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Cows Save the Planet
- And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Engelsk Paperback
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Cows Save the Planet
- And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Engelsk Paperback

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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—"green water"—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.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781603584326
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1603584323
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Udg. Dato:
22 apr 2013
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
150mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Oplagsdato:
22 apr 2013
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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