Question.1900 - Watch this amazing documentary about the incredible power of soil. You can stream it on Netflix or rent it for $1 on Vimeo. Answer the questions on the attached sheet as you watch the movie. You will have until April 29th to turn it in.
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Kiss The Ground Donesha Veal California State University, East Bay ENSC-320 Global Change Professor Dr. Gita Dunhill May 7th, 2024 Kiss The Ground The documentary streams on Netflix and is narrated by Woody Harrelson,?with the intent?to counter the climate crisis by renovating soil from the notion that the capacity to sequester carbon serves as a primary source to reverse the effects of climate change. The documentary is directed by Joshua and Rebecca Tickell, in order to convey that traditional agricultural methods like tilling or the use of harsher pesticides led to depreciating soils' nutritional values to recover after agricultural produce, which in turn contributes to climate change; however, the documentary does not?really?imply what caused the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The documentary intended to employ juxtaposition in order to showcase the values of soil by studying its health, which aids in capturing /storing atmospheric carbon dioxide, depicting that the healthier the soil, the more microorganisms could capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the soil - this process?is called?as the bio-sequestration which?is emphasized?in the documentary.?When employing conventional agricultural processes, such as?the use of?chemicals to support increased agricultural produce, the soil is damaged,?which releases?the trapped carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.? The documentary shows North Dakota, a regenerative rancher stands at the boundary between lush acreage and his neighbors denuded farmland. The documentary implies utilizing cover crops such as grazing animals and organic farming techniques?in order to?capture more atmospheric carbon dioxide and store it in the soil to reverse climate change. However, the video does not discuss transpiration.? Since the notion of the documentary is to imply that soil stores more carbon dioxide, it can?be utilized?to mitigate climate change, and when plants?are exposed?to poor soil conditions, they also release carbon deposits back into the atmosphere; however, the documentary does not explicitly mention how many years of topsoil does the world have according to United Nations.? The video does not discuss changing cattle ranching practices in detail but talks about soil health and its connection to reversing desertification and reducing greenhouse gases. However, some of the key points that were intriguing during the video were - desertification?which?was caused?by damaged soil?which?releases carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere, Secondly, healthy soil stores carbon dioxide captured by plants, and? composting manure is one way to improve soil health. Third, regenerative agriculture is a practice that helps improve soil health. Wherein the documentary utilizes pedagogic?sequences interplay between science and agriculture by arguing that health of the plant is directly interlinked with health of the soil; industrial agriculture has depleted the microorganisms in soil, which has contributed to climate change. The solution is to regenerate soil health through techniques like bio-sequestration; by adopting these techniques, we can reverse climate change and heal the planet.
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