Press Release Summary: Author believes farmers burying charcoal as an alternative fertiliser could help the planet escape the worst effects of global warming.
Press Release Body: A new article written by author James Bruges supports a radical new practice of harnessing carbon dioxide. He claims that the amazing properties of charcoal allow it to capture carbon dioxide while at the same time enabling farmers to radically increase their yields. He goes as far as asserting that sequestration of carbon dioxide using charcoal may be the only way to avoid the worst effects of global warming. He believes the key message is to allow farmers to be incentivised to bury it. Ultimately, farmers, especially in the developing world, could raise rural income from making, selling and using charcoal while cultivating their crops. Community co-operation and business support would be vital to make this become an attractive, viable, standard practice and stabilise our climate.
The article has just been written as a bonus chapter for the new edition of The Big Earth Book. (£12.99 PB Sawday's Fragile Earth, 25th September 2008) which tackles the overwhelming social, economic and environmental consequences to the irretrievable loss of the Earth's finite resources.
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