[Stoves] [biochar-policy] World Population and Daily Income

[Kevin]

Dear Ron

While the Video was politically slanted to influence Immigration Policy within the USA, the facts of the matter are that there are a lot of poor people in the world, who are struggling to keep alive. 

My posting is not about the Tea Party, Racism, Propaganda, Politics, or Roy Beck. My posting was about the facts that he presents in a dramatic and understandable manner. I feel that these cruel and sad facts are very important, and that their consequences can be of great importance to the nature and extent of increased use of biochar, and improved stoves, in the "Bottom of the Pyramid Market."

Biochar will rise or fall on its own merits. Nothing bad I can say against Biochar will retard its general acceptance, if its fundamentals are good. Your Ad Hominum attacks are futile. They won't sell a pound of biochar. If you actually want to expand the use of biochar into the "Bottom of the Pyramid Market", all you have to do is address the issues I raised below in my first point:
1: ===> What can biochar do for these people, and what would it have to cost, to be affordable to them?

Would you not agree that addressing the above issues is a good place to start?

Best wishes,

Kevin


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ronal W. Larson 
  To: Biochar-Policy ; Kevin Chisholm 
  Cc: Discussion of biomass 
  Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 11:27 AM
  Subject: Re: [biochar-policy] World Population and Daily Income


  Kevin  cc List


  I am not going to respond.  There is close to zero connection between US immigration policy and your questions.  I take your questions to be an excuse to bring in a non-germane video by a master propaganda artist.


  I googled for Roy Beck and didn’t like what I saw.  Others should look at what is said by an organization I admire (http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/spring/lie-down-with-dogs)   


  Beck is listed as a mentor for my former Congressman,  Tom Tancredo - who is as racist as they come (just came in second in the Colorado Republican Gubernatorial race).  I can’t believe that Beck has any interest in increasing US Foreign Aid for topics like biochar and char-making stoves.   The American people (even R’s) are overwhelmingly for the immigration reform bill already passed by the US Senate.  It is held up by the Teaparty R’s - for what seems to me to be rcist reasons.  Why US immigration policy is important to you, a Canadian, is unclear.  I am not for increasing immigration;  I am for passing this reform legislation - opposed by Tancredo, the Tea Party and Beck


   In any case, this list broke off from the stoves list - which is where your second question belongs, as I’m sure you know.


  There is plenty on this list archives to answer your first question.  You have continually knocked everything possible about biochar - and this seems in the same vein, although veiled.


  Ron




  On Jul 11, 2014, at 12:38 AM, 'Kevin' kchisholm at ca.inter.net [biochar-policy] <biochar-policy at yahoogroups.com> wrote:


    

    This video Clip
    http://www.youtube.com/embed/LPjzfGChGlE
    is about US Immigration Policy.

    World population is about 7.2 billion people ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population )

    The Video Clip states that about 3 billion people earn an average of LESS than $2 per day. Expressed in different terms, 41.6% of the World Population earns less than $2 per day.

    This brings up 2 interesting questions:

    1: ===> What can biochar do for these people, and what would it have to cost, to be affordable to them?
    2: ===> What kind of stoves do these people really need, and how much must they be delivered for, in order for them to be a sensible investment?

    Kevin




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