Dear Florence and FSN Associates,
Climate change has several dimensions, all of which threaten global food security and health in fundamentally interconnected ways. Temperature increase, ocean acidity & circulation, ozone depletion, sub-arctic methane release all pose potentially catastrophic influences.
Most people are aware of "global warming." Fewer people seem to be as concerned with the increasing solar UV-B radiation reaching the planet's surface, what I refer to as "global broiling."
Climate change mitigation and crop selection in the 21st Century must take into account both of these aspects of systemic climate imbalance. If we are to avoid irreversible systemic collapse, then must successfully adapt in the most time-efficient ways to navigate these changes.
First we must acknowledge the changes are happening at an accelerating and unpredictable, non-linear rate; then we must objectively reconsider our priorities. Specifically, society's views about what is "illegal" and what is essential must change.
Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade offer fundamental solutions to many of the problems imposed by climate imbalance. Every growing season that passes without comprehensive, objective analysis of this unique and essential natural resource, is gone forever.
Consider that "hemp" is the only crop that produces complete nutrition and sustainable biofuels from the same harvest. In addition, the atmospheric benefits of Cannabis sequestration and monotwrpene production make hemp an essential crop.
Please feel invited to consider the rationale for resolving climate imbalance, presented in my recently published book,
"Cannabis vs. Climate Change: How hot does Earth have to get before all solutions are considered?" http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PCSRUF8
Thank you for the opportunity to present an achieveable biogenic solution in an atmosphere of timely objectivity.
Best wishes to all,
Paul
Mr. Paul von Hartmann