Re: Global warming and your garden

Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:wildbilly-A30D18.08242319052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> In article <Xns9AA3456864C96enigmaempirenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  enigma <enigma@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:ompomelet-2A2030.03070919052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
>> 
>>  
>> > But if it IS cyclical and not controllable, it's better
>> > to just prepare rather than whine about it.
>> 
>>  even if it's partly our fault (which i'm sure it is,
>>  along 
>> with the cyclical), it's better to prepare than whine
>> about it. 

> Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best.

 pretty much...

>>  people in the US (& most industrialized countries) have
>>  this 
>> "manifest destiny" thing going on... entitlement. living 
>> beyond their means, in as grand & wasteful a manner as 
>> possible.

> Our infotainment media keeps Americans pretty well
> insulated from reality. I don't think most Americans have
> any idea about how wasteful we are. There certainly is a
> percentage of Americans who think we have a "manifest
> destiny" (even though it is beginning to look like the same
> one the lemmings have) an entitlement to rule the planet.

hey now! don't go dissing the lemmings! that bad rap about 
jumping off cliffs was entirely generated by a bored Disney 
camera crew doing a "do***entary". they *chased* those poor 
leemings over the cliff to their deaths. Disney has a lot to 
answer for...
 i find it sad, but amusing that over 75% of houses i am 
seeing for sale have such rediculous (for the northeast 
anyway) features as 'cathedral ceilings'. can you say 'heat 
sink'?
 i'm looking into a modular type house to put on that abutting 
lot (if i buy it. the present house is beyond fixer-upper, but 
the heirs think they can sell it as habitable. i'm going to 
offer them 40k. 50k if they do the demolition. no way is that 
place going to get a loan as is). it's near impossible to find 
a less than 1000 sq.ft. 2 bedroom, one bath plan... bigger is 
all over, with huge amounts of wasted space.

>>  plus no one teaches practical knowledge in schools
>>  anymore.
 
> Some do but most of the manufacturing jobs have been out
> sourced. http://www.rop.scoe.org/

 i was thinking more along the lines of self-sufficiency: 
gardening, mechanics, assorted handcraft arts (pottery, 
basketry, woodworking, sewing, plumbing), a solid, practical 
mathmatics base, critical thinking... stuff like that.

lee
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