@Pelth Oxygen is 'mined' from the air

as is co2

and most of the hydrogen is recieved from water vapour and water in the soil

I just told you about macro and micronutrients

plants use dozens of nutrients beyond nitrogen, carbon dioxide, etc

@fuck12moredeadcops Bruh help me out

@Pelth We have an exhaustive list of what they need

which is why we can grow them without soil

many of these nutrients are being physically destroyed in mass

Nutrients are mostly simple elements

and removed from the soil

They cannot be destroyed

YOu can't 'destroy' hydrogen or Carbon

their configuration can be destroyed

carbon on it's own is not a nutrient we can use

Hydrogen is a simple element

we can only use the biological configurations of carbon

You cannot 'destroy' its configuration unless you bombard it in a lab

This is basic science stuff

Only radioactive elements get their configurations destroyed by emitting nucleons

carbon isn't the nutrient we are primarily losing out on

it's mostly everything else

Name everything else

Give me an exhaustive list of what exactly we are losing out on

They are all simple elements

all the nutrients

we don't actually know exhaustively how plants make use of each and every nutrient

Omg we do

we just know that they store them

Bruh I just told you

Since like the 70s

and we need them in our bodies

https://www.advancednutrients.com/articles/easy-hydroponics-beginners-guide/

Its better to grow them without soil

plants we grow suck up these nutrients through various mechanisms

and those nutrients aren't properly returned to the soil

Lol

Bruh

I can't even

when you harvest a crop, the crop is taking the nutrients in the soil with it

not all