Cheery Article

Charlie · 2007-09-12T23:17:29+00:00

Quite the clever lot aren't we.....always have been, it would appear.CareCharlie_____________Excerpt:Full article (long) at: William M. H. Kötke12 September, 2007We are all looking at the end of the world as we know it. Our attentionis focused on the holes in the ozone layer, planet warming, peak oil,the spread of DU weapons, the collapse of the house of credit cards,and the prospect of the planetary financial elite quickly establishingfascist control of the planet. Below this threshold of consciousawareness our biological survival systems are rapidly eroding. At thispoint some twenty percent of the planet?s soils erode each twenty-fiveyear period. Each year at least two hundred thousand acres of irrigatedcrop-lands go out of production because of salinization orwater-logging and experts say that sixty to eighty percent of allirrigated acreage is due to follow the eight to ten million acres thathave historically gone into ruination from irrigation. The totaldrylands of the planet are 7.9 billion acres of which 61% aredesertified, that is, driven by human abuse toward uselessness.Globally, 23% of all arable crop lands have been lost since 1945through human use and experts say that all arable land on the planetwill be ruined in 200 years.It is estimated that prior to the human culture that we termcivilization, one third of the planet was covered with closed canopyforest. Now forests cover 10% of the earth. In the oceans the collapseof major fish stocks is increasing. At least eight stocks havecollapsed beginning with the Antarctic Blue Whale in 1935 to thePeruvian Anchovy stock collapse in the late twentieth century. Since1984 the world fish catch has been shrinking even with greaterinvestment and the taking of what in former times were considered?trash? fish. Of the 32 ocean fisheries, 30 are in decline and some ofthose are collapsing. At the same time coral reefs and mangrove swampswhich are considered the ?incubators? of sea life are dwindlingprecipitously.Soil is...

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markferon 18 years ago

manure get washed in to soil providing need nutrients for plants.

I think you think of another gas but then again you lack any farming knowledge or natural world knowledge.

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doofy 18 years ago

Um, at the expense of arguing with a dick, enough manure, and enough run-off, particularly in a hilly area, will wash manure, and more importantly, e. coli, into nearby streams.

Methane is a gas from decomposing manure that helps destroy the ozone layer.

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