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2015 has marked the\u00a0International Year of Soils, an event that many members of the public missed \u2014 but they shouldn\u2019t have, because soil is vitally important for human survival. Ominously,\u00a0a study from the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures\u00a0indicates that in the last 40 years, humans have chewed through 33 percent of the Earth\u2019s topsoil, thanks to development and harmful farming practices. The grim findings are a bad sign for the future, as we rely on soil not just for sustenance, but also as a carbon trap, key component of nearly every ecosystem on Earth, and breeding ground for organisms with tremendous commercial and humanitarian applications, such as bacteria that could contribute to the development of cutting edge pharmaceuticals. We should be worshiping the ground we walk on, and this study indicates that we\u2019ve been doing just the opposite.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1572586","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEarth is Losing Farmland at an Alarming Rate - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2015 has marked the\u00a0International Year of Soils, an event that many members of the public missed \u2014 but they shouldn\u2019t have, because soil is vitally\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=earth-is-losing-farmland-at-an-alarming-rate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Earth is Losing Farmland at an Alarming Rate - 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