{"id":974,"date":"2002-03-29T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-29T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=974"},"modified":"2002-03-29T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-29T21:08:00","slug":"ancient-native-americans-terraformed-on-a-vast-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/03\/29\/17\/08\/ancient-native-americans-terraformed-on-a-vast-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Native Americans Terraformed On A Vast Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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”.<\/i>
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\nterra 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.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t