On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:32:40 -0400 Jon Bosak <[email protected]> writes:
> Actually an article mostly about biochar.
>
> http://energybulletin.net/node/49958
>
> Jon
"a silver bullet that would let us go on spending more of EarthÂ’s capital
than one generation has any right to. "
I think this quote from the above post to EB is a fitting description of
just about every energy or climate solution that would allow current
generations to keep on living on even half the energy that we are
currently using. And that includes all large scale ramp up to renewables
as well as bogus carbon sequestration schemes promoted by the coal
industry and the biochar promoters.
Effective sequestration can be done by properly farming the earth, but
that is unlikely to happen on the scale needed unless industrial farming
were forced into an early demise. The political will to achieve that is
hard to imagine. Even if politically feasible, we would still face the
gargantuan task of teaching people how to farm properly, of which most
farmers are ignorant, except in little pockets of peasant community on
the edges of the empire, overlooked by the planetary rampages of big
agriculture.
Karl North
Northland Sheep Dairy, Freetown, New York USA
www.geocities.com/northsheep/
"Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying
"They only call it class warfare when we fight back" - Anon.
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