Along about 1850
or so the world experienced an industrial revolution. In a world
where clothing had been made from wool and hides and silk,
economics and mass production of textiles in the mills of Britain
and New England were hungry for an economic vegetable vibre. In a
world in which the economics of the mills were matched by the
economics of slavery, Cotton was crowned as King. The annual yield
soared from 2 milion bales in 1849 to 5.7 million bales in 1859.
Then came the war and the Emancipation Proclamation and the cotton
gin and once more Cotton was King and its reign lasted until the
invention of nylon and polymer fibres. The King did not quite die
for Third World nations in the mid latitudes where cotton thrives
were willing to sacrifice the agriculture of survival for the
agriculture of export and the economically competitive production
of cotton fibre. Along came drought and with it the destruction of
the cash crop and the inability to import the food for survival.
Ethiopia, the Sudan and the agricutural belt of Africa has been
reduced to anarchy and chaos, to early death by violence and
disease and the explosion of an army of the children of despair.
But here at Ke-ahole point the Common Heritage Corp. has been
developing self sufficiency for new communities in coastal deserts.
The contents of this web page already demonstrate the ability of
deep ocean water to produce food, fresh water, air conditioned
shelter and even modest amounts of electricity. But what of
clothing. At long last the CHC garden has tried cotton and to no
ones surprise, organically grown (no boll weevils), abundantly
productive, virtually waterless, cotton has appeared. The last
element of self sufficciency has now been demonstrated. Cotton will
not be King, but it will be the fabric of the garment of Liberty -
enlighening the new world where the Common Heritage of Humanity is
equitably shared.