Global warming

I'm not sure exactly. Gabe Brown was able to increase his soil carbon levels from 1.9 in 1991 to 6.1% within 20 years. I did back of the envelope extrapolation that would suggest that we could pull down all the excess carbon in ten to twenty years, if we all farmed in an optimal way for carbon sequestration.

Two problems with that estimate

• One, it's completely over optimistic, but it's worth considering the enormous potential soils have
• Two, that's not going to stop our over consumption of fossil fuels and other resources in every other aspect of life

But there are farmers who have moved the needle in the right direction, and there are papers that suggest that it can make some contribution

Solutions will be different on every farm, but there are a host of solutions to consider

• The multispecies, herbal leys and native meadows I mentioned in my previous post.
• Compost and biological inputs for soil fertility (Korean Natural Farming is awesome)
• Biochar for sequestering carbon and as a kind of microbe and nutrient reservoir in the soil
• Re-intergrating livestock in crop rotations
• Permaculture, agroecology and silvopasture would be near the top of the tree when it comes to practicing agriculture well, but it's a learning curve and we have to start somewhere

I fell down this rabbit hole about ten years ago after watching videos by Alan Savory and Joel Salatin. I was in shock for two or three weeks trying to process how cows could be good for the planet, when it went against everything I had been taught. I realised I didn't know a huge amount about the science of farming, or biology and chemistry knowledge was dumbed down to four elements, N, P and K and a bit of Calcium. Savory's claims may be disputed and in some cases overblown, if the grasslands in certain desert areas didn't co-evolve with ruminants, cows may not be the best tool to restore them, but his ideas do work for some ranchers who have tried them.

But what I learned was that we as humans as a species have placed ourselves outside of nature, we are trying to dominate it with fossil fuels, industrial agriculture, and industrial food, and it's killing us and the health of the planet.

Regenerative farming is about farming with nature, rather than against it, and there's quite a bit of forgiveness in the system if we get it right.

No, they're not "exactly the reason." They contribute. But it all comes down to CO2 in the atmosphere, and most CO2 is sequestered in the ocean. As temperatures rise, more is released, raising the temperature. It's a loop.

There's no one answer to this problem as there's no one cause - cattle emit methane, for example. Burning limestone for concrete releases a lot of CO2. Not just burning fossil fuels.

A little less hysterical posting here would help the discussion along.

Sure and it leads to things (discussed here earlier) about the AMOC shutting down, which by any analysis would be catastrophic to the ocean biosphere and life on the surface. Unfortunately that got shouted down by the deniers with their usual "it's always been a cycle!" nonsense. Now we have 'here's some unproven snake-oil that'll save us all!' crowd doing the same.

Really, all this stems from human overpopulation. More people == more warming. Everything else is the details. I've followed the issues for most of my adult life and to date, nothing's working. So, if you add to the population, you doom your offspring to live with the consequences. Good luck to them.

yup, cause lifes way too fcuking short!

Every video you post increases the disinterest in the thread. 😂

Says man who opposes reducing fossil fuel use.