Referring to the original drafts of Priority One : �These particularly interesting papers have two distinctive ingredients. One is the innovative way the author presents the major air, water, and pollution and greenhouse effect factors in terms of water depths and quotas per person. The other is his scenario of an integrated political, technical and social approach to sustainable agriculture. As a meteorologist, I commend the work with the Australian accolade: Good on �im�.

�Allan Yeomans has challenged us to wake up and do something now to ensure that our species has a future � something that can buy us time as we radically reform our ways of living towards genuine sustainability. Through fossil fuel burning and land management that accelerates soil organic matter breakdown, we are releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than is being fixed by growing plants. Clearly we must reverse this to avoid the inevitable devastating climate change. This book lays out a way to do this that has so far been surprisingly neglected by most scientists and environmentalists. Although I don't agree with all of his proposals, I do recommend that anyone who is seriously concerned about the wellbeing of future generations read this book. I especially hope that politicians, scientists and environmentalists take lime to fully engage with his arguments and investigate his claims. It will probably take lobbing by the rest of us to persuade them to do this. If we fail in this project, we must bear the guilt of condemning our children and grandchildren to challenges that we can hardly imagine.�

�Yeomans is uniquely experienced in fertility enhancing agriculture and meteorology. His book Priority One is an innovative approach to combating global warming and climate change. Priority One is essential reading, not only for environmental protection agencies, but for all related agencies of government.�

David Holmgren in December 2002, in his informative book; Permaculture: Principals & Pathways Beyond Sustainability, acknowledged Yeomans’ concepts of mitigating global warming by soil fertility enhancement and further stated, “The greenhouse issue simply gives us another good reason to get on with the job of rebuilding the natural capital of soil humus as essential for humanity’s survival in the post-fossil fuel era”.

“Allan Yeomans regularly acted as the consultant meteorologist at state and national gliding competition. At daily pre-flight briefings his explanations of weather phenomena existing, and what might be expected during the race was concise and clearly explained. His assessments were always well respected by competing pilots. Allan Yeomans has a wealth of knowledge and understanding of meteorology. We wish him every success.”

• Everybody wants, and hopefully expects to have, a consistent rise in their own standard of living.
• Financially, it is more sensible to stop Global Warming and halt climate change than pay the damage bills that result.
• There is more than enough oil, gas and coal in the ground that, if burnt would make the atmosphere too toxic for mammals to breathe.
• All societies must have access to abundant energy at reasonable prices.
• Nuclear energy is economical, and is already much safer than we require. Nuclear waste is not a problem. Weapons proliferation is unrelated to power generation.
• Apart from nuclear energy, alternative energy systems can never power modern industrial societies.
• The Kyoto Protocol and such other myths are placebos. They are never structure to reduce fossil fuel consumption.
• A hydrogen economy is an utter fiction for any immediate foreseeable future.
• Practical high-energy fuel cells still don't exist.
• Walking and riding bicycles is a hopeless vision of a personal transport system. It is unlikely, impractical and relatively dangerous
• We can keep our automobile based societies. We simply change our diesel to biodiesel and re-tune our cars and modify all new cars to handle ethanol and ethanol blends. Costs are almost insignificant.
• Tropical Third World Countries will then have their turn to boom. They will become prosperous and independent by producing fuel from sugarcane and oil palms.
• Acid rain will cease.
• Improving the fertility of soils is the only practical way of removing existing greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere.
• Clearing land and then developing the soil is far safer than not doing it.
• Salt incrusted soils will heal.
• For Australians in particular, increasing the fertility of soil is more important than arguing over the volume of water a river discharges into the sea.
• Trees and rainforests are red herrings and serve no critical purpose in preventing Global Warming.
• Some food prices will rise some will fall. There will be little or no significant over all food-cost change.
• Our new food will however taste better and be more nutritious. We will be healthier and we will live longer.