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By rejecting traditional grazing and maintaining trees and wildlife habitats alongside pasture, Colombian farmers are turning their land carbon positive. But will it be enough? (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Thought it sounded like the Savory thing. Yes, apparently his claims and experimental results have not been backed up or (EDIT: consistently) replicated by rangeland scientists and he's an oldschool Rhodesia army officer who still owns a big plot in Zimbabwe, lmao

https://jacobin.com/2022/03/big-agriculture-funding-regenerative-ranching-amp-grazing-soil-carbon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I hold a LOT of hate for Savory. I don't get how someone so obviously evil still gets to go to TED talks and pretend that he's saving the world.