Hedgerows also help to sequester carbon in the soil, because they have large underground networks of mycorrhizal fungi and microbes that can extend metres into the field. Farmers have spent decades removing hedgerows to make intensive farming easier, but restoring them, and maintaining existing hedgerows, would improve biodiversity, reduce the erosion of topsoil, and help to stop harmful agricultural runoff, which is a key polluter of rivers.

“Arable farmers could sequester more carbon within their soils by changing their crop rotation, planting cover crops such as clover, or using direct drilling, which allows crops to be planted without the need for ploughing. Livestock farmers could improve their soils by growing more native grasses.”

“Using better farming techniques to store 1% more carbon in about half of the world’s agricultural soils would … absorb about 31 gigatonnes of CO2 a year, according to new data. That amount is not far off the 32 GT gap between current planned emissions reduction globally per year and the amount of carbon that must be cut by 2030 to stay within 1.5C.”

#soil #climate #co2 #globalwarming

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improving-farming-soil-carbon-store-global-heating-target

Complex #ecosystems that contain libraries of genetic information are being degraded into monocrops. Rates of #extinction in recent decades are 10 to 100 times greater than the last 10 m years and over 1 million species face extinction in the coming decades. Extinction represents the ultimate memory loss: an end of the line for information that had been continuously transcribed in the Earth’s living library for hundreds of millions of years

#biodiversity @philosophy

https://nautil.us/the-great-forgetting-253223

@pvonhellermannn Is #Presentism really the heart of the issue, or is it a question of *which* present we choose to situate ourselves in? We can remain ensconced within the numbing illusion of extractive capitalist surplus, or we can awaken to the immediate catastrophe of burning forests, bleaching corals, and species die-offs.

@sandozz kolektiva.social may have some IWW folks

@CooperJ @rahmstorf It‘s incredible how many ressources are exhaustible but not modern humans’ capability of clinging to a way of life that destroys life on Earth. Death by convenience.

„Routine breaking“ should be a sub-discipline of climate science in its own right.

Drought is not destiny. The groundwater table can be replenished with permaculture techniques. See Andrew Millison's series on community agriculture projects in India:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nqnOcoLqE

Everyone is asking "What's the next Twitter going to be" and bemoaning the fact that the userbase is splintering. But splintering is a GOOD thing. The internet would be a lot healthier, more diverse, in instead of 3 or 4 dominant platforms, we had dozens or even hundreds of upstarts. Yes, centralization is convenient, but as we're seeing, it's also dangerous. If the result of the Twitter turmoil is to drive people to a more diverse, less convenient, less centralized web, I say AWESOME.