Ancient skills 'could reverse global warming'
Ancient techniques pioneered by pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians are about to be pressed into service in Britain and Central America in the most serious commercial attempt yet to reverse global warming.
Trials are to be started in Sussex and Belize early in the new year, backed with venture capital from Silicon Valley, on techniques to take carbon from the atmosphere and bury it in the soil, where it should act as a powerful fertiliser.
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My problem with this theory is the length of time to grow the trees (a good size tree takes 14-20 years to grow). And then there are the sleaze-bags who would try to profit from this by burning trees in the Amazon or other places where there are wildlife and flowers, etc, that have never been seen by man. A good idea that I hope works, but please get the kinks worked out before starting something that couldn't be reversed.