Cows Save the Planet (eBook)

Judith D. Schwartz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
240 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-433-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers from around the world, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to thrive. Regarding climate, when we focus on carbon dioxide, we neglect the central role of water in soil "e;green water"e; in temperature regulation. And much of the carbon dioxide that burdens the atmosphere is not the result of fuel emissions, but from agriculture; returning carbon to the soil not only reduces carbon dioxide levels but also enhances soil fertility.Cows Save the Planet is at once a primer on soil's pivotal role in our ecology and economy, a call to action, and an antidote to the despair that environmental news so often leaves us with.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2013
• Vorwort: Gretel Ehrlich
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Allan Savory • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson • Biodiversity Loss • Carbon Capturing • Christine Jones • climate change • Defending Beef • Desertification • Dirt to Soil • Droughts • earth • floods • heal earth • Healing earth • holistic land management practices • Improbability • improbably • judith schwartz • Malnutrition • Obesity • overgrazing • regenerative agriculture • Rural Poverty • Schwartz • Soil Ecology • The Reindeer Chronicles • topsoil • undergrazing • Visions of Climate Futures • Water in Plain Sight • What If We Get It Right? • wildfires
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-433-1 / 1603584331
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-433-3 / 9781603584333