Great article Carey and one of hope, if the politicians can get out of their own way and actually follow through on their land management promises!
I've been doing a deep dive into regenerative (holistic) farming practices which have been espoused by people like Allan Savory, author of Holitic Farming Practices 3rd edition 2016 but which he has been discussing since the 1980s and that of the Rodale Institute.
What govt officials in the industrialized world proclaiming the "climate emergency" and the need for drastic cuts in CO2 and other emissions seem to be missing, is the potential to solve many of our agricultural and climate woes by changing the way we manage land and produce food.
For example, in his book Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, mycologist Paul Stamets outlines strategies for increasing soil health, increasing carbon sequestration and increasing food nutrition. Stamets explains that by incorporating mycelial networks into regenerative farming practices we could solve food and climate change challenges. By changing how we farm in the US, about 300 million tons of CO2 could be sequestered every year because the practice of no-till farming and drastically reduce fossil fuel inputs could not only transform convential farms from massive CO2 producing operations to sequester more emissions than they produce!
This very positive and hopeful story is clearly being ignored by politicians around the world who seek to villify farmers in the Netherlands and other countries painting them as larger villians that fossil fuel companies. Not only is this tragically laughable, it should immediately prompt the question that if we take farmers land away (presumably to turn into to more urban sprawl), where will our food come from? Eating insects and lab grown meat is the answer most often promoted but it is so flawed and assinine rendering it non-sensical.
I'd much rather eat grass fed & finished beef, healthier produce and an array of delicious mushrooms that are not only preferable to lab grown and insect fares, they are massively more nutritions, healthy and sustainable to both the plants they interact with but humans as well.
I'd be happy to send you references if you are interested in pursuing this avenue further.
Great article Carey and one of hope, if the politicians can get out of their own way and actually follow through on their land management promises!
I've been doing a deep dive into regenerative (holistic) farming practices which have been espoused by people like Allan Savory, author of Holitic Farming Practices 3rd edition 2016 but which he has been discussing since the 1980s and that of the Rodale Institute.
What govt officials in the industrialized world proclaiming the "climate emergency" and the need for drastic cuts in CO2 and other emissions seem to be missing, is the potential to solve many of our agricultural and climate woes by changing the way we manage land and produce food.
For example, in his book Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, mycologist Paul Stamets outlines strategies for increasing soil health, increasing carbon sequestration and increasing food nutrition. Stamets explains that by incorporating mycelial networks into regenerative farming practices we could solve food and climate change challenges. By changing how we farm in the US, about 300 million tons of CO2 could be sequestered every year because the practice of no-till farming and drastically reduce fossil fuel inputs could not only transform convential farms from massive CO2 producing operations to sequester more emissions than they produce!
This very positive and hopeful story is clearly being ignored by politicians around the world who seek to villify farmers in the Netherlands and other countries painting them as larger villians that fossil fuel companies. Not only is this tragically laughable, it should immediately prompt the question that if we take farmers land away (presumably to turn into to more urban sprawl), where will our food come from? Eating insects and lab grown meat is the answer most often promoted but it is so flawed and assinine rendering it non-sensical.
I'd much rather eat grass fed & finished beef, healthier produce and an array of delicious mushrooms that are not only preferable to lab grown and insect fares, they are massively more nutritions, healthy and sustainable to both the plants they interact with but humans as well.
I'd be happy to send you references if you are interested in pursuing this avenue further.
Cheers!