Readit Newsddebernardy commented on The Science Is Wrong: It's Soil, Not Oil (Climate) ddebernardy.substack.com/... · Posted by u/ddebernardy
I really like your point about working with nature leading to more abundance. I think that a broad approach is still necessary to make any sort of real impact to curb climate change. Sure focusing only on curbing fossil fuels won't work, but I also think that only focusing on the agriculture industry similarly won't work. Sweeping change can't happen all at once, so changing many industries little by little I think will have the largest impact.
For the longest of times I thought the same way. Realizing that the actual issue was almost entirely tied to topsoil loss is what made me change my mind.
If you look into the atmospheric carbon dioxide data, you'll observe seasonal up and downs with the low point that takes us back to around where the high point from about a decade earlier. This means that we could resolve the issue very quickly in a scenario where farms keep enough plants around to soak up the soil emissions during tilling and harvesting operations.
Alley cropping is just one option to do so, btw. As I explain in a separate article [1], any well designed intercropping scenario should do the trick. The point is to not have a wide open field with no plants that could keep the fungi alive, block the wind to keep the carbon dioxide around, and soak up the carbon dioxide.
It can't be perfect because of night emissions and because trees eventually lose their leaves in the fall, but we can do far better than what we're currently doing.
[1]: http://ddebernardy.substack.com/p/stop-climate-agenda-soil-n...
ddebernardy commented on The Science Is Wrong: It's Soil, Not Oil (Climate) ddebernardy.substack.com/... · Posted by u/ddebernardy
Author here.
TL;DR for those who don't click links:
- Corporate green solutions are shams
- Promote gardening if you care about fossil fuels
- An accounting chicanery keeps natural emissions out of view
- The hockey stick is actually about canopy loss
- Switching to alley cropping would reverse it
Happy to answer questions.
ddebernardy commented on Help Stop the Climate Agenda: It's Soil, Not Oil ddebernardy.substack.com/... · Posted by u/ddebernardy
Author here.
TL;DR for those who don't click links: Corporate green solutions are shams. Promote gardening if you care about fossil fuels. An accounting chicanery keeps natural emissions out of view. The hockey stick is actually about canopy loss. Switching to alley cropping would reverse it. Promote food sovereignty if you care about ending oppression. Share this if you’d like to do your bit. Also, we need some help: can you offer work, support, or a retweet [1]?
[1] https://twitter.com/ddebernardy/status/1591198286790418432
Happy to answer questions over the WE.
ddebernardy commented on A Natural Language: Exposing Environmental Big Lies ddebernardy.substack.com/... · Posted by u/ddebernardy
Author here.
This is a TL;DR version for readers who only read discussions. The link is a summary of my short book, which you can read online at the same address.
What the book does is expose an accounting chicanery that underpins the fossil fuel narrative for climate change. In a nutshell, the carbon accounting framework separates land-based emissions from other emissions like fossil fuel, and builds on the idea that you can't do much about the former. This is actually false, as evidenced by forestry research, and it provides cover for land theft and ecofascism in developing countries. The book goes on to provide a soil-based explanation for the carbon hockey stick and its global desertification ramifications. Lastly, it puts bottom-up solutions in front of the problem that communities can implement now without depending on governments.
I feel like this goes for so many issues as well. Sure, we can fight cholera in developing countries by providing clean water sources and administering vaccines, but we can also do so by providing universal education and economic opportunity. There is no one solution to these large problems.
There are plenty of good reasons to not like fossil fuels, mind you. But the carbon hockey stick is not one of them.