Worldwide: WE ARE DESTROYING THE LAND THAT FEEDS US! - Donald D Schroeder - October-November 1981

Donald D Schroeder

More essential than oil! Man's precious physical resource - fertile topsoil - is being destroyed at rates alarming to experts! It couldn't be happening at a worse time. Just when the world is experiencing its greatest population growth in history - when the world food supply must nearly double - vast acreages of the earth's most productive croplands are losing fertility through erosion, misuse and neglect. Sufficient moisture in many areas and record crops have lulled many to sleep. We are failing to understand the tragedy developing in croplands around the world or under our feet. Soil expert after soil expert warns of intensifying destruction of vital soils in rich and poor nations. "Land is simply dying in place" because of increasing demands put on the soil, says one worried United States' soil official. Here is what is happening to the soils of the world. Here is how their destruction - unless quickly reversed - will dramatically affect your life and pocketbook. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library