Re: The Oil We Eat

[John Gulick <john_gulick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this article is a real _tour de force_. I highly, highly recommend it.
Lou is absolutely correct, the not-so-implicit message is that it's all been
downhill since the emergence of sedentary grain cultivation, but not only is
the science dead-on, there are useful nuggets of ecological political
economy in here as well. Such as ... were the world's 6 billion to adopt US
dietary habits, the world's fossil fuel stocks (not just capitalistically
recoverable fossil fuel stocks) would be depleted in less than a decade.
Stunning stuff.

John Gulick

LP said:

> (An extremely important article from the Feb. 2004 Harpers Magazine, which
> unfortunately is not online. I scanned in the first couple of pages but
> urge everybody to track it down and read the whole thing. It is the first
> time I have seen an attempt to integrate an analysis of the agricultural
> crisis with the energy crisis. All that is needed is to connect all this to
> the water crisis and you will have the basis for a total ecological
> critique of late capitalist society. Although Manning is something of a
> Deep Ecologist, his understanding of the *science* is unimpeachable. The
> article addresses the question of civilization's roots in agriculture and
> urban society and the conclusion one is left with is that it is
> *unsustainable*. Manning also has a brief article on the Counterpunch
> website on Mad Cow that I also recommend a look at:
> http://www.counterpunch.org/manning01172004.html)

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