tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post632064237054977948..comments2024-01-26T17:20:23.015-06:00Comments on The Great Change: Climate EcoforestryAlbert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-21797198886874957242017-03-13T14:39:45.981-05:002017-03-13T14:39:45.981-05:00Interesting JJ Grey. Can the hemp be converted to ...Interesting JJ Grey. Can the hemp be converted to biochar or fixed so the carbon is sequestered for a long time in some other process?James Hollisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12308657601977087374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-62106748636500105482017-03-13T11:56:00.901-05:002017-03-13T11:56:00.901-05:00I too did a similar, if less intense, back of enve...I too did a similar, if less intense, back of envelope analysis of planting vegetation to offset CO2 emissions, and the figures prove that it is very doable. My vegetation of choice was industrial hemp so as to provide other industrial feedstock more rapidly than trees can, but overall the climate change impact would be similar. <br />Planting the roofs of our urban structures, the barren lawns of our suburbia, etc, would further help air quality. Trees are a bit slow, but trees, in conjunction with fast growing industrial useful plants (soy, hemp, etc) and other vegetative improvement investment by ANY single large country could begin slowing the CO2 growth, and if several get on board they could cause drawdown of global CO2 in a reasonable (human lifespan or less) atmospheric CO2. <br />The lack of economic and political will to do this on a large scale confuses and confounds me. <br />I am planting my land with what I can afford to as I can afford the time and encourage others to do the same. <br /> JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-69635401311169208892017-03-06T13:59:13.416-06:002017-03-06T13:59:13.416-06:00These ideas should definitely be studied and pursu...These ideas should definitely be studied and pursued. One caution. It is essential that we stop burning fossil fuels by transitioning as rapidly as possible to wind, water and solar electricity. The burning of fossil fuels sends CO2 into the atmosphere faster than any know natural process can absorb it. To keep the bathtub from overflowing, first turn off the spigot!!Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12938563640853153128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-62381150387246851962017-03-06T05:32:44.314-06:002017-03-06T05:32:44.314-06:00James Hollister: contact us through eco2.cool. You...James Hollister: contact us through eco2.cool. Your skill set is very helpful!Albert Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-1877857101549929112017-03-06T03:46:47.510-06:002017-03-06T03:46:47.510-06:00Albert, although you're correct ecologically a...Albert, although you're correct ecologically about prioritizing the sequestration of carbon, over the energy-industry approach, it is still valid to place at the top of our species' to-do list the shutting down of all fossil fuels industries immediately. It is worthwhile if only for the culture-changing and lifestyle-changing process that would be triggered, involving collapse responses as well as restructuring of society. For it is the roles in society, particularly tomorrow's, that may allow the proper prioritization of humans' environmental and ecological activity. You will have a statue for both approaches, is my guess.Jan Lundberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00820776018221427750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-37926822324927103152017-03-05T15:22:26.578-06:002017-03-05T15:22:26.578-06:00How do I get involved directly with this? I have n...How do I get involved directly with this? I have no background in agriculture, biology, engineering or science, but I don't want to have to tell my daughters I sat by and watched it happen. Current skillet is mostly building software, websites and other IT related stuff. Also have a little business know-how and am willing to relocate to anywhere in the world. What can I do or start learning?James Hollisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12308657601977087374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-29499313672477092982017-03-05T13:48:27.772-06:002017-03-05T13:48:27.772-06:00Stay with this series Michael Lewis. You raise an ...Stay with this series Michael Lewis. You raise an important point and one we have addressed often before. One needs to distinguish between labile and recalcitrant forms of carbon when one speaks of transferring from one reservoir to another. I agree that grassland ecosystems are fastest way we have to move carbon into soils. But it is a tortoise and hare comparison. To keep it there you need forested systems and biochar. Albert Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-19856433491804927092017-03-05T11:56:21.597-06:002017-03-05T11:56:21.597-06:00It is not just trees that is important, but the re...It is not just trees that is important, but the restoration of soils that have suffered from industrial monocrop agriculture.<br /><br />Living soils store far more carbon than forests. Restoring the great plains to natural prairies ecosystems would do far more the draw down carbon (if that is important) than planting trees.<br /><br />Restoration of natural ecosystems should be the model, rather than one-off solutions such as planting trees. <br /><br />It takes and intact ecosystem to build a self-sustaining environmentMichael A. Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980105313542633114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-78331577446576351952017-03-05T10:39:50.699-06:002017-03-05T10:39:50.699-06:00Thank you so much for this clear, crisp and inspir...Thank you so much for this clear, crisp and inspiring piece!!!!! Also marked for later re-reading, thanks also for more info on "step harvest"+++!! DaleDale Hendrickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794703528030348878noreply@blogger.com