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050			_aTD171.75 _b.B38 2019
100			_aBates, Albert K. _d1947- _eauthor _925219
245	1	0	_aBurn _b: using fire to cool the earth _c/ Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper.
260			_aWhite River Junction : _bChelsea Green Publishing, _c2020.
300			_a277 pages : _billustrations, tables, charts (black and white) ; _c23 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 2019.
520			_aIn order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to banking it. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to save whales, wombats, and wolves. We have to reverse the flow of greenhouse gases and send them in exactly the opposite direction: down, not up. We have to flip the carbon cycle and run it backwards. For such a revolutionary transformation we’ll need civilization 2.0. A secret unlocked by the ancients of the Amazon for its ability to transform impoverished tropical soils into terra preta—fertile black earths—points the way. The indigenous custom of converting organic materials into long lasting carbon has enjoyed a reawakening in recent decades as the quest for more sustainable farming methods has grown. Yet the benefits of this carbonized material, now called biochar, extend far beyond the soil. Pyrolyzing carbon has the power to restore a natural balance by unmining the coal and undrilling the oil and gas. Employed to its full potential, it can run the carbon cycle in reverse and remake Earth as a garden planet. Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources: into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles; enhance nutrient density in food; rebuild topsoil; and condition urban and agricultural lands to withstand flooding and drought; to cleanse water by carbon filtration and trophic cascades within the world’s rivers, oceans, and wetlands; to shift urban infrastructures such as buildings, roads, bridges, and ports, incorporating drawdown materials and components, replacing steel, concrete, polymers, and composites with biological carbon; to drive economic reorganization by incentivizing carbon drawdown. Fully developed, this approach costs nothing—to the contrary, it can save companies money or provide new revenue streams. It contains the seeds of a new, circular economy in which energy, natural resources, and human ingenuity enter a virtuous cycle of improvement. Burn offers bold new solutions to climate change that can begin right now.
650		0	_aClimate change mitigation _vPopular works _925220
650		0	_aCarbon dioxide mitigation _vPopular works _925221
650		0	_aBiomass energy _vPopular works _925222
650		0	_aClimatic changes _xSocial aspects _vPopular works _925223
650		0	_aGlobal warming _xSocial aspects _vPopular works _925224
700			_aDraper, Kathleen _eauthor _925225
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