For hundreds of millions of years deposits within the earth resulted from the death of old forests, the movement of land, and the shifting of oceans. Bit by bit, layer after layer, plants, animals, and minerals have been positioned to form our world. Now, after only 200 or so years of industrialism it is being reshaped and depleted until it faces death through greed, over cultivation of the soil, extraction of resources, and the pumping of fossil fuel gasses into the atmosphere.
