Forest stewardship and ecological farming techniques keys to slowing global warming

Management practices we can implement now may offer more promise than technologies not yet fully developed.

Good land stewardship will go a lot further in the near term than untested technologies in fighting global warming, a recent study published in Science magazine suggests.

According to the study, tree harvesting contributes more to global warming that all the cars and trucks in service worldwide, with tropical felling alone responsible for about 20 percent of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture was listed as another culprit.

Practices such as properly managing such harvests and implementing methods of agriculture—such as no-till—than protect the soil and capture carbon stand to reduce the threat of global warming much more immediately and significantly than more high-tech solutions such as carbon capture and storage (CCS form coal-fired power plants), the study suggests.

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