09-25-2009, 08:50 PM
Wouldn't it be nice if the people who squawk about the frightening dangers of surviving in an altered global environment got together and bought a tract of Big Island land that's up for sale, and use it to grow fruit, vegetables, and grain from heirloom seeds that have survived adverse conditions, and do the best they can to turn a profit on a large scale. If they can find seeds that haven't been around for decaces or longer, they too should be given a chance to live in a new, possibly changing environment without any need of petroleum-based fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or any other cide I may have missed. Ooh, the money! Can we turn a profit? That seems to be the bottom line in today's greedy, corrupt world in which perhaps many of those in control may not think or care about the future. So, what would it cost to set up a thousand acre layout, or maybe even ten thousand acres, and equip it with state of the art solar power? How Much? Fifty million? A hundred million? There was a time when such numbers meant something, but those are days gone by because we now toss around numbers called trillions as if they were cards in a game of poker. To help you put these numbers into their proper perspective, that lousy hundred million bucks is ten million times smaller than a single trillion, and how many trillions are we choking on now? That lousy hundred million bucks works out to one tenth of one percent of a single trillion, and to put it into numerical terms, that's 00.001%. Our island is starving for jobs, and it's starving for a way to create them. Yes, new housing creates jobs too but for the most part, they're non-renewable and like insects, they have to migrate where there is more raw land to "develop". I've said enough. You get the picture.