speaking of excessive energy costs, there was a story on US National
Public Radio a week or so ago about the loss of fertility of African
soils. The experts spoke, recommending aid to help Africans buy more
(energy-intensive, import-intensive) artificial infertilizer. Whatever
happened to rotating
It is worse than that. Many of Africa's soils are very fragile -- not
like our own Midwest. That kind of farming is not sustainable, but the
same goes for some of Brazil, which is doing so far more intensively.
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at
I don't know if Shemano did the 'Subprime' power point thing, but it's all over
the Internet and Wall Street now.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/02/how-subprime-re.html#comments
I agree, but even fragile soils can be helped with old-fashioned
techniques (though perhaps not healed). Part of the problem, of
course, is that in many places the best lands were grabbed by the
Europeans during colonization.
On Feb 20, 2008 8:45 AM, Perelman, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It
Agricultural populists have argued this way since the mid 1800s. For a brief
moment
they made common cause with the striking railroad workers, but for the most
part the
connection has not been made by urban workers.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:17:41AM -0800, soula avramidis wrote:
this brings
It should also be needless to say we will NEVER run out of oil. The
whole peak business has to do with the technical capacity to extract
*ever increasing quantities* of the product economically. Predictions
of peak oil may be based on pessimistic assessments of the prospects
of technical
This is not a problem restricted to Africa or peasant agriculture. The
following is courtesy of Bill Totten on A-list.
It's Disappearing
by Tom Paulson
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (January 22 2008)
The planet is getting skinned.
While many worry about the potential consequences of
Not really. The peasants like the barren hillsides, which are much more
interesting than the fertile plains.
Jim wrote:
I agree, but even fragile soils can be helped with old-fashioned
techniques (though perhaps not healed). Part of the problem, of
course, is that in many places the best lands
This is not a problem restricted to Africa or peasant agriculture. The
following is courtesy of Bill Totten on A-list.
It's Disappearing
by Tom Paulson
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (January 22 2008)
The planet is getting skinned.
While many worry about the potential consequences of
me:
I agree, but even fragile soils can be helped with old-fashioned
techniques (though perhaps not healed). Part of the problem, of
course, is that in many places the best lands were grabbed by the
Europeans during colonization.
Michael Perelman wrote:
Not really. The peasants like the
They also like to travel far from their homes to go down into holes in
the ground to dig for diamonds they can give to their European
benefactors.
On 2/20/08, Perelman, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not really. The peasants like the barren hillsides, which are much more
interesting than the
Greatly complicate may be an understatement. Consider the scenario
where rising food and energy prices are contributing to the housing
slump and economic stabilization measures are contributing to rising
food and energy prices. The negative feedback from lower interest
rates could cancel out the
On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Sandwichman wrote:
It should also be needless to say we will NEVER run out of oil. The
whole peak business has to do with the technical capacity to extract
*ever increasing quantities* of the product economically. Predictions
of peak oil may be based on pessimistic
On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Sandwichman wrote:
It should also be needless to say we will NEVER run out of oil. The whole
peak business has to do with the technical capacity to extract *ever
increasing quantities* of the product economically. Predictions of peak oil
may be based on
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On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Paul Phillips wrote:
I don't think this is correct. Oil is an exhaustible (i.e.
non-renewable) resource. Peak oil merely states that sooner or later
we will not be able to sustain *the EXISTING level of production*
never
mind increasing quantities. Economically
Sandwichman (Tom) wrote:
It should also be needless to say we will NEVER run out of oil. The
whole peak business has to do with the technical capacity to extract
*ever increasing quantities* of the product economically.
In other words, it's a modern variant of the Ricardo/Malthus
prediction of
I just like kalecki s equation. it shows in the
typical classical sense that price markup and degree
of monpoly ie profits lower proportionatly the real
wage. moreover since prices are in the purview of
capital workers can only raise their nominal thru
union activity.
soula avramidis wrote:
... moreover since prices are in the purview of
capital workers can only raise their nominal thru
union activity.
Kalecki's equation is often interpreted as saying that all unions can
do is raise money wages. Since the boss simply adds a mark-up to unit
labor costs,
Max Sawicky writes:
I don't know if Shemano did the 'Subprime' power point thing, but it's all
over the
Internet and Wall Street now.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/02/how-subprime-re.html#comments
I am way to busy searching for free internet porn to have the time to create a
here in Tinsel Town, jumping the shark means going bad. Supposedly,
the phrase came about because in the show Happy Days (the one with
the Fonz), one of the characters was water-skiing and literally jumped
the shark. From then on, the show was (allegedly) not worth watching
and it was soon
My review of No Country for Old Men has generated a more general
discussion about art and politics on my blog and on Stan Goff's Feral
Scholar. Although the debate has been pretty polarized over the role
of Cormac McCarthy in realizing some ideal about Great Literature,
just about every
Neither Vietnam China nor Venezuela are socialist.
Socialism involves the socialisation of the means of
production, distribution, and exchange, and production
based on need not profit.
None of those countries have achieved this. Both
Vietnam and China have been moving away from such a
In Farming for Profit in a Hungry World (1977) I estimated that the US
lost 20 lbs of soil for each lb. of food produced. I have been
intending to read Montgomery's book.
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
As usual I am behind the times. I did not think that
Eric was about to leave the list. Anyway his main use
was to provide some information about the official
line without ever engaging in any real discussion.
Probably he does not think it worth while trying to
convert the unconvertible. He can
On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:12 PM, ken hanly wrote:
Neither Vietnam China nor Venezuela are socialist.
Socialism involves the socialisation of the means of
production, distribution, and exchange, and production
based on need not profit.
None of those countries have achieved this. Both
Vietnam
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