The Soil Solution to Climate Change Film
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2014
- What If A Solution To Climate Change Was Beneath Your Feet?
Soil is a living universe beneath our feet. As important to our lives as clean air and water, soil also holds a potential solution to the global climate crisis. Increasing numbers of scientists, farmers and ranchers are implementing innovative land use practices that build fertile soil and sequester atmospheric carbon These methods of land management have the potential to provide us with nutritious food, improved human health, cleaner water, and a healthier planet for all.
World wide, most soils are depleted of carbon. The atmosphere contains an excess of carbon in the form of CO2, a climate change causing gas. What if that CO2 could be removed and stored in our carbon-hungry soil through land management practices? Find out how in The Soil Solution.
The Soil Solution to Climate Change was one of thirteen films featured in A Climate of Change Tour sponsored by 350.org, TRUST campaign and Wild and Scenic Film Festival. It has screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sausalito Film Festival, Awareness Festival, Davis Film Festival, Wild and Scenic Film Tour 2013 and the One Earth Film Festival.
Anything that we do to increase soil fertility could be a step in reversing climate change.
Here's what you can do:
What Goes Up Must Come Down!- Cover bare soil with plants! Fertile soil is a natural sink for atmospheric carbon; the very same carbon that contributes to climate change. Excess carbon can be pulled out of the atmosphere by photosynthesis and into plants and the soil where it can have a beneficial effect.
Support Farmers and Ranchers Who Treat The Soil Like Gold- Buy from local food producers who increase soil fertility by using climate friendly agricultural methods including no or low-till plowing, cover cropping, composting and organic farming. If you eat meat, buy grass-fed beef from ranchers who practice holistic or rotational grazing methods that mimic the natural patterns found in nature.
If You Grow Your Own Food, Grow Your Own Soil- If you grow food, take care of your soil. Increase soil fertility by avoiding the use of toxic synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides on your garden or lawn. These poisons kill microorganisms that reside in and on the soil. These organisms perform numerous ecosystem services; including providing nutrients for plants, creating soil humus and loam and increasing plant health. The soil is filled with billions of unemployed microorganisms ready and willing to take on the job of providing nutrients to plants and indirectly to you.
Increase Your Skill Set- If you feel hopeless about climate change- it’s time to take action. Learn how to grow food without increasing atmospheric CO2. Take a course in organic gardening or regenerative farming. If you work with animals, learn about the benefits of rotational grazing. Get to know your local soil microbes and the Soil Food Web.
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Fantastic video that logically presents the solution to CO2 build-up. Going back to the old ways of farming. I wish the video said more about how this will break farmers' dependency on fertilizer and pesticide corporations and hopefully destroy their poisonous stranglehold on agriculture.
So nice to listen to knowledge instead of the nonsense we are being fed by politicians.
Thanks, Lynne!
Well worth watching! This is really the first of its kind documentary that dared to connect the lack of soil fetility to climate change. This was at the Santa Barbara film festival 2012. This film was made with asolutly no backing. It was a very necessary labor of Love. I do hope we see another Movie from these producers. Thank You!
Prior to viewing this documentary I had no idea that soil can be a big part of the solution.
This, and others like it, should be basic education in all schools right through education and would lead to better food, a better environment for all lifeforms, and a better world for us all - but first we need to get rid of the Money and Power greed-based way of doing things.
We agree! The world would be a better place!
I found this video after listening to the Sustainable World podcast. This video contains a lot of very important information. It needs to be seen by a LOT more people!
Thank you for making and uploading this. I hope that the production of future videos in this series is going well.
All the best from a very wet and windy Scotland!
+finlarg Thanks for listening and watching. We've taken a short hiatus and will start filming soon!
***** You're welcome - I look forward to the next instalment!
Let's stop the corporate farming methods. Composting will be one of the less costly answers. The corporations trying to make us believe they are helping farmers are not helping. If they were, increasing desertification would not happen. Can you imagine how much more profitable farmers would be without having to purchase fertilizer, weed killers, and bug killers?
THIS DOCUMENTARY IS WELL DEPICTED SOIL AND ITS FERTILITY....IT IS REALLY A BIOLOGICAL SOLUTION
I love this! Very interesting and it also debunks Vegans, lol.
11:00 is pretty darn wholesome.
I hope to find a passion like this guy one day.
I saw this the other night on tv... shared on facebook! We plan to farm our 10 acres organically in southern NM. This gives me lots of great info and resources! Thank you for teaching others to love our "Mother"! ;)
I love organic farming
a really good video and has a lot of useful, to be heard information.
I like the chickens following the cattle idea
Let the animals do the work!
How many tonnes of Carbon could be sequestered in a square mile of soil if it was better?
I'm disappointed you did not give credit where credit is due. Some of the practices shown are taken directly from Joel Salatins book titled Salad Bar Beef. Also some of the grass practices described are from the writings of Andre Voisin.
We Care! We are Eco Heroes 🌍❤️
Does anyone have links to the scientific research presented around 14:19?
Hi, Thanks for watching! I would visit the Marin Carbon Project's website for more info: www.marincarbonproject.org
Good job ...👍. Thank you ....please keep it up
How would you economically build up soil on a farm that is 800 acres that grows grains without spraying pesticides and herbecides and without trying to control weeds with sprays?
What a great video, long live the day the soil microbes whose job it is to decompose get to work on those who spray the toxic chemical
I agree with what Syngenta is doing about Climate change. The solution is to study and know how best we can utilize what we have at hand and have control over. We have the soil , equipment and the brains, but we do not have control over the rains / water. How much will it rain is unknown. Together lets brain storm to efficiently utilize what we can control.
We found this video cause my son is making a project about George Washington Carver on depletion of soil.
17:20 John Wick!
Soil carbon turn into peat and iron ore. 🔥 soil and charcoal turn into iron ore
What if you just left the grass alone (no chickens or cows), would that still sequester carbon?
Yes, but it wouldn't grow so quickly. Good question!
No it will not break down and the dead grass will shade out new growth. If you don't graze it or burn it it starts creating deserts. If grass is forced to decay on its own it will oxidize and lay their for years. Thats why you can thatch a roof with grass. And burning grass polutes worse then all the cars on earth right now so thats right out.
In the case of the property I'm renting, there have been no animals, no farming for 20+ yrs. it's never just grass, there's always more diversity whenever humans aren't monocropping. So everything grows up but does not lie down and there's about three feet of dead matl, more growing up through. We've had one fire and don't want another (fire = carbon straight up into sky). I need animals to trample it and eat it while it's green (80% comes back to the ground. Manure on ground = methane to soil bacteria.) Animals, better than a machine. I don't need to eat them, just want them helping this ground.
Yes, but nowhere near the levels possible when animals (especially ruminants) are part of the cycle.
@@SustainableWorld You run the risk of thatching whereby dead grass builds up over the surface cuts out air from the soil and makes the soil acidic. Biological degradation of the dead grasses etc is halted and an oxidation process cuts in. You need herbivores its that simple.
As a video on climate change, this video really supports ranching as being good for climate change, but the methane release by cattle is much more potent than co2 as a greenhouse gas. Removing co2 is important, but wouldn't it make more sense to put the land into forest which can take and hold more co2 than just grasses? Meanwhile not putting methane into the atmosphere? I think you're trying to do a good thing with this video but I think a lower meat and dairy diet for people would go so far in fighting climate change, anyways still a well made video thanks for shareing
Lovely video. But how does the methane from the cows facture into this? Methane is a much more potent climate gass than Co2, and ruminants produces lots of if when they grace. What is the calculated total, when methane is factored in? And would it be better to use a species that isn't a ruminant? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruminant
only ruminants graze, acc. to USDA, pastured cattle is climate-neutral. (co2 vs methane).
but bacteria in the soil are also producing methane breaking down plants, so who knows.
Interesting points! There is a lot of research being done about this. I'm sure that other ruminants could and have been being used.
acc to USDA mob grazing is roughly carbon neutral. consider the grass they are eating swallowed co2, and grazing gives new plants a chance. regularly grazed grassland builds more soil (mainly in colder climates)faster than a grown forest. also, methane stays in the athmosphere for a shorter time than co2 and is broken down by light into co2 and h2o. so in the long run it will be positive for the climate.
also: consider that the world had a LOT more ruminants before we killed most of them.
Hi Morten, We don't have the answers for you, but I would check out Marin Carbon Project and Allan Savory- they do! Thanks for watching!
Morten, non vegans love to claim that methane gas produced by cows has nothing to do with our environmental problems but the simple truth is that the methane gas produced by cows is greater pollution that what is created by our cars. So no matter how nice your soil is it's not going to save the environment if you don't get to the root of the problem. End animal agriculture and you cut out the pollution. End beef farming and dairy farming and we will no longer be throwing away millions of gallons of water on cows and we can use that water to hydrate our own bodies and water our crops.
The potential for Soil is ending up in our landfills! I say that b/c so much of our food waste ends up there and landfills are not places where things biodegrade (free from air and microbes)! Compost your scraps and hair from brushes and work to get your town/city to start a compost collection system.
20:50 I love it
I notice California is mentioned a lot in the video. How are those farms in California fairing with the drought
Hi Ian, Some California farms are really struggling right now. We did the filming in California to save money and carbon!
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With all the research that was seen to be taking place, the value of this video would have been enhanced considerably by revealing the numbers. What practices in what soil types/climate sequestrated x tons carbon /acre pa.
+Dave Stanley
Hi Dave, We planned on including the numbers from the Marin Carbon Project, but their research numbers weren't published yet, and we couldn't put them in the film at the last minute. This film was started and completed when there wasn't much "hard data" on the soil solution to climate change. In fact, many people who originally saw it, advised us to say "Land Management "could" be a climate change solution." Not is. Now, there is so much research corroborating what we set out to document! It's exciting!!
Uh, I am under the impression that carbon is transmitted to the soil via plant root microbial interaction? Correcto?
Does horse and chicken combination work
Quit the calculus and get with it! No Till Farming and cover cropping is and always has been the way ! Ask any naturalist!
How would you keep weeds out of the wheat or corn though without spraying? That'd be the biggest herdal I can see
BioChar is promising
Ancient metallurgy technology was existing on soul carbon and charcoal & sustainable development
Darwin spent his last years fascinated by the soil, with worms, by fungi. Maybe he knew something. My view is we need giant carbon eating fungi the size of cities orbiting the earth, with long vacuums sucking excess carbon out of the atmosphere, then launching the things into space once they're full.
Now the carbon in the atmosphere has exceed 410 parts per million.
Search Geoff Lawton greening the desert
We respect Geoff's work immensely!
There is a new comprehensive report on the subject of whether grass-fed ruminants can lower GHG emissions, and their conclusion is no. Cows emit too much methane. Please have a look at this report:
www.fcrn.org.uk/sites/default/files/project-files/fcrn_gnc_report.pdf
That;s chicken scratching fer ya! LoL
Cows produce alot of methane which is a greenhouse gas
Where do farmers get their education?
There are countless schools and internships available. Bob Canard's Green String Farm is a great one.
With respect, (see the carbon cycle chart) plants do not inspire CO2 and respire CO2. Plants inspire CO2, keep the carbon molecule and respire O2; that's how wood makes charcoal/carbon, and part of why we have O2 to breathe... (make sense?). The organic matter in compost is chock full of carbon. Respiration requires an exchange. Having said that I would carefully sift what this video has to say (they're spot on regarding "chemical" farming). (continued)
Further, science has proven time and again that the earth's climate has been, is now and will be in a state of flux (change). If one would listen to empirical scientists instead of the political scientists in the Capitol and at the UN (who has a very bad agenda that is based on environmental fear mongering - "Agenda 21") they would find a quite different and accurate picture of the real truth about climate change. If however one needs and/or wants politicians to do their thinking for them, then they should just continue on with the lemmings, being led by the Pied Pipers of Capitol Hill.
Volunteers restore forests! Protest do nothing like government! Someone cuts trees to make money but we all need to restore with most beautiful gardens and forest! And don't try say we dont have money
Soil with Al and iron. 🔥 soil and wood charcoal and 🔥 peat moss will be climate change
A doable approach to making our world a better place to live. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
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The problem is; how are they going to keep doing this once lab meat takes over the meat industry? Are they just going to raise all these animals for free?
What breed of chicken was that lady holding?
They look to me like Rhode Island Reds. Google Images to see a photo.
I would guess that it's a buff Orpington.
www.backyardchickens.com/a/buff-orpingtons-chicken-breed-information-pictures
You can learn more from Pat Foreman- here's a link: www.chickensandyou.com
The language in the is annoying. Nothing is gone forever it can and has been proven to come back. And sustainable is also very irritating to hear we want to go beyond that. No body wants to keep what we got now.
Loess
18:39 this guy needs to shave. I stopped watching after I saw him to grab razor. I’ve got a sudden need to shave his mustache 😂