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  • From: "Anne Schwarz" <thegrayhat@hotmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] food for thought
  • Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 23:05:09 +0000

Just because you find Barium and Aluminium in soils it doesn't logically follow that some of it wasn't applied from high altitude, no more than finding
uranium in Arizona mines means that fall out doesn't exist.
Scott

I repeat Aluminium is a common component of soils being part of every
clay molecule. Barium is often present in urban soils as a contaminant of cement
production. Metal ions present in soil in high concentrations often has more to do
with the soil pH than anything else.
Bob Howard

The chemtrails thing was a good subject to bring up without necessarily ascribing to it absolute proven fact-- it's food for thought.

Mike Elvin

I think it's interesting that so many of the contaminants we attribute to man's existence really aren't contaminents at all. Be it Aluminium, Barium, Uranium, etc. all of these things existed way before we found uses for them. I just found a statistic that stated that most of the oil found in the ocean really isn't caused my humans at all, in fact, it seeps up from the bottom, yet ridding the ocean of oil "contamination" is a major platform for environmentalists. The only difference between this seepage and an oil spill is where and what the oil affects. Creatures of the deep could care less about oil spills, birds do. As for Barium, Aluminium or Uraniun, there are creatures who could care less about these things too. It's only when they affect us that we label it as an environmental problem. Even major campaigns like saving the whales, helping salmon spawn or cleaning oil covered birds stems from the fact that we find these animals appealing or usefull. When we affect less desireable animals, the public's interest in preserving them flounders. If we found out that deep sea squid were dying from oil exposure, would we care even if it wasn't our fault? To tie this into the conservative vs. conservationist conversation (say that ten times fast), the only difference is that a concervative is protecting the environment with himself in mind, the conservationist is thinking about the fuzzy ducks too. Theoretically, they should both end up with the same results.

Anne

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