Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Well, they tell us that oil-derived pesticides and gas-derived fertilizer
going up so high is gradually driving industrial agriculture to the brink
of extinction. At some point very soon those of us who grow sustainably -
and profitably - without fossil fuels will actually be able to undercut the
poisonous storebought garbage. But you decide.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/27/2007 at 6:15 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>In an attempt to be as well informed as possible, I grudgingly felt
>obligated to read Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist (TSE).  I
>haven't finished, but am finding it so tedious that I wanted to get
>reactions from others that may have read it.
>
>Having read and enjoyed Lester Brown's Plan B 2.0, I was surprised that
>the major theme of TSE is an attack on Brown.  In fact, the only time when
>Lomborg's writing is clear and concise is when he's attacking Brown's
>claims.  The rest of the time it's a muddy deluge of statistical claims
>from agencies that appear to be legitimate.  For example, I just finished
>the chapter on food, and noticed no concerns for fertilizer and pesticide
>availability.  In fact, in Lomborg's analysis, food production seems to
>have been measured, at times, by fertilizer consumption.  Increased
>fertilizer consumption is seen as a measure of farmers' progress, and will
>continue, to good effect.
>
>So, is Lomberg real?  Does his view have validity, or is he a shill for
>Agribusiness?  Is he hoping that readers will be so impressed with the
>voluminous notes and references that they will think "It must be true"? 
>Or is my own concern clouding my judgment? 
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>
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