Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Dieter, along that line you might want to see
http://www.alternet.org/economy/153553/goodbye_%27shop_til_you_drop%27_mentality%3A_renegade_band_of_economists_call_for_%27degrowth%27_economy/?page=entire

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/24/2011 at 2:19 AM Dieter Brand wrote:

>Speculators are a scourge.  There are no two ways about it.  Yet even
>they have their usefulness.  Like a virus, they attack the weakest point
>of a system and thus serve as an early warning system that needs to be
>heeded.  The weakness of industrial food production is that it destroys
>its very basis: fertile soil.
>
>We are now loosing farming soil at a rate of several millions acres a
>year.  A quarter of the remaining farming land is much degraded and risks
>desertification.  The situation is particularly bad in China and India.
>It is no accident that China is buying up vast tracks of farming land in
>Africa and elsewhere.  At the same time, World population keeps on growing
>and is expected to reach 9 billions in 40 years time.
>
>The industrial revolution in farming that has resulted in an increase in
>food production to feed the growth in World population during that last 50
>years cannot be repeated because it is the very reason for the loss of
>soil fertility.
>
>People can always agree on bashing the bankers, but nobody is prepared to
>look at the real reasons for the World food crisis.  Looks like future
>generations will have to pay a high price.
>
>Happy Christmas,
>Dieter
>
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