At 10:11 PM 12/20/2007 -0500, you wrote: >Maybe I'm naive, but I am impressed and moved by >the tone and substance of this exchange. I'd love >to hear others' take on it. >Elan
Dear Elan and Friends--I have met Larry Walker, on a number of occasions. I don't know him personally very well, but I think that he is overall a pretty good guy. He is a great researcher and he and his research staff have done some outstanding research in area of biological and environmental engineering. I do believe him when he says that he has not (in my words) sold out to Big Ag industry and that sustainability has always been an important focus of his research. He is one of the younger generation of researchers that was never aligned with the military industrial complex in the usual sense of the terms. All that being as it may, we are still faced with the pending energy decent. Appropriately developed biofuels will have a place in our future, hopefully not in a Big Ag mode, but in a more sustainable mode. Even so, we will all need to reduce our energy requirements by 50-80 percent. Biofuels will be a drop in the bucket in the long run. We will need to reduce our consumption of other resources by even more as they simply won't be available. We need to reduce our global population to less than 1/5th of our current levels--or it will reduce itself one way or another. The energy decent is about using less, making less and procreating less and being happy about the fact that possibly we will survive.... and enjoying what we do as humans at higher levels, most of which is free and consumes no resources to speak of. My $.02. Tom Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
