Again, technological solutions to our predicament, if they succeed in
replacing any large amount of fossil energy with renewables, continue to
ignore a major part of our problem: continued production of energy
production of any kind at anything like current levels will perpetuate
the damaging results of current global excessive energy consumption:
rapid depletion not just of oil and gas but of all sorts of finite
resources, and production of goods and services of kinds that are
destroying the ecological resource base human civilization must depend on
to survive. Greenhouse gas emissions are only one of the many kinds of
destructive pollutants that our high energy consumption permits. It is
true that some of this could be avoided if we made revolutionary,
wrenching changes in the way we use energy - to support truly
regenerative systems of farming, for example - but I see the invention
and massive use of alternative energies goodies like those proposed in
this news article as just making that kind of revolution in cultural
values harder to accomplish.
Karl North
Northland Sheep Dairy, Freetown, New York USA
www.geocities.com/northsheep/
"Mother Nature never farms without animals" - Albert Howard
"Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying
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