With each passing year, we learn more and more about our impact on the environment and the depletion of many of our vital resources. As we learn more, individuals are looking to do what they can to reduce their impact and lessen their burden on our planet.
From solar-powered garage doors to recycled electronics, it has never been easier to reduce your impact and vote with your dollars for the economic future you want to see.
However, there is one commodity that is rapidly on the decline that truly does threaten our very way of life. That is the loss of arable land on which to grow our food.
The massive influx of people from rural areas to cities has literally changed our modern landscape. Most of us don’t think much about farming or farm land, and yet, as the ubiquitous bumper sticker proclaims, “no farmers, no food.” On a more basic level, it would be more appropriate to say “no farmland, no food”.
And that is a situation that we are currently facing. We are losing arable, farmable land on a massive scale and it cannot be easily replaced. It takes, literally, hundreds of years for a single inch of top soil...