The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00INC9TGI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 163 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Will Save Us" it seemed to me that a better title would have been "How We Will Save the In reading "The Soil Will Save Us" it seemed to me that a better title would have been "How We Will Save the Soil". There is a lot of good information about soil conservation, but you don't find out until the last two pages about the potential impact of soil health on climate change -- and even those two pages seem have to be written almost as an afterthought. The information that the book presents on soil and climate is just the tip of the iceberg; for example, see the video atrodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/.The book is a. Heal the Soil to Reverse Global Warming Peter Harris I haven't met a soil scientist that I didn't like. They are always quirky, hopeful, and passionate about what they study. It's probably that childlike connection to playing in the dirt and the realization that is plays such a significant role in life. Although Ohlson is not a soil scientist, she is not stranger to digging deep into topics.I knew that this would be a good book to read when I picked it up, and as I read on, my conviction was supported. It is a quick read that will reach a mainstream audience, beyond those familiar with Ruth Stout (Gardening Without. The Soil is very important Another good book about the importance of the Soil and how destructive industrial farming really is. I am not a Global Warmer but am an organic farmer knowing out health has been drastically effected by the over abundance of chemicals used both in the soil and our food and medications.
That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. Ohlson introduces the visionaries-scientists, farmers, ranchers, and landscapers-who are figuring out in the lab and on the ground how to build healthy soil, which solves myriad problems: Drought, erosion, air and water pollution, and food quality, as well as climate change. Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices-and, especially, modern industrial agriculture-have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. A chance conversation with a local chef led her to the crossroads of science, farming, food, and environmentalism and the discovery of the only significant way to remove carbon dioxide from the air-an ecological approach that tends not only to plants and animals but also to the vast population of underground microorgan