A plant that uses less water, restores soil tilth, and needs no chemical treatments whatsoever, is obviously a threat to someone sucking off the subsidized teat of Uncle Sam's sugar interests. With no regard for soil tilth or the health of the people who live here, the sugar industry has poisoned, burned, and watered a subsidized cash crop that could not compete, even price-wise, with a cash and rotation crop that replenishes soil and reverses erosion damage. This logic, on a global scale, will worsen the climatic catastrophy. Our way of life, and our inability to improve our behavior, is killing us. The madness continues.
Sea levels rise as the polar ice caps melt.
We burn more fossil fuels, spray more toxins, fill more methane producing landfills, and destroy more ocean. And yet there are still those who claim we are not responsible. When El ino becomes an annual event, I hope they are the first to suffer. Eco-Home Network , Los Angeles, is an organization of people interested in ecological demonstration homes and systems that can reduce your impact on the planet. Permaculture helps the planet by producing food and natural textiles without the use of chemicals.