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Re: Efficiency freaks
Posted by Reality (more from Reality) on Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:18:10
In Reply to: Re: Efficiency freaks, john b, Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:35:28
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Desertification and soil erosion are natural consequences of farming, which has been taking place in the mid latitudes for the past 5,000 years. The "fertile crescent" that (allegedly) gave birth to human civilization through invention of farming is now mostly desert; has been mostly desert since at least about 2500 years ago, when reliable written history began. Snowpacks come and snowpacks go: there was a time when Greenland was actually green with trees, and there was also a time when NYC was under a mile-deep piece of glacier ice (as evidenced by the boulders in Central Park). Blaming Cat5 typhoon on human industrial output is even sillier: typhoon were common-place before even ocean going boats were invented. The idea that the planet would be a never changing Eden in the absence of human industrial knowledge is nothing more than childish wishful thinking, and one that is easily taken advantage of by the high priests out for profit-making off the ignorance of the masses. If not for drastically changing climate conditions long before human industrialization, mammals would not have taken over the landmass on this planet from the reptiles.
If one is not in a position to move or make job changes to reduce time wasted on daily commuting, buying a new car to goose mpg is most like extremely cost-inefficient. There is nothing sacresanct about mpg ratings as oppposed to the cost of anything else, especially since the EPA highway rating that has little to do with real life rush hour gas consumption rate.
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