OK. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/18/2010 12:38 PM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: "Bill Pearce"<bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> I would be more concerned about water, if I were you.
>
> That's why I'm sitting at the back of the biggest rain-catcher in the area,
> with two streams, a 50 million litre reservoir, and buried irrigation system.
>
> 2010 harvest numbers aren't in yet, but it looks like we directly and
> indirectly supplied all our own food this year, as well as serving as a net
> carbon sink.
>
>> From: Chuck Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ps: George Monbiot apparently doesn't consider that premature movement
>> to alternative power sources before the technology is economically
>> competitive (which it certainly isn't today) would have the same
>> deleterious economic effect on the world's poor as a "permanent oil shock".
>>
>> Bj?rn Lomborg supporter - Chuck Norcutt
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> Okay, you've drawn the line in the sand.
>
> Without any thought of changing your mind, let's just say that you're just as
> seriously mis-characterizing Monbiot as I would if I called Lomborg a crazed
> neo-nazi, intent on keeping the huddled poor in their place through
> un-fettered corporate greed.
>
> But I'm not saying that. 'Nuff said? :-)
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> Our agriculture, potentially capable of a large measure of independence, is
> absolutely dependent on petroleum, on the oil companies, and on hte vagaries
> of politics. -- Wendell Berry
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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