Part three:

what’s in it for the economy?

A really beautiful depiction, done by NASA illustrates the carbon in the earths atmosphere daily, throughout the years. Sped up, you can see that in April, when the land is tilled across the planet in preparation for planting the carbon in that atmosphere skyrockets, then in June it does a nose dive… why you might ask?

Hold on because this is the really beautiful part. As plants grow, they remove carbon. If we had all of our land covered in plants, we could be removing more and more CO2 from the environment and putting it back into the soil where it belongs.

Gardening anyone? It might seem too simple, but really, aside from all the politics involved in making changes, many of us have a plot of land, perhaps very small, but none the less able to be planted and to assist in removing carbon.

Farming in the current most common ways, mass farming, has been a loosing investment for many decades, if wasn’t for government subsidies most of these farmers wouldn’t be in business today. Yes, our farmers are on welfare people, this is because they are growing three main crops (corn, soy, hay) all for animal feed, for cows in feed lots. These are not healthy cows just as these crops and the way they are farmed result in unhealthy soil, farms, and people.

Healthy farm ecosystems can make upwards of 100$ per acre while the big three with subsidy are lucky to bring in a couple dollars an acre. And, those traditional farms are usually owned by the banks, due to year after year of economic hardships.

One important way to shift to regeneration is to change at the government level.

Italy just outlawed any genetically altered farming throughout their country. This is the kind of change we need to support. If you can’t wait to find out more, check out Kiss the Ground here.