Nature's Law

Things will never be the same. The three greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are increasing rapidly. Nitrous oxide, a byproduct of chemical fertilizer manufacture, is both increasing global warming and destroying the ozone layer. Many species of life are going extinct. A new world is being born; let's work together to make it better. The world economy may collapse. We need to recognize that we are all part of the family of man. If we don't stop warring, we're goners. Working together as one we have incredible power. During times of emergency people can find community sharing. Nature, of which we are a part, is more about love than fear. The whole Universe is conscious; Saint Francis of Assisi knew this - "Brother Rat and Sister Moon." Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species, with the phrase, "survival of the fittest", has been often misunderstood to mean that we have to fight, actually has that phrase only three times while having the word, "love" 87 times. He loved Nature and wrote a whole book about earthworms. During the Great Depression, people survived by sharing. You've got gas, I've got a truck, someone else has potatoes, someone else has land, someone else has tools, others have other vehicles and machinery. We live in a world of plenty and we're acting like we're full of needs. There is no shortage of food, for instance; it's a distribution problem. When Cuba's economy, subsidized by the Soviet Union, fell apart after that country went bankrupt, Cubans lost an average of 40% of body weight. But Cuba did not fall apart. It got off of chemical agriculture and combined organic ag (rural and urban) with bicycles, buses, and sharing. No one starved to death and the country recovered to the extent that Jimmy Carter said they had achieved an excellent educational system. Spain, in 1934 to 36, thrived in spite of the fact that things had become so expensive nobody could afford them. They survived by seeing that they were all in the same boat. Money was not needed. The banks were not needed. The police had little crime on their hands as people helped each other. The original ideals of communism also involved cooperation. We have everything we need. My two favorite words are composting and bioremediation. Hazelwood is embarked on the goal of getting all of our organic waste returned to the soil, to improve both the nutritional and microbial and immune status of our neighborhood. Please don't put your kitchen scraps, grass clippings, wood chips, and leaves into the garbage cans to go to the landfill; we need them. We have the ambitious goal of getting all that composted. Nature, Gaia, cleans soil by biodegrading (rotting); what Man made, Nature (or God, if you will) can unmake. The entire Earth has been affected by man. Our pollutants are everywhere. But we can heal. Everybody's Garden is being rejuvenated and improved with the help of Grounded Strategies https://groundedpgh.org/ . Rose-of-Sharon, thyme, arugula, sunchoke (Jerusalem artichoke), cucumber, tomatoes, garlic, basil, hot pepper, chamomile, roses, dill, collards, kale, strawberries, peppermint and apple mint, horseradish, 3 apple trees, 6 peach trees, 2 apricot trees, sunflowers, parsley, borage, sage, corn, lambs quarters, purslane, canna and amaryllis flowers, fig trees, lemon grass, iris (purple flag) flowers, oregano, thyme, asparagus, daylilies, chamomile, arugula, currant plants. Not all of these are doing well or producing right now.