World Earth Day: the importance of the soil!
ISPRA, in the whole of the project Soil4life and in occasion of the World Earth Day, produced a video on the connection between soil and climate change.
The exploitation of the soil disrupts the natural balance of the Earth and causes the loss of ecosystem services. Overbuilding over the last 7 years has prevented the soil from storing over 2 million tons of carbon. And losing ecosystem services means seeing an increase in natural phenomena (floods, heat islands, climate change) both in economic terms.
The total cost of these problems amounts to 3 billion euros per year for the last 7 years, to which must be added another 8 billion euros for the loss of agricultural production due to the construction of construction sites and new buildings on agricultural land.