: Johann Pichler
: CO? a curse or a blessing? Ways to achieve the climate goals
: novum publishing
: 9781642687453
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
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Climate change is undisputed, but how do we deal with carbon dioxide, which is considered the scapegoat for global warming? This book offers a critical look at CO? and its role in the current climate debate. It sheds light on the influence of agriculture and forestry, the importance of tree species selection in afforestation, the challenges of using biogas and hydrogen, and questions the role of fossil fuels. You will learn how forest fires and land use affect the climate and which methods can actually help reduce CO?. It also shows why CO? should be seen not only as an environmental problem, but also as an essential component for life on Earth. A guide for anyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between CO? and our planet.

 

Sugar factory

For the most part, the slaves were also allowed to continue cultivating their culture. They only had to adopt the Christian faith and, as we were able to see, were even able to build a beautiful church in the city of Salvador de Bahia, which I believe is called"the blue church".

The cultivation of sugar cane and the export of sugar brought a certain amount of wealth to the country. The guide explained to us that a sugar embargo was imposed on France and its allies during the Napoleonic Wars in Europe.

In Europe, research was carried out and sugar beet was cultivated. As a result, the cultivation of the sugar cane plantations became unprofitable and the landowners and workers left the area. No one has yet been found to cultivate these areas. I have read that arable farming should be possible there after the grass felt has been burned off. There is also talk of soybean cultivation, but this would probably require irrigation. In any case, there are hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable landlying fallow here that could be cultivated with crops, which would be good for the environment.

Wasteland in Bahia

In the 17th century, the land was cleared for the cultivation of sugar cane. A lot of wood was needed to evaporate the water during sugar production, which was taken from the adjacent forest. As a result, the areas suitable for cultivation became ever larger and huge areas of wasteland were created next to them. In our area, nature would reclaim the land in 100 years, even without cultivation. In the dry, tropical climatic regions, shrubs are only sporadically established, mostly through bird seed.

A documentary about the Amish was recently shown on television. Due to their religious beliefs, theyare not allowed to use electricity, cars, tractors or telephones.

The main settlement area was the region around Lancaster in Pennsylvania. In 1992, I visited this area on a round trip from New York and the Niagara Falls. The way of life of these"Amish People" was explained to us in an open-air museum. They earn their living by growing tobacco because it requires a lot of manual labor. Due to the smoking ban, less tobacco is now needed.

In 2004, during a round trip in the Midwest, I passed by there again and I couldn't believe my eyes when Chinese staff in the stores of the open-air museum also offered goods from China.

Many of the"Amish People" went to the city or bought machines to grow other crops and were therefore excluded from the religious community.

In a TV documentary on"Servus TV" about the"Amish People", it was shown that some groups from Pennsylvania - USA sold their land and moved to Peru. There were already small indigenous settlements in the Amazon rainforest and they were able to buy agricultural land from them.

The leader of the group explained that this soil was good and they were goin