[Terrapreta] Question

[lou gold]

Hi All,

I need some help working through a puzzle.

As you know, my highest priority is saving the forest, especially the Amazon
forest. I have been investing a lot of hopes in the possibility that terra
preta might somehow show the way. But I have not been able to figure out the
benefit of soil improvement (etc, etc) for cattle ranching and it is the
expansion of cattle combined with logging that is the front line of
deforestation.

I know that switching from slash-and-burn to slash-and-char will be helpful.
But cattle are going to expand as the world gains more and more people who
want to eat meat. Please, let's not go into the protein efficiencies or
ethics of this trend. I'm trying to deal with the world as it is.  Can
anyone see a way that terra preta might be helpful here?

Thanks.

lou

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