[Terrapreta] Carbon Farming

[lou gold]

Michael,

Depends a lot on the tree but focusing on the trees is a huge
over-simplification of a forest which stores a great deal of carbon in its
soil and performs many ecosystem functions such as soil and water retention
and water purification and generation of rain. Forests are an enormous
factor in weather. That's why deforestation triggers drought. Many feedback
loops at work. It is important to remember that that the Sahara desert was
once a forest and the present desolation is the result of human caused
deforestation.

The great danger in a carbon economy is that (once again) it might recreate
a the imbalances of focusing too much on a single factor. This is the
"reductionist dilemma" -- binging with a few variables can produce
incredible short-term profitability followed by longer-term imbalance and
depletion. The strategy has been to attempt a leap-frog operation through
techno-fixes that stay slightly ahead of problem generation (like the lab
and the field with hybrids). In this predominant industrial age paradigm all
"solutions" generate new problems and "problem-solving" becomes both a war
without end and an extremely profitable business. If you think about it you
will begin to see the pattern in all aspects of the industrial age and see
the relationship to the fact that the human and ecological history of the
20th Century was the bloodiest and most devastating yet experienced during
our brief human tenanting of the earth.  hugs and blessings,

lou

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Interesting lou, thanks.
>
> A tree lasts 100-200 years?
> Charcoal lasts 1,000 +
> Do the sums.
> michael
>
> 2008/4/22 lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com>:
>
> > Carbon Farming is Arriving Big Time
> >
> > Check it out in Fortune magazine
> >
> >
> > http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/17/technology/carbon_farming.fortune/?postversion=2008041808
> >
> > <http://info.bioenergylists.org>
> >
>
> --
> Michael the Archangel
> How strange and sad for the species - have people forgotten that they can
> always escape to the fairy dell and talk to the ducks?
> -Leunig, 2008
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