Klimaticka zmena / If the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn’t terrify you, then you don’t fully understand it

"Given the sheer enormity of climate change, it’s okay to be depressed, to grieve. But please, don’t stay there too long. Join me in pure, unadulterated, righteous anger."

"I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. Once you start to act, the hope is everywhere."

"Our best scientists tell us insistently that a calamity is unfolding, that the life-support systems of the Earth are being damaged in ways that threaten our survival. Yet in the face of these facts we carry on as usual."

“We’ve got to stop burning fossil fuels. So many aspects of life depend on fossil fuels, except for music and love and education and happiness. These things, which hardly use fossil fuels, are what we must focus on.”

A nejde o to, že na to nemáme dostatečné technologie, ty by na řešení použít šly, ale chybí nám vůle a představivost je využít. Zůstáváme při zemi, přemýšlíme až moc rezervovaně. Technologický pokrok to sám o sobě nevyřeší. Problém jsme my, ne technologické nástroje.

Rostouci hladiny oceanu, zmena atmosferickeho proudeni, zmeny v distribuci srazek a sucha. Zmeny karbonoveho, fosforoveho a dusikoveho cyklu, okyselovani oceanu. Jake jsou bezpecnostni rizika a jake potencialni klady dramatickych zmen fungovani zemskeho systemu?
Ale take jak funguji masove dezinformacni kampane ropneho prumyslu a boj o verejne mineni na prahu noveho klimatickeho rezimu post-holocenu.

rozbalit záhlaví

TADEAS --- --- 22:41:44 18.7.2023

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RADIQAL:

Savory vs Monbiot: The Wise Man & The Fool? | Praise the Ruminant
https://praisetheruminant.com/ruminations/savory-vs-monbiot-the-wise-man-and-the-fool

I don’t think Allan got through to him at all. George was so caught up in his carbon arguments to be able to see beyond what Savory was trying to show.

Allan was trying to show that reductionist management is the main issue and root cause. This is why Allan mentioned government policies and how government policies were (and are) the root cause of desertification and loss of biodiversity.

But George just doesn’t get it. He’s missing the broader picture. Monbiot is convinced that he’s arguing against Holistic Management as a “grazing system” and has based his arguments around that.

The only problem is that he doesn’t understand what Holistic Management actually is. How the hell can you argue against something that you simply do not understand? I’ll tell you: by creating a lot of strawmen arguments and being so arrogant and ignorant that you miss the forest for the trees.

TUHO --- --- 13:33:46 4.6.2023

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Addressing the environmental crisis is a passion for Barham. He noted that Iraq’s population has almost doubled to 40 million since the 2003 invasion, and is expected to double again by 2050. Demographics are increasing the demand for water at a time when desertification is affecting 39% of Iraq, and 54% of agricultural lands are threatened by salination.

As president he launched the Mesopotamia Revitalisation Project, an environmental strategy that includes afforestation, modernising the administration of the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, generating clean energy, and encouraging investment through climate finance facilities. It was an ambitious plan. He laments that there has been little progress in implementing it.

Iraq’s next crisis is over the climate - The New European
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/iraqs-next-crisis-is-over-the-climate/

TADEAS --- --- 16:50:36 2.6.2023

fight of the century, epique showdowm

Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change? | Oxford University Museum of Natural History
https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/is-livestock-grazing-essential-to-mitigating-climate-change

In the holistic planned grazing process livestock are used as a tool to reverse the biodiversity loss that leads to desertification — a major contributor to climate change. Yet critics argue that livestock grazing, in almost all circumstances, is a net contributor to climate warming.

Join us in a key debate on this controversial topic between a founder and leading proponent of Holistic Management (Allan Savory) and a prominent critic (George Monbiot). The event will be chaired by Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford.

TADEAS --- --- 10:32:12 17.4.2023

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ecosystem management

Sandstorms Hit 400 Million People as China's 45-Year Anti-Desertification Efforts Fails
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8c5QpvQfbws

TADEAS --- --- 1:51:57 2.4.2023

TADEAS:

Last week’s SPM report makes stronger statements than previous IPCC assessment summaries, but then again the situation is now much worse. Thousands of scientists have spent hundreds of thousands of hours developing the six full reports on which the SPM is based. Much of what was done is lost or downplayed in the SPM, though some strong messages survived, including that more than 3.3 to 3.6 billion people are living in places “highly vulnerable” to climate impacts and new extremes.

But there is a tendency to put into future tense what should be present tense. The SPM says that warming of more than 1.5 degrees would be devastating for Earth’s people and ecosystems, but that is already the case because a number of crucial climate systems have already passed their tipping points at the current level of warming of 1.2 degrees. A search of key words relating to system tipping points and their consequences in the SPM is instructive: “feedback” appears once, “cascade” and “hothouse” not at all, “tipping” gets one mention, as does “Antarctic”.

There is no admission that limiting warming of 1.5 degrees is not a desirable outcome and would involve, amongst many outcomes, eventual sea-level rises measured in many metres and likely in the tens of metres.

And again, the SPM says that beyond the 1.5 degrees threshold, scientists have found that climate disasters will become so extreme that people will not be able to adapt. But that is already happening. People are already fleeing from desertification of the dry subtropics, from unprecedented drought, and from the salination of their land, today.

In the report and the media commentary, there has been confusion about the feasibility of keeping warming below 1.5 degrees. Given the projected increases in emissions in the short term, which may not plateau till this decade’s end, and then remain high, the world is not within co-ee of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees (or even 2 degrees), and talk of 1.5 degrees is really about scenarios that involve significant overshoot and then trying to cool back to 1.5 degrees by century’s end.

TADEAS --- --- 23:18:12 12.8.2022

3 Grad mehr | oekom verlag
https://www.oekom.de/buch/3-grad-mehr-9783962383695

Eine kleine Rezension zum Buch "3 Grad mehr. Ein Blick in die drohende Heißzeit und wie uns die Natur helfen kann, sie zu verhindern" - gUG Umweltschutz und Lebenshilfe
https://www.umweltschutz-und-lebenshilfe.de/eine-kleine-rezension-zum-buch-3-grad-mehr-ein-blick-in-die-drohende-heisszeit-und-wie-uns-die-natur-helfen-kann-sie-zu-verhindern/

The book describes relentlessly what an emerging 3 degree warmer world looks like. It describes the resulting weather, biodiversity, agriculture, the consequences of flight and economic risks. But it also describes many nature-based solutions as to how a 3 degree warmer world could still be prevented.

In the "Call to Action" the book deals with (possible) social coexistence in Germany, as well as with possible solutions, financing possibilities and the power of civil society.
The editor of the book, Klaus Wiegandt, writes on page 289 under the title: “People have to know what to expect! Solution approaches, their affordability and the power of civil society”:

“In this world, where we will be dealing with a radicalization of weather patterns and with temperatures that can even be up to 6 degrees higher on average over land areas, we have to reckon with serious consequences for global agriculture, with massive damage to global infrastructure and significant impairment or even destruction of large ecosystems.
The majority of people will be affected by unprecedented restrictions on their living and survival conditions, countless will lose their lives. South of the Sahara uninhabitable regions will arise and millions of people will be forced to migrate, as "climate refugees" they will mainly target Europe. Unlike today, the Mediterranean region will not be a new home for them, increasing dryness and drought will also lead to desertification there”.

At the same time, the climate crisis is causing a massive biodiversity crisis. Particularly interesting are passages in the work on the flight of many species (flora & fauna) to the (cooler) north or to (cooler) heights:

“In the UK, of nearly 330 animal species being studied, 275 have migrated north at a rate of 14 to 25 kilometers per decade. These include representatives of a wide variety of animal groups, from mammals, birds and fish to spiders, butterflies, dragonflies and centipedes. Within a few decades, the poleward boundaries of their ranges have shifted northward by up to 60 kilometers” (p. 32).

And: "Since 1970, the average temperatures in the Swiss Alps have risen by 0.36 degrees Celsius per decade, at the same time the upper limit of the occurrence of various animal species has moved uphill by 47 to a maximum of 91 meters per decade. The plants are 17 to 40 meters. However, because the isotherms have shifted by up to 71 meters, these significant changes in most plant and animal species are insufficient to keep pace with rising temperatures (pp. 33-34).

Or the so-called “postponed phenologies” can be read in the book:

“For Bavaria, these long-term records show that the hazel blossom was 23 days earlier as a result of the rising temperatures between 1961 and 20210 (…). Of course, these shifts, which can be observed all over the world, have a significant impact on the world of organisms that depend on certain processes in nature being synchronized in time. This ensures that predators meet their prey and that young animals hatch or are born when they find optimal food in nature. Plants need to flower when their pollinators are active, when parasites meet their hosts at the right time (p. 50).

Rarely has a book about the climate crisis been so motivating to act now, to become active, to change something, maybe to prevent something, or at least to adapt structures to the climate catastrophe.

Stefan Rahmstorf writes (p. 30) on a 3 degree warmer world: “I am not sure whether the reasonably civilized coexistence of people as we know it will continue under these conditions. I personally consider a 3 degree world to be an existential threat to human civilization

SHEFIK --- --- 13:15:44 23.7.2022

#hope #desertification

- regenerative agriculture na puvodni pousti v saudsky arabii
- grazing na puvodni pousti v cine
- renewable projekt na sahare presahujici vyrobu energie 4x vetsi nez soucasna globalni spotreba, vcetne side effectu lokalnich srazek a zatravneni sahary

Can we stop the deserts from spreading?
https://youtu.be/D6Kz_OcOgvE

TADEAS --- --- 20:59:00 26.5.2022

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urodna mezopotamie

Ninth sandstorm in less than two months shuts down much of Iraq | Iraq | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/24/ninth-sandstorm-in-less-than-two-months-shuts-down-much-of-iraq

Iraq is ranked as one of the world’s five most vulnerable nations to climate change and desertification.

The environment ministry has warned that over the next two decades Iraq could endure an average of 272 days of sandstorms a year, rising to above 300 by 2050.

Iraq’s previous two sandstorms sent nearly 10,000 people to hospital with respiratory problems and killed one person.

TADEAS --- --- 23:41:42 30.3.2022

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Eliot Jacobson
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1508921878668521473?s=19

Of the top 40 impacts of climate change, the ones that are most immediately urgent and deadly on a worldwide scale are crop failures and drought leading to famine. Civilization will never get to the point where SLR is a major issue.

https://climatecasino.net/2021/10/top-40-impacts-of-climate-change/

Top 40 Impacts of Climate Change
1. Acid rain
2. Algae blooms
3. Ash & smoke
4. Bees dying & pollination loss
5. Climate refugees & migration
6. Coral bleaching
7. Crop failures
8. Deforestation
9. Desertification
10. Disease, pandemics (plants & animals)
11. Droughts
12. Drying up of lakes, rivers, wells, springs
13. Earth axis shift
14. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes
15. Extreme cold
16. Financial/bank/stock collapse
17. Fires
18. Floods
19. Food & water riots
20. Hazardous & polluted air
21. Heat waves: frequency, power, duration
22. Hunger, famine & starvation
23. Infrastructure collapse
24. Melting Antarctic & Greenland land ice
25. Melting Arctic Sea ice / Blue Ocean Event
26. Melting glaciers (drinking water crisis)
27. Methane (Siberia & Clathrates from ESAS)
28. Nuclear plant meltdown
29. Ocean acidification
30. Ozone layer depletion
31. Permafrost thaw
32. Price instability & inflation
33. Reanimated bacteria/viruses
34. Sea level rise (e.g. Thwaites glacier)
35. Shutdown of AMOC, SMOC
36. Species extinction (100+/day)
37. Storms — more frequent, power, duration
38. Supply chain & transportation collapse
39. Unemployment & poverty
40. War & terrorism

TADEAS --- --- 19:31:32 11.2.2022

zde je hyperpredátorovo

Turning the Desert into a Self Sufficient Eco Community Oasis
https://youtube.com/watch?v=voFbtbXRZ8I&feature=youtu.be

Last year I met a man who has spent 5 years living off grid in the Mexican desert turning degraded land into a fertile, self sufficient homestead.

His aim is to demonstrate that the droughts, water shortages and increasing desertification around can be reversed by integrating a combination of simple water retention methods like digging lakes, ditches, swales, ally cropping and rotating small herds of cattle and goats.

Using local materials from the site he has created several eco buildings using including 3 adobe earth domes a cob houses, rammed earth and straw bales buildings.

Members of the government for agriculture, housing and indigenous people now visit the ranch to learn from his experiments.

TADEAS --- --- 2:22:27 17.11.2021

overshoot

‘Farmers are digging their own graves’: true cost of growing food in Spain’s arid south | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/16/farmers-are-digging-their-own-graves-true-cost-of-growing-food-in-spains-arid-south

Las Tablas’ ecosystem relies on water from rainfall, the Guadiana river and a huge aquifer, but the climate crisis has resulted in Spain’s periods of drought getting longer. The Guadiana is drying up, while agriculture has depleted the aquifer and polluted the groundwater with phosphates and other chemical fertilisers. In 2009, the wetland was so dry that subterranean peat fires broke out.

The 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of Las Tablas are all that remain of what, according to the World Wildlife Fund, was once a system of 50,000 hectares of wetland in Castilla-La Mancha.

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Gosálvez says the water needed to irrigate Castilla-La Mancha’s vines, olives, pistachios, onions and melons exceeds available resources and short of a run of several years of heavy rain, the wetland can only be saved by transferring water from the Tagus river – except the Tagus is overexploited and almost dried up four years ago.

Much of the problem dates from the 1970s, when the Spanish government embarked on a plan to turn Murcia and Almería in the south-east into Europe’s market garden. The plan had one major flaw: there was no water.

Spain’s south-east is arid and none of the country’s three major rivers flows near it. The Douro and Tagus both rise in north-central Spain and flow west into the Atlantic at, respectively, Porto and Lisbon, while the Ebro rises in the north-west and empties into the Mediterranean nearly 400km (250 miles) north of Murcia.

The solution was to transfer water from the headwaters of the Tagus through almost 300km of pipeline to irrigate the barren south.

However, rather than satisfy demand, the transfer has served to incentivise unsustainable intensive agriculture that has led to the exploitation of groundwater, with disastrous environmental consequences.

The spectacle this summer of thousands of dead fish floating in the Mar Menor, a saltwater lagoon in Murcia once known for its crystal-clear waters, was the result of fertiliser polluting the groundwater that drains into the sea. The nitrates trigger vast algae blooms that deprive the fish of oxygen.

“The Mar Menor disaster is the result of intensive agriculture which continues to expand in a manner that isn’t sustainable, both in Murcia and in many other parts of Spain,” says Martínez-Fernández.

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Neighbouring Almería – where the greenhouses making up the famous “sea of plastic” are visible from space – produces an estimated 3.5m tonnes of peppers, tomatoes, cucumber and melons a year. Together with Granada, it supplies about 50% of the European market. Every year Almería also produces thousands of tonnes of plastic waste, much of which ends up in the sea.

The Tagus water transfer is not enough to meet the growing demands of agriculture in Almería, however. Over the past 40 years the amount of water that reaches the Tagus headwaters has fallen by about 40% according to estimates, and is continuing to fall. So Almería is increasingly reliant on desalinated seawater for irrigation.

In an attempt to deal with the problem, in 1985 the Spanish government brought in a new water law to regulate its use. But it was forced to concede that anyone who had a well or access to water had the right to exploit it.

Today, the government recognises that the situation is unsustainable. Teresa Ribera, minister for ecological transition, is under pressure for Spain to conform to European standards on water quality and quantity that come into force in 2027, and knows this can only be achieved by reducing irrigation.

In presenting the country’s five-year water plan, Ribera recognised that water resources are in decline and parts of Spain face desertification.

TADEAS --- --- 1:15:50 6.9.2021

Desertification is turning the Earth barren – but a solution is still within reach | David R Montgomery | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/02/desertification-barren-solution-famine-agriculture

"To combat and reverse the growing threat of desertification and land degradation we need to both reduce carbon emissions and change the way we farm. We don’t have to relearn the lessons of past societies that degraded their land. But to avoid their fate we need to reorient agriculture around farming and grazing practices that regenerate soil health.

Several years ago, I visited and wrote about farms and ranches around the world that had restored fertility to once-degraded lands. I saw how regenerative farming and grazing based on soil-building practices can reverse soil degradation, rebuild soil health and make farms resilient to extreme weather – while maintaining good harvests. But it requires replacing conventional farming practices dependent on intensive tillage and massive chemical fertiliser use with practices that put soil health first."

TADEAS --- --- 1:32:11 28.7.2021

francouzskej privalacek, aka spot the desertification in the water

Vidéos permettant de voir l’avant, le pendant et l’après … vidéos facebook de Dennis Addams. Vidéos filmées à Dinant. Le débit et les dégâts sont impressionnants. Force et courage 1/3

https://twitter.com/Inspecteurdusud/status/1419226096554348545?s=19

TUHO --- --- 18:45:10 19.7.2021

The four places experiencing famine are Ethiopia, South Sudan, Yemen and Madagascar. The situation in Ethiopia is in Tigray, which I’ve written about as a success story on this blog and is now in the throes of an entirely avoidable emergency. South Sudan and Yemen are both conflict zones. Madagascar is the only place in the world where famine is not being caused by conflict, but by climate change.

The South of Madagascar is arid and its residents are no strangers to hunger. Living mainly on a subsistence basis, communities are used to gaps between harvests where they fall back on wild foods. It’s always been that way, and as long as the rains return and top up the rivers, people know how to live with a challenging landscape. Food security concerns recur in Madagascar on a regular basis, but it has never reached phase 5 before. This is a new level of emergency, enough to shock even experienced aid staff.

This year the rains have not returned as they should, on the back of several dry years already. This prolonged drought has knock-on effects: the dry ground is picked up in dust storms, which choke plants and animals that remain, and blow away the fertility that farmers depend on to plant again when they can. It’s a spiral towards desertification.

Madagascar’s famine is climate injustice – The Earthbound Report
https://earthbound.report/2021/07/16/madagascars-famine-is-climate-injustice

TADEAS --- --- 20:14:46 31.10.2020

Green bonds fall short in biodiversity and sustainable land-use finance
https://news.globallandscapesforum.org/...odiversity-and-sustainable-land-use-finance-says-research/

How can Green Bonds catalyse investments in biodiversity and sustainable land-use projects? - Global Landscapes Forum
https://www.globallandscapesforum.org/...estments-in-biodiversity-and-sustainable-land-use-projects/

Despite their significance to life on Earth, biodiversity and sustainable land-use sectors attracted a mere three percent of the USD 257.7 billion raised through green bonds issued last year, says a new paper. Dominant sectors, including energy and transportation, absorbed almost 80 percent of green bond proceeds in the past three years.

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Overall, the green bond market is “rapidly scaling up” in value, according to the paper, but biodiversity and sustainable land use have been less appealing to investors because these can be under-developed in terms of information reporting, measurement and impact metrics. Yet the need is great: some 2 billion hectares of degraded land worldwide require restoration – a figure growing by about 12 million hectares annually, says the paper, citing figures from the World Resources Institutes (WRI) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Forest and landscape restoration will require no less than USD 40 billion annually in each of the next 10 years to achieve the world’s commitments made through the Bonn Challenge, Initiative 20×20, AFR100 and the New York Declaration on Forests.

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There is a significant need for finance for the landscape approach and for biodiversity protection,” says Chahine. Landscape approaches balance competing land use demands in a way that is best for human well-being as well as the environment.

“Green bonds might represent a good, innovative tool for these sectors, which hasn’t been receiving much attention within the broader green bond allocation,” he says.

Furthermore, the European Union Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, now in development, could be a “game-changer” in terms of boosting interest in green bonds, by setting clear definitions of what economic activities and investments can be sold as genuinely “green” and that contribute to sustainable land use, biodiversity and other critical sectors, says Liagre.

TUHO --- --- 3:00:58 16.9.2020

She said she sees climate change through the lens of her military training,
“This is a national security issue,” she said. “This is an international security issue.”
She added, “We are already seeing weather patterns like we have never seen before. Wildfires we’ve never seen, desertification. We are going to see mass migrations.”
Low-lying military bases are being flooded from sea level rise, McGrath said. “We have to plan for this. McConnell does not have a plan.”

Kentucky Senate race: Mitch McConnell, McGrath spar on climate change
https://eu.courier-journal.com/...enate-race-mitch-mcconnell-mcgrath-spar-climate-change/5768512002/

TADEAS --- --- 20:21:16 15.8.2020

puda jako obnovitelny zdroj

Topsoil is a Renewable Resource
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Soil4Climate/permalink/2771188076486262/

One of the most pervasive myths concerning agriculture, right up there with the false belief that cows are inherently deleterious to the environment, is the oft-repeated notion that it takes 500 to 1000 years to form an inch (2.5cm) of topsoil. Untrue.

Contrary to what many scientists say, and most people believe, topsoil can be formed rapidly. This is a crucial aspect of the regenerative agriculture revolution, for it is only by forming topsoil quickly that billions of tons of excess carbon can be removed from the air to restore grassland ecosystems, fix the broken hydrological cycle, and cool the planet.

The estimate that it requires 1000 years to form 1” of topsoil was originally made by Charles Darwin, who observed that approximately 2” of topsoil had accreted on top of Roman ruins that were roughly 2,000 years ago. It apparently did not occur to Darwin that atop marble or stone blocks might not be the ideal site for topsoil formation. The soil he measured was likely blown there by the wind or tracked in by animals.

ACRES U.S.A. ... there’s a widespread belief, actually dogma, that the formation of soil is an exceedingly slow process. ... You describe the formation of topsoil as being breathtakingly rapid.
DR. CHRISTINE JONES. People have confused the weathering of rock, which is a very, very slow process, with the building of topsoil, which is altogether different. ...
ACRES U.S.A. Why have many soil scientists denied the phenomenon of rapid soil-building?
JONES. Because they do their research in places where it’s not happening, where the carbon is running down and the soils are deteriorating. We need to measure carbon on farms where soil-building is occurring and see what the farmers and ranchers are doing to make that happen.

Excerpt from interview with Australian soil ecologist Dr. Christine Jones
SOS: Save our Soils
Acres, March 2015, Vol. 45, No. 3
http://www.amazingcarbon.com/PDF/Jones_ACRES_USA%20%28March2015%29.pdf

In his book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” author Michael Pollan describes how Virginia regenerative farmer Joel Salatin is able to form 1 inch of new topsoil in a few years.

Graziers using Holistic Planned Grazing (aka “Adaptive Grazing”), developed by wildlife biologist Allan Savory, have reported an inch or more of new topsoil formation per year.

[34:35] “We found almost a foot of new topsoil built directly on top of that gravel and sand layer, in 10 years.”
Allen Williams, PhD - Restore Soil and Ecosystem Health with Adaptive Grazing (2018, 42 mins.)
https://youtu.be/BwH6od6Jaq8

[2:16] “In the last 3 years, we’ve accumulated about 2, 2 1/2 inches of soil ....”
Rapidly Building Soil - See how we’re building soil and biodiversity with managed grazing
Mastodon Valley Farm (2019, 4 mins.)
https://youtu.be/1daaoX2uFqA

Soil Carbon Cowboys
(2013, 12 mins.)
https://youtu.be/MDoUDLbg8tg

Allan Savory’s TED Talk - How to fight desertification and reverse climate change (2013, 22 mins.)
https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change

TADEAS --- --- 12:22:21 8.8.2020

Soil4Climate Podcasts on iTunes

L. Hunter Lovins - A Finer Future - August 13, 2018

L. Hunter Lovins discusses her new book, A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service of Life and highlights the role of grazing in building soil to mitigate global warming. Lovins is an American environmentalist, author, sustainable development proponent, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, and president of the nonprofit organization Natural Capitalism Solutions. Interviewer, Seth Itzkan, Soil4Climate Inc.

https://podcasts.apple.com/...nter-lovins-a-finer-future-august-13-2018/id1525993453?i=1000486784246

Congressman Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Presidential Candidate, "Regenerative Agriculture Policy," - August 19, 2019

Congressman Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Presidential Candidate, "Regenerative Agriculture Policy," August 19, 2019. Interviewer, Karl Thidemann, Soil4Climate Inc.
https://podcasts.apple.com/...an-tim-ryan-d-ohio-presidential-candidate/id1525993453?i=1000486784255

Thomas Goreau, PhD. - Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase - July 31, 2019

Thomas Goreau, PhD. Author, Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase. Thomas J. Goreau, Ronal W. Larson, Joanna Campe (2014). Interviewer, Seth J. Itzkan, Soil4Climate Inc.
https://podcasts.apple.com/...au-phd-geotherapy-innovative-methods-soil/id1525993453?i=1000486784248

Bill McKibben - Envisioning a Regenerative Future - April 15, 2020

Bill McKibben is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. In this interview McKibben discusses natural drawdown strategies, including soil restoration. Interviewers, Seth Itzkan & Karl Thidemann, Soil4Climate Inc.

https://podcasts.apple.com/...ben-envisioning-regenerative-future-april/id1525993453?i=1000486784250

Russ Conser - Bird Friendly Blue Nest Beef - Nov 27, 2019

Russ Conser is the founder of Blue Nest Beef, a company that provides 100% grass-fed and regeneratively managed beef sourced by producers in the Audubon Society Conservation Ranching Initiative which verifies bird-friendly grazing practices. Interviewers, Seth Itzkan & Karl Thidemann, Soil4Climate Inc.

https://podcasts.apple.com/...uss-conser-bird-friendly-beef-nov-27-2019/id1525993453?i=1000486784256

David Montgomery - Growing A Revolution - Sept 10, 2019

David R. Montgomery is a professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. His books include Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, Growing A Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life and The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health, a collaboration with Anne Biklé. Interviewers, Seth Itzkan & Karl Thidemann, Soil4Climate Inc. -

https://podcasts.apple.com/...tgomery-growing-a-revolution-sept-10-2019/id1525993453?i=1000486784251

Gabe Brown - Improving Soil Carbon with Grazing and Cover Crops - May 27, 2019

Gabe Brown is a pioneer of the soil-health movement and has been named one of the twenty-five most influential agricultural leaders in the United States. Brown, his wife, Shelly, and son, Paul, own Brown's Ranch, a holistic, diversified 5,000-acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. He is the author of Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture. Interviewer, Seth Itzkan, Soil4Climate Inc. -

https://podcasts.apple.com/...improving-soil-carbon-grazing-cover-crops/id1525993453?i=1000486784249

Allan Savory - Developing a Holistic Context to Mitigate Global Warming - Nov 9, 2019

Allan Savory is a Zimbabwean ecologist, livestock farmer, and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute. He originated Holistic management, a systems thinking approach to managing resources. His 2013 TED talk, titled “How to fight desertification and reverse climate change,” has been viewed over 7 million times. Interviewer, Seth Itzkan, Soil4Climate Inc.

https://podcasts.apple.com/...y-developing-holistic-context-to-mitigate/id1525993453?i=1000486784253

Matt Russell - Standing with Farmers to Fix Climate - Dec 4, 2019

Matt Russell is the Executive Director of Iowa Interfaith Power and Light and is a fifth generation Iowa farmer who has dedicated his career to working in nonprofits and advocating for social justice. He spent over a decade training for and working in ministry and has since focused primarily on economic and environmental sustainability. In this podcast Matt discusses how he is standing with farmers to fix climate. Interviewers, Seth Itzkan and Karl Thidemann, Soil4Climate Inc.

https://podcasts.apple.com/...ng-with-farmers-to-fix-climate-dec-4-2019/id1525993453?i=1000486784254

Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf - "Sacred Cow" Discussion - July 13, 2020

Nutritionist Diana Rodgers, RD, and New York Times Best Selling author, Robb Wolf, discuss their upcoming book and movie, “Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat." Interviewer: Karl Thidemann, Soil4Climate Inc. - Rodgers and Wolf hope to create a new dialogue examining our cultural bias against cattle, pointing out the importance of red meat to our food system and how well managed grazing animals are one of our best solutions to repair the damages of our industrial agricultural system. Ms. Rodgers runs a clinical nutrition practice and hosts the Sustainable Dish podcast. Mr. Wolf is co-owner of NorCal Strength & Conditioning and author of “The Paleo Solution – The Original Human Diet” and “Wired to Eat.” Interviewers, Seth Itzkan and Karl Thidemann, Soil4Climate Inc

https://podcasts.apple.com/...gers-robb-wolf-sacred-cow-discussion-july/id1525993453?i=1000486784247
https://podcasts.apple.com/.../soil4climate-voices-outspoken-advocates-soil-restoration/id1525993453

TADEAS --- --- 10:08:42 4.6.2020

The “Great Green Wall” Didn’t Stop Desertification, but it Evolved Into Something That Might |Science | Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/...ature/great-green-wall-stop-desertification-not-so-much-180960171/

Slowly, the idea of a Great Green Wall has changed into a program centered around indigenous land use techniques, not planting a forest on the edge of a desert. The African Union and the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization now refer to it as "Africa’s flagship initiative to combat land degradation, desertification and drought." Incredibly, the Great Green Wall—or some form of it—appears to be working.

"We moved the vision of the Great Green Wall from one that was impractical to one that was practical," says Mohamed Bakarr, the lead environmental specialist for Global Environment Facility, the organization that examines the environmental benefit of World Bank projects. "It is not necessarily a physical wall, but rather a mosaic of land use practices that ultimately will meet the expectations of a wall. It has been transformed into a metaphorical thing."

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Over two years traveling through Burkina Faso and Niger, they uncovered a remarkable metamorphosis. Hundreds of thousands of farmers had embraced ingenious modifications of traditional agriculture practices, transforming large swaths into productive land, improving food and fuel production for about 3 million people.

"This regreening went on under our radar, everyone's radar, because we weren't using detailed enough satellite imagery. We were looking at general land use patterns, but we couldn't see the trees," Tappan says. "When we began to do aerial photography and field surveys, then we realized, boy, there is something very, very special going on here. These landscapes are really being transformed."

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Innovative farmers in Burkina Faso had adapted years earlier by necessity. They built zai, a grid of deep planting pits across rock-hard plots of land that enhanced water infiltration and retention during dry periods. They built stone barriers around fields to contain runoff and increase infiltration from rain.

In Niger, Reij and Tappan discovered what has become a central part of the new Great Green Wall campaign: farmer-managed natural regeneration, a middle ground between clearing the land and letting it go wild.

Farmers in the Sahel had learned from French colonists to clear land for agriculture and keep crops separate from trees. Under French colonial law and new laws that countries adopted after independence, any trees on a farmer's property belonged to the government. Farmers who cut down a tree for fuel would be threatened with jail. The idea was to preserve forests; it had the opposite effect.

"This was a terrific negative incentive to have a tree," Garrity says, during an interview from his Nairobi office. "For years and years, tree populations were declining."

But over decades without the shelter of trees, the topsoil dried up and blew away. Rainfall ran off instead of soaking into cropland. When Reij arrived in Africa, crop yields were less than 400 pounds per acre (compared to 5,600 pounds per acre in the United States) and water levels in wells were dropping by three feet per year.

In the early 1980s, as village populations increased and land productivity decreased, Reij says farmers turned to a low-cost way of growing trees and shrubs, using root stock in their cleared fields. The trees provided fuel, fodder for livestock, food, and soil improvement.

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Reij and Tappan discovered the regreening mostly stopped at the southern border with Nigeria, where there is more rainfall, which was counterintuitive, Tappan says. More precipitation should mean more vegetation. "It wasn't about rainfall," he adds. "It was absolutely about farmers changing the way they manage trees and their perception of the trees."

Tappan remembers giving a presentation to the U.S. Embassy in Niamey, Niger, showing aerial views of one green swath after another. "The comments were, 'this can't be Niger,'" he says. "It looks like Ireland."

https://www.google.com/...usg=AFQjCNFIQ9o4mJppC_7wFsD8s2thu0QiZw&sig2=Rz-3eyuJTjaZNi4F9s147Q&cad=rja

TADEAS --- --- 0:38:16 3.6.2020

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The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=T39QHprz-x8

The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management system, and how the land has changed since all inputs to the project were ceased in 2016. Neal moved on from Al Baydha in 2018 and can now be contacted at regenerativeresources.co

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