The documentary "The Need to Grow" examines the urgent issue of declining soil quality and arable land. With only 60 years remaining of farmable soil on Earth due to current land management practices, the film profiles individuals working on innovative solutions. It follows an eight-year old activist challenging an organization, a farmer struggling to revolutionize sustainable agriculture on his land, and an inventor facing challenges developing technology to address catastrophic soil depletion. The film aims to bring hope by highlighting real-world solutions and inspiring change in how food is produced to regenerate soils for future generations.
The documentary "The Need to Grow" examines the urgent issue of declining soil quality and arable land. With only 60 years remaining of farmable soil on Earth due to current land management practices, the film profiles individuals working on innovative solutions. It follows an eight-year old activist challenging an organization, a farmer struggling to revolutionize sustainable agriculture on his land, and an inventor facing challenges developing technology to address catastrophic soil depletion. The film aims to bring hope by highlighting real-world solutions and inspiring change in how food is produced to regenerate soils for future generations.
The documentary "The Need to Grow" examines the urgent issue of declining soil quality and arable land. With only 60 years remaining of farmable soil on Earth due to current land management practices, the film profiles individuals working on innovative solutions. It follows an eight-year old activist challenging an organization, a farmer struggling to revolutionize sustainable agriculture on his land, and an inventor facing challenges developing technology to address catastrophic soil depletion. The film aims to bring hope by highlighting real-world solutions and inspiring change in how food is produced to regenerate soils for future generations.
The documentary "The Need to Grow" examines the urgent issue of declining soil quality and arable land. With only 60 years remaining of farmable soil on Earth due to current land management practices, the film profiles individuals working on innovative solutions. It follows an eight-year old activist challenging an organization, a farmer struggling to revolutionize sustainable agriculture on his land, and an inventor facing challenges developing technology to address catastrophic soil depletion. The film aims to bring hope by highlighting real-world solutions and inspiring change in how food is produced to regenerate soils for future generations.
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REACTION PAPER
Submitted by: BENJAMINE A. RODRIGO Subject: SOIL SCIENCE
Submitted to: MS. ROSSAN PIAMONTE Date Submitted: FEB. 24,2023
“THE NEED TO GROW”
SUMMARY With only sixty years of farmable soil left on Earth, and the increased threats of climate change, the need to rethink how we use earth’s natural resources has never been more important. The Need to Grow takes an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement who are redesigning our future; an eight-year-old girl who challenges the ethics of a beloved organization, a renegade farmer struggling to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource-efficient agriculture, and an accomplished visionary inventor facing catastrophe in the midst of developing a game changing technology. “The Need To GROW is an underdog story that the world needs desperately right now,” said Herring. “The way the environmental heroes in this story overcome challenges is an important metaphor for how so many of us are feeling regarding ecological issues. It’s a chance for viewers to not only learn about urgent problems in our food system – but more so to embrace the astonishing potential of healthy soil as a climate solution. This is why we decided to give the film away as a gift to the world. The conversation needs to change.” The “Need to GROW" delivers alarming evidence on the importance of healthy soil — revealing not only the potential of localized food production working with nature, but our opportunity as individuals to help regenerate our planet’s dying soils and participate in the restoration of the Earth. The Need to Grow follows pioneers of cutting edge technology as they fight to localize sustainable food systems and regenerate Earth's dying soils. This is the interconnected stories of three unique individuals and the documentary aims to explore some of the deeply-rooted issues in agriculture. Director Ryan Wirick works at understanding the nature of problems and finding solutions that may help future generations. This is a collaboration with activist and Director Rob Herring, accompanied by Executive Producer and Narrator Rosario Dawson.
PERSONAL REACTION My Personal Reaction about the Film is that, The Film “The Need to Grow” tackles the issue of depleted soils. Specifically, the planet is running out of arable land. Within 60 years, farmers will struggle to grow food if land management practices do not change. REACTION PAPER
Submitted by: BENJAMINE A. RODRIGO Subject: SOIL SCIENCE
Submitted to: MS. ROSSAN PIAMONTE Date Submitted: FEB. 24,2023 The Need to Grow tackles this issue. It explains why today’s agricultural practices are a problem – and the people fighting to make it better. The goal of the documentary is to inspire people with hope for the future – while also highlighting issues with today’s food production. Some of the things covered during The Need to Grow documentary include: Why the planet is on the brink of ecological disaster, How today’s farming and food production practices are leading to skyrocketing rates of chronic diseases, The real-world solutions some are implementing today to fix the problem, Why we could have fewer than 60 years of soil left on Earth, according to the estimates of some soil scientists, How leaders are taking action, including an 8-year old girl challenging the ethics of a beloved organization, a renegade farmer struggling to keep his land while revolutionizing resource- efficient agriculture, and an accomplished investor facing a catastrophe while developing a game-changing technology. Figuratively speaking, this feature length documentary goes to the very root of more than one serious environmental issue, we as a species are both inflicting and suffering upon ourselves and the planet. And there’s great growth in awareness on these issues and everything relating to it, such as veganism and green energy, this truly and literally delves into the core matter at hand and makes perfect sense. Soil. People should aware about this environmental issues in order to have a better environmental future.
