[Terrapreta] Fwd: Fwd: Global Carbon Cycle

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Tom,

I think your numbers here might be somewhat inflated, but are reasonable.

The USA physically CANNOT settle our carbon account, only at home, with only USA land, and with only the ALL of the biomass in the USA.  We are well beyond "carbon-bankruptcy" and have been for many years I suspect.

Now what?

Can you imagine the progress we could have made by taking all of the money spent and being spent still on that f..cking war in Iraq and instead had used it to try and do something to remediate the effects of Global Climatic Change, which is being caused by the US in very large part?

Does anybody see any value yet in the loss of life (3000+ dead young Americans)?  Does anybody realize that we will be paying for a lifetime of medical expenses for 20,000+ severely disabled American soldiers?  And, we did this all for what?  We pissed off thousands of more terrorists, created thousands more terrorists, and we are going to leave the country of Iraq in ruins, where the terrorists will run rampant after we leave.  It will be anarchy with oil revenues.  The treasure in lives and capital, that we have lost, and the time we have lost may be insurmountable.

You break my heart, when you talk about the Iraq war.

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Miles<mailto:tmiles at trmiles.com> 
  To: 'Sean K. Barry'<mailto:sean.barry at juno.com> ; still.thinking at computare.org<mailto:still.thinking at computare.org> 
  Cc: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
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  Subject: RE: [Terrapreta] Fwd: Fwd: Global Carbon Cycle


  How much are you willing to pay?$200/ton of carbon (charcoal)?

   

  $200/ton C x 4 tons per person per year x 300,000,000 people = $240 billion. That's the value of all the fossil fuels we import each year, or about half the cost of the Iraq war, by the time you read the morning paper. http://costofwar.com/<http://costofwar.com/> Let's spend the money at home.

   

  It's  about three times our annual farm production expenditures.  We spend $10 billion per year on farm fuels and about $20 billion per year on chemicals and fertilizers. Can we decrease our farm inputs and increase our agricultural productivity by using terra preta? We run a positive agricultural trade balance of about $6 billion per year.  Can we increase our international competitiveness by investing in our own resources?

   

  It starts with  settling our carbon account at home.

   

  Tom

   
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