https://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2019/03/vagrants-on-the-earth-implications-of-topsoil-loss/ The Investor Resource for Solar, Wind, Efficiency, Renewable Energy Stocks Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:57:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 https://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2019/03/vagrants-on-the-earth-implications-of-topsoil-loss/#comment-4316 Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:57:27 +0000 http://3.211.150.150/?p=9722#comment-4316 As a young man I always tilled in the fall die off to replenish the soil for spring gardening.

]]> https://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2019/03/vagrants-on-the-earth-implications-of-topsoil-loss/#comment-4313 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 19:06:45 +0000 http://3.211.150.150/?p=9722#comment-4313 Something that is too easily overlooked in the green/clean energy perspective. As one who lives in rural Iowa, it has been mystifying to me how ethanol and biodiesel can be viewed as clean energy when the underlying price payed is devastation of the soil. The air may become cleaner but human beings may well not be around to appreciate it if they do not wake up to the problems with agricultural in this and other industrialized countries. Organic production does not fully answer these concerns as soil loss is still present. With the current snow melt, rains, and flooding, significant erosion can be seen running through corn and soybean fields due to heavy water runoff. This spring, farmers will go out with there “soil saver” field cultivator which will drag adjacent soil into the eroded areas and it will be out of sight and out of mind for another year. Realize, that loosing 5 tons of soil per acre is soil loss the thickness of a dime over an acre of ground.
Thank you Debra for addressing this subject as very few people are aware of the severity of the problem

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