We are soil. We are Earth. We are made of the same five elements – earth, water, fire, air and space – that constitute the universe.
What we do to soil, we do to ourselves.
This fundamental ecological truth is forgotten in the dominant paradigm, because industrial agriculture is based on eco-apartheid, the false idea that we are separate and independent of the Earth, and also because the dominant paradigm effectively defines soil as dead matter. If soil is dead to begin with, human action cannot destroy its life – it can only ‘improve’ the soil with chemical fertilisers. And if we are masters ...
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