Health and Freedom
Ecologists have known for decades that there is now an increasing likelihood of emerging infectious diseases due to the simplification of the Earth ecosystem now going on. Just as predator-prey relationships in a diverse ecosystem serve to keep in balance e.g. rabbits and wolves, so also at the microscopic level a complex microbial community serves to suppress though not eliminate disease.
Did we really expect to get away with destroying Nature for short-term small-context goals? Mother Earth is chastening us, forcing us to stop and think about what we have been doing. We're being spanked. From pet rocks to leaf blowers to pesticides to nuclear power plants (which Einstein called 'A hell of a way to boil water') to lawn mowers to high fructose corn syrup to white bread (which has pretty much all the good taken out of it, leaving only starch) to added sugar to artificial insemination to drugs to kill pain rather than finding out what's causing it to soft drinks that wreck your health to prosecuting wars rather than making peace with our enemies to becoming addicted to drink, drugs, caffeine, a new car every year, fossil fuels, long-distance transportation such as vacations to distant places to shipping garlic from China rather than growing our own to being fear-mongered into thinking we need deodorants to cover our own natural body smells to polluting our air and water to be spread all over the Earth and think we were going to get away with it?
Eat less meat. There is plenty of protein in greens such as lambs quarters, kale, spinach, collards, etc. Nutritional yeast has a delicious cheesy taste and has high protein and b-complex. Sprouted grains made into bread or eaten raw or in soups add vitamin e and other nutrients.
Our soil has become so degraded that most people alive at this moment in history don't even know what good soil looks, feels, and smells like. We need to stop putting biodegradables such as cardboard, paper, and food scraps into our municipal solid waste stream. We humans are conscious animals in a conscious universe; we need to re-join with the other animals in allowing our manure and urine to be returned to feed the soil. Only by re-uniting with the rest of Nature will be become grounded enough to survive this time of great change.
Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher
412-880-7237
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com
Did we really expect to get away with destroying Nature for short-term small-context goals? Mother Earth is chastening us, forcing us to stop and think about what we have been doing. We're being spanked. From pet rocks to leaf blowers to pesticides to nuclear power plants (which Einstein called 'A hell of a way to boil water') to lawn mowers to high fructose corn syrup to white bread (which has pretty much all the good taken out of it, leaving only starch) to added sugar to artificial insemination to drugs to kill pain rather than finding out what's causing it to soft drinks that wreck your health to prosecuting wars rather than making peace with our enemies to becoming addicted to drink, drugs, caffeine, a new car every year, fossil fuels, long-distance transportation such as vacations to distant places to shipping garlic from China rather than growing our own to being fear-mongered into thinking we need deodorants to cover our own natural body smells to polluting our air and water to be spread all over the Earth and think we were going to get away with it?
Eat less meat. There is plenty of protein in greens such as lambs quarters, kale, spinach, collards, etc. Nutritional yeast has a delicious cheesy taste and has high protein and b-complex. Sprouted grains made into bread or eaten raw or in soups add vitamin e and other nutrients.
Our soil has become so degraded that most people alive at this moment in history don't even know what good soil looks, feels, and smells like. We need to stop putting biodegradables such as cardboard, paper, and food scraps into our municipal solid waste stream. We humans are conscious animals in a conscious universe; we need to re-join with the other animals in allowing our manure and urine to be returned to feed the soil. Only by re-uniting with the rest of Nature will be become grounded enough to survive this time of great change.
Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher
412-880-7237
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com
posted by St. Jim the Composter at 4:29 PM
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