Soil Degradation Threatens to End Agriculture as We Know It

A third of the world's topsoil has already been degraded. At current rates, we have roughly 60 years of harvests left. Rebuilding soil takes centuries — we're spending a non-renewable resource.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that at current rates of soil degradation, we have approximately 60 years of topsoil left for growing food. This isn't a projection about distant future risks — it's about the literal ground beneath our feet disappearing within our lifetimes.