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Foreword
At this moment in time, the Earth is sick, very sick. Witness the floods and earthquakes occurring not only in Japan but around the world; the bloody racial conflicts; the movements of vast numbers of refugees; a global recession that leaves no nation unaffected; and, on the medical front, AIDS, an insidious disease for which no complete cure has yet been found and which is rapidly spreading over the entire planet. Disasters and incidents such as these are now occurring with a frequency that would seem to herald the end of the world in a manner which many might see as giving credence to the prophesies of Nostradamus.
Is it possible that such calamities could culminate in the destruction of the planet? If it is, then it is up to us, the human race to take steps to ensure such an eventuality is prevented. It is our task: the burden lies on our shoulders. It is both the duty and responsibility of the human race to save Planet Earth.
The first priority in the task of rescuing the Earth is to resolve the problem of food shortages. After that we need to come to grips with environmental issues and problems facing us on the medical front. Energy is another pressing problem that needs to be dealt with as a matter of urgency.
I believe I have identified a way of tackling and solving the primary problem of the food supply, and it lies in making use of the tiny creatures I call "effective microorganisms". Effective Microorganisms, or EM for short, and their various applications form the subject of this book.
When I first started out on this course, it was with the belief that the use of EM on a global scale would have a beneficial effect on food production. However, I have since come to realize it can also be used to great advantage in far wider range of applications than I ever envisioned when I began to work with it. Not only does EM seem to offer a solution to another of Earth's currently pressing problems, that of global environmental pollution, it also promises beneficial results in the area of medical health, and research is currently progressing into the application of EM in both these fields.
Although a number of regional municipal organizations in Japan have already begun using EM, the speed with which EM technology is spreading to other countries around the world is so great that I find most of my time is now taken up lecturing and advising on the use of it outside Japan.
As you will come to understand in greater detail as you read this book, EM, when used for agricultural purposes, has the ability to turn any type of soil, deserts included, into good, arable land capable of producing harvests many times greater than the current yield, totally without the use of pesticides, agricultural chemicals or artificial fertilizers of any kind. It might be immodest on my part to make such a claim, but the agricultural use of EM would seem to provide the ideal natural method of organic farming we have been dreaming about for so long, and it is my hope that it will come to be used in this way on a global scale. I believe the general use of EM agricultural methods has the potential to generate happiness for the individual in all nations everywhere. the realization of personal happiness for all individuals would constitute a positive move that would carry us away from the current social order with its basis on confrontation and competition, and bring us a step nearer to a world united in coexistence and co-prosperity. If this could be achieved, it would mean the end to an age where the principle of military dominance has held sway, and it is my belief that EM has no small role to play at this time of such major changes in the history of the human race.
Technologies and concepts, like that of EM, needed for problem-solving in the coming age of coexistence and universal co-prosperity--even to those for solving something like the energy problem--already exist. All that is required now is to devise a basic structure to ensure they will be used in an absolutely correct manner in the future. I am not for one moment claiming EM to be the panacea for all Earth's problems, but it is my hope that this book will provide the layman, or anyone not intimately connected with the field, with some understanding of a technology which is already becoming established as one of the trends in the newly unfolding history of humanity.
Contents
Foreword...3
Prologue, EM-HOPE FOR THE PLANET...11
Excerpt from the Prologue">The Amazing Regenerative Power of Anabiotic Microorganisms...12
Food for a World of 10 Billion...17
The "Follow-the-Leader" Proclivity of Microorganisms...22
"Problem Busters" from Kitchen Garbage to Environmental Pollution...28
Growing Interest on the Medical Front...35
Competition Must Give Way to Coexistence and Co-prosperity...37
Chapter 1, EM: THE COMPLETE SOLUTION TO ALL FOOD PROBLEMS...47
"It's All in the Mix!" A Lucky Accident and a Discovery...48
The Day of Agricultural Chemicals and Pesticides is Over...55
The Senselessness of an Agricultural Policy Detrimental to Producers and Consumers Alike...62
Lifeless Soil, Lifeless Human Beings...69
Antioxidation: The Vital Factor in Effective Environmental Pollution Control...73
Two-In-One: Pest Control and Greater Proliferation of Beneficial Insects...78
EM's Triple Benefits: Continuous Cropping, Excellent Weed Control and Increased Yield...81
The Power to Make Any Soil Productive...86
Japan's Agriculture Structure Must Be Radically Overhauled if the Nation is to Survive...89
An Abundant Food Supply Can Save the Planet...95
EM: The Missing Quotient in Organic Agriculture...100
Ushering in Perhaps the Greatest Earth Changes Since the Industrial Revolution...106
Chapter 2, RESOLVING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS...119
Recycled Paper and Plastic As Good As New...120
Cost Savings of an Amazing 90%...124
A Demand for More, Not Less Organic Waste...132
High-Speed Deodorization for Livestock Operations...140
Recycling Waste Water Solves a Water Shortage...147
EM and Cleaning Up Our Rivers...154
Eradicating Residues from Agricultural Chemicals...159
EM Instead of Chlorine in Swimming Pools...161
The Vital Role of Microorganisms in the Natural World...167
Preventing Further Destruction of the Ozone Layer...172
The Anachronism of "The Japanese Way"...176
Too Much Scholarship. Too Much Bureaucracy. Too Little Down-To-Earth Practicality...180
Relieving Starvation and Poverty on the African Continent...188
How are Effective Microorganisms Able to Solve Environmental Problems?...191
Effective Microorganisms Must Be Allowed to Flourish If We Are to Save the Earth...196
Chapter 3, A WAY OUT OF OUR MEDICAL MALAISE...207
Medicine Ought to Be a Declining Industry...208
Taking Responsibility: Determining for Ourselves What Can Be Put and What Cannot Be Put Into Our Own Bodies...212
We Have Increased Longevity, but Poor Health Is Still a Social Problem...218
The Healing Power of Antioxidation...222
Amassing Medical Evidence...228
Why Do Some Smokers Get Cancer and Others Not?...232
Energy-Draining Cancer: The Antioxidants Which Are Its Greatest Adversary...236
Mental and Psychological Ill-Health Also Generates Active Oxygen...241
Regenerative Microorganisms Have What It Takes to Make and Keep Us Healthy...249
Chapter 4, CREATING A SOCIETY BASED ON COEXISTENCE AND CO-PROSPERITY...259
Agriculture and Growing Things: My Passion Since Childhood...260
Theory Without Application Vs. Application Without Theory and the Successful Launch of Mandarin Orange Cultivation in Okinawa...266
A Time of Social Transition: From Competition to Coexistence and Co-Prosperity...272
Food, Health, the Environment: All Must Be Exempt from the Principles of Competition...278
Mark of Authenticity: Positive Benefits at Affordable Prices...283
Paring Down Redundant Burdens That Drain Society...288
Agriculture Not Medicine Is Where The Big Money Is...292
Getting Our Priorities Right: Problem Solving Over Knowledge and Memory...300
Japan Is Currently the Only Nation with the Potential to Establish the Ideal Society...311
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