Inside a wool shed in northern New South Wales, in some of the best livestock grazing country in Australia, Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law, Alasdair MacLeod, takes a breath and addresses a crowd of more than 300. “The solution is beneath our feet,” he says.
MacLeod, newspaper publisher turned soil carbon entrepreneur, is talking about soil carbon sequestration, which he is pitching as a solution to both decarbonising the agriculture industry and aiding in keeping global heating below 1.5C. The problem is the science does not currently support its long-term use.
