Reply #8: Please Explain, Oh Wise One

[24HRrnr]

1. Why farming can not return to the substitance level of 1750. Seed stock is avaibable if not the most "modern" and efficeint. "Bio"-fertilziers are available. I grow my tomatoes in horse manure. Without oil, manure could conceivably get deeper - though it might be hard to imagine.

2. Why won't people, in order to survive, not revert to the habits on 1750, ie. become farmers.

3. Please explain how large multi-national companies that require oil for their existance will not only survive but control all agriculture - without the oil that they use to create the fertilizers, etc. I have a walnut tree in the back yard that is 100 years old. These nuts are viable. Why can I not sell them for palnting or plant them myself?

3. The climate has changed precipitiously in the past, warmer and cooler. The period of the 1750's was part of the Little Ice Age in which snowfall was at record levels and "springs and summers were oustandingly cold and wet" cite: Lamb, Hubert H. (1995). "The little ice age", Climate, history and the modern world. London: Routledge, 211-241. ISBN 0415127343

Please explain how the population grew larger by SIXTY percent of the estimate in the post that I responded to during this conditions of privation. Since temperatures warmed thereafter, explain why the population continued to grow.


4. Please use numbers where ever possible. The statement (yours) "A farmer explained it this way. Heavy spring rains coming late in the season delays planting. The late start means that the growing season is delayed into fall when the days are shorter and the plants get less sunlight. So plant growth is stunted and crop yields are less." is anecdotal, not scientific. Please support the statement that the world can only maintain a population base of 500 million people without oil when it has done so in the past.

5. Please explain how a dimishment of 90 percent of the population will not result in large expanses of previously plowed, planted, or concrete soil to revert to a wilder state incresing wildlife and natural food supplies.

6. Please define the pre-tax profit margin of the following businesses: Walmart, Merck, ADM, ConAgra, Progressive Insurance, ExxonMobil and Qwest Communications. Which ones are bloated? Why?

I suspect my reasoning is sound. Your "reasoning" appears to be bullying, lacking in specific detail, long on emotion and suspect - from a scientific prespective.