That's incredible. Truly mind-blowing metrics. Thanks for sending these things. It renews my faith in our farm.
Subject: regenerative farming is the only viable solution
I spent the week feeding farm sheep dogs and learning how to "herd" them back into their nightly quiet (to stop incessant barking). I cut up meat organs as special treats. I fed the pigs and keep the water tanks filled - also for the huge Bull and its two cows. The herd of 40 or so steer only "ran" on me once - and I freaked out just enough to calm them down.Perry observes that before farmland was cultivated, it had soil carbon levels of from 3% to 7%. Today, those levels are roughly 1% carbon. If every acre of farmland globally were returned to a soil carbon level of just 3%, 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide would be removed from the atmosphere and stored in the soil – equal to the amount of carbon that has been drawn into the atmosphere since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago. The size of the potential solution matches the size of the problem.
Over all it seemed to have been a great week. I lost ten pounds despite eating a pound a day of regenerative farm carbon storing meat! The little sheep were too cute. The ram - I chased and touched. The pigs succulent back sides and rough hair were funny. Their curious teeth - and noises - sometimes getting too aggressive in their quest to pig out - a big foreboding. But overall the animals are very very happy and very very healthy.
So the land fertility is being restored. I've volunteered for community supported agriculture on this farm - and been a friend of the farm family - and the land has seen a resurgence of ecology and soil fertility. Yes it is slow work and extremely overwhelming hard work. And the farm doesn't make money. But the ecological rewards are rich.
So I encourage people to seek out and support their local regenerative farm restoration ecology efforts. There are various networks - often very grass roots. You have to seek this stuff out.
I first worked on a Community Supported Agriculture farm in 1997 - full time - organic vegetables - and I ate huge fresh salads every day. I first experienced psychic energy from this along with my celibacy meditation practice.
I have since worked in organic fruit and previously invested in Organic Valley in the early 90s - so help get the largest cooperative movement started. My activist mentor is now the director of Family Farm Defenders, part of the global food sovereignty movement.
Yes this movement taps into the old skool pastoralist matrifocal moon sun farm ecology of the early Holocene era. It is then a "reform" of the Western civilization ecological imperialism that spread across EArth via genocide and ecocide in the past 500 years. It is a movement that merges back with the original human culture - the San Bushmen.
Does Earth have a chance? As the qigong master states - the Earth, sun and Moon will continue with their harmonic resonance. Live on Earth via the mitochondria and bacteria is a female-centered reality as with Mother Nature and the Cosmic Mother energy of asymmetric proton-gradients.
So we live a moment where our left brain chimpanzee analysis of science - our current religion as a global westernized culture - is now merging back into our ancient alchemical roots. I call this the Natural Resonance Revolution.
Sure we have increased nuclear radiation and global warming is accelerating. The Eco-Apocalypse is truly for real as http://arctic-news-blogspot.com documents so well. On the other hand - we can face reality full on and we can "keep is real."
So for example we had two huge Bald Eagles at the farm on Xmas Day.
I tried getting photos - they did not turn out. I have not even told my farm friends about this. Why? they're too busy! They work too hard just to keep things operating on a day to day basis.
And why did the movement for self-enlightenment seem to impact largely pop music performers from the pop music industry?I think we know the answer to that!!
The last 200 years have been the Human Plague Phase of life on Earth (global overshoot - Ecologist William Rees)
Global Footprint Network's most recent accounts reveal that Earth's biocapacity in 2008 was 12 billion hectares (ha) compared to humanity's Footprint of 18.2 billion ha, and that the average Ecological Footprint had reached 2.7 global hectares (gha) per capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per capita [5]. (A global hectare is a hectare of global average productivity.) This difference means that humanity is in ecological overshoot, currently using at least 50% more of nature's goods and services than ecosystems regenerate [5]–[7]. These national Footprint estimates are conservative since data limitations prohibit consistent adjustments to account reliably for the over-exploitation of ecosystems (see below), and carbon dioxide, mainly from fossil fuel and cement production, is the only waste stream considered. They nevertheless constitute the most comprehensive assessments of the ecological status of nations available. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818166/
I'm looking for any policies he's gotten changed. He's researched how we've destroyed earth but has he gotten anyone to change or listen?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331914670_Rees_William_E_2019_End_game_the_economy_as_eco-catastrophe_and_what_needs_to_change_real-world_economics_review_issue_no_87_19_March_pp_132-148_httpwwwpaeconnetPAEReviewissue87Rees87pd
and
https://citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/professor-william-rees-offers-a-whole-new-approach-to-sustainability-planning-part-1/