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Organic agriculture vs. climate change?
Tom: What about the argument that we should switch to organic agriculture as a way to fight climate change?
This short video, SOIL: the Secret Solution to Global Warming, featuring Canadian organic icon Percy Schmeiser, explains the Rodale Institute's findings that sustainably farmed soil absorbs up to 30% more carbon from the atmosphere than conventional farmland.
If, rather than eliminating our ag subsidies, we shifted them to provide incentives for farmers to go organic on a wide scale, we could cut our greenhouse emissions by 10% in the US (in Canada and the rest of the world it would be more like 20%).On Don't blame farmers for the farm-subsidy mess posted 2 years, 5 months ago 21 Responses