I recently finished a book on kelp and shellfish farming and how powerful they are on the environment:
Growing them filters nitrogen, sequesters carbon, and requires zero inputs (no food, no fresh water, and almost no care) but creates fuel, food, fertilizer, and feed.
The farms are relatively cheap to set-up and can net the owners around 100k a year.
In the book, the author calls this “regenerative capitalism” and cites this paper (which I’ve just started):
EDIT: can’t even add web addresses here! Arg! Just google “regenerative capitalism john fullerton pdf” and you can read it.
I do think capitalism, as it’s been going, is doomed to destroy the planet, but I think new ways of economic thinking can solve the problem.
Thoughts?
