Why Soil Matters

A brief climate change video essay that looks at why the issue of soil degradation matters. Specifically, I look at how we've arrived at such poor soil conditions as a result of modern industrial agricultural practices and why this issue is important when facing climate change.
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Resources:
1. Why Soil Matters: blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/...
2. Pimentel et. al.'s study on soil erosion: www.rachel.org/files/document/...
3. FAO's definition of soil degradation: www.fao.org/soils-portal/soil-...
4. When Land is Degraded, Its People are Too: www.theguardian.com/global-de...
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[@talus9663]

As a Soil Scientist I appreciate people like you educating others!

[@lollihonk]

Do We lose soil or the humus?

[@andreasihlen6244]

@@lollihonk Humus is part of the soil. You can also describe it as compost, organic matter or carbon. When eroded by wind or water, the topsoil is the first to go, which is where most of the humus is.

[@rumare9944]

👍👍👍 true

[@progressivegranny4207]

@@lollihonk to put it like Sadhguru a 65 year old riding 30,000 kilometers, to bring #SAVESOIL awareness in 24 European Countries right now Day 10 On A Motorcycle>>>> If you remove Organic Matter from SOIL you have Sand> If you add Organic Matter to Sand you have SOIL!

[@brendamclean3033]

🌱Let's all work together to save soil #SaveSoil We can make it happen!! 🙏🌿

[@brendamclean3033]

🌱 We can turn this around, together #SaveSoil 🙏 Let's make it happen!! 🌿

[@mikarhg]

no

[@taramaurice495]

This video is super well done. Both explains simply but gets to complexity. Really well done thank you.

[@elizabethlaliberte1024]

Showing this to my students tomorrow. Excellent overview of the impt of soil!

[@TheSirigan]

You are doing an amazing job to gather information in a concise way into bitable chunks, all your videos can be put together as a climate short series. One question about this video, how is the cost of erosion of 44.8 billion $ calculated? I would be interested to learn more if there is a source for it

[@mrFredmaestro]

this is a very important issue, glad to see you covering it

[@littlemermaid5086]

Did have a good idea of what to do with the stuff that I did see

[@littlemermaid5086]

As well as the other things that are probably not going to be the same as the last time I was visiting basic compost web 'TV video

[@littlemermaid5086]

I gave them a purpose and home. They were all scattered on the old site that they agreed to be a good friend to. They need to be able to see what they are doing and what they. ..... Can help understanding using this as another way of life for all

[@snoosh00]

I really like what you do, keep it up. I hope you get as many subscribers as possible

[@ivypellerin3166]

This comment is a little random but I want to try to comment on your videos more often. Especially if it helps them get around. But there is so much food that can be gathered in the forests and harvested seasonally that could lessen the amounts of foods imported. But so many dont know how to use it. I have so much to learn about it. I love picking fiddle heads in the spring along the trails where I live. But it's also scary to know that all it takes a enough people who dont understand how much to take and leave and the plants will die.

[@LogicGated]

I've learned so much from this channel.

[@littlemermaid5086]

I am proud to be a part of this team and I didn't know that you were aware of the problem when I

[@zentouro]

i'm way behind on my subscriptions, but glad to see you covering this topic -- well done!

[@lsauce45]

I subscribed your channel last week

[@andreavazquez7967]

Who's doing this before of Corona and doing homework for environmental class

[@eclypse3948]

Science class lol

[@BrunoSantos-sb6vh]

Thank you so much for the great work you do talking about these issues. Thank you.

[@rumare9944]

👍👍

[@davedrewett2196]

You need to do a video on Holistically planned grazed livestock and the benefits this regenerative system does in soil creation.

[@davidlarsen2184]

Curtis stone is following in the footsteps of JM forier who followed Elliott coleman who took trips to france to see how they grow intensity and sustainable for multiple generations. All 3 of them have books as well as you tube videos with lots of good info.

[@dreikycaprice]

It’s important to mention ALL the innovators.

[@kaeviktoria]

you are so so good. thank you thank you for your videos. i wish people who don't care about this see this to understand how much it matters

[@andydutton455]

You make the best videos!

[@rosemiemuana3431]

I want to learn more about soil. It made me curious and I think it is exciting.

[@andreasihlen6244]

Glad to hear it. This is a very important topic!

[@mmyrowich]

i'd love to see a video on how our construction sites are loosing topsoil as well and the opportunity that the government has to improve soil health on the millions of acres they control along roadside and other civil infrastructure.

[@patrickimo7968]

thank you for the explanation . It realy help

[@humanwithaplaylist]

Hey. Can you please consider doing a video on animal agriculture alone and include countries like Aotearoa NZ? Almost all of NZ has been turned into an industrial farm, the recent cyclone and silt deposits were caused by slips of the hills into the nearby waterways causing them to swell. The lack of forest on most of the land caused the slips. And we also have a huge forestry issue and lots of non natives being grown and cut down regularly and shipped overseas for processing and then shipped back, there are so many issues here but not enough people are covering it and we have very few local KZbinrs. Help

[@Conus426]

Very good video. The food system needs to change, to regenerate soils, fight desertification and make people healthier

[@ws674]

what is the relative impact of population growth and concomitant food demand and nutrient loading vs. climate change on nutrient cycles in ag soils?

[@andreasihlen6244]

Might be a good idea to parse that out into several distinct questions.

[@mackydFlame]

Thanks for the video we need to act as soon as possible before it's to late .Some people didn't understand about this.but I hope the other people will start to think about our mother earth and the next generation...Some nation started to lessen the use of plastic and that's good. I hope our government are also be aware about this matter .

[@bibliusz777]

how many harvests do we have left?

[@lars_larsen]

Good content.

[@nazritevow6169]

Forget your donate link

[@josephabell1436]

What about conservation agriculture as a potential solution to degrading soils?

[@Karmooz]

Thanks!

[@davidedelzingaro7524]

Yeah organic fertilizers are good for soils and can increase the portion of stable carbon and noone could argue against it, but simply there just aren't enough, we need too much nitrogen, bio-char could be the answer because it do not mineralize as others organic fertilizer capturing carbon for a long time (in some cases even for thousands of years) at the same time improving soils and increasing the percentage of carbon in the soil faster than other methods, using cover crops, minimum tillage and other agronomic methods can make a difference but only in the long term. Ps That's only my opinion.

[@tanakakokilovad1594]

#savesoil 🌱 . Save our planet 🌱🌳🌳🌳🌳🌍🌳🌳🌳🌏🌳🌳🌳🌎🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳🌲🌱🌎🌍🌏🌱🌲🌳🌳

[@willy4170]

Instead of investing in erosion control, it wouldn’t be better investing in thing like aeroponics, that are also safer ways to cultivate

[@joelembid8901]

How does soil affect living organisms

[@owenreynolds4781]

On that 372 grind again

[@indujain6331]

Do you think soil temperature variation can affect climate change 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@blitzkrieg7826]

this is a cool vid

[@wylde39]

It would be useful to have that home farmer you recommend in the information section. Otherwise we just have to go back listen and guess how his name is spelled.

[@daphne4407]

Its on screen. Curtis Stone

[@itzhen7032]

Me and my family makes out own earth we grow plants in durng the summer

[@thegreatestonion8526]

"BUY'n'LARGE! we put the star, in executive star flight"

[@Pacopalensias11]

we have too take care of our planet for thousand years we been here ! Let's make things better by cultivated more plants no more erosions .

[@SpectrixBruh]

Our Geography teacher made us do a listening comprehension on this video lul

[@justinmichael6477]

Synthetic fertilizers are lot the solution. Covering your soils with organic mass is the best way to retain water, retire nutrients and stop erosion

[@savesoil1153]

#SaveSoil

[@manamsana3786]

It's changing and ruining, not everyone sees, only some people can see the world being uninhabitable for by us!

[@udgampandey1963]

#savesoil lets make it happen

[@Moses_VII]

Don't people say that without industrial agriculture and fertilisers, we'd be unable to feed 2 billion out of our 7 billion population? We're doomed.

[@neelchavan1757]

We dont have to stop using fertilizers, we just need to bring back organic content back into the soil either through plant or animal waste. If there was a law that demanded something like cover crops or animals on the farm, that itself could turn the situation around. Growing trees alongside with crops would also be a great way to bring organic material through leaves.

[@rachielg1323]

02:52 - cultivating the soil always results of the decline of its fertility and health 03:14

[@gfreeman7192]

check out Who Really Feeds the World? by Vandana Shiva

[@amritadevi166]

thats why #savesoil

[@deannelson9565]

Love to see someone do tillage with a combine! Lol

[@miniflea0469]

It does not take 500 years to develop one inch, roughly 100-200. Very misleading but great video.

[@andreasihlen6244]

Very much depends on the location and whether people are helping or letting nature do it's own thing.

[@user-wh3oe3ep2h]

I think you confused the concept of soil degradation with soil erosion.

[@papinoff6654]

This is neat!

[@papinoff6654]

Ratio

[@zbynekcodykolacek]

E.U. marches the same path, mostly due to subsidies, growing crops for fuel and neglect politicians

[@mayathatsme3876]

Who's here from school?

[@nirvana6375]

Me

[@andrewgray9626]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes

[@neelchavan1757]

We dont have to stop using fertilizers, we just need to bring back organic content back into the soil either through plant or animal waste. If there was a law that demanded something like cover crops or animals on the farm, that itself could turn the situation around. Growing trees alongside with crops would also be a great way to bring organic material through leaves.

[@Ken.Kaleidoscope]

Well we’re dead

[@thegreatestonion8526]

WALL-E is becoming more realistic everyday, in a couple of years we are all probably gonna be stuck in a giant space station.

[@darrell293]

You got a imagination , We really need to look at the world . What vehicle will you drive in what Space ?

[@gaveshin]

Sana soil

[@junahdelfinado9486]

[@safir2241]

Take a shit, get some orange peels, take a piss, get some worms, & let it rain. Boom, good soil

[@johnfrederickrapinan5125]

Sino andito dahil sa chem teacher HAHAHAH

[@curtybaby]

curtis stone is too capitalistic imho. he's too grindset/hussle culture coded. what i've heard him say about interns in particular bothers me. but yeah, more market gardens in communities is good.

[@rhy8336]

More like a Loaming soil crisis

[@brownthecow7405]

Why do you always sound so sad?

[@thomasfields7902]

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30)