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Cows save the planet and other improbable ways of restoring soil to heal the earth

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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...

Request Code : ZLIBIO2673216
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Year:
2013
Edition:
1st printing
Publisher:
Chelsea Green Publishing
Language:
English
Pages:
220
ISBN 10:
1603584323
ISBN 13:
9781603584326
ISBN:
9781603584326,1603584323

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