[Terrapreta] Dinosaur Carbon

[lou gold]

Simple question. Simple answer.

Because the system was extractive and not reciprocal.

The waste carbon was put into the air faster than the vegetation was able to
retrieve it. It is really a matter of scale.

The needed adjustment arrives in the form of an agricultural strategy that
increases quantity and growth rate of plants based on modified and improved
soil and revamps all waste streams so that there is no longer any
"pollution." As waste thus becomes resource both people and nature
experience more and more abundance.

Its "just" a fine tuning to bring the parts into a better harmony. The
industrial age was both a progress and a dysfunction because it "binged" by
running too hard with just a few variables that could be controlled by
humans. Now the limits are being reached. The next steps arrive by
reconfiguring the system for better balance among the parts and designing a
world for something the dinosaurs and all other species never had to face --
9 billion people.

It's really the greatest opportunity that has emerged for for nature and
human balance. It was known before as *terra preta do indio* but disease
wiped out the knowledge (temporarily). It can be known again unless the wars
of scarcity (either/or) once again block the opportunity.

The paradigm of abundance is also the paradigm of peace and harmony between
all things. Together we stand. Separate we fall. It's an old story. If we
want abundance we must act harmoniously. If we want peace we must act
peacefully. We must be the change we seek. Blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum.
We are still trying to get it right.

End of Sunday morning sermon.

hugs and blessings,

lou



On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:

>  If the carbon that was converted to oil and coal was once part of
> vegetation above ground why does it create a problem to bring it out of the
> ground now? Isn't it all part of the same inventory? Was there more
> vegetation in prehistoric times? Why can't "dinosaur" carbon just create
> more vegetation when it is oxidized?
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> Tom
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