This is what I've been telling people for YEARS! Now, finally, a scientist is confirming it. It's only common sense people! Come ON!!!
By Seth Borenstein
updated 12:04 p.m. PT, Thurs., May. 8, 2008
WASHINGTON - Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in.
As seeds get better, much of the world's soil is getting worse and people are going hungry. Scientists say if they can get the world out of the economically triggered global food crisis, better dirt will be at the root of the solution.
Soils around the world are deteriorating with about one-fifth of the world's cropland considered degraded in some manner. The poor quality has cut production by about one-sixth, according to a World Resources Institute study. Some scientists consider it a slow-motion disaster.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24524912/
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Serious comment. I have always been interested in these subjects. I remember reading the book Collapse about the ecological events in societies that have had problems. People seem to be short sighted about the world around them at times.
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