I mean, it seems you’re framing the issue in a disingenuous way, unless I’m missing something. Cutting carbon emissions is about mitigating the environmental and atmospheric effects of global warming, not soil health. I agree that both are important things to work on for future generations, but I think the global warming thing is the more acute issue, hence the focus. If this planet becomes uninhabitable in the next 300 years, then our soil issues are mute. Additionally, the atmospheric changes of global warming are important for biodiversity and soil health, but not necessarily the other way around.
Granted, these are not my areas of expertise, so it’s very possible that I’m wrong. Feel free to correct me with available data.
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95% of food production comes from soil, and areable soils are disappearing at an alarming rate. FAO in 2015 stated there are approximately 60 harvests left…
Soils contain a shitpile of carbon, and that’s not including organic (peat) soils. Disturbance and increased air temps speed up this release.
I don’t think I’m understating things
Memes with good messages are the best.
For anyone interested to learn more about soil I recommend the Documentary “Kiss The Ground”
The #1 cause of deforestation is animal agriculture. Go Vegan.
Mate me going vegan ain’t going stop BP or Exxon. Eat them instead
Oil companies have plenty of horrible environmental impacts, but direct deforestation isn’t really one. If we look at Amazon deforestation for instance:
Extensive cattle ranching is the number one culprit of deforestation in virtually every Amazon country, and it accounts for 80% of current deforestation
This comment did way less than going Vegan.
Yeah well, everything is pretty much on fire at the same time, but the climate crisis does seem to burn the fastest.
It’s truly insane how unsustainable modern industrial agriculture is. I’m hoping to dedicate my career towards sustainable agriculture somehow. Soil health is planetary health.
Take a soil science or agronomy degree. There are tons of old pedologists retiring.
Ah, I’ve already finished my master’s in engineering. I’m hoping to get into making tools for making regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, etc. less labor-intensive and thus more cost-competitive. Good suggestion for others only just starting their educations, though!
