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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] food security/ The Climate Science
  • Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:29:40 -0700


Again, my interest is in agriculture and how we feed ourselves. Regardless of
the debate which is not the subject of this list, we will have to deal with
the existing problems of soil depletion, water availability, and disruptions
or scarcity of expensive fossil fuel-derived fertilizers and pesticides, as
well as nutrient loss and contamination of the centralized corporate food
supply. That would be all be aggravated by widespread climate disruptions,
but the problems will be the same - just a matter of degree - and that's what
I'm dealing with - community and family food security.

And that's exactly what is stated in our original list description I wrote
seven years ago, anticipating these problems would worsen in the future:
"Intensive, organic soil building is basic to growing much more in less space
with better nutrition, more profitable growing through less bought inputs,
less need for water, fewer losses from pests and disease, and less
vulnerability to fossil fuel problems now or in the future. What ways this
can best be pursued in different soils and climates leaves a lot of room for
discussion. We deal with the widespread problems of loss of soil minerals,
humus, nutritional content of produce, and loss of topsoil itself, as well as
the cost-price squeeze faced by real organic growers, the shrinking supply of
affordable land for growing and irrigation water, and the need to increase
the supply of nutritious food while making healthy food more affordable in
general." http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland .


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

“We need to launch an Organic Green Revolution that fundamentally changes the
way we grow our food to maximize yield while mitigating climate change,
restoring clean water, building soils, and protecting agricultural production
during times of drought.”
~ Tim LaSalle, Rodale Institute CEO
Ripe for Revolution event, New York City

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