By the way, regarding that English lady who sterilized herself to save the planet, I wouldn’t mind betting that voluntary, environmentally responsible, civilizational self-extinction catches on big time as the logical end-point of western progressivism. Even a smart guy like Lord May, (one of Australia’s most eminent scientists, former advisor to the British Government, etc), finds the fall in global fertility encouraging without appreciating that this trend is not evenly distributed, and that it’s precisely those groups that profess to care most about the environment – Western Europeans, Canadians, Vermonters, San Franciscans – that are self-liquidating the fastest. If you’ve ever seen the trash in small Yemeni villages or even in Bedouin encampments, the environment doesn’t seem to be a big priority. But they’ll be the ones left to man the Greenpeace offices.

PS In less apocalyptic news from Oz, Tim Blair has some late-breaking polls and panic on the election front.