19 | Jesus Wants to Save Your Soil

17/04/2024 27 min

Listen "19 | Jesus Wants to Save Your Soil"

Episode Synopsis

The Earth is losing colossal rates of topsoil every year. Without healthy soil, humans, along with the rest of creation, cannot thrive as God designed us to. Is it any coincidence that our first Biblical instruction are to serve and keep the garden?


Resources:
Check out: “Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life” by David R. Montgomery
https://books.google.com/books/about/Growing_a_Revolution_Bringing_Our_Soil_B.html?id=0R5DDQAAQBAJ


Ted Talk: “How to fight desertification and reverse climate change” by Allan Savory https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertification_and_reverse_climate_change?language=en

Research: “MIDWESTERN US HAS LOST 57.6 BILLION METRIC TONS OF SOIL DUE TO AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES” by University of Massachusetts Amherst https://www.umass.edu/news/article/midwestern-us-has-lost-576-billion-metric-tons-soil-due-agricultural-practices#:~:text=What%20they%20discovered%20is%20that,the%20soil%2C%20160%20years%20ago.


Article: “Desertification: the world is losing healthy land at an astonishing rate” by Tom Howarth|https://geographical.co.uk/news/desertification-the-world-is-losing-healthy-land-at-an-astonishing-rate
 

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