- Caption: Dessertification (n.): The transformation of arable land into a dessert, caused by extreme heat waves and the cultivation of genetically manipulated sugarcane on deforested parking lots.
- Sandra: Mmh.
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Thursday, 13 Aug 2009 by Novil
[0085] Dessertification
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Alrighty then.
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Ha! I love it!
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I can’t help but feel that there’s an environmental point here that’s not quite being made. I can follow the dessert/desert joke, and deforestation and sugar cane (though I’d heard it was mostly for soy and cattle), but the two don’t really link well – and the final panel is confusing – except tenuously through “sugar”.
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sooner or later, someone was going to draw it.
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so what is the Dessertification equivalent of goats? Dentists???
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Methinks a certain racoon-owning lady is either sleep-deprived, dehydrated, or both.
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Class, can you say “hallucination”?
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That looks like a cross between A Thousand Nights and Willy Wonka’s chocholate factory.
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welcome to happy land! please leave all unhappy and logical thoughts at the door.
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I don’t really follow the supposed link between genetically manipulated crop and desertification…
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@shortwings: it’s a pun/ play on words if you say it out loud.
@Lunera: oh? i saw it as something like the old comic “Little Nemo”
Ok, after the mess the last couple of strips behind in the comment post debate?!?! wars. This was funny.
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Charlie Bucket, eat your heart out.
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Yummy!
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Although I must admit Woo looks excessively cute in that headgear! =^^=
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Oh man, I just hope whatever Sanda’s eating is actually food. :3
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@VC: How about “Eat your candy heart out”?
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glee!
this made me officeLOL
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also, new desktop wallpaper
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is that Lawrence of Candyland?
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Oh dear…it’s 75 degrees…so hot…mirages making me see candy and cakes everywhere. Now I have eaten the cushion off the deck chair by mistake… It’d better not hit 80, or I’ll explode into a ball of fire, and a baby polar bear will turn into Ramen noodles…
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Nom nom nom
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why the cake and those candies? alright it´s great
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@Sio: Only 75? It’s in the 95-99 range here and I’m just thankful it’s not hotter!
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@ Tom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZi7tmWhR4&feature=related
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“That looks like a cross between A Thousand Nights and Willy Wonka’s chocholate factory.”
I was thinking of Hansel and Gretel.
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ROTF Reminded of the fursuiter “Candi Coon.” Was thinking of the strip while enjoying a blueberry milkshake.
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interesting this is off topic but why is the server in France?
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i mean Ireland sorry playing a game called Erepublik and was looking up some french stuff so France was on the brain
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Global Sugaring is a enviromental catastrophe brought on by Man (bear pig) we must take steps now to prevent and turn back the tide of Global Sugaring no before our children and grandchildren pay the toll in Diabetes and tooth decay. (/AlGore)
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rofl! Yay for play on words, what a lovely idea
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OK. That was an interesting head trip of vision.
Open on first panel. ‘What’s gonna…’
Initial view of main frame. ‘…oh, no. Not another message of how bad our environment is going to…wait…what the…’
Review of main frame. ‘…something’s amiss here. Candy lollipops? Massive cake? When did Willy Wonka move into the neighborhood…’
Momentary thought. ‘Oh! I see, now. A play on Desert formed the visuals. Cleaver! Will this strip never fail to see many levels? I hope not.’
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just thought I’d share the rational trane of thought on this one.
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Sugar is the most important food group. That’s why it was on top of the food pyramid before the pyramid was desecrated.
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I would love to see this in color
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@DeviaLuna: My comment goes back to yesterday, when temperatures in the 70’s were posted as if they were superlatives, examples of extreme heat. “Oh, be glad you’re not HERE, it’s SOOOO hot!” They were literally near *room temperature*.
I know that other areas of the world are warmer. It’s warmer where I am right now. But last week, it was in the 70’s as well. In the US, they’re talking about “The Year Without a Summer”. This is “global warming?” I think not.
Do we need to be cognizant of polluting our home? Yes. Do we need to minimize our emissions when we can? Yes. But claiming that the temperature differences on our planet are man-made is sheer hubris. WE HAVE A MILDLY VARIABLE STAR. It doesn’t always put out constant amounts of energy! We need to get over ourselves, clean up the messes we *can* clean up, remember that CO2 is a natural product of metabolism, and stop being the dumb, panicky animals referred to in “Men in Black”.
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@Sio
i think its silly that both side say it as a definite both side have “proof” that there right i feel we should look at it as a possibility that we can have a effect on out environment (its not arrogant to at lest mull the idea over math dictates that there a possibility that anything can happen ) not saying that we are or are not effecting the environment on a large scale. By the way have you ever heard of global dimming? should look it up (timp here in my part of the US 99.F with 90% humidity i think summer here for me)
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I thought we established that those 70 degree temperatures were the average temperature over the ENTIRE 24 hour day (as in day + night). Meaning that if you assume the night temperature is a good bit lower than the daytime temperature, then the average temperatures during the daylight hours would be higher than 70 degrees, especially during the peak of the day.
Where I grew up in Minnesota, during the late spring/early summer it would get downright cold at night, but hot-ish during the middle of the day. Taking the average temperature would have told you something a lot colder than the daily high, or even than the average temperature only over the daylight hours.
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great comic, i read it all today. and i’ll keep on reading it.
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@Neale
Of course we have “an effect”. We are *part* of the environment, after all. What I object to is the near-paranoid attitude that treats humanity as an *interloper* in the environment, one that the Earth is utterly incapable of dealing with in any fashion, and that anything we do is therefore unnatural and evil by definition and MUST be leading to the inevitable demise of the planet in some Cecil B. DeMille-like cataclysm of fire and/or ice. Seas rising, temperatures skyrocketing so we strangle on boiling air, mass extinctions of all of our food, every species of oxygen-producing plant dying ALL AT ONCE so we die in CO2-poisoned fog, plug in an incandescent lightbulb and Cairo melts, eat a hamburger and you *explode*.
It’s insane. There’s no reason to believe any of it. But there are people who believe ALL of it, because they *feel* it’s true. There are scientists pulling out their hair because other scientists are proving things by consensus instead of by experiment, because if they all band together and SAY it’s true, they’ll get that new gas chromatograph they always wanted, and if they say no, there’s no proof, they’ll get denigrated and called “deniers” because they didn’t go along with the group.
There IS proof that solar variability is causing Earth’s temperature changes. Measurements of the IR reflected from *other* bodies in the solar system show similar proportional temperature changes. But because we haven’t been measuring them for as long as we’ve been measuring Earthly weather the data has been ignored even though it is rational, accurate, and compelling.
Sorry that we couldn’t measure the temperature on Pluto back when we *didn’t have a space program*.
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Desert has one s, as you only want to cross it once. Desert has two s’s because you always want another one.
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Genetic manipulated is supposed to be bad and scary. What if they made the sugar cane such that it did *not* cause this problem?
Know what another name for breeding dogs is? Genetic manipulation. I know PETA would call this bad and scary, but most people wouldn’t.
How about rice? You have a choice, fewer people ( however you want to do that ) or better rice.