PEak Dirt

by Stephan on July 26, 2011

Then, there’s what Grantham calls “the real bugbear” — soil. We don’t often hear predictions of markets in soil or wars fought over soil, but soil erosion caused by deforestation becomes a vicious circle, he writes. History is rich with examples of erosion, mainly due to plowing.

via FT Alphaville » Grantham on looming peak dirt.

You thought Peak Oil, and Peak Water were bad. Look out here comes Peak Dirt.

Really he’s talking about potassium and phosphorus. Which is an issue.

Or course if we had enough energy we could just extract them and a few other things from ocean water, but plentiful energy is bad.

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