[Terrapreta] Food Shortages

[Michael Bailes]

*DESPAIR's website*

http://www.despair.com/

http://www.despair.com/spin.html

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It is in fact very funny, very iconoclastic, very clever website. It
certainly takes a fun, and sometimes deadly, poke at, and makes you
re-think, some old shibboleths.!
EG:


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At some point, hanging in there just makes you look like an even bigger
loser.


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> >    ----- Original Message -----
> > > *From:* Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
> > > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:57 AM
> > > *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] Food Shortages
> > >
> > > I have been at this for over 2 years and I just feel I am battering my
> > > head against a brick wall of ignorance and insouciance .
> > >
> > >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > I can really relate and I've been at it a much shorter period of time.
> >
> > I keep reminding myself that the existing agricultural industry in the
> > top twenty industrial nations receives public (governmental) subsidies of
> > over one billion USD *each day*. It's not just someone's idea that has
> > been put in place but a whole global economy based in large part on the
> > availability of cheap fossil fuels.
> >
> > What is ending is NOT someone's bad idea that simply might be replaced
> > by a good idea. As the fossil fuel global economic structure reaches its
> > limits, and as the threat of GW is accepted as real, we will transition to a
> > new carbon economy. That's how TP will gain its economic meaning and the
> > huge incentives needed to change a global system. I'm afraid that, despite
> > the urgency of the global situation, the river of change cannot be pushed
> > faster than it is flowing. Strangely, I find that my own faith in TP is
> > growing. I perceive it now as a quite natural response to a quite natural
> > problem (the need to transcend limits). I know of nothing that seems to
> > solve simultaneously so many distinctly twentieth century problems.
> >
> > But I'm sort of riding in one of the forward cars on the train of change
> > -- along with wonderful people like you and others on this forum. We are
> > entering a tunnel of change and making a passage through darkness into a new
> > light. Please excuse my poetry but I really feel that it's a valid way to
> > describe our collective entry into the age of carbon. Let's not freak out
> > because it is dark. Indeed, that is exactly what terra preta is and it's
> > darkness holds the mystery and promise of a new beginning for all. Let's
> > just keep showing up and doing our work as best we can.
> >
> > I send hugs and blessings,
> >
> >
> > <http://info.bioenergylists.org>
> >
> >
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> <http://youtube.com/my_videos>
>
> Thanks for the nice thoughts Lou
Warmest wishes to you too


-- 
Michael the Archangel
How strange and sad for the species - have people forgotten that they can
always escape to the fairy dell and talk to the ducks?
-Leunig, 2008
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