February 20, 1997
In Europe pesticides and herbicides are called biocides.
The drug war is another word for biocide. The drug war is the most
environmentally disastrous program ever foisted on mankind. A former drug
czar wanted to spray Roundup on coca fields in South America. Roundup kills
everything! (Recently the news reported that some villagers in Peru were
killed by pesticides sprayed on coca fields.) Remember the paraquat disaster
from a few years ago used on marijuana? But it's not so much what
we're doing
that's bad but what we're not doing.
Not only is one acre of hemp worth four acres of trees but it's also
worth 2 acres of cotton. Cotton takes up 3% of the world's agricultural
land but uses 11-15% of all pesticides. (Source: National Geographic)
Since hemp requires NO BIOCIDES substituting half of all world
cotton acreage for hemp would reduce toxic biocide loads by 5-7%!!
No small feat. As for trees after they're gone I'm sure we'll find
out how important they were.
In the 1930's Dow chemical and Henry Ford pioneered the science of
chemurgy. Anything you can make with a hydrocarbon you can make with cellulose.
Henry Ford experimented with hemp and other agricultural products and used
them in some of his car parts. (There really were hemp car fenders
made!!) Ford realized that 50% of his cars were bought by farmers so he
adopted the unheard of position that he ought to do something to make them
money so they could afford his cars and tractors. Today the oil companies
and Arab sheiks get the money. I think it's time to return to chemurgy,
making plastics from cellulose and farm products. To do otherwise,
ultimately will lead to "biocide." Those who support the DEATH culture
of biocide will have a special place in the dustbin of history. [Politicians
take special note.]
From the apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon 1: 13-14 comes the following
quote: "... all creatures of the world are wholesome, and there is
not a destructive drug among them."
(Maybe this is why this chapter didn't make the King James cut.)
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