Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity - Vandana Shiva

[Louise Mitchell]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CB6Ok9WAF8k/

This is another mantra for our next phase of our #NatureCools Campaign at the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels - March 2024

:)
Louise

[Louise Mitchell]

looks like Jim Laurie, our restoration ecologist / biologist at Bio4Climate, has been saying:

           "From the Oil Age to the Soil Age"

            "The Fate of Humanity Lies in Soil" 

... for ~ 20 years or more

Jim Laurie: Soils, Climate, Health, Economy, Future
https://www.planet-tech.com/jim-laurie-profile (~2006)

"The fate of humanity lies in soil.  If we can restore the grasslands of the world, we can reverse climate change and assure a healthy future.  Ecosystem restoration is nature's calling.  Fertile soils sequester carbon and retain water.  Working collaboratively with the subterranean species of the world will guarantee we will have air to breath, water to drink, and food to eat.  This is the basis of our future economy and civic well being.  Understanding the science of these ecosystems is empowering and well within the means of lay people.  It is also essential.  I am committed to restoring the soils of the world and to teaching ecological dynamics, as we are coming to understand them, to those who want to learn. 

Regarding climate change, we are already beyond safe levels for atmospheric CO2 and heading toward polar ice loss, warming of the oceans, and catastrophic consequences for modern civilization.  In addressing this challenge, ecosystem restoration is our best friend and provides more dividends, by far, than technological fixes.  The difference between the two, is that better technology only helps limit the rate at which we put carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  It still increases.  Ecosystem restoration takes the carbon out.  We need biology to do that.  Solar panels, God bless them, won't take carbon out of the air.  Grasslands will.  Of course we need both.  Technological innovation must be part of the mix, but we are greatly over-emphasizing that approach while bypassing a far more effective solution that is literally under our feet.  It is time to understand the impact that ecosystem health has on our climate, our health, and our economy, and how taking simple, affordable steps to work with nature can tame our most intractable problems."