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LIVING WITH DEPLETING RESOURCES
…Statistics seem to indicate that the mechanized life United States citizens have enjoyed through the Twentieth Century cannot be exported to the remainder of the world without depleting the limited earthly resources that are needed to produce it. Our world
One Christian group has evaded the clutches of mechanization and centralization by maintaining an historic agrarian lifestyle. Using teams of gentle giant Percheron and Belgian draft horses they cultivate their fields unaffected by peak oil. These thrifty people prefer one another and cooperate in constructing their own buildings. Their costs are miniscule and their profits are high. They are the Amish and over the years their
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