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davebygolly on May 21, 2006 - 10:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I cannot discuss the technical ins and outs of the pros and cons of ethanol. But I do suggest looking at the political benefit when asking why something happens that does not otherwise make any sense. Does it help build anyone's constituency?

I think of ethanol as above-ground mining -- mining the soil. If this stuff really takes off, it will drastically speed up the disaster brewing in bread basket (dust bowl?)

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Don in Colorado on May 22, 2006 - 1:48am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I'm trying to remember the last great scheme that was going to save the family farm ... oh yeah, everybody was going to raise ostriches and emus.

I really wish everyone in America would read Kentucky farmer-poet Wendell Berry's brilliant essays on the importance of healthy topsoil and what industrial ag is doing to this precious, irreplaceable resource.

One of the great crimes of the millenium.

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Seadragon on May 22, 2006 - 7:41am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Is there a link to these or must one buy a book?
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NeverLNG on May 22, 2006 - 9:20am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Link to Wendell Berry:  http://brtom.org/wb/berry.html

There are many others, of course -- he's famous.

Problem is, I guess, he just makes too much sense for people to pay much attention to him -- though Berry has a huge following.

But following his program, you can never get "rich", and that lets out the entire Capitalist enterprise.

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