Topsoil

Your body is on loan from the planet. All the countless numbers of people who have lived on this planet before you and me have all become topsoil, and so will you. This planet will collect back atom by atom what it has loaned to you.

A military veteran shows how his compost business helps to replenish precious topsoil.

As a result, when it rains, large amounts of topsoil, clay, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides are washed into the sea.

Little grew on the farm, after the floods from the hurricane washed away the topsoil.

Without urgent action, the majority of the Earth’s topsoil could be severely degraded or lost before the end of this century. In China, topsoil is being lost fifty-seven times faster than this natural replacement process; in Europe seventeen times faster.