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  • From: Graham Unangst-Rufenacht <graham.rufenacht@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] We need to protect the world's soil before it's too late | Popular Science
  • Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 11:20:35 -0400

Hi all,

I find this paragraph in the article highly problematic and indicative of
the general ignorance of - and the opportunity for us to radicaly educate -
many in the scientific and conservation communities to the real and
potential impacts of regenerative agroecology and land management:

"All this might not matter so much if we could just find more soil, or just
make soil ourselves. *But for all practical purposes soil is a nonrenewable*
*resource.* The recipe for soil is incredibly complex, requiring an
intricate
mix of the right chemistry, biology, and physics. And it simply takes a
long time to form. The rule of thumb? *Between five hundred and several*
*thousand years for an inch of topsoil*."

These statements - made as if fact, and left unchecked - can, does, and
will lead people to pursue truly untenable "solutions" (such as
geoengineering, gmo foods and biofuels, etc.) to climate change, the
disruption of the water cycles, the depletion and killing of our soils,
etc. as their understanding will be based on false premises.

This paragraph is followed by:




On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Gene Monaco <efmonaco@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Everything is here:
> > http://www.soilfoodweb.com/
> >
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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