What is very interesting about this is the relationship between post Colombian reforestation of the amazon and the little ice age in Europe. According to Stanford University’s geochemist Richard Nevle’s reported released in October of 2011, it looks like one of the primary causes for the Little Ice Age between 1500 and the early 1600’s was the reforestation of the amazon after most if it's population was wiped out through contact with Europeans and their diseases. The re-growing forest took so much CO2 out of the air that is actually cooled the earth to the point where it contributed significantly to the little ice age dropping world temps 2-3 degrees. Now before you confuse the issue by blaming it on sun spots or volcanism as the culprit, the CO2 that was missing was carbon 12 only, not carbon 13. Carbon 12 is used by biological organisms to the exclusion of 13. This was born out by Antarctic ice cores that had a skewed 12-13 ratio during that time period.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/columbus-arrival-linked-carbon-dioxide-drop

If this is the case then it stands to reason (with the amount of land under propagation currently) if they were switched back from carbon producing petro-chemical-mining agriculture to carbon sequestering mycoagriculture, this would solve the problem of climate change due to global warming. Not only from the reduction of CO2 but of N2O which is 298 times the greenhouse gas that CO2 is. This is the elephant in the room that not many are talking about as Jim pointed out to me. Yet. Strangely enough, if all the propagated land was all turned back at once, we could actually cause another ice age by mining the atmosphere too heavily if the Amazon regrowth factor is any indicator!!!

As I am delving into this topic with Jim, we are finding that this problem is reminding us of how paleontological “bone” problems are solved. In paleontology, when you find bones, they tell a story. In general they are not in any particular order, jumbled bones that had been disturbed by predators and further distributed by weather. This is called disarticulation. On the other hand, on occasion, the bones are in place where the animal died or articulated. When you find an articulated skeleton, you can tell what the creature was right away, the relationship of the bones is unequitable.  In the case of the information underpinning the CAN concept, a lot of the supporting information is disarticulated and we have simply articulated it so that it is all mutually supporting (like what your skeleton does for your body). The other thing that we have observed is that this disarticulated mycological skeleton is also missing the skull for the most part. Now, in this paleontological analogy, if you are missing the skull of an animal and only have the rest of the skeleton, you can tell a lot about what you have but much of the purpose of that creature is expressed in the skull. On the other hand, if you find only the skull, you can figure out a lot about the creature vs just having the body bones.  In this analogy we have articulated the body parts (the existing scientific and academic papers) and discovered the skull that operates the body. In laymen’s terms, “mycelium is the keystone organism in the rhizosphere” (Jim bell quote). It intelligently manipulates and regulates the environment for the benefit of itself and the other organisms in the ecosystem.

At this point this not a question of what to do but how quickly this can be accomplished. These are the basics, there is a steep uphill learning curve from here. More like a steep spiral down the rabbit hole into The Matrix to be succinct ;>) What I am developing over all is the use of mycelium as a tool, taking the mystery out of mycelium and putting its application into the hands of the average person. To this end, the next installment will be focused on the concept of Personal Carbon and the training of mycelium for use as a tool (and the other loose ends in this paper too). How each individual can own a sustainable piece of the future by utilizing mycelium to mine the air of CO2 and N2O for produce, pleasure and profit!! The powers that be don’t seem to be inclined to deal with this problem in a timely manner so it’s up to you and me. Shut your pie hole, open your ears/eyes and roll up your sleeves with us!!!

Remember, in the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king.