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I have been commenting more and more on the issue of climate change, agriculture & grazing, and carbon sequestration (which is part of the climate change discussion AND healthy soil). Because of my last comments here I got 3 invitations to expand my comments on various socialist blogs. I got a few "nasties" from some militant vegans as well (though these stemmed from Facebook postings as one might expect). Anyway, as part of my own limited education on this I saw a link to an article by a PhD. agronomist and soil fertility expert Dr. Christine Jones from Australia on the leftist pro-rural folks/farming FB group, The Soil Alliance ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/soilalliance/ ). I have heard Dr. Jones speak on a lot of YouTube videos previously in the last year as everyone into soil fertility and restorative agriculture recommends her highly. But I never read anything by her, being the lazy person I am I just watched the videos. But Dave Riley posted the following essay to the Soil Alliance page. I thought it was singularly the best explanation of the relationship between proper agricultural methods of farming and CO2 sequestration I've ever read. If only because it not that long and highly educational for the non-ag person like me but because it covers everything from a scientific and engineering POV of why this question may be the biggest technological tool to fight climate change as part of any program to seriously fight against climate change, providing a living for anyone who applies these techniques and restores our soil to what they once were it there is. So it gets my ringing endorsement. If you are interested in how agricultural can sequester carbon while growing more food for our species in an eco-firendly way, you should read this essay. I left some comments on the FB page I linked to above if you are interested at all in specifics aspects I thought were not given enough space in Dr. Jone's essay. http://ecofarmingdaily.com/soil-restoration-5-core-principles/ --David Walters _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
