From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-04-13T09:59:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:45:06AM +0900, Phlip wrote:
> Pedro Wood wrote:
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> >In particular I see science and technology as the main source for been=
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> >ecological: solar power, wind power, ... energy-efficient buildings,=20
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> >plastic, etc., etc., etc.
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> Exactly. And for each cost-savings attempted during the 20th Century, the=
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> were lobbyists and saboteurs who thwarted it. For example, Henry Ford tri=
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> to start a new fab for electric cars, right in the middle of the Model T=
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> era.
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> The new fab had a mysterious fire. Prescott Bush, in the same region, was=
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> Big Oil's chief fixer back then. 'Nuff said.
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> It's not the technology doing it, folks - it's the lobbyists and=20
> corruption. Our current infrastructure is such a distorted miasma we don'=
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> even understand how clean and efficient it could easily be.

Consider as well such recent developments as making ethanol from corn --
ethanol that, through the entire production and transportation process,
ends up costing us more petroleum per unit of energy than creating
gasoline does, to say nothing of the fact that it's consuming food crops
too.

Free inquiry, free trade, technological advancement, and conservation for
the purpose of saving and improving the lives of humans are naturally
complementary.  It's when centralized power structures (i.e., government
and its corporate proxies) are allowed to interfere that things break
down.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Edward Murphy, Jr. (Murphy's Law): "If there's more than one way
to do a job and one of those ways will end in disaster, then someone
will do it that way."

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