Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

You're connecting the dots, Dan. You're not supposed to do that you know. 
Agrarian economies worldwide have indeed been ripped up by so called free 
trade. Free for northern wealth to exploit third world land, that is. 
Financial elites push in, set up plantations for export, and shove the locals 
off the land and into city slums. Then of course in poverty they have more 
children. It's been found that disruption of traditional village life results 
in higher birth rates. I've seen this correlation before but very rarely. 
Except the financiers don't pump money into those economies but invest in 
their own holdings to extract food, minerals, etc. and make a killing. I 
won't even mention the trail of the WB and IMF, trying to keep on topic here. 
Books by David Korten and others document these connections. In a nutshell, 
many manmade policies have worsened population problems by separating 
billions of people from their traditional land, land that fed them for 
millenia. To solve a problem you reverse the process that made it. Hmm?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/23/2008 at 12:45 PM Daniel Conine wrote:

>Paul said:
>
>>Dr. Bartlett points out that "the world's most serious population problem
>is right here in the U.S.  The reason for this is that the average
>American has something like 30 to 50 times the impact on world resources
>as does a person in an underdeveloped country."
>>http://www.state.hi.us/dbedt/ert/symposium/bartlett/bartlett.html
>>
>>Our list stresses sustainable food production and related concerns, which
>deals with that bigger issue of overconsumption. Sustainable food builds
>soil, conserves freshwater resources, avoids fossil fuels almost entirely
>in crop production and distribution and in fertilizers and pesticides. On
>that, we're part of the answer, not part of the problem.
>>
>>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>listowner
>
>
>One of the issues that I have never seen raised is that the prosperity of
>the Western countries directly increases the populations of the Third
>World. We do this buy purchasing things we don't need or too much of any
>one thing at too high of prices or too low of prices. "Always Low Prices"
>pretty much guarantees that suppliers will go looking for
>un-industrialized countries, build factories and pump in money to
>economies that formerly were ag-based and self-limiting. Expensive
>electronics and fancy jewelry require resources that usually come from
>places that are susceptible to arms dealers and tyrants. Once they have
>money, their populations explode in shanty towns and cities, living on
>imported industrialized foods. We take a 40,000 dollar paycheck and make
>cars, boats, lawns, and restaraunts. They take a portion of that money and
>grow children with it. The more they increase their populations, the
>better the corporations like it because it means they will take lower
>wages a
> nd do anything to put food in their bellies.
>We are starting to see the effect of our declining prosperity, but it is
>only the tip of the iceberg so far. Instability is pretty much the only
>thing we will be able to count on when it comes to foreign policy. Our
>corporadoes set it up that way, and they are losing control.
>
>
>Dan C.
>Belgium,WI
>