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“Our Defining Moment” on Climate Change: Pay Attention to Soil Healthby Peter Holter, Executive Director, Holistic Management International, www.holisticmanagement.org
Two prominent scientists, NASA's Jim Hansen and India's Rajendra Pachauri, are sounding the alarm that we are in a “defining moment” to reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere to combat global warming. I couldn't agree more.
It’s certainly a “defining moment” for people in sub-Saharan Africa, where soil loss and desertification have led to widespread hunger and malnutrition; and the population can no longer be sustained. And many other examples could be cited.
Holistic Management practitioners working on over 30 million acres worldwide have given a lot of thought to desertification, global warming and climate change; and we’ve realized that it’s critical to get people to understand (especially if they live in urban or suburban areas) that it is our soils --- the dirt --- that provide everything it takes for us to survive.
If we want to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, then we need to make some important changes in how we manage land.
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