Michael Tobis wrote:
...
> Regarding acid rain, this is handled on a continental scale, which in
> North America just involves two similar countries,
I am fairly sure Scottish lakes also were getting significant acid
rain problems from the coal-burning plants in the US midwest --- same
plume that hit New York and Vermont. I'll look for a cite.
> It's the coal, not the oil interests here, that are crucial. I...
> On 5/15/07, James Annan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The moral of the story would presumably be that we need to give the oil
> > industry a monopoly on solar panels, or something like that.
> >
> > James
Exactly. Assure a continuing flow of payment up to the narrow part of
the economic pyramid, that goes through relatively few hands.
It's already happened with groundwater
I recall some folks in Colorado saying that, although they're allowed
rain barrels for watering their gardens, the rainfall belongs to the
water company. Rain has to go into the aquifer; the agency owns the
rights to pump wellwater.
That means they can't tap their water barrels for indoor use, because
that diverts it to the sewer system and it eventually goes downstream
in the Colorado instead of into the aquifer. Different regulatory
system applies.
Nobody wants the single family to be self-sufficient, able to get
everything they need free from the world. That idea went out with
Thomas Paine.
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