[Terrapreta] Fw: (maybe controversial)

[lou gold]

Sean,

"Understanding and solving the problem of GW and GCC is beyond a religious
and political need in our lives, I think."

How can anything important be beyond politics and religion?
Politics is the way we come to collective action (the ancient Greeks worried
about this and gave us the word). Religion means "to bind to something" just
as yoga means "to yoke to something". It means a strong discipline.

You say you like Gore's talk. He said that the primary problem is the
absence of political will. And as to religion, the problem is that it is so
shallow and superficial that the priests of consumption can sway people with
their advertisements. It took a powerful religion to help the Amish resist
the temptations of rampant materialism.

No, we don't need to go beyond politics and religion. We to get to them and
their promise.

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com>
> *To:* terrapreta <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:00 PM
> *Subject:* [Terrapreta] (no subject)
>
> 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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