What is it that we learn from history again? Oh, right, nothing:
Out on the farm, the ducks and pheasants are losing ground.
Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government's biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops. Last fall, they took back as many acres as are in Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
I'm reading J.K. Galbraith's book on the Crash of '29 -- uncomfortable to start reading again about pulling conservation reserve land into production ...
Peterson’s Waxman-Markey amendment: the nitty gritty and what it means
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Biodiversivist Posted 4:04 am
09 Apr 2008
Huh, first published more than a half century ago
Is history doomed to repeat itself even in the information age? I would have guessed that in the more distant past, lessons learned were easily lost with time because clay tablets, scrolls and eventually books were rare and fragile. That isn't the case today. So maybe it's more complicated than that.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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amazingdrx Posted 5:04 am
09 Apr 2008
Those who learn
Those who learn from history are doomed to watch others repeat it.
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