ACTION ALERT PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! More Old Forests, Less Industrial Agriculture, Key to Climate, Food and Water
By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal http://www.climateark.org/ - a project of Ecological Internet December 16, 2009 Securing world food security while maintaining operable forests, global climate, water, ocean and terrestrial ecosystems and human rights, justice and equity is the biggest challenge facing humanity. Water and food are the next bubbles to burst -- expect severe shortages of both in the 2010s. It is long past time to get back to the land through protecting and restoring old forests and organic permaculture farming. Our survival depends upon being with land, collecting water, letting forests age and growing food. TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=protect_old_forests Today industrial-style agriculture uses huge amounts of water, energy, and chemicals replacing natural terrestrial ecosystems with toxic monocultures; while poisoning and displacing local peoples. Farms are large, highly specialized, and run like factories with large inputs of fossil fuels from pesticides, other synthetic chemicals and transportation fuels. Land degradation the decline in the quality of soil, water and vegetation is of profound importance for any serious negotiations upon climate change. A new study finds that 24% of the Earths land is degrading, some of it formerly quite productive. Large scale biofuel/biomass production particularly promoting monoculture tree plantations within the context of Copenhagen solutions runs counter to urgently addressing climate change and threatens to cause more deforestation, human rights abuses, and degradation of soil, water and biodiversity. All biofuels based upon industrial agricultural practices worsen climate change and ecologically diminish soils and ecosystems, drive food prices up, and force more people worldwide into hunger and malnutrition. It is time to transform agriculture into an ecologically sustainable enterprise, based on systems which can be employed for centuries. To reduce the pressures upon the land and allow forests to undergo succession, we must promote organic, permaculture, low impact agriculture, agro-forest and other agro-ecological systems to meet human food needs, including major reduction in meat consumption. And protecting and restoring old forests where they historically occurred is vital as well. MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=protect_old_forests DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/ --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [email protected]. Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
