Your point is not really any clearer than it was originally. I’m guessing here, but are you suggesting everyone who isn’t a farmer stops doing whatever it is they are doing now and starts farming (on land they don’t own, for the majority of them)? - see other comment re solution feasibility
Broad scale land use changes are a feasibility challenge. That’s why afforestation and reforestation aren’t likely to deliver scaled benefits. But improving on current processes on land can make a big difference, especially where there are co-benefits
1/2 If you read our paper, you will see that quantitative assessment is just the first step in the initial assessment where pragmatic considerations are assessed. There is a second step that includes analysis of social, policy, institutional, legal, and other issues
Link to original publication here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
But, this doesn’t negate the thesis we published: increasing carbon sequestration and decreasing emissions over large scale in broad-acre agriculture can influence global carbon fluxes on the scale required to address climate change
3: Also: I can tell you feel strongly about this issue, but let’s keep this discussion polite please.
2/n: But this seems counter to your claim about yields - if ‘small scale sustainable farming’ delivers higher yields as you claim, then this would be even better for urbanization, as opposed to reversing it.
1/n: Could you please provide references for your statements about relative yields?
Your statements seem contradictory: “Urbanization makes ‘factory farming’ necessary” implies that intensive agriculture is required to support high population density (I agree)….
Yes: I grew up on a small farm so I have a lived experience. Small scale farming can’t deliver the food required to sustain the population; your proposal would require a radical decrease in current population. I think your strategy is impracticable, but happy to discuss further
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: Evaluating plant agricultural interventions as climate-mitigation strategies (Plant Physiol.) @claudiavickers.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsyk.social)
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Improved limonene and geraniol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae via the modification of the farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase Erg20p. Read more about it in the latest #Yeast research article by Zeyu Lu, @claudiavickers.bsky.social , Bingyin Peng & team.
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Inbreeding?
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Join us: Plant Physiology panel discussion on Numeracy, Realism, and Relevance in Plant Science, presented by ASPB @aspbofficial.bsky.social. Thur July 17: 12 noon UTC, 8 AM EDT, 1 PM UK, 3 PM Israel, 10 PM Brisbane
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Nothing to see here… just laundering money.
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This is why Australian bills are plastic #CSIROinnovation
Is it that obvious?!
The pGFPGUSPlus binary vector is my most requested plasmid in @addgene.bsky.social, but the paper describing it isn't super well cited because folks just use the catalog number as a reference. Please cite the original papers for plasmids!
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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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@protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations.
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