Agrowaste

Years ago, I interviewed James Lovelock, the originator of Gaia Theory, which hypothesises that the Earth behaves like a living organism. When I asked him about the climate crisis, he said that the only way to reach the required scale of carbon sequestration is to work with nature. His proposed solution was biochar, which is easily created by heating agricultural waste in the absence of oxygen. Biochar is a carbon sink that could, given the global scale of agriculture, sequester carbon by the gigaton, while simultaneously improving soil fertility and, recent studies suggest, improving water retention by almost 40%.

— Wayne Visser

From Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living, Volume 4. Buy on Lulu ↗