Most of the mass in plants comes from the air, and most of the mass of soil loss is from erosion and runoff, so this wouldn't avert loss, just reconnect mass fl

Most of the mass in plants comes from the air, and most of the mass of soil loss is from erosion and runoff, so this wouldn't avert loss, just reconnect mass flows for the process for natural soil generation, while not altering the processes that lead to the unnatural rates of loss in the first place.