Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    To Build Up the Land: Thoughts on Mankind's uneasy intercourse with Nature
    To Build Up the Land: Thoughts on Mankind's uneasy intercourse with Nature
    To Build Up the Land: Thoughts on Mankind's uneasy intercourse with Nature
    Ebook68 pages46 minutes

    To Build Up the Land: Thoughts on Mankind's uneasy intercourse with Nature

    By David Mint

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A thought provoking look at the root cause of climate change and the origins of mankind's interaction with the land.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Mint
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781301347032
    To Build Up the Land: Thoughts on Mankind's uneasy intercourse with Nature
    Author

    David Mint

    David is happily married with two children and lives in Portland, Oregon where he has pondered monetary theory and other less pressing but infinitely more entertaining matters since 2006. He has travelled extensively in the United States and has resided in Nebraska, Colorado, Spain, and Bolivia. He has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Colorado State University and an MBA from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain with over 18 years of experience in Accounting, Finance, Treasury, and Information Systems Consulting positions both in the United States and Spain. He is the creator of The Mint, which presents fresh ideas on Economics, Monetary Theory, and Politics. You can read The Mint at http://www.davidmint.com and you may contact him at davidminteconomics@gmail.com.

    Read more from David Mint

    Related to To Build Up the Land

    Related ebooks

    Agriculture For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      No Parking Here

      Jan 1, 2016

      No Parking Here
      23 min read

    • Article

      The Agency Of Urban Design

      Sep 3, 2023

      As we contemplated the question of who designs our cities and how urban practice is evolving, further questions arose: Whose voice is loudest? Who has, or should have, a seat at the table? How do we ensure a representative and inclusive process that

      3 min read

    • Article

      THE AFAR GUIDE to Taipei

      Apr 25, 2023

      Taipei has an extensive and reliable subway system, known as Metro Taipei. At a kiosk, purchase a reloadable EasyCard to pay fares; you can also use the card to buy goodies at FamilyMart and 7-Eleven convenience stores. Taipei’s Shangri-La is the tal

      2 min read

    • Article

      “May I Help You?”

      Jan 24, 2022

      “May I Help You?”
      3 min read

    • Article

      Why City Planners Should Make Water a Top Priority

      May 25, 2017

      Many cities are now pushing reinvestments in the urban core, prompting people to live, eat, and play in walkable city centers. Unlike in the past, cities today have challenges associated with adequately housing greater numbers of people while balanci

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Exodus

      Jun 26, 2018

      The Exodus
      27 min read

    • Article

      UCT Blaze–devastating Aftermath

      Apr 25, 2021

      VOLUMES of African literature, including archives of the liberation struggle history and the mid-19th century Cape San people, hosted at the iconic African Studies Library, as well as several historical buildings, have been destroyed by raging fires

      3 min read

    • Article

      My Ethical Wardrobe

      Jul 20, 2021

      On April 24, 2013, the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which housed five garment factories, killed 1,132 people and injured over 2,500. This disaster woke up the world to the poor labour conditions faced by garment workers i

      3 min read

    • Article

      Fairer Trade

      Aug 8, 2017

      Words MARTIN OLIVER Economists frequently aspire to an ideal of “free trade”, with minimal government intervention and an absence of distortions in the marketplace. However, the free market has shortcomings that are easy to airbrush, or overlook, inc

      7 min read

    • Article

      Reading Country: Case studies

      Mar 7, 2021

      Reading Country: Case studies
      7 min read

    • Article

      Recreating The Wilderness

      Aug 23, 2018

      The science gets ever more dire. The politics runs the other way. We've claimed hold of the planet, but cluelessly, like the sorcerer's apprentice. Welcomed to the Anthropocene: the age of humanity intertwined with nature. "Climate change is not a pr

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Loving Nature Or Profiting From It: Take Your Pick

      Oct 27, 2022

      It’s fascinating how “interests” interfere with survival. We prepare for — and, of course, wage — war with an overwhelming percentage of our resources (to the benefit of the profiteers), but we plead poverty when it comes to helping people or, you kn

      3 min read

    • Article

      Editor’s Letter

      Oct 29, 2018

      Editor’s Letter
      1 min read

    • Article

      We Are All Indigenous

      Aug 29, 2019

      "All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand something only if we can understand how it is connected to everything e

      3 min read

    • Article

      Re-inhabiting Planet Earth

      Mar 7, 2019

      "I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the Earth, even though I knew that this was not possible." These words of Manhattan Project physicist Emilio Segre, quoted by Richard Rhodes in his

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: A World Without Money

      Nov 4, 2021

      And climate change begins . . . “Three or four thousand years ago the gods began a migration from the lakes, forests, rivers, and mountains into the sky, becoming the imperial overlords of nature rather than its essence.” So writes Charles Eisenstein

      3 min read

    • Article

      A better Anthropocene

      Nov 7, 2020

      A better Anthropocene
      5 min read

    • Article

      TOIL & TROUBLE

      Dec 20, 2020

      TOIL & TROUBLE
      11 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for To Build Up the Land

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      To Build Up the Land - David Mint

      To Build Up the Land

      Thoughts on Mankind's uneasy intercourse with Nature

      Why what we use as Money Matters - Volume VII

      By David Mint

      Published by The Wilcox Trading Company

      Copyright 2013 The Wilcox Trading Company

      Portland, Oregon

      Smashwords edition: May 2013

      ISBN: 9781301347032

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of this author.

      Cover design by David Mint at WDesign

      Adaptation of American Gothic, a painting created in 1930 by American Grant Wood (b.1891 - d.1942), Oil on Beaver Board

      Table of Contents

      Was the Land Created for Man? An introduction

      Man's Intercourse with the Land

      The Division of Labor and the Concept of Trade

      Maintaining the Peace

      The Myth of Overpopulation

      A Hard or Gentle People?

      The Land Needs Rest

      The Modern Challenge of Coordinated Rest

      Conservation, what occurs when man attempts to control rather than build up the land

      Agricultural Alarms: GMOs and CAFOs

      Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

      Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

      Conservation dooms the land to desertification

      Why the monetary premium must be attributed to a tangible good

      Conclusion

      Appendix A: The great green wall, and are you a soldier, an athlete, or a farmer?

      Appendix B: Free Banking: The Ultimate Solution

      About the Author

      Was the Land Created for Man? An introduction

      Since the dawn of time, mankind has found itself obligated to perform a conjugal duty. The duty that we speak of is mankind's duty to the land. As with other activities that carry the same label, the duty is at times performed with joy or grumbling. In the worst of cases, the duty is not carried out at all.

      This volume is an exploration of the increasingly distorted nature of man's intercourse with the land in which we live. The term Climate Change is commonly used to refer to the modern day observation of this distortion. However, climate change is simply the observation of the symptoms of what amounts to gross negligence on the part of mankind with regards to its conjugal duty to the land.

      What is the conjugal duty owed by man to the land? To build it up.

      Describing man's duty to the land in this manner, or even suggesting that mankind owe any duty to the land, may seem preposterous. Was not the earth created for the benefit of mankind? Is it not the land that owes a duty to us?

      This volume is written from the point of view that both mankind and the land we inhabit have been created and were designed to be codependent. This point of view rejects evolutionary processes that, if taken as fact, leave both man and the land he inhabits utterly devoid of meaning.

      It also rejects the idea that mankind remains in the utopia of the Garden of Eden, where the land merely renders its fruits to be unilaterally enjoyed by mankind. For it is clear from the creation narrative in Genesis that God first created the land, then plant life, with aquatic, avian, and land animals coming into being along the way. Mankind was created in the wake of the creation narrative. Further, while the narrative states that animal life was subjected to mankind, the land is never spoken of in the same sense.

      In the Genesis narrative, it is only after the eating of the apple, the original

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1