[Terrapreta] Ponder the Maunder

[Mark Ludlow]

Hi Lou,

 

I can't speak for others, but I believe, personally, that framing the
discussion around carbon sequestration is a big mistake. Even today, the
world is experiencing rapidly escalating food prices and the importance of
making agriculture more sustainable and productive may well affect more
people in this century than GHG.

 

My personal interest is sparked by the notion that char adds to or at least
helps to maintain soil fertility. It also will sequester carbon and it may
also immobilize certain toxic substances; all positives, but all secondary
to the improvement of soil fertility and the virtual rebuilding of soils in
many areas of the world.

 

The discussion of late, seeming to imply some form of New World Order as a
solution for Global Warming, makes me at least a little nervous and I can
see that it has a similar effect on at least a few others. Already, leaders
of this way of viewing the future are informing members of the list what
ideas are politically correct and which are anathematic. I don't remember
being polled.

 

If I want to be preached to, I'll try to find a preacher who's a snake
handler, not just a snake oil salesman, if for no other reason than shear
entertainment value. But actually, I would rather believe that every man is
his own best preacher and that all of the jawboning, petty back-and-forth,
and racing to gain the moral high ground does little to further the "cause"
of Terra Preta.

 

Best regards,

Mark

 

 

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From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of lou gold
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:47 AM
To: Jim Joyner
Cc: Terra Preta
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Ponder the Maunder

 

Fair enough. I'll try to elaborate.

Some of us believe that terra preta will make the world a better place. That
is why I am on this forum. I have no hard evidence to prove that terra preta
will make the world a better place but I have both feeling and faith that it
will. If I doubted it or if I was skeptical I would not be here.

I guess that I'm asking a parallel question of you because I know that there
comes a time to put doubt aside and act. I feel that now is the time for
terra preta and that the difference that makes the difference between now
and other times (when we could not have cared less about terra preta) is our
growing desire to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

How does it work for you?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Jim Joyner <jimstoy at dtccom.net> wrote:

lou gold wrote: 

 

lou gold wrote: 

Please excuse my directness but I want to ask a personal question. Do you
think that we can make the world a better place through endless doubt? 

No, of course not.


Ok. Now, what is the good positive thing that you believe in for making the
world a better place? 

I guess I don't know what you are looking for. Basically, I eat when I'm
hungry, sleep when I tired; raise my kids; grow my garden. What else is
there?

Not sure I have any such beliefs. We'll either get it right or we won't.

Jim


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