WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

The production of fertilisers is in itself an enormous waste of
resources: two tons of crude oil are required for the production,
transport and spreading on the fields of one ton of fertiliser. This is a
vicious circle! The more the soil becomes depleted, the more fertiliser
has to be added, in order for anything at all to grow. The greatest
producers and users of fertilisers are China, India and the USA.
We do not need this kind of agribusiness to produce enough food
for the world’s population. It benefits no-one in the end and harms
everyone on the planet. The alternative would be a method of farming
which respects the limits of nature and only allows as much fertiliser
as Nature herself can break down or compensate. It is not good enough
to simply talk about sustainability – we must practise it as well. Above
all in agriculture!
Signs of eutrophication in
the northern part of the
Caspian Sea to the east of
the Volga Estuary:
algal bloom caused by overfertilisation
(satellite picture
2003, source: Wikipedia)
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