It's not only top soil that we're running out of. To farm you really need consistent weather patterns and we just don't seem to have that any more.
There's been a drought in the state/ province of South Australia for the last several years. Graziers are buying feed for their livestock from another state / province New South Wales. Last week there was a once-in-500-year flood in NSW, so loads of livestock there died and there certainly isn't any more feed for sale.
I guess "top soil" is one way to describe the problem but there's a variety of problems really.
In fact I'll go further and suggest that in the not so distant future everyone is going to happily eat insects.
I don't know much about this but my understanding is that insects are a very economical source of protein, which can be used to produce synthetic meat.
Right now my favorite sausages are probably made from mostly pig offal. You know, tongue tail and bum hole. If at some point in the future the label starts to list synthetic meat amongst the ingredients, I don't think I'll even notice.
I guess my point is, it's just a marketing thing. We already eat loads of things we might think are objectively gross (curdled mammalian excretions for example), but we don't think about it because it's just what people eat. On the spectrum of things people eat insects aren't really anywhere near the gross end.
It's easy to make the mistake of overestimating Trump's strategy when trying to understand his behavior.
Since getting elected he just doesn't give a fuck. He's got a decade to live at best and he get's to ride it out in luxury with the entire world as his play thing.
He got elected by saying he would implement tariffs, gut government services, and be mean to poor people. He's been doing exactly those things.
The tariff announcements just stoke angst. Imagine a narcissist being able to fire off a "truth" and the whole world descending in to chaos for a week. That's it. Like a child poking an ants nest.
I never really expected "help" but when we were pregnant there were people coming over every day telling us how much they were going to help. My wife has a huge social group, it was kinda overwhelming.
Since they were born, there's been 1 person who has just been amazing. She's here for a few hours several times a week and just plays with the kids. She's been really consistent.
No one else really knows how to help I think. Or maybe they think everyone else is helping. Or maybe just doing their own thing (which is fine ofc).
It's pretty obvious you're just there as a prop. So what if you hurt his feelings by declining. Sucking up by throwing yourself under the bus won't avoid tariffs or invasion or whatever else he decides to do.
Can you imagine the moaning?