{"id":11091,"date":"2025-12-19T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmg.hu\/?p=11091"},"modified":"2025-12-27T18:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:48:49","slug":"the-present-is-enough-or-how-we-are-destroying-the-foundation-of-our-future-the-fertile-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmg.hu\/en\/the-present-is-enough-or-how-we-are-destroying-the-foundation-of-our-future-the-fertile-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"A breathless present, a future to be burned, or how we are destroying the foundation of our existence, the fertile soil"},"content":{"rendered":"

A paradigm shift is needed to regenerate the soil. We must leave the beaten path for the untrodden, because the road has run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we sacrifice the \u201edevelopment\u201d of fertile soil on the altar of profit (\u201eagribusiness\u201d): we pursue higher crop yields in the name of \u201eprofitable, competitive\u201d agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fertile soil \u2013 the basis of our existence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Three hundred years ago, agriculture meant something different. At that time, after three or four years of cultivation, the land was rested for 20\u201330 years<\/strong>. After fallowing regained its productivity<\/strong>, as nature reclaimed and regenerated the land, and changes in plant vegetation caused carbon to be pumped back into the soil from the atmosphere. This increased fertility and restored the water balance and ecological equilibrium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It cannot be emphasized enough: fertile soil is the basis of our well-being<\/strong>. Yet we treat it as if it were an inexhaustible resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today's, Global soil degradation results from environmental overexploitation.<\/strong>, but many blame climate change for the damage caused to agriculture. In reality, however, it is greedy, short-sighted environmental exploitation that causes \u2013 and further exacerbates \u2013 the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without a paradigm shift, there will be no future<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Over the past sixty years the use of artificial fertilizers has replaced organic manure<\/strong>. Our groundwater has been polluted, and more than 70% of our country's territory has become nitrate-sensitive. The structure of our soil has been destroyed by intensive cultivation and the \u201erespiratory\u201d of organic matter, to varying degrees depending on the soil type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summer, uncovered soil not only loses humus, but also overheats. Without water content, it cannot dissipate heat, causing atmospheric drought near the surface. For a while, evaporation compensates for the deficit, but then a water deficit occurs in the landscape. Drought is intensifying\u2014even in areas covered with vegetation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forests also suffer from the heat. Trees \u201ebreathe\u201d water through the stomata in their leaves while binding CO\u2082, without producing anything. Without water, the leaves cannot decompose, so the fungi that live in symbiosis with the trees also lose their reserves from the food chain. Nutrients are not reused, the forest weakens, and the risk of fire increases.<\/strong> This is now a global problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dead end of specialist thinking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today's specialist mindset\u2014where someone focuses on a specific area or simply pursues profit\u2014does not consider the consequences. However, Only a holistic approach can serve the future well.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A \u201eEverything is connected to everything else.\u201d<\/strong> This principle is demonstrated by the cycles of nature, which are damaged as a result of economic competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We consume all the primary and secondary products grown on farmland, a significant portion of which is organic matter from which we obtain \u201erenewable energy\u201d \u2013 \u201ezero CO\u2082 balance\u201d biomass. However, this balance can never truly be zero, as transportation, collection, investment, energy release, and energy transport all involve emissions and losses. A biomass<\/a> Removing it from the living\u2014or already dying\u2014system only serves the market economy, not nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparent circulation instead of actual circulation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to the new trend, the linear economic model has been replaced by a circular economic model, which biomass-based ideology is now attempting to \u201ereform.\u201d But behind the facade of action, the reality remains unchanged: the exploitation of nature is intensifying<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be better to follow the ideas of Professor J\u00f3zsef Orsz\u00e1gh, who believes that Biomass is the stuff of life \u2013 it is the food source for the microorganisms at the bottom of the food chain that maintain soil fertility.<\/strong>, the basis of our renewal and prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not economic prosperity that we should be thinking about, but rather the ecological services provided by healthy soil and landscapes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n