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- Title: Ground Zero and the Children of Kakadu
- Author : Jan Ulf
- Release Date : January 25, 2021
- Genre: Earth Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,Agriculture,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 185 KB
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Introduction
It was Glyphosate, and the advent of broad-acre prescription farming in the early 1980’s when all things old became new; what virgin handmaiden, beautiful and fair: the plow dreamed not dare touch, became whore and more. In Australia, what was 45 million hectares of land under cultivation in 1980: had become 100 million hectares by 2020.
Of the resident mycorrhizal fungi mycelium and its remarkable ability to exclude foreign invasive weeds through its symbiotic relationship with its native pasture host; the multinational fertilizer and chemical companies and their front-of-house agronomists cared little.
Of the incredibly carbon rich organic humus layer: an upfront cash crop bonanza for the farmers when it came to covering the costs of clearing and opening up new country; the multinationals, and every successive representative department of agriculture from 1980 onwards, cared even less.
As with any new piece of ground, in three short years: the humus layer would be depleted. Having killed the mycorrhizal fungi mycelium in the process of wiping out the native pastures; it was with no means of turning back, the farmers: cap in hand, became slave to an ever-increasing reliance on artificial fertilizers and chemicals.
At the start of the industrial revolution in 1760, the global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were 280ppm. By 1980, these same levels had increased to 340ppm. By 2020: it was with no end in sight, the carbon dioxide levels in the earth’s atmosphere had increased a further 80ppm to 420ppm, their highest in over 800,000 years.
By the 2020’s, in the autumns and winters: the sun would burn as if with deadly intent.
With the advent of every spring, came an ant like feeling of being watched; whereon the element of intent became, successively: ever more tangible and ominous.
In the summers: the ant like feeling would inevitably present as one of alarm and foreboding, as if the magnifying glass might suddenly come into focus at any moment.
Choked in dust, bogged of sand: baked, and frozen; thus did all things great and small have cause to fail, and fall.
Of winds of drought and fire: did 10 years of stratospheric dust and sand storms, and 4 years of 50 degree Category 5 summer hurricanes: target the naked heat and what remaining humus could be had of the 450 million hectares of Australia’s farm, and grazing lands for fuel.
It was in mid June 2034 that temperatures fell to 65 degrees below zero Centigrade from one minute to the next.
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