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homeward-angel January 28th, 2008 1:56 pm
i have been reading the posts and am totally surprised i didn’t come across anybody even mentioning one of the best most SUSTANABLE solutions that humankind can reach for from the forgotten toolshed of history. This is called HEMP. industrial hemp is the most viable alternative to any of this ‘biofuel’ debate that is currently going on. HEMP is a plant that thrives under so many varying conditions as to allow its use and commercialization without undue hardship on ever depleted resources, at ever diverse localities. HEMP could be grown from Maine to Florida from California to Texas to Canada to India. If you get the chance, look for a little video that the US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE made during WWII. its called HEMP FOR VICTORY and the Government denied its making of the video until one was furnished by the great Jack Herer. The HEMP plant has thousands of uses, for thousands of years, and to those that would say that biodiesel could be made from corn, yes this is true, but HEMP has more energy per acre than corn or many other ’short root’ plant do. HEMPs roots penetrate deep into the surface of the soil making the plant very drought resistant, unlike corn! The melting of the caps will send massive amounts of saltwater to coastal plains, but in other parts of the world drought will be the name of the game. Essentially with the miracle plants growth parameters many harvests could be produced in one growing season, unlike corn or soy or others out there. the advantage you get in this case is that you can ‘plow under’ the first crop into the ground and let sit early in the growing season. After two to three weeks in the soil the nutrients from this decaying matter is released into the topsoil making it increadably rich, THEREFORE NO NEED FOR HARMFUL AND DANGEROUS SYNTHETIC PESTICIDES OR HERBICIDES. promoting the NATURAL STATES OF DEFENCE OF ANY PLANT, hemp included, is the only viable way around using soil killing chemicals. (samples of topsoil taken from fields where caustic chemicals are used will prove that the soil itself is accually dead or dying ie no benefial and life giving microorganisms, the foundations of life) Hemp can reverse this process, INFACT hemp has been used around the areas affected by the CHERNOBLE nuclear disaster for the very purpose of naturally absorbing the radioactivness present in the soil (and this is just ONE EXAMPLE). I was doing some research the other night and discovered that the closest country to the US that has legal access to growing hemp (licensed and regulated obviously) is Canada. This plant should be the god given right of any human on earth to grow and utilize, whether for fiber, fuel, food, or medicine. Unfortunatly, toomany entrenched industries shake with fear whenever any meaningful change in the production and commercial utilization of the plant; because they would be out of business very quick like. Unfortunatly it might take an ‘end of days’ scenario for the power elites to relinquish their control over the plant and allow for its productive cultivation. the US economy would bounce right back from its 20 trillion dollar debt within a decade if it were legalized tomorrow. And i should probably mention this, because the issue often is confused by the less informed, but marijuana as a drug is relativly mild compared to just about any modern day pharmacutical. It is important to note that HEMP and marijuana differ because HEMP is mostly of the ruderalis family of cannabis ie very low thc content in relation to its mass. You could smoke a joint the size of a light pole made from hemp and still only end up with a mild headache. HEMP generally has a .1-2% thc content whereas its cannabis sativa cousin can produce the ‘flowers’ or ‘buds’ with upwards of 30% thc. so if anyone tells you that hemp is the same thing as the drug pot-just lying to you or has another agenda or most probably (and unfortunatly here) is totally ignorant of this critical and overlooked issue.
sorry if the script is rough around the edges, this could be called a ‘rough draft’ proposal.
also it is important to mention that corn as a biodiesel or ethanal alcohol is so energy intensive to produce it virtually guarantees that no positive net gain of energy is ever achieved. corn is a very poor choice for the making of fuels, and even worse for the environment because corns roots are very shallow, the growing of corn takes much out of the soil; that is why the ADMs and MONSANTOs love it so much. They can just sell more chemicals to spray on their frankenstein crops that are genetically engineered to be resistent to the very chemicals they spray on the fields. Its a never-ending cycle of fake-ass seeds, sprayed with chems, kills the soil, replant more fake-ass seeds to be sprayed with more chems. The Corps are the only ones who truely benefit from this practice, everyone else suffers (the farmers who have to buy new seeds from the company EVERY SINGLE GROWING SEASON BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN GENETICALLY ENGINEERED WITH A SUICIDE GENE ie THE PLANT CANNOT PRODUCE VIABLE SEED!!!, and the environment that must suffer through year after of year of chemical burn) IT IS THIS VERY PRACTICE THAT IS CAUSING THE BEE HIVE DEATH SYNDROME-bee farmers in the us have lost half the hives since 2004. the bees simply cannot live or for that matter thrive from the land that has been planted with frankenfood and sprayed to the point where the soil is completely dead. READ rachel carsons silent spring-a seminal book that raised the alarm to the use of chemicals in the environment. Although the book is near 40 years old it still rings true today, more than ever.
Shine a Light on these companies! tell everyone you know about their apocalyiptic-monopoliptic dirty deeds. THE ADMs and MONSANTOS of the world must pay!!! Peace
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