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- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!mv!world!rjk
- From: rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker)
- Subject: The Browning of America
- Message-ID: <By0yCF.6oG@world.std.com>
- Summary: Can our topsoil be restored
- Keywords: Human Feces, Composting
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:09:50 GMT
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- When non aboriginals started farming the Great Plains there was nearly two
- feet of topsoil underneath all that waving grass. Most is gonzo now. Now I
- have a serious question which only seems facetious:
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- Can we restore Americas topsoile by collecting human feces, and
- composting our leaves, grass and garbage.
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- How much would it cost to do so?
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- How long would it take?
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- I suspect if we don't do something like this now or soon, this continent
- may become a famine area in a century or sooner.
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- Does anyone have any solid numbers on this.
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- Just a Gardener
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