Look how much food we can lose from this. Our world relies on our farmers to produce food and we continue to screw it up. Already at the beginning of the 1900s they treated the land with respect. “We believe that the soil, as well as the world, should be treated as a living organism. Just as we are not simply a collection of various cells, but a whole entirely different from its parts, soil is not just earth, but a living, breathing entity, filled with organic matter, bacteria, minerals, water, and air, the whose whole is so much greater than the sum of the parts. "(Whitecraft, Michele A. and Jr. Bruce E. Huggins. "Casting a Wider Net: Understanding The "Root" Causes of Human-Induced Soil Erosion." Agriculture 3.4 (2013): 613-628.