Cannabis vs. Climate Change
Foreword
If you want to live, read this book.
“Cannabis vs. Climate Change”introduces ecological interrelationships of pivotal evolutionary consequence.Mankind’s peaceful existence, or our violent global extinction, will be determined by strategies initiated today, to repair Earth’s atmosphere.
Until now, all possible means for reversing global systemic imbalance have not been considered. Nor have all threats to our planet been factored into the equation of survival. The urgency of implementing the most effective measures possible, and due consideration of what is at stake, put all strategies to heal the atmosphere on the table for consideration.
‘Time’ is the only thing we can’t make more of. Every growing season that passes without the benefits of Cannabis agriculture is gone forever. Our species has an indecipherable number of planting seasons left, to resolve compounding imbalances that threaten everyone with systemic collapse of Earth’s environment, global economics and the human social order.
A polar shift in values, from “illegal” to essential, is the evolutionary leap of collective consciousness required if humankind is to recover symbiotic relationship within a functioning Natural Order. Cannabis farming is Homo sapiens’ resource interface with the operating system of the Earth.
Cannabis is essential to our existence on this planet. The sooner we appreciate the world’s most valuable crop for what it is truly worth, the sooner we can begin to coordinate the large-scale planting needed; to maximize the chances for survival of subsequent generations, following us into a very dangerous and unstable future.
For more than seven decades prohibition of ‘marijuana’ has stunted human development by blocking free market research and normal human investigation into all of the uses of all types of Cannabis. Blocking research and development of hemp-inclusive agricultural and industrial strategies has cost mankind more seventy years of working with our best hope for achieving sustainability. This book is a collection of history, research, formal study, and personal experience growing and studying Cannabis in Europe and the United States, unburdened by the limited thinking that comes with irrational social prejudice against an herb.
An Inconvenient Priority
Most of us were born into a gigantic mistake called 'marijuana' prohibition. Since we grew up believing it was "normal" for Cannabis farming to be forbidden, we trusted and accepted that the government had good reasons and rightful jurisdiction over the most healing, nutritious, useful, ecologically beneficial, globally distributed and potentially abundant agricultural resource on Earth. Imposed values at the point of a gun ruled our thinking, individually and collectviely, and skewed our social evolution.
As the world races headlong toward tipping-points that threaten systemic collapse of environment, economics and the human social order, it appears that Cannabis agriculture is key to our continued existence on this planet for several importamt reasons. Like it or not, the fact is that Cannabis is too valuable to be within the rightful jurisdiction of any court because growing large quantities of it is critically essential to our survival.
Formal studies in ecology, years of living in wilderness and more than twenty years of Cannabis scholarship, photography and filmmaking have allowed me to connect dots between Cannabis and climate change that others have apparently missed.
Time is running out to resolve climate imbalance. Solar UV-B radiation is increasing as the result of ozone depletion and the loss of atmospheric aerosols, resulting from the death of 50% of Earth's boreal forests in the past sixty years. Unless we stop the "global broiling" of the Earth our children will inherit an unthinkable future.
For future generations to inherit a liveable world, our generation must achieve a polar shift in Cannabis values, from "illegal" to essential -- in record time.
Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival.
Post publication
After the book is published this Fall, my plan is to roll out on biodiesel-powered multi-media speaking tour, with my still photographs and a full-length digital video docmentary of the same name.
Introducing information and "connecting the dots" between Cannabis and climate will generate a groundswell of public involvement, initiating "essential civilian demand" for Cannabis at the federal level.A federal court case that's been stewing for three years provides the legal tool for establishing legitimacy facilitating public access to the most nutritious and potentially abundant source of complete nutrition on Earth.
We all know that twenty years from now, no one will give a damn who smoked "pot." But if we fail to do everything we can to stop climate change, our children will wonder why. It is madness that we continue to sell-out their future for a short-sighted fossil fuels fix, to satisfy our inherited toxic energy addiction, when we could be growing energy and food from the same harvest using hemp.
Other Ways You Can Help
Everybody knows someone who knows somebody else who has the vision, the means & the willingness to support radical change. Please, give it your thought and attention while there may still be growing seasons left for us to make a difference. Ask others in your circle of friends & family to get the word out. Thank you for doing whatever you can to help move this information to forefront of the global climate change discourse.
Sample chapters are available with your donation of $10 or more. A numbered and autographed collector's hardcopy of the book after publication is available for a donation of $100 or more.
Please use the Indiegogo share tools to help pass along this very good news -- there IS something we can do to stop climate change!
It begins with a simple shift in value from "illegal" to essential.
Thank you sincerely.
All our relations,
Paul J. von Hartmann
Cannabis scholar, filmmaker
