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537 00:26:39,333 --> 00:26:42,461 In the United States, it's either coal or natural gas. 538 00:26:42,502 --> 00:26:44,163 So next thing you do is come along, 539 00:26:44,204 --> 00:26:45,432 and you fertilize it. 540 00:26:45,472 --> 00:26:49,340 All commercial fertilizers are made from ammonia, 541 00:26:49,376 --> 00:26:54,177 and the feedstock for ammonia is natural gas. 542 00:26:54,214 --> 00:26:56,705 So you have ammonium nitrate fertilizers 543 00:26:56,750 --> 00:26:59,719 that are then sprayed on by another oil-powered vehicle. 544 00:26:59,753 --> 00:27:02,916 Then the crop dusters come along that are powered by oil 545 00:27:02,956 --> 00:27:07,655 that spray pesticides that are all made from petroleum. 546 00:27:07,694 --> 00:27:09,958 Then when it's time to harvest the food, what do you do? 547 00:27:09,997 --> 00:27:11,555 You drive another oil-powered machine, 548 00:27:11,598 --> 00:27:12,997 and you harvest it. 549 00:27:13,033 --> 00:27:15,934 You use another oil-powered machine to drive it to a place 550 00:27:15,969 --> 00:27:17,493 where it's processed. 551 00:27:17,537 --> 00:27:19,528 Then you wrap it up in plastic, which is oil, 552 00:27:19,573 --> 00:27:21,564 and you put it in another oil-powered machine, 553 00:27:21,608 --> 00:27:23,633 and you drive it X number of miles 554 00:27:23,677 --> 00:27:25,338 to a food distribution warehouse 555 00:27:25,379 --> 00:27:27,506 and an oil-powered machine to your supermarket. 556 00:27:32,519 --> 00:27:34,646 The way food is grown, produced, 557 00:27:34,688 --> 00:27:36,246 and moved around the world today, 558 00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:38,281 it's an enormous waste of hydrocarbon energy 559 00:27:38,325 --> 00:27:40,020 which doesn't make sense. 560 00:27:40,060 --> 00:27:42,085 Why do we have strawberries from Chile? 561 00:27:42,129 --> 00:27:43,892 Why do we have spinach from China? 562 00:27:43,931 --> 00:27:46,024 Why do we ship anchovies halfway around the world 563 00:27:46,066 --> 00:27:50,526 to be packaged in tin cans? 564 00:27:50,570 --> 00:27:55,269 There are ten calories of hydrocarbon energy 565 00:27:55,309 --> 00:27:58,506 in every calorie of food consumed 566 00:27:58,545 --> 00:27:59,978 in the industrialized world. 567 00:28:09,056 --> 00:28:12,992 Three times in my life 568 00:28:13,026 --> 00:28:19,090 I tried to walk away from, forget about, 569 00:28:19,132 --> 00:28:21,396 the things that I had seen 570 00:28:21,435 --> 00:28:25,371 that were so out of whack, 571 00:28:25,405 --> 00:28:29,068 that were so crazy, that were so wrong. 572 00:28:29,109 --> 00:28:32,010 You know, and that is what many people urged me to do. 573 00:28:32,045 --> 00:28:34,809 But what inevitably happened every time 574 00:28:34,848 --> 00:28:39,717 I tried to walk away from this path that I have walked 575 00:28:39,753 --> 00:28:41,277 was that everything else in my life 576 00:28:41,321 --> 00:28:42,481 would be taken away from me 577 00:28:42,522 --> 00:28:45,719 so that this path was the only thing left. 578 00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:48,125 I had no other choice. 579 00:28:48,161 --> 00:28:51,927 And, yeah, anger and resentment do build up, 580 00:28:51,965 --> 00:28:55,526 especially when you see and document as much corruption, 581 00:28:55,569 --> 00:28:56,797 as much dishonesty, 582 00:28:56,837 --> 00:29:00,500 as much illegality, as much murder, as much betrayal 583 00:29:00,540 --> 00:29:06,069 as I have from people who pretend to be otherwise. 584 00:29:06,113 --> 00:29:07,307 And I reached a point... 585 00:29:07,347 --> 00:29:11,147 it was about 1993 when I first became involved 586 00:29:11,184 --> 00:29:14,950 or learned of the murder of Marine Colonel Jim Sabow 587 00:29:14,988 --> 00:29:16,979 at El Toro Marine Air Station. 588 00:29:17,024 --> 00:29:20,118 He was the chief of Air Ops, and he had caught CIA C130s 589 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,958 flying 2,000 and 3,000 kilos of cocaine on to his base, 590 00:29:22,996 --> 00:29:25,396 and he was suicided. 591 00:29:25,432 --> 00:29:27,457 I crossed my own Rubicon at that point. 592 00:29:27,501 --> 00:29:31,494 There was no turning back for me, 593 00:29:31,538 --> 00:29:33,870 and I knew that wherever this path was gonna go, 594 00:29:33,907 --> 00:29:35,067 I had to follow it. 595 00:29:39,713 --> 00:29:43,649 In the '80s, because I had some skill as a writer, 596 00:29:43,683 --> 00:29:45,674 I started freelance writing. 597 00:29:45,719 --> 00:29:46,981 I got published a few times. 598 00:29:47,020 --> 00:29:50,649 I realized that I could be a writer. 599 00:29:50,690 --> 00:29:55,855 I wrote about 109 mysterious deaths or suicides 600 00:29:55,896 --> 00:29:58,228 in the U.S. military in a very short period of time, 601 00:29:58,265