Soil: The Secret Solution to Global Warming (trailer)

QuantumShift.tv highlights another reason to support organics. Sustainably-farmed soil holds up to 30% more carbon than conventional agriculture. Converting most farmland to organic would reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 10% in the US (and 20% in many countries). In this QuantumShift Special Report, farmer Percy Schmeiser urges President Bush, Congress, and other world leaders to shift existing agricultural subsidies to support sustainable farming practices.

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• soil
• carbon
• sequestration
• global
• warming
• climate
• change
• organic
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[FreemanOftheMind]

@cornandstuff - I see your point but dude, peasant farmers have been eating organics for centuries. Chemical PHarming is only 50-60 years old. Peasant farmers aren't rich by any stretch. The real problem is access to LAND and the system which sees BANKS sucking the life blood out of everyone through Usury and FIAT money. If we could simply allow people who wanted to nurture the land the ability to do so (without crazy mortgages) organics would be everywhere. The rabbit hole is a deep one

[cornandstuff]

@FreemanOftheMind Unfortunately biological process of fixing nitrogen from the air can't supply enough nitrogen for today's high yielding systems. The proof is in history, when we had the green revolution, agricultural output increased dramatically with increased fertilizer inputs. The trouble is, we are used to cheap 'chemical' food now, it isn't easy to go back, especially with the populations we have to sustain. Organics is a rich mans food.

[FreemanOftheMind]

@cornandstuff Mate do your homework. See for yourself soil which has been farmed chemically. It's dead mate, pure a simple. Stuff wont grow without fertilisers or without biological remediation to bring the soil food web back into play.

There's no shortage of nitrogen in the air and hence has the capacity to be in the soil. The human will might be lacking but you can be sure where there's a dollar to be made from fertilisers, the truth will be the first casualty.

[cornandstuff]

@FreemanOftheMind actually @komatsukid1 is right, there have been estimates that without artificial nitrogen fertilizers, the planet could only grow 1/2 of the food it currently does. As for climate change being bullshit? I'm not so sure. Either way we have a dilemma as the population grows to 9 billion people who demand higher quality diets...

[FreemanOftheMind]

@komatsukid1 Oh for goodness sake think for self. We may need a few people on the land to compensate....but would that be a bad thing? Wake up mate- Pharming kills the soil - we'll all be starving if it continues. That's a fact

[FreemanOftheMind]

What the fuck? Sustainable agriculture sequesters 100% more carbon than conventional agriculture because Chemical PHARMING Kills the fukin soil (and no life, means no humus, which means no soil bonds, which means top soil loss).

Doesn't matter anyway, there's no money in sustainable agriculture so it won't matter a fuck. Greedy cunts run the show

[treverbettis]

@johnsenkenn thats what is what designed for lol

[johnsenkenn]

Everybody try to make a buck on this global warming scam.

[komatsukid1]

Organic farming is a good practice and sometimes the produce is better than large scale industrial farming. If the entire world switches over to organic farming about 2 billion people are going to go hungry with the decrease in crop production. Global warming/ climate change is political bullshit. It's nothing more than a thin veil for a Marxist agenda. Think that's wrong? Just compare the provisions of the Copenhagen treaty to the principles of Marxism. The sky is not falling :o/

[Armando7654]

climate warming is a farce and a lie!