Dependence on dead fossil carbon is also responsible for creating scarcity in living carbon, which reduces availability of food for humans and for the soil organisms. This is an ethical obligation and ecological imperative.We need to “recarbonise” the world with living carbon. It is our dharma as Earthlings. By providing ecological functions and services for pest control, it allows farmers to liberate themselves from chemical fertilisers and poisons, and free themselves of debt — the main cause of farmers’ suicides. This scarcity translates into malnutrition and hunger on the one hand, and desertification of the soil on the other..The more the biodiversity and biomass intensification of forests and farms, the more organic matter is available which will be returned to the soil, thus reversing the trends towards desertification. If we decarbonise the economy, we would have no plants, which are living carbon.To fix more living carbon from the wholesale hex flange nut atmosphere, we need to intensify our farms and forests biologically — in terms of both biodiversity and biomass.To repair the broken carbon cycle we need to return to the seed, the soil, the sun, to increase the living carbon in the plants and in the soil.We pretend that we are above Mother Earth and we are her masters and in control. Carbon is returned to the soil through plants. Fossil fuels have allowed us to have this illusion that we do not have to live within the Earth’s ecological processes, limits and boundaries.
The destruction of habitat and spread of monocultures have contributed to what scientists are calling “the sixth extinction” — the disappearance of biodiversity at 1,000 times the normal rate. We would have no life on earth that creates and is sustained by living carbon.Biodiversity and biomass density produces more nutrition and food per acre, thus addressing the problem of hunger and malnutrition. It also increases (not just) the living carbon in the soil, increases other nutrients and the density of beneficial organisms. We are burning up 20 million years of nature’s work annually.Over the past 200 years, a small part of humanity has trashed the planet — designing an economy fuelled by coal, oil and gas and a knowledge system based on a mechanistic, reductionist and materialistic paradigm.The pollution of atmosphere has disrupted the climate systems and climate balance. It is a blindness to the fact that some humans have ruptured the fragile ecological processes that maintain and rejuvenate life on Earth, and a refusal to recognise our ecological duty to apologise to our Mother, stop causing her further harm and dedicate all our love and intelligence to heal her, one seed at a time, one garden at a time. Staying at home, protecting and rejuvenating the Earth’s living systems and living processes is our ethical and ecological duty.But such escapism is both a declaration of irresponsibility (to take care of the Earth) and a declaration of technological hubris and arrogance.Unlike Mr Hawking, I see a third option — beyond extinction and escape — of staying, healing and defending our home. Chemical agriculture intensifies chemical and capital inputs, while reducing the biodiversity, biomass and nutrition that the seed, the soil, the sun can produce.
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