Many suspect that if we don't drastically reign in our harmful behaviours very soon, we risk triggering a cascade of positive tipping points. In an absolute worst case scenario this may lead to a mass extinction event on a similar level to the Great Dying.
From my understanding, as devastating as Global Warming itself is, it's the scarcity of food and water that such a rapid ecological deterioration entails that truly threatens Humanity's long-term survival. Or at the very least, the survival of our civilisation.
How far could water desalination and sustainable indoor farming go in solving those things? From what I've heard both are within our technological capacity and it's more a matter of funding then anything that's holding them back.
In a worst case scenario: Could those technologies help keep Humanity and Human society alive should the worst come to pass On what level would they need to be expanded?
Because anprims keep complaining about it
Hello All, I’m happy to find a community that is talking about the most important thing there is and ever will be, this Earth.
I wanted to make this a discusión, and there is so much more information, this is just the bare bones of what I have discovered during my time as a farmer and student.
Civilized Agriculture destroys the organic cultures of the Earth
Introduction
Recognizing the soil as a living ecosystem is key to understanding how life on Earth is designed to exist. The act of tilling to raise monocultures of plants has created an influx of human population at the cost of the natural systems that supported it, through degradation of the soils health and erosion of the earth.
Without soil, humanity cannot survive. Soil aggregate matter is required to sustain all organic life, the system that robs the earth of this energy and burns it, is known as Civilization.
Constructal Law
Construal law is a theory that states the phenomena of designs in nature is caused by a flow of energy creating these forms. Any sustainable life flows within these systems, instead of consuming and destroying them.
The way soil organic communities sequester carbons is part of an organic flow system. Organisms living in the soil are necessary for the recycling of dead organic matter. This flow system is interrupted by tilling the earth. Organic flow systems create life, the bodies that best adapt to these systems thrive.
Manipulation of the environment must be balanced with the resources available to it. If the body takes more than the system is organically capable of giving, that system will be in a deficit, causing a collapse and eventually cessation of flow.
The waste of carbon matter has led to the increase of carbon gases. Methods like no till, cover crops, and regenerative farming are just a few ways that these carbons can be sequestered in their organic flow systems.
Energy conservation/Carbon Sequestration
Soil tilling is a system designed to turn out a specify kind of crop without regard to energy taken form the earth. Tilling attempts to control weeds by disturbing and breaking up the earth.
Soil organic carbons are lost due to a lack of microbial communities that use the carbon residue for energy, and carbon gases release into the atmosphere because of the destruction of the soil cultures. Conservation Agricultural (CA) practices such as no till, crop rotation and residue control were used in a study in Northwest India. (Jat et al., 20
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