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[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Lou, Ron, Michael, Greg, et. al.,

I sure liked that Al Gore video, Lou.  My son Kevin sent it to me at the same time.  I liked when Al Gore quoted some academic guy, I think, about, "... this problem will test whether an opposable thumb and a neo-cortex is a viable combination."  Understanding and solving the problem of GW and GCC is beyond a religious and political need in our lives, I think.  It is closer to breathing and drinking.  We need to see the existing amd oncoming scope of the problem and make a radical corrective change in our actions, worldwide.  The effects are worldwide and everyone in the world has to change behavior, ASAP.  We have to see a way to live our lives without fossil carbon emissions and all do this as soon as possible.  The GHG are at toxically effective levels now and are getting worse.

I should say, Greg, that I do not understand how you remain unconvinced about the anthropogenic causes for GW and GCC.  In light of this, I would still commend you for even recognizing that we need to do something about GW and GCC (even though you do not believe it has a direct anthropogenic cause).  I've attached a rebuttal letter of a sort, which I wrote to someone when they attached the "Theory of Anthropogenic Causes of Global Warming" to McCarthy-ism in 1950's America.  In that rebuttal letter I posted the best scientific argument that I could in support of that theory.  Would you read it?  I'd enjoy any comments.

Worldwide, culture-wide recognition of the problem is the first step (just like in AA?).  We collectively have a mutual problem.  We act or we 
fail.  Al also said, "Addicts find veins in their toes when veins collapse in their arms."  This to make oil sands in Canada for what they really are.  The metaphor of addiction to fossil fuels is valid, society (civilization)-wide.  We might think we need it and cannot live as we do without it (which we cave into), but it is a dangerous path for the society.  The use of fossil fuels by all people in the world is an addiction.  The behavior of the world's people in this regard is addictive.  Even when laid out before us, the dire consequences of continued use and addiction to fossil fuels does not convince us to stop or even relax the use of fossil fuels to fulfill what we perceive as personal needs.  Today, by the billions of us, we ignore the consequences for the future of our world's climate with immediate gratification to fulfill personal needs.

Should the Terra Preta (TP) group become the Carbon Anonymous (CA) group?

Find a way!  Act in the way that removes the use of fossil carbon from your life.  Do it now.  Tell everyone you know how you did it.  Bury charcoal.  Remove CO2 from the atmosphere by making charcoal and burying it.  Show your kids how to live so that they reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.  Teach your children that it is vitally important for them to stay off fossil carbon, like we teach them to stay off of other illegal and dangerous drugs.

All religious sects, political parties, and cultures have addicted people in them.  We take the best care of addicts by helping them kick the habit of their drug of choice (coal, oil, natural gas, "crack" oil shale, heroin, etc.) and remove the use of drugs from their lives.  Biomass energy is the "Methadone" of our times, huh?

Regards,

SKB

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