How much carbon could soil actually sequester? Despite rising enthusiasm for carbon farming in Europe and the U.S., climate impacts of soil carbon sequestration. Projects such as the Harnessing Plants Initiative and the Marin Carbon Project have multiple worthy goals but may be overstating the actual carbon sequestration benefits. “I have The Nature and Properties of Soils in front of me — the standard textbook… The theory of soil organic carbon accumulation that’s in that textbook has been proven mostly false … and we’re still teaching it.”
A harsh assessment of soil carbon sequestration from a biogeochemist. “Dirt First” article on U.S. farmers by the author of The Soil Will Save Us). An explainer on carbon sequestration.