Blake Shelton is a popular country artist and the husband of another popular country artist, Miranda Lambert.
This is the first song off his new album Startin' Fires. It's called "Green," and contains the immortal couplet, "I know a lot more about cane-pole fishin' / than I ever will about carbon emissions." Lyrics below the fold.
People used to call me backwards
livin' out here with the tractors
lettin' this world leave me behind
Nowadays I'm an innovator
a country boy prognosticator
man, a man ahead of my time
[Chorus]
I got a hundred-acre farm
I got a John Deere in my barn
I got a garden in my yard
full corn, peas, and beans
I got a guitar I play unplugged
I got a home-grown girl I love
and when the summertime hits we skinny dip in the stream
I was green before green was a thing
Sheets on the clothesline dryin'
Red tail hawks a-flyin'
A couple a deer on the timberline
Yeah I know a lot more about cane-pole fishin'
Than I ever will about carbon emissions
But my little corner of the world is doin' just fine
[Chorus x 2]
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Biodiversivist Posted 6:04 pm
26 Nov 2008
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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LegumeSam Posted 1:02 am
27 Nov 2008
http://www.dailykos.com/User/Cassiodorus
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Biodiversivist Posted 3:41 am
27 Nov 2008
Clothes washing and drying technology isn't all that different from his fictitious John Deer in the barn (he is really just a pop star with a twang singing a brand of music called country).
We can all choose to use older technology--hitch up a team of horses to a steel plow or get a great big pointed stick and poke holes in the ground to plant seeds as is still done by most of humanity today.
If I want to spend my time hanging clothes on a clothesline I can always choose to do so. Couple that with pounding the dirt out of them with rocks, grinding my own cornmeal, collecting my own firewood to stoke my own stove and pretty soon I'd find that I have no time or energy left to bore other people to death with my opinions :-
I'd prefer a dryer that uses electricity that was generated by solar panels and stored on the grid. One that also helps to heat my home or preheats my hot water while it dries my clothes.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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Jay Alt Posted 5:59 am
28 Nov 2008
An electric drier uses about 900 kwh or 3240 MJ / yr. That requires about 300# of coal and generates more than a half ton of CO2. There were 61 million clothes dryers (electric) in use according to the 2001 census.
Last year I met a UK woman in her 50s who'd recently moved to the US. In her decades in Britain, she'd never owned (nor known anyone that owned) a clothes dryer. Drying clothes without one isn't hard nor very time consuming.
Today it is 41 degrees and mostly sunny. The heaviest towels on the line won't dry fully, they are too pale to absorb much sun. But the lighter ones will. Those still damp will be put back on the racks and will dry fully in a few hours from furnace air. Like they do after a shower. In colder weather, they'll improve indoor air quality with added humidity.
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