Farmers should use natural methods like no-till and using cover crops if they're advantageous. Those methods have the potential promise of increasing yields over time, providing a healthier soil for healthier plants, and even providing better habitat for insects, birds, and other wildlife.
There's a plan for governments to provide "carbon credits" for farmers that use cover crops. Those carbon credits will come from carbon taxes that are levied on other industries that release CO2.
That sounds great if you like regenerative agriculture, but unfortunately, it's like inviting Count Dracula into the natural farming party. The system to tax and shift the credits to farmers will be a corrupt, rube goldberg pile of shit. It'll steal from both the farmers and the consumers and will inevitably form into some sort of fascist corporate/government cartel with GMO plants, etc...
The very same type of people who put lead in gas, or who pushed a shift to using plastic for everything, and the people who made money off all the polluting industries of the 19th and 20th century will cash in on these schemes and stay on top of everyone else. It's gross.
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