Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I get your meaning, but the big bottleneck is all the rest of the world's 
resources. You can handle the soil but freshwater is limited and already 
growing scarcer for irrigation in so many places. China, India, & the rest of 
the "undeveloped" world wants to have our high consumption lifestyle, and 
that would require five Earths to provide the resources for that. The 
planet's current consumption is drawing down essential minerals and fossil 
fuels for all kinds of manufacturing, transport, building, war machines, 
heating and cooling, and we will run out even with no population increase at 
all.

Where we live they're drawing down a closed fossil aquifer to irrigate a lot 
of alfalfa for animal feed. We see a lot of horses kept only for recreation 
in this rural area.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 8/2/2010 at 7:00 AM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>The Green Revolution was promoted by corporations for profit; no other
>reason. It was never necessary because organic, no-till would have
>accomplished the same goal without killing anyone. That was not done
>because there is no profit in it for any corporation.  The farmer only
>needs to buy seed.  Of the many countries in the world where I have taught
>workshops, only one place has no chemicals or inorganic fertilizers: 
>Gracias A Dios state in Honduras.  Every things flies in or goes by barge
>so those things would be very expensive. 
> 
>Organic, no-till farming can produce all the food the world will every
>need regardless of how high the population goes. Want to reduce
>poplulation growth?  Educate people.  Elderly, uneducated people must have
>a lot of children to have old age security. The Nigerian elderly told me
>that during a family planning session. 
> 
>Ken Hargesheimer