I know this is the doomer sub but soil “productivity” isn’t a permanent problem, it’s an economic one and a sign of a system under stress.
Soil health can be restored, but it’s easier and cheaper for farmers to declare soil “unproductive” (to project capitalistic language onto a natural process) than to take the action to restore it.
Bookchin was cooking so hard when he helped invent the concept of dialectical naturalism because this is a perfect example of it in action, but also a perfect example of how we still have autonomy to repair our food chain.
Yes! Leaving the land fallow and doing erosion control can do this. Nitrogen can be fixed by planting legumes and phosphorous can come from biosolids (either animal or human )
I know this is the doomer sub but soil “productivity” isn’t a permanent problem, it’s an economic one and a sign of a system under stress.
Soil health can be restored, but it’s easier and cheaper for farmers to declare soil “unproductive” (to project capitalistic language onto a natural process) than to take the action to restore it.
Bookchin was cooking so hard when he helped invent the concept of dialectical naturalism because this is a perfect example of it in action, but also a perfect example of how we still have autonomy to repair our food chain.
Yes! Leaving the land fallow and doing erosion control can do this. Nitrogen can be fixed by planting legumes and phosphorous can come from biosolids (either animal or human )
Instructions unclear. I planted 50 acres of feed corn and burned half of it to raise prices.
Beanis will save us
I think a lot of people in this thread are underestimating the impact climate change is likely having on this