Re:Scientists Discover Evidence of Long “Ocean Memory”
by chrisco255 on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:56PM
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Here's an article from 1981 fearing the impending effect on soil loss in the U.S. due to expanded global exports of wheat, corn, and soy. https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0603/060350.html
Nearly 40 years later...doomsday has yet to arrive.
Re:Scientists Discover Evidence of Long “Ocean Memory”
by NeedMoreTea on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @04:16AM
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Interesting article. More like here's an article noticing that its happening, covers some of the reasons why (like fertiliser enabling the end of traditional crop rotation), and it deserves place in planning and ideally mitigating. No suggestions soil will be gone by 2020, or even 2100 or 2200.
the bigger claim, if one looks beyond the near decades, is to consider the state of the nation's agricultural resources ... our oil is clearly running out, and so is the most precious of our resources -- topsoil
Is about as "fearing" of the "impending" "doomsday" as it gets.
The combination of soil loss, pollinator loss, and decomposer loss helping us produce new soil will be a double-whammy for our agriculture. Thus far I would assume the reason why we have gotten away with growing plenty of (increasingly less nutritious) food is because of the wasteful practices that are killing the insects and depleting our soil, so we are on borrowed time.