This New England

Yet more depraved fooling with Mother Nature. A University of Vermont researcher, Timothy Perkins, of UVM's Proctor Maple Research Center, has come up with a devilish device to keep maple trees oozing sap for up to three weeks more a year, thus boosting tree owners' revenues. It would do this by keeping bacteria out of the tap holes. The bacteria makes the holes close up, thus ending the annual drip-drip-drip. The device stops that for a while.

If this is as good as it sounds, and maple syrup stays so expensive, you'll see more reforestation on the hills of New England. Indeed, maybe this cash crop will be so attractive that it will scare away some of of those developers of "four-season, active-retirement communities.''

It is remarkable what man can do in creating his own environment. I know a fellow in Little Compton, R.I., who has a semi-tropical garden there -- outdoors -- that has thrived for years with a little specialized attention. He is a kind of genius, but still...

As with air conditioning and indeed, central heating, we are interfering with divine processes. The wrath of a rightous God will soon be upon us.

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Lucifer said:

The wrath of a rightous God will soon be upon us.

Look around, the wrath is already here.....

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