Sheril Kirshenbaum
Did you know that soil helps us deal with #ClimateChange? After the ocean, it’s the 2nd largest carbon sink, meaning it stores & releases carbon in ways that regulate the greenhouse effect.

But deforestation, overgrazing, forest fires, intensive farming, construction & more have taken a toll. Today, 1/3 of the world’s soil is degraded, meaning it’s lost some of its ability to support animals & plants bc of physical, chemical or biological changes.

Protecting soils = protecting the planet🪱🌍
Jun 5, 2023 at 12:28amMetatext
Show threadSheril KirshenbaumJun 5, 2023

I love that I can share science or history or even *soil* ⬆️ on #Mastodon & every comment is thoughtful, polite & interesting.

It’s a nice reminder that despite what I became accustomed to elsewhere, social media can still be interesting & fun. Long live the #fediverse🖖 /2

Show threadPJT NorthJun 5, 2023

@Sheril

The Ag Dept’ soil science profs at MSU might be helpful too. USDA not so much.

Soil’ offer the easiest short term mitigation path to help combat climate change is why I mention it. Success with it won’t stop climate change by any appreciable measure but it will help insure food supplies in a rapidly changing world.

Show threadHtaggertJun 5, 2023
@Sheril to be quite honest, I did not know that, thank you!
Show threadPJT NorthJun 5, 2023

@Sheril

Regenerative agricultural practices are one easy answer to recover soil’s carbon sink capabilities. They work and don’t take long to prove up for the skeptical.

Show threadElizabethJun 5, 2023
@pjtn @Sheril I was going to say the same thing, you beat me to it.
Show threadChupacabra 78704Jun 5, 2023
@Sheril We know nothing of nature except we destroy it.
Show threadJennyJun 5, 2023
@Sheril
Show threadHoward LeeJun 5, 2023
@Sheril soil loss a factor in past mass extinctions: https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/what-messages-does-the-end-triassic-extinction-hold-for-today/amp/
How the world of the end-Triassic extinction was similar to today—and how it differed

Past environmental crises let us reverse-engineer how our planet works.

Ars Technica
Show threadThreadbaneJun 5, 2023
@Sheril
Better out of oil than out of soil.
Show threadPhoenixSerenityJun 5, 2023
@Sheril This is why I'm a supporter & citizen participant in the global #SaveSoil movement. Without healthy soil, we can't grow healthy foods. Nor can trees & plants, that wildlife need to survive, grow well without healthy soil.