sam, there is also an issue of population growth,<br><br>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,<br>
<br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/14 Samuel Rose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel.rose@gmail.com">samuel.rose@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
2011/2/8 Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> <a href="http://www.gaiafoundation.org/content/highlights-2010-and-path-ahead" target="_blank">http://www.gaiafoundation.org/content/highlights-2010-and-path-ahead</a><br>
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> Dear Carolina,<br>
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> I wonder if you had any comment on this? Is this a good thing?<br>
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</div></div>An aside: I thought it was interesting that Gaia Foundation lists<br>
<a href="http://www.gaiafoundation.org/content/biochar" target="_blank">http://www.gaiafoundation.org/content/biochar</a> as a "False Solution".<br>
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Christoph Steiner has some serious research work into biochar and<br>
terra preta/terra mulata<br>
<a href="http://biochar.bioenergylists.org/?q=taxonomy/term/118" target="_blank">http://biochar.bioenergylists.org/?q=taxonomy/term/118</a> and the<br>
archaeology of biochar in Amazonia.<br>
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Janice Thies's work is also worth reading on this subject<br>
<a href="http://css.cals.cornell.edu/cals/css/people/faculty.cfm?netId=jet25" target="_blank">http://css.cals.cornell.edu/cals/css/people/faculty.cfm?netId=jet25</a><br>
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Turns out that biochar at least *was* part of the cultural heritage of<br>
indigenous peoples of Amazonia (and North America). It was even part<br>
of the very ecology itself (natural ecologies evolved and adapted to<br>
human fire activities on both continents. We can still see this today<br>
in species like the Jack Pine native to my home here in Michigan<br>
<a href="http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_22664-60337--,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_22664-60337--,00.html</a><br>
which adapted to a landscape where indigenous peoples regularly<br>
started fires).<br>
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The contrasting argument is that the ecology of biomass in those times<br>
likely was able to easily afford regular burning, where now massive<br>
deforestation has reduced the global capacity. Still, I think the<br>
ecologies of Amazonia totally change without indigenous people and<br>
fire transforming the landscapes. It is part of the real heritage of<br>
the place from what I understand.<br>
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