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==Soil erosion==
 
==Soil erosion==
  
Removed entry about soil erosion. 'Wheat' wrote "Soil erosion. Depletion of the high quality soil required for growing crops has been the downfall of past civilizations."
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Removed entry about soil erosion.
  
It is certainly a good point and I can well believe this could have been the downfall of past civilisations, but we have the technological capability already to cope if this was a widescale problem. Examples are ramping up industrial production of fertilisers and we already have the machinery to spread it on the land, [http://verticalfarm.com/ vertical farming], {{wp|hydroponics|hydroponics}} and {{wp|Mariculture|mariculture}}.
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'Wheat' wrote: "Soil erosion. Depletion of the high quality soil required for growing crops has been the downfall of past civilizations."
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It is certainly a good point and I can well believe this could have been the downfall of past civilisations, but we have the technological capability already to cope if this became a widescale problem. Examples are ramping up industrial production of fertilisers and we already have the machinery to spread it on the land, [http://verticalfarm.com/ vertical farming], {{wp|hydroponics|hydroponics}} and {{wp|Mariculture|mariculture}}. --[[User:CharlesC|CharlesC]] 00:37, 3 December 2007 (CET)

Latest revision as of 01:37, 3 December 2007

Soil erosion

Removed entry about soil erosion.

'Wheat' wrote: "Soil erosion. Depletion of the high quality soil required for growing crops has been the downfall of past civilizations."

It is certainly a good point and I can well believe this could have been the downfall of past civilisations, but we have the technological capability already to cope if this became a widescale problem. Examples are ramping up industrial production of fertilisers and we already have the machinery to spread it on the land, vertical farming, hydroponics 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg and mariculture 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg. --CharlesC 00:37, 3 December 2007 (CET)