Related to my previous question about soil – I was gardening and thought if the soil is just a big pile of decomposed materials. If it is, then that makes it a renewable resource, right?
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Related to my previous question about soil – I was gardening and thought if the soil is just a big pile of decomposed materials. If it is, then that makes it a renewable resource, right?
It’s both.
Soil can be considered a renewable resource because soil can be renewed through its natural process (weather plus decomposition), but it can also be considered a non-renewable resource because that process can take thousands of years – much longer than a human lifespan.
This means, we can not run out of soil, but we can run out of usable soil.
Right now we consider it a nonrenewable resource. We’re actually running out of soil we can use for agriculture. Experts estimate that we have about 60 years before the world runs out of topsoil (the layer allowing plants to grow) :/
Oh no 🙁