the Klimaforum09 founder, Tony Andersen, an architect and permaculturalist,
presented solution to climate change (and climate justice) called 10 000
Trees... it basically involved a global permaforesty scheme (based on soil
and plant ecology carbon farming / sequestration) AND a global energy
convergance (i.e. a global energy descent for the Global North and a global
energy ascent for the Global South)
as to numbers, I dont know... Tony claimed to have run the numbers, but I
havent seen a good breakdown
1. Carbon farming as solution to climate change? (Rain Tenaqiya)
> Subject: [permaculture] Carbon farming as solution to climate change?
>
> I recently talked to a fellow permaculturist that attended a presentation
> by Darren Dougherty on carbon farming as a solution to climate change.? I
> doubt his perspective was representative of everyone who was present, but he
> was touting carbon farming as a cure-all, in the same vein as a
> technological fix that absolves us of the need to make radical social and
> personal lifestyle changes (like minimizing air travel).? My understanding
> is that carbon farming has the potential to be a big part of the solution,
> but is limited mostly to temperate soils that are capable of storing carbon
> (without the more intensive charcoal method) and is still in the beginning
> stages of investigation.? It would require the same level of political will
> that the other solutions would require in order to get landowners and
> farmers around the world to actually implement it, so really has no
> strategic advantage over the other solutions.? In my opinion, almost all the
> changes
> that are needed to stop climate change have side benefits and should be
> pursued regardless of climate change, so carbon farming is not special in
> this regard.? Could somebody give me a realistic assessment of the potential
> of carbon farming?
> ?
> Thanks,
> ?
> Rain
>
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