‘Save Soil campaign targeting 3.5 billion people’
TDT | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Staff Reporter
‘Save Soil’ campaign aims to reach out to three and half billion people across the world, which is nearly half of the world populace, according to global visionary, environmentalist and campaign founder Sadhguru.
Sadhguru, who kick-started the campaign on March 20, 2022, with a solo 100-day motorcycle journey from London, was speaking to members of Bahrain media at the Indian Embassy last evening when he highlighted the immediate need for action to save soil across the globe.
“I want this campaign to reach maximum people and we need a strong movement, which will only alert the policymakers to draft and implement policies to protect the global soil wealth.”
Sadhguru warned that the entire world will turn into a desert in another fifty years if no action is taken immediately.
“Our generation should become that generation, which turned things from the brink of a disaster other than the one, which walked into the disaster,” Sadhguru said.
Calling out for strong action, Sadhguru said time is running out and if action is not taken immediately it will become difficult to turn the clock back on the impending extinction of soil.
“To facilitate this task of rapid government policy evolution across the world, the ‘Save Soil’ movement is creating a handbook of recommendations for every 193 countries,” he said.
Sadhguru said the gathering of all countries of the world at the COP15 Summit in Ivory Coast is a key opportunity to redouble governmental policy efforts to reverse the degradation of agricultural land worldwide.
“This can bring humanity back from the very brink of soil extinction.”
“To save soil at larger scales, we need to shape a deep-rooted people’s movement. Notwithstanding the complex nature of the ecological problem facing us, a successful people’s movement can be created only if we can distil the remedial action into just one single-minded focus that is articulated in a succinct and simple way.
“Our history of ecological effort shows very few unequivocal successes - largely because we failed to convert complex scientific arguments into easy to understand simple actions.
“The Montreal Protocol of 1987 is often hailed as the single most successful international agreement to date - and that happened because there was a singular focus on doing just one thing - halting the depletion of the Ozone layer.”
Speaking to The Daily Tribune, Sadhguru said his campaign is about organic content in the soil and not organic farming.
“Soil is the basis of air that you breathe, the soil is the basis of food that you eat and soil is the basis of water that you drink. “We must understand that soil is the largest living system. Understanding this fact is a fundamental responsibility of every human. People who live in urban enclaves and cosmetically say ‘let’s do organic farming’ know nothing of farming.
“If we remove the use of fertilizers and pesticides, it will definitely bring down food production.
But we must understand that increasing the quality of soil can increase yield and this can only be done through increasing the organic content in it and there is not much talk about this aspect.”
He said presently things have gone to a situation, where nothing could be grown without fertilizers and pesticides.
“The recommended minimum organic content in soil is three per cent and not a single nation on the planet has this benchmark.
It is 1.8pc in Western Europe, 1.1pc in Southern Europe, 1.4pc in the US, 0.68pc in India and 0.5pc in Africa.”
Speaking at the press conference, Indian Ambassador Piyush Srivastava thanked Sadhguru for visiting the Kingdom, which “will further enhance the bilateral ties between Bahrain and India”.
“This campaign is very much part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, which celebrates 75 years of Indian Independence.”
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