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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Biochar
  • Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:32:47 -0000


Well Dieter look at who is making the money. I don't have even a book to sell with all my misgivings about charcoal. I simply can not call it biochar for that is an oxymoron to me since char is far from bio.
If you wan't to make a profit then join the hype wave and that is what I see happening.
john

John, I understand your point about challenging "established facts". In fact, I'm a Taoist at heart and feel that the truth is no longer competley true as soon as it is expressed. This is really pushing it to an extreme, but there is some truth to it in that no matter how noble and well-intended a cause may be, as soon as it turns into established dogma, it will invariably produce all kinds of negative effects.

But I guess, biochar advocates would argue that is the the critics who are full of dogma because they refuse to see the benefits of biochar.

Dieter

--- On Sat, 11/19/11, John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:

From: John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Biochar
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 6:56 PM

Take some other examples then Dieter.
For 50 years fat was bad and salt was to be avoided and
vaccinations were
good and cholesterol was bad. Most still believe this even
if the medical
literature is absolutely full with articles prooving the
oposite and many
alternative doctors know better. Only when they put their
heads up too high
they get chopped off by the establishment.
On the other hand at one time blood letting was THE cure
all in medicine and
it was an established fact too that prefrontal lobotomy was
good for general
anxiety. How many juveniles were castrated because their
parents had seen
them masturbate and feared their child would go blind? The
list is endless.
I find established facts very dangerous things even if many
say that a
million lemmings can't be wrong.
Other than that our takes on charcoal are much the same.
john

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