The Earth is Dying

The world is struggling to breathe, to survive and humans are responsible. There are billions of trucks, cars, planes and industries polluting and killing an already fragile earth. We need to change our habits to save our dying planet.

There is now clear scientific evidence, that humanity is living in an unsustainable way, by consuming the Earth’s limited natural resources more rapidly than they are being replaced by nature. Consequently, for many, sustainability has come to mean a call for action, for a collective human effort to keep human use of natural resources within the Earth’s finite resource limits.

We must take action now and work from the ground up if we have any chance to save our beautiful planet. We must take responsibility for the damage we have caused and redeem our selves now!

No more huge tractors, chemical inputs, fertilizer being mined from the earth, no more dumping of waste, logging or burning of forests, torturing of the land, we must stop the pillaging of our natural resources, the raping of our beautiful landscape. We must work together with the land – we must think smart – think sustainable –think sustainable agriculture.

What is Sustainability? Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and sustainable agriculture is the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future. To be sustainable, nature’s resources must only be used at a rate at which they can be replenished naturally.

Practicing Sustainable agriculture increases biodiversity (e.g. grasses, bushes and trees) increases soil life, increases perenniality, produces effective water & mineral cycles, increases soil organic matter all of these increases ensure the future of the earths population and are steps in the right direction to preserving life on earth.

When practicing sustainable agriculture, the need for expensive, fuel powered tractors, carbon creating fertilizer, chemicals and toxic inputs is greatly reduced.

Working with nature requires a different mindset and focus. This mindset requires a focus on planning, monitoring and corrective action, these actions are cheaper and far easier to implement than many of the current farming practices such as improved animal grazing practices, pasture cropping , and biological inputs that enhance the soil food web  such as compost, compost teas, seaweed, liquid fish and similar non toxic soil foods.

Using sustainable agriculture practices ensure farm profits become more stable, businesses are more resilient and therefore communities can be maintained. Without using sustainable agriculture we are perpetuating the cycle of damage, do we want to live in a polluted, urban, concrete jungle? I don’t think so? Do we want to drink toxic water, eat manufactured food that has never been a living organism, felt rain on its leaves or lifted its head to the sun? I don’t think so.

We must act now to make changes, to return to nature, to take stock of the damage we have done in the past and work hard never to repeat that damage.

We must start looking to the future, by learning from the past, start returning to the basics of agriculture, retuning to listening to the earth, hearing its cry for help and acting to repair the damage, for without water and food there is no life ,without life there is no earth, as we know it.

This is our earth, and there is only one.