Charles Gant MD, PhD

The Regenerative Agriculture movement promises to sequester a trillion tons[1] of atmospheric carbon dioxide into agricultural soils[2] and save us from Climate Change.  There is indeed An Earthly Chance[3] that human beings will come to understand that sequestering atmospheric carbon into our agricultural soils and agricultural products, like wood products and lumber, is the only […]

The term suicide can be used as a noun (the act of committing suicide), a verb meaning to put oneself to death as in “suiciding,” and an adjective as in “a suicide mission.” Whether used as a noun, verb or an adjective it generally is also defined as the intentional taking of one’s own life. 

Our planet’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have varied substantially in the last 500 million years, and we are currently living in an era (The Quarternary Era[1]) of extremely low atmospheric CO2 levels (Figure 1).[2]  The highest atmospheric CO2 levels existed during the Cambrian Era (see Figure 1), and were about 16 times higher than the

Commentary on The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell The following is a quote from a subsection in Chapter 2 of the book, An Earthly Chance[1], entitled “Understanding Stuff.”  “Take a moment to look around you.  Everything you see that is man-made[2] was originally derived from those

The United Nations sponsored graph below, ten years outdated (2011), suggests that the world’s population could explode to nearly 16 billion by 2100 unless significant efforts are made to control population growth.  The World’s population is currently accelerating at 1.1% every year[1] and could easily surpass the 16 billion depicted in the graph below.  The

Matthew 18:3 KJV: And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. ~Jesus of Nazareth The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ~ Albert

Trillions of US tax dollars have funded alternative energy sources in an irrational and misguided attempt to destroy the petroleum industry which provides the only source of energy generation that is inexpensive, reliable, portable, scalable, and plentiful.  Like most illogical and wasteful government spending, politicians and bureaucrats somehow expect the world to somehow shift its