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| Mr. Philip Camara, discussing the essence of decentralization in governance, in this file photo of the Centrist Democratic Movement during forum on Decentralization and Political Reforms |
Over a span of 6 million years, the Earth's atmosphere evolved into one habitable for us humans by reaching a life-enhancing Carbon Dioxide concentration of 280 parts per million.
How did the Earth do this? With loads of CO2 in the atmosphere, plants and trees and their species and subspecies exploaded. We all know that plants and trees breath in CO2 and exhale O2 which is what we mammals need.
The human consciousness which needs a human body could not yet exist. Speech and words would never be uttered with excess CO2. And in its process of consciousness emerging, the physical environment fell into place to make it so.
Finally, in relative recent geologic and cosmic history the CO2 reached the life-enhancing number of 280. And over the 6 million years, all of that herbaceous material became stored energy in the form of hydrocarbons: hydrogen and carbon molecules bound and stored in the deep earth representing locked and sequestered CO2 precisely removed so that we could breath!
And while it might have been forgivable to reach into these vast vast storage of hydrocarbons so that humans could move about and build about, great cities and civilizations even, it is utterly unforgivable to have us humans continue removing the CO2 from the ground and putting it back in the atmosphere. This can only be viewed as humans challenging the Creator.
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| Mr. Philip Camara and Dr. Peter Koeppinger of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, in a file photo, May 2011. |
For the first time in 6 million years, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has breached the 400 parts per million (ppm) figure. At 450 ppm we're all super screwed.
You see after human consciousness emerged, and human societies formed, an isidious evil has prevailed: the corporate profit motive. This motive moves and drives the hunger for hydrocarbon-based energy, coal even (the dirtiest) to fund a lifestyle directed further to increase corporate profits.
Matched against this is the 99% of the human masses that become extremely vulnerable to the corporate message of attaining success and the dire implications to our climate impact of excess CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
The New Climate (compared to that before the arrival of the dominance of the corporate for-profit era) is now erratic, extreme, and destructive for the 99% while the 1% who create and operate the corporations can buy invulnerability.
Let us reclaim our atmosphere! Let us stop the CO2 extraction from the ground! Let us return CO2 to the ground thru Biochar production and use in farming and environmental remediation and other many other natural ways (reforestation).
(Biochar is the process of turning agricultural waste into "charcoal" by applying high heat with limited oxygen using junk metal drums and other easy to make equipment. When agricultural waste or biomass is charred, the remaining black substance is almost pure Carbon and when placed in farm soils stays there for thousands of years effectively locking it out of the atmosphere and representing a drawdown away from the atmosphere.)
