Dear Mother: June/July 2009
Letters to the editor about NAIS, biochar, electric lawn mowers, creating a sustainable future, a solar revolution and more.
June/July 2009
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Can we navigate the curves the future has in store for us?
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Denis Hayes for President
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I’ve always enjoyed Mother Earth News for the great gardening articles, but your recent discussions of global environmental issues have been so concise and well-written that I’m keeping your magazine in my office to help me articulate opinions and vision with my colleagues and clients. In particular, Planning for a Sustainable Human Future by Bryan Welch and A Plan for the Solar Revolution by Denis Hayes are must-reads for all.
Welch’s analogy of visualizing success in completing a difficult physical challenge is effective and relevant in relation to our environmental challenges. His observations regarding human population balance present a compassionate and simple necessity. And Hayes lays out such a clear and comprehensive strategy for renewable energy that he should be our president.
Thank you for keeping the quality of discussion at this level.
Mike Bower
Sedona, Arizona
Stop the Political Nonsense
I have been reading Mother Earth News for as long as I have been able to read. I like the content and have enjoyed your magazine. However, since “green” has become a political movement, and those who I would term communists or die-hard socialists have taken the nonexistent, scientifically disproved global warming crisis and used it to control us, I have started to skip articles and at times the whole magazine. Please hear my plea. The political nonsense should be left out of my Mother Earth News.
Dennis Douglas
Consort, Alberta
More Questions Than Answers
I just got the April/May 2009 issue and, like always, dove right in. I turned straight away to A Plan for the Solar Revolution, but was left with more questions than answers. We’re a growth culture. Our current “success” as a species is dependent on increases in fossil fuel exploitation.
But declining energy supplies means no more growth. Recent banking shenanigans attest to that. And what about our centralized agriculture system that hasn’t turned a profit in decades? Do we let conventional agriculture fail in order to build these electric cars? How will we manufacture and distribute them without oil?
Some of the ideas in the article are brilliant and extremely appropriate for the future we face. But this article is still asking how to make more efficient the production of things we don’t really need. The real revolution begins when humans start asking themselves, “Do we really need to do this at all?”
This is our last chance, folks; the planet is counting on a mental paradigm shift, not eco-piety.
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