Ancient Native Americans Terraformed On A Vast Scale
Terra preta … guesses, covers at least 10 percent of Amazonia, an area the size of France. It has amazing properties … Tropical rain doesn’t leach nutrients from terra preta fields; instead the soil … fights back … over time it will re-create the original soil layer in its initial thickness … generated by a special suite of microorganisms that resists depletion. “at some threshold level … dark earth attains the capacity to perpetuate?even regenerate itself?thus behaving more like a living ‘super’-organism than an inert material”.
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terra preta was created deliberately. In a process reminiscent of dropping microorganism-rich starter into plain dough to create sourdough bread, Amazonian peoples … inoculated bad soil with a transforming bacterial charge … Faced with an ecological problem … the Indians fixed it. They were in the process of terraforming the Amazon when Columbus showed up and ruined everything.
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