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I don't know how people are eliding "forests" from my statement about soil. Soil is important and poorly understood[0], which is ironic because it's where most
by scottlocklin 6y ago
I don't know how people are eliding "forests" from my statement about soil. Soil is important and poorly understood[0], which is ironic because it's where most carbon capture is happening now. Forests are nice, and everyone likes forests, but soil is pushing the needle in ways that a shitload of 500 year old houses ain't gonna[1].
[0]https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2017/11/13/where-is-all-that-carbon-dioxide-is-going/ https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2017/11/13/where-is-all-that-c...
[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/115/46/11652 https://www.pnas.org/content/115/46/11652
- looseLief 6y agoTo be fair, you can never discuss forests in any sort of scientific manner without discussing soils. The two are fundamentally linked. That said, regenerative agriculture is probably the single best carbon sequestration technology that we have given the raw amount of land we have depleted of its organic matter.