilty, or at least press-shy, as they snack on vol au vents.

  'Non-existent' vetting gives free rein to predators 'Non-existent' vetting gives free rein to predators Sir Mark Rowley took over as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner with a pledge to root out corruption after a series of scandals. But the scale of serial offending by a Scotland Yard officer who carried out scores of rapes – and the missed warning signs that could have brought him to justice earlier – suggests  the size of the task could be more daunting than previously thought . David Carrick, who joined the Met in 2001, pleaded guilty to 49 charges against 12 victims, covering a total of 85 separate offences, making him  one of Britain's most prolific rapists . He used his position as a police officer to gain the trust of his victims, sometimes flashing his warrant card and telling them they would be "safe" with him. The Met acknowledged there were  nine potential opportunities to catch him  that were missed. I would suggest that the issue is from r...