Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Let me suggest Dr. Albert Bartlett, The Exponential Function
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

"1.4 million views for an old codger giving a lecture about arithmetic? 
What's going on? You'll just have to watch to see what's so damn amazing 
about what he (Albert Bartlett) has to say. I introduce this video to my 
students as "Perhaps the most boring video you'll ever see, and definitely 
the most important." But then again, after watching it most said that if you 
followed along with what the presenter (a professor emeritus of Physics at 
Univ of Colorado-Boulder) is saying, it's quite easy to pay attention, 
because it is so damn compelling."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'd add this:  The population must level off because the entire resource base 
is depleting too fast. We won't do it - but Mother Nature will fight back. I 
mean that literally. We've used up the best resources, screwed up the oceans, 
the air, the freshwater, the forests, and the soil. It's all interconnected 
and consequences follow. We'll be lucky if She doesn't shrink the population 
to pre-industrial revolution levels.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 7/10/2010 at 1:17 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>There is no doubt in my mind that the following can feed the world
>regardless of how high the population goes.
> 
>In the developed countries:
>Organic, no-till in permanent beds increases yields, reduces labor 50% to
>90%, reduces inputs to nearly 0 [seed for new crops and green manure/cover
>crops], increases fertility, stops soil erosion [no rain water run off],
>eliminates most disease and insect problems and greatly increases
>profits.   
> 
>In developing countries:
>Organic, no-till in permanent beds doubles or triples yields, reduces
>labor by 50% or more, reduces inputs to nearly 0 [need seed for new crops
>and green manure/cover crops], increases fertility, stops soil erosion [no
>rain water runoff], eliminates most disease and insect problems and
>greatly increases profits.  Use bucket drip irrigation to produce during
>the dry season. 
> 
>Ken Hargeheimer