[Terrapreta] Carbon Trading Primer in Scientific American

[lou gold]

Blessings to you, Bakary.

hugs,  lou

On Dec 21, 2007 5:58 PM, bakaryjatta <bakaryj at gamtel.gm> wrote:

>  Dear list members,
>
> It is interesting to observe how much talk and time goes by before there
> is any kind of agreement at some level in some part of the world. Agenda 21
> came out of the World Summit in Rio de Janiero and ten years later in
> Johannesburg it was found that many of the signatories had hardly made a
> move to deal with the essence of the summit, which was in fact, dealing with
> the environment.  How great that in Bali there finally was an agreement
> reached by all parties to start negotiating another deal after the failure
> of Kyoto. Let us say that carbon credit trading will be universally agreed
> upon, how long will it be  before the thousands of peasants in the world
> with only 1 - 2.5 Ha of land are going to get an incentive to sequester
> CO2 in their patch of soil? My vision is probably to limited, I can not see
> those thousands ever being involved and probably staying on the outside
> looking at it from a distance. They certainly don't read Scientific American
> and if they are like my neighbours, do not pay much attention to GHG and GW.
>
> Agenda 21 called for the media and organizations of civil society to be
> involved in the implementation. Again, maybe I am not too well informed,
> but Malaria and HIV/Aids seem to be higher priorities. Problem solving gets
> funding and guaranteed the problems multiply faster than projects deliver
> solutions. The bottleneck has been and continues to be that the World
> Economy System must be propped up at all costs. It also thrives on problems,
> the more destruction, the more market demand.
>
> Now the poor in the world depend on the World Economy too. As they can't
> produce competitively, they depend on aid and imported food. For other
> income they will be desperate to extract more out of the environment and
> each other or whatever else will maintain their role of consumers. My
> neighbours are looking for their market money every day, they don't have a
> stocked pantry.
>
> There is need for a revolution in thinking. Unless there is unity of
> thought and considering the 'whole of society' as more important than the
> 'part,self, family, clan, etc.', we will not see much of a turn around.  Our
> thinking has to envelop all the world's people as our relatives and that
> thought has to be institutionalized. The closest we have come is the concept
> of the United Nations. It would be good if it would be more than an
> institution and reflect the spirit on which it was founded.
>
> I appreciate the efforts made by the list members. There appears to be a
> unity of purpose and it will have results. When results are seen, people
> will also see that there is no need to fight or connive for survival. Money
> or credits have not been equalizers in the game. We don't want winners and
> losers, we need all to be winners.
>
> How many TP list members are in the Third World? How do they get to the
> grass roots?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bakary Jatta,
>
> Bwiam village,
> The Gambia
>
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