The Soil Will Save Us : How Scientists, Farmers and Ranchers are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming

Hundreds of years of poor farming and ranching practices–and, particularly, fashionable industrial agriculture–have led to the lack of as much as 80 % of carbon from the world’s soils. That carbon is now floating within the environment, and even when we stopped utilizing fossil fuels right now, it might proceed warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling writer Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for “our nice inexperienced hope”–a manner during which we cannot solely heal the land but in addition flip atmospheric carbon into useful soil carbon–and doubtlessly reverse international warming. Because the granddaughter of farmers and the daughter of avid gardeners, Ohlson has lengthy had an appreciation for the soil. An opportunity dialog with a neighborhood chef led her to the crossroads of science, farming, meals, and environmentalism and the invention of the one vital solution to take away carbon dioxide from the air–an ecological method that tends not solely to crops and animals but in addition to the huge inhabitants of underground microorganisms that repair carbon within the soil. Ohlson introduces the visionaries–scientists, farmers, ranchers, and landscapers–who’re determining within the lab and on the bottom the right way to construct wholesome soil, which solves myriad issues: drought, erosion, air and water air pollution, and meals high quality, in addition to local weather change. Her discoveries and vivid storytelling will revolutionize the best way we take into consideration our meals, our landscapes, our crops, and our relationship to Earth.