[Terrapreta] eprida char - organic?

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In a message dated 1/15/08 3:49:29 AM, sean.barry at juno.com writes:


> It might require a change in all cultures.
> 

I agree completely. We can no longer look at our activities in agriculture, 
manufacturing or whatever merely in terms of what happens to us and the people 
in our business, our neighborhood or our community. We have to see our 
economic activities as part of a giant Worldwide web of activities which involved not 
only people, such as spaghetti eaters in Italy, tortilla eaters in Mexico and 
pizza eaters in the USA but which includes the environment as well, 
especially the impact of our activities on Global Warming.

That is going to be very hard to   do, for two reasons. Despite modern 
communications, most people are still pretty parochial in their outlook. As the 
young lady who was unfairly ridiculed said recently, too many people don't know 
about the rest of the World because they don't even have a map in their house. 
In fact, one of the current crop of presidential candidates even inverted the 
geographic positions of Afghanistan and Pakistan !

And vested interests are still fighting recognition of and remedies for 
environmental problems. In fact, a new Exxon front organization has just been 
established to undermine such efforts.   

[ One of almost 200 which have existed at one time or another. Shades of the 
Stalinists in the 1930's and 1940's. ]

Since time is running out, the whole situation is kind of scary. 

However, terra preta is a great device for waking people and tying things all 
together, because it deals with so many different problems at once. Indeed, 
precisely for that reason, it could become our best single tool for getting 
people to make fundamental cultural changes.

Cordially.   ###




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