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Instead of using the desert grasslands to feed sheep and other livestock, do at least four things:

1.) Calculate what the take-home net income is per hectare each year by the ranchers.

2.) Calculate what the value is of the carbon sequestered in the soil by the native desert grasses per hectare.

3.) Do some radiocarbon dating of the soil carbon put in the soil by the native desert grasses--and compare to the longevity of forest trees that are usually planted to produce carbon credits--you might find a 300-400 year lifespan for forest-tree carbon sequestration vs 1,000-3,000 years for grassland soil carbon.

4.) Start converting Australia's rangeland that are currently growing native grasses for exotic animal forage, to allowing those grasses to grow unmolested, and start selling the carbon credits?

The arid parts of the world, could be the carbon sink for everyone, plus you can go from deserts back to native grassland-savannah and get rid of Global Warming that way? See https://www.ecoseeds.com/cool.html

The only way to get everyone's attention, is that they can make more money by preserving and protecting the environment, instead of destroying it? I have attached an example from Oman, where you still have native vegetation, and where you do not!

Dear Craig,

Thanks for your very insightful response! I really appreciate your expert advice and insights.

You are correct, re money. A strong argument and I will use your advice. Heartbreaking it is the only way to wake people wake up, but best way to argue the case.

Al Gore uses a similar strategy with renewable energy re financial benefits & it has worked to introduce clear energy in many countries globally.

Many thanks and wishing you all the best from Australia!

Best wishes,

Caitilin

I am speaking as a paid consultant for the ranchers from the desert of Nevada, and we are about to do that radiocarbon dating on the soil carbon sequestered by one of their native grasses, which paradoxically produces the most carbon per square meter, but the forage is too coarse for the animals so the ranchers hate it.

When they find that they can take-home maybe 10-20 times as much each year per hectare by selling the carbon credits instead off trying to force their animals to eat the very same native grasses that are marginal forage--all of a sudden the "Ugly Duckling" is worth its weight in Gold!

Also, check the Discover magazine article at https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/does-rain-come-from-life-in-the-clouds and go out to discover which are the native plants that produce the rain clouds for different parts of Australia? Picture of a Pseudomonas cloud being born here in California.

The Pseudomonas bacteria produces the rain clouds for our whole planet, and we have been cutting down those plants, without knowing which ones they are. So if we plant them back, then that will also help Global Warming by increasing rainfall, and that increases vegetation to sequester more carbon, and cool the night temps. to produce more rainfall in arid areas.

See our discussions about trying these methods in the Sahara desert of Libya, at

and https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_we_can_reach_the_food_security_in_country_90_is_deserthttps://www.researchgate.net/post/Reclamation_of_the_Sahara_desert_to_combat_Climate_Change

The Libyan Sahara desert discussion link is at https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_we_can_reach_the_food_security_in_country_90_is_desert

Attached is where they took an area of the Sahara desert in Tunisia, kicked out the domesticated animals, and the native grasslands came back on their own in less than 10 years, like magic.

We need to remove the domesticated animals off a lot of the world's arid grasslands, and use those one billion acres for carbon sink--and have the native grasses solving Global Warming problem for us. And the ranchers will benefit, when they go from raising cattle or sheep on these marginal lands, to raising the native grasses for carbon credits instead.

I am speaking as a person who has already restored 800 acres of 8-10 inches of annual rainfall desert-grasslands back to 95% native cover in six months, that you can see at https://www.ecoseeds.com/greatbasin.html

Wow keep up the good work!

Alexander Kolker INRE: 'Politics'. I'd respectfully disagree, because the national Science Foundation's 'Digital Democracy' program paid for my education and research, specifically how to use 'Public Participatory GIS' to inform the political process in making investments in large scale ( billions of dollars ) transportation projects. And I'd submit her question illuminates probably the most import aspect of human survival ( be it climate, migration, arms control, etc. ) which is how scientific research is processed through the blender of our institutions.