We have only one Earth and it matters a lot, how we treat it.
For years, mankind has worked to “master” the ecology of the planet, where our needs as a species have taken precedence over good practice without regard for the ultimate loss of habitability that happens when a species depletes the resources of the place where it resides.
We have not paid attention to what history teaches are the outcomes that occur when a civilization puts a greater demand on the land than it can support.
Ultimately those civilization fail or fade away, leaving the legacy of their folly for the scientists of today to document.
We are not beyond the reach of such failures.
Our agricultural lands are depleted of the nutrients needed to grow crops, unless these nutrients are supplied by the addition of chemical fertilizers.
Along with those fertilizers, come the herbicides and a vicious cycle of fertilization and further depletion and ultimately the sterilization of the soil result.
There is another way to do this and much of the knowledge of how to do it has already been developed.
That method goes under the banner of “Sustainable Agriculture” and is something that I hope Fare Thee Well will become a standard bearer in support of the concept.
