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Taken from a sadhguru's article (I left out the rest because it was mostly unnecessary).
Why Do We Need to Save the Soil?
Sadhguru: Eighty-seven percent of life forms on this planet – microbes, worms, insects, birds, animals, human beings, plants, trees and every other vegetation on the planet is sustained by an average of thirty-nine inches of topsoil. And that is in grave danger right now. In the last forty years, forty percent of the world’s topsoil has been lost. The United Nations says we have soil left only for approximately eighty to hundred harvests, which means another forty-five to sixty years of agriculture. After that, we will not have the soil to produce food. You can imagine the suffering that we will unfold in the world. Thirty percent of India’s land is already degraded, and 90% of India’s states are seeing soil turn to desert. That means nothing can be cultivated there. So, protecting the soil for the future generations of this land is the most important thing.
How Can Soil Revitalization Help the Environment?
I was speaking at one of the UN agencies in Germany, and they asked me, “What are the three things we need to do to prevent an ecological disaster?” I said, “The three things are, ‘Soil, Soil, and Soil.’” This is something that is not being looked at because it is fashionable in the cities to talk about air pollution. I am not saying it is not a concern, but if you take the necessary actions to fix the soil, that action will take care of water also. Air pollution can be fixed in a short time if we are willing to sacrifice our economic exuberance a little. But if you want to fix the soil that you have destroyed, it will take 15-25 years if you go at it aggressively. If you do it without much interest, it will take 40-50 years before you can get the soil to a certain level.
If the soil is in a bad condition for that long, that means two to three generations will go through terrible states of life.
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Through practices from the last century, with artificial fertilizer, the soil has been depleted of nutrients. The artificial fertilizer only supplied the macros that were needed for growth, not the micronutrients, the minerals.
Even if a soil that has been used for monoculture is turned over into biological or organic farming ground, it'll still take to about 25 years before it is high quality soil.
Especially in the first years you'll have plagues to deal with. The practices (artificial fertilizer, round-up and other "crop protection measurements") have been harmful to the soil and shifted to those that have the best resistance, amongst whom more often than not, pests play a big part in.
Sadhguru does not seem to be aware of the details of this, and the article itself is not of great quality.
However, 45-60 years left of harvest left for the entire globe is not much.
The rest of the article is about agro-forestry. Having a diet thats mainly out of fruit instead of the 4 seasonal thing crop production.. This may make sense for India, but not for the rest of the world.
I posted it here anyway with some additional comment, for the newer members whom might not have heard of this before.
Why Do We Need to Save the Soil?
Sadhguru: Eighty-seven percent of life forms on this planet – microbes, worms, insects, birds, animals, human beings, plants, trees and every other vegetation on the planet is sustained by an average of thirty-nine inches of topsoil. And that is in grave danger right now. In the last forty years, forty percent of the world’s topsoil has been lost. The United Nations says we have soil left only for approximately eighty to hundred harvests, which means another forty-five to sixty years of agriculture. After that, we will not have the soil to produce food. You can imagine the suffering that we will unfold in the world. Thirty percent of India’s land is already degraded, and 90% of India’s states are seeing soil turn to desert. That means nothing can be cultivated there. So, protecting the soil for the future generations of this land is the most important thing.
How Can Soil Revitalization Help the Environment?
I was speaking at one of the UN agencies in Germany, and they asked me, “What are the three things we need to do to prevent an ecological disaster?” I said, “The three things are, ‘Soil, Soil, and Soil.’” This is something that is not being looked at because it is fashionable in the cities to talk about air pollution. I am not saying it is not a concern, but if you take the necessary actions to fix the soil, that action will take care of water also. Air pollution can be fixed in a short time if we are willing to sacrifice our economic exuberance a little. But if you want to fix the soil that you have destroyed, it will take 15-25 years if you go at it aggressively. If you do it without much interest, it will take 40-50 years before you can get the soil to a certain level.
If the soil is in a bad condition for that long, that means two to three generations will go through terrible states of life.
=======================================
Through practices from the last century, with artificial fertilizer, the soil has been depleted of nutrients. The artificial fertilizer only supplied the macros that were needed for growth, not the micronutrients, the minerals.
Even if a soil that has been used for monoculture is turned over into biological or organic farming ground, it'll still take to about 25 years before it is high quality soil.
Especially in the first years you'll have plagues to deal with. The practices (artificial fertilizer, round-up and other "crop protection measurements") have been harmful to the soil and shifted to those that have the best resistance, amongst whom more often than not, pests play a big part in.
Sadhguru does not seem to be aware of the details of this, and the article itself is not of great quality.
However, 45-60 years left of harvest left for the entire globe is not much.
The rest of the article is about agro-forestry. Having a diet thats mainly out of fruit instead of the 4 seasonal thing crop production.. This may make sense for India, but not for the rest of the world.
I posted it here anyway with some additional comment, for the newer members whom might not have heard of this before.
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