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This book's Potent Nostalgia is for those ordinary laws of physics
and biology, which Northern economies have abandoned in favour of
extra-ordinary laws of fossil physics. The rediscovery of our place
in the world may prove to be a greater delight than the pain of
losing extra-ordinary power. In any case, if we don't reshape our
lives as parts of the whole, then those very ordinary laws will
react by flood for some, desert for others and with an
unpredictable violence and rapidity. Discovery of appropriate
techniques can only happen citizen by citizen. Governments and
commercial corporations have shown that they are incapable of
change. Knowledge is not a function of power. The author farms in a
family partnership which produces cereals, vegetables, apples, beef
and lamb. Nearly all the produce is sold directly, by way of a
market stall, which he proposes as a step towards a real and
convivial economy, which may nicely fit those ordinary laws of
physics and biology.
"When economy and ecology are seamlessly enmeshed, then the economy
will revolve at optimum speed. When they are not, then friction
between them will slow both their cycles, grind down bio mass and
release wasted economic heat." "Bio fuels have a greater
atmospheric CO2 effect than fossil fuels. If we burn life, we add
to atmospheric CO2, but also reduce the mass of CO2 absorbing life.
If we burn fossil fuels, we add to atmospheric CO2, but the mass of
life continues to live and breathe." (From the Lost Coefficient of
Time) The Lost Coefficient of Time sets out to refute the
assumption quoted below, which has informed the Carbon audits of
the IPCC, carbon trading schemes, carbon footprint calculations,
most university departments and in particular, the Zero Carbon
Britain 2030 report by the Centre for Alternative Technology. "If
biomass is burned, the chemistry is more or less reversed, and the
original energy and raw material (CO2 and water) are released.
There is then no net gain or loss of CO2, which is why biological
fuels are considered to be "Carbon neutral." Patrick Noble is an
organic farmer of over thirty years experience.
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