"On top of that existing degradation, we are now losing an estimated 36 billion tons of soil every year, based on the 2017 consensus estimate of the European Commission Joint Research Centre. Once again, using simple but deadly math, this suggests that since 2014 (when the previous white paper was published) the planet has lost more than 200 billion tons of soil, or approximately 26 tons of topsoil for every human."
- #RodaleInstitute, 2020
https://rodaleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Rodale-Soil-Carbon-White-Paper_v11-compressed.pdf