Bogged down in great carbon capture debate
It’s rather difficult to know quite where to start with the carbon debate, when, according to my research, we have been losing carbon into the atmosphere from our soils since the dawn of agriculture some 12,000 years ago, when we began tillage. The figure I saw was an eye-watering 133 billion tons of carbon over the world as a whole.
That disturbance allows particles of soil, or carbon, to leach into watercourses and blow into the atmosphere. In short, it’s no longer locked up, it’s gone. Like everything else humans have done, they became more efficient, so more and more carbon was lost in an increasingly short timescale. Now we have melting ice sheets and
