I encourage everyone to think about life just a little bit differently today. The application of various sciences has taught us that we live in an approximately 13.9 billion year old universe, observably at least 93 billion light years across. Our only home in the cosmos, earth, is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Our anatomically modern selves have existed about 200,000 to 250,000 years and our brains have been about as complex as they are today for about 100,000 years. Plant and animal domestication gave us modern civilization over the last 10,000 to 11,000 years, following the last ice age, in a Goldilocks geologic epoch known as the Holocene. We Homo Sapiens have numbered about 117 billion and counting since we evolved.

Think about how amazing it is to be us. We’re made up of some of the same elements on the periodic table that everything we know to exist is also made up of. We don’t master or control nature or the cosmos, we ARE nature and the cosmos. We are, quite literally, the universe understanding itself. Let that give you a little joy today. Don’t be afraid of it or drive yourself mad at the complexity of it, just allow yourself to fully appreciate it. Let your 5 senses absorb the beauty, sound, fragrances, feels and even tastes of spring. Just exist for a little while.

But there is still legacy carbon that, by this late in the game, will keep the problem severe.

We must also draw carbon down into the soil with Regenerative Agriculture which mimics prairie ecosystems of wolves, grazers and mixed plant species.

Such No-till farming, without pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, and with intensive grazing, is essential to maintain the all-important microbial communities. These communities are destroyed by toxic chemicals and depend on active plant roots and heavy, but intermittent, grazing to thrive. Such methods also restore predatory and other beneficial life to the crop ecosystem, eliminating the need for pesticides in the first place.

Farmers are able to do this. It takes about three years to establish the system. This is where demonstration farms and subsidies for the transition are vital.

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When I look once more at the sea, does the sea see me or not see me?

Why do waves ask me the same questions I ask them?

~ Pablo Neruda

Tom Bond, Lewis County, WV