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Planet Earth minerals are used up in the land and | South America, Southeast Asia, Af- in the sea”. The minerals in the soil | rica and Australia. are the food supply for microorgan- | “This supporting data strongly con- isms that are the source of proto- | firms ... that there is no longer any plasm compounds that support all | shortage of evidence needed for the other life. With theirdepletionthelife | initiation of intelligent worldwide SANS system collapses until another glacial | cooperative action” to reduce CO, * Secondary pollutant, P,; BO, , Wy tocatbous C3 de AWC LAA sulphate. . ‘ cycle is completed and the ecosphere | levels. he: PS = Wa is regenerated. The Solution Cycle degosttion Weather Changes ‘To prevent the onset of the next ice ae Since 1972 weather patterns have | age and achieve a measure of control become more destructive. Extremes | over the climate (i.e. stabilise it in the (From 3 wer of temperature, rainfall, snow, | current interglacial cycle), Hamaker Pestilizes de os its OA floods, high winds and tornadoesare | has five “minimuzn objectives”: " g lagen, ; now much more common. Changes | 1) Stop the use of fossil fuels with pk o& precipitatio have also occurred in the climate of | their attendant CO, buildup as 38-45 the Arctic. Icebergs have increasedin | quicklyas possible, phasing in viable . size and are drifting further south, | alternative energy sources now; while parts of Baffin Island formerly | 2) Reforest the planet generally and bare in summer are now snow cov- | plant mature tree plantations to re- High ered year-round. The Antarctic is | place fossil fuels (every powerstation sw ary also expanding; glaciers that were | should have adjacent plantations for SON Fiflout receding between 1911and1958 have | their use); ‘ we advanced over 12 miles in the last 20'| 3) Remineralize rivers and coastal years. Icebergs are spreading north. | waters with ground gravel dust to Heavy wetnl pollatauts Acid and Fire encourage shellfish growth (prolific _ Were Epidemic forest fires indicate an ac- consumers of CO,)by adding ground P18 lad ¥ 1 59 celerating transition to glacial condi- | 8° favel to sewerage systems; ral & picerprts ion 3 tions. Ina time of demineralized soils . Pipeige age Plain Neg ing and increasing climatic stress the jungles to. Miop then Gyliy and ee temperate forests of the world go up eae eM ee otrevaft i : f in smoke. Again, figures since 1980 drop gravel dust (requisitioning | can test this for themselves, espe- seem to confirm this - huge fires in most of the world’s aircraft could be | ciallyifland thathas been abused and Spain, Greece, Alaska, Russia and required for this); ‘clapped out' is being worked. In North America. Last year the largest 5) Remineralize cropland to increase | Australia the average topsoil-loss per fire for millennia raged across north- food quality and yield tocompensate | acre is currently 20 tonnes per year. ern China consuming, thousands of for crop losses to drought in the low | Five tonnes per year is considered the square miles. Detailed data from the la titudes, and cold growing seasons | maximum tolerable loss US Department of Agriculture is in high latitudes. The theory also holds that malnu- given by Hamaker - an excerpt: Rebuild the Atmosphere trition isa direct result of soil demin- The task is to reverse the buildup in eralization, The healthy Hunza USA 1964-75 1976-78 %Up people, whose valley is watered by ive Porthos Fone “se7e0e 74 | Be COvercinand put carton back milky-coloured glacial melt, con- trasts with the disease-prone popula- tions of most of the rest of the world. Food quality is determined by soil quality and our mental and physical wellbeing is the result. Perhaps the condition of modern mankind - individually and collec- tively-can beseen as evidence for the into the earth as quickly as possible. Without a “colossal effort onan inter- national scale” to meet these objec- Acid rain is another important | tives we can “resign ourselves to pre-conditioning factor. The pre- | death by malnutrition and starva- dominantly coniferous (i.e. pine) | tion”. vegetation that grows on nutrient- On his own 10 acre plot of land in poor, mineral-poor and acidic soils | Michigan, Hamaker added 46 tons burns terrifically and acidifiesits sur- r acre of ground glacial gravel. The roundings. In he tropics soil deple- af end healthier, poet, tha Hamaker Theory= A i Al r John D. Hamaker, The Survival of Civiliza- tion and acid rain makes forests more | tantcropsofcornin the first year, that | sion, Hamaker-Weaver Publishers, Route 1, vulnerable to fire until eventually | were tested by the US National Labo- | Box 158, Seymour, MO 65746, USA; or P.O. they burn in gigantic conflagrations. | ratory and found superior to other | Box 1961, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA At least, what's left of them after the | corngrownlocally. Anyoneinvolved | 515-95) deforestation now happening in | in tree plantings or crops of any kind - Gerard NEXUS New Times Four - Autumn 1988 1 Acres burned 2,720,000 3,612,000 33 (both per year) Heavy weral pollatauts id ect gne Awe Age > a os 7 Pes | ell F piccrpitst iow SF Ee