[Gasification] MINC MATE; DANIEL REIS and overview article on biofuels issue

Fri May 16 14:34:01 CDT 2008

Doctor Haard, my account of land property for family sustainable development is 5.000 square feet. If we apply more tech probably it minimices.
  I agree with this:
"" Enlightened  
political leadership would be helpful, but we can create a sustainable

society without it. Indeed, we have to.""

  Regards, Ben
Richard Haard <richrd at nas.com> escribió:
  Here is an essay that provides an overview on this issue.

Biofuels and the rise of nationalistic environmentalism.

An interesting aspect of this article is the author points out fossil 
fuel powered machines are easily used by individuals but that machines 
adapted to biofuels, solar heating, etc are more attractive for 
community use. This points towards the increasing rewards to 
cooperation as a community in an era of increasing fossil fuel energy 
costs. This wider view indicates development of commercialized 
gasification for example may be more likely to succeed where 
utilization of expensive infrastructure can be organized and operated 
for sustained use to justify the investment.

Rich
Abstract

The rapid expansion of biofuel production worldwide has paralleled a 
dramatic rise in food prices. The expansion of biofuels has been 
supported by a wide spectrum of people, from environmentalists looking 
for "sustainable" energy to conservatives wanting to reduce U.S. 
dependency on foreign oil. With food riots spreading, the U.S. remains 
committed to an expansion of biofuel.

Biofuels are part of a larger movement toward green capitalism, the 
idea that we can scale down our energy use through technologies that 
improve the efficiency of the consumer society. Biofuels are 
emblematic of the dark side of green capitalism, which is focused 
almost entirely on the well being of the global upper class. Biofuels 
are a form of nationalistic environmentalism that is creating a 
foundation on which more extreme nationalists will try to wed the 
racist tools of yesterday with a version of "sustainability" that will 
include the destruction of the global poor.

Real solutions are both impossibly difficult and simple. The 
cooperative societies in which most humans have always lived are 
capable of supporting a high standard of living with far less 
resources than the individualized, consumer society. Enlightened 
political leadership would be helpful, but we can create a sustainable 
society without it. Indeed, we have to.

On May 16, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Benjamin Domingo Bof wrote:

> As you know are many info sended world over about climate change, 
> greenhouse effect, global warming, etc, etc, etc.
> But my question FARC, MST , "Piqueteros" sign "Koyote Protocol"?
> Regards, Ben
> mark crorey escribió:
> What does this have to do with gasification?
>
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> Domingo Bof
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> Subject: [Gasification] MINC MATE; DANIEL REIS
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> In interview to the periodical the Globo, of 23/09/2001, the 
> professor of
> History Contemporary, of Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Daniel 
> Aarão
> Reis, one of the 40 militant ones banished for Algeria, in exchange 
> for the
> ambassador of Germany, affirmed: " The armed actions of the 
> Brazilian left
> do not have to be mitificadas. Nor for a side nor for the other. I 
> do not
> share of the legend of that in the end of years 60 and at the 
> beginning of
> the 70 (also I) we were the armed arm of a democratic resistance. I 
> find
> this a myth appeared during the campaign of the anisitia. Throughout 
> the
> process of radicalization initiated in 1961, the project of the left
> organizations that defended the fight armed was revolutionary and
> ditatorial. It was intended to implant a revolutionary dictatorship. 
> One
> alone document of these organizations does not exist where they 
> presented
> themselves as instrument of the democratic resistance - “The radical 
> left if
> had launched in the fight against
> the dictatorship, not because people wanted a democracy, but to 
> restore the
> socialism in the Country, by means of a revolutionary dictatorship, 
> as it
> existed in China and Cuba. But, evidently, they spoke in resistance, 
> much
> more likeable, mobilizadora, agglutinant word. This is a teaching 
> that comes
> of the classics on the war”.
>
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