Just like James…

James Lileks says everything I want to say and far better. I would so very much like to sit and have a “wee dram” with the man someday. I believe it would be both a very entertaining and a very fruitful conversation with lots of good wine.

His latest “bleat” is a must read. Key graph:

Excuse me: burping sheep are the environment. Burping sheep are natural. Ah, but we raise too many to eat, so they’re not natural. But it would be natural, I guess, if there was a parasite that flourished at the expense of sheep’s predators, leading to a temporary increase in gross sheepage until the situation rebalanced. But everything that rebalances the old unbalances the new. There is no balance in the long run. Balance is an illusion you get when you don’t live to an age of 125 million years.

Do read the whole thing. It’s masterful. And, of course, right.

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