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  Please I live in western Pennsylvania,USA,,or like most anywhere in the world, I see my environment degraded,,and the wild lands increasingly relegated to the margins, and yet some would say, 'let us increase the size of the farms,let us increase mechanization in order to further the goal of mechanization. Do they think that because farms are not urban that they are natural?  Silly urbanized people,thinking that the world is either city or green,,bad or good!
  Nah we are all in this together. It is a tapestry and as it is now a fragile tapestry.
    The cities should ask no more of the country but rather should ask how the cities can become more green!On An excerpt from a new book by George Monbiot posted 3 years, 2 months ago 36 Responses

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  bio diesal,etc

  does anyone really know how much of the earth would need to be planted to supply us all with both food and energy needs?   I do.

   Answer,,much more than anyone cares to imagine!

   In order to substitute bio fuel for petro,etc energy sources we would probably have to burn down most of our forests each year,,turn most of our wild lands into farms,,in short make the whole earth into an agro-industrial enterprise.
  And still that would not  be enough.

   I think that few people realize how much energy is contained in a barrel of oil and how many trees it takes to make said barrel.

  Commen sense answer--there is a reason that so much farmland is now at use and why the forests that exist are only there but by the fact that that land is not necessary for food production.

  I realize that we need a change,,but turning thousands of acres of rainforest into factory fields ,in order to drive vehicles while we get fat,is not what most people envision as the answer.On An excerpt from a new book by George Monbiot posted 3 years, 2 months ago 36 Responses