Ground Breaking: practical solutions to manage the land, restore the natural water cycle, and tackle climate change.: 2022

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Zero carbon emissions alone won't stop global warming. Agricultural land use is turning the world's bread baskets into deserts. But the depleted soil that feeds us all today might yet save our civilisation.

In Western Australia, the rabbit-proof fence presents the world's largest study of contrasting land management within the same vast region. The 'Bunny Fence Experiment' is strong evidence that clearing and cropping is a major reason rainfall dropped by 20% in the Wheat Belt between 1976 and 2002, and continues to drop.

Ground Breaking explains how modern farming methods deplete the soil and influence our climate: exporting heat waves, dust, and fire south-eastward in Eastern Australia and north-westward in Western America. It presents solutions too: managing land use to reduce bare ground, restore the small water cycle and sequester carbon in the soil.

'Every now and then a book comes along that is full of basic common sense, but that is supported by solid science and easily understood explanationsWhether home gardener, farmer, consumer, scientist or policy decision-maker, this straight-forward book is a must read. Charles Massy

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'Every now and then a book comes along that is full of basic common sense, but that is supported by solid science and easily understood explanations ... Whether home gardener, farmer, consumer, scientist or policy decision-maker, this straight-forward book is a must read.' - Charles Massy

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Phil Mulvey is a specialist in soil and water chemistry with over 40 years of experience in soil science, land repair, and groundwater. He is founder of one of Australia's leading environmental geo-science group EESI Group, was co-founder of 3D-Ag, a sustainable farm systems consultancy, and CEO of Carbon Count, the world's first commercially available online soil carbon project management software. Phil is part consultant, part researcher, and part entrepreneur. He has made it his personal mission to restore 10% of the world's degraded land in his lifetime.