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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Synopsis of The Survival of Civilization
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:02:22 -0600


Haven't read it so can't comment ...

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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Synopsis of The Survival of Civilization
by Don Weaver
http://www.remineralize.org/don/synopsis01.html

Might “global warming” be the source of the energy to fuel the next
cloudy and snowy glacial period—an eventual severe global cooling?
Ecologist and engineer John D. Hamaker was convinced of it, having studied
the current state of the Biosphere and the 25 glacial-interglacial cycles
of the last 2.5 million years. It led him and co-author Don Weaver to
publish The Survival of Civilization in 1982, to warn the world of this
danger and to offer fundamental solutions to the complex problems involved
in the regeneration of a late-interglacial demineralized soil and
Biosphere.

Hamaker saw that this “Interglacial Soil Demineralization and
Retrogressive Vegetational Succession” required humanity to reverse the
ongoing soil depletion practices of most agriculture and forestry, and to
wisely and generously replenish soils worldwide, restoring them to high
mineral and fertility levels such as were known to produce the awesome
forests and vegetation of the Climatic Optimum ca. 8000-5000 yrs. before
present. This can be done not only by returning all available organic
matter back to the soil, as organic farming recommends, but also through
soil remineralization with complete mineral-spectrum rock mixtures such as
found in natural glacial and river gravel mixes, finely ground into gravel
dust. Single rock types like basaltic rock can be very beneficial for
remineralization, but Hamaker urged us to use broad mixtures when practical
to best copy Nature’s method of creating Earth’s most fertile soils.
Remineralization insures all the biologically essential elements are
present in a natural balance, thus freeing us from the addictive chemical
“fertilizers” and biocides that destroy the soil.

Hamaker and Weaver review evidence that past interglacial periods like our
own came to rapid ends, and stress the wisdom of acting swiftly and with
unprecedented foresight to head off the next long glacial period by
remineralizing and re-planting the Earth, enabling the revitalized soil and
tree and plant life to draw down CO2 levels from the current 370+ ppm to
the approximate normal interglacial range of 260-280 ppm. While Hamaker’s
timing predictions were off concerning the point in the
interglacial-to-glacial transition when humanity would be too crippled by
severe weather and forest fire devastation to organize adequate response,
there is no doubt these extremes and their consequences are increasingly
laying to waste the infrastructure and life-support bases of human
civilization. The accelerating soil depletion and food quality decline are
rapidly eroding the nutritional basis of human health and sanity, and
widespread crop failure and starvation are happening now! Therefore, it
would be very wise to give this book, with new introductory message from
Don Weaver, fresh consideration in its free World Wide Web edition of 2002
(about 220 pages), along with Don’s new book, To Love And Regenerate The
Earth: Further Perspectives on The Survival of Civilization (about 540
pages). That book expands upon and reinforces the arguments of The Survival
of Civilization and should convince anyone—including the skeptical
scientist and political representative—that the Hamaker Thesis is an
invaluable gift to the world that deserves fair, full, serious, and urgent
consideration. Both books are available now for free at
www.remineralize.org.






  • [Livingontheland] Synopsis of The Survival of Civilization, TradingPostPaul, 06/02/2007

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