Amazing and humbling to read about technological marvels from 1400 years ago. It really puts our modern achievements in a new light. It's tempting sometimes to think of innovation as a recent phenomen, but people have been innovating and solving the same problems for thousands of years. To be honest, I didn't even know they HAD e-commerce back then!
A lot of current buzz phrases in here: "sustainability", "longterm resilience", "global responsibility" etc. Global responsibility sounds like the direct opposite of self-determination. Some United Nations NGO bureaucrats being brought in to administer it, without acknowledging local knowledge. Getting UNESCO to administer it is not "honoring indigenous traditions", it's disempowering them by handing over power to a global body based on another continent.
Also "store carbon", is more cargo cult pop science. All plants and animals are made up of carbon compounds, including rotting plant matter. They are probably trying to refer to trapping and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, but this is a misleading way of doing so.
In the first case the carbon dioxide is already concentrated, and in the second it has to be extracted by processing (at least) 2500 tons of air for each ton of carbon dioxide obtained. There are easier cases for carbon capture, when CO2 can actually be captured at the point of release (steel and cement plants, landfills) but atmospheric extraction is hard. Of course, plants can and do process lots of air (by it blowing over the leaves) but massively increasing plant growth is also hard.
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Amazing and humbling to read about technological marvels from 1400 years ago. It really puts our modern achievements in a new light. It's tempting sometimes to think of innovation as a recent phenomen, but people have been innovating and solving the same problems for thousands of years. To be honest, I didn't even know they HAD e-commerce back then!
A lot of current buzz phrases in here: "sustainability", "longterm resilience", "global responsibility" etc. Global responsibility sounds like the direct opposite of self-determination. Some United Nations NGO bureaucrats being brought in to administer it, without acknowledging local knowledge. Getting UNESCO to administer it is not "honoring indigenous traditions", it's disempowering them by handing over power to a global body based on another continent.
Also "store carbon", is more cargo cult pop science. All plants and animals are made up of carbon compounds, including rotting plant matter. They are probably trying to refer to trapping and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, but this is a misleading way of doing so.
What is the difference between "storing carbon" vs. "trapping carbon"?
In the first case the carbon dioxide is already concentrated, and in the second it has to be extracted by processing (at least) 2500 tons of air for each ton of carbon dioxide obtained. There are easier cases for carbon capture, when CO2 can actually be captured at the point of release (steel and cement plants, landfills) but atmospheric extraction is hard. Of course, plants can and do process lots of air (by it blowing over the leaves) but massively increasing plant growth is also hard.
probably mostly pedantry, but a lot of things can naturally store carbon, so maybe trapping carbon is specifically the unnatural capture of it?