[soilhack-announce] The contentious nature of Soil Organic Matter

In case you were left scratching your head by the 'humus doesn't exist' report, here's a short article, and a pdf of a slideshow presentation by the authors of the study that made the claim, which makes for easier reading: https://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/11/scientists-urge-new-soil-carbon... http://users.unimi.it/ricicla/Lezioni/convegno_18-06-15/2-Kleber.pdf -- *In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model /* *You create a new model and make the old one obsolete /* *That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called. //* Buckminster Fuller