Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
by supernovae on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:52PM
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Have they? It's common vernacular to say we lost something even if it isn't "i lost my keys" but "We lost the last dodo bird"... doesn't mean we can't find it, but, what we had will never be again.
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Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
by markdown on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:45AM
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Why would it never be again? The ingredients to making good topsoil aren't a mystery. The topsoil can be fixed.
Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
by supernovae on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:42PM
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In many cases of periods of time longer than humans live...
We're shitty stewards... I've seen jeepers drive over tundra and do donuts not realizing their burnouts won't recover in a lifetime and other morons see them out there and think it means they can follow suit and before long the entire basin is destroyed...
sure... it will recover... when humans are dead, or when we pull our heads out of our asses :)