damaging the earth to feed its people, page-31

Whether anything is done or not, there are hard limits which will come into play. It's only a matter of time.

The most important and overlooked is the depletion of phosphorus from our soils.

Over time the soils have been depleted of phosphorus and other trace elements.

What is worse is the poisoning of soils with radioactive phosphate that are being mined from deep in the earth and cannot be mopped up again once they are spread into our soils.

We are living in an age of extinction.