Waiting for Industries to Stop Emitting Greenhouse Gases Would Not Help Solve the Issue
The expressions and language used around climate change from the global industry, policymakers, and the media has continuously used words like mitigate, reduce, and adapt for describing the best case scenario for actions on climate.
As a result now, people have started believing the point that climate change is insoluble and the best one can do is to minimize the repercussions.
But still, it is becoming clear that waiting for industries to stop emitting greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide would not work.
Similarly, if one looks at industries for technical solutions, then we are given concepts that sounds like science fiction and require technology which does not yet exist. For example, injecting carbon into deep sea beds or creating a sun-shade by shooting sulfur out of man-made volcanoes.
Experts stated that prior to the Industrial Revolution there was about 280 parts per million (PPM) of carbon and other GHGs in the atmosphere. Currently earth's atmosphere has 400 PPM's of carbon and other GHGs in the atmosphere.
Today the imbalance is huge meaning the vast excess of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere causing the greenhouse effect, which changes our environment in the form of extreme weather, rising sea levels, and desertification.
Now even if the emission is reduced to zero, this excess amount of carbon will continue to loom in the atmosphere over us.
The excess carbon in the atmosphere must be sequestered through regenerative agriculture in order to bring GHG levels down to 350 PPM in the near-term.
Based on the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission numbers for the year 2012, if all the agricultural lands on earth were managed according to regenerative organic agriculture methods it would result in sequestering 40% of those emissions through crop lands and 71% of those emissions through pasture and grazing lands.