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100	1		_aBates, Albert K., _d1947- _924107
245	1	4	_aThe biochar solution : _bcarbon farming and climate change / _cAlbert Bates ; foreword by Vandana Shiva.
260			_aGabriola Island, BC : _bNew Society Publishers, _cc2010.
300			_axiv, 209 p. : _bill., maps ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aCivilization as we know it is at a crossroads. For the past 10,000 years, we have turned a growing understanding of physics, chemistry and biology to our advantage in producing more energy and more food and as a consequence have produced exponential population surges, resource depletion, ocean acidification, desertification and climate change. The path we are following began with long-ago discoveries in agriculture, but it divided into two branches, about 8,000 years ago. The branch we have been following for the most part is conventional farming -- irrigation, tilling the soil, and removing weeds and pests. That branch has degraded soil carbon levels by as much as 80 percent in most of the world's breadbaskets, sending all that carbon skyward with each pass of the plow. The other branch disappeared from our view some 500 years ago, although archaeologists are starting to pick up its trail now. At one time it achieved success as great as the agriculture that we know, producing exponential population surges and great cities, but all that was lost in a fluke historical event borne of a single genetic quirk.
520			_aCarbon Farming.
650		0	_aCharcoal. _924108
650		0	_aSoil amendments. _924109
650		0	_aCarbon sequestration. _924110
650		0	_aAgriculture _xEnvironmental aspects. _91317
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