RE: Climate Change: Factors Ignored by the Mainstream
Lots of food for thought. I don't think it's any one thing causing the problems we have today.
I agree that the targeting of carbon is an easy path for governments to take. It's easier to tax, but it's also easier to be seen to be doing something. Yet nitrogen/nitrates are just as big, if not bigger problem than CO2 in our atmosphere. When I learn more about how the soil works to break things down I start to wonder if it's an indication of how we've disrupted the whole cycle.
Nitrogen feeds plants when it's been converted by bacteria in the soil to make it absorbent for them. Carbon also needs nitrogen to help it break down in the soil. Animals produce nitrogen. Knowing all this you can see how the cycle works when in balance. However, mankind is currently removing plant life at a phenomenal rate while the rate of people and livestock has increased. Add to this all the carbon stores we're pulling out of the ground and burning. Then add the cities and bare earth to that...
I agree with your assessment and even though there are proven solutions to most of these problems (other then overpopulation) governments are doing little to nothing to implement them. They have no problem collecting additional tax monies though....
Also many of these issues could be solved with one solution as many of them are connected.
Yes. I'd say regenerative agriculture, replenishing the forests (or at least creating food forests) and ecological/sustainable architecture and energy sources would certainly be a big step in the right direction. Give nature back its balance.
Food forests and properly managed rotational grazing or combos of the two should be the direction we strive for. Did you see my post on Hazelnuts I did months ago? They have the potential to replace annual crops like soybeans.
I must have missed that one. Very interesting, thank you.
Do you know if that blight is only in America or Europe too?
As far as I know it is only in North America.