[Terrapreta] Academies of Science Call Industrialized Countries to Lead Climate Challenge

[lou gold]

To add to your good words David, I would say that it could be difficult to
get lay folks to really understand the incredible community of life in
soils. Perhaps, it would be easier to focus on gaining an understanding that
the relationship on-top-of and inside-of the earth needs to be reciprocal.
As a storyteller, I've generally had better success with the concept of
reciprocity and with the micro hard-to-see realities.

Connecting to the "poo" discussions, I think it's easy to get people to see
that when waste is returned to the earth properly, that the resulting
reciprocity is beneficial. "From waste to resource" is an easy to understand
slogan and I think it could be usefully linked to biochar.

Just some thoughts.

hugs,

lou



On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:19 PM, David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

>  more front line news about the accelerating consensus toward action on
> climate change.
>
> however, still no mention of "carbon-negative", "food footprint" or "soil
> sequestration", much less likely: "biochar."
>
> seems the brightest minds in the highest places still don't have a clear
> focus on fundamental factors in ecological viability and climate stability:
> soil fertility, where fertility is not measured as inventory of chemical
> components, but as a biological community -- the "microbial reef" --
> invisibly tiny living complexity that inhabits the thin skin of the land and
> supports all the larger, younger lifeforms.
>
> but they're funding the scientists who are piecing the puzzle together
> again.
>
>
> *G8 Academies of Science
> Call on Industrialized Countries *
> *to Lead Climate Challenge
> *By *Andrew C. Revkin*, *NYTimes*, June 11, 2008
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/11climate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
> The scientific academies of 13 countries on Tuesday urged the world to act
> more forcefully to limit the threat posed by human-driven global warming. In
> a joint statement, the academies of the Group of 8 industrialized countries
> -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United
> States -- and of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa called on the
> industrialized countries to lead a 'transition to a low-carbon society' and
> aggressively move to limit impacts from changes in climate that are already
> under way and impossible to stop.
> The statement [PDF, 2 pp<http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/climatechangestatement.pdf>],
> posted by the Nation Academy of Science in the United States, urged the
> Group of 8 countries to move beyond last year's pledge to consider halving
> global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and 'make maximum efforts' to
> reach this target."
>
> http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/climatechangestatement.pdf
>
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