Seriously, though....think about how people react to that word, now: God.
I believe we are given opportunities, every day, for renewal, growth, and reconsideration in our lives. Some call it a Second Chance. Some call it Thoughtful Thinking. I call it giving in to the Spirit of Hope and Possibility, despite all odds, and all agendas which are quite content and complacent about the idea of our demise as a species. And I have never been more serious about that last word...demise.
By continuing, you have just rejected the idea that Divinity has forgotten us. This makes you different. It means you want to live. And frankly, I find it ironic that God thinks your life is worth living, and a lot of other beings bent on your destruction, a fast profit from it, and maintaining that mental and physical brick on your head to prevent you from becoming yourself. Also, even when you happen to be a jerk, hate yourself, and cannot figure out why you are in this particular moment, or mess...Jesus loves me, this I know; for the Bible tells me so; little ones to Him belong, they are weak, but He is Strong.
Yup; still worth singing about. And strangely, I bet you still remember the tune, even if you cannot remember the words. Go figure.
Read on.....
We are, in this country, at the brink of a very brave reclamation of life called the Greening of a Nation. It is going to open doors in many areas, and it will shake the sensibilities of the status quo. Some people will be very angry, and very fearful, about any notion of losing power, wielding power, or having power over other human beings and how they move and interact in the world. Or not. But if we are brave, the immediate effects will be seen, with effort, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial spirit, in the following areas:
1. Environmental Impact
2. The Real Birth of Green Industry as vital and sustaining
3.The reclamation of the Auto Industry
4.The true return to the focus on the Health of a Nation and its People
5. The economic Stabilization of national health, social and educational infrastructures.
How will all of this happen?
Environmental Impact
Apart from the sin tax industry everyone normally associates with the hemp/cannabis production, we will be replanting the lungs of the planet. In the face of the horrific destruction taking place on California's coastal forest regions, and the seemingly insurmountable environmental damage caused by chemical, industry and fossil fuel mismanagement, this is, as Einstein would say, the equal and opposite, focused and determined, effort to reclaim the wilds needed to sustain us. This is, literally, grabbing hold of the rope hauling us back to perspective, sanity, reflection, and sober second thought.
There are many people who think that ignoring the reality of environmental degradation will simply make it go away; that by restoring the status quo in existing industries, we will somehow reclaim the lost exuberance and spirit of industry that made North America the envy of nations. That is not so. With this, literal "Second Chance", there comes a very serious warning to heed the ethos of conscience-driven industry: we must, by default, include the forgotten, dispossessed, exploited and undeveloped areas of the world in the progress of our species, and the Greening of our Lives. If they are not there, we will die.
There are other immediate and obvious effects of this shift in focus: it will stabilize the planet, geopolitically.
This scares some people, because it does not feed into the politics of war, or the concept of repetitive arms proliferation as a balancing mechanism. It will not feed the war machine, create paranoia or discord needed to sustain that industry, or have, at its focus, death as the solution to economic disparity. It will open the door to what man has the capacity to do: Heal his World, and Himself.
I'll give you one small example: pressboard/particle board made from hemp fibres are among the strongest and most reasonably priced building materials in the world. Treated for mold and insects, it could erase homelessness - at least temporarily, and especially in warmer climates - and make rebuilding after devastation a reality for the world's poorest. It is "healthy building made real" - particularly in very warm climates where building material scarcity and the reality of building costs make simple shelter impossible. Hemp solves this problem. Period. There is simply no excuse for homelessness except the neglect of nations, and their inability to be moved to solve it. It has to be a matter of caring and action by governments in combination. No excuses.
Milk made from hemp seeds is a nutritious and sustaining product that could ease third world hunger.
People cannot help themselves when they are starving. They simply die.
But do they stop spraying insects, and start collecting, roasting, pickling and eating them as a found food source? Rarely. The irony of this, and the very costly delicacy now served up in gourmet restaurants featuring just that food source, while people in Africa bemoan another attack of locusts and the threat of life in a refugee camp due to another infestation of dwindling farm crops in an arid near-desert climate, and the chasm of investment, approach, and pragmatism shows us why we sometimes cannot get around things: we look at the situation from one perspective only. IF water sources are dwindling; IF traditional approaches are no longer feasible....maybe, as initially repugnant as it might seem, it is manna in disguise. People in California are working on that as a reality, as we speak, focused and determined on making sure that starving people in arid third world nations affected by these events have one small unlikely door out of starvation. On some of these foodstuffs are pretty impressive, as much as others like to scoff at their efforts.
On a positive, rather than negative note, however: an immediate availability of it, in conjunction with a "hands-on" 2-litre plastic pop bottle rooftop- sunlight-water-baking could turn guinea-worm ridden drinking water sources into a powdered milk reality, and a literal "birth of bread and roses" - within a SINGLE YEAR. Granted, the technology isn't perfect, and residual trace amounts of leeching reclaimed plastic two litre discards is a valid concern, .....but hemp coffee filters, distributed, could strain that trace water baked on rooftops and make it cleaner by up to SEVENTY PERCENT. And seventy percent is life...and life means POTENTIAL, REALIZED.
One single year of baking your worm-ridden drinking water on the sunscorched roof of your dwelling in RECLAIMED RECEPTACLES OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THROWN IN THE GARBAGE. And while we are on the topic....why on earth does Florida lack a blue box program? A place others escape to in winter from all over the world.....and the landfill piles get higher, with no green industry reclaiming, reusing, reselling, and reforming all those throw aways. Two litre plastic pop bottles, for example.
Read on.....
We are, in this country, at the brink of a very brave reclamation of life called the Greening of a Nation. It is going to open doors in many areas, and it will shake the sensibilities of the status quo. Some people will be very angry, and very fearful, about any notion of losing power, wielding power, or having power over other human beings and how they move and interact in the world. Or not. But if we are brave, the immediate effects will be seen, with effort, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial spirit, in the following areas:
1. Environmental Impact
2. The Real Birth of Green Industry as vital and sustaining
3.The reclamation of the Auto Industry
4.The true return to the focus on the Health of a Nation and its People
5. The economic Stabilization of national health, social and educational infrastructures.
How will all of this happen?
Environmental Impact
Apart from the sin tax industry everyone normally associates with the hemp/cannabis production, we will be replanting the lungs of the planet. In the face of the horrific destruction taking place on California's coastal forest regions, and the seemingly insurmountable environmental damage caused by chemical, industry and fossil fuel mismanagement, this is, as Einstein would say, the equal and opposite, focused and determined, effort to reclaim the wilds needed to sustain us. This is, literally, grabbing hold of the rope hauling us back to perspective, sanity, reflection, and sober second thought.
There are many people who think that ignoring the reality of environmental degradation will simply make it go away; that by restoring the status quo in existing industries, we will somehow reclaim the lost exuberance and spirit of industry that made North America the envy of nations. That is not so. With this, literal "Second Chance", there comes a very serious warning to heed the ethos of conscience-driven industry: we must, by default, include the forgotten, dispossessed, exploited and undeveloped areas of the world in the progress of our species, and the Greening of our Lives. If they are not there, we will die.
There are other immediate and obvious effects of this shift in focus: it will stabilize the planet, geopolitically.
This scares some people, because it does not feed into the politics of war, or the concept of repetitive arms proliferation as a balancing mechanism. It will not feed the war machine, create paranoia or discord needed to sustain that industry, or have, at its focus, death as the solution to economic disparity. It will open the door to what man has the capacity to do: Heal his World, and Himself.
I'll give you one small example: pressboard/particle board made from hemp fibres are among the strongest and most reasonably priced building materials in the world. Treated for mold and insects, it could erase homelessness - at least temporarily, and especially in warmer climates - and make rebuilding after devastation a reality for the world's poorest. It is "healthy building made real" - particularly in very warm climates where building material scarcity and the reality of building costs make simple shelter impossible. Hemp solves this problem. Period. There is simply no excuse for homelessness except the neglect of nations, and their inability to be moved to solve it. It has to be a matter of caring and action by governments in combination. No excuses.
Milk made from hemp seeds is a nutritious and sustaining product that could ease third world hunger.
People cannot help themselves when they are starving. They simply die.
But do they stop spraying insects, and start collecting, roasting, pickling and eating them as a found food source? Rarely. The irony of this, and the very costly delicacy now served up in gourmet restaurants featuring just that food source, while people in Africa bemoan another attack of locusts and the threat of life in a refugee camp due to another infestation of dwindling farm crops in an arid near-desert climate, and the chasm of investment, approach, and pragmatism shows us why we sometimes cannot get around things: we look at the situation from one perspective only. IF water sources are dwindling; IF traditional approaches are no longer feasible....maybe, as initially repugnant as it might seem, it is manna in disguise. People in California are working on that as a reality, as we speak, focused and determined on making sure that starving people in arid third world nations affected by these events have one small unlikely door out of starvation. On some of these foodstuffs are pretty impressive, as much as others like to scoff at their efforts.
On a positive, rather than negative note, however: an immediate availability of it, in conjunction with a "hands-on" 2-litre plastic pop bottle rooftop- sunlight-water-baking could turn guinea-worm ridden drinking water sources into a powdered milk reality, and a literal "birth of bread and roses" - within a SINGLE YEAR. Granted, the technology isn't perfect, and residual trace amounts of leeching reclaimed plastic two litre discards is a valid concern, .....but hemp coffee filters, distributed, could strain that trace water baked on rooftops and make it cleaner by up to SEVENTY PERCENT. And seventy percent is life...and life means POTENTIAL, REALIZED.
One single year of baking your worm-ridden drinking water on the sunscorched roof of your dwelling in RECLAIMED RECEPTACLES OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THROWN IN THE GARBAGE. And while we are on the topic....why on earth does Florida lack a blue box program? A place others escape to in winter from all over the world.....and the landfill piles get higher, with no green industry reclaiming, reusing, reselling, and reforming all those throw aways. Two litre plastic pop bottles, for example.
In a Republican stronghold normally rife with entrepreneurial effort, the absence of recycling as an industrial part of garbage pickup as a given portion of the responsible taxation base....simply eludes me. I just cannot believe it is because you "get dirty", in a country like the United States, who believe themselves to have a literal trademark on "a good day's work, and washing up before dinner".
Imagine: the LEAGUE OF EARTH NATIONS, if you will. We must first understand the terms "third world", Keynesian economics, and newly required selfrestraint with new eyes - before we erase ourselves, for all time. Insects.....how do you taste, ground into flour, and made into tortillas? Would you have eaten it, had you not known? Bet you would have. No replacement for steak - but in a place where water sources are dwindling, maybe life saving, before you get all snotty and superior about it.
2. The Real Birth of Green Industry
When I talk about the "Real Birth of Green Industry", I think of it as the renewal of ones that we have eroded and/or destroyed, with a combination of human rights abuses, replacement of inferior substitutes, and a misunderstanding of what might be at "risk" when they - green industries - are born.
Let's start with the textile industry. A return to the availability of textiles and the textile industry will, by default, immediately result in all of the creative impulse that comes with it: the ways, means, and craftsmanship by which we clothe, cover, and create the places where we live, work, and play - along with ourselves. We relearn our sense of traditional design, learn new skills, create new traditions, and rediscover that creativity is a million-dollar offshoot business.
Not only that: studies have shown that, like cotton, hemp is healthy. Ask any dermatologist, and they will tell you that cheaply produced synthetic based clothing - made, essentially, from plastic, does two things: it inhibits you from sweating properly, and actually traps moisture and bacteria against the skin. Unless you are going to space or need a wet suit, simply put, this makes you, your skin, and your body encased in an impenetrable non-porous item, sick. You develop irritations, allergies, sensitivities, infections, and skin conditions which never existed, before you covered yourself in something that does not allow your body, and you, to breathe. And when your body cannot sweat and breathe properly when you work - you smell funny! You are a bacteria incubator. Do you want to be an incubator - for anything besides a rebirth of yourself, and Hope? Maybe it's about time you started to believe you were worth it. Look at yourself again - you still have dreams....they're not quite bullied, stomped, beaten down, or mocked out of you yet, are they?
And did I mention Hemp paper? Durable, more resistant to moisture and mold damage, when treated, it is an old Technology, reborn, for when "plugged in" might wish a quiet page flip, and words leaping off the page again, newly understood. Books really are cool - and no hydro is required.
Hemp production must bring with it deep lessons from the Deep South cotton industry, and a developed sense of developed potential, too - not a repeat of the abuses and worker exploitation of the most vulnerable sectors of society. We must create jobs associated with this industry, working in tandem - but not as a replacement for - human beings, when we put technology to work in the boom of agribusiness which will make "joyful offshoots" of entrepreneurship possible, along with dreams of a Better Life - literally.
3. The Reclamation of the Auto Industry
After public bailouts in the billions of dollars, I sincerely believe that the Auto Industry has a debt to pay: they must realize that, though they are of continued, and vital importance, in the New World, they have become complacent. Their demand for government infrastructure supporting the industry just in terms of charging routes is somewhat hypocritical, given the length of time which they have had to introduce and implement new technologies, but, on a more encouraging, and immediate note, the reality of a 2008 PT Cruiser running on biohemp fuel is simply possible, with a few simple changes in combustion engines, and focused research, investment, and self-sustaining industrial automaking which has, at its core, the idea of hemp fuel, and the determined effort to bring back, not destroy, our world as a very real, very possible, and very doable part of business success. You owe us - and you owe yourselves and your children to make this happen. Look at what you have achieve in 20 years in automaking. The EV phenomenon is just part of the equation. The beauty and flexibility of the combustion engine does not have to end; we just have to look at it in a new way. Stop considering Heaven's Hemp as your Competitor: you were born for this - just DO IT. Even the tanks are there. When that diesel smell is the hemp oil fuel of tomorrow because of your effort - while you drive towards the destination you have preserved in nature - there will be no more room for "at odds with the industry" in your vocabulary. You will, once again, be Leading its Creativity, and progress....and exuberance and success.
But you need to make this happen - no one else can. And you have the tools. The shift can be yours - alongside the success of the EV - by refining this older technology with new eyes. And rest assured....we are gonna love that sweet new ride, my friend. Driving the green, making the green.....life in motion. Sounds like poetry, doesn't it?
4. The return of the Health of a Nation and its People
So....we're clothed, and fed with nutritious hemp based food, and seedpod milk which eases the strain on traditional sustainable beef and meat industries, while creating another complementary agribusiness alongside of it, and replanting the lungs of the world, while we begin to allow Nature to slowly, but inexorably, begin to heal and free itself of the poisons we have inflicted upon it, and upon ourselves, with our lack of vision, and our refusal to enter into the "start to end" concept of industry. Where does your old computer, microwave, electrical appliance go, anyway? Does the industry care that made millions off of it? Have they recontributed to the rebuilding of the grid system upon which it relies, without water diversion, damaging ecosystems, and an inability to build into grid strengthening buildings which self-generate electricity in their designs? Steve Jobs knew: we need to "Think Different." We need to think differently, too, to be grammatically correct, and with a nod to actual literacy, without apology. New architectural and industrial design must begin to include, by default, these types of considerations in their blueprints: the solar roof, the living walls.....the idea that we are "part of" the landscape - not its replacement.
What else can hemp do? It can ease pain management in cream, lozenge, capsule, digestibles which scream nonaddiction in the face of every toxic substance currently being pumped into human beings by a pharmaceutical industry only too happy to help you experiment. And yes....maybe a little smoke. Welcome pharmaceutical, cosmetic and naturopathic subindustries. We have only just begun to get you unhooked from oxycontin and phentanyl. You are not on the precipice, chained as part of a vicious needs-based dependency which the darker side of this industry creates, and the light within it still recognizes as its raison dètre: part of the healing process, not the simple obliteration of reality and a calculated hastening to its nonprofitable end. You can manage this again!
5. A Return to Stability
Healthy people are hopeful people. How can they not be, when jobs, wellbeing, creativity and freedom are re-embraced as the Conscience of a Nation? When government budgets can meet the needs of its people without huge tax burdens, and the theft of livelihoods as the result of unbalanced politics, excesses of greed, and the crushing of the success that should come after hard work?
As we reach out with Canadarm into the Great Beyond, let's show the wider universe, and ourselves, another Can Do. The other one might take us into Space - but this one might mean we still have something to which hearts will return to, in their most cherished moments: the inexpressable joy at the sight of the Garden of Home.
There's still time......and God is watching, as we stumble, and persist, and wait for The Miracle.
2. The Real Birth of Green Industry
When I talk about the "Real Birth of Green Industry", I think of it as the renewal of ones that we have eroded and/or destroyed, with a combination of human rights abuses, replacement of inferior substitutes, and a misunderstanding of what might be at "risk" when they - green industries - are born.
Let's start with the textile industry. A return to the availability of textiles and the textile industry will, by default, immediately result in all of the creative impulse that comes with it: the ways, means, and craftsmanship by which we clothe, cover, and create the places where we live, work, and play - along with ourselves. We relearn our sense of traditional design, learn new skills, create new traditions, and rediscover that creativity is a million-dollar offshoot business.
Not only that: studies have shown that, like cotton, hemp is healthy. Ask any dermatologist, and they will tell you that cheaply produced synthetic based clothing - made, essentially, from plastic, does two things: it inhibits you from sweating properly, and actually traps moisture and bacteria against the skin. Unless you are going to space or need a wet suit, simply put, this makes you, your skin, and your body encased in an impenetrable non-porous item, sick. You develop irritations, allergies, sensitivities, infections, and skin conditions which never existed, before you covered yourself in something that does not allow your body, and you, to breathe. And when your body cannot sweat and breathe properly when you work - you smell funny! You are a bacteria incubator. Do you want to be an incubator - for anything besides a rebirth of yourself, and Hope? Maybe it's about time you started to believe you were worth it. Look at yourself again - you still have dreams....they're not quite bullied, stomped, beaten down, or mocked out of you yet, are they?
And did I mention Hemp paper? Durable, more resistant to moisture and mold damage, when treated, it is an old Technology, reborn, for when "plugged in" might wish a quiet page flip, and words leaping off the page again, newly understood. Books really are cool - and no hydro is required.
Hemp production must bring with it deep lessons from the Deep South cotton industry, and a developed sense of developed potential, too - not a repeat of the abuses and worker exploitation of the most vulnerable sectors of society. We must create jobs associated with this industry, working in tandem - but not as a replacement for - human beings, when we put technology to work in the boom of agribusiness which will make "joyful offshoots" of entrepreneurship possible, along with dreams of a Better Life - literally.
3. The Reclamation of the Auto Industry
After public bailouts in the billions of dollars, I sincerely believe that the Auto Industry has a debt to pay: they must realize that, though they are of continued, and vital importance, in the New World, they have become complacent. Their demand for government infrastructure supporting the industry just in terms of charging routes is somewhat hypocritical, given the length of time which they have had to introduce and implement new technologies, but, on a more encouraging, and immediate note, the reality of a 2008 PT Cruiser running on biohemp fuel is simply possible, with a few simple changes in combustion engines, and focused research, investment, and self-sustaining industrial automaking which has, at its core, the idea of hemp fuel, and the determined effort to bring back, not destroy, our world as a very real, very possible, and very doable part of business success. You owe us - and you owe yourselves and your children to make this happen. Look at what you have achieve in 20 years in automaking. The EV phenomenon is just part of the equation. The beauty and flexibility of the combustion engine does not have to end; we just have to look at it in a new way. Stop considering Heaven's Hemp as your Competitor: you were born for this - just DO IT. Even the tanks are there. When that diesel smell is the hemp oil fuel of tomorrow because of your effort - while you drive towards the destination you have preserved in nature - there will be no more room for "at odds with the industry" in your vocabulary. You will, once again, be Leading its Creativity, and progress....and exuberance and success.
But you need to make this happen - no one else can. And you have the tools. The shift can be yours - alongside the success of the EV - by refining this older technology with new eyes. And rest assured....we are gonna love that sweet new ride, my friend. Driving the green, making the green.....life in motion. Sounds like poetry, doesn't it?
4. The return of the Health of a Nation and its People
So....we're clothed, and fed with nutritious hemp based food, and seedpod milk which eases the strain on traditional sustainable beef and meat industries, while creating another complementary agribusiness alongside of it, and replanting the lungs of the world, while we begin to allow Nature to slowly, but inexorably, begin to heal and free itself of the poisons we have inflicted upon it, and upon ourselves, with our lack of vision, and our refusal to enter into the "start to end" concept of industry. Where does your old computer, microwave, electrical appliance go, anyway? Does the industry care that made millions off of it? Have they recontributed to the rebuilding of the grid system upon which it relies, without water diversion, damaging ecosystems, and an inability to build into grid strengthening buildings which self-generate electricity in their designs? Steve Jobs knew: we need to "Think Different." We need to think differently, too, to be grammatically correct, and with a nod to actual literacy, without apology. New architectural and industrial design must begin to include, by default, these types of considerations in their blueprints: the solar roof, the living walls.....the idea that we are "part of" the landscape - not its replacement.
What else can hemp do? It can ease pain management in cream, lozenge, capsule, digestibles which scream nonaddiction in the face of every toxic substance currently being pumped into human beings by a pharmaceutical industry only too happy to help you experiment. And yes....maybe a little smoke. Welcome pharmaceutical, cosmetic and naturopathic subindustries. We have only just begun to get you unhooked from oxycontin and phentanyl. You are not on the precipice, chained as part of a vicious needs-based dependency which the darker side of this industry creates, and the light within it still recognizes as its raison dètre: part of the healing process, not the simple obliteration of reality and a calculated hastening to its nonprofitable end. You can manage this again!
5. A Return to Stability
Healthy people are hopeful people. How can they not be, when jobs, wellbeing, creativity and freedom are re-embraced as the Conscience of a Nation? When government budgets can meet the needs of its people without huge tax burdens, and the theft of livelihoods as the result of unbalanced politics, excesses of greed, and the crushing of the success that should come after hard work?
As we reach out with Canadarm into the Great Beyond, let's show the wider universe, and ourselves, another Can Do. The other one might take us into Space - but this one might mean we still have something to which hearts will return to, in their most cherished moments: the inexpressable joy at the sight of the Garden of Home.
There's still time......and God is watching, as we stumble, and persist, and wait for The Miracle.
As one comic character put it: it is like a Circle. And it is coming around.
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