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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] ethanol, land, food prices
  • Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:48:24 -0400

At 12:47 PM 9/22/2007, you wrote:

The poor people in our country probably spend half their income on food.
That isn't because they should get cheaper food, but because the people
are of so little value to our System of Systems. Meanwhile, people who
already have money get even more money not because those people have
anything more to offer as human beings, but because their money is more
valuable than they are (and Mr Ben a.k.a. 'Helicopter' Bernanke has just
kicked our savings in the teeth, making human beings even less valued).
The value of people to the land has been almost completely forgotten as
petroleum has provided the Instant Gratification of pesticides, power,
and cheap ignorance (ignorance used to be expensive to a frontier
person, now it's a suburban psychological asset).

Amen. Thank you for your cogent comments. The fundamental flaw with the idea of "alternate" fuels is that we can continue our current lifestyle, just using a different power source. Nothing will change (unless it changes catastrophically) until that model changes.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com




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