I was writing this whilst HoM (or hOM I love to think of 'er) was posting-so it may appear out of context. Just want to add this one thing
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Even so Britain is very far from being self sufficient in food.
. Here is the heart of the matter. We were not built for self-sufficiency. We were built for interconnectedness. This journey-via avatar or aviation is a lesson in open-handed sharing for the highest good of all. When we get that part (any many do in many ways everyday)-and stop allowing our governments to turn away help, or denying help or allowing accumulation to rule the day-THEN, that will sort so many things out.
Pre-HoM post (do read who makes up the members of OPEC-they are power suits)
It's very interesting to me that the demand for oil in places...like INDIA (the topic of this thread) are some of the reasons that the prices of oil have skyrocketed.
Petroleates (may have just made up a word alert), rise to the surface and have been mined as far back as 300 something BC in China (wikipedia). Their by-products have been used for everything from mummification (bitumen) to firing the hearths since the dawn of homonids. Even if there were no men....they collect and rise to the surface by way of fractures and release all sorts of things considered noxious...like sulphur & methane-without taking into consideration the ordinary plate tectonix & vulcan activities.
The earth has also been a hazard to mankind. My case in point: There are naturally mummified remains of european types (tartan textiles) buried with their asian mates together on the silk road, whose bodies showed lung damage-and in fact preserved the medical operations of sandstorm (silicosis) repair. They bore evidence that their chest cavaties had been opened up to flush the sand from their lungs.
The earth will make it's own evolutionary "decisions" and shake us off like dust. We can choose to be stardust or just dirt. There's alot of us all gathered together here right now. It's a flustercluck & always has been on some level.
Just try to get the scientists, politicians, etc. to agree on what is the definition of natural or organix....
we are silicate organisms-isn't that weird?
I could go on & on, but will stop.
I'll be happy if a few of these GIGANTIC hummers that love to run a person off a road with some lunatic with too much money doesn't turn me into roadkill due to $150 pumpfees, getting parked...it's happening. Hummers and Ford 5-Series are off the hot list.
"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets." Dune-Frank Herbert
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