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Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on January 31, 2019, 6:59 pm, in reply to "Yup, another example is the Mongol invasions of Eastern Europe"
* All my heating and cooking fuel is wood gleaned from the dead timber of local woodland (nominally 'owned' by an indifferent multinational cement conglomerate's local clay-quarrying operation; a crowd who don't care about the woods, beyond their PR function, and neglect them.) * For the past forty-odd years I've guerrilla-planted trees anywhere they might have a decent chance of making a century or two of growth. LOTS of willow-family trees lately; fast growing! The hope is that - some time after I'm gone - the eventual maturing of all those tress will make my life retrospectively atmospheric-carbon-negative. * Scrupulously making and scattering biochar, whenever I clear ash from my stove; sequesters carbon in a very-long-term form - which also happens to be the basis of terra-preta super-fertile soil. Really good in forest permaculture operations! A way that humankind can do high-speed mimicking - most usefully - of the fossil-carbon sequestration carried on through the oil/gas/coal-formation processes of the Earth's plate tectonics. * No car ownership for many years now; virtually no motor transport use at all these days - though I have a bus pass! Most personal travel, with up to 30 kilos of freight, on a heavy-duty All Terrain Bike. (Also an excellent old-fart's workout machine, along with my constantly-busy bow-saw and axes; chainsaws? What they?) Imagine low-key, unsexy habits like this promoted amongst several billion people worldwide, as a soberly-promising way to stop climate shift - at the same time as getting seriously-good livings from forest-permaculture! The Chinese are already groping their way towards this strategy, with such things as their excellent land reclamation and re-forestation of the Loess Plateau - with very good, long-lasting benefits to the local people, as they themselves attest, and with massive conservation wins as well; and mostly carried out by properly-paid work-crowds of local underemployed people, using mainly hand tools... See John D Lau's encouraging videos on this, on YT.
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