The continued survival of all land-based species depends in part on a thin layer of topsoil. Degradation of soils around the world through poor land management, pollution and industrial resource extraction are major contributors to climate change and threaten our ability to feed ourselves.
As such, in recent years soil has been the subject of documentaries, the focus of a shift in land management practices and a key resource in the fight against climate change.
By looking at how it is represented in works of fiction, we can try to understand how we humans relate to soil. And through soil, how we relate to the environment more broadly.
