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  1. It doesn't matter how much it "costs" to make things for internal consumption in a self-sufficient system. It is just cost shifting from one sector to another.

  2. "Subsistence level" is the crux of my argument. Even the Inuit in northern Canada were self sufficient (before the white man), but most people wouldn't want to live the way they did. So how much would we have to give up to be self sufficient?

  3. The edge of Europe seems to be the stumbling block with the EU. I wondered the other day whether the EU was trying to become a modern version of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to counter a modern version of the Ottoman Empire. The situation with Turkey and several of the former Soviet Republics highlights this problem. Does the EU still think of itself as "Christian"?


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by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Sat Jul 19th, 2008 at 11:02:50 AM EST
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