[Peace-discuss] Recently reread Daniel Quinn---thinking about the biofuels crisis

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

I recently reread Daniel Quinn's Ishmael as I think about food, population, 
water, resources, and climate problems----and then I hear all this nonsense 
about "sustainable growth."  No kind of consistent growth is sustainable: the 
two words are inherently contradictory and together they are oxymoronic.  If 
the world's population and resource consumption were growing at only 2%: 
population and resource usage would double in about 35 years!!!!!  And the 
business pages celebrate booming growth in India and Chinag----So, we want 
China's economy to double in less than a decade?  Kiss the world's forests, 
oil supplies, mineral resources, climatic stability et. al goodbye forever... 
We started this in America, and it will be nice that the dragon can finish off 
what the bald eagle started...  

We are definitely the culture of Takers, and the cultures of the Leavers will 
unfortunately suffer the same fate as we will (I really do feel for the 
indigenous people as they are the only ones for whom I feel existential mercy 
in regards to the ecological hell we are creating for all life on this Earth)--
---elimination from this world we've deigned to rule and for what?  Bank 
accounts with made-up money?  Nice houses, rich cars, and access to sexcapades 
around the world?  The pleasing of a bloodthirsty Judeo-Christian-Islam God 
(the Middle East is full of extremist Jews, Christians, and Muslims ready to 
blow up the planet for their God(s))?  

I can't feel sorry for a culture whose only transcendant values is thanking 
god for all of the money they're going to make off of the next Wall Street 
funny money or telemarketed multi-level marketing scheme...  It will be good 
riddens to these fat, greedy creatures known as Americans who have condemned 
people like the family members of my Sudanese friend to a lifetime of famine 
and starvation thanks to structural adjustment programs, CIA coups, arms 
profiteering, and a ruined climate from the continuous belching of greenhouse 
gases from coal and oil...

I don't know---but I've a hard time being anything other than a bit 
misanthropic.  If I were an alien who actually came from a planet where the 
morality humans talk about was practiced as the actual culture; I would fly 
down in my spacecraft and be appalled at the barbarity of what the Homo 
Sapiens species has done to this once beautiful planet....  I'm getting 
comfortable with the idea that if Nature were to eliminate us (me included), I 
would accept that Fate for we richly deserve it.  In the meantime, I'm going 
to find a place to sit and watch this freak show circus of a civilization 
consume itself from the inside.... 

I can't wait for all of the Red Staters to bake and starve because of rising 
food and fuel prices----family values will be great when they can all sit in 
their trailer parks and starve together for giving us this marionette chimp 
for a President....   Families that starve together, die together....

And for the one half of the voting public that didn't vote for that monster---
what did we do to hold this government accountable for its multiple crimes 
against humanity (including its protection of the fossil fuel which is cooking 
the whole godforsaken planet)?  What did we do to expose the fraud that was 
9/11?  The lies about Iraq?  The failure to find peace in Israel and on and 
on....  Oh, that can't happen here as we'll just vote in Democrats who twitter 
pate about democratic values that they don't really believe in when it comes 
time to cash in on war profits from the Middle East blood bath....

Enjoy the hyperinflationary depression of the 21st century---who will we nuke 
next?  After all, it's our oil under their sand....

Nick


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
To:      "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>, n.dahlheim at mchsi.com
Cc:      Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Biofuels are prime cause of food crisis, says leaked (World Bank) report -
Date:    Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:45:19 +0000

> Add GREEDY to stupid and vain.
> ?-Jenifer
> 
> --- On Sat, 7/5/08, n.dahlheim at mchsi.com <n.dahlheim at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 
> From: n.dahlheim at mchsi.com <n.dahlheim at mchsi.com>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Biofuels are prime cause of food crisis, says 
> leaked (World Bank) report -
> To: "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>
> Cc: Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 10:21 AM
> 
> I completely concur, especially when you consider the extraordinarily precarious
> nature of agriculture.  
> The only reason that the amount of humans being fed on this planet is as high
> as it is, is dependent 
> upon the petrochemical inputs and massive irrigation and tilling technology
> that artificially boosts 
> yields.  Declining water tables (the Ogallala aquifer in the central U.S. is in
> a lot of trouble going 10-20 
> years in the future) and now the peaking of world oil production likely means
> that America, a land of 
> people who stuff their faces with food and see their waistlines expand
> continuously, will itself have 
> trouble feeding itself using commercialized mechanized factory agriculture. 
> And we're putting that 
> food in our cars?  We are a stupid and vain people, and Nature and the rest of
> the world will have their 
> revenge upon us....  I can't tell you how many people here in NYC are so
> convinced that Barack Obama 
> is going to fix things----just total idiocy from the "creative class"
> yuppies who are continuing to do 
> poor imitations of committed progressive thinkers.
> 
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