[P2P-F] Traditional Indigenous Knowledge listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage, in the Colombian Amazon

[Michel Bauwens]

sam, there is also an issue of population growth,

slash and burn was okay in a non-industrial society with few people, but
with a population explosion, and in the context of additional problems from
industrial pollution, it increasingly becomes problematic,

Michel

2011/2/14 Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>

> 2011/2/8 Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>:
> > http://www.gaiafoundation.org/content/highlights-2010-and-path-ahead
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> > Dear Carolina,
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> > I wonder if you had any comment on this? Is this a good thing?
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> An aside: I thought it was interesting that Gaia Foundation lists
> http://www.gaiafoundation.org/content/biochar as a "False Solution".
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> Christoph Steiner has some serious research work into biochar and
> terra preta/terra mulata
> http://biochar.bioenergylists.org/?q=taxonomy/term/118 and the
> archaeology of biochar in Amazonia.
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> Janice Thies's work is also worth reading on this subject
> http://css.cals.cornell.edu/cals/css/people/faculty.cfm?netId=jet25
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> Turns out that biochar at least *was* part of the cultural heritage of
> indigenous peoples of Amazonia (and North America). It was even part
> of the very ecology itself (natural ecologies evolved and adapted to
> human fire activities on both continents. We can still see this today
> in species like the Jack Pine native to my home here in Michigan
> http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_22664-60337--,00.html
> which adapted to a landscape where indigenous peoples regularly
> started fires).
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> The contrasting argument is that the ecology of biomass in those times
> likely was able to easily afford regular burning, where now massive
> deforestation has reduced the global capacity. Still, I think the
> ecologies of Amazonia totally change without indigenous people and
> fire transforming the landscapes. It is part of the real heritage of
> the place from what I understand.
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