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Developing Northern Australia for 100 million peopleBy Doug Mitchell, LaRouche Youth Movement

“In my mind it’s a simple task, the only thing stopping it is politics. That’s the only thing stopping it being done. There’s no technical reason why this can’t happen.”

—Mohd Peter Davis, agricultural scientist at the Institute of Advanced Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, July 6, 2010, speaking at a CEC Meeting in Brisbane.

The greenies and Malthusians should just shut up, listen, and get out of the way. The science and technology exists to feed the world’s current population of 7 billion people, and today’s projected population by 2100, 11 billion people. The Deep Tropical animal production system, presented by Mohd Peter Davis at a CEC Public Meeting in Brisbane on July 6th, uses freshly grown grass, treats animals like humans, and can increase Australia’s farming production by a magnitude of 100. If you’ve ever had nagging doubts or questions, such as “there’s no more grazing land left”, “the CSIRO says we can’t grow food up north!” or a little nig-gling voice saying “but our ability to produce food is finite!” then stop reading “‘pee’r-reviewed literature”, and listening to “the experts”, because what Peter presented to this meeting, smashes those environmentalist beliefs into the ground. The experts said to Peter, “it can’t be done”, so he just went ahead and did it!

What became clear to the audience is that Australia al-ready has the culture of agriculture, and the projects ready to go, all that’s stopping it is the political will.

Right from the start, Peter ridiculed the notion that Australia is overpopulated. “The first time I came to Aus-tralia, in 1969, I landed in Darwin, and I thought I landed on the Moon. Nothing compared to hitchkiking from Darwin to Brisbane, it was the hardest part of the whole trip (he came to Australia from England travelling through the Third World with his brother with just £900 between them). I was told later on that Australia was overpopulated. I said ‘you lot are crazy. I just travelled from Darwin to Brisbane, and I barely saw a person. I barely saw a tree.’ (This begs the question, can Julia Gillard and Kelvin Thomson travel from Darwin to Brisbane, and still get away with saying ‘we’re overpopulated’? They can’t get away with their “sustainable population” brainwashing, with Deep Tropical available for Australians to fight for!)

Peter thoroughly went through the Deep Tropical system. The Malaysian climate is the perfect greenhouse climate. Year-round rain, year-round sun. The temperature range is 25-35 degrees. The world’s best climate. We can get 10 times more biomass production per hectare than temperate climates. With the grass farms developed by N Yogendran,

the grass grows 3 feet in 35 days, so we can cut it 10 times per year. A greenies dream really. It requires fertiliser and occasional water, but no fungicides, pesticides or weedicides.

Start from the basics of biochemistry. Go back to square one. The primary food source of the biosphere is cellulose: sunlight, CO2, water, chlorophyll, produces celuslose. Well known in biochemistry exams is the question “all flesh is grass, discuss it.” The production of cellulose in green plants and grass is the start of the whole food chain.

Yogendran’s breakthrough involved stopping lignifica-tion of grass. Lignification is the way of turning cellulose into reinforced concrete, ie nothing can get into it, and break it down. So it’s a natural way of protecing the plant. All Yogendran did is stop the grass from lignifyng. What he produces is the spring grass. Farming in NZ, Australia and Europe uses spring grass. With the grass plantation you can mass produce spring grass 365 days a year. Using crop circles, with swivel-irrigation, and with water provided by major water projects and nuclear desalination, we can get those tropical conditions in Australia, and by housing the animals protecting them from the environment.

The grass is chopped up and fed to the cows. Sheep and pigs can also be housed in air-conditioned barns. With evaporative cooling, outside it maybe 34 degrees but it’s 27 inside. It feels like a gentle breeze, and gets rid of all the smells. Peter said: “We’re giving animals, human-standard housing. The irony is they’re living better than half of hu-manity. If you treat your animals like humans you get better production out of them.”

For the past 300 years Thomas Malthus has been a conscious genocidal liar. Humanity has proven that it’s able to increase the pasture land, and increase the numbers of sheep and cattle, through cellulose. Deep Tropical is man consciously and willfully changing the biosphere. With Deep Tropical, we can greatly increase the base of digestible grass and crops, which means that we can increase the population of animals. Deep Tropical is not at the expense of animals. We’ve changed the biosphere now. We’ve run out of land using grazing techniques. But Australia has vast land, if you fix up the soil and the water. What the world needs by the end of this century is a 4-fold increase in food production, because in order to feed the projected population of 11 billion people by 2100, we have to get the level of domestic animals up to the level of human population, largely because we’re meat eaters. We need protein which comes from meat, milk and eggs, from animals which are fed grass, which is what they are designed to eat! Every human needs 1 gram of protein per kg of body weight. You can get that from eating Jersey cows on their way to the automatic milking turntable at a Deep Tropi-

cal farm in Malaysia. Their climate-controlled shed is in the background.

The Deep Tropical grass farm maximises plant use for feed, by harvesting fast-growing grass before it becomes more fibrous and indigestible. The cut grass on the Deep Tropical plantation, shown here, will grow again and be ready for feeding cows in about 35 days.

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350g of protein per day. That adds up to 27kg of fresh meat per year. 7 billion people today use 190 million tons of food per year, and at least half of the world’s population doesn’t eat enough food every day. So we need to increase food production four-fold. “In my mind it’s a simple task, the only thing stopping it is politics. That’s the only thing stopping it being done. There’s no technical reason why this can’t happen.”

Peter made the point that Deep Tropical is such an extremely simple concept, which is what happens with most scientific breakthroughs. People think “it’s so simple.” The irony is it came after a lot of work. It’s taken 20 years of hard work, and Peter is getting more development from Australia than from 20 years in Malaysia. One reason being: we have a rich agricultural culture of creative, innovative farmers! Once we build the dams in the right places we can grow sheep, cows, anywhere in the tropics, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn.

If you compare sheep per hectare per year equivalents Australia has 0.7, NZ 7, Malaysia with Deep Tropical 82. “[With water, and thanks to its solar radiation, northern] Australia can support 100 times more sheep and cattle production per hectare

of land. This is the lie of Malthus. This is the complete opposite of what he’s saying.”

Again Peter emphasised what’s preventing a major break-through in applying this agricultural science to our under-devel-oped country: “In Australia, you’ve got all of the systems, the country’s completely mapped, we know exactly where to build all the dams, we’ve known that for a long, long time. The thing that’s stopping that is politics. It’s not science, it’s not technology, it’s not farming, it’s politics.”

Peter ended with an optimistic mission for our nation: “We want to turn the Top End as green as Papua New Guinea. If you can do it in Australia you can do it in Africa and the Middle East. Australia is in the best position because we have the culture. Australia is going to be your prototype for growing food on Mars. If you you can crack it here, you can do it there.”

So, what can you do to help feed your great-grandchildren? Help the CEC take the leadership of this nation away from genocidalists who don’t know anything about the creative will of humanity! Watch the video/Buy the DVD!

Send $20 to PO Box 376, Coburg, 3058, and request DVD #3903, or call in with your credit card number on 1800-636-432.

A flurry of propaganda has surfaced over the past 48 hours, indicating that, in the aftermath of the Obama-

Netanyahu White House love-fest last week, the Obama Administration is seriously considering military action against Iran. If it were simply a matter of media black pro-paganda, the threat would be limited, at best, given U.S. military resistance to another Persian Gulf war. But, given the fact that the President is stark-raving mad, and given that several extremely well-informed Washington sources have confirmed a renewed consideration of an attack on Iran, coming directly from the White House, the matter has to be taken very seriously.

On July 15, Time magazine prominently featured a story by Joe Klein, headlined “An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table,” in which it was reported that the Pentagon, for the first time, considers military action against Iran’s nuclear program to be both feasible and possibly necessary. “Intel-ligence sources say that the U.S. Army’s Central Command, which is in charge of organizing military operations in the Middle East, has made some real progress in planning tar-geted air strikes—aided, in large part, by vastly improved human-intelligence operations in the region,” Klein wrote. He quoted an Israeli military source telling him, “There really wasn’t a military option a year ago. But they’ve gotten serious about the planning and the option is now real.” The source reported that the Israeli military has been consulted on the war planning, because the Obama Administration does not want Israel to act on its own, in attacking Iran. Klein added, “One other factor has brought the military option to a low boil: Iran’s Sunni neighbors really want the U.S. to do it... Senior American officials who travel to the Gulf frequently say the Saudis, in particular, raise the issue with surprising ardor.” Klein claimed that “For the moment, the White House remains as skeptical as ever about a military strike,” but that, according to senior U.S. intelligence sources and one top Democrat, is no longer true. Reportedly, President Obama is personally talking about an attack on Iran, and views it as a potential boost for his 2012 reelection plans.

On July 15, the same day that the Klein story was posted, Spiegel Online published a very similar story under the headline “A Quiet Axis Forms Against Iran in the Middle East,” by Alexander Smoltczyk and Bernhard Zand. They

cited a strong push from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, for an attack by the United States on Iran, regard-less of the blowback. Spiegel noted the recent speech by UAE’s Ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al Otaiba, at an Aspen, Colourado forum, in which he aggressively pro-moted American military action to knock out Iran’s nuclear capabilities. “A military attack on Iran by whomever would be a disaster,” the ambassador said, “but Iran with a nuclear weapon would be a bigger disaster.” While acknowledging that there would undoubtedly be a severe “backlash,” “If you ask me, ‘Am I willing to live with that versus living with a nuclear Iran,’ my answer is still the same. We cannot live with a nuclear Iran. I am willing to absorb that [it] takes place at the expense of the security of the U.A.E.”

Even Arnaud de Borchgrave, who, in recent years, has been a harsh critic of the Bush-Cheney preventive wars, and an opponent of military strikes on Iran, wrote on July 13 that “Global Sentiment Builds to Attack Iran.” Citing the same Saudi and UAE statements that were reported by Time and Spiegel Online, de Borchgrave concluded: “The temptation for Obama to double down on Iran will grow rapidly as he concludes that Afghanistan will remain a festering sore as far as anyone can peer into a murky future, hardly a recipe for success at the polls in November. With a war in Afghanistan that is bound to get worse and a military theater in Iraq replete with sectarian violence, the bombing of Iran may give Obama a three-front war and a chance to retain both houses of Congress.”

Is madman Obama going to bomb Iran?

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