Over the labor day weekend, I drove past the areas in western Kansas where a
lot of feedlot corn is grown. They have to go deeper and deeper for water,
and there have been lawsuits between Kansas and Colorado over water. How
much corn is grown where the climate supports it?
Bill Pearce
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From: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:39 AM
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Subject: [OM] Water and oil [Was Re: E-5 vs GH2 sensor]
> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>
> I would be more concerned about water, if I were you.
That's why I'm sitting at the back of the biggest rain-catcher in the area,
with two streams, a 50 million litre reservoir, and buried irrigation
system.
2010 harvest numbers aren't in yet, but it looks like we directly and
indirectly supplied all our own food this year, as well as serving as a net
carbon sink.
> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ps: George Monbiot apparently doesn't consider that premature
> movement to alternative power sources before the technology is
> economically competitive (which it certainly isn't today) would have
> the same deleterious economic effect on the world's poor as a "permanent
oil shock".
>
> Bj?rn Lomborg supporter - Chuck Norcutt
Okay, you've drawn the line in the sand.
Without any thought of changing your mind, let's just say that you're just
as seriously mis-characterizing Monbiot as I would if I called Lomborg a
crazed neo-nazi, intent on keeping the huddled poor in their place through
un-fettered corporate greed.
But I'm not saying that. 'Nuff said? :-)
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Our agriculture, potentially capable of a large measure of independence, is
absolutely dependent on petroleum, on the oil companies, and on hte vagaries
of politics. -- Wendell Berry
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