Wow! My family & I learned so much from this excellent documentary. For instance, the UN estimates there are about 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth?! That is ALARMING, and totally unacceptable!!! That's in my children's lifetimes. We can do better, and future generations are counting on it. Do yourself, and your family, a favor - WATCH THIS! Soil health = Plant Health = Human health
17 Reviews
Important Content; Not much documentary artistry
Xander10824 April 2020
This documentary addresses some important issues in a decent way. I can't agree that the Green Power House is actually a closed-circuit system, as it requires biomass input. The filming itself wasn't very engaging. Overall, worth seeing.
The opportunity is right underneath our feet!
harwoodk2 January 2020
Wow!
dietmar-zilz22 December 2019
Excellent movie. Use for homeschoolers.
gramma_elaine20 February 2020
EVERYONE MUST WATCH....RIGHT NOW.
hsinheatherlee19 March 2020
What an incredible documentary. There was so much quality information, great story telling, and most importantly...SOLUTIONS. It also hit close to home since two of the featured people are from the area I live in. It has activated me to want to get involved with changing some policies in our area to make food quality a priority and doing what we can as a community to reverse climate change. I also absolutely loved learning about the Green Power House and would love to help get these made and implemented all around the world. This documentary made me hopeful for our future, only if we start making changes now. There are so many opportunities to get involved. Watch until the very end to see how you can help positively impact your life, your community, our country, and the world.
Mediocre film. First 20 Minutes interesting & animations are good
lindasfoss9 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
The rest is filler. They start with this Green Machine biochar system, which is interesting. But they pad it with a story of an urban farmer that is far from unique. And a Girl Scout protesting the use of GMI ingredients in their cookies.
This is interspersed with animations depicting the issues with big ag & soil, which are fine. But then in the last half, the Green Machine burns down, the urban farm fails, as does the Girl Scout's campaign.
Do yeah, the first 20 minutes is worth a look. Don't bother with the rest.
This is interspersed with animations depicting the issues with big ag & soil, which are fine. But then in the last half, the Green Machine burns down, the urban farm fails, as does the Girl Scout's campaign.
Do yeah, the first 20 minutes is worth a look. Don't bother with the rest.
A must-watch!
alyssa-mclean24 May 2020
My partner and I watched this film a few weeks ago and were incredibly moved by it. I'm a holistic nutritionist and coach (and lover of nature) and I truly appreciated all of the information, stories, and beauty in the film. And while I had anticipated that it would be informative, I hadn't expected the incredible emotional impact it would have-as deeply as I experience nature, I had no idea how much I would cry during a film about soil! Thank you to the whole TNTG team for doing what was clearly a TON of hard work to provide this film to people. The information in this documentary is absolutely vital, and I hope every single human watches it!
An urgent message within this movie
catash30 April 2020
Great movie, with such an important message to share.
This doco moved and awakened me.
The characters were relatable and so inspiring, illustrating that we each can, and must, contribute to the solution.
The continued degradation to the environment is unacceptable and will end in our demise, yet the solutions are simple and attainable, offering such a beautiful and healthful way of operating.
A must to watch, and include in the schools curriculum.
Very bad documentary, ignores the role of animals in ecosystems in promotion of vegan agenda
andyscott-550774 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The documentary starts with explaining a very real problem, our soil being wiped out on a large scale. It does not show any large scale solutions to this problem, and the small scale solutions it shows are questionable at best. One slide in the film quickly disregards the value of animals, claiming falsely that cows are the biggest polluter and eat 80% of the grain we grow. It then focuses on the stories of a farmer growing plants on a parking lot, a man who burns waste wood to fuel a poorly-explained algae machine, and a girl scout who doesn't want GMO cookies.
The farmer growing plants on a parking lot requires trucking in fertilizer. The algae man requires input of waste wood. Neither of these "systems" address the problem stated at the beginning of the documentary, our worn out, arid soils. Truly regenerative agriculture requires the use of grazing animals, period. Any other system requires trucking in imported fertilizer and many energy inputs to make that fertilizer.
The parking lot farmer speaks about self sufficiency. It is nice to be able to grow your own vegetables in his pods, but if our food systems collapsed, you cannot survive on kale nutritionally, and nothing on his farm is providing fat or protein, the 2 macronutrients that we cannot survive without. His system would quickly fall apart if he was unable to get his trucked-in inputs. You need animals to truly feed yourself, and to feed your soils in a truly closed loop.
The algae guy honestly seems like a quack. The documentary did a horrible job explaining how his magical machine works. He put a few dozen house plants in pots in his algae pool to create the illusion that his magic soup is growing them. Nowhere in his pod did it appear that he was growing food at any kind of usable scale. The arson conspiracy angle was silly and was obvious that the filmmakers were asking leading questions to try to point to a nefarious act in order to up the drama of this otherwise boring and confusing segment.
The girl scout GMO story also doesn't focus on our soil issues. They do a poor job explaining why we should avoid GMO foods. Most people think that we should avoid them because they are "man made" or "not natural" but all of our produce is selectively bred and man made. Have you ever seen what a wild banana or watermelon looked like before people started breeding them? The true problem of GMO is that it allow the plants to be drenched in glyphosate, which the documentary does not explain.
Our dwindling soil is a huge issue and I was excited to see a documentary that focused on this issue. This documentary did not deliver on that promise, instead focusing on 3 very small "solutions" that are nowhere near scalable. It is concerning that they ignored many of the real leading voices in regenerative agriculture to speak to these random people who really aren't making even a tiny dent in the problem. There are countless voices out there who are well known and are doing real work to rebuild the soil, and can show real evidence. They do this by integrating animals which this documentary avoids completely.
After all 3 stories show the failure of their efforts, we are shown the creation of vegetable gardens at schools to try to lift our mood. It's nice to see these young people experience growing food, but it has absolutely no effect on the glaring, potentially catastrophic, problem of the lack of soil on our farmland. For a film who's tagline is "Save the Soil, Save the World." it does nothing to show how to save the soil.
The farmer growing plants on a parking lot requires trucking in fertilizer. The algae man requires input of waste wood. Neither of these "systems" address the problem stated at the beginning of the documentary, our worn out, arid soils. Truly regenerative agriculture requires the use of grazing animals, period. Any other system requires trucking in imported fertilizer and many energy inputs to make that fertilizer.
The parking lot farmer speaks about self sufficiency. It is nice to be able to grow your own vegetables in his pods, but if our food systems collapsed, you cannot survive on kale nutritionally, and nothing on his farm is providing fat or protein, the 2 macronutrients that we cannot survive without. His system would quickly fall apart if he was unable to get his trucked-in inputs. You need animals to truly feed yourself, and to feed your soils in a truly closed loop.
The algae guy honestly seems like a quack. The documentary did a horrible job explaining how his magical machine works. He put a few dozen house plants in pots in his algae pool to create the illusion that his magic soup is growing them. Nowhere in his pod did it appear that he was growing food at any kind of usable scale. The arson conspiracy angle was silly and was obvious that the filmmakers were asking leading questions to try to point to a nefarious act in order to up the drama of this otherwise boring and confusing segment.
The girl scout GMO story also doesn't focus on our soil issues. They do a poor job explaining why we should avoid GMO foods. Most people think that we should avoid them because they are "man made" or "not natural" but all of our produce is selectively bred and man made. Have you ever seen what a wild banana or watermelon looked like before people started breeding them? The true problem of GMO is that it allow the plants to be drenched in glyphosate, which the documentary does not explain.
Our dwindling soil is a huge issue and I was excited to see a documentary that focused on this issue. This documentary did not deliver on that promise, instead focusing on 3 very small "solutions" that are nowhere near scalable. It is concerning that they ignored many of the real leading voices in regenerative agriculture to speak to these random people who really aren't making even a tiny dent in the problem. There are countless voices out there who are well known and are doing real work to rebuild the soil, and can show real evidence. They do this by integrating animals which this documentary avoids completely.
After all 3 stories show the failure of their efforts, we are shown the creation of vegetable gardens at schools to try to lift our mood. It's nice to see these young people experience growing food, but it has absolutely no effect on the glaring, potentially catastrophic, problem of the lack of soil on our farmland. For a film who's tagline is "Save the Soil, Save the World." it does nothing to show how to save the soil.
Amazing, poignant, uplifting and important documentary
Jinn9 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Important movie that everybody needs to see. I am sad to see down putting reviews. Do these people not realise how important documentaries like these are? Poignant and uplifting, it really hits home at what we are doing to our ecosystem and how important it is to grow and eat organic for our health and the health of our beautiful, magical world. I really felt for the people when they lost their complex to foul play and I cried for them. They put so much heart and soul into what they do and it must have been heartbreaking. I had a foreboding feeling that was coming. I am relieved that despite the odds, they rebuilt to continue their wonderful work. Amazing and wonderful documentary, full of soul and promise. It tells us how important our world is and how imperative it is that we go back to natural, sustainable farming practices and again, how important organic produce is. Growing things form nature is a beautiful thing. Let us regain our health and the health of our world. A very timely documentary.
Informative and uplifting. Required education for earthlings.
koreyfoxx22 April 2020
Inspiring movie showcasing inspiring people who are contributing to change in the world and showing us how we can be involved in the solutions too. It is no secret (though not yet widely known) that industrial agriculture practices are toxifying land, water, air and food supply. A side effect of their industrial practices is a scary loss of topsoil yearly... food is made possible by soil. Lucky for us we can support and regenerate our soils and thus our local ecosystems. We can all contribute to the healing that needs to happen. This documentary tells the stories of people who are doing that and shows us how we can contribute! I highly recommend watching.
A waste of time. A missed opportunity.
Hugh_Manitarian29 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
If you're looking to learn about and get an understanding of practical solutions for growing healthy food and for preserving and nurturing the topsoil of our planet, you'd do well to "pass" on this movie. Spend your time on something constructive and well put together, instead.
On the other hand, you could watch this movie. You would see a few good quotations and statements of fact, However, many/most people interested in that sort of information already know much of it, without gleaning it from relatively small pieces of movies such as this one. You would see a few fragmented minutes (cameos, in effect) of some "top" eco luminaries (including Vandana Shiva) making wise though mostly generic pronouncements, The movie intersperses that into over an hour of stories about three poorly explained, inadequately thought out, and failed projects.
The people who generated the movie-trailer strung together the best visuals and the most uplifting statements and aspirations, into a sparkling trailer, which seems to promise that which is not delivered.
The editors of the film footage could have spared us yawning stretches of cutesy kiddies and of personality-build-ups of idiosyncratic leaders/inventors of the three projects. We the audience sit tolerantly through such drawn out "content", in anticipation of never-arriving, system-wide views, effective practical solutions, etc.
Unfortunately I could not say this movie is educational on the topics of growing healthy food and of soil preservation and nurture.
By the way, the background music is weak, highly depressing and maddeningly repetitive, repetitive, repetitive......
The editors did well to partially salvage the movie by interspersing limited "bright flashes" between .... well .... dross.
Repetitive and full of padding
s-j-lacey28 November 2020
I really agree with the sentiment of this film that soil is really important. But after about 20 minutes it just seemed to repeat the same statements about soil and got really tedious. I leant how good biochar can be but I leant little else that is practical or useful to my life. If I didn't already appreciate how bad modern farming practices were then perhaps it would have been more useful. There are three main interlinking 'stories' but they are not told in a way that takes you on the journey that these people have gone through in a satisfying way. More interesting would have been to go through the journey from beginning to implementation for these stories and seeing how practical challenges were overcome. But there is limited detail on this and it is not in order. But worst is that there is no inspiring or positive outcome for these projects. The whole thing feels depressing. There is a teaser that things work out okay at the end but with no detail. That would have been an interesting story to follow. Ultimately if they cut this down to 30 minutes without the repetitive statements from experts it might have been okay. As it is, I am sorry to say really did not enjoy watching this.
What you need to know (but probably don't want to hear)
marc-8956 September 2022
Say the phrase GMO to many in the English speaking world and they instantly say, "Monsanto" and yet we've been producing mutagenic GMOs since the early 20th century (Monsanto was formed then) but it didn't start transgenic GMO until the mid 1980s. When a film contains interviews from Dr. Vandana Shiva (unless she's being shredded by an actual scientist, which never happens because she won't consent to that sort of interview) you know that's it's either 100% propaganda or a product of sloppy research.
"Industrialised agriculture is a war against the Earth because it's a war against all species. Because you're bring more chemicals into food production and all they're doing is Killing" says Shiva.
She's preaching a false narrative that hasn't been the case for over 10,000 years. The only reason you're able to read this is because of industrialised farming. From the clothes on your back to the fact you have electricity and heat in your home. Everything, and I mean everything, in our world can only be achieved with farming: it's literally the bedrock of humanity; the single most important development mankind has ever created; more even than fire. More chemicals she says? Water, sugar and salt are chemicals - so this sort of non-specific terminology is a deliberate red-herring. Lead and arsenic are chemical elements and not just toxic heavy metals, but they are also allowed in organic agriculture.
Rosario Dawson is a wonderful human being, I'm sure, but in Executive Producing and narrating this propaganda she's doing herself and everyone a disservice with this stunning ignorance. The problem is that if we follow this advice (and many are) we're accelerating toward our own demise. We don't have time to run this experiment, it's already been producing results for centuries, and we know from those results that it doesn't work well enough; but Dawson keeps pushing this false narrative. It's like the (well-meaning people) in the 1980s who protested nuclear power are now the parents and grandparents to people who are protesting GMO and "big Ag.".
Nuclear has its problems, I'd be a fool not to admit that, but the fact we didn't invest heavily in when we had the chance, we're in an extant fight for our energy future. Renewables are often ugly, not that efficient and don't work 100% of the time. Coal, oil, gas and nuclear do - but only one of those doesn't push billions of tonnes of CO2 and other crud into the atmosphere - tens of thousands (albeit in poorer nations) every year and causing the Earth to warm up. So no, global warming isn't a hoax and the well-meaning of yesteryear are indirectly responsible for it.
We're deeply divided between what people want to believe, that everything organic is naturally healthy, and what's actually true that science is an evolving process but without it we are in trouble. If words like mutagenic and transgenic go over your educational level, then you're precisely the sort of person that this documentary is aimed at. If you don't know the difference, which is crucial by the way; and just two examples of how GMO is performed, you'll easily fall into the quicksand that is "organic".
Organic farmers make many claims but the reality is that most cannot be verified by scientists - because if they were, farmers the world over would be using them. In fact, this already happens, not from organic farmers, but from actual scientists and engineers who test their ideas until they deliver or break. Rinse and repeat. When Sri Lanka went 100% organic in 2021, its entire food crop failed leaving the population at risk of starvation and the country left begging from the IMF.
Dr. Shiva holds a doctorate, but it's not a science doctorate. The distinction here is clouded with phraseology behind "philosophy" but there are detailed explanations if you look with an open mind. People who call out Dr. Shiva aren't always scientists, though many are academics and the bottom line is that she isn't qualified to opine in the fields that she does. In fact, she's so ignorant (or at least hopes her audiences will be) that she suggested that so-called "terminator" GMOs, which are sterile by design, could somehow jump to other species through cross pollination. You can't fertilise a living organism with sterile gametes: the clue is in the word.
The film also features another infamous talking head, Jeffery "Jeffery's fine" Smith. This seems like an odd phrase, but Smith doesn't have a doctorate, or any formal education in biology or a related field that I've been able to divine. So when Smith was asked during a fairly heated GMO debate, "Do I call you Dr. Smith?" He smiled and replied, "Jeffery is fine."
Of course it's fine but why didn't Smith admit right there and then (like any honest person would do) that he didn't hold a PhD? Be honest, if someone put you under oath and phrased a similar question, you'd happily admit that you weren't a doctor. We call this lying by omission but it's still lying and it calls into question Smith's entire narrative which I won't bore you with here.
The claim that GMOs are somehow dangerous is writ many different ways, but in each case it's invariably fallacy of the argument from emotion. "GMOs will kill us", "GMO will give you cancer", "GMO are drenched in glyphosate (Roundup) which gives you cancer" and so on.
But as I've already stated, we've been eating GMOs all of our lives - or at least have been exposed to them. In fact, transgenic GMO happens in nature all of the time, a bacteria called "agrobacterium" is nature's microscopic genetic surgeon, we just harnessed it and used it by design rather than the haphazard "take gene X from plant A and put into plant B" we've said, take the gene that produces Bt Toxin (a naturally occurring insecticide) and put it into maize for example.
But it's toxic right? Not unless you're an insect with an alkaline digestive system. Bt toxins are used widely in organic agriculture and no one bats an eyelid. Even if it were toxic to humans, the amount to have any effect on us would be immense compared to the target organisms (typically invasive, crop destroying moths).
Mutagenesis, the first human form of direct gene manipulation, occurred back in the 1900s and we have many results of that today, with the canonical example being the ruby-red grapefruit. At the time, no one knew what the mutagenic effect had changed in the plant's genome, only that the flesh changed from a yellow to a deep, appealing red that customer's wanted on their plates and were willing to pay for.
The cancer claim is another red herring. Most farmers use pesticides, those that do not are very limited to what they can grow and the production levels are poor. Put simply, this system does not scale with the technology we have today although it does show promise. Cancer is an umbrella term for a huge number of related diseases (over 200) but the mechanisms and causes are different for each one. Roundup also called glyphosate due to the active ingredient has taken a pounding in the American civil courts after the French-based IARC (part of the WHO that operates independently) declared it to be probably carcinogenic. But the IARC does not assess risk and even if it did, there's no risk from the almost immeasurable amount we're exposed to.
Ms. Dawson is rich and thanks to her looks has enjoyed a fairly charmed life. She can afford to pay the extra 20-30% demanded by organic produce. But this is supply and demand, as demand goes up, supply will go down (organic isn't that efficient) and so the price will rise.
This prices people out of the nutritious food they need and the result is horrifying. In the West we're already facing a crisis of obesity that's exploded since the 1980s and obesity causes many cancers. But malnutrition is far worse than cancer. Children born to malnourished parents suffer a horrific laundry list of life-long conditions and can only pass those on to their own offspring, continuing that downward spiral.
I've seen this in the children born to the poor farmers in the tobacco-growing regions of Argentina to the impoverished families in drought-ridden Ethiopia. Other documentaries have blamed GMO, while ignoring the albeit more complex issues of poverty, consanguineous marriage and limited diets. The factors that are really at play here are nowhere near as simple as this travesty of a documentary, written and directed by actor, Rob Herring tries to portray.
From now on I'll be calling him "Red" because this is full of them but they fly so thick and so fast, most viewers (and this is clear from the reviews] won't even spot them as they whistle past their heads. Don't be one of them, ask a qualified scientist - many lurk on Twitter and aren't funded by Big Ag. But they all have one thing in common, they will tell you the scientific facts, not cosy untruths that you might want to hear.
"Industrialised agriculture is a war against the Earth because it's a war against all species. Because you're bring more chemicals into food production and all they're doing is Killing" says Shiva.
She's preaching a false narrative that hasn't been the case for over 10,000 years. The only reason you're able to read this is because of industrialised farming. From the clothes on your back to the fact you have electricity and heat in your home. Everything, and I mean everything, in our world can only be achieved with farming: it's literally the bedrock of humanity; the single most important development mankind has ever created; more even than fire. More chemicals she says? Water, sugar and salt are chemicals - so this sort of non-specific terminology is a deliberate red-herring. Lead and arsenic are chemical elements and not just toxic heavy metals, but they are also allowed in organic agriculture.
Rosario Dawson is a wonderful human being, I'm sure, but in Executive Producing and narrating this propaganda she's doing herself and everyone a disservice with this stunning ignorance. The problem is that if we follow this advice (and many are) we're accelerating toward our own demise. We don't have time to run this experiment, it's already been producing results for centuries, and we know from those results that it doesn't work well enough; but Dawson keeps pushing this false narrative. It's like the (well-meaning people) in the 1980s who protested nuclear power are now the parents and grandparents to people who are protesting GMO and "big Ag.".
Nuclear has its problems, I'd be a fool not to admit that, but the fact we didn't invest heavily in when we had the chance, we're in an extant fight for our energy future. Renewables are often ugly, not that efficient and don't work 100% of the time. Coal, oil, gas and nuclear do - but only one of those doesn't push billions of tonnes of CO2 and other crud into the atmosphere - tens of thousands (albeit in poorer nations) every year and causing the Earth to warm up. So no, global warming isn't a hoax and the well-meaning of yesteryear are indirectly responsible for it.
We're deeply divided between what people want to believe, that everything organic is naturally healthy, and what's actually true that science is an evolving process but without it we are in trouble. If words like mutagenic and transgenic go over your educational level, then you're precisely the sort of person that this documentary is aimed at. If you don't know the difference, which is crucial by the way; and just two examples of how GMO is performed, you'll easily fall into the quicksand that is "organic".
Organic farmers make many claims but the reality is that most cannot be verified by scientists - because if they were, farmers the world over would be using them. In fact, this already happens, not from organic farmers, but from actual scientists and engineers who test their ideas until they deliver or break. Rinse and repeat. When Sri Lanka went 100% organic in 2021, its entire food crop failed leaving the population at risk of starvation and the country left begging from the IMF.
Dr. Shiva holds a doctorate, but it's not a science doctorate. The distinction here is clouded with phraseology behind "philosophy" but there are detailed explanations if you look with an open mind. People who call out Dr. Shiva aren't always scientists, though many are academics and the bottom line is that she isn't qualified to opine in the fields that she does. In fact, she's so ignorant (or at least hopes her audiences will be) that she suggested that so-called "terminator" GMOs, which are sterile by design, could somehow jump to other species through cross pollination. You can't fertilise a living organism with sterile gametes: the clue is in the word.
The film also features another infamous talking head, Jeffery "Jeffery's fine" Smith. This seems like an odd phrase, but Smith doesn't have a doctorate, or any formal education in biology or a related field that I've been able to divine. So when Smith was asked during a fairly heated GMO debate, "Do I call you Dr. Smith?" He smiled and replied, "Jeffery is fine."
Of course it's fine but why didn't Smith admit right there and then (like any honest person would do) that he didn't hold a PhD? Be honest, if someone put you under oath and phrased a similar question, you'd happily admit that you weren't a doctor. We call this lying by omission but it's still lying and it calls into question Smith's entire narrative which I won't bore you with here.
The claim that GMOs are somehow dangerous is writ many different ways, but in each case it's invariably fallacy of the argument from emotion. "GMOs will kill us", "GMO will give you cancer", "GMO are drenched in glyphosate (Roundup) which gives you cancer" and so on.
But as I've already stated, we've been eating GMOs all of our lives - or at least have been exposed to them. In fact, transgenic GMO happens in nature all of the time, a bacteria called "agrobacterium" is nature's microscopic genetic surgeon, we just harnessed it and used it by design rather than the haphazard "take gene X from plant A and put into plant B" we've said, take the gene that produces Bt Toxin (a naturally occurring insecticide) and put it into maize for example.
But it's toxic right? Not unless you're an insect with an alkaline digestive system. Bt toxins are used widely in organic agriculture and no one bats an eyelid. Even if it were toxic to humans, the amount to have any effect on us would be immense compared to the target organisms (typically invasive, crop destroying moths).
Mutagenesis, the first human form of direct gene manipulation, occurred back in the 1900s and we have many results of that today, with the canonical example being the ruby-red grapefruit. At the time, no one knew what the mutagenic effect had changed in the plant's genome, only that the flesh changed from a yellow to a deep, appealing red that customer's wanted on their plates and were willing to pay for.
The cancer claim is another red herring. Most farmers use pesticides, those that do not are very limited to what they can grow and the production levels are poor. Put simply, this system does not scale with the technology we have today although it does show promise. Cancer is an umbrella term for a huge number of related diseases (over 200) but the mechanisms and causes are different for each one. Roundup also called glyphosate due to the active ingredient has taken a pounding in the American civil courts after the French-based IARC (part of the WHO that operates independently) declared it to be probably carcinogenic. But the IARC does not assess risk and even if it did, there's no risk from the almost immeasurable amount we're exposed to.
Ms. Dawson is rich and thanks to her looks has enjoyed a fairly charmed life. She can afford to pay the extra 20-30% demanded by organic produce. But this is supply and demand, as demand goes up, supply will go down (organic isn't that efficient) and so the price will rise.
This prices people out of the nutritious food they need and the result is horrifying. In the West we're already facing a crisis of obesity that's exploded since the 1980s and obesity causes many cancers. But malnutrition is far worse than cancer. Children born to malnourished parents suffer a horrific laundry list of life-long conditions and can only pass those on to their own offspring, continuing that downward spiral.
I've seen this in the children born to the poor farmers in the tobacco-growing regions of Argentina to the impoverished families in drought-ridden Ethiopia. Other documentaries have blamed GMO, while ignoring the albeit more complex issues of poverty, consanguineous marriage and limited diets. The factors that are really at play here are nowhere near as simple as this travesty of a documentary, written and directed by actor, Rob Herring tries to portray.
From now on I'll be calling him "Red" because this is full of them but they fly so thick and so fast, most viewers (and this is clear from the reviews] won't even spot them as they whistle past their heads. Don't be one of them, ask a qualified scientist - many lurk on Twitter and aren't funded by Big Ag. But they all have one thing in common, they will tell you the scientific facts, not cosy untruths that you might want to hear.
Gallant effort, falls short
TD_Diamond26 June 2023
Admission: I only made it halfway through this movie.
Why?: I'm really sick of wasting my time on stuff that doesn't get to the point in some logical way.
We jump from soil to The Green Powerhouse without really consolidating the position on what's important and why.
There's so many interconnected messages that don't connect, focus and hit that your brain just gives up, eyes glaze over as you watch the next individual get their 15 minutes.
Maybe I'm the average audience, maybe not.
But I'm less interested in the personalities - in fact I don't give a damn about self promotion - as it removes the focus from the process and the benefits.
More science please and less guff.
There's a significant part of me that also wonders that if this is such an ongoing thing then why hasn't it proliferated given the years since the documentary was made?
I don't buy the fact that it's suppression from GMOs.
Why?: I'm really sick of wasting my time on stuff that doesn't get to the point in some logical way.
We jump from soil to The Green Powerhouse without really consolidating the position on what's important and why.
There's so many interconnected messages that don't connect, focus and hit that your brain just gives up, eyes glaze over as you watch the next individual get their 15 minutes.
Maybe I'm the average audience, maybe not.
But I'm less interested in the personalities - in fact I don't give a damn about self promotion - as it removes the focus from the process and the benefits.
More science please and less guff.
There's a significant part of me that also wonders that if this is such an ongoing thing then why hasn't it proliferated given the years since the documentary was made?
I don't buy the fact that it's suppression from GMOs.
Just more liberal propaganda!
puterdood28 February 2021
There is no proof to global warming, negative climate change, etc. The Earth is going through its normal "mood swings" as it has done for eons. There is no way humans can affect the Earth in any way. Nature, aka God, has a way of taking care of things and keeping it all in balance. This propaganda film is yet another form of "the sky is falling" mentality of the liberals. They have been doing this for many years with the sole purpose of scaring people. Do not waste your time watching this misinformation! There are more productive things you can do with your time than believe this mindless drivel!
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