Small Is Beautiful

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Robert Bryce, Small Is Beautiful--So Go Nuclear. As environmentally friendly as they sound, biofuels and wind power squander land and other resources. Wall Street Journal, Jan 19, 2012 (op-ed)
http://robertbryce.com/
(the top item, which points to wsj.com)
or
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 56723958026212.html

Quote: "Between the mid-1960s and mid-2000s, global production of all cereal groups doubled, axxording to UN data, even though the amount of cultivated land acreage remained about the same.

Note:
(a) EF Schumacher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher
(Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher; 1911-1977; his 1973 book "Small Is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered")

(i) economic footprint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint
(ii) He should not be confused with
creative destruction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
(The expression "creative destruction" was popularized by and is most associated with Joseph Schumpeter [1883-1950; was an Austrian-Hungarian-American], particularly in his book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, first published in 1942)

(b) For switch grass, see Panicum virgatum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panicum_virgatum
(native to North America; one of the dominant species of the central North American tallgrass prairie; main agronomic advantages: drought and flooding tolerance, relatively low herbicide and fertilizer input requirements, ease of management, hardiness in poor soil and climate conditions)
(c) Indian Point Energy Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center
(a three-unit nuclear power plant station located in Buchanan, New York just south of Peekskill; owned by Entergy Corporation)
(d) bugaboo (n; of unknown origin): "an imaginary object of fear"
www.m-w.com