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2000-07-03 Thread Joel Blau
I never said liberal is left and conservative is right in the neat, schematic way you attribute to me. You're quite correct that the discourse of conservatism has a "liberal" flavor to it on cultural/reproductive issues, just as "liberals" have adopted a "conservative" conception of the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in theWorld-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-30 Thread Michael Perelman
I just read Grey Bracken's book, Imperial San Francisco. It is an astounding study of how cities pull in resources from the surrounding areas. Doug Henwood wrote: Michael Perelman wrote: I just read that NY City is the largest consumer of pesticides in the state. Now that you have that

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in theWorld-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: I just read that NY City is the largest consumer of pesticides in the state. Now that you have that part of the agricultural system, may the rest won't be too hard. Could you be a little less opaque? Do you mean that reducing pesticide use will require depopulating the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in theWorld-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are you trying to prove with your insults Doug? are you implying the impossibility of a socialist agenda? who is fantasizing here? Ok, so you don't have any idea what changes are necessary in the actual structures of production and

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in theWorld-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-29 Thread Ken Hanly
A recent committee of the Liberal government (Canada) has recommended that all pesticide use in cities be banned. Only agricultural uses would be legal. I think this might cause a great enforcement problem though. People will sneak out at night with their Weedex wonderbars. The main concern was