"Don't flatten your back into the ground," he said.
So why stick it back into the ground?
We're not the beginning of anything; we're about to be pulped, right back into the ground.
The villagers scramble to replant the uprooted trees, nursing them tenderly back into the ground.
And to do that we're going to have to put nutrients back into the ground.
She writes that many large earthquakes are caused by disposal wells, which pump brackish water back into the ground.
"Then we'd put them to work on disassembling lines, shoveling metal back into the ground and deconstructing highways".
BALDWIN: I'm going back into the ground in less than two hours and you're worried about my health?
The Salah gasfield project in Algeria, run by BP, strips CO2 from local natural gas and injects it back into the ground.
As it is not possible to put the objects back into the ground, says Dr Vitelli, the trading of these items is tolerated.
"You can even see pockmarks and pitting," he said — all the better for collecting liquid CO2 pumped back into the ground by power plants.
