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Re: [Livingontheland] We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba
- From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
- To: <activism98201@verizon.net>, "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:51:23 -0600
So we should just sit down on the land and wait for
it to save us? I doubt that's what you meant.
I believe that understanding what Nature demands or
will allow will require all that our innovative minds can deliver.
Study and work will be required, and it's foolish to leave anything out.
Application of appropriate technology is one of the trickiest areas, and it's
inappropriate to label ALL technology as evil.
From Wikipedia: "In economics, the Jevons
Paradox is an observation made by William Stanley Jevons who stated that as technological improvements
increase the efficiency with which a resource is used, total consumption of that
resource may increase, rather than decrease. It is historically called the
Jevons Paradox since it ran counter to Jevons's own intuition, but it is not a
paradox at all and is well understood by modern economic theory which
shows that improved resource efficiency may trigger a change in the overall
consumption of that resource, but the direction of that change depends on other
economic variables."
Note that it doesn't say "..always means faster depletion of a given
resource." For the end user, improved efficiency does not increase
consumption.
I agree that the answers are in the land, but
our innovative minds are the key to finding those answers.
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
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Re: [Livingontheland] We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba,
Mark Nagel, 11/29/2006
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Re: [Livingontheland] We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba,
E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 11/29/2006
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Re: [Livingontheland] We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba,
TradingPostPaul, 11/29/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba, E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 11/30/2006
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Re: [Livingontheland] We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba,
TradingPostPaul, 11/29/2006
- [Livingontheland] The answers are in the land/ We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba, TradingPostPaul, 11/29/2006
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Re: [Livingontheland] We have a lot farther to fall than Cuba,
E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 11/29/2006
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