[Terrapreta] History on the climate aspects of the terrapreta list

[Greg and April]

Not a red herring, just what I honestly thought was a near example and question.


I never said that we didn't ever want government involvement, I was just questioning the timing.


Right now, we have so little hard core information about TP and it's usefulness as a soil amendment outside of the tropics, that is we went before congress looking for funding that all they are going to see is allot of maybe's, possablys, and 'in theory's.    Is that not part of why TP research received but a tiny fraction in this last farm bill?

I'm just saying that if we want to compete with the likes of the Ethanol lobby, we need to have more hard facts, in order to get more funding, and we certainly can not rely on congress critters to supply us with the funds to get those facts in the first place.

Perhaps the thing to do, is get the facts to the ethanol lobby or other Lobbing group that could benefit from TP, and convince them that TP is in their best interest so they can do the lobbying for TP.

Greg H.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lou gold 
  To: Greg and April 
  Cc: Kevin Chisholm ; Ron Larson ; Terra Preta 
  Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:38
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] History on the climate aspects of the terrapreta list


  Oh boy. What a Red Herring. We cannot possibly even consider the possibility of getting anywhere without government involvement. Nothing happens nowadays without it -- a certification, a licensing, a subsidy, a research program, a labeling, a tax or a tax credit, and on and on -- nothing has no government involvement. The questions -- and they are VERY important questions -- are how should governments be involved. I keep mentioning that the dominant forms of agriculture of the industrial world are subsidized at the level of nearly one billion USD each day. Guiding or changing or stopping this incredible inertia of energy flow will take government action. How else?
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