Pete Smith on why soil matters
The Life Scientific
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The Impact of Policy Interventions in the 20th Century
There are some examples of things how not to do it in the u k. During the 19 eighties, there were economic insentments and tax breaks to put production forestry made on areas of peat land. And when you drain the peat land, you can be losing over 30 tons of carbon dioxide per hector. That's like about between six and seven family cars driving around for a year for every hundred by hundred meters of peepland that's trained. So it's a disaster, an absolute disaster.
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