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I just ate some bacon and eggs,
and I'm munching on almonds now.
I keep thinking that folks need protein and fat.
At least a little cheap carbs,
if that's all they can get,
but to have robust health and energy,
protein and fat.
Keep in mind,
when I write the word,
"food"
that's what I mean.
The top priority is food.
If we run short on diesel fuel,
we'll run short on food.
we could use natural gas,
then we'll run short on natural gas,
then we'll run short on food.
During the Enlightenment
http://www.historywiz.com/...
folks were excited about using reason,
to think clearly,
and act accordingly:
Every one as he is bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his station willfully, so by the like reason, when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he as much as he can to preserve the rest of mankind, and not unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.
To do this,
we must make certain everyone has
plenty of food.
Malthus pointed this out:
http://geography.about.com/...
Thomas Malthus argued that because of the natural human urge to reproduce human population increases geometrically (1, 2, 4, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.). However, food supply, at most, can only increase arithmetically (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.). Therefore, since food is an essential component to human life, population growth in any area or on the planet, if unchecked, would lead to starvation.
But we discovered oil,
and made diesel engines,
and put them in farm machinery,
and all my life,
so far,
we've had plenty of food.
Near the peak of oil production in the USA,
in 1968,
Paul Ehrlich
http://www.amazon.com/...
did what Malthus did.
He pointed out that folks need food.
The time has come for us to assemble groups of dedicated people who do not want to see our way of life destroyed by the population explosion.
I'm joining them;
I'm pointing out that folks need food.
Food is the number one priority.
The Soviet Union lost 25 million people
in WWII,
so they made weapons their number one priority.
They looked like idiots,
with chronic shortages of food.
America produced lots of food,
vast quantities,
using subsidies,
socialism,
communism,
but mostly,
using lots of diesel fuel,
and the profit motive,
which has given us a runaway industry
of turning diesel fuel into mostly grains,
mostly cheap carbs,
but enough protein and fat for America,
for now.
But there never was a plan
for what to do
when we run out of fossil fuel.
Now,
we're distracted.
Global warming is real,
global climate change is real,
but it distracts us form the top priority:
food.
Every time there is death and injury,
at the Boston Marathon,
at the Sandy Hook School,
at the Twin Towers,
in Oklahoma City,
in our personal lives,
we get distracted,
we can't think.
But food is still
the number one priority.
This diary is one of the clumsiest I've ever written.
I'm having a hard time getting a phrase,
a smooth way to say it,
something that flows.
I'm smarter than Al Gore,
smarter than the President,
since I know the number one priority,
and they,
apparently,
don't.
But I haven't yet found
a good way to say it,
a good way to write it.
I'm working on a plan,
a daydream about the neighborhood where I live.
I want to write a booklet,
paper and ink,
and pass it out in my neighborhood.
It's a way to make my neighborhood,
after two or three generations,
into a farm,
growing crops and grazing goats,
in the yards of empty houses,
with one family
farming the yards of 100 houses.
The key is ten children
from all the folks in those 100 houses,
and,
in the next generation,
from those ten children,
one child.
And that child marries and has two children,
and one moves away,
and one stays,
and marries,
and takes over the farm,
and has two children,
and so on and so on.
I want to write more details,
and paint a picture of my neighborhood,
both now and then.
But I don't know how
to convince enough folks
that everyone needs
plenty of protein and fat,
not just cheap carbs.
And as we run short on oil,
we need to set aside land,
and use contraception
to reach our goals
of making our cities nearly ghost towns,
so we can farm the yards,
and eat duck eggs.
Thanks for reading.