The very soil of the world are created by organisms. Plant roots shatter rocks to form much of the grit and peebles of the basic substrate. But soils are much more than fragmented rock. They are complex ecosystems with vast arrays of plants, tiny animals, fungi, and microorganisms assembled in delicate balance, circulating nutrients in the form of solutions and tiny particles. A healthy soil literally breathes and moves. Its microscopic equilibrium sustains natural ecosystems and croplands alike
The mere phrase “ecosystems services” has a mundane ring, rather like waste disposal or water-quality control. But if only a small percentage of the journeyman organisms filling these roles were to disappear, human life would be diminished and strikingly less pleasant. It is a failing of our species that we ignore and even despise the creatures whose lives sustain our own. ` Page 452
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Dinesh said:
The mere phrase “ecosystems services” has a mundane ring, rather like waste disposal or water-quality control. But if only a small percentage of the journeyman organisms filling these roles were to disappear, human life would be diminished and strikingly less pleasant. It is a failing of our species that we ignore and even despise the creatures whose lives sustain our own. ` Page 452
Boarischa Krautmo said: