Climate Change – Do You Want To Fight It, Or Do You Want To Defeat It Without Spending Too Much? The Impossible Dream!

Based on the image above (from climate.nasa.gov), how many is the world watching out for in response to Climate Change? Six! (1) sea ice, (2) sea level, (3) carbon dioxide, (4) global temperature, (5) ice sheets, and (6) ocean warming. Frank A Hilario’s response to that is this: “How will the world bring back to ‘normal’ sea ice, sea level, carbon dioxide, global temperature, ice sheets, and ocean warming? An impossible dream!

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From Energy Tracker Asia (energytracker.asia):

Energy Tracker Asia’s latest Special Report: “Unlocking Asia-Pacific’s Climate Potential: The 2035 NDC Challenge” examines the Asia-Pacific region’s significant role in global greenhouse gas emissions and the urgent need for countries to update their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) ahead of upcoming climate negotiations.

The governments of the world are now busying themselves on the aspect of how much greenhouse gases (GHGs) each country is producing, so that these could be limited by as much, to limit Climate Change.

I see: The “urgent need for countries to update their nationally determined contributions” means Asian countries need to wait 10 more years to see what they can do in terms of Climate Change.

I say: Our countries have to ACT now – TODAY! They can eliminate their contributions of GHGs to the atmosphere now if they eliminate their production of chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides, which are major sources of GHGs!

In Agriculture, that means resorting to non-chemical farming. And, I Filipino Agriculturist say, that means Regenerative Agriculture (RA). With RA practiced all over the world, we can defeat Climate Change in no time at all!

Here’s my personal RA list:

1) Cover Cropping,  
2) Crop Rotation,  
3) Farm Crops + Tree Crops (Agroforestry),  
4) Green Manuring,  
5) Intercropping,  
6) Multiple Cropping,  
7) No-Till Farming,  
8) Organic Fertilization,  
9) Ratooning,  
10) Rotational Grazing,  
11) “Three Sisters” Planting,  
12) Trap Cropping, and  
13) Trash Mulching.

So! You don’t have to wait “for countries to update their nationally determined contributions (NDCs)” – whatever they are, however they are, the time to put to zero all NDCs was yesterday. How? Stop using chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides in Agriculture!

And since there are millions & millions of hectares of land under agriculture all over these Promised Land, when you stop applying farm chemicals all over that expanse of earth, Climate Change will start changing for the better!

Here’s my personal challenge:
If we get financing of a minimum PhP 1 million, we will start with the farmers of Asingan, Pangasinan, my hometown and province, via the Nagkaisa Multipurpose Cooperative (NMPC). We will be applying all the 13 RA practices under strict observation. After 6 months, we will be ready with our first report.

Then via NMPC we will tell the world after just 1 cropping using the Regenerative Agriculture list of 13 practices – how much money saved and how much money earned. This is how Regenerative Agriculture will save us from Climate Change. We cannot wait for the results of the NDC Challenge!@517