Ron House

Carbon is Life: Why Humans and Wildlife Depend Upon Carbon Dioxide Nutrient, and How False Global Warming Claims Put All Our Lives at Ron House

Publisher Marketing: CARBON IS LIFE is the must-read book for everyone concerned with the environment and the wonderful creatures who share it with us. The writer, a trained scientist, shows why carbon dioxide, far from being "pollution," is actually the essential basis of life on Earth. The book is written for the intelligent lay reader. It shows, with reference to thousands of peer-reviewed scientific experiments, how more carbon dioxide in the air will feed hundreds of millions of humans and untold numbers of wildlife. This means that, as a society, we are currently setting up taxes on carbon that will force us to do exactly the opposite of what is needed to help the planet and ourselves. These are huge and vitally important claims, the truth of which would require us to completely reverse course on all our 'climate change' policies. Accordingly, Carbon Is Life sets out the case in a clear and logical way so that the reader can verify the facts for him- or herself. But as important as the hard facts is the puzzle of how we could all come to believe the precise opposite of the truth? To gain some insight into this, the author explores our situation as members of a unique technological species, and our exile from the natural world that followed from our technological mastery, and which is portrayed symbolically in the story of the Garden of Eden. The book ends with some suggestions from the author about our future and our choices as the "thinking, tool-making, language-using, record-keeping, technological, star-gazing, story-telling, civilisation-building species that nature made us." Contributor Bio:  House, Ron Gitie and Ron have been talking to the wild birds that live in the open Australian bush in Southern Queensland for over twelve years. The birds range from the big and aggressive such as crows to the small and vulnerable like thornbills. Six of the species that have formed long term friendships are considered to be amongst the top eight most aggressive birds in the country. Chief amongst them are the magpies, who are well known for attacking humans, particularly during breeding season. Yet these birds have taken Gitie and Ron to their nests, and brought their young to them, even leaving their chicks behind with their human baby-sitters, while they go off bug-hunting. Their friendship with the birds that live freely in the wild has given Ron and Gitie a special insight into bird culture, their inner natures and their emotional and social intelligence. They know over eighty wild birds by name. The birds have shown them how they communicate with each other in their families, their groups and the wider bird communities involving other species, including how they remember relationships, pass messages, negotiate territories, offer services, cooperate and collaborate with each other as well as with other animals. Above all they have shown their eagerness in forming friendships with those humans who are prepared to communicate with them and so become part of an integrated extended family and network.