[Terrapreta] You Are What You Grow

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Peter,

I think you are on point.  Was Childhood's End was written by Arthur C. Clarke, though?  It's science fiction, isn't it?  There are lots of books that support this view; that we have taken, taken, and taken more than the Earth can give to support us in some places (like soil).

Read 1491, by Charles Mann and Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jarod Diamond, for some fascinating history on how we got to where we are.  Then read Collapse, by Jarod Diamond again, and maybe Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke, for the view on where we are headed.

Regards,

SKB
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  In a message dated 9/11/07 2:04:04 PM, sean.barry at juno.com<mailto:sean.barry at juno.com> writes:



    The use of industrially made, fossil-fuel based fertilizers is a shameful gluttony that Industrial Agriculture has done for this country.
    It may be one of the worst things that we have ever done to the land.
     




  And the advent of growing millions of tons of extra corn to turn into ethanol isn't going to help matters one bit! Corn is such a heavy feeder and we know what it will be eating and the soil poverty it will be leaving behind. It's really like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but typical of 'addicted' behavior; no thought really of anything beyond the continued flow of the substance we love so much. We need an intervention! Anyone else read Asimov's Childhood's End? We can hope, because that's what it's apparently going to take to change our wicked ways!

  Sorry for wandering off topic :-/>.

  Peter :-)>


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