Interestingly, even the poor annual-contract arable farmer who rents fallow land legally ‘owned’ by the transnational-owned local quarry company has for several years now not ploughed any of the fields which neighbour my home. Instead he’s using the slit-and-seed-direct system, which causes orders-of-magnitude less death and destruction to the living soil-community - and much less CO2 release - than tillage causes.
This is an idea whose time is sweeping the pool, if for no better reason than the irreversibly-growing constriction on energy availability; with actual shortages on the near-term horizon. No till, because it does so little upheaving of soil, requires far less energy as a viable system of arable agriculture. So - a system of ag which demands far less fossil-hydrocarbon energy input is allowed, even mildly encouraged, to gain headway. When the carrot of good sense fails to tempt the donkey, apply the stick of grim necessity… 
