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Don't really disagree but I think we actually chopped most of the trees down
during the war.

Perhaps we should do guerilla tree planting...

Andy
On 11 Nov 2010 16:43, "Rick Hurst" <rick.hurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> Loving the tangent :)
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Amias Channer <me at amias.net> wrote:
>
>> Some alarming findings came out of it , such as our total inability to
>> provide food for any more than 2 days without oil because of the
>> supermarket supply chain , this is usually referred to as food security.
>
> This is the key issue - we've forgotten how to feed ourselves. My
> grandparents in the early part of the century had no car, no
> electricity, no gas and no supermarkets, (mostly) grew their own food
> and heated their house by burning coal and wood. In this country we
> are pretty well placed to be self sufficient on a basic level, but
> we've forgotten how to do it (not to mention there are more of us, and
> we chopped all the forests and orchards down) .
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