Holistic Management: We can sequester huge amounts of carbon in agricultural soil

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Were talking about massive quantities of carbon being stored back in the soil where it should be, rather than in the atmosphere. The fabulous thing about sequestering carbon in grasslands is that you can keep on doing it forever. You can keep on building soil on soil on soil on soil. //////// Australian perennial grasses, can live for a hundred years. ///// So these grasses can out outlive their owners, basically. So theyre longer lived than a lot of trees. The carbon is more permanent than it is in trees. Its not going to recycle back to the atmosphere if we maintain that management. And theres no limit to how much soil you can build. For the future of the planet its crucially important. Because we can sequester all of the excess carbon dioxide thats in the atmosphere at the moment, what we call the legacy load. We can easily sequester in our soil. Australian soils, for example, we would only have to improve carbon percentage by 1% on our 450 million hectares of agricultural soil in Australia and we could sequester all of the planets legacy load of carbon. Its quite a stunning figure.

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So where are the decision makers that can make this happen ?