FEEDING
THE MILLIONS - AVERTING WAR
Through the ages, competition for resources has been the major cause of wars. Today, WATER and SOIL, the most vital resources, are diminishing rapidly as a result of wrong feeding habits. As the population explodes, competition for these will grow ever fiercer and result in wars. WE MUST CHANGE OUR WAYS!
The stalk of grain represents
fertile land.
(Illustration adapted from "How to Save the World" by R. Allen, the popular version of "The World Conservation Strategy 1980" by World Wild Life Int. Ins. For Nature, and UN Env. Prog.)
The world population is expected
to double by 2050! How are the millions to be fed?
USING VAST MONOCULTURES OF CEREALS?
Ploughing up more land, using vast amounts of artificial fertilisers and pesticides that damage soil structure and life and accelerate erosion; that are produced by the use of vast amounts of non-renewable, polluting, global warming fossil fuels.
USING LIVESTOCK?
They require vast amounts of land, water and plant food. They yield nothing, not even fertilisers, that cannot be got more economically DIRECT from plants.
USING TREES, SMALL FIELDS,
GARDENS, ORCHARDS to grow a variety of fruits, seeds, vegetables, cereals - by
VEGAN-ORGANIC methods.
TREES yield nuts high in protein, as well as health-promoting fruits, AND wood for many construction purposes and energy. AT THE SAME TIME they maintain the water cycle, keep water tables up, purify the air and check floods, droughts, soil erosion and global warming.
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FUTURE DEPENDS ON PLANTING TREES!
For details, see MCL's booklets "Abundant Living in the Coming Age of the Tree" and "Food for Everyone"- the latter is mainly pictures and charts that can be enlarged for posters: please send for these and distribute widely. Further information on MCL's main web site pages booklets section.
MCL,
105 Cyfyng Road, Ystalyfera, Swansea SA9 2BT, UK.