Finally forced to acknowledge the catastrophic impacts of climate change Republican lawmakers want to plant a trillion trees. Honestly, as Republican climate proposals go that doesn't sound so bad, but the math just doesn't add up. (From 2019)
sequestered, measured through regular tests of soil health. Perry says they expected to have 3 million acres signed up in the first year, and instead they have 10 million acres in the first 100 days. World: saved!of 150,000 sample points all over Earth said that since the advent of agriculture, we’ve lost about 133 billion tons of carbon from the ground.
Indigo disagrees, of course. “His argument is based on two premises, neither of which we know to be true. The first is that you can accurately estimate how much carbon has been lost from the soil, and that’s really hard,” Perry says. “The second piece is, his premise is that you can’t put more carbon back into the soil than was there to begin with, and I think we can say with a lot of confidence that’s not true. There’s no reason to think that nature was looking to maximize carbon in the soil.
It’s possible to imagine agriculture as a kind of geoengineering, of improving on nature’s yields and productivity. If it could also improve on nature’s ability to put carbon in the ground, that would be transformative. But there’s no evidence yet people can do it at a scale that it can by itself save the planet. Implying otherwise might even be its own kind of moral hazard, encouraging people to keep on coughing carbon into the atmosphere if they figure trees and cover crops will save us.
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