NAFTA and WTO were sold as free trade. In reality, they locked in petrochemical dominance, gutted U.S. jobs, and kept hemp and bamboo out of the global marketplace.

Nixon’s EPA and OSHA looked like protection. In reality, they gave corporations the excuse to offshore dirty industry. America didn’t clean up , it outsourced.

In 1937, the U.S. outlawed hemp under the Marihuana Tax Act; the same year DuPont patented nylon. It wasn’t about drugs. It was about protecting timber, petrochemicals, and monopoly.

In 1910, USDA scientists confirmed bamboo could replace America’s pine industry. Edward Avery McIlhenny proved it in Louisiana. By 1912, the Plant Quarantine Act locked bamboo out; protecting timber and petro profits.

In 1962, USDA pulled funding from bamboo research. Bamboo wasn’t banned — it was starved. Timber, cotton, and petro kept their monopoly.

In 1971, hemp was swept into the Controlled Substances Act. A natural crop was treated like a poison; locking it out of research and industry while petrochemicals exploded worldwide.

Bamboo and hemp are the twin antidotes to the petrochemical era.

Quarantined in 1918, defunded in 1962, and criminalized in 1971, these two climate-positive crops were sidelined just as oil, plastics and slow-growth timber took the throne. Today both can be grown right here in the U.S., locking away carbon, cleaning soil, and feeding the next generation of bioplastics, bio-silicates, batteries and solar technology.
Bamboo can replace coal. Hemp can replace oil. Together they can replace timber—and help heal the planet.

Only in America do we spend millions on seeds and science, then pass laws to burn the harvest. In 2018, Congress legalized hemp, and farmers invested in barns, seed, and labs. USDA funded research, universities ran trials, and taxpayers bankrolled it all. Now lawmakers move to redefine hemp out of existence, while USDA undervalues floral hemp by more than 20x. This isn’t oversight. It’s sabotage and the blueprint is hiding in plain sight.

Evolution Mine is regeneration — powered by hemp, bamboo, and women.
We are not a brand. We are not a think tank. We are an economic movement engineered to bankrupt the petrochemical empire and replace it with something that actually lasts.