Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I agree, and at this point so would Borlaug. He said as much. And about young 
people in general, and the "sixth extinction" already in progress. Those 
degenerative diseases eat up two thirds of our total health care budget, but 
are almost unknown in much of the world's "undeveloped" regions. IMHO it's 
more than loss of crop nutrition, it's the slow poisoning in the processed 
corporate food industry. Vitamins and fiber processed out, transfats, 
hydrogenated oils, MSG, added salt and sugar processed in. No wonder.

I don't want to get too far out on a limb here, but it's almost like Mother 
Nature is starting to fight back for all our depredations. Lovelock and Dr. 
Lynn Margulis brought up the idea that Gaia is a whole living organism simply 
reacting to unnatural disturbance in the order of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis#The_Revenge_of_Gaia

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 8/1/2010 at 10:27 PM John D'hondt wrote:

>We know all that Paul and so what? What Borlaug did was make agriculture
>"the conversion of oil into food through the means of land" Since there
>was
>plenty of cheap oil that worked well but there was a price to pay...
>
>Since the start of the green revolution the world has lost an awful lot of
>soil and the nutrition in crops has dropped dramatically leading to a
>plentiful but diseased population. I have been hosting wwoofers here for a
>few years and am amazed at how weak, uncoordinated and generally incapable
>of doing work young people have become. That too should be written on
>Borlaug's slate imo.
>
>So what good has the green revolution brought us? Qualitatively a huge
>disaster but there are now almost 7 billion of us, way above what this
>planet can carry for long. Do we need another miracle to keep on getting
>more plentiful? The sixth extinction is churning away as we write and
>don't
>forget that the higher we climb the deeper we are going to fall.
>
>john
>
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>From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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>Subject: [Livingontheland] Peak Food: Can Another Green Revolution Save Us?
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>
>Peak Food: Can Another Green Revolution Save Us?
>http://www.countercurrents.org/arguimbau310710.htm
>By Nicholas C. Arguimbau  31 July, 2010
>