What Happened Today? Mark and I called on Associated Paint, Pintex and Union Chemical. Rough flight from fort Lauderdale to Tampa. Kay, Yvonne and Jen expanded my office. Looks great!
GAIA- Planetary Management:
141. Soil, one of the most precious of all resources, is washed or blown away in billions of tons every year.
142. To compound this tragedy, large tracts of productive cropland are paved over each year, or “developed”.
143. Deserts expand, or rather degraded lands are tacked on to them, at a rate threatening a third of all arable land in the next 75 years.
144. Forests in the tropics are chopped down with a zest that will leave a little by the middle of the next century.
145. As the forests fall, species in their millions lose their habitats, many of them disappearing for ever.