Article Title: "Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet" Publication by: New York Times Date of Publication: December 2, 2017 Author of Article: Jacques Leslie The article “Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet” is about how soil, otherwise known as dirt, is the secret to solving Earth’s major carbon pollution dilemma. Carbon pollution is not being caused by organic events but by humans consistent and exorbitant use of things such as cars, machinery, and livestock. Excessive amounts of carbon cause many problems that are endangering the Earth’s natural amenities. Have you ever heard of climate change or Global Warming? Well, a big contributor to Global Warming is carbon, but the weather is not the only thing carbon destroys. Carbon is being pulled into our oceans making them more acidic and inhabitable, forest and wildlife are diminishing, and finally, our underground fossil fuel reserves are being emptied. This is where soil plays a part. Soil absorbs carbon restoring health to neglected soil and encourages climate stability due to taking carbon from the atmosphere. Scientist have been trying to unnaturally pull carbon from the atmosphere by overcoming nature. By reinforcing nature and using soils natural abilities you can decrease the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and restore nutrients to plants and the soil itself. Did you know if we cover as little as five percent of California’s rangelands with one-quarter to one-half an inch of compost it would absorb the equivalent of nine million car’s greenhouse gas emissions? That is a lot!!! Not only will this absorb carbon emissions, but it will benefit health among people due to not needing to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. By healing our soil we can improve the Earth’s habitability and heal our crop production process. Since carbon pollution is one of the main causes of Global Warming. This problem is present in every country on Earth, but this article focuses on America. Carbon pollution has been happening since the 1800’s and the amount of carbon emissions drastically increases each year. This problem is constantly brushed under the carpet, but as I stated before causes environmental problems that are starting to rapidly deteriorate the Earth’s ecosystems. Extreme carbon emissions first started when the Industrial Revolution hit America. The first step of the Industrial Revolution was the use of machines to replace human labor. The second step was machines producing other machines. The third step was the use of machines for mass production. As the years went by these steps accelerated and machinery was incorporated in almost all business production. Ten-thousand years ago destructive agriculture was constantly used, becoming another feeder to this overarching problem. Industrial farming and ranching has expanded to record levels and has been releasing massive amounts of carbon and other gases into the atmosphere. I personally believe that a problem as huge as Global Warming and climate change should not be ignored. In today’s society, we see Global Warming on the bottom of the priority list, but it should really be at the top. A simple way to help solve this problem is to start your own at home garden. This will bring you fresh produce, but will also absorb carbon from the atmosphere. If everyone in America had a garden we could massively decrease the amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Comments on other class members blog post:Angeline Santa Romana:
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Wyatt Fluck
3/13/2018 01:03:50 pm
I love how you were able to relate to the article. I found it very interesting how you mentioned how global warming is on the bottom of the to do list considering that Donald J. Trump doesn't beleave in climate change at all. Overall it is an amazing blog post!
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Madison Perales
4/11/2018 11:12:43 am
You brought up a great reason in your post, we put Global Warming at the bottom of our list, when it should be at the very top. Global Warming could possibly end us and it shouldn't be taken lightly. Thank you for educating me about how soil can reduce carbon!
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