In 1992, 1,700 senior scientists from 71 countries (including 104 Nobel Prize winners) signed the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” This document stated “No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminish. We the undersigned, senior members of the world scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the earth and life on it, is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.”
We are of the earth, and to the earth our bodies will return when we leave to the spirit world. Soil must be respected and treated with dignity, as it is the remains of life on this planet. The thin layer of soil, us bio-terrestrial animals, rely on to grow our foods, walk upon and carry out or daily lives, is disappearing, acidifying and forever being altered with petroleum based chemicals.
Soil is not dirt, soil is a living, breathing part of our existence. I suggest reducing the amount of chemicals you add to the soil in your own ecological footprint and do what you can to add back to the land; namely, compost your household wastes and purchase more organic crops. Remember whatever we do to the earth, our mother, impacts us all.
(River City Photography)
