Bartosz Milewski on Nostr: We don't think of soil as a finite resource. But it can take 500 to 1,000 years for ...
We don't think of soil as a finite resource. But it can take 500 to 1,000 years for one inch of topsoil to form. Up to 40 percent of all soils worldwide are moderately or severely degraded--a figure that could rise to 90 percent by 2050.
Published at
2024-06-08 19:05:44Event JSON
{
"id": "5a654210fadc9da3eec16efa4fe1ea915fa6da0dc9ed962c3856c2ea877b7703",
"pubkey": "a60a88374d8e1cf092c7ea93662aa784fb33b3e75be7725017032e6929ebc5d5",
"created_at": 1717873544,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mathstodon.xyz/users/BartoszMilewski/statuses/112582560589503871",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "We don't think of soil as a finite resource. But it can take 500 to 1,000 years for one inch of topsoil to form. Up to 40 percent of all soils worldwide are moderately or severely degraded--a figure that could rise to 90 percent by 2050.",
"sig": "2ef9a51ebb602775e4f406d167043a86fa6918923b91ce525f535f410fa69e2320a0880be79681cfc6c177630a9bcfb3140f4788c2365c8137c1a6beed0ee08c"
}