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The Colonial Pipeline spill has caused 6 states (Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and North Carolina) to declare a state of emergency. Gasoline (petrol) prices on the east coast are likely to spike. Yet, most puzzling is how this vast emergency and its likely effect on cost of living has gone unnoticed by mainstream media outlets. The pipeline is owned by Koch Industries: is this why the media is silent?
[Are there any Soylentils in the affected area who can corroborate this story? Have you heard of the spill, seen long gas lines, or any price gouging? -Ed.]
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Six US States Declare Emergency after Major Gasoline Pipeline Spill; Media Almost Silent
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Keep cool.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @06:07PM
Growing enough vegetables and keeping chickens for your own consumption is quite manageable, assuming you live at least in the suburbs or have plot of land 1/4 acre or larger.
Big assumptions there.
There are advantages to people living in cities. Even from an ecological and environmental impact perspective ( http://www.citylab.com/work/2012/04/why-bigger-cities-are-greener/863/ [citylab.com] http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/energy/environment/want-to-save-the-environment-build-more-cities [ieee.org] ). It's not the cities themselves are that wonderful for wildlife or the environment, it's more of keeping most of us and our shit in one spot. Imagine the millions of people living in cities spread out with 1/4 acre each. How much land left for other land animals? How much land for other _wild_ land animals? And how much more damage we'd cause to the world?
There's about 3.5 billion acres of arable land. That's about double the 1/4 acre per person figure you mention. That's great eh, or not? Of course land suitable for agricultural is more than just arable land but it should give you a better idea of the size of the problem.
There is no such thing as sustainable growth on a finite world and we are not far from its limits. If we want to keep billions of humans around we may not have that much room for mistakes.