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SF Climate Strike -- Carbon Sequestration (week 3) [1]

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Date: 2023-06-17  

This is the letter for week 3 of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of SF City Hall, beginning early March 2019. For more context, see this story. For an annotated table of contents to all the strike letters, see this story.

STRIKE FOR THE PLANET

while we can still make any difference at all, cause it’s now or never

It won’t be cheap, or easy, or politically feasible, or pro-capitalist, or any of the rest of the nonsense we’ve let blind us to both the science and the screaming of the biosphere as it dies.

But we have to do it, and we have to do it now.

So let’s talk about CARBON SEQUESTRATION.

Carbon sequestration means pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it. The carbon for sequestration comes from atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ) – both potent greenhouse gases. Besides ending the dumping of carbon into the air, we must now remove it.

So how can we, in SF, sequester carbon?

We must:

plant trees, lots of trees, everywhere possible

expand the idea of where it is possible to plant trees

use only organic farming and gardening practices in SF

practice permaculture and regenerative farming/gardening in SF

create large numbers of wildlife, native plant, and pollinator gardens

ban the use of all inorganic fertilizer

plant deep rooted native plants

garden for humification

require rooftop planting

require sidewalk planting

surface all creeks and rivers in SF

plant seagrass, tule, and marsh grasses

restore and extend all historical marshlands

minimize all plowing, tilling, and digging

increase area available for planting

no bare soil

no pesticides, weed killers, fungicides, or grub control chemicals

plant polycultures always everywhere

use organic manure for fertilizer

make compost, composted manure, and mulch available to all gardeners

Where:

at all schools and city buildings

at all new construction (growing space equal to square footage of construction)

on all parking facilities and all sidewalks

on all roofs and at all houses

in all city parks

along all of the coastline

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