Skinning the Earth for Food

Mining the soil, the interface between the atmosphere and the lithosphere is unsustainable.
David Montgomery, professor of Earth and space sciences claims that skinning the Earth for food also constitutes an 'erosion of civilisations' in his book 'Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations'. "Soil loss through conventional agriculture is in a range of 10 to 100 times greater than the rate at which soil is created...We are skinning our agricultural fields"
Previously human populations could just move on to some one's elses land and continue their 'agri-culture' there. With 6.6 billion people today unable to embrace a paradigm shift with respect to food security, there would have to be another planet to 'harvest' elsewhere.

Strawberries costing the Earth

Huge strawberries were on offer at the market yesterday. The WWF is calling to boycott this Spanish produce, because their cultivation is leading to an "environmental catastrophe". The majority are grown around the national park Coto Donana. Germany and France are the largest importers of this water intensive and polluting crop. WWF claims that ”that strawberry cultivation is highly polluting, resulting in 4,500 metric tons of plastic waste each year and pesticide pollution.“ If you buy them before April, they are most likely destroying the Iberian natural milieu.
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