What Happened Today? Feather Sound walk. Worked at home. Presentations for the New Orleans Paint Show are nearly complete. Kay and I went to AJs Sports Bar for dinner.
GAIA- Planetary Management:
391. The growth of agriculture: The first great developments in agriculture took place some 10,000 years ago in a series of river basins, notably the Nile, the Euphrates/Tigris, the Ganges/Brahmaputra, and the Yangtze.
392. In these tropical areas, with their year-round warmth and river-supplied water, people exploited the fertile floodplains.
393. They embarked on an enterprise that ranks as a human advance to match mastery of fire and the art of writing– and much more important in terms of basic human survival.
394. Since this first exercise in agriculture, we have dug up a sizeable sector of our planet, one-and-a-half billion hectares in all (the US covers just under one billion hectares.).
395. The most productive areas to date have often been the temperate-zone lands, so-called because of their supposedly clement climates.