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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Topsoil and Civilizations ....

In a landmark paper entitled “Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years” Dr. Walter Clay Loudermilk postulated that all the great civilizations of the world have fallen not because of war or pestilence, but through the lack of stewardship of the earth – the loss of topsoil. We are facing the same crisis today and no one is saying much about it. Loudermilk wrote this pioneering work while in China and later in the Middle East. Without an appreciation for history, we are doomed to repeat it … his work was done in 1938 – 1939.

It has been further postulated that many of the ever increasing ills that insidiously creep into our daily lives can be traced to our foods and their increasing lack of nutritional value. It has been shown that current agricultural practices of most of the world are working to recreate a situation of epic proportions. The use of chemical amendments and overuse of the land without renewal is painting a bleak picture for our current civilization.

Anecdotally, in Africa, there is a movement to use organic compost as the key to sustainable and notably more nutritious organic crops. The use of these organically grown crops has been shown to effectively enhance the immune systems of those fighting the HIV/Aids pandemic ravaging the continent. Enabling the body’s own immune system shouldn't be the aim for only the sick, it should be a goal of all people.


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