This is a very important book. It is a must-read for anyone with children, or for anyone who cares about the survival of live on earth beyond another ten years or so.
All of the agricultural practices learned by the human race over that last 10,000 years are all wrong, and have been destroying the biosphere of our planet at an accelerating pace the whole time. This clumsy effort at cultivating the earth for food has only managed to work at all because of the accumulated resource base of fossil fuels and topsoil built up gradually over the last hundred million years or so. Now that all of that resource has been used up, the human race has to face some stark choices.
All of the problems of the world, social, economic, and political, including climate change, the mass migration of people, demographic changes, and the price of tea in China are all caused by the declining fertility of the earth and the progressive loss of topsoil. Plant more Trees by the millions, by the billions. Implement improved agricultural practices immediately – no-till farming, multiple species cover crops (to protect the soil, fix nitrogen, and avoid the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides), compost, mulch, earthworms, intercropping (trees with shrubs or annual crops), and managed, rotational grazing instead of the disgustingly inefficient and toxic CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations; feed lots) – these are the only way forward.
Of course, it is essential simultaneously to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – all combustion of fossil fuels should cease forthwith – but reducing emissions will not remove the carbon already in our atmosphere and moving into our oceans, rendering them more and more acidic, threatening the very survival of the phytoplankton that produces oxygen for the world (it is not the Amazon Rainforest that is the “lungs of the world”; it is the Ocean). To draw down the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere and oceans, we need to regenerate our soil, plant lots more Trees, totally eliminate the use of toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides from our soil, and eliminate the use of pharmaceutical chemicals from our bodies.
Does it take a child like Greta Thunberg to point out that the Emperor is wearing no clothes (not to mention any names)? It will be a long hard road back to the fertility of the earth, even with everyone on board and moving in the right direction. This will require a whole new global political system that favors the survival of life, rather than political systems that favor the retention and aggregation of wealth and power in the hands of ever fewer robber barons whose activities are destroying the earth while we watch. On the other hand, business as usual means the accelerating death throes of our planet. Yes; we are advocating massive changes to every aspect of our planet’s social, economic, and political systems, and those changes have to happen overnight. The only alternative is to stock up on absinthe and go out happy.
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