> We need to be putting carbon back into the ground where we got it, or at least converting into forms where it lives a long time on the surface (decades or cen

> We need to be putting carbon back into the ground where we got it, or at least converting into forms where it lives a long time on the surface (decades or centuries). Building soil organic matter does result in some amount of carbon remaining in the soil, and has the added benefit of increasing the productivity of the land. I imagine a phased approach where the first effort is to increase soil organic matter on a large scale, and then transition to using some of that improved soil to grow a second phase (maybe, trees, maybe hemp, maybe something else) to capture even more. It seems to me that widespread improvement of soil organic matter is the lower hanging fruit, so to speak.