Three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years to generate and the United Nations have estimated that if the current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years.
Soils play a critical role in absorbing carbon and filtering water and they are being degraded, rapidly. In fact, the equivalent of one sport field is eroded every five seconds.
All of us who live in the capital cities of Australia including Perth, Sydney and Brisbane have experienced dust storms. The dust is mostly topsoil from a heavily degraded Australian landscape. Dust storms are also now frequently experienced across the globe.
Soil across the globe is being destroyed by chemical heavy industrial farming, deforestation and global warming driven by rapid climate change and there are extremely negative flow on effects to our water quality, food production capacity and biodiversity.
Anthropogenic climate change is creating an epoch characterised by incredible uncertainty and panic causing many of us to actually question the concept of sustainability. So when we hear the term sustainable agriculture, is this really possible?
Join us for this insightful discussion with Charlie Arnott, a biodynamic farmer and grazier and one of the most prominent and positively vocal leaders in regenerative agriculture also known as sustainable agriculture.