Biochar - agrichar - Terra Preta

Presentation of the potential of biochar to improve the fertility of poor soils, and to sequester carbon.

Focus on Australia.

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[Glomerol]

Incidentally, thanks for reminding me of my participation here.

Mine are good comments. We would all do well to take heed of them.

Lastly, I have plenty of counterarguments, just not here. If you do some online research you might even run into them.

[Glomerol]

Oh hey, a month ago. I had forgotten about this one, if not the scorched earth policy in general.

Re-reading my comments here, perhaps it should not come as a surprise that someone might want to try a rhetorical approach. LOL

OK, so forget your question then. Sure.

Here's mine, though. Do you know that the world outside is engaged in an extinction event? And 400 ppm carbon this week?

If you really think that this corporate biochar greenwash is going to save us, think again.

[stap0510]

Ooh look, someone without counterarguments.

You obviously have no life. Did you know there is also a world outside of youtube?

Don't answer it, since my question was meant rhetorically.

[Glomerol]

Slathering things in positive/happy-wash doesn't make them so, nor does ignoring important, relevant issues and concerns that are pointed at through the holes under the peeling happyface wallpaper. That seems willfully ignorant and undemocratic.

Permaculture's about care of earth & people.

Biochar appears in part as a large-scale disaster over time, trying to camouflage/promote itself in the mean time within a historical, native, local, resilient, sustainable, ecological narrative.

[Glomerol]

"Thinking about environmental catastrophe requires us to imagine future society, and think about what might be likely and what could be possible (Coates & Leahy 2006; Curran 2007; George 2007; Leahy 2004; Trainer 1985; 1995). I will argue the changes necessary to halt global warming cannot be contained within capitalism. The consequences of doing nothing are equally drastic for capitalism."

~ Leahy, Terry, 'Checkmate: why capitalism cannot survive global warming'

[MatthewBanchero]

It's funny, most people I know who are involved with permaculture, including myself, choose to focus on the solutions rather than beat people over the head with the problems. If you'd like to continue this conversation in a more appropriate forum I'd love to show you some of the wonderful things that are going on in the world. And YES biochar is just one of the really positive things going on in the world.

[Bluea Green]

How does Terra preta take carbon from the atmosphere?

[Glomerol]

Comment correction:

"Humans are hardly doing anything right now..."

Should better read:

"Humans are hardly doing anything correct now."