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The Green Revolution Delusion is a fictional depiction of a real
life drama that is playing out daily where ever industrial
agriculture is practiced. In two generations agriculture has been
changed radically. What was once a biological process driven by
sunshine and rainfall and a prime generator of wealth has become,
in many cases, an unsustainable industrial process dependent upon
ever increasing inputs of energy and capital. Aside from the
financial aspects, agriculture practiced in the industrial mode is
inherently wasteful of natural resources; soil, water and energy
are consumed in untenable amounts while producing pollution of
soil, water and food stuffs. What was once a very good way to live
and raise a family has become an occupation filled with stress and
outright danger. In far too many cases, the wholesomeness of our
food supply has taken second place to the needs of industry. These
situations do not have to continue; there are methods that can
produce food and fiber in the quantities needed in ways that are
ecologically, financially and sociologically sound. One purpose of
the book is to present options to the methods and practices causing
the most damage that are feasible in the real world. The Green
Revolution Delusion is a portrayal of some of the real and very
disturbing problems of modern agriculture. Damage is being done to
farm families, to the environment and to human health. The book is
not a doom and disaster tirade but rather an attempt to explain why
the conventional wisdom - that we must adopt all of the current
toxic technology: the confined animal feeding operations, the
genetically modified organisms and the chemical fertilizers and
pesticides in order for agriculture to be profitable and productive
- is simply wrong. It is not a technical dissertation but it
presents, without a lot of jargon, some of the scientific and
economic reasons that industrial agriculture is neither sustainable
nor profitable in the long term. It also provides a look at proven
alternatives to some of the most damaging technology and gives
examples of how these alternative methods can be applied in a
practical manner. Fiction is used as the vehicle for putting forth
this information in the hope that an enjoyable reading experience
will bring useful knowledge to a wider audience. The book is not a
how to manual but rather it tries to at least partially explain, in
a non-technical manner, the functioning of the ecological processes
that control the natural world and how these processes can be used
to create agriculture that is financially, ecologically and
sociologically sound.
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