Growing Sustainable Biofuels: Common Sense on Biofuels

Part 2
WorldChanging Team
March 12, 2008 2:12 PM

The future of the Earth could well hinge on the future of earth, the soil beneath our feet.One statistic makes clear why – soils and plants growing on them contain 2.7 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Outside the oceans they represent the Earth’s largest store of biological carbon. Using soils and plants in ways that release carbon intensifies climate change. This is the second greatest source of climate-disrupting greenhouse gases after fossil-fuel burning.

On the other hand, employing the land to soak up atmospheric carbon increasingly appears central to averting global climate meltdown, quite literally.

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