[Terrapreta] interesting factoid

[Duane Pendergast]

I wondered if terra preta was mentioned by the participants and found with
the help of Google there was one presentation where it came up. That was in
the context of archeology and whether or not the Amazon region  is in a
"virgin" state.

 

http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/events/amazon/bush.pdf

 

Duane

 

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[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of lou gold
Sent: November 11, 2007 7:12 AM
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Subject: [Terrapreta] interesting factoid

 

While listening to the talks presented at a recent Oxford University 

conference on climate change and the fate of the Amazon

http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/events/070320presentations.php 

I learned an interesting fact -- the 30 countries of the OECD 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD#Members -- presently subsidize 

their agriculture at the level of one billion dollars (USD) EACH DAY 

This is the context of political-economy into which we are trying to 

place terra preta. 











 



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