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[Linda Ray <lindaray@att.net>]

IMHO when/if that happens, it should instigate a change away from the 
current nonfunctional NPK model and produce a resurgence of sustainable 
farming, 
by necessity. 


Maybe that's what it takes to effect a broadstroke change in farming methods.

I just think it's too bad that the majority of mankind seems to wait and lag 
back until it has totally run out of things, and apparently has to be coping 
desperately with a scarcity of supply before making any change in habits. 
Instead of thinking ahead and seeing the longer-term effects of its 
practices, 
and switching onto a more positive, sustainable track.

Necessity may be the mother of invention in current-day practices, but life 
is 
indeed a circle. IMHO it's up to us to turn it into an upward spiral, where 
inspiration becomes the mother of invention.

JM $.02

Namaste,

Linda





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"Five major scientific societies united to issue a warning that the
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sharply just as the human population reaches 9 billion."

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I think I may have solved the Fukuoka dynamite mystery.  On pp. 163, 164 of 
“Natural Farming” he talks about using acacias for soil improvement.  In 
one place, the English translation reads “this was far easier than blasting 
with dynamite …” The past tense “was” in this sentence gives the 
impression that he used dynamite in the past to loosen the soil.  That is not 
the meaning of the Japanese original, which should have been translated in 
the present tense “is”.  What he is trying to say is simply that it is 
easier to loosen the soil by using the organic matter from the acacias than 
by using such technical means as dynamite, bulldozers, etc. and not that he 
actually used dynamite himself.  That any small Japanese farmer in those days 
should have used dynamite to loosen the soil strikes me as highly unlikely.
 
I think the English translations of Fukuoka’s books generally convey the 
correct meaning, but there are numerous inaccuracies, mistakes and omissions. 
 Sometimes a small mistake can lead to a big misunderstanding.

Dieter