Solving the Climate Crisis by Allying with Nature Itself
Here are the solutions to our climate crises in a nutshell:
* Greatly increase the percentage of the planet’s surface that is green and covered with vegetation.
* Concomitantly, this reduces the percentage of the planet’s surface that is bare and creating “heat island” effects.
* Hold more water in the landscape. This reduces floods and droughts and makes it possible to increase vegetation.
* Use regenerative agriculture to maximize carbon/organic matter in soils to sequester carbon, hold more water and increase food production.
* Convert a large proportion of the world’s tilled farmland to agroforestry and permaculture polycultures. Somewhere on the order of 25 to 30% would be significant. This would reduce bare ground, cool both local (and global) climates and produce higher yields. It would require less machines and increase more livelihoods for people.
* Increased transpiration from increased vegetation generates more clouds, which reflect sunlight and cools the planet.
* Increased vegetation and forests create more biological, rain-condensing nuclei.
* Foster the growth of plankton and seaweed in the oceans to sequester carbon, produce oxygen, produce biological, rain-condensing nuclei and feed the oceanic web of life.
* An abundance of biological, rain-condensing nuclei in the atmosphere means that precipitation happens easier and there are less, intense downpours.
* The “biotic pump” mechanism of forests brings more water into the dryer interiors of continents.
* More water held on/in the land (and in biomass) means that sea levels drop.
* Heat released when precipitation happens is the main mechanism that the Earth uses to cool herself.
* Less of the Earth will be dry as rainfall increases.
* The increased precipitation (with less downpours) will lead to the Earth cooling itself. Thus there will be less need for big storms.
* Humanity can live in harmony with nature in a pleasant inter-glacial climate and be surrounded by plenty and beauty for all people and all species.
* These are the kinds of things we will talk about at the Global Earth Repair Conference & Festival.