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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by fao_ on Sunday July 14, 2019 @01:25PM (#20434582)
> Based on 2014 trends, the world has about 60 years of topsoil left.

Playing devil's advocate, there's no guarantee that these trends will continue. For a related example of this go and look up the Malthusian catastrophe

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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by devoply on Sunday July 14, 2019 @01:52PM (#20434753)
I am going to live forever, so far I am doing fine... See most life extinct on planet... like 99%.
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