Food, oil, nutrients… CO2, waste, pollution…

Natural Resources

Threats to Humanity

For centuries, humanity has been plundering the earth…

CO2

Trace nutrients

Growth minerals

History of Earth’s Resources

Non-biodegradable pollution

• We have turned fossil fuels into excess CO2 in We have turned fossil fuels into excess CO2 in the air, leading to, for example, climate chaos the air, leading to, for example, climate chaos and the energy crisis.and the energy crisis.

• Key nutrients, which we fail to put back into our Key nutrients, which we fail to put back into our depleted soil, have been washed out to sea, depleted soil, have been washed out to sea, leaving us increasingly vulnerable to modern leaving us increasingly vulnerable to modern diseases, such as cancer.diseases, such as cancer.

• In our manufacturing processes we create In our manufacturing processes we create disposable but non-biodegradable, toxic disposable but non-biodegradable, toxic materials. materials.

Food, oil, nutrients… CO2, waste, pollution…

Natural Resources

Threats to Humanity

We must quickly turn those threats back into the inheritance our children

should have shared instead…

CO2

World Resources

eg food & fuel, materials…

We can do this with the simplest form of plant life – algae – the

green slime in the seas

Wave pump

Starting from the desert coastline, use wave (or wind/solar) energy to pump sea water inland

Salt

10% Seawater

Solar de-salination

Fresh Water

CO2

Algae

Seawater

Desalinate some of it and mix with raw sea water to produce the concentration at which microalgae multiply at maximum rate (an absolute max of 40 times/day!)

AlgaeSolid Fertiliser

Liquid Fertiliser

Methane Gas

Anaerobic Biodigester

Cultivate and harvest microalgae, and break it down using anaerobic bacteria to produce methane gas and liquid/solid fertiliser

Plant foodSolid Fertiliser

Liquid Fertiliser

Methane Gas

Anaerobic Biodigester

Energy

Growing medium

CO2Water

vapour

Plant food

Burn the methane gas to produce energy. Fertilise and grow trees (or other vegetation) in an inflatable-walled dome into which the carbon dioxide and water vapour from the burning methane are pumped to boost growth.

Plant foodPlant food

Move dome further inland, extend the piping, and repeat, progressively refertilising deserts, and growing trees, super-foods, ethical biofuels, medicines and biodegradable, non-toxic materials – reversing climate change and growing the world economy IN HARMONY with the planet.

Plant food

Rising Sap

Replacing the trees we originally cut down for our crops and cattle, will bring rainfall back to the swathes of desert we left behind us (NOW 75% OF THE WORLD’S LAND)

The solution is to convert sunlight, excess CO2, and sea water rapidly into a nutrient-rich plant biomass

(marine algae / seaweed) to refertilise the world’s wastelands and deserts (75% of the world’s land) and

grow more than enough ethical biofuels, highly nutritious superfoods and natural materials, etc, reversing

climate change, ending pollution, restoring confidence and stabilising the world economy in the process.