Newsweek opinion piece, on Climate, 10 November 2026
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Read the original article on newsweek.com (opens in a new tab)Newsweek runs a comment piece by Mark Trebilcock. He argues that US policymakers should treat healthy soil as infrastructure and require soil-health assessments in development planning, citing recent flooding in Arizona, Colorado and the wider Western US and an FAO soil assessment. We found nothing in the piece that misleads its reader on the tests that apply to opinion, and Newsweek discloses the author's business interest.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“Mark Trebilcock is the founder of Dirt Locker , an environmental engineering company based in Southern California that creates interlocking terracing systems to prevent soil erosion and stabilize sloped land.”
Newsweek tells the reader that the author runs a company selling terracing systems. The reader can then weigh his call for soil-protection rules knowing his commercial stake.
“scientists highlighted El Niño as a major contributing factor rather than the sole cause”
The piece keeps the scientists' qualification. It does not present El Niño as the whole explanation for the flooding.
“Prevention will not eliminate floods or droughts, but it can reduce the damage they cause.”
The author states the limits of his own proposal and does not overclaim what soil management can achieve.
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