Scaling Up Best Practices Regenerative Agriculture to Regenerate Our Climate by Maximizing Photosynthesis

In the previous article, (Soil Organic Matter – the Most Critical Cause and Solution to Climate Change), I showed how the climate models and negotiations completely neglected soil organic matter (SOM) and how its destruction through industrial agriculture is the largest source of carbon dioxide (CO2), more than fossil fuels. Adopting regenerative agricultural systems that reverse this loss, remove CO2 from the air, and store it as SOM will reverse climate change.

In that article, I showed how the models and data used for the Global Carbon Budget were inaccurate, resulting in significant variations in CO2 emissions and removal estimates.  The complete absence of the largest terrestrial carbon pool, soils, in the calculations is a fatal flaw that completely invalidates the current policies around the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.