Why is there so much talk about warming and climate change and nothing about HEAT ACCUMULATION. So why is there Heat Accumulation? In a word, "ploughing".

After Mother Earth has given life to some dust, sown her little seeds, delicately nurtured her microbes and meticulously woven her web of life, WE PLOUGH IT!

Ploughing cuts the soil, destroys the network of roots and the microbes and insects and all life is disrupted, sounds like war, divide and conquer. Ploughing turns the soil exposing its nutrients to the sun, draining nutrients rapidly instead of progressively. The soil loses its life force in a few seasons, after which we have to expensively prop up with artificial fertilisers.

Think about it. How thick is your skin? Not very, but it affords absolute protection. It's the same for land and soil.

The precious top inches of soil is known as the topsoil. Lose your topsoil (your skin) and you will only last hours. We turn over the layers of soil, somewhat reversing millennia of Nature's weaving. In our ignorance WE PLOUGH IT without recognising that it was teaming with life, and a working system.

NOW WE KNOW

Do we?

Now that we have ploughed and ploughed, taken the bumps, made flat the land, sown monoculture, added artificial fertilisers, the soil will eventually warm.

In point form:

1. Ploughing the soil destroys the infrastructure of soil - and tractors and fuel are expensive.

2. Everyone leaves (life forms, water and CO2) - planting mono-culture further depletes nutrients - soil then requires artificial help which is expensive.

3. Water and CO2 can't settle in the soil anymore - so CO2 hangs around the atmosphere which adds to climate change and water rolls off (flooding) instead of being absorbed into water sinks to refill aquifers.

4. The less water the more heat - the more heat the less water.

5. No water means no trees - so there are no roots to hold the land together.

6. Keep this up and eventually it blows away (desertification) becoming a desert.

7. We must change how we do things.

8. First stop ploughing.

What has so much ecology got to do with technology?

The lessons learned from natures' methodology can be applied to technology. It's not an autonomous engine - but an engine within an eco system - that's what sustainability is - technology must fit within the structure of Earth. Biomimicry is such a technology

Shaved Bald

The small water cycle is gone!

Shaved Bald

The small water cycle is gone!

By shaving the planet bald in patches, by clearing vast areas of land, we remove the protective leaf canopy - the protective layer - the roof of the mini-eco system.

Rain is water falling downwards.

Evapotranspiration is water falling upwards.

The Thermoregulator is water. 

By shaving the planet bald in patches, by clearing vast areas of land, we remove the protective leaf canopy - the protective layer - the roof of the mini-eco system.

The canopy usually catches the water that is evaporating from the trees and plants, but without the canopy, soil is exposed directly to sun and wind and to other extremes. Without shelter, the water in soil gives up its last remaining moisture, becomes dry and the land overheats. This compounds into other problems, suffice to say we might as well pour concrete and add lights.

Both the bare soil and concrete cities are Heat Accumulators and water, or the "lack" of water, is what's missing. A small tree or shrub applied early will repair the cycle - will catch the water falling upwards - and convert it back into water to feed itself.

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Since trees have covered the planet for a millennium, they know what they are doing. But it's not limited to trees in the country, of course, gardens and parks in cities play an enormous role in cooling the city and cleaning the air... your garden too!

In all cases, the ingredient missing is water. Water is the regulator of heat, the Thermoregulator. Not enough importance is placed on waters' role as Thermoregulator.

Cooling (as simple as it sounds) is achieved by adding water. Of course you know this because you have to make sure your car radiator has water to prevent overheating.

This is true on a planetary scale but is not just sadly overlooked, but policy encourages water to flow into the sea - the exact opposite of how to cool the planet and/or look after soil.