more preachin' to the choir

[archaeomom8]

One more epoch for my students to be tortured with remember...

And for those of you who love DIRT like I love dirt...what we've done to it.

None of this is really news, none of it surprising. Some people will write books, some will give presentations, some chosen academics will maybe make some money off of the misfortunes of dirt. Maybe a handful

Comments

[zhukora1]

Thank you for the link. It's a fascinating article! I think soil is one of the last resources that people generally perceive as "unlimited" or "inexhaustable" on the wider scale. Glad to see that people are beginning to worry about its welfare, just as they do for forests and wetlands.

[archaeomom8]

So true...

[serrana]

I'm reading a book about genetics, and in it the author is ranting about what a stupid idea organic agriculture is because the amounts of pesticides and herbicides in the human food supply as a result of conventional agriculture are trivial (and there's a lot of ad hominem stuff about Rudolf Steiner, but as with most things about Steiner, I la la-ed that part). I wanted to grab the guy and shake him and shout, "That's not the point! Or not the only point! The big point is what it's doing to the soil biota, you idiot!"

[archaeomom8]

Good grief.

Shouldn't geneticists know a little about soil science. Even just a tiny bit? And why it's important? Whatcha reading?