The Planets and Their Children

For example, see M. Hansen (trans.), The Planets and Their Children A Blockhook of Medieval Popular Astrology, posted on http //www.englib.cornell.edu/mhh4/planets/planets.html (1999) and W.Kenton, Astrology The Celestial Mirror, New York, Thames Hudson, 1989, figs. 28-33, 37-9, 40-1, and p. 109. 

M.Hansen (trans.), Saturn and His Children, in Hansen, The Planets and Their Children. 

What does it take for people to have concern for a problem before it lands on their doorstep There is a polarization of fear that is permeating the planet and each of us needs to decide whether we want to live with this fear or without it. Do we work for Justice or accept whatever verdict the unjust decide to deliver At stake is our children, our morality and our future. Dare we abdicate our responsibility to ourselves ... 

Just as chemistry protects children from disease, farmers are using chemistry to feed twice as many people as they did 50 years ago - without using more land. They have tripled the yields on the planet s best cropland using high-powered seeds, chemical fertilizers, irrigation, and pesticides. Without higher yields, people would already have cleared all of the world s 16 million square miles of forest to get today s food supply. Virtually every forest tree and creature alive on the planet today owes its existence to high-yield farmers and their chemicals. If we ban the pesticides, we almost literally ban forests and wildlife. 

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