Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals
Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals
Mycorrhizal fungi are responsible for holding up to 36 per cent of yearly global fossil fuel emissions below ground - more than China emits each year
Whilst I'm sure the study is well written and we do need to research information like this, I have one side comment to make because one always sees news like this and I think it gives people/corps some kind of get out of jail card for doing anything useful to halt climate change.
How about, crazy fucking idea here, companies get regulated to perform more sustainable manufacturing practices?? Just an idea.
Yeah I feel the same, I mean it's great to have help to reach the goal but it's never we are going to produce less carbon emissions that its the root cause
I swear we’ll do anything but actually try to consume a bit less. It’d be cool if we’d find some magic solution, but all of this feels like trying a way to enable our total overconsumption.
Corporations have been pushing the sustainability-is-a-personal-responsibility narrative for decades. But even in the best case, it only makes a drop-in-the-bucket difference compared to solutions that work at massive scale.
"What is your carbon footprint?" I don't know. What is Walmart's?
On top of that, there are billions of people who are either currently living in poverty or are finally on their way to tasting the prosperity that much of the Western world has had for the last century. Will our cuts in consumption be enough to outweigh the increases by everyone else? Even if we break even, that still leaves us on the way to disaster.
There is no silver bullet. The more realistic scalable solutions we can synergistically use to achieve sustainability, the better.
Mycelium is pretty rad stuff. Strong, sustainable, degradeable, and is a carbon vacuum.
How well does it compare as a carbon sink versus wood?
We stuff "cellulose" into so many products, especially food. If mycelium is more efficient, maybe it could replace some of that wood pulp.