Comment 76451

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted May 03, 2012 at 13:31:58 in reply to Comment 76436

Sorry 'bout the alley, we were in a hurry. And wasn't my partner, just an old friend.

As for soils, it's now clear that they're as large a source of carbon emissions as industry. Careless tilling or exposure to sunlight causes the humus (carbon) in soils to break down and offgas, which not only pumps the atmosphere full of CO2 and methane, but also seriously depletes their ability to grow things.

A serious effort at sequestering carbon in our topsoils could take our atmosphere back down to levels seen around the beginning of the industrial revolution, not to mention doing wonders for farmland.

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