What is worth investing in?
This year … huge sums of money have been invested in keeping banks afloat, and much of the cost is being borne by people who can least afford it.
Meanwhile, a UN report published last week describes a quarter of the planet’s land as ‘highly degraded’ and flagged up loss of soil quality as the area for greatest concern. Today, for many of us, the loss and degradation of soil does not – yet – feature strongly on our agendas or lists of concerns.
What I would like to suggest here, though, is that soil is much more worthy of our investments, of our concern and care, than banks.
December 8, 2011