Kiss The Ground

Permaculture: Wha?!? Kiss the Ground Part 4

Permaculture: Wha?!? Kiss the Ground Part 4

Part four: what’s in it for us all?

Draw Down, first plan to remove carbon throughout the world.  France took it to the world for a vote, many countries signed on, the US did/ would not.

Have you ever heard of the ‘legacy load’ this is the amount of CO2 that we omitted from 1778 to present.  Then there is our daily omissions.  Even if we stop our daily omission, the legacy load will still be there, warming the atmosphere for possible centuries.  We must do more than stop omitting.  We must DRAW DOWN in order to avoid chaos.

Permaculture: Wha?!? Kiss the Ground Part 3

Permaculture: Wha?!? Kiss the Ground Part 3

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?

Permaculture: Wha?!? Kiss the Ground Part 2

Permaculture: Wha?!? Kiss the Ground Part 2

Part two: what’s in it for the planet?

Turning soil to dust.  It comes down to over processing.  We know it’s bad for our food.  Turns out it’s really bad for soil as well.  Break down the diversity, release water and carbon, kill the biome and lovely rich and moist soil turns to dust.  Plants don’t thrive in dust, they don’t even grow in dust.  Just add some fertilizer you might think… not that simple. Here’s why…