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From a soil science perspective, Monbiot's opening comments are easy to deconstruct. Either he's unaware of or doesn't understand any of the recent soil & range science that he claims to have read and asserts is so definitively on his side. He also doesn't see to be aware of...

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'Carbon opportunity costs' just the latest deflection.

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That's all part of the myth of forest rhetoric & myth of wilderness. Grasslands w fibrous root systems connected by AMF networks in mollisols store as much or more carbon than most types of forests + are less susceptible to fires esp in fire ecosystems

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And water vapour.

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He’s being paid to promote corporate ‘solutions’. 😉

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Yeah, that's definitely what makes some of his comments very ironic.

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ah yes, James White; he featured in a talk at @NatOrgSkill #BioFarm Conference a few years ago (if I recall it was remotely during 2020 or 2021). @ireland_farming a selection (not incl James White if I recall):

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@DefendingBeef Didn't see the event so, it's hard to see how your post relates Thanks for posting though

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Monbiot's opening argument was basically the same "grazed and confused" argument made by FCRN in their 2017 white paper. I noted the shortcomings of FCRN's paper in this 2018 blog response: So FCRN's white paper was a meta-analysis of old soil science papers that didn't account for microbiology plus that white paper also didn't account for hydroxyl oxidation. Given how much soil science has progressed in the past 10 years due to new metagenomic & metscriptonomic tools, meta-analysis of soil science papers from 10 to 20 years ago is largely a pointless exercise.

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Cause he doesn't care. He has an alternative agenda that doesn't go with facts.

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ELON CLIPS

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If conservatism is not ultimately about economics, what is it about? 'The defence of the West.' This, in one short, simple phrase is as near as I can come to expressing the overall mission of conservatives now. That defence involves securing our nations against internal and external threats alike. I shall enlarge on those threats in a minute. But what are the core convictions we are defending? Not having time to pen a treatise, or even speak as long as a German politician, I shall set out my views with English brevity. We conservatives believe that man has a basic sense of right and wrong and an amazing creativity when free to apply his talents; but we also believe that his nature is flawed, such that without restraints applied by convention and law he will destroy himself and others. We believe in free, limited democratic government, as the framework most likely to minimise opportunities for mischief and abuse of power; but we scorn the association of vox populi with vox dei, knowing that no mere majority vote can make what is good bad or what is bad good. We understand that in some areas government has to be strong. It has to be prepared to use force to defend the nation's security. We appreciate the majesty and rituals and pomp of the state, operating in its proper sphere. But we also believe that what is public ultimately exists for what is private—that it is the family (not the state or nation or even the Church), which is the basic institution of our society, without which all the rest collapses. We are suspicious of attempts at institutional change, unless those institutions have become in their present form a threat to the whole future of the country—as the trade unions and nationalised industries were, for instance, in Britain when I became Prime Minister. We view the world in which we live as in need, not of re-ordering according to master plans devised by enlightened experts, but rather of constant renewal according to timeless truths and rich traditions. And so we are unashamedly patriots. For as Edmund Burke wrote two hundred years ago: “To be attached to the sub-division, to love the little platoon to which we belong in society, is the first principle of public affection. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love of our country and to mankind”. So here we stand. Rock solid. Rooted in a clear, tried, tested view of the world and the heavens and everything in them.

Margaret Thatcher

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