@EUCouncil you should switch to a soil food web agricultural base rather than an oil base. Design peramiters integrate Dr. Elain Ingham, Bill Mollison, and Joel Salatin in a decentralized production model than can be used to scale in competition with the US AI/Robotics path who needs the economy to out pace inflation and is therefore abandoning human productivity altogether. Invest in you people.
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Lots of different directions replies are going in, here’s a one-shot to see the frame I’m looking at this from. More CO₂ drives faster woody plant growth, O₂ production, and global greening (NASA data: added leaf area ~2x continental US), boosting the biosphere’s overall metabolism and water cycling. Ecosystems aren’t static—they adapt dynamically, as they have in warmer, denser atmospheres historically. Stress responses exist, but resilience emerges when systems function holistically.
Our accounting and policies treat ecology as fixed inputs, externalizing soil biology because we’re locked into oil-based monoculture agriculture with heavy synthetic fertilizers. Carbon credits often raise barriers and consolidate power for big players rather than scaling real solutions.
The path forward: enrich the soil food web (bacteria, mycelium upward) via polyculture, agroforestry, and permaculture. Use low-temp slash-and-char for biochar—building soil, sequestering carbon, retaining moisture/nutrients. Curb deforestation by making working lands more productive. The Amazon itself grew from ancient managed food forests using similar principles.
Transition creates uncertainty without parallel development of these alternatives. China’s reintroduction of wild horses (Przewalski’s) to degraded grasslands shows biology-first management can restore vegetation, biodiversity, and function where rigid or industrial approaches fall short.
More CO₂ isn’t automatically catastrophic. Working with ecological dynamics—via regenerative, decentralized systems—delivers abundance, resilience, and genuine sustainability over financialized accounting that centralizes knowledge, power, and production
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CO₂ in the aggregate is heavier than other atmospheric gases, and for the most part is available where it is needed in the carbon cycle. Focusing exclusively on CO₂ in the troposphere is myopic and only serves the specific to promote a specific solution presented in the current global financial infrastructure transition offered in the global carbon tax credit system, rather than dealing with the actual underlying issue, which is an oil based agricultural system rather than a compressive soil food web system than beneficially uses CO₂ feedback to make a more bilogoically and nuitrient rich, albeit warmer system. Warmer with the foundations in place means diverse and stable, warmer without the foundations means deserts.
@FashionableRes1@Saganismm The point is not that we just need more trees, The point is that more CO₂ isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But wedon’t account for positive externalities in an oil based system
Current policies and ‘plant profiles’ are calibrated to recent conditions, but ecosystems aren’t static—they respond dynamically. Elevated CO₂ has already driven measurable global greening, faster woody growth, and increased biosphere metabolism (including water cycling). Stress responses like toxin production in some grasses happen under specific pressures, but the broader pattern shows adaptation and resilience when systems can function.
Our accounting and risk models treat ecology as fixed inputs because soil biology and regenerative feedbacks are externalized in an oil-based agricultural economy. We can’t instantly shift the entire system without creating real uncertainty—that’s exactly why we need parallel development of alternatives.
China’s reintroduction of wild horses (Przewalski’s) to degraded grasslands shows what works: large herbivores helped restore vegetation structure, biodiversity, and function where rigid protection or industrial approaches struggled. Working with ecological dynamics, rather than forcing old norms, is how we pivot productively.
@ildinolib@Saganismm The fact that the Amazon forest is thought to be a long abandoned food forest that has grown geometrically from the ancient collection of tribes that used to tend it is central to my frame of reference.
One of the most important changes to be made is the development and economic scaling away from the monoculture structure of food production with heavy oil based inputs like fertilizers. We need soil disturbance and support of the soil food web. Attack ecological problems by enriching the food web from the scale of aerobic bacteria and mycelium, all the way up for stable abundance. If you insist on burning, low temperature slash and char methods leave large amounts of soil aerating charcoal in the ground to further reinforcing the soil food web where full slash and burn releases most of the CO2 back into the atmosphere and what little benefit remains in the ash washes away easily and the benefit is largely diluted by the second and third season. This kind of transformation includes curbing deforestation. Based on net higher nutrient returns from polyculture food systems. We are currently legally mandating the financialization of the carbon economy to induce incentives to develop these system while sunsetting use of oil based fertilizers without having a scalable alternative in place. A Soil food web base combined with permaculture and agroforestry is my frame When looking at how we might be able to scale a nondestructive alternatives without formalizing externalization of costs for the individual corporations using carbon credits. This credit system just increase the barriers to entry for sustainable development. Imo it’s about consolidating unsustainable activity to a few large players who can afford to pay for their own offset servicing a new global economic system rather than rigorous development of a scalable system that promotes both environmental health and food security outside outside that system.