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    Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
    Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
    Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
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    Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth

    Written by Judith D. Schwartz and Gretel Ehrlich

    Narrated by Judith D. Schwartz

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    In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.



    Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers from around the world, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to thrive. Regarding climate, when we focus on carbon dioxide, we neglect the central role of water in soil—"green water"—in temperature regulation. And much of the carbon dioxide that burdens the atmosphere is not the result of fuel emissions, but from agriculture; returning carbon to the soil not only reduces carbon dioxide levels but also enhances soil fertility.



    Cows Save the Planet is at once a primer on soil's pivotal role in our ecology and economy, a call to action, and an antidote to the despair that environmental news so often leaves us with.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChelsea Green Publishing
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9781603588058
    Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
    Author

    Judith D. Schwartz

    Judith D. Schwartz is a journalist whose work explores nature-based solutions to global environmental and economic challenges. She writes on this theme for numerous publications and speaks at venues around the world. She is the author of Cows Save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School and Brown University, she lives in southern Vermont.

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    • 5/5
      Love this book. Lots of references very easy to listen to
    • 5/5
      Exceptional book on soil management and livestock herding. Very insightful and informative, ordered a paper copy to re read the bits I didn't fully catch.
    • 5/5
      One small critique, I’m personally not often fond of overly wordy books that explain more than the necessary detail. Nevertheless I really enjoyed this, very informative, with great examples and plenty of food for thought!
    • 5/5
      Very insightful and a must read for those who actually care about the environment and the earth we live in!