{"id":88544,"date":"2015-04-22T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=88544"},"modified":"2015-04-22T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T22:07:00","slug":"ronnies-earth-day-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/ronnies-earth-day-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie\u2019s Mother Earth Day Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThe elimination of fossil fuels for all but the most limited and essential purposes is necessary but not sufficient to allow our descendants a fair chance for a healthy and prosperous future. Enhancing carbon biosequestration in terrestrial ecosystems is also essential.\u201d<\/em> &nbsp;Wayne A. White, Biosequestration and Ecological Diversity p.118 (CRC Press 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Feeling depressed on Earth Day week? Tired of the standard doom-and-gloom discourse surrounding global warming and climate change? Feeling disempowered?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a better way. What if, starting this week, we embrace what the United Nations has designated&nbsp;the \u201cYear of the Soil?\u201d &nbsp;What if we look at our planetary crisis from an entirely different, and more hopeful perspective?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s plenty of good news.&nbsp;Including the fact that the global grassroots, farmers and consumers, united, can reverse our suicidal \u201cbusiness-as-usual\u201d food, farming, energy and land use practices. By harnessing the&nbsp;power of Regenerative Organic Agriculture and reforestation, we can lsuck down enough excess heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and naturally sequester it in our plants, trees and soils. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regenerative Agriculture and Earth Repair practices can not only mitigate, but also, in combination with drastic reductions (80-90 percent) of fossil fuel emissions in our food and farming, transportation, housing, utilities, and industrial sectors, actually <em>reverse <\/em>global warming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s time to think of ourselves as climate and food activists. Because the harsh truth is this: There will be no organic food, nor food whatsoever, on a burned out&nbsp;planet. Nor will there ever be a 90-percent reduction in greenhouse gas pollution without a transformation of our food and farming and land use practices, both in North America and globally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/essays\/mother-earth-day-2015-regenerating-soil-and-reversing-global-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read Ronnie\u2019s essay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe elimination of fossil fuels for all but the most limited and essential purposes is necessary but not sufficient to allow our descendants a fair chance for a healthy and prosperous future. 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