Re: GMO in Developing Nations

"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster"
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> To be fair, that's a bit simplistic.
> >> >
> >> >The laws of thermodynamics are. And there is no appeal.
> >>
> >> Indeed. But this was a point about dessertification, not fertiliser.
The
> >> cause/effect connection is not as clear as was being suggested. More
than
> >one
> >> thing is operating here.
> >
> >but there always is more than one effect, but desertification is
basically
> >the result to too little water and too little fertiliser combined with
too
> >much being extracted.
>
> Articles I have read say that your point of view is wrong.
>
> > Throughout history there are large areas that have
> >been fertile but have been rendered desert not by climate change but by
> >passing armies destroying the infrastructure, the mongols were classic
> >exemplars of this
>
> Again ... this might indeed have happened ... but it also happens without
any
> help from peolpe. Other factors are also operating.
>

sure the climate is constantly changing, we do not maintain a constant
distance from the sun, the solar system moves through interstellar dust
belts of varying density as it rotates around the galactic core, many things
happen

Jim Webster
> Bruce
>
>
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> It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to
> think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone´s fault.
> If it was Us, what did that make Me ? After all, I´m one of Us. I must be.
> I´ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks
> of themselves as one of Them. We´re always one of Us. It´s Them that do
> the bad things. <=> Terry Pratchett. Jingo.