[Terrapreta] Question

[folke Günther]

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From: folke Günther [mailto:folkeg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:06 AM
To: lou gold
Cc: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Question

 

It is cattle ranching that is the problem (with stress on ranching). Too
retain the forest diversity, you have to protect certain areas from the
stress of he muzzle Let the forest re-grow. If you absolutely think you have
to cut it down, do that and char the forest. Put the char and a seed-bank on
muzzle-devastated land and let that land re-grow into a new forest. See the
attached sketch Not on muzzling, but in mining. But it is almost the same
from the forest point of view.
But I don't think your projections are right. Post-peak world will be quite
another than the one we are accustomed to.
FG

2008/5/20 lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com>:

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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