[TheForge] eco coke OT

[peter fels]

On May 25, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> 
> 
> peter fels wrote:
>> Seems the "biochar" has other soil virtues, including fighting
>> compaction, holding water for  an extended time for plant roots and
>> sequestering some nutrients for later use....It also endures a heck
>> of a long time. Buried wood gets broken down and returns to the
>> carbon cycle pretty promptly, given moisture.
> 
> These may be virtues... or liabilities.
How so?
>  People do not seem to be very 
> inclined to learn from past mistakes, apparently choosing to believe 
> what is convenient to their desires.

From sea to shining sea.

> For instance, some believe that 
> GMO foods are harmless, and they may be correct.  Maybe not.

They are sure to be a mixed bag, of course. My guess is that without them,
 we will suffer a huge population collapse ( even huger?)  in the near future.
>  I am wary 
> of treating the world like a giant petri dish.

The world IS a giant petri dish with rampant genetic recombination experiments, never ceasing.
We are a product of that process.

>  Experimentation is in 
> our blood, I suppose, but it seems there are probably some boundaries. 
> The problem is knowing where they lie.

It is a problem , and you can be sure common sense will be violated, repeatedly.
For better or worse, anything we can think up, has probably been done by nature, 
a great many times.
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