Friday Book Break
June 6, 2008
It is Friday, right? Then let’s mess around a little. First a quote I found quoted in Earth: The Sequel -
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. (Schopenhauer)
Another book to look for if you are out and about this weekend – The End of Food, written by the same guy who wrote The End of Oil a few years ago (and got ridiculed by many, if I remember correctly. Not so many people laughing right now).
Basically, EOF is about the transitions that the global industrial food system faces in upcoming years. Not necessarily comfortable reading for ag sorts, but very interesting nonetheless. If you really don’t like it, then run your truck over it and give it away to your favorite hippie or something :) keeping in mind that if you think that person might be me, I already have a copy.
EOO wasn’t very comfortable reading for energy sorts when it first came out, either. But some of those who did at least gained inklings of ways they could adjust, before the big wave hit.
— Maril Hazlett, www.climateandenergy.org
