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The promise of Organic Carbon Capture

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What if we could solve the climate-change issue painlessly?  Profitably?  Organically?  If we could, wouldn't that be nice!   Well, perhaps we can--by not only being green, but actually planting green.  According to the Rodale Institute ,  If we converted all global croplands and pastures to regenerative organic agriculture we could sequester more than 100% of current annual CO2 emissions. In other words, according to Rodale, we could achieve the stated goals of Al Gore, and many Green New Dealers, in a "soft path" manner, not disrupting the economy, including leaving in place familiar carbon-based fuel production.  And yet we could still stabilize, and even reduce, carbon dioxide emissions.   Not bad! We can call this Organic Carbon Capture .  If carbon capture by any mechanism is good, then Organic Carbon Capture is better--it's certainly greener. After all, anything organic is part carbon, and if the carbon is an organic...