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The Soil Will Save Us : How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming by Kristin Ohlson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices⁰́₄and, especially, modern industrial agriculture⁰́₄have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"⁰́₄a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon⁰́₄and potentially reverse global warming.As the granddaughter of farmers and the daughter of avid gardeners, Ohlson has long had an appreciation for the soil. A chance conversation with a local chef led her to the crossroads of science, farming, food, and environmentalism and the discovery of the only significant way to remove carbon dioxide from the air⁰́₄an ecological approach that tends not only to plants and animals but also to the vast population of underground microorganisms that fix carbon in the soil. Ohlson introduces the visionaries⁰́₄scientists, farmers, ranchers, and landscapers⁰́₄who are figuring out in the l

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Author

Kristin Ohlson

Publisher

Harmony/Rodale

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609615550

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Mathematical Economics