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BTC/133/2018 - Opinion ... Healthy trees work harder for longer

UK satellite images after heavy rain show river estuaries engulfed by massive swirls of muddy-brown water extending out into the surrounding ocean blue.  It is soil scoured from our mismanaged land because of government policies that focus on food production at the expense of sustainability.  The 2015 Committee on Climate Change reported:  “The UK has lost 84% of its fertile topsoil since 1850, with the erosion continuing at a rate of 1–3cm a year.”  There is a crisis in soil health and with every storm, our peril deepens.

 

 

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