[Homestead] An International Analysis of the Credit Debacle
KNat
knat at sprintmail.com
Mon Oct 8 09:49:26 EDT 2007
Clansgian at wmconnect.com wrote:
> Energy-wise ethanol is indeed busy work. But in another way it is far more
> destructive. If we simply burned the petrol in our cars, we'd still have some
> topsoil and water with which to grow food, even if we had to do it by less
> mechanical means. The way it is going we are going to end up out of gas and food
> at the same time.
>
In climate impact there is some advantage to using renewable vs
geosequestered biomass just in releasing only modern carbons that would
be impacting currently anyway. But to chose to fuel a car to go to a gym
and walk on a treadmill instead of eating just boggles my mind.
Releasing ancient carbon doesn't seem to me a way to preserve
growability. This climate change is already affecting growing, big time.
Kathyann
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