Dawit Solomon spoke about how soil is able to store huge amounts of carbon and its affect on nutrition in the soil and plants growing. As someone who has taken oceanography, this conversation was like putting a puzzle together in my head. I’ve learned a lot in oceanography about how the ocean has been storing huge amounts of carbon being released into the atmosphere and that the ocean has been absorbing it which has done a lot to contain global warming from rising to crazy levels. This talk helped me realized why and how the carbon is being released into the atmosphere and that they should be naturally stored in the soil for good nutrient content for plants to grow.  It was interesting to see that third world countries are finding ways to combat carbon release from the soil and that as a more advanced nation, we are learning from them than the other way around, which puts us to shame. The carbon that is in the ocean and the atmosphere now needs to be put back into the soil and seeing that are some viable solutions to do so was good to hear.

I think what stood out to me most from Mr. Solomon’s lecture was the realization that no part or aspect of the earth is left unharmed due to greenhouse gases and our ability to destroy all we touch.