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songbird wrote: 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. I have a hard time picturing those who have the "where with all" to put a fishing trawler at sea for months at a time, only seeking survival. The oceans are the commons, that once again are being appropriated to enrich the few. at some point in the future if we don't get a grip on populations and manage the topsoil better. Cooperative management of the biosphere for the good of all life? You sure you're not a socialist? ;O) the book _soil_ by David Montgomery Do you mean, "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations" http://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Civilizat...y/dp/052024870 8/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364575426&sr=1-7&keywords=David+Montgom ery 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. Sounds like Jarod Diamond's book "Collapse". http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Socie...vised/dp/01431 17009/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364575795&sr=1-1&keywords=Collapse ironic that Cuba is one of the brightest agricultural spots and that because they were embargoed. And they got thinner too! Such a deal. Blockades are international politic's way of telling you to start a garden. Fidel also invested in literacy, and health care. 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. You are an optimist. Give me "predictable", and "expected" any day. Interesting is the Delphic like, Chinese curse. 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. Sort of like the last election. No good choices for President from the major parties, just varying degrees of bad ones. Extraction of tar sands oil requires vast amounts of fresh water, and more gets polluted from spills into water ways, which is reminiscent of mountain top removal in coal mining, and pond dumping at CAFOs. It's called "privatizing the profits, and socializing the costs". Anybody who is conscious must note that we just observed "World Water Day". The fulfilment of basic human needs, our environment, socio-economic development and poverty reduction are all heavily dependent on water. We can't live without it, but we pollute the .375 percent of the fresh water that we have access to. 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. Adding clean-up costs to those who create CO2 would help, as would the purchase of clean energy by the government. Since we will soon have 9 billion souls to feed, creating charcoal with solar furnaces for farmlands would help grow crops, and reduce CO2. 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. Bechtel is probably just waiting for a juicy government contract to get started. All disasters are opportunities, don't you just know. 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. I always find it odd, that here in California, gardeners can start earlier, but then comes your longer Midwest summer days, and warmer nights, and you leave us (me anyway in the dust). I'll be lucky to have tomatoes by Aug. aren't squash blooms edible? My babies!? =0 songbird We just had a day of rain. Today is suppose to be nice with a promise of 75F. Sunday is predicted to bring thunder storms with rain through the week, and then it looks like the good times arrive. I need to do some more clean up, and see what the remaining beds are going to need.Every day, we get a little bit more sun coming over the hill. "Though an old man, I am but a young gardener." - Thomas Jefferson -- Remember Rachel Corrie http://www.rachelcorrie.org/ Welcome to the New America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg |
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