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Burn

Using Fire to Cool the Earth

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Written by: Albert Bates, Kathleen Draper
Narrated by: Tia Rider
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New Exclusive Content: Author Albert Bates in conversation with Soil Association’s Head of Horticulture Ben Raskin during the 2019 Hawkwood Seed Festival.

How we can harness carbon to help solve the climate crisis in 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. 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 tropic cascades within the world’s rivers, oceans, and wetlands; to shift urban infrastructures such as buildings, roads, bridges, and ports, incorporating draw-down materials and components, replacing steel, concrete, polymers, and composites with biological carbon to drive economic reorganization by incentivizing carbon draw down.

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.

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©2019 Albert Bates, Kathleen Draper (P)2019 Chelsea Green Publishing
Economics Environment Environmental Politics & Government City United States Natural Resource Sustainability Pollution Business Ecosystem
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must read for Climate

if you are even kind of concerned about the state of the natural world and the climate crisis, this book is a must-read. Contained in this recording is the solution to human extinction in the near term.
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