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And then after that, there are all sorts of compounds and elements that we can extract, like phosphates, that we need to get back into the desert soils to fertilize them.
This is an analysis we've done, where on the left is where the crops are today, on the right is where they could be based on soils and climate, assuming climate change doesn't disrupt too much of this, which is not a good assumption.
If we want to inspire the farmers of tomorrow, then please let us say to every school, create a sense of purpose around the importance to the environment, local food and soils.
Now, because the fate of water and carbon are tied to soil organic matter, when we damage soils, you give off carbon.
We are already doing so on about 15 million hectares on five continents, and people who understand far more about carbon than I do calculate that, for illustrative purposes, if we do what I am showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre-industrial levels, while feeding people.
Or we could use it as research plots, where we can use it to remediate contaminated soils, or we could use it to generate energy.
Now, the earth naturally removes CO2 from the air by seawater, soils, plants and even rocks.
We can talk about the role of vegetation in transporting water from the soils back into the atmosphere.
The mycelium infuses all landscapes, it holds soils together, it's extremely tenacious.
They generate the humus soils across the landmasses of Earth.
And in these cavities, these micro-cavities form, and as they fuse soils, they absorb water.
So, we build the carbon banks on the planet, renew the soils.
In fact, I think in the next decade, without any question, we will discover life on Mars and find that it is literally ubiquitous under the soils and different parts of that planet.
Easter, of all Pacific islands, has the least input of dust from Asia restoring the fertility of its soils.
And then the second thing is, when a plant actually makes more carbon and buries it in the soil like that, almost all the soils on earth are actually depleted of carbon because of the load from agriculture, trying to feed eight billion people, which is what lives on the earth right now.
Plants that are making more carbon, those soils become enriched in carbon.
It insulates and regulates temperatures in a range that is just right for water and for life as we know it, and mediating between the blue ocean and black eternity, the clouds carry all the billions of tons of water needed for the soils.
He was trying to help poor Alabama sharecroppers whose cotton yields were declining, and he knew that planting peanuts in their fields would replenish those soils so that their cotton yields would be better a few years later.
Healthy and fertile soils like this support the most dynamic, abundant and diverse habitat for living things that we know of anywhere on the earth system.
Soils around the world are experiencing unprecedented rates of degradation through a variety of human actions that include deforestation, intensive agricultural production systems, overgrazing, excessive application of agricultural chemicals, erosion and similar things.
Half of the world's soils are currently considered degraded.
One: degraded soils have diminished potential to support plant productivity.
This is a story of soils at high latitudes.
These peatlands have a permanently frozen ground underneath, the permafrost, and the carbon was able to build up in these soils over long periods of time because even though plants are able to photosynthesize during the short, warm summer months, the environment quickly turns cold and dark, and then microbes are not able to efficiently break down the residue.
It's what made it possible for fertile soils to be able to support human civilizations since time immemorial.
But even if this effort is not fully successful, but we just start heading in that direction, we still end up with soils that are healthier, more fertile, are able to produce all the food and resources that we need for human populations and more, and also soils that are better capable of sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and helping with climate change mitigation.
Soils could make a difference.
I've learned that as a conservationist, the most important question is not, "How do we keep people out?" but rather, "How do we make sure that coastal people throughout the world have enough to eat?" Our oceans are every bit as critical to our own survival as our atmosphere, our forests or our soils.
Intensive farming is depleting soils.
An aspen needs fire and dry soils.
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