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Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil by redisman on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:27PM (#26826332)
Well no. Just like a rainforest doesn't just fly in the wind to become a rainforest somewhere else if you burn it. Soil is a ecosystem, not a raw material.
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Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil by markdown on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:49PM (#26828832)
Sure, soil is an ecosystem, but topsoil is the top part of that soil. The surface layer. If you bulldoze a rainforest, there's no more rainforest. But if you scrape away topsoil, you have subsoil, and you have a big pile of topsoil.
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Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:56PM (#26828498)
That was a spectacular analogy.
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