Friday, January 28, 2011

Invaluable loss

Just saw a frightening TV report. Wow, Italy. The small fertile land of our grandfathers. In between 1990 and 2005 alone, the 21% of its territory went lost to concrete. That's more than one fifth of it. Arable land gone forever, lost at a rate of 940 equivalent soccer fields per day. The funny thing is that the 40% of such lost ground was "non-building" land by law in the 70s. But laws can be changed, eh? Business is business for somebody. Yet I have to see a report for the years 2005 to 2010 but that will be horrible for sure. In recent years, productive agricultural land has been converted to photovoltaic. Food prices have dropped to unsustainable levels for farmers, hence the new energy business soaring at an increasing alarmingly rate. Our hunger for electricity can't quench our stomachs. Can't eat silicon wafer semiconductors, but I don't want to eat Chinese tomatoes either. Love them, but solar panels should be put off the ground to allow growing something underneath. I've seen it, then it's possible.

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