Part of my process is daily research. I start my day with an email from ScienceDaily: Top Environment News to keep the creative ideas coming. Then, I read the papers related to carbon, water, soil, conservation……..basically anything that interests me and links to my conservation art.
This morning I read carbon captures next model. The title sounded like it had potential. But, unfortunately, it is a case of laboratory science/research going to great extremes to solve a problem through technology. There is a place for technology. However, in humanity’s battle against human-made global warming, the Earth itself provides one of the most important weapons, a natural system that breathes in Earth-warming CO2 and exhales oxygen. In the Anthropocene, we call this system groundcover, plants, landscape or agriculture.
Since industrialization, humans have not taken the time to read or see the instruction manual embedded in planet Earth’s surfaces. Although the system is presently dysfunctional it is not broken, it is missing a crucial part — the plants. Throughout millennia through experimenting with a diversity of species and trial and area, Mother Nature has devised a system that is Earth’s natural carbon capture model. Her method to turn sunlight and CO2 into oxygen and organic matter is super simple. However, it requires covering its surfaces in layers of plants.
Plants are the past and the present model for climate-change-fighting methods. Before we go to great extremes and implement new methods of technology shouldn’t we first implement the proven system?
My piece Root to Water addresses this topic. Last week, I had the piece photographed and will post it on my website in the 2021 portfolio.
