About the 2018 documentary film, “The Dirt on Climate Change™”
The Dirt on Climate Change™ is a compelling story of how we can address climate change, one plot of dirt at a time. Traditional approaches are not going to do it. Going “green” is reframed to go well beyond the normal practices of changing your lights to LEDs, putting solar panels on rooftops, buying organic food, taking carpools or even driving an electric vehicle. Even if everyone did that and more, it would just slow down the worsening of our climate-related problems and “weird weather,” desertification and accelerating species extinctions. Instead, we simply must aim higher.
Fortunately, we can actually reverse climate change itself through drawing down atmospheric carbon on a massive scale. How? Does it work? Is it sustainable and ultimately (dare I say) profitable? Yes.
In 46 compact minutes, the real “dirt” on Climate Change is that it is up to us. It is in our hands. And, it is also a bit of a dirty business. The film clearly explains and celebrates a less-well-known, “bio-inspired” approach that ends up featuring practices that draw down atmospheric carbon into soil (sometimes called “carbon farming”), restore “short” water cycles (reverse desertification) and soil health, and optimize local, healthy and sustainable food production. With “no till” agriculture, and using natural patterns of wild herds (not animal confinement), it decreases or eliminates new CO2 emission, as well as related greenhouse gases such as methane, aided by methane-eating bacteria (more at methanotrophs).
Through our choices and activism, if we can attain widespread adoption of these strategies, we can shift the tide and realize lasting benefits. What story do you want to tell about your response to this serious issue?
Science has shown us the way, at least in part; now we just need to get it done “as if” our lives, and the lives of future generations, depended on it.
See below for the full-length (46:16) feature documentary film, for your viewing pleasure.
The film is about the ecological and biological approach to climate change and deals with sequestering carbon in the soil and plants. How to keep rain in the soil, and not let it run off to the rivers. And the part trees play in the carbon, and water cycles.
After watching, consider what you will do (or not do) with the insights you gain… thanks for your interest in this important topic!
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