I think you missed the point. It wasn’t to have peace with my friends. It is unifying on the common ground of caring for the earth and taking action. As far as

I think you missed the point. It wasn’t to have peace with my friends. It is unifying on the common ground of caring for the earth and taking action. As far as soil goes, there is a lot going on there. Soil is living and dirt is not. Having soil means having plants, fungi, microbes all participating. Bare dirt strips away the ecosystem’s ability to regulate water and temperature. Living soil with at least polycropping (in cultivated land) changes the microclimate — making it cooler or warmer, wetter, less wind erosion. Monocropped agriculture using fertilizers, herbicides, fungalcides, and pesticides is why every year, we see upticks on temperature on the satallites correlating to planting and harvesting cycles. It is connected to poor water management. Poor soil does not hold water very well and now you keep adding more to get less. Monocropping doesn’t just mean our food supply chain is one year of failed crops from shortages, it also means the thin, depleted soil is unable to sequester carbon.