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Which builds the soil structure. so the whole structure collapses in on itself. the soil becomes waterlogged and airless and it can actually inhibit plant growth. which is precisely why, within the world of agriculture, more and more farmers across the world are turning to more, quote unquote, sustainable, regenerative forms of agriculture. what you appear to take no account of is the degree to which farmers are changing. so, my whole book is about the degree to which they are not changing. it is one long account, really, and... well, it's an account simply of the negative. no, no, that's so u...

If those life forms disappear, if we wipe them out, the soil literally collapses. its structure, which has been built by those organisms, collapses. and unfortunately, many of the things we're doing in order to produce ourfood, which we obviously desperately need to do, many of the ways of producing it are devastating to that soil from which we receive 99% of our calories. so, for instance, if you apply too much nitrate fertiliser, paradoxically, it can destroy the fertility of the soil, because the bacteria in the soil, if they have too much nitrate, they burn through the carbon, which they u...