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.

I thought the documentary would be interesting because it concerns soil, a rather neglected subject that I've recently read about in a book called The Hidden Half of Nature. And it's soil, right? The film will be about a relatively neutral subject with science backing every idea in it. Alas, it was not like that. Instead, "environmental activist" actors narrate and star into something that is painfully progressive and one sided. It felt political, somehow. How does one politicize dirt?! And it's too bad, because what they said was mostly correct: there are cheap ways of farming sustainably, protecting life, earth, the air, sequestering carbon and giving us tasty food. Decoupled agriculture, plowing and artificial fertilizers are the very opposite of that and only serve chemical manufacturers. But they way they said it. Ugh!

Using science to determine the best way to handle soil, which is the base of everything which is alive on land, is something relatively new. Understanding the role of microorganisms in everything from farming to medicine is relatively new. These subjects deserve recognition and study. Alas, farmers will never connect to something so painfully Californian. My advice: read about the subject and do your own research and experiments. Get acquainted with the way each piece of nature, from the microscopic to the gigantic, function in unison not in isolation.

Bottom line: a fascinating subject, poorly popularized.

Look, you can't say that as humans we aren't ignorant. We are, as a species, we are extremely ignorant.

We need to do more to save the Earth from our destructive patterns of society and one of the ways to do that is through soil conservation. But that isn't the only way to do it and that is part of what I think this show missed.

Sure, they have a lot of famous people giving their opinion and they have scientists giving their opinion, but there is more to this than just the soil. Our oceans are important also. And what about the industries that pollute the environment? What about the governments that turn a blind eye to the corruption?

I think this show is trying its best to point out some of the problems in society, but it much more a world problem that an American problem. So how do we get the rest of the world to work together, with America? The first thing is to get rid of the current leaders and bring back leaders who are leaders of the people and not the industry.