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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
Rick & Bea Tarara wrote: Again, one CAN be
> self-sufficient on a small rural farm--one cannot be in a city.
>
> > Your "sink" idea rather reminds me of the idea that the countryside
> > supports the cities, which is of course not true. Famines always
> > happen worst in rural areas; cities can buy food anywhere. It is the
> > cities which provide the rural areas with the income they need to buy
> > the necessities -- energy, clothing, manufactured goods. Food? Hell,
> > anywhere there's sunlight or salt water.
>
> How much food is grown in Manhattan? Haven't seen many dairy farms in
> downtown Chicago. Phoenix's water supplies? Coal mines, iron mines, in
> downtown Pittsburgh? Sorry--the raw materials, the FOOD, and often even
> the water that supports cities comes from the rural surroundings (not the
> suburbs which are only slightly less dense cities)--and certainly the
> energy resources as well.
>
> .
The only people who are neccessary are those who produce the
base-farmers, forestry, fishing, and mining. ALL ELSE ARE PARASITES.
When the parasites overload the host, the host dies and so does the
parasites. It is all simple biogly.
Dale Wagner
Gardiner OR
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