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ryan ackett

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I study ag, soil, water, N, and GHG @ UTK. UCW organizer. jr fellow Climate and Community. ag engineer. tweets about ag, climate, jesus, justice, and a Green New Deal. he/him

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had to check my numbers several times to believe this stat: wetlands in the US currently store an amount of carbon equivalent to the emissions of 100 million cars driven for 100 years. and we've already lost half our wetlands.

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Just posted- a really tidy dive into the history of US agricultural policy, workers fighting to make agricultural work fair and safe, and how (+why!) the left should think about ag policy in the struggle for more just futures as the climate crisis intensifies

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The carbon sinks of farms, even ideally managed ones, saturate over time, while animals keep producing emissions (CH4, N2O) annually. But don't all ecosystems saturate in carbon uptake? Yes, but if the area is natively/historically forested, the C saturation point is *much* higher than pastures.

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I'm grateful that this farm is being honest about the science. As some of us have long argued, soil carbon saturates, while ruminant emissions continue, ensuring that ranches cannot go carbon neutral.
It was a story built on wishful thinking. 🧵
www.euronews.com/green/2024/0...

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Cool to see folks’ reactions to this good news.

Note this isn’t simply about “tree planting.” It’s reforestation of areas that were agriculture in the 1930s but by the 1990s had reverted to forest. It happened in Eastern US as agriculture moved west.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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"Collective approaches to farming, like equipment sharing, often emerge from a stark realization: The current farm business model in the U.S. isn’t working for many small producers."
civileats.com/2024/01/08/t...

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I imagine you could fill in some more gaps by adding hog CAFOs

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Heartbreaking that "74.1% of Indians cannot afford a healthy diet due to stagnant income levels" despite high grain yields. We need to orient towards new metrics of success in agricultural science.
www.devex.com/news/india-s...

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Hannah should simply be more rigorous in her application of the data which indicates that optimistic messages are more likely to pacify audiences while unvarnished, even pessimistic messages are effective in motivating action and behavioral change www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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stray thought: I'm not in love with the *term* land sovereignty bc that is precisely what we have now: land sovereigns. Land ownership confers sovereignty in the US legal system- a total right to use and abuse. What I am interested in is land democracy, not sovereignty

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I will not rest until these people are excommunicated from all left/progressive ag spaces and recognized as the bankrupt right wing frauds they are

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knocking it out of the park as usual. and why stop there? add in floodplains, marginal land, seasonal wetlands, high sloped areas- thats a lot of socially useless land that I can think of a lot better ideas to do with

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California has put a water-stressed farming region on notice for having “inadequate” plans to curb its overuse of groundwater, bringing officials closer to directly intervening, for the first time in state history, in the way growers manage their underground water supplies.

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