Dear Erin
I agree. We have had a chance to post relevant links and released our pent up tensions. May we all benefit from the general education provided at no cost by the host of volunteers to be found at 'Stoves'. Thanks Crispin enjoying summer Hey group, Let's pull things back to the practical. Animals and plants (the ocean has lots of plants) are sensitive to small local fluxes in the ph as well as chemicals. If you do your maths in ocean sized quantities you miss the fact that the local oyster lives in a local part of the water, which may change quite a bit with human impacts of all kinds. Oyster shells are important measure of stress on an individual organism, and oysters are an indicator species. They are a canary, like the coal miners used to take with them into the mineshafts. If the canary has trouble breathing, or is dead, then the miners will have trouble too. Our oysters are telling us something, if we are smart we will pay attention to what they are saying. Ok so let us bring this whole thing back to cook stoves. If you work with cookstoves long enough, and you do a good enough job, you can see the profound positive impacts that can happen in communities with safer stoves, less emissions, and that don't use as much biomass or coals. I don't know how this may impact the global environment, but I think we can make a lot of local environments better, and if that ripples into something larger, it would be a good thing. Let's get back to that good thing. Ok - cheerleading done, let's get back to stoves now!! List Admin, Erin Rasmussen TR Miles Technical Consultants Inc. http://www.trmiles.com/ and BioEnergy Discussion Lists http://www.bioenergylists.org/ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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