14 Losing Soil

05/06/20 • 35 min

Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities

Why civilization after civilization squandered their soils and fell, why soils are even more imperiled in the modern world, and how Edenicity will learn from these mistakes. If Episode 13 was like Stanley Kubrick's "2001", this episode is like The Empire Strikes Back.
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Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - 14 Losing Soil

Transcript

Kev: 0:00
What's the biggest problem in the world today?
Kev: 0:04
In his massive online permaculture design course, Geoff Lawton, perhaps the world's leading permaculturist, said it like this: he said our third biggest problem is pollution, including carbon dioxide, which causes climate change. Our second biggest problem is deforestation, and our first is soil erosion soil.
Kev: 0:27
Really? What does soil do for us? Well, in