BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 03:36:00
If those life forms disappear, if we wipe them out, the soil literally collapses. its structure, which has been built by those organisms, colla pses. 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 ...
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