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- Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture
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- From: de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
- Subject: Re: Real-world solutions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.201331.18282@ornl.gov>
- Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
- References: <1992Nov6.205926.13602@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov10.224641.17906@cal.isac.ca> <1992Nov11.134104.7810@cs.rochester.edu> <1992Nov13.221858.28494@cal.isac.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:13:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.221858.28494@cal.isac.ca>, jameson@cal.isac.ca (Kevin Jameson) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.134104.7810@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- >>
- >>Farms uses a very small fraction of this country's energy consumption.
- >>We use more energy *cooking* food than we do growing it. In a
- >
- >This definitely supports the idea that the agricultural system is NOT a
- >major consumer of fossil fuels.
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- You're forgetting the use of petroleum as a feedstock for fertilizers and
- pesticides.
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- >Doesn't sustainable mean "to live off the renewable
- >interest of the capital resources of the land/planet/sun, instead of
- >off the stored capital (fossil fuels) itself?"
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- It does to me. And if we were to run out of petroleum to use for feedstock,
- what would we use? Coal? Natural gas? And when they're gone? Sure, we're
- talking about *huge* resources here. But huge isn't the same as "infinite".
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