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

Point made, though unintentionally...Once the tender spot is touched, a
mere word excites a response.  The possibility that mere intelligence and
humanity could be more significant than dogmatic reaction is rejected
with cries of, "... but NO!  These folks tell me it's all bad if we do it
that way!"  Therefore, we adamantly refuse to think for ourselves, and
reject the possibility that the the conscientious use of resources is
more important than the pursuit of a personal ideal.

That is to say, if we do this, then we are free to do that, though we
know that both are equally detrimental.  But...one impacts me personally,
so it must be more important...

hoping objectivity is in your future,
d.


  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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