Reframing Climate Change
It is time that we adequately frame climate change.
Until very recently I thought and and talked as though CO2 was the major greenhouse gas and that solutions would come out of sequestering carbon and stopping CO2 emissions. I understand that CO2 is a key player, but that H2O is by far the major greenhouse gas. If we focus narrowly on reducing CO2 and it belches right back out of the ocean, then we should spend most of our energy on regenerating living soil.
Yards, parks, farms and ranches need to be the main focus and where maximum funding goes. It seems to me that most people are focused on sequestering and preventing CO2 from getting in the air. We really need to create the conditions where we put as much CO2 as we can back in the soil where it came from. Our workforce are the trillions upon trillions of organisms that built and have been regulating planetary temperature. Human soil practices have been killing these organisms so they cannot do their jobs. We need to begin immediately.
Walter Jehne - Please watch and absorb his video presentation. His reframing the climate solution has given me great hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQN9t-g2J-0
David C. Johnson and his wife Su have created the Johnson-Su compost bioreactor which creates fungal rich microbial inoculant that helps rebalance soil life creating the soil carbon sponge that Jehne talks about. Our task will be to make his work more understandable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO2nGHq40Xc&t=1061s
Christine Jones - Her understanding of the social and communication capacities of soil microbes and their working together to create carbon rich soil is eye opening. Jones shows how ineffective monocrops are to produce healthy food and sequester carbon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTBRL0SYq0&t=5615s
And then there is Gabe Brown, practical farmer/rancher who is putting this regenerative agriculture to the benefit of his and the Earth’s bottom line.
