[Terrapreta] Lester Brown

[Duane Pendergast]

It's pretty hard for most of us to take that pronouncement from Lester Brown
and World Watch with anything more than a wry laugh Doug. I don't think
there is much use wasting any serious time on them as they won't want to
come to any kind of understanding.  They are well past their best before
date. 

 

Better to get on with demonstrating the Terra Preta concept really works as
a soil builder and prepare to forsake civilization.  We certainly won't
reduce CO2 by 80% by 2020 by any means discussed to date.  

 

Duane

 

-----Original Message-----
From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Clayton
Sent: February 25, 2008 1:06 PM
To: Terra Preta
Subject: [Terrapreta] Lester Brown

 

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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