I assumed you provided accurate information about what he said. What
I read did not make me want to explore him further.
I can sort of distinguish between different kinds of energy because
of a fair amount of science in my education. To muddle it all
together in a New Agey way as solar strikes me as really sloppy
thinking. It is a reduction to absurdity argument. But I could be
wrong.
What struck me with his list, aside from the howler of getting solar
energy from my body, was that many of his conditions, as I pointed
out, were met by a new computer: smaller, more energy efficient, more
powerful, but he seemed to be unaware of that. There are computers
that you can crank for energy. The rest of it seemed like a someone
from the 19th century longing for some simpler past that has never
existed. And some of them were just silly like the need to be able to
repair anything he owned or just buying locally. I would have asked
what planet and time is he from, but I probably should not have
replied at all. Sorry.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Sep 29, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Rob Harrison wrote:
> On 9/29/06 12:13 PM, "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> You really wonder whether someone who is unclear on where
>> solar energy comes from has anything meaningful at all to say.
>
> With all due respect Winsor, you ought to read the whole essay.
> Especially
> Wendell Berry's response to the letters to the editor which
> followed the
> first publication of the essay in Harper's, since your and Khem's
> reactions
> are not dissimilar to those letters. There is not a writer in the
> United
> States who has more meaningful things to say than Wendell Berry.
> IMHO of
> course.
>
> It only takes a little imagination to realize he's talking about
> tools that
> operate without the benefit of electricity or fossil fuels, with
> muscle
> power, which others have already noted is a form of energy that
> ultimately
> comes from the sun.
>
> Rob in Seattle
>
>
>
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