One Simple Thing You Can Do to Regenerate Climate Change
How little farmers and ordinary people are renewing their soil.
He looked at that sizeable dry farm. It was a land of loggers.
When he arrived, everything was degraded pastureland. So, he began farming, without chemical or organic fertilizers. He didn’t use irrigation, herbicides, nor pesticides.
Instead, he worked with life cycles.
Life transformed everything; soil fertility increased, long-dried springs came to life, and the rain became more frequent.
Currently, clearings are made to grow veggies, roots, and grains. At the same time, tree seeds are planted.
Those plants that grow first form the placenta for the “forest’s embryo.”
A new cycle begins, more complex and fertile than the previous one.
Olhos Dágua Farm forms a great variety of fruits, noble timber, and one of the world’s finest cocoa, and holds more than 40 years of applied agroforestry research.
Ernst Götsch work’s become known globally as syntropic farming.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees.
Every ancient civilization became extinct for the same reason: resource depletion.
If we changed our perspective and recognize nature as a great ally, we’ll change the way we behave toward the planet and avoid repeating the same mistakes as ancient civilizations.
One of the most aggressive activities in the environment is agriculture. But there is knowledge and technology to do things differently.
We have to take the rain-forest as a model.
The structure of the rain-forest starts from the assumption of abundance. And science’s been advancing to interpret the agroforestry concept in a more integrated way.
Yet, traditional agriculture is exploring mono-culture. Farmers don’t study the natural cycle of life as the rain-forest model does. The result is dry land and dead soils with no nutrients.
On a grander scale, these drylands origin the need for water, pesticides, and other chemicals. It’s a vicious cycle.
With syntropic agriculture, Ernst Götsch finds a positive energy balance in the system. Behind these farming techniques, there’s a very refined set of principles.
It’s a combination of science-based knowledge with practical intelligence.
He managed to systematize his work. It allows the principles to be replicated anywhere else regardless of climate, soil condition, and acreage.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.- Daniel Webster.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Mother Nature is not another entity. It makes part of who we are as human beings.
When Humans started to look at land as a product to make money, the principle of abundance was forgotten.
For thousands of years, Nature has been warning us that this is not the balanced formula. Still, we keep being selfish, greedy, and stupid.
Don’t expect to reap a harvest you did not plant.- Jim Rohn
We can’t keep closing our eyes to the ground and soil. We are creating gigantic desertification areas through intensive agriculture.
The soil is being dehydrated for hundreds of years, and we, intelligent beings, still didn’t understand that the formula is wrong.
The soil has the ability to request and manage vast quantities of greenhouse gases. The same soil could be the one thing balancing our climate and replace our freshwater supplies.
Soils have the power of destroying entire empires. So, don’t think this is a minor problem.
All the great empires vanished when their lands were dry, and they couldn’t plant. They couldn’t farm; they had no food. They had no food; they starve to death.
Why do you think things will be different now?
Producers and modern agriculture don’t know how the soil works. They don’t understand the basic ecological principles.
Everything runs on carbon. Carbon is the main engine. It runs the system. Carbon isn’t harmful. Actually, it’s the basis of all life on earth.
We are 16% carbon. And that comes from eating vegetation, fruits, and other nutrients.
There are more living organisms in hand full of dirt than all the human beings ever lived on planet earth.
And those organisms are processing organic patterns in the soil, putting the nutrients in ways that plants need.
We are 1% humans and 99% microbes.
Final Thought
The solution is right under our feet.
We call it earth, soil, ground, or dirt.
What decisions are you going to make that impact this beautiful planet? Your choices will impact your grandchildren and three generations from now. Will they be able to hug a big tree with the love and respect all trees deserve?
Will your next generations swim in a clear, clean water river or lake?
This doesn’t have to do with religion or politics.
It’s about love.
If you love something or you love somebody, you’ll want to understand them and protect them, right?
Even the tiny worms, roots, and bacteria, if we take care of them, they’ll take care of us.
Today, our species faces its biggest challenge.
Our mission is simple.
We must harvest the regenerate power of the earth itself.
And I’m not just writing and talking. I’m doing my part.
I recently bought a farm and just started to plant trees all over the place.
Like Ernst Götsch and his syntropic agriculture, I’m going to start regenerate, inch by inch, until I can no longer lean myself to plant another seed.
How about you?
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