Get Real
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2022
318 pages
978-1-956914-40-5 (ISBN)
Description
GET REAL: A Positive Solution to Climate Change will revolutionize your understanding of the global climate issue. Adapting land management practices to a holistic and regenerative model, David Munson Jr. lays out in plain words how industry and individuals can continue using oil and natural gas, but changes the game with his tangible program of remineralizing the soil and making the earth carbon negative.
How do we prevent ecological deserts? Or revitalize marine wetlands? What about solving the issue of topsoil erosion? This book allows readers to "get real" about the issues facing our climate today - providing solutions for generations to come and challenging some conventional wisdom.
From shifts in agriculture techniques to the swift cultivation of prairie grass, readers take a journey through the positive solutions needed to swing the pendulum of climate change through applicable soil remineralization techniques.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- Foreword
- Dedication by Each of Us - It is time to "Get REAL" on climate change!
- CHAPTER 1: THE GET REAL PROGRAM
- Strategic Planning Includes Natural Gas
- It Is Time to Invest
- The Real Story
- The Value of Collaboration
- The Get Real Program as a Leader for Change
- Essence of The Get Real Program
- The Get Real Program Priorities
- The Big Payoff
- CHAPTER 2: A TREASURE: EARTH'S CARBON CYCLE
- Now, Let's Talk Carbon
- The Carbon Cycle
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Levels
- The Soil Solution
- How to Make Carbon Work for Us and Not Against Us
- The Get Real Program Believes in USING NATURE for CHANGE
- CHAPTER 3: THE RICHES: ROCK DUST AND REMINERALIZATION OF SOIL
- Without Rock Dust
- Life in the Lifeline... Rocks and Rock Dust
- The Glacier Connection to Our Soils
- The Miracle of Soil Life Revitalized Through Remineralizatic
- Rock Dust to the Rescue Through Remineralization
- Technology to the Rescue
- A New Environmental Approach
- Rocks Matter!
- Carbon Sequestration Solution: Rock Dust
- The Big Win of Basalt and Rock Nutrition for Soils and the Future
- CHAPTER 4: MAGNIFICENT WONDERS IN BIOCHAR
- Why Biochar?
- The History of Biochar
- The Making of Biochar
- Regenerating with Biochar
- Biochar and Water
- The Biochar Investment
- Necessity of Innovation
- Empty Arguments
- Let's Globalize
- Biochar Is the Answer
- CHAPTER 5: THE MIRACLE: SOIL LIFE
- The Soil and Climate Change Connection
- A Brief History of Soil
- Microorganisms and Our Soil
- The Chemistry Within
- The Soil and Your Health
- Man's Role in Our Soil
- Value of Properly Investing in Our Soil
- YES, There Are Solutions... by The Get Real Program
- The Time to Begin Is NOW
- Trust in the Farmer, Not Those with Lined Pockets or the Researcher in a Lab
- Imagine a Healthier, More Prosperous World for ALL
- CHAPTER 6: THE MARVEL: GRASS AS A CARBON SOLUTION
- Threats to Our Grass
- The Complex Connection from Grass to Cow... and Its Critical Role in the Carbon Cycle
- Holistic and Regenerative Grazing of Grasslands
- High-Intensity Prairie Grass Management
- The Next Phase... Biogas
- Vulnerability in Our Food Supply
- Innovative, Yet Doable Solutions
- CHAPTER 7: RICHES IN REFORESTATION AND THE MAGNIFICENCE OF OUR EVERYDAY TREES AND DESERT SHRUBS
- Love for the Forests
- Solutions and More
- The "Who Pays For It?"... in Climate Change
- Creative Solutions from Learned Minds
- Let's Be a Champion of Our Trees and Forests
- CHAPTER 8: WONDERS IN OUR WATER: OCEANS, REEFS, WETLANDS, AND MORE
- Remineralization Is Required
- Critical and Interesting Solutions for Our Environment and Our Water
- Imagine It... Carbon Sequestration Advances with Biorock Opposing Views
- The "How"Behind the What Within Ocean Solutions
- A New Nautical Tomorrow
- CHAPTER 9: LET'S GET REAL WITH SMART ENERGY OPTIONS
- A Place in Time
- Options for Change
- Efficient Land Transportation
- More Efficient and Cleaner Overseas Transport
- The Danger of Relying Too Much on Long-distance Electricity
- The Politics and Energy Policy
- The Get Real Program Knows Better
- CHAPTER 10: SOLAR ENERGY
- Solar Based Energy Production
- Aluminum
- Efficiencies and Sustainability
- The Politics and Energy Policy
- Solutions Exist
- The Get Real Program
- CHAPTER 11: HOW TO DO IT... PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
- The Options.... The way that we see it is that we only have two pathways for change
- Let's Talk REAL Impact
- A Global Program
- Start Today By...
- CHAPTER 12: FREEDOM IN GENERATING CHANGE FOR REAL IMPACT
- Who Can Solve for the BIG Issues?
- The Plan for America Serves as a Model for the World
- You may wonder how we can have the greatest impact?.
- Investment in Our Soil and Other Regenerative and Remineralization Efforts, Including Restorative and Regenerative Agriculture
- Let's Focus on Our Soil
- Let's Maximize Our Grass
- Let's Clean Up Our Forests
- Let's Stop Ignoring Our Waters... Oceans, Reefs, Wetlands, and More
- Carbon Sequestration as a Solution
- Climate and Energy
- A Global Program
- A Prosperous Future
- YOUR Call to Action Starts HERE and NOW!!!
- Reference List
