Topsoil Loss: Civilization Rests on Topsoil

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PHOTO: EDDIE ALBERT
Actor and amateur ecologist Eddie Albert warned the country about the dire consequences of topsoil loss.

Every morsel of food we eat . . . our clothes . . . our
houses and most everything that’s in them . . . each scrap
of paper, from birth certificates to books to dollars . . .
our fuel . . . even the very oxygen we breath: All of it
comes from plants, trees . . . and topsoil.

  • Published on May 1, 1980
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