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Climate change happens - Can PEOPLE change quickly enough ?

As everyone is aware, there's yet another significant heat wave
in both the USA and europe. Is this 'global warming' at work or
merely a long-term trend towards more heat, just as the "little
ice age" of the 1600s was a 300 year trend toward colder temps ?
Hard to say - and it hardly matters either because it's HAPPENING
and we have to COPE with it.

While the news concentrates on dehydrated old people and big-
breasted joggers passed-out on the streets, the REAL threat is
not to people directly - but to AGRICULTURE. With about seven
billion people to feed, temperature and rainfall deviations
threaten the agricultural base which sustains them.

I have never understood why Africans still harbor xenophobic tendencies
towards genetically modified foods. To most Africans, benefits of
genetically modified foods is exaggerated and not worth any
consideration. What they don't know is that Americans and Europeans,
who apparently they loathe, readily eat these foods. They make billions
of dollars from trade involving them. The elites in Africa,
unfortunately, have not done much to educate the lay people about the
potential benefits of genetically food. So, blind opposition to
genetically modified food continues, to the detriment of the masses.

I am making this post because of some events that are currently
unfolding in South Africa. There, Dr. Florence Wambugu, an icon of
modern agricultural biotechnology, has received a grant of US$400
million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop
genetically modified sorghum. As a start, Dr. Wambugu would like to set
up a state-of-the-art laboratory to research on GM sorghum, but the
South African government has told her NO. To justify its actions, the
government has expressed fears that genetically modified sorghum might
contaminate indigenous sorghum varieties.

So here I am in Md., a State once known for great tomatoes, in a
country that was the world's breadbasket, and the tomatoes I buy today
are from .... Canada!!! The Great White North.

True, the tomatoes are greenhouse but they are surprisingly good, damn
good, in fact.

W & M Valley View Ranch is located in the scenic Souris River valley,
south-east of Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. The property contain
approximately 100 acres (40.5 hectares) of land, including 10 acres
(4.1 hectares) of cultivated land and 70 acres (28.3 hectares) of
pasture land. Building located on the property are the house, garage,
hay shelter, shop, barn, feedlot, and well houses.

Being located in a valley, there are a variety of slopes, hills, and
embankments. Numerous trees are embedded along the the adjacent Souris
River.

For further information please visit, http://www.saskvalleyranch.com

W & M Valley View Ranch is located in the scenic Souris River valley,
south-east of Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. The property contain
approximately 100 acres (40.5 hectares) of land, including 10 acres
(4.1 hectares) of cultivated land and 70 acres (28.3 hectares) of
pasture land. Building located on the property are the house, garage,
hay shelter, shop, barn, feedlot, and well houses.

Being located in a valley, there are a variety of slopes, hills, and
embankments. Numerous trees are embedded along the the adjacent Souris
River.

For further information please visit, http://www.saskvalleyranch.com

We are engaged in the development of rural housing with associated
farming of grains etc. that will serve the ethanol production industry.
In our research we discovered that there are benefits to the existing
farmers as well as farmers to be by producing the raw materials needed
for ethanol production. While your figures may be true, in and of
themselves, they are meaningless relative to the benefits gained from
rural housing opportunities, enterprise and income generation, and as
at least a partial solution to oil dependence from countries that are a
potential threat to our way of life. It may cost us temporarily to be
relieved of that reliance. It can buy us time to develop better energy
sources including wind generated energy. But, in the process of
expanding ethanol production, more people will have housing
opportunities away from polluted cities, gain additional income
opportunities, and return to a way of life we used to consider was
better. I for one have no real argument with your numbers. But, I think
you may be cutting off your nose to spite your face....sort of. But,
this is a game of strategy we all need to kick loose the constraints
that are strangling us . . the greatest of which is the dependences we
didn't have not that long ago. The net loss you described will be
recovered as there are other costs built into the cost of gasoline. You ...

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