Increasingly large segments of the world’s population are becoming aware of the worsening conditions that the majority of people are facing now a day’s. It used to be the case that famines, disease, violence and poverty affected only underdeveloped countries or ignorant, destitute minorities, and immigrants in richer countries. However, maladies are occurring across de board, disregarding status, specially those catastrophic events related to climate change. Unfortunately, increased awareness has not yet resulted in decisive actions to counteract the inertia of the inherited paradigms that inexorably are conducting us to the end of civilization, and perhaps, to the extinction of our species. The intention of this writing is to offer hope and suggestions for individual action that has the potential to stop end revert the current suicidal trend of our society.
Knowledgeable people readily accept the apothegm “the flapping of a butterfly in Hong Kong can cause a storm in New York”. It became famous because of the work of weather scientists that originated the now scientifically accepted Chaos Theory. Besides postulating that very small initial changes can conduct to drastically different results after a number of iterations, Chaos Theory also states that when a system is pushed beyond certain limits, it does not ever go back to the previous pattern of changes (called strange attractor). The last push over the limit of our world´s weather that would cause a shift in strange attractor could well be stated thus: “the flapping of a Butterfly in Hong Kong could cause a tropical storm in the Artic over the North Pole .” This means a sudden catastrophe and the end of the world as we know it now.
Climate change is happening now with increasingly larger damages in economy, ecology, and human life in all countries. It is mainly due to increasingly larger amounts of greenhouse gases poured into the atmosphere by a madly driven civilization, whose leaders just but reflect the values of peoples at large. How else could we tolerate greedy and myopic leaders, if we didn´t aspire to the same short term rewards that they had so aptly gained?
The paradigm that has carried us thus far no longer serves our needs, nor the needs of the power-holding few . It is still time to change it, in spite of the tremendous inertia that dwarfs individual action and the pressures of the masses still addicted to the rewards of the older paradigm which preclude the action of visionary leaders. This changes need to be revolutionary, in the sense of completely overthrowing the tenets of the old system. The revolution, however, needs not be violent. True and lasting change ought be born out of right and better values, and carried on by individuals that act on their own conviction. Leaders would not tell people what to do but give people knowledge, and perhaps means, on which each could base his or her action.
BIOCHAR
The extended use of biochar as a soil amendment can significatively diminish the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are pushing us into a life-threatening weather . Biochar is derived from vegetable biomass of recent origin (as opposed to fossil fuels oil and coal). The international interest in biochar as a potential sustainable solution to hunger and weather change is recent (2006). As initial results are positive, increasingly larger public and private institutions and enterprises are devoting increasingly larger resources to development and testing of biochar.
Biochar use is only a piece in the larger quest of making agriculture, forestry and livestock, sustainable. Beside the role of sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere, the role of biochar as a soil amendment holds the promise of returning life to soil, and thus sustainable fertility with little or no inorganic fertilizer input. The increased food production that the Green Revolution fostered was accompanied by increasing soil degradation and loss because it relies on heavy use of Nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K), inorganic fertilizers. These NPK fertilizers kill soil life and inflict serious damage to ecology. Biochar use can be synergic with organic agriculture, permaculture, inoculation with beneficial microorganisms, and similar modern trends which but restore the natural ways, albeit at higher production rates.
An inoculated biochar was first commercially available in Mexico under the trademark Biocarb since the year 2009 produced by the company Artesano Natural S.A de C.V. in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Charging biochar with live beneficial organisms (fungi and bacteria) does accelerate the benefits that uncharged biochar could bring, and in certain very degraded and dead soils make a very significant difference. Only one application of Biocarb is needed for permanent benefits, so the initial investment makes economic sense. The main problem to the widespread use of Biocarb is willingness to venture into practices not sanctioned by the current paradigm. Unfortunately, it is unwholesome economic interests that stand against paradigm change rather than reasonable examination of preliminary results that prevent official sanctioning of Biocarb, and biochar in general by de-facto powers that continue endorsing the NPK agriculture and thus the acceleration of civilization demise.
We small people, empowered by on line communication, can, however make turn the tide into planet salvation. Many of us could test Biocarb in pots, gardens, or larger production units. The testimony of the initial few can be multiplied to encourage others to use Biocarb. We only need to leave a witness without Biocarb and compare against the benefits obtained in units treated with Biocarb. The suggested dose is 1Kg Biocarb for 1 sq. meter of land (or tree shade). Further information on the product and distributors can be found at www.biocarb.com.mx . For a limited time it can be purchased on line at www.artesanonatural.com/tienda . Your testimony can stirrup a great weather and happiness over a beautiful, peaceful and well fed world that even a Hong Kong butterfly could never achieve!! The Black Revolution could then restore the greeness that the Green Revolution blackened in the world! Viva el Biocarb!
