Soil
July 13, 2010
Read: John’s editorial in Solutions.
John is increasingly coming to realize that the fate of atmospheric carbon, fresh water, agriculture, and human health and culture are all bound up with the fate of our soils. Every time crops are harvested or soil is tilled, carbon is released into the air.
Human life on earth is sustained as much by soil as it is by water and air. This is a fact made abundantly clear by Jim Richardson’s excellent photographs.
The story of China’s Loess plateau illustrates the deep implications of tending to our soils. Check out this excellent video here.
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I agree whole-heartedly. I would like to know how John can include the work that Paul Stamets is doing with mushrooms as ecological tillers of the soil?