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OT but a welcome bit of brightness
Billy wrote:
.... Which choice gives the highest profits for the next quarter? for some state sponsored trawlers on the open seas it's not going to be about profits, but sheer survival. at some point in the future if we don't get a grip on populations and manage the topsoil better. the book _soil_ by David Montgomery was yesterday's reading list entry and while interesting and containing some points i'd not considered before it was rather gloomy. repeated civilizations collapsing because they mistreated their topsoil. ironic that Cuba is one of the brightest agricultural spots and that because they were embargoed. It's going to be a tough row to hoe. Answers are being found, but implementation is slow to non-existent. We all know that CO2 emissions have to be curtailed, but is seems to be blocked by campaign financing, which allows pipelines to be built to pump even more CO2 into the atmosphere, 390 ppm and rising. yep, it's going to be an interesting time for the next few hundred years. i was heartened to see that many people in Michigan voted for a provision to raise renewable requirements for utilities. so it's not like people don't care, but that they still are not a large enough majority to force the changes through. but if each of those people who voted made the change with their electricity provider directly to purchase more green power they could already make the change and not even need a new law to do it. this is an option for people and it already exists. the counterargument to the pipeline thing is that currently companies are shipping the oil via rail to get around the distribution bottleneck. which isn't very good for things either. somehow though we gotta get the fossil fuel monkey off our backs or get the technology in place to sequester all the CO2 from burning it plus also set up CO2 sucking plants to reduce the level back to more reasonable levels. this should already be happening no matter what the laws and governments say. it can be done. there's nothing technically impossible, just gotta do it. Got about half of my garden beds prepped. Even without digging, it wore me out. Good sweat though ;O) i can still find frozen ground here. the sun was out most of the day and some flowers made progress. maybe by Saturday there will be some blooms. aren't squash blooms edible? songbird |
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