ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Tell Leading Climate Scientists and Negotiators to Stop Prematurely Promoting Industrial Scale Biochar
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark and Forests.org projects In partnership with the New York Climate Action Group http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/ April 2, 2009 TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=industrial_biochar Please protest proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation, and against their inclusion into carbon markets. Biochar, along with agrofuels, will result in devastating expansion of industrial agriculture which threatens people, climate and ecosystems. BRIEF BACKGROUND: Industrial scale "biochar" is the latest dangerous planetary geo-engineering proposal (replacing ocean iron fertilization as the flavor of the month) to save the Earth and humanity from climate change without personal sacrifice or social change. Biochar (charcoal) enthusiasts intend to burn biomass to produce and bury charcoal, in order to manipulate land use and the biosphere on a vast scale. As if the world's land, 25% of which is already becoming seriously degraded, does not have enough pressures from deforestation, industrial agriculture and sprawling human settlements. Charcoal proposals forestall sufficient climate change measures such as ending the use of coal, protecting and restoring old forests, and reforming industrial agriculture. Let leading science and climate negotiators know this is unacceptable. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=industrial_biochar DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/04/alert-tell-leading-climate-sci.asp --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [email protected]. Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
