Talk:Geotherapy

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A few of the links at the bottom of the article seem to be out of date or don't work at all. They could be updated or taken out entirely if the original page took them down. I also think the article could have a section dedicated to similar principles that match Geotherapy. There are also a lot of resources within the WikiProject Environment that could be used to help expand this article. Also some pictures would be a nice touch.

--Cocz6d (talk) 18:57, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested Revision

The article needs editing for clarity, to correct the reference to geo-engineering, to introduce the notion of 'natural solutions', and to define geotherapy (is it a metaphor or a practice?).

The following text is recommended:-

Geotherapy is the practice of restoring the earth’s "health" by strengthening natural biogeochemical and physiological mechanisms that regulate the earth’s planetary life support systems and control global temperature, sea level, atmospheric composition, soil fertility, food, and fresh water supplies.[2][3] Geotherapy assumes that the earth's major environmental problems, such as global warming, can be diagnosed and mitigated in a way that is metaphorical to a medical doctor diagnosing and treating a human patient. [1] Geotherapy views human health and quality of life as a part of, and hence dependent on, the ecosystem services provided by biomes. It also recognises the urgent need to regenerate the earth’s severely damaged ecosystems for a sustainable future.[4]

Geotherapy favours the use of mitigation methods that are nature based, and so it has a lot in common with nature based solutions to climate change (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature-based_solutions). Geotherapy uses some of the climate mitigation methods that come under the banner of of geoengineering, but it avoids climate interventions, such as solar radiation management, and it avoids industrial methods that might have unintended consequences.

Geotherapy aims to regenerate the Earth's existing or natural life support mechanisms, whereas geoengineering tends to focus on hard technological solutions.[5] Geotherapy is sometimes also called BioGeoTherapy to highlight the goal of regenerating natural biological mechanisms rather than becoming reliant on hard engineering solutions.