by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Maintaining swordfish and other top predators in the Atlantic is critically important to the health of ocean ecosystems that sustain life on Earth. On the ecological bright side, swordfish are prolific egg producers—a large female can produce 30 million eggs each year. Swordfish are capable of rapid recovery if only given the chance, which will necessitate effective conservation by all countries fishing for them.
Like other large ocean-roaming species such as tuna and marlin, swordfish migrate over large distances and are caught not only by U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Among all the potential side effects such as bizarre weather patterns, the wiping out of non-diverse genetically engineered crops, and the destruction of ecosystems on both land and water, I think the worst effect is probably going to be the emergence of deadly contagious diseases. They exist already, of course: we have SARS, AIDS, Ebola, Marburg, tuberculosis, encephalitis, meningitis, malaria, smallpox and influenza in all its various strains. When the Earth is in a healthy ecosystem balance, these diseases tend to be kept under control. | | This is a simple cause and effect chain: if we continue to destroy the environment and terrorize the ecosystems of this planet, there are going to be consequences. Those consequences will, one way or another, ultimately bring the planet back into balance. It is humanity's decision whether that balance will include the human race.
Nature is resilient, but even it cannot be continually poisoned in the way it is being poisoned today by the actions of human beings. Should we, as the human race, fail to heed the warnings we're seeing right now, I fear that the destructive effects will escalate. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  What we're finding, thanks to all this technology, is truly extraordinary; whole ecosystems we had no clue even existed a couple of decades ago; weird, nonsolar forests of giant worms living off the heat and sulfur around volcanic vents miles beneath the surface; and odd food chains of fish that live off falling scraps from the surface, feeding and breeding in complete darkness.
This oceanographic revolution couldn't come at a better time. Oceans are in real trouble. Pollution is causing "hypoxic" dead zones, where too little oxygen exists to support life of any kind. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Over the past two centuries, but especially in the last fifty years, vast ecosystems have been altered, and massive resources have been devoted to supporting livestock populations. The ecological impact of world meat production includes forest destruction for ranching in Central and South America, suppression of native predators and competitors in the United States, and the introduction of invasive forage species virtually everywhere commercial ranching exists. In addition, the massive quantities of waste produced by livestock and poultry threaten rivers, lakes, and other waterways. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Be part of something that can significantly change the planet at many levels: our cities, societies, our mindset, our sustainable ecosystems... even in our economic thinking and free market theories about what it takes to be financially viable. This is a company that's expanding the paradigms in all those areas, and if you miss out on this opportunity, you'll miss what might be the most exciting and transforming experience of your life.
By the way, if you're already a distributor with the Amazon Herb Company, feel free to use this entire article as part of your educational material. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  This company does it all right: Business ethics, sustainable business models, preserving the culture and ecosystems of indigenous tribes, helping improve the health of customers, helping distributors earn a living doing something they love... the good news just keep on rolling. This company is the opposite of Enron, and if more Fortune 500 firms operated with half the heart of the Amazon Herb Co., our country wouldn't be in such a mess today. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I've actually looked into some of these bins and found antibacterial soap (toxic chemicals), lawn pesticide containers (more chemicals), and perfume bottles (extremely toxic to the ecosystems of waterways).
It all makes me wonder. What's the point of recycling all this packaging if the products being purchased and consumed are toxic to the environment in the first place?
Recycling programs are created to eliminate consumer guilt
Do you know what occurs to me in all of this? Recycling isn't about saving the planet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | And much that we're seeing today in terms of natural disasters, outbreaks, superbugs, and the destruction of ecosystems is a direct result of mankind's inability or unwillingness to respect nature.
Some people characterize this as "Nature's Revenge." They say nature is getting back at man and is planning to wipe out humanity to return to its own natural balance. Personally I don't attribute such vengeance to nature; nature isn't vengeful. It is, however, quite blunt... it can also be interpreted as cruel. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | According to the Organic Trade Association, producing a single cotton T-shirt takes approximately one-third of a pound of pesticides and fertilizers—chemicals that permeate the soil, run into the water, and pollute entire ecosystems with heavy toxins. So what can you choose instead?
Sweatshop-free Labor: It's not enough to simply buy clothing labeled Made in the USA. There are a number of U.S.-controlled regions in other parts of the world where sweatshop laborers turn out garments that can be legally called American-made. There are also sweatshops right here in the United States. | | We need a new model that will let everyone on the planet get rich and stay rich, while healing the planet's ecosystems. We need to create one-planet livelihoods, which are so prosperous, so dynamic, so enticing that the alternative of chasing the old model of green follows gold is revealed as the fool's path it is.
Designing a system that would lead to that kind of sustainable prosperity presents an epic challenge. For that system to work in the real world, it must be rugged and shockproof—because the world's a rough place these days. More than 2 billion people have no access to electricity. |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts |  The process also depended on the substitution of corporate monocultures and virtualities for complex social ecosystems wherever possible, for instance, Wal-Marts and theme parks for towns. Globalism was operated by oligarchical corporations on the gigantic scale, made possible by cheap oil. By "oligarchical" I mean that power was vested in small numbers of people running large organizations who were not accountable for their actions to many of the people who were subject to those actions. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
See book keywords and concepts |  Some of these consequences extend far beyond the mere individuals who are consuming the foods produced with these harmful substances, consequences that are upsetting the natural balance of our precious ecosystems and will affect generations to come.
Many plastics, household chemicals, personal care products, and environmental toxins, pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics and other synthetic drugs, send manmade hormone-disrupting chemicals into our bodies and the natural environment. |
Amarjit S. Basra
See book keywords and concepts |  New potentially highly profitable pharmaceutical products are developed based on the biological and chemical diversity of the various ecosystems of the earth and the research requires an enormous financial input. The research goes from the collection of biogenic samples (plants, fungi, other microorganisms, and animals), to the subsequent analysis of the biological-pharmacological activities and to the study of the organisms' natural products to the development of drug templates or new drugs. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Consumption of everything on the planet has risen—at a cost to our ecosystems. In 2001, The World Resources Institute estimated that the demand for
The Amazon is being destroyed at an estimated rate of 20,000 square miles a year. If nothing is done to curb this trend, the entire Amazon could be gone within fifty years.
Loggers transporting Amazon timber down the river. rice, wheat, and corn is expected to grow by 40 percent by 2020, increasing irrigation water demands by 50 percent or more. | | The loss of tropical rainforests has a profound and devastating impact on the world because rainforests are so biologically diverse, more so than other ecosystems (e.g., temperate forests) on Earth. Consider these facts:
• A single pond in Brazil can sustain a greater variety of fish than is found in all of Europe's rivers.
• A 25-acre plot of rainforest in Borneo may contain more than 700 species of trees—a number equal to the total tree diversity of North America.
• A single rainforest reserve in Peru is home to more species of birds than are found in the entire United States. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | The Practice
How much do farmers in sub-Saharan Africa know about the protein-rich snail farming in Ghana or the tofu-growing ecosystems of Nigeria? In the desertifying regions of the Sahel, are scientists aware of the successful biogas initiatives at the Kigali Institute of Technology or of the powers of the desert-fighting Jatropha plant?
South-South science is rooted in the wide dissemination of information—including new and developing (and often, leapfrogging) ideas, and indigenous and local knowledge. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Genetically Engineered Foods - "If It's Not Broken, Don't Fix It"
Genetically engineered (GE) foods provide a more significant threat to our subtle worldwide ecosystems than even pesticides and herbicides. John Hagelin, an award-winning quantum physicist and candidate for president on the Natural Law Party ticket, said, "When genetic engineers disregard the genetic boundaries set in place by Natural law, they run the risk of destroying our genetic encyclopedia, compromising the richness of our biodiversity, creating a genetic soup. What this means for the future of our ecosystem, no one knows. | | If we are to stand up to corporate practices that threaten the health of farmers, rural communities, consumers, and ecosystems, we must vote with our mouths. By refusing to eat irradiated foods, commercially grown pesticided and herbicided foods, and genetically engineered food, we are making a very clear statement to the corporations and the governments that are influenced by corporate donations. We are saying that we, the public, will not buy your story or your food; we will not support the poisoning of the plants and all living creatures on this Earth. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
See book keywords and concepts | | If deforestation continues at current rates, scientists estimate nearly 80 to 90 percent of tropical rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by the year 2020. This destruction is the main force driving a species extinction rate unmatched in 65 million years.
The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "lungs of our planet" because it provides the essential service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen.
THE AMAZON RAINFOREST . . . THE LAST FRONTIER ON EARTH
If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world. | | Leading the Threat: Governments
Directly and indirectly, the leading threats to rainforest ecosystems are governments and their unbridled, unplanned, and uncoordinated development of natural resources. The 2000-2001 World Resources Report put out by the United Nations reported that governments worldwide spend $700 billion dollars a year supporting and subsidizing environmentally unsound practices in the use of water, agriculture, energy, and transportation. | | Like the nineteenth-century California gold rush or its present-day counterpart in Brazil, this "gene rush" could wreak havoc on ecosystems and the people living in or near them. If it is done properly, however, bioprospecting can bolster both economic and conservation goals while underpinning the medical and agricultural advances needed to combat disease and sustain growing populations.
The majority of our current plant-derived drugs were discovered by examining the traditional use of plants by the indigenous people who lived where the plants grew and flourished. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
See book keywords and concepts |  Most importantly, the high Andean ecosystems and sacred lagoons where many medicinally active species are found are in danger of being destroyed by large-scale mining activities [112, 113]. |
Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek
See book keywords and concepts |  For instance, it is well documented by ecologists and evolutionary biologists that ecosystems tend to become more complex; since the time of Darwin, evolution has been associated with the increase in complexity. Physicists have also cited complex evolution, showing that physical and chemical systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium tend to self-organize by exporting entropy and forming "dissipative structures. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | Conversely, when we build our homes in existing communities —so-called infill housing—our homes have comparatively minimal impact on surrounding ecosystems, since most of the damage has already been done. If we want to live green, we ought to live in a city and leave the woods and meadows alone.
Sprawl costs us in other ways as well.
Unlike crime, sprawl pays. In North America, and increasingly elsewhere as well, powerful interests — big developers, land speculators, construction corporations—get rich off sprawl. The sprawl lobby is strong and ruthless. |
Carlo Petrini
See book keywords and concepts |  As far as corn is concerned, of the more than a thousand indigenous varieties that evolved over the centuries in perfect harmony with the various Mexican ecosystems, I was told that over the years almost 80 percent have been patented by American multinationals searching for new hybrids.
These local varieties have then been gradually replaced by those very same American hybrids, which need much more water (and many parts of Mexico suffer from a serious water shortage), as well as having a far lower nutritional value and poorer taste. | | Writing about the reports publication, journalist Antonio Cianciullo adopted this very appropriate metaphor:
We are facing ecological bankruptcy and our first possessions are already being pawned: during the last twenty-five years we have seen one in three mangrove forests and one in five coral barriers disappear; two out of every three ecosystems are showing signs of decline; 25 percent of mammals, 12 percent of birds, and 32 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction. | | That is, indeed, a very serious picture, and it led the director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, Jacques Diouf, to speak of "mortgaging the future" and of "thresholds of mass extinction":
Over the past fifty years, humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber, and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. | | Over the same period, the emission of nitrates into the ecosystems has doubled and that of phosphates has tripled. Over half the amount of chemical fertilizers that have ever been produced—since their invention at the turn of the twentieth century—have been used in the years since 1985. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 32 percent since 1750, mainly because of the use of fossil fuels and changes in land use (such as deforestation). About 60 percent of this increase has occurred since 1959. | | It must be said that one of the benefits obtained from ecosystems, and the most important and irreplaceable of them all, is nutrition. The most significant changes have been made in response to the growing demand for food and water: agriculture, fishing, and harvesting have been the main factors in all the strategies of "development."
Between 1960 and 2000, the world population doubled, while food production rose by two and a half times. |
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