Dwelling on Earth – Jay Griffiths
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Soil has been described as the skin of a living world, vital and fragile. Industrialized large-scale agriculture has poisoned the earth's soils with chemicals. The UN has warned that less than a lifetime of harvests are left before soils become too degraded to feed the global population. If all life is inextricably linked to the loam and hummus beneath us, what will our world look like if we continue to abuse it? In this story from our archive, author Jay Griffiths offers a love letter and a prayer to soil,. She invites us to remember that soil is what turns the earth's barren rock into the riotous life we know.
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