A leading agricultural scientist has revealed the secret to reversing global waming in a controversial new book that urges governments to support profitable closed-loop recycling. Bill Butterworth, former moderator at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew doesn't shy away from the tough subject of population control either. Bill argues that if the UK government truly wanted to eliminate the need for the majority of landfill they could do so by the year 2020.
(PRWEB) November 9, 2009 -- Appealing to the conscience of the human race to address global warming is doomed to failure says leading UK Agro-Scientist Bill Butterworth. In his fascinating and controversial new book – “Reversing Global Warming for Profit – if it isn’t If it isn't financially sustainable, it isn't environmentally sustainable”, Butterworth proves that the governments of the world have the opportunity to reverse global warming by making it profitable. If you make it profitable it can, and will scale.
Bill’s strong statements are backed up by the most compelling of facts – a farm based recycling program that is already processing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste in the UK, making money and breathing life into the farming industry. The book outlines in detail how the closed-loop recycling program with the farms works. Bill says:
“Whatever you think about global warming and global population growth, or whether you think about it at all, most public discussion centres around everything except what to do about it and how. The reversal of global warming has been done before – after all that is how the fossilised fuel reserves were produced in the first place 360 million years ago – so we know how it works and that it will and can be applied globally. What this book shows is how it can be done here and now. Could the UK government eliminate the need for landfill by the year 2020? If it truly wanted to then yes, and it could be done profitably”.
He goes on to say “Everyone agrees that there is no ‘Magic Bullet’, a single right solution, one route to salvation, one size fits all, and, logically, that must be right. There can be no one energy source that fulfils all human needs and does not destroy our current environment. However, there is one guiding principle which is fundamental and embraced usefully in one word: sustainable. Making reversing global warming a profitable exercise makes it sustainable”.
Bill doesn’t shy away from the awkward subject of population control and in fact tackles it head on in a dedicated Chapter 2. “Whether we like to face it or not, population growth is an issue. We ignore it at our peril. It is nothing whatsoever to do with race, it is to do with numbers. However efficient and sensible we get in the use of energy, the fact is that humans use energy. Every extra human individual makes a contribution to greenhouse gas production and global warming. It may be possible to have a large population and avoid that, but it appears logically to be unlikely, certainly in the timeframe that global warming is likely to be catastrophic.
So, population is an issue. In the short run, every new human means we burn a little more fossilised fuel and produce a little bit more Carbon dioxide”.
Bill’s book draws on two other books written by him over the summer which address the practicalities of domestic and industrial waste – “Garden Composting” and “How to Make On Farm Composting Work” which have already proved very popular in the UK and USA. Those concerned by the capitalist nature of the title of the book shouldn’t worry too much – the farm network built by Bill in the UK is a clever reverse-franchise where the farm’s themselves ultimately own the program.
The book was released on 2nd November and is available from all good bookstores.
Reversing Global Warming – If it isn't financially sustainable, it isn't environmentally sustainable. ISBN 9781904312819, RRP £9.99 - $16.95.
Garden Composting – How Garden Recycling Works. ISBN 9781904312673, RRP £9.99 - $16.95.
How To Make On Farm Composting Work. ISBN 9781904312611, RRP £14.99 - $22.95.
Bill Butterworth Bio
Bill Butterworth CEnv, BScHons (Ag Sci), FIAgrE, FILog, FIT, FCIM, MCIoJ, MASAE, MInstWM is a Chartered Environmentalist, was originally trained as an agricultural scientist and was the architect of Deep Clamp Processing. After an early career combining being a full time Senior Lecturer in agricultural Engineering and being possibly the most prolific agricultural features writer in the world, he worked for the DTI on the Enterprise Initiative as an industrial trouble shooter and strategic planner for 12 years. He has operated on strategic issues at Board level in over 1900 companies in the last 39 years in the UK and overseas. Clients include several UK water companies and a broad band from large operations, such as ICI and British Steel, to small companies and individual farmers. He is a specialist in recycling almost any organic molecule material to land and has experience of many hundreds of thousands of tonnes of operation. One of his connections is that he was, for 24 years, a Moderator at the School of Horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
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