RE: {PNW-BC} Fw: [carbon-negative] Danny Day: brave thinker, The Atlantic

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Danny Day quote - "We have 3 billion people out there who are at risk for climate change and they can be making money solving our global problem." So, I would like to know how long is it going to take to be able to make money putting carbon back in the ground? - Terry Mock SLDI Project Goes Carbon Negative
August 2009 - Sustainable Land Development Today Magazine
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/sldt/0809/#/18 “Climate change is inevitable, proceeding and even accelerating.” "With those alarming opening words, British scientist James Lovelock, author of the new book, “The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning,” is delivering a sobering message to large and influential audiences around the world. He says there’s nothing we can do now but adapt and survive. He claims it is too late for sustainable development and says civilization’s best strategy is “sustainable retreat” ... When prompted, Lovelock says, the only way we could do something meaningful to avoid catastrophe is to extract and permanently store CO² from the atmosphere, in addition to dramatically reducing our emissions. And the approach with the most potential, says Lovelock, is to turn biomass material into charcoal, now re-branded as “biochar,“ in a process known as “pyrolysis” and then bury it..."

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