Global Warming; A Good Reason To Go Organic!

I must apologise, I put this together with very little notice so it is basically the ramblings of an eccentric, but honest ramblings they are.......... I could go on and on and on about the balance of nature, because to me it is a very real and interesting thing, but I don't want to bore people, I want to ignite an interest that will lead them to explore this massive subject for themselves and become passionate about it. So here are a few thoughts.......

Mother Nature is like a finely tuned instrument; everything in it is balanced and because of that, coexistence of all living things is possible.

This statement might seem somewhat ambiguous, but it is not that hard to understand;

What tool does Mother Nature use to maintain this balance? Evolution. Everything on the planet has evolved to one degree or another to become what it is today. All living things are not the same now as they were millions of years ago, and the reason for that, is that everything has had to adapt physically and mentally in order to survive ever changing environments. Even human-kind are still evolving and the single biggest evolutionary step humans will make, will be to finally accept they are destroying the planet and do something to stop that destruction. This evolutionary step has already begun, as the stark fact that our planet Earth is in real danger, begins to register in minds of more and more people. Are people grasping this? Are the people who have, doing enough to get the word out? Is it too late? I do not know the answers to these questions and doubt anyone does, I cannot look at another person and read their thoughts but I do know that a lot of people think this sort of thing is just hype, but I know it is not, it is real, it is tangible. This leads me into things we can do in our feeble attempts to save our planet. I do not believe many people really understand the full implications of the impact of human-kind, on our planet, so what could I do, as an individual, to help reduce that impact? I could teach farmers to farm productively without the use of toxic chemicals and that is through the introduction of organic agriculture, using Mother Natures own systems to create balance. This is how..........

Mother Nature creates her own fertilizers, providing all the nutrients required by plants. One example is that farmers apply fertilizers that contain Nitrogen at certain stages of a crops growth, Mother Nature, on the other hand, does that by introducing plants (amongst other plants that need Nitrogen) that are host to Nitrifying bacteria in their roots. I will not get too technical, but in short, these bacteria take atmospheric Nitrogen and 'fix' it into the soil in a form that can be used by the plants that need it. This is not the only way that soils are enriched with Nitrogen, but this natural process can be duplicated by farmers by the introduction of such 'Nitrogen fixing plants' (as they are known) amongst their crops.

Another practice human-kind has introduced is 'monoculture'. This is the practice of growing a single crop in one field and actively eradicating all other plant competition with the use of chemical herbicides and killing pests using toxic pesticides. This is a very unnatural state and soils all over the world have been negatively impacted as a result. What Mother Nature does, is have a mixture of plants and other forms of life, together, in the same habitat, everything playing an important role in the balance of that environment. Mother Nature does not need herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers, she provides a natural balance which produces a healthy environment that will sustain itself for indefinite periods. By imitating Mother Nature, we can also create a balance, one that will produce everything we need to survive.

In this article, I have only touched the edges of a massive subject. To mimic nature properly an intimate knowledge is needed of the part everything in a healthy environment plays and to apply in a practical way, the tools Mother Nature uses to achieve balance. One of the main obstacles in the introduction of this sort of agriculture is that the final goal can take a good deal of time to achieve. There are so many variables, such as loss of earnings in the transitional phases from 'modern' to organic agriculture, a lack of belief in the system being introduced and neighbors who refuse to use the same system resulting in those who are trying to go organic, being unable to create a suitable balance because the neighbors are using chemicals and poisoning the same environment which will have a negative impact in the immediate area of application and for miles around. The barriers are huge, but it can be done and I for one want to help that change take place......................

You may be asking, well, what has this got to do with global warming? So, so, so much. Imagine how much less pollution there would be if synthetic fertilisers, chemical pesticides, herbicides, fungicides etc did not have to be produced so that everyone on the planet could eat. Imagine all those mines and factories didn't pump poisonous gases into the atmosphere or pollute the oceans, lakes and rivers. I could go on and on but I think my point is made; We have to believe, we have to act, we have to get the word out, but perhaps even more importantly we have to prove that it works because generally people have to see to believe.

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