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I’m not sure I understand why we would want to put things back into the carbon cycle? Isn’t the problem that we have to much gaseous carbon out there at the mom

• hosh 5y ago
  Most of what you hear about sequestering carbon are too simplistic of strategies and models, and usually do not take into the account the bio-availability of carbon. Carbon that is eaten and used by plants, sequestered in soil are bio-available in the ecosystem, and if designed well, then there can be many kinds of yields useful for human. Healthy soil -- not dirt! -- with living organisms holding it, has a dramatic effect on the microclimate of the area, and helps regulate the microclimate across the solar cycle. When you have bare dirt, and no plants or anything living there, then the area gains more temperature variability. Because of the way we farm in the modern world, we leave a lot of bare dirt around. Thermal satallites show a rise in temperature every year during the planting and harvesting seasons. The idea of reducing carbon emissions from industrial processes and cars will not reduce the climate extremes we are seeing. Having better land management, tightening up carbon and water cycles in microclimates helps a lot more, and have many beneficial side-effects (such as reducing weath inequality gaps, having stronger more cohesive communities) But an example of what I am talking about. The film is focused more on better water management, but it's integrated with bringing fertility back to a wasteland. The water harvesting strutures discussed in the video are dug in a way that also accumulates organic matter so that topsoil can rebuild on what is otherwise bedrock. https://youtu.be/KtHuIlfyJao https://youtu.be/KtHuIlfyJao