The award-winning documentary, Kiss The Ground, by Josh and Rebecca Tickell talks about the agriculture revolution and climate change
Who would have thought that ploughing our fields meant denuding the soil, triggering desertification and leading to unprecedented water crisis, famine, starvation and global crises of unimaginable proportions? Who would have thought that years of fertilisers and pesticides being used in fields worldwide came from the residues of what an evil German scientist evolved in a lab to gas the unsuspecting Jews in millions? Who would have thought that an arrived nation like the US would actually transport this poison and insert it into its soil to botox unscrupulous farm production and, in turn, bring in cancer, heart, kidney and other fatal diseases in the form of global epidemics?
Not many of us would think deeply about this agriculture revolution, Monsanto and other prime suspects that are slowly killing the planet and its human population, not to mention the millions and millions of soil organisms that take in CO2 and turn it into natural manure for the plants to grow organically. We still are not thinking about it even if brilliant documentaries like this one makes the issue clear and obvious.
Call it the curse of meddling with God and his creation, but the way humanity has evolved leaves a lot to be questioned as we tussle with the inconclusive talks on climate change at the highest international level.
Kudos to the husband-wife duo Josh and Rebecca Tickell, full time environment activists and filmmakers, to have put up such a well-researched, convincing and alarming state of affairs about the killing of our soil. The documentary is a stunning mount on the soil-conscious farming practices that need to be implemented if climate change has to be curbed.
The interesting one hour, 24-minute documentary, is the strongest ever defence of organic way of life. Some parts of the documentary are so well put out in the segment of story-telling that it almost comes out as a thriller.
Such is the story of the soil that is put to you that you don’t mind the preachiness that accompanies it.
A worthwhile watch not just for enjoyment but to face the soil crisis with some viable alternatives.