Dirt ! By Rosow Analysis

Dirt! is a documentary by Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson that explains the importance of soil to sustain human life from a socio-economic political and environmental view. The soil on earth has all the molecules of life and contains a high diversity of microorganism and elements that are essential for life forms which are not found in other places of the galaxy. Fungi and bacteria are important in this process, soil is made up mycelium which improves the soil structure by breaking down the death materials. The decomposition of countless cycles of life and death makes up the matrix of soil that becomes deeper and larger to create and sustain life. Humans have a closer relationship with soil because we depend on its fertility, resources and natural

Ancient civilizations view dirt as an essential material in the creation of humans, pottery, and earth construction made up the structures of these civilizations. As watching the film about the Santuario de Chimayo, it made me remember my grandmother who views the solid as sacred and built her house in Mexico with adobe bricks that are much stronger, it keeps the house warmer in winters and cold in summers. Our current infrastructure is made up concrete, which seals the dirt and does not allow the absorption of water and produce floods, droughts, windstorms and low food security. As mentioned before the environmental degradation is closely linked to the human degradation, the development of urban areas displayed rural people from their lands and forced them to move to urban areas to look for jobs. Our industrial agriculture is depleting the root diversity, the productivity of soil, polluting the water and increase the global warming. The use of pesticides makes nitrogen a mobile element that flows into bodies of water and as getting in the atmosphere forms nitric oxide that accelerates climate change. Another major problem presented in the film in the deforestation of forests to meet the demand for utilizes and expand the land for agriculture, but this is much harmful to us because forest plays an important role in climate regulation, carbonization, flood control and the purification of air and soil. The problem of ecological unsustainability can be solved if we change the way in which we treat soil by building a root diversity and a biodiverse yield that can protect and reduce the erosion of soil. People can help by doing as little as supporting their local farmers that promote sustainable agriculture practices. It is important to remember that we are part of this earth, learning and reconnecting is the