Friday, May 12, 2017

Scientific American Asks if Meadows Can Save the World from CO2

Before reading a word, the Rockhouse offers the answer is yes since this is one of the things meadows have always done.  They're life factories while forests are another, oceans and jungles another, etc.

The Rockhouse cries all the time about letting lawns to go pasture or so because butterflies.  They love the milkweed but you don't want it while the pasture doesn't care.  Bring the milkweed and the butterflies will come.

Scientific American:  Can Meadows Rescue the Planet from CO2?



Sky Parlor Meadow in Tulare, California. 

Credit: Miguel Vieira Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

When they talk of 'teeming with life' this type of environment is exactly what they mean since it happens in many ways we can't even see.  Now it seems this environment is getting more study.

You have heard there's nothing so beautiful as a tree but other things are as beautiful but not in obvious ways.  Even in bacteria this pasture environment is rich and that seems a negative thing but it's life in all its forms.  I think it's Gram negative bacteria which are the killers and I read recently they're incredibly ancient but I don't want to pursue that just now.  The bacteria are all part of an incredibly rich and vital biome.


The Rockhouse isn't going to paraphrase the article to mansplain' or pedantically repeat, depending on how you swing.  The source article is lengthy but it's rich in its own way and consider the potential for it since this isn't a hard thing to accomplish; you only need to let the land go.  As you see, it will find its way.

Ed:  Great Circle of Life?

That's the one

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