> i understand that putting compost is increasing the
> top soil but at the
> expense of other soils from which your kitchen waste
> were taken from .
> My statement was talking on a global perspective !
> When you took over your land the fertility have been
> compromised to say the
> least ( bulldozing,  deforestation, may be tilled
> for many years ....) so
> bringing compost was a quick way to restore some
> fertility. by bringing more
> than you loose in the tilling.
> so i will restate by saying that,  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" :)


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