After watching this documentary, I was pretty excited. I thought the solution to climate change seemed hopeful. But after the music and positive imagery faded, I started to think about the core message. I couldn't reason why regenerative agriculture could pull more CO2 out of the atmosphere than traditional agriculture. The animations shown on "Kiss the Ground" make it seem like with healthy soil, plants will pump CO2 out of the air and then store it in the ground. And if you till the ground, the CO2 is released into the air. I did some basic research on photosynthesis, which by the way is a very chemically complex process, and what I learned is that the CO2 is converted to carbohydrates. Water is turned into O2. The CO2 will be chemically changed by the plant and doesn't get "pumped" into the soil. I feel manipulated by this documentary and I'm not sure the ideas presented actually have a sold, factual foundation to stand on. We can pull CO2 out of the air with plants, but we need to have more plants, not the same amount of plants with better soil. We need to grow tons of new trees and stop deforestation.
Review of Kiss the Ground
