[lit-ideas] Re: Today's situation with food

Well then we'd all better get busy eating that meat.  Music to McDonald's 
and Conagra's ears, given that those people live on some planet other than 
earth. 
 
Coal is not the answer.  If nothing else, Richard Heinberg is making a 
case that we're at or near peak coal.  Actually, we're at or near Peak 
Everything, the name of his book.  In the meantime, China is putting up a 
coal plant a week and not using clean technology either, something that we can 
help them with and we're not.  They're desperate right now to get their 
people out of poverty.  That's pushing climate change along, the climate 
change that we started and denied was happening.  Some are still denying 
it, like Senator Inhoff.  If coal powered everything, or even a lot more 
things, we'd be dropping like flies from coal inspired diseases.  Plus 
mining coal takes water and oil, unless you know another way to power up that 
Caterpillar.


--- On Fri, 5/30/08, David Wright <wright@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: David Wright <wright@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Today's situation with food
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 3:40 AM


Well said. That is the problem, in a nutshell, that the majority  will not 
exercise limited use.  I suspect that even coal would suffice if 
only...  That is, fundamentally, my argument against religious 
veggiedom.  That is to say, that abstention from the consumption of meat 
is not enough, it is merely a star(t) on the horizon...

egregiously yours,
d.

 

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