Movies | August 22, 2009 | 18 comments

Dirt: we cannot survive without it

source: http://dirtthemovie.org/

JanforGore
So many people simply do not understand how important dirt and soil are to our survival. We are now stripping it at an alarming rate in the world through topsoil erosion and carbon and nutrient deficiencies through industrial agriculture and climate change. This documentary addresses this important issue for our planet and gives a new insight into a substance you might have made into mud pies as a child, but now must realize that your very subsistence depends on its health and the environmental and food policies in place.
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    Green,   Movies,   Sustainable Agriculture,   Water Is Life,   1 more
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    Food,  Sustainability,  Drought,  Survival,  2 more
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18 comments // Dirt: we cannot survive without it // Video

  • covelogibbs
  • bking74
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      bking74  
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    • Dirt can save a man's life, literary.....A spider hole is U.S. military slang for a small one-man foxhole, often camouflaged so that it can be used for ambushes. A spider hole is typically a shoulder-deep, protective, round hole, often covered by a camouflaged lid, in which a soldier can stand and fire a weapon. A spider hole differs from a foxhole in that a foxhole is usually deeper and its design emphasizes cover rather than concealment....In all seriousness though the rapid erosion of quality top soil and the growth of strip mining is an ecological nightmare.

    • 2 years ago
  • CaptDoug
  • SeaJade
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      SeaJade  

    • Thank you so much for posting this one! I am eternally grateful for the film makers that are really getting down and dirty to help re-educate people on what is precious in our lives... that would be natural resources, our good health, and each other, not some plastic thing full of toxins, or toxic fast food that requires billions of pounds of poisons in order to grow with that profits the few leaving the rest of us where with what?

    • 2 years ago
  • larrysnotes
  • Hypo_Mix
  • larrysnotes
  • Hypo_Mix
  • artemis6
  • krispychicken
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Well, as was said in the trailer:

      'Dirt is probably more alive than we are.'

      I'm beginning to see that point. We've forgotten the importance of soil/dirt and the magic we can create with it in tandem with water. We've handed that over to conglomerates that don't care about the connection between man and Earth, just the connection between them and profit.

    • 2 years ago
  • strangelyshapedheadguy
  • Wetdog
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      Wetdog  

    • Agronomy is the study of food and crop production.

      It includes all the factors that affect the production of crops. Of which soil type is probably the most important. Having the right climate, temperature range, rainfall, etc. does no good if you do not have the proper soil to support the kind of plants you want to grow.

    • 2 years ago
  • Betico
  • WestmanRandoballet
  • Wetdog
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      Wetdog  

    • I have a feeling that the vast majority of people do not have a clue what I am talking about when I tell them that strip mining destroys the earth forever(in terms of human lifetimes.) It can take nature 10,000 years to produce just one inch of top soil. Strip mines destroy to topsoil and expose toxin bearing subsoils that will continue to leach toxins into the environment and water sheds for hundreds of years,

      Farmers(and gardeners) are the only people who understand this.

      Which is more valuable? A ton of gold, or a ton of topsoil?

      YOU CAN"T EAT GOLD.

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
  • Vrishchii
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