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Plants use CO2 and energy from the sun to create simple sugars. The plant uses some of...

2040 • 2019
Damon Gameau: Plants use CO2 and energy from the sun to create simple sugars. The plant uses some of these sugars to grow, the rest is pumped into the soil through the roots

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Plants use carbon dioxide and energy from the sun
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to create simple sugars
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The plant uses some of these sugars to grow
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The rest is pumped into the soil through the roots
Duration
13 seconds
Views
151
Timestamp in Movie
00:42:03
Uploaded
Jun 14, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Good Thing Productions,Regen Pictures,Madman Entertainment

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Movie Summary

Practical solutions to environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that the filmmaker's daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future.
These sugars feed soil microbes, - 2040 00:12
These sugars feed soil microbes,
We went to take the kids fishing - 2040 00:11
We went to take the kids fishing
This fun experience ended up being not so fun - 2040 00:07
This fun experience ended up being not so fun
We had everything going for our farm - 2040 00:09
We had everything going for our farm
And I tried just throwing more fertiliser at it - 2040 00:06
And I tried just throwing more fertiliser at it
And so I just had all these questions - 2040 00:07
And so I just had all these questions
So, this is what we call a chemical summer fallow. - 2040 00:04
So, this is what we call a chemical summer fallow.
So, how does that affect the soil, - 2040 00:04
So, how does that affect the soil,
This form of agriculture - 2040 00:05
This form of agriculture
That hard compaction, poor-structured soil - 2040 00:07
That hard compaction, poor-structured soil
Like, if you think about a plant - 2040 00:07
Like, if you think about a plant
To counteract these problems, - 2040 00:07
To counteract these problems,
Ok, so what we've done here - 2040 00:05
Ok, so what we've done here
They all play a role in the soil health, - 2040 00:08
They all play a role in the soil health,
So we've got the sunflower here and the sorghum. - 2040 00:06
So we've got the sunflower here and the sorghum.
And all these together means with that variety, - 2040 00:05
And all these together means with that variety,
If we go back even a few thousand years, - 2040 00:10
If we go back even a few thousand years,
And also, they were kept moving all the time by predators. - 2040 00:06
And also, they were kept moving all the time by predators.
So the animals - in this case, cattle - - 2040 00:05
So the animals - in this case, cattle -
By letting the cattle run amok in the crops, - 2040 00:06
By letting the cattle run amok in the crops,