George Monbiot is the best environmental writer in English. On biochar:
Whenever you hear the word miracle, you know there’s trouble just
around the corner. But however many times they lead to disappointment
or disaster, the newspapers never tire of promoting miracle cures,
miracle crops, miracle fuels and miracle financial instruments. We have
a bottomless ability to disregard the laws of economics, biology and
thermodynamics when we encounter a simple solution to complex problems.
So welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the new miracle. It’s a low-carbon
regime for the planet which makes the Atkins Diet look healthy:
woodchips with everything.
The must-read solutions book by Al Gore
Biochar as the new black gold
Don’t throw out the biochar baby with the bathwater
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