Kiss the Ground

When I consider a film, one of my criteria is relevance. Reversing climate change has to be at the top of that list. Helping farmers, creating more nutritious food, and reversing chronic lifestyle diseases...also pretty damned relevant.

But the story also has to be told well. Does it have flow, is it beautiful? Check!

You will enjoy watching this, you will learn while you enjoy, and you will be motivated. All very difficult tasks, but this film was highly successful at accomplishing all of them.

As a livestock rancher, I am leery of documentaries with vegan spokespersons. But this one covers all the bases and gives livestock it's critical role in healing the environment. Excellent job in explaining the science and role of farming in making things right. Would have been nice to have given direction in how the average person can encourage change in farming.

What I liked 1. Peer Review from multiple people. 2. Simplistic sicientific explanation.

What I didn't like 1. No mention of the logistics and cost involved in regenerative farming.

This documentary was an immensely helpful introduction to the concept of regenerative farming. It has convinced me how benefical this method can be in sloving the problems of climate change, enough production for the mass and good use of carbon footprint. However, their promotion of this method seems very one-sided with no explanation of how farmers can implement it in real life. It gives no information about how much the initial and over-time cost of the method can be?, how long is the harvesting season?, what are the up and downsides? and many more critical basic questions even a child from elementary school will ask.

At the end, this documentary made me feel very optimistic about future, but because of lack of crucial information, it seems like a advertisment giving us false hope.

Exploring the damage caused to the earth through farming with a conservation agronomist et al. and how a regenerative approach can reverse the catastrophic climate crisis that casts such a bleak shadow over our planet. Unsurprisingly the message, as is so often the case in all walks of life: let things do what they're good at and the problem can be resolved. In this case, let nature heal the damage, torture and torment our misguided agricultural practices have cursed the planets surface with, live in tune and synchronicity with nature, stop poisoning the lifeforms that maintain and perpetuate life. Probably preaching to the converted but there's no harm reemphasising the message in the hope that a few more pennies drop and habits evolve and ultimately change. That's if it's not too late already.

Being surrounded with bad news for so long, and especially with what's been going on in 2020, it would be easy to give up, or, at least feel relatively powerless. This movie shows how powerful we can each actually be, literally, in our own backyard. Well paced with really interesting stories and fascinating NASA satellite imagery showing co2 emissions from space and how they are directly related to how much tillage is going on in the planet. So mind expanding! I'm so happy that a movie like this was made available on Netflix. Highly recommend!