By the year 2000, when our petroleum resources have dwindled to 20% of their original size, America will have six choices to avoid economic and environmental ruin:

• Use more coal, further polluting the environment;

• Continue to fund nuclear power and risk annihilation of the planet;

• Convert forests into fuel, permanently altering life-sustaining ecosystems;

• Continually wage wars over foreign oil;

• Build massive wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal energy systems;

• Establish energy farms to grow biomass fuels.

    The last two are the only rational, life sustaining choices.

    Farming only 6% of continental U.S. acreage with biomass crop would provide all of America’s gas and oil energy needs, ending dependence upon fossil fuels.

    Hemp is Earth’s number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. Hemp is easy on the soil,^* sheds it lush foliage throughout the season, adding mulch to the soil and helping retain moisture. Hemp is an ideal crop for the semi-arid West and open range land.

    Hemp is the only biomass source available that is capable of making the U.S. energy independent. Ultimately, the world has no other rational environmental choice but to give up fossil fuels.

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