2. What is a Soil Carbon Project Worth?

[@sacredcowbbq1326]

Thanks for this great video series. I'd like to make a suggestion, if I may. How about putting it into a playlist so they'll play sequentially automatically?

[@peterclark6290]

Go to the main site.

[@nomnommonsterr]

What am i missing? So me as a farner, i can signup with you, increase carbon content in soil and get paid?

[@peterclark6290]

Paying farmers to be half decent farmers is Alice in Wonderland thinking. Building productive soil so that it is productive year after year, that it becomes independent from natural cycles, thus giving a farm more options is the game, the only game and asking taxpayers to fund that is an academic/government solution. Defeating Inertia is a co-dependent exercise. Furthermore he has (Lecture 1) just described the carbon cycle, what it does for the land: so who needs Academics and Politicians telling you are a good boy? I get it, take advantage of their dullness, but when you do it for yourself, your farm, your future, you effectively become a professional, a businessman and a farmer.

[@deinse82]

I think the scientific ideas being presented in these videos are great, but, once the government gets involved, it becomes one more scheme that gives a competitive edge to large scale operations best equipped to navigate the bureaucracy...to the point that they don't really need to produce food in an efficient manner, they can just live off a farm that sequesters carbon. That doesn't really solve anything. That's just a modified version of the story of agriculture in the last 60 years, and the root of most problems in the industry. Meanwhile, if you left people alone, they would slowly start moving towards building soil, for the purpose of producing food more efficiently...on whatever scale that makes the most economic sense. Because, believe it or not, small scale farms are often more efficient that large scale ones, especially when you rely on smart soil management instead of chemicals and heavy equipment.

[@stewpidaso26]

if youre afraid of farmers living off of carbon tax, not producing food, make it a requirement that in order to receive those funds you have to produce food, but youre not sequestering a bunch of carbon without producing something, like meat, because livestock is part of the carbon cycle. a very important one actually.