A green loon I know (I've mentioned him before, he's the only real member of XR that I've met) told me that growing wheat was environmentally destructive, so we would do better if we cultivated chestnuts to make the bread flour. (I later googled this, and it's done by poor peasants in northern Italy - mainly because they can't get wheat.) So a farmer buys all the new trees, learns how to cultivate them, forgoes however many years of wheat income during the time the trees reach maturity, while searching for a facility that can mill the chestnuts into flour. Assuming, of course, that there's a market for it.
Distrust of experts is all very well, but only where they have not yet proven themselves to be real experts by getting things done.
The proponents of "you're-doing-it-wrong-and-this-way-would-be-better" should be invited to invest their own money in such schemes and get obscenely rich thereby - until then, f*ck off.
Sam - I bet your green loon never had any intention of living on his own chestnut bread. We had a cracked car windscreen replaced yesterday. The chap who did it could be described as an expert who got things done, but somehow it is the fake experts who rise to the top.
decnine - and they never do that unless it's heavily subsidised.
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ReplyDeleteVery true. "Just stop oil"!
ReplyDeleteA green loon I know (I've mentioned him before, he's the only real member of XR that I've met) told me that growing wheat was environmentally destructive, so we would do better if we cultivated chestnuts to make the bread flour. (I later googled this, and it's done by poor peasants in northern Italy - mainly because they can't get wheat.) So a farmer buys all the new trees, learns how to cultivate them, forgoes however many years of wheat income during the time the trees reach maturity, while searching for a facility that can mill the chestnuts into flour. Assuming, of course, that there's a market for it.
Distrust of experts is all very well, but only where they have not yet proven themselves to be real experts by getting things done.
The proponents of "you're-doing-it-wrong-and-this-way-would-be-better" should be invited to invest their own money in such schemes and get obscenely rich thereby - until then, f*ck off.
ReplyDeleteJames - and how to exchange them.
ReplyDeleteSam - I bet your green loon never had any intention of living on his own chestnut bread. We had a cracked car windscreen replaced yesterday. The chap who did it could be described as an expert who got things done, but somehow it is the fake experts who rise to the top.
decnine - and they never do that unless it's heavily subsidised.