EVOLUTION MINE: The Book They Don’t Want You to Read
For a century the oil and chemical barons have turned outrage into profit. Every protest, every billion-dollar lawsuit, every new regulation; simply another cost they pass to you at the checkout swipe.
Eric Stevens, a supply-chain insider and patent-holder, shows how to flip the game. Evolution Mine is not another climate lament; it’s a field manual for using markets, not marches, to end petrochemical dominance and create the largest shift of wealth in modern history.
The Playbook
1. Create Options
Stand up hemp and bamboo supply chains that match or beat petrochemicals on cost and performance. When a cleaner, cheaper alternative is always in stock, the fossil monopoly cracks.
2. Ignite Demand
Women control about $31.8 trillion in global spending and make roughly 85% of household purchasing decisions. Redirect even a fraction of that power to bio-based products and fossil firms lose their ability to pass costs downstream.
3. Litigate and Legislate
With real substitutes in place, lawsuits and regulation stop being a hidden tax and become balance-sheet killers. Settlements and incentives can be funneled into local bio-economy hubs and workforce training.
Inside the System
Stevens exposes how:
Nixon-era creation of the EPA and OSHA served as a pressure valve, offshoring dirty petro work while the U.S. claimed environmental virtue.
Post-WWII patent grabs from Bayer and Japanese refiners seeded today’s petrochemical empire.
PR masterminds from Ivy Lee to Edward Bernays, and later Edelman and Ogilvy, invented the greenwashing playbook (“carbon footprint,” “Vote 4 Energy,” even COP21 endorsements) to keep oil profitable under a green banner.
Why Now
Policy has finally cracked the door. Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) rules and 45X manufacturing credits give U.S. producers of plant-based materials a short-term cost advantage. Capital is already shifting: global industrial hemp is projected to grow from $10B in 2024 to $67B by 2035, while bamboo is hitting price parity with petroleum plastics.
The Human Ledger
The same petro-driven offshoring that hollowed out wages also forced America into the two-income trap. Women became the hidden economic engine—running households, balancing budgets, and now holding the demand power to flip entire supply chains.
The Exit Plan
This isn’t theory. Operator Moves at the end of each chapter show how to:
Audit your own purchases and supply chains.
Use FEOC and 45X incentives to favor domestic bio-materials.
Channel settlements and policy wins into regional bio-economy hubs.
the Reviews
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Evolution Mine is a razor‑sharp field manual that turns climate concern into market power, showing how price‑parity hemp and bamboo transform protest into procurement and pass‑through penalties into accountability in court and code.
Peri
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Eric Stevens maps the petro playbook, then flips it: build hemp/bamboo options, ignite the $31.8T women-led demand engine, and use litigation once pass-through pricing loses its shield. With the FEOC + 45X window now open, this book hands you operator moves, templates, and parity worksheets to act in days, not years. If you buy, spec, manufacture, or sue for a living, this is your handbook for turning climate concern into market shareand settlements into local factories.
Michael
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In EvolutionMine, Eric Stevens delivers a doctrine of industrial redemption, where suppressed technologies like hemp and bamboo become tools of ecological repair, and women reclaim their role as sovereign stewards of economic power. This is not a book—it’s a strategic canon for those building regenerative infrastructure, rewriting consumption, and activating legacy through commerce. With mythic clarity and operational precision, Stevens maps a future where restoration is not a trend, but a tactical imperative. For readers of Chelsea Green, this is the blueprint for movement-grade change.
Anna