PHOTOSYNTHESIS, the solution for our ecosystems 16/02/2024

We are waiting for revolutionary technologies that will "save" our mismanagement of natural oresources. However, the vast majority of self-styled Homo sapiens do not see biotechnology as automatically governing and generating all existing life.

Photosynthesis. That's it, Philip? As simple as it may seem, this plant process is so complex that it directly or indirectly feeds everything alive on this planet. And what's so good about that? Not much, just the comprehensive solutions for generating our basic resources. Here are a few: guaranteed water, a natural thermostat (temperature regulation), a nutritional and biological balance in the soil, the fixation of carbon from the air in the soil, and, best of all, if we have crops with a high level of photosynthesis all year round, we will guarantee food with a high nutritional value and the resilience of the environment that we exploit to have that food.

Okay, so how do we get more photosynthesis in our commercial crops? Plan so that your soil is covered with a layer of vegetation all year round, intercropping commercial crops with protective crops. Also, growing trees immediately in all our interactions with the environment (urban or rural) is fundamental and extremely necessary, because it is the intercropped tree crops that will quantify photosynthesis. This results in processes that will guarantee the chemical, physical, and biological resilience of the soil and atmosphere. As a result, we will have what our illustrious researcher Ana M. Primavesi said: HEALTHY SOIL-HEALTHY PLANT-HEALTHY HUMAN BEING I complete this truth by saying that a nation that eats food from healthy soil will have excellent nutrition, and as a consequence, excellent cognitive capacity, generating a healthy, wise, productive and very prosperous society.

In other words, we, the dominant beings in the ecosystems in which we interact, have to be intelligent in the management and creation of our essential resources. Yes, we need to exploit them, but we also need to guarantee the regeneration of these same resources, thus building a prosperous future for other generations. As our illustrious Ernst Götsch says, if WATER AND SOIL are planted, LIFE AND HEALTH automatically follow.

Cultivate and regenerate, this is the path we must take if there is to be infinite prosperity both in agriculture and, above all, in society. A society that is long-lived, healthy, and generates resources for ALL the beings that live here.

Felipe Kuhn