[Terrapreta] Lester Brown

[Douglas Clayton]

Last night I attended a lecture by Lester Brown of the Earth Policy 
Institute and World Watch.  I counted 500+ in attendance.  It was all 
the major doom and gloom we are familiar with.  World Watch Institute 
has now taken the stand that we MUST reduce CO2 by 80% by 2020 "to save 
civilization".
http://www.lexgwac.org/LesterBrown2.html

Lester Brown's latest book is just out, Plan B 3.0, Mobilizing to Save 
Civilization.

In the Q&A I managed to wave my arm vigorously enough to get a chance 
to ask him what he thought of the the "technology" we on this list are 
so enthused about.  Another person pitched in a few words about the 
Terra Preta as most of the crowd was confused and clueless (interesting 
as this was a very environmentally aware and activist crowd--- by a 
show of hands more then half were members of the Union of Concerned 
Scientists.  He seemed minimally familiar with the concepts and his 
reservations were economic, not sure whether our schemes would prove to 
be an economically viable method of sequestering carbon.

I would suggest that we all attempt to contact Lester Brown, World 
Watch and Earth Policy Institutes and bring them up to speed.

Doug

Douglas Clayton
50 Bullard Road
Jaffrey, NH 03452
H. 603-532-7321
W. 603-532-1120
Fax. 603-532-4581
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