If global warming hasn’t frightened your socks off yet, then take a look at these two news items:
1. The UK is likely to run out of soil in the next 60 years. Other countries are similarly affected:
An estimated 75 billion tonnes of soil is lost annually with more than 80 per cent of the world’s farming land “moderately or severely eroded”…
2. The world production of phosphorous probably peaked in the late 1980′s (phosphorous is used to make fertiliser):
According to a study by Patrick Dery peak phosphorus occurred in the US in 1988 and the rest of the world in 1989. Others think we’re still 30 years away from the peak, but it doesn’t matter who’s right. Either way, unless we change what we’re doing now, we will have depleted our supply of the central building block of life within a few hundred years of discovering it, and we do not know how to make more.
Both articles are interesting reading and are quite short. Better not to think about oil or water either.
