Re: From the site Soil Not Oil, of which Shiva is one of the organisers,... Archived Message
Posted by Garry on March 4, 2019, 11:26 pm, in reply to "Re: From the site Soil Not Oil, of which Shiva is one of the organisers,..."
There's this bit on her Navdanya site about Regenerative Agriculture which again looks like a more sober assessment of what might be possible, though I think she's hoping it will be possible to go beyond that. Regenerating Living Carbon in the Soil through Organic Farming "...Organic farming - working with nature - takes excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, where it doesn’t belong, and through photosynthesis, puts it back in the soil where it belongs. It also increase the water holding capacity of soil, contributing to resilience in times of more frequent droughts, floods and other climate extremes. Organic farming has the potential of sequestering 10 Giga tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the amount needed to be removed from the atmosphere to keep atmospheric carbon below 350 parts per million, and the average temperature increase of 2 degrees centigrade. We can bridge the emissions gap through ecological agriculture now, not at some point in the future, through ecological agriculture, working with nature. And the more biodiversity and biomass we grow, the more the plants x atmospheric carbon and nitrogen, and reduce both emissions and the stocks of pollutants on the air. Carbon is returned to the soil through plants. at is why the connection between biodiversity and climate change is an intimate connection. e more the biodiversity and biomass intensification of forests and farms, the more organic matter is available to return to the soil, thus reversing the trends towards desertification, which is the primary reason for displacement and uprooting of people and the creation of refugees (Source: Navdanya Manifesto Terra Viva : Our Soils, our Commons, our Future)..." Navdanya
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