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“..some indication that the universe is for us rather than against us.”This term I found in Thomas Berry’s book of Great Work. Thomas Berry is a historian of cultures, comes to from the hill country of the Southern Appalachians. He was born in the beginning of the First World War.

Ecozoic Era, as Berry’s says, refer to the period when humans will present to the planet as participating members of comprehensive Earth community. To reach that era, humans need to manage arduous transition. And he called this effort as Great Work.

Berry describes the Ecozoic Era will emergent after Cenozoic Era terminated. Cenozoic era is period of life development on the earth. At the moment, Cenozoic era is declining as the earth is so damaged and the future so challenged by its human population that the terms of survival will be severe beyond anything known in the past.

At the last page, Berry pints out the foundations of the new historical period. We have foundations of Ecozoic Era that have been established in every realm of human affairs. But, even humans make transition into the new century we must note that moments of grace are transient moment. The transformation must take place within in brief period.

Hmm…

Berry gives us many insights. He urges us to rethinking our roles on the earth. After our world experienced several eras, the Cenozoic Era is very interesting. Although the earth have been exploited by cutting the forest, damming the rivers it has also been adorned by the pyramid in Egypt, Great Wall of China and great temple Borobudur of Indonesia. These are even human achievements.

One of the human achievements that Berry doesn’t talk is global warming. All of us must receive the impact of our work in the past and unfair policy. It might be a proud that human reach a great period of business, sciences and immense infrastructures. Meanwhile in another side of the world, people get starving because their crops are collapsed either by long drought or flood. What a poor world…~

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Debating biofuel as promising commodity has been months. Some scientits argued that biofuel is not eco-friendly as alternative fuel. Inline with this, recent news of BBC talks about doubt of leaders on biofuel development.

The leaders are Bolivian President Evo Morales and President Alan Garcia of Peru. They warned biofuel development could harmed poor people. In the other hand, UK Prime Minister said that “UK should be more selective in our support for biofuel”

Biofuel development threats forest in tropical area, such Indonesia. Studies link oil palm plantation expansion with deforestation. In fact, it happened in Sumatra and Kalimantan mineral soil, as well as the peat soil. However, producing biodiesel from unsustainable oil palm plantation is unfavorable.

Even biofuel crops such jatropha could planted in marginal land, there’s another force on food security. Yeah, right, it’s about price. Recently food commodities price comes higher and higher. It’s not only maize that pushed by ethanol demand, but it happens in rice too.

An interesting fact found in a discussion. Some scholars raised question about the roles of forest providing food. With its environmental services in maintain hydrological balance in ecosystem, forest plays as main component in water supplying for food crops cultivation. Under agroforestry system, forest area could be used for staple food planting.

Amid increasing biofuel pressure on rainforest ecosystem, there’s still a way to tackle food crisis.~

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As experts says, deforestation is estimated to be responsible for around 20 percent of all human-induced CO2 emissions. Most of this effect being happen in tropical forest. However this figure is highly uncertain. According to 2007 GTZ report, the reasons are:

• There is a notorious lack in reliable forest inventories.
• the ascertainment of deforestation depends on the diverging definitions of forests
• Greenhouse gas emissions from forest degradation (i.e. vegetation loss inside a standing forest) are difficult to estimate, and there is no single accepted definition of it Re-growth after deforestation
• N2O and CH4 emissions due to forest fires have not yet been quantified on a global scale, but they contribute in a significant way to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

What do you think? Should we give priority to avoiding deforestation?

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