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- From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
- To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Cyril Hopkins
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:39:08 -0600
I don't think that "understood" adequately
expresses the situation. Previous generations did not have the visibility
regarding the negative effects of agriculture, nor the scientific understanding
of soil microorganisms' relationships to the overall ecology. It would be
wrong to dismiss science because it has been so often misused in the
past.
The conclusions may be similar, but the underlying
understandings are considerably advanced in current literature. For me,
the best examples are relatively new understandings about the relationships
between bacterial-dominance for annuals and grasses, vs. fungal-dominance
for trees and perennials, as well as the carbon sequestration capability of
fungi. There are ramifications to our agricultural choices resulting from
these new scientific observations. The recent posting "Lessons from the Land Institute" is an
example. Agriculture evolved for 10,000 years based on annual crops (for
good reasons - read Guns, Germs and Steel ), but those are not the best crops for long-term
sustainability. The ability to do something about that is new
science.
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
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[Livingontheland] Cyril Hopkins,
TradingPostPaul, 01/13/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] Cyril Hopkins,
E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 01/13/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] Cyril Hopkins, TradingPostPaul, 01/13/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] Cyril Hopkins,
E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 01/13/2007
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