Comments on: We need regenerative farming, not geoengineering https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-regenerative-farming-not-geoengineering/2015/04/28 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 01 May 2015 20:09:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Christopher A. Haines https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/we-need-regenerative-farming-not-geoengineering/2015/04/28/comment-page-1#comment-1165959 Fri, 01 May 2015 20:09:04 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=49866#comment-1165959 Excellent Article. I am just learning about the soil and water capacity to sequester carbon, but it all makes perfect sense. What is the color of the most fertile soil you can think of. It is black. It is black because of the high level of carbon it it. We have disrespected dirt to such a degree we have destroyed the worlds’ soil. See David Montgomery, Dirt. The carbon of fertile soil is now in the atmosphere. Yes, I know it got there by burning fossil fuels, but we have taken it out of the soil as well. Some claim we can reverse global warming with proper carbon care. I hate to say “management” as it infers a control that is counterproductive. I don’t know if they are correct, but the paradigm shift to get there would be huge. See the documentary ‘the Symphony of the Soil”. We need the end of industrial agriculture that treats dirt as nothing more than a medium to poor man-made chemicals into. That system will fail anyway for lack of energy inputs in the not too distant future. The sooner we create an alternative, the better off we will be when the inevitable weak link in the chain gives way.

What I do know is the brain science behind this. Everyone knows Einsteins’ quote “You cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it” What has not been clear is what is the different level of thinking he was seeking. This is it! He sought a shift to right brain three dimensional problem solving. See Peter Calthorpe, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change. “You cannot engineer your way out of a problem you engineered your way into” Eisenhower made a less well known statement. “Whenever I run into a problem I can’t solve I make it bigger. I will never solve it by trying to make it smaller, but if I make it big enough I can begin to see the outline of a solution” He was also recognizing the need for right brain thinking. The paradigm shift Charles is referring to. Einstein also said “A Clever man solves a problem, A Wise man avoids it” We have been creating problems for so long and our “clever” men have been gaining kudos solving them we have forgotten there is a better way.

On the one hand people may take a long time to change, but on the other hand our solution is only as far away as our thinking and can change just that fast. A few years with a new paradigm could make a world of difference.

thank you for your thoughts Charles.

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