For the last 100-plus years, we’ve reduced soil to the chemical and physical, and added the nutrients we think it needs. It’s time we celebrated the biological, and restored land in quantities that can help slow climate change. We need to consider soil as the massive store of gases, life and nourishment in the holistic sense that it is: soil as an almost incomprehensively complex underground super-organism, capable of sustaining life on Earth. It can feed 10 billion, easily, if we do that.
