Dear Nature Lovers,
Greetings from oikos !

Many times living components in nature are appreciated &
Non living components are neglected or taken for granted ...

But those abiotic factors make living possible
They form a substratum or base for living beings

Rocks, Soils, Minerals, Crude are precious resources ...
They are all almost non renewable ...
Earth has invested millions of years in shaping them
And we are consuming it within few hundred years 
And the way it is used is not only degrading ecology
but also compromising its potential for future generations

It takes 500 to 1000 years to form an inch of soil
But day by day we are loosing its potential 
With various developmental activities
Say by converting agriculture land to construction 
or by destroying top soil layer during roads
or by selling it off to brick kilns
or by removing forests on slopes

May be all these activities are inevitable to an extent.
Point is, can we match the rate at which resources form,
and the rate at which we consume it or destroy its potential ?