Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

Exactly, Paul!

I battled against ethanol.  I saw all the tricks, the distortions.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Nov 10, 2009 06:32:47 PM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Mark, when you say
>
> "I wouldn't make this assertion.  It works like this: 1) Something is viewed as being great/big; 2) It's then promoted/marketed as everyone needing it (think green-speak, cap and trade etc...); 3) Negative aspects are externalized, minimized and covered over; 4) Government subsidies come in to play, to "help" boost a "good" thing; 5) Large corporations crank up production; 6) Natural resources are gobbled up; 7) Opponents speak out, but are ridiculed as not being sympathetic to the "green/anti-climate change movement;" 8) Affects of externalizations start popping up everywhere; 9) Corporations start getting out of the business, as their profits now start to drop (may still be propped up by govt though); 10) People discover that they are the worse off for following this new "great" thing."
>
> it sounds just like the corn/ethanol scam.  What it's done to agricultural land and forests hasn't even begun to come to light. 
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net