With more carbon in our soils than in the atmosphere and all animal and plant life combined, one may expect soil to have been a central feature of the global climate conference, which took place over two weeks in Brazil last month.
Soil health is the thread that connects climate resilience, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, conflict, migration and starvation. That’s why soil needs to break out of the agricultural realm.
The outcome of COP30 proves that globally, we are still failing to understand exactly what soil does. Fundamentally, the summit’s failure on soil lies in how it is conceptualized. Yet again, soil has been regarded as a sub-component of the agricultural machine instead of the foundation to agriculture and many other components of terrestrial life. It is time we recognize it as the life-protecting organism it really is.
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