Is 2015 The Year Soil Becomes Climate Change's Hottest Topic? | ThinkProgress

Is 2015 The Year Soil Becomes Climate Change's Hottest Topic? | ThinkProgress:


Global Soil Week was last week.

It slipped by without even a stain on the knees for most of us.

Give a look at this recount of the week's activities and the progress to address the issues we are generating for out soil, our top soil and the planet in general.

This is really ugly. One estimate is that we could deplete all top soil within 60 years. (Gotta question this one a little bit, but the concept is valid.)

And new studies show that the problem gets worse and worse as the temperatures of the planet rise.

Really ugly.

Smarter ag management and no-till farming is a great place to start on the critical, really CRITICAL, environmental issue.

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In China, an underground luxury hotel | SmartPlanet

In China, an underground luxury hotel | SmartPlanet:

Wow. Don't know if we should be happy or sad about this resort project.

Kind of makes you wonder how and why this massive hole in the ground was constructed as a by product of the need for resources?

Good. This should start to make miners think hard about the use of the land when done. The open-pit mines for ore and oil and coal might start to design their end-game for the land as they dig and truck.

So, is this a resort that you wanna go visit? That's the Billion Yuan question?

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