BURN: USING FIRE TO TURN DOWN THE HEAT

Book ID/图书代码： 03008018C00007

English Summary/英文概要： 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. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to save whales, wombats, and wolves. We have to reverse the flow of greenhouse gases and send them in exactly the opposite direction: down, not up. We have to flip the carbon cycle and run it backwards. For such a revolutionary transformation we ll need civilization 2.0. A secret unlocked by the ancients of the Amazon for its ability to transform impoverished tropical soils into terra preta fertile black earths points the way. The indigenous custom of converting organic materials into long lasting carbon has enjoyed a reawakening in recent decades as the quest for more sustainable farming methods has grown. Yet the benefits of this carbonized material, now called biochar, extend far beyond the soil. Pyrolyzing carbon has the power to restore a natural balance by unmining the coal and undrilling the oil and gas. 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 trophic cascades within the world s rivers, oceans, and wetlands to shift urban infrastructures such as buildings, roads, bridges, and ports, incorporating drawdown materials and components, replacing steel, concrete, polymers, and composites with biological carbon to drive economic reorganization by incentivizing carbon drawdown. 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为了从气候灾难中拯救我们自己，我们需要从根本上改变人类在地球上的生活方式。我们必须从消耗碳到储存碳。我们必须恢复树木、湿地和珊瑚。我们必须使土壤再生，使沙漠变回原来的样子。我们必须拯救鲸鱼、袋熊和狼。我们必须逆转温室气体的流动，使其朝着完全相反的方向流动:下降，而不是上升。我们要把碳循环倒过来。要实现这样的革命性变革，我们需要文明2.0。亚马逊的古人解开了一个秘密，这个秘密可以将贫瘠的热带土壤转化为肥沃的黑土。近几十年来，随着对更可持续的农业生产方式的探索不断深入，将有机材料转化为持久碳的本土习俗重新觉醒。然而，这种被称为生物炭的碳化材料的好处远远超出了土壤。热解碳可以通过开采煤炭和开采油气来恢复自然平衡。利用它的全部潜力，它可以逆转碳循环，把地球改造成一个花园星球。燃烧超越了可再生生物质能或碳捕获能源系统，为人类下一阶段的进步提供了一个更宏伟、更大胆的愿景，将碳从浪费的来源转移到土壤和农业系统，以平衡碳、氮和相关循环;提高食物的营养密度;重建表层土;城市和农田和条件抵御洪水和干旱洁净水碳过滤和营养级联世界河流、海洋和湿地转变城市基础设施如建筑、公路、桥梁、港口,将减少材料和组件,代替钢铁、混凝土、聚合物和复合材料生物碳，通过激励推动经济重组碳撤军。完全开发，这种方法不需要成本，相反，它可以节省公司的钱或提供新的收入来源。它包含了一种新的循环经济的种子，在这种经济中，能源、自然资源和人类的聪明才智进入了一个良性的改善循环。燃烧为气候变化提供了大胆的新解决方案，现在就可以开始实施。（WYL）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾伯特•贝茨是国际社区和生态村运动的创始人之一。作为一名律师、科学家和教师，他曾向来自60多个国家的学生讲授过乡村设计、适当的技术和永久种植。他的著作包括《危机中的气候》;《后石油时代生存指南》和《烹饪书》;《生物炭的解决方案》;还有《巴黎协定》。

Albert Bates is one of the founders of the intentional community and ecovillage movements. A lawyer, scientist, and teacher, he has taught village design, appropriate technology, and permaculture to students from more than sixty countries. His books include Climate in Crisis; The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook; The Biochar Solution; and The Paris Agreement.

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