这idea that the soil on our nation’s farms and ranches can help stop the climate crisis by acting as a carbon sink is gaining momentum. The concept, often referred to as regenerative agriculture, is being enshrined in innovative国家政策和计划across the country, and a host of organizations are pushing to make it a fundamental part of climate solution policies like the绿色新交易。甚至民主党总统候选人伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders），乔·拜登（Joe Biden），贝托·奥罗克（Beto O’Rourke），蒂姆·瑞安（Tim Ryan），汤姆·史蒂尔（Tom Steyer）和皮特·巴特吉（Pete Buttigieg）也提到了竞选活动中的土壤碳固执。
但是，在这次越来越强大的对话中，很少有人提到一个关键问题 - 减少农业农药的使用。作为新科学简短的表明，农药会损害土壤生物群落，这是驱动土壤碳螯合的生命，因此是再生农业的核心。未能明确谈论减少农药会给对话带来关键的作品，并为农药行业的合作打开了再生农业运动。
这farming methods being promoted under the banner of regenerative agriculture—which have long been championed by organic farmers, the original soil health advocates—are a huge environmental win. Practices like cover cropping, crop diversification, composting, no-till farming, and managed grazing of livestock not only help sequester carbon, research shows they save precious water resources and bolster farmers’ resilience to drought, flooding and climate chaos.
但是，如果我们不包括减少农药作为基本目标，那么这些做法才能建立可持续的食品系统。
农药巨头拜耳·孟买已经对土壤碳固换的兴趣兑现。这company claims that by using the “right practices and products” farmers can build“健康的土壤为更好的星球”去除大气中的温室气体。刮擦表面，这是孟山都的数十亿美元产品，有毒除草剂综述。该公司正在促进综述作为减少耕作的工具，鼓励农民在季节结束时化学“燃烧”作物，而不是直到下来。但两者都有机的和传统的farmers who are committed to truly regenerative agriculture are demonstrating that it’s possible to practice no-till farming without toxic chemicals.
这movement around soil health that is taking the national stage should follow the lead of farmers like these and become a vocal force for the reduction of toxic pesticides in our farming systems. The health of the soil and all life depends on it.
在地面上，农药正在摧毁蜜蜂，蝴蝶和其他维持地球生命的昆虫的种群。一个新学习found that U.S. agriculture has become 48 times more toxic to insect life in the past two decades. This came on the heels of a荟萃分析of global insect populations that found 40 percent of species could face extinction, threatening “catastrophic ecosystem collapse” if we don’t change the way we farm. And the most comprehensive scientificassessmentto date warns that biodiversity loss is a global challenge on par with climate change.
看地下，research表明农药会损害土壤的复杂生活社区。这在每茶匙健康土壤中生活的数十亿种细菌和其他微生物已经隔离了数亿年。它们用植物根形成的网络是使碳从大气流向土壤的流动。
有毒农药会损坏这座微生物桥。已经发现它们会破坏土壤社区，改变生化过程，并伤害维持土壤结构的动物群，例如earth和springtails。
和综述？新简介显示了活性成分（糖果酸酯）如何欺骗土壤寿命，因此削弱了再生农业的目标。证据中有研究发现草甘膦会损害生态菌根真菌对于将碳转移到土壤至关重要，increase pathogenic microorganisms in the soil, impair respiration of soil-dwelling organisms, and immobilize nutrients that plants and microorganisms need for healthy functioning.
包括减少农药作为再生农业对话的重要组成部分，可确保孟山都及其同类产品不能定义前进的道路。
随着我们的气候和生物多样性危机的恶化，再生耕作为种植食物的关键途径以滋养人和地球的方式。创新的解决方案应以最佳的科学为指导。科学表明，消除或大大减少有毒农药是为健康星球建造健康的土壤和生态系统的关键。
