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The Topsoil Crisis: Dirt Isn't Cheap Anymore

@Dan S1, welcome to the planet Earth. Other peoples problems are your problem, like it or not. We are interconnected and you can't just enjoy the benefits of other peoples success without sharing in the obligations toward the less fortunate. Someone once said "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."

I agree that population expansion must be curtailed for the long term survival of our planet. In the mean time, free universal education has proven to limit population growth not encourage it. "Socialist" Europe has a declining native population.

The Topsoil Crisis: Dirt Isn't Cheap Anymore

Topsoil may have been more important to American economic expansion than oil.

American corn-centric farming has been mining topsoil for generations and in the process has been flushing this precious resource down the Mississippi to everyone's detriment. What hasn't been flushed has been rendered into a largely dead substance useful only for holding agricultural chemicals.

We need to preserve and build our topsoil and ensure that it is alive and healthy again. The growing organic movement promotes this trend. Our very lives depend on it.