Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

On 09/30/2010 12:47 AM, Tradingpost wrote:
> I've been mentioning water issues before but it's not a glamorous subject 
> apparently.
> paul

In an essay I read recently, Wendell Berry quotes an agricultural 
economist blythely dismissing the problem of pumping the Oglalla aquifer 
out of existence: "Nonsense! We can pump the aquifer another 50 years 
before it runs out." That's our timeline: If it's longer than *my* 
lifetime (indeed if it's longer than quarterly earnings) it can be 
ignored. And no awareness whatever that depleting the aquifer means not 
just finding another place to pump but desertification over a huge area.

~Harvey

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