>That's not how slow poison works. People don't die for smoking a cigarette,
or for smoking 100
>cigarettes a day for 30 years. But then they die in the 31st year.
The difference, of course, is that there were a large number of symtoms,
very statistically significant differences in longevity, et
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> The poison you talk about is roundup. And, yes, if I drank a bottle of it,
> I'd probably be sick. But, I've used it on weeds. Spray it on grass, and
> the grass dies, but spray it on weeds 3 inches from grass, and the small
> amount that gets on the grass doesn't hurt it.
>>Unfortunately, we already have surplus crop and other produce. In order to
> keep the price up,
>>surplus is destroyed.
> I goggled for that in the US, and it referred to this happening during the
> Great Depression, when prices were so low during the deflationary era that
> it wasn't worth the
>Unfortunately, we already have surplus crop and other produce. In order to
keep the price up,
>surplus is destroyed.
I goggled for that in the US, and it referred to this happening during the
Great Depression, when prices were so low during the deflationary era that
it wasn't worth the cost of b
In a message dated 11/29/2012 6:47:33 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
net_democr...@yahoo.com writes:
> The measure of a civilization could be said to be
> its consumption of energy and how it uses resources.
> Conspicuous v. sustainable...
> Jon
> > From: medieva...@aol.com
> Twas in
> In fact, the other major sin of the Greens (in addition to being against
> nuclear power)
That's their political agenda. When the CDU announced that the nuclear
power plants in Germany will be shut down, the greens were not
alltogether sure if they really wanted that... ;-)
> is the opposition
On 11/29/2012 9:16 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
They convinced Uganda that using fertilizer and insecticides was bad.
That's why the crop yield is so low. Little grows and the insects get most
of it. The US, on the other hand, uses insecticides in cycles so it's hard
for the insects to develop immu
-Original Message-
From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Jon Louis Mann
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:47 PM
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Power and civilization
> The measure of a civilization could be said to be its consumption
> The measure of a civilization could be said to be
> its consumption of energy and how it uses resources.
> Conspicuous v. sustainable...
> Jon
> > From: medieva...@aol.com
> Twas in Last And First Men, by Olaf Stapledon,
> I think, where all future
> civilizations had their power based up
-
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:49:34 -0500
> Subject: Re: Power and civilization
> From: john...@gmail.com
> To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
>
> I'm reading John Varley's Slow Apocalypse. The premise is that all
> un-processed petroleum is destroyed by an act of bio-te
to a disagreement in the
administration on whose watch it happens. There is a sequel; not sure there is
a third.
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:49:34 -0500
Subject: Re: Power and civilization
From: john...@gmail.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
I'm reading John Varley's Slow Apocalypse. The premise
>The measure of a civilization could be said to be it's consumption of
energy and how it uses resources. >Conspicuous v. sustainable...
At what point was civilization sustainable without depending on unknowable
innovations in the future? It would have to be before steel, because
blacksmithing
I'm reading John Varley's Slow Apocalypse. The premise is that all
un-processed petroleum is destroyed by an act of bio-terrorism. In the
middle of it right now, but so far it's scaring the spit out of me.
john
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, wrote:
> **
>
> Twas in Last And First Men, by Olaf
Twas in Last And First Men, by Olaf Stapledon, I think, where all future
civilizations had their power based upon alcohol. Nothing stored from the
past was left.
In a message dated 11/29/2012 12:58:45 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim,
net_democr...@yahoo.com writes:
The
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