Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937)
Gubimo tlo pod nogama, bukvalno. The ‘Unfolding Global Disaster’ Happening Right Under Our Feet
... soil loss [is] “an unfolding global disaster” that directly threatens the agricultural productivity of the planet. But soil erosion isn’t just a problem for food security ...[it] is also tied to the climate, as the world’s soils represent a massive carbon storage system, containing three times the amount of carbon that is currently in the atmosphere
it takes about 500 years to form 2.5 cm of topsoil under normal agricultural conditions
The good thing is that no one disagrees that increasing soil carbon is good for agriculture, is good for the environment, good for food security ... If we can do it in a stable way, it captures carbon and reduces emissions. It can be a double or triple win
A sustainable model for intensive agriculture (pdf)