Dash For Power

A recent article had us discuss the satellite maps that display how the swirling wind currents take soot from India and deposit it over Arctic ice, and this good news towards that problem deals with that. A British television documentary has just had us follow a Chinese farmer who has created his simple yet effective means of getting away from gathering wood to cook the evening fire, causing all that soot in their house and all the way over the seas.

Bio Gas. Poop. The proud farmer showed what he is doing to help global warming. Their own toilet and the cattle poop are sent through several plastic tubes to a cement tub sunk in the ground. We see the bubbling stew of human and animal waste, and coming out of the center is another tube, which we follow, tacked up under the rafters of their tiny, tidy home, to the gas stove.

The wife turns the gas on, as she is about to prepare dinner, and she talks through a translator how much cleaner their home is now, compared to when they burned wood or coal to cook the meals: the children were always coughing and sick and she never felt well. Now, she looked healthy: they feel rich now. Since her husband read of this from information from the government, he had managed to build one of the first in the village: others now copy their example, and those who do not are still the sickly ones with soot filled houses, and are the poorest as they spend little time improving their fields in their search for firewood to cook their next meal: they have no time, no time, all work.

The documentary tells us and shows examples that the government of China is encouraging and helping build one hundred million such bio gas containers in the next few years. What this is doing to improve the atmosphere is also doing that which has always helped pull people out of poverty and closer to civilized comfort. They now have time to work the fields, make improvements to their equipment, that before had been wasted searching for firewood to cook by.

This seems like one of the least expensive programs the world should help make happen. In desert Africa, they also scramble for sticks of wood to cook their meal, with the cattle nearby. This seems something so inexpensive that all should not somehow help create a billion such gas creating climate cleansing containers, then a billion more.

The earth is warming, and any denial of that fact requires mind numbing stupidity or refusal to watch the numbers on the United Nations temperature reading, as the numbers click on up. We all need to encourage wise care of our good mother earth. This seems one good way.

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