Bibliograph

Ground breaking, soil security and climate change, Phillip Mulvey & Freya Mulvey

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Label

Ground breaking, soil security and climate change, Phillip Mulvey & Freya Mulvey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ground breaking

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Phillip Mulvey & Freya Mulvey

Sub title

soil security and climate change

Summary

Zero carbon emissions alone won't stop global warming. Agricultural land use is turning the world's breadbaskets into deserts. But the depleted soil that feeds us all today might yet save our civilisation. In Western Australia, the rabbitproof fence presents the world's largest study of contrasting land management within the same vast region. The 'Bunny Fence Experiment' is strong evidence that clearing and cropping is a major reason rainfall dropped by 20% in the Wheat Belt between 1976 and 2002, and continues to drop. Ground Breaking explains how modern farming methods deplete the soil and influence our climate: exporting heat waves, dust, and fire southeastward in Eastern Australia and northwestward in Western America. It presents solutions too: managing land use to reduce bare ground, restore the small water cycle and sequester carbon in the soil

Target audience

adult

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