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Thanks, I watched the whole video. A great success of natural capitalism. I wonder how drone surveys, satellite mapping, and synthetic biology could extend this

Thanks, I watched the whole video. A great success of natural capitalism. I wonder how drone surveys, satellite mapping, and synthetic biology could extend this 35 sq-km success to 3,500 sq-km and beyond, augmenting people's needs and efforts. As said in the video, let's "properly understand the miracles performed by trees" to make this more profitable and spread everywhere. I also agree with the farmer who said "what about our children, they can't eat trees!!". There's an opportunity for climate change solutions need to be communicated at human timescales (days, months, years). Decades are too hard to imagine. Thanks for the video!

thinkcontext 10y ago
Perhaps its not exactly the best example of capitalism given that it was centrally planned. Glad you found it interesting. In the text accompanying the video they link to more videos in the series from Ethiopia and Rwanda, with similar projects to rehabilitate the land.
- specialist 10y ago
  Centralized planning == state capitalism. Private capitalism is not the only variety.
- titojankowski 10y ago
  Food is key. This inspired me to re-read the 4 pages on Food in "Sustainable Energy without the hot air": https://www.withouthotair.com/c13/page_76.shtml https://www.withouthotair.com/c13/page_76.shtml (ps I just put this great book up on github. The author passed away, would love ideas to re-release the CC content. Specifically, merging the short Food chapter into a nicely formatted single medium-type article would be a good step for readability: https://github.com/titojankowski/sustainable_energy_without_the_hot_air/pulse https://github.com/titojankowski/sustainable_energy_without_...)
  - titojankowski 10y ago
    Ok it took an hour but I reformatted the "food" chapter on my blog as an experiment in readability. http://titojankowski.com/sustainable-energy-without-hot-air-food-agriculture/ http://titojankowski.com/sustainable-energy-without-hot-air-... Thoughts?

thinkcontext 10y ago

Perhaps its not exactly the best example of capitalism given that it was centrally planned. Glad you found it interesting. In the text accompanying the video they link to more videos in the series from Ethiopia and Rwanda, with similar projects to rehabilitate the land.

specialist 10y ago
Centralized planning == state capitalism. Private capitalism is not the only variety.
titojankowski 10y ago
Food is key. This inspired me to re-read the 4 pages on Food in "Sustainable Energy without the hot air": https://www.withouthotair.com/c13/page_76.shtml https://www.withouthotair.com/c13/page_76.shtml (ps I just put this great book up on github. The author passed away, would love ideas to re-release the CC content. Specifically, merging the short Food chapter into a nicely formatted single medium-type article would be a good step for readability: https://github.com/titojankowski/sustainable_energy_without_the_hot_air/pulse https://github.com/titojankowski/sustainable_energy_without_...)
- titojankowski 10y ago
  Ok it took an hour but I reformatted the "food" chapter on my blog as an experiment in readability. http://titojankowski.com/sustainable-energy-without-hot-air-food-agriculture/ http://titojankowski.com/sustainable-energy-without-hot-air-... Thoughts?