How readily we manipulate our soil. We rearrange and restructure it. We pump it full of chemicals, we flood it, we drain it. On its health the fate of empires has rested. Yet we avoid it. In our cities, rivers of concrete keep us from its touch. Naked, it tends to offend the eye. But a close look reveals that the soil is an essential bridge between the rock below and the life above. It is dynamic and vital, and far too easily - and frequently - abused.
National Geographic, p351 vol 166, No. 3 September 1984
24yrs later, the situation is worse and degradation is on. Desertification is reported from many places.
National Geographic, p351 vol 166, No. 3 September 1984
24yrs later, the situation is worse and degradation is on. Desertification is reported from many places.
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