Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Gloria Baikauskas <gcb49@flash.net>]

The US dollar is at an all time low today.  Maybe we should all be scared to death about that.  Orders for manufactured goods are way down, and housing starts aren't exactly multiplying.   It is the same in Japan. 

 

Time will tell if this will be a global thing....or merely a repositioning of wealth and power which does occur from time to time.  Greed is a huge part of the problem I think.  We in the US have sold off property and goods left and right to the point that foreign companies and individuals own more of the US than most Americans realize.  Even Monsanto is not American owned. 

 

Tis all a mess. 

 

Somewhere there is a research project being funded that would ordinarily not be because some clear thinking individual realizes that now is the time for that alternate energy.  Remember our streets used to be lit by gas lamps....not electric ones with halogen bulbs and such.  Necessity is the mother of all invention. 

 

In much of the world the high speed maglev <magnetic levitation> trains are used to move people from place to place using far less fossil fuel than an ordinary one in the US.  For the life of me I cannot figure out why they have not put down new rails and tried this new technology here when it has worked so well in Asia and in Europe.  I know why.  It means large amounts of money must be spent to do it.  Those folks with all the money who are in our Congress, or cousin to those who are, could make it happen...but they don't.  In the end huge amounts of money would be saved, though. 

 

Sometimes it is not ignorance, but contempt that is the problem.

 

Gloria

 

 

 Personally I'm more concerned about
the worsening severity
of economic collapse than roving hordes after my
garden. We stock up on the
basic foodstuffs. Most of those roving hordes won't
know what to do with
the basics. They'll want McDooDoos or frozen pizzas!