,  only nature is
>> able to increase top soil
>> without having to steal the biomass from somewhere
>> else.
>
>Come on, Jean-Claude. Nature MUST rebuild topsoil by
>bringing matter in from elsewhere - whether it's a
>decomposting plant or animal, or even if it's "dust"
>blown in from hundreds of miles away. We can duplicate
>the process when we compost our garbage. In fact, we
>can , at times, do it more efficiently. Now, you may
>not think that we had the "right" to "steal" the
>topsoil from another place in the first place. But
>that doesn't alter the fact that it's the same
>process.
>
>The problem with a lot of naturalistic philosophies is
>that they think we are "apart" from nature, when, in
>fact, we are "a part" of nature. Maybe we are just
>nature's "top soil relocating tool" :)

I didn't mean to discourage , anybody to make compost . I think it is a
great thing that the habit of recycling our garbages is spreading. I just
don't see it at a solution to our problem ( meaning the impoverishment of
our environments in quantity and quality) It is a band aid to limit the
waste of fertility created by tilling and exposing the top soil to the
elements when removing the material to be composted.
In nature composting is done on the surface in such a way that nutrients are
release evenly overtime., and the earth is allways covered.,

jean-claude