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Originally Posted by zeroma

"Sequestered carbon".... just struck me in the heart. LOL just the word sequester leaves a bad taste in the mouths of a lot of us who are military...DoD related in someway.

Carbon sequestration is a big issue. There are many multi billion dollar projects and plans all being devised to try and deal with all the extra CO2 in the atmosphere from fossil fuels.

So far the only ideas even coming close to being able to sequester that huge amount of carbon in the atmosphere without bankrupting the whole World is organic agriculture. Just a 1% increase of humus in the arable topsoils of the World would sequester the entire last 12 years' net increase of carbon from Fossil Fuels. Add non-arable rangeland to that and you come up with numbers that say it could potentially sequester all the carbon ever produced by fossil fuels since the dawn of the industrial age in under 10 years. Nature might take 500-1000 years, but with careful management using biomimicry, we can do it far faster.

Of course you can never get everyone to agree to going organic. There is always someone against anything. And you would have a hard time restructuring the entire agricultural business environment anytime soon, simply because those with a vested interest are not going away without a fight. But nice to know if/when the real manure hits the fan, the solution is already well proven and available.