In the longest running study of its kind, the Rodale Institute’s Farming Systems Trial has compared organic and conventional farming side by side for the past 29 years.  There were many findings that were discovered but the understanding that synthetic nitrogen fertilizers speed up the decay process of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers speed up the decay process of organic matter so that is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide rather than stored in the soil as carbon.  Both plants and soil act as powerful sinks capturing the greenhouse gas considered by many to be largely responsible for global warming.

An increase in organic matter in the soil helps preserve biodiversity.  All organisms depend on biomass-living and dead organic matter, the higher the biomass content, the move the biodiversity.  You can see where organic gardening fits in there clearly.

Please reject chemicals and choose instead to garden organically. You are preserving the soil and you are reducing the use of chemicals that are directly dependent on fossil energy use.