
Pete Smith on why soil matters
The Life Scientific
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Introduction
Pete smith is professor of soil and global change at the university of aberdeen. He's concerned with some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity to day. It's not enough to achieve carbon net zero, he says; we also need to feed the world and maintain a rich diversity of species on the planet. And we need to tackle all these challenges at the same time, he says,. Not solutions that might lead to a leap forward in one area but a big step backwards in another.
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