If we can spend $1 trillion on the Iraq war, then we can afford $1 trillion for a new American Dream.

$250 BILLION FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND FORESTS

While all eyes are on carbon emissions, too few of us are watching the crisis of soil and water that is the result of industrial agriculture and industrial forestry. We are losing topsoil, fisheries, watersheds, aquifers, small farms, the diversity of forest ecosystems and the genetic diversity of crops. Our industrial food and fiber production system is based on ever-increasing applications of chemicals and practices that use nature as factory: synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, growth hormones, antibiotics, clear cutting, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), mega-farms, hog confinement units, and a centralized system of processing and distribution that is increasingly vulnerable to adulteration and contamination.

We have before us an enormous opportunity for a national campaign to save small and mid-sized farms, improve our diets and health, ensure food security and protect our national resources through investment in the burgeoning organics market, the resurgence of community supported agriculture and the emergence of sustainable timber management.