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From: "John Gulick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yes, this article is a real _tour de force_.
LP said:
>(An extremely important article from the Feb. 2004 Harpers Magazine,
which
>unfortunately is not online. I scanned in the first couple of pages but
>urge everybody to tra
Yes, this article is a real _tour de force_. I highly, highly recommend it.
Lou is absolutely correct, the not-so-implicit message is that it's all been
downhill since the emergence of sedentary grain cultivation, but not only is
the science dead-on, there are useful nuggets of ecological political
ESSAY
THE OIL WE EAT
Following the food chain back to Iraq
By Richard Manning
(Richard Manning is the author of Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has
Hijacked Civilization, to be published this month by North Point Press.)
The secret of great wealth with no obvious source is some forgotten
