How 'conserving' water in a wet climate with more than sufficient rainfall to supply the aquifers helps somebody thousands of miles away, on another continent? Is not usable water in a system of recycling, rain to ground to use to ground to rain, etc.?
Gobal solutions to local (even if wide spread) problems does not seem like the wise solution.
Take the wondrous 'Ethanol' initiatives that required a large percent of our food to be diverted for fuel. The price of grain and thus most other foods was driven up, causing shortages. The quality of ethanol-fuel, and therfore the mileage driven with that ethanol-fuel was reduced. This results in requring more ethanol-fuel to drive the same distance as a lesser amount of non-ethanol-fuel. The result is higher food costs and less food, higher fuel costs and lower fuel economy and higher air pollution due to the increase in ethanol-fuels being burned.
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it's just more thuggery
Posted by Professor8
1st Feb 2012
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Can anyone tell me ....
Posted by NanoProgrammer
1st Feb 2012
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These are the same people who keep demanding that Americans and Brits and Europeans lower their quality of living, that we consume less high-quality protein, go back nearly to the dark ages of transportation, that we should not defend our borders or limit immigration, or defend our privacy and property. No, they insist, we should turn most of our life decisions about food and career and liberty and living space and health over to government thugs who will force us to comply with "infill" (i.e. over-crowding) regulations, and then complain about SOME of the effects of over-crowding, like water quality, while leaving others unmentioned and pointedly ignored. The problem is that we have too many people, packed together too closely while respect for individual rights is being actively reduced.
Ethanol production does not require diverting food. The process leaves nearly all of the food value in a form such that it can still be used as cattle feed (and probably even made into fake burgers and sausage for the vegans).
Ethanol production does not require diverting food. The process leaves nearly all of the food value in a form such that it can still be used as cattle feed (and probably even made into fake burgers and sausage for the vegans).
Posted by Professor8
1st Feb 2012