Dear Friends: We know enough to say that Biodiversity, Biomass and Accumulated Organic Matter are the evolutionary factors that have always regulated the Earth's climate (as well as soil fertility, biodiversity and the fresh water system-hydrological cycle).
Each of us affects this every day with all sorts of choices. When we are unconscious of the importance of the need for total vegetative cover, the role of the accumulating organic matter and the amazing diversity many of our choices are negative. Consider over-consumption, energy use, urban design, industrial agriculture, even just how we make grass lawns in all biomes.
When we understand how natural ecological systems work to cool, to infiltrate water, to support the microbial and fungal communities that transformed the Earth making it possible for us to exist then we act differently. At home, in our gardening choices, in what we buy. If we all understand this then the society will transform into something completely different because the things we are now producing, buying and selling will be very different. Even the basis of our money will change because we can see that Ecosystem Function is vastly more valuable than things that quickly pile up in the trash.
It really gets interesting when we realize that together we are powerful. We can join together in Ecosystem Restoration Camps and immediately and directly have a major impact on maintaining total vegetative cover, encouraging biodiversity, growing fertile soils, lowering temperatures, increasing moisture availability, and regulating the Earth's climate.
When we have this level of understanding we realize that it is not just our negative behavior that affects the Earth's climate. We can learn and implement all the best practices to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Then we are the answer to climate change.
I urge you to join this movement and help encourage more and more people to take this on. Do it for yourself and your family, do it for the next generations of life, to it for the Earth. If we all share 10 Euros per month (120 Euros per year) we can have camps all over the world and engage millions in this effort. We welcome you to join this growing movement.
https://www.ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/
John D. Liu
Ecosystems Ambassador, Commonland Foundation
Visiting Fellow, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO)
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
johndliu@icloud.com
john.liu@commonland.com
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