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John D. Hamaker (1914–1994), was an American mechanical engineer, ecologist, agronomist and science writer in the fields of soil remineralization, rock dusting, mineral cycles, climate cycles and glaciology.
In 1982, he produced with Californian ecologist Donald A. Weaver The Survival Of Civilization: Carbon Dioxide, Investment Money, Population – Three Problems Threatening Our Existence, which was re-published by Remineralize the Earth in 2002 and in 2006 by SoilandHealth.org. Annotations and supporting evidence were provided by Weaver.
The book which initially sold 14,000 copies, concerned the threat of an imminent ice age, remineralizing the world’s soils on a local and global scale and reforesting the planet to return atmospheric carbon dioxide to a normal interglacial level near 280 ppm, to help slow the glacial advance.
The treatise was a synthesis of Hamaker’s thinking that emerged from his studies and research in several disciplines including soil science and paleoclimatology. His message, dubbed the Hamaker Thesis, was that due to modern agricultural and agro-forestry practices, the soils were running out of minerals, causing the dying and burning of forests worldwide and nutrient deficiencies in food.
He offered soil remineralization as a solution, advocating regeneration of soil and forests with rock dusts as an economic and ecologically sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Hamaker regarded this as one of the most powerful ideas in human history.
The book and its message was well received by soil and nutritional scientists and regarded as a blueprint for restoring the planet’s ecological integrity by the worldwide remineralization movement.
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Dr. Julius Hensel (born April 30, 1844, died probably 1903 in Berlin ) was a German agricultural and physiological chemist or pharmacist, who later qualified as a doctor of medicine; described as one of the greatest pioneers of biochemistry and was considered by his followers as the “inventor” of the mineral field fertilization with rock flour.
He published “Macrobiotic” in 1882; he suggested that the underlying cause of all disease is a lack of mineral substances which are essential to the functioning of the body’s cells. As he travelled he studied the minerals of the country and recorded any health problems more common in the area.
A contemporary of Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler (sometimes written Schussler), Hensel also proposed tritrated mineral substances to treat illness, but not diluted to the extent proposed by Hahnemann’s homeopathy and made a large number of enemies in opposing many aspects of both established medical opinion of the day and some of the newer ideas – from vaccination to homeopathy.
Introduction to Bread from Stones
Global Warming vs. the Next Ice Age
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