An intelligent course: coppice old woods; plant lots of new; make biochar, with side products Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on June 4, 2019, 2:09 pm, in reply to "Re: A vital point Ian - and completely misunderstood.."
of liquid fuels and heat, in purpose built balanced-production plants - aka hyper-efficient multi-purpose woodstoves; broadcast the biochar onto food-growing soils (straight onto the surface is fine; it will soon be buried by the natural soil-churning processes). Do this preferably in forest-permaculture acreages, where it will stay sequestered, virtually inactivated out of the atmospheric carbon cycle for millennia; and where it helps to create the astonishingly fertile Terra Preta soils, even on near-sterile tropical laterite sub-soils. Protect and allow to grow wild herds of bison, wildebeest, various antelopes, and so on, with herds of reindeer/caribou browsing the tundra 'barrens' (great growers of carbon-sink sphagnum bogs). Cull the herds lightly for limited meat, etc., but protect and maintain them on big open (natural, not tree-cleared) grasslands and tundra, because of the natural soil-carbon sequestration which they promote on grazable/forageable lands left wild. (The rich, carbon-loaded topsoils of pristine wild prairies, before destructive ploughing and soil-fertility mining set in, were usually many feet thick; enormous weights of carbon compounds 'permanently' locked up in the bodies of all the soil creatures.) It's also possible to do lots of seasonal wild-food foraging on all vegetation patterns: forest, savannah, grasslands, and even - with restrained care - on semi-desert. This needn't hurt their carbon-sequestrating abilities, when done rightly. That's to say: watching the way Gaia prefers to do it, and then going with rather than against her flow, cooperatively and respectfully. All that would make a decent start at facing our climate-shift realities. For the drones of the Pampered Twenty Percent, it would also bring some vigorous purpose back into ennui-blasted lives.
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