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Kiss the Ground

Healthy soilsabsorb water and carbon dioxide. But when we destroy soil,it releases water...

Healthy soils
absorb water and carbon dioxide. But when we destroy soil,
it releases water and carbon dioxide. This dries out the soil
and turns it into dust

Full Transcript

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Healthy soils absorb water and carbon dioxide.
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But when we destroy soil, it releases water and carbon dioxide.
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This dries out the soil and turns it into dust.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:19:45
Uploaded
May 31, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
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A revolutionary group of activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians band together in a global movement of "Regenerative Agriculture" that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
The process is called desertification. - Kiss the Ground 00:11
The process is called desertification.
Desertification is a fancy word - Kiss the Ground 00:12
Desertification is a fancy word
Soil and the plant and the climate are connected. - Kiss the Ground 00:05
Soil and the plant and the climate are connected.
If you don't have a living plant, - Kiss the Ground 00:20
If you don't have a living plant,
Sixty percent of our rainfall comes from the ocean. - Kiss the Ground 00:20
Sixty percent of our rainfall comes from the ocean.
That's when you have too much sensible heat coming off bare soil. - Kiss the Ground 00:05
That's when you have too much sensible heat coming off ...
You're having these huge vortexes of hot air going out. - Kiss the Ground 00:04
You're having these huge vortexes of hot air going out.
Instead of attracting the rain, it's pushing the rain clouds away. - Kiss the Ground 00:05
Instead of attracting the rain, it's pushing the rain c...
Take one square meter of soil and make it bare, - Kiss the Ground 00:27
Take one square meter of soil and make it bare,
Desertification of our soils is a pressing threat to our climate - Kiss the Ground 00:15
Desertification of our soils is a pressing threat to our cli...
As soils turn to dust around the world, - Kiss the Ground 00:09
As soils turn to dust around the world,
By 2050, it's estimated that one billion people - Kiss the Ground 00:09
By 2050, it's estimated that one billion people
More than 20 civilizations, in all regions of the world, have failed - Kiss the Ground 00:10
More than 20 civilizations, in all regions of the world, hav...
Their communities could not handle - Kiss the Ground 00:07
Their communities could not handle
Poor land leads to increasing frequency of floods and droughts, - Kiss the Ground 00:10
Poor land leads to increasing frequency of floods and drough...
And it's leading to ideal recruitment conditions. - Kiss the Ground 00:04
And it's leading to ideal recruitment conditions.
What we know right now - Kiss the Ground 00:13
What we know right now
So the long-term prognosis for our survival on this planet, - Kiss the Ground 00:10
So the long-term prognosis for our survival on this planet,
According to the United Nations, - Kiss the Ground 00:19
According to the United Nations,
The global scale of the problems we face may seem insurmountable. - Kiss the Ground 00:21
The global scale of the problems we face may seem insurmount...