So... What's so special about soil? by James Driscoll

Soil is dying

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It akes a 500 years to naturally create 1 inch of topsoil and we are losing it at 17x that rate

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Industrial Agriculture leads to a decline is soil health due to a misuse or poor management of the soil

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10 cm of fertile soil is made in 2000 years

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-Yashvi and Isha

Fungi And Plants

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Fungi and plants make mutualist symbitotic relationships where fungi, being better at harvesting nutrients from the soil, provide these nutrients to plants in exchange for energy.

Its estimated that an acre has 900 pounds of earthworms 2400 pounds of fungi and a lot of a other things such as bacteria and protozoa and arthropods

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The rate of soil loss has increased rapidly in the USA over the last 20 years due to increased agricultural practices

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Every year 13 million hectares of forest are cut down

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Kills a lot of microorganisms in the soil

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For 1 acre of soil there are 408kg of earthworms, 1088kg of fungi, 680kg of bacteria, 60kg of protozoa and 403kg of arthropods. USING METRIC instead of imperial.

Every year humans are cutting down trees and vegetation that is needed to keep the soil healthy and stop it from being depleted

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Almost 33 percent of the earths soil has be degregaded according to the food and agricultural organisation of the UNITED NATIONS

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Killing soil may lead to us losing the ability to mitigiate climate change due to the fact that soil is 3 times more dense with CO2

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Use Australian Statistics

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The video use european statistics around how much of the carbon dioxide was being released from the soil. By finding and using Australian statistics, this would seem more relevant to an Australian audience as it is closer to home.

It provides humans food as a resource

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Intense Agriculture.

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Intensive Agriculture and Machinery such as harvesters degrade the quality of the soil. In the United Kingdom soil has lost 10% of stored carbon, releasing it into the atmosphere. Accelerating the Enhanced Greenhouse Affect.

We have lost 11% of carbon stored in soil in the UK croplands between 1970 and 2007.

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Humans can help by reintroducing organisms into the soil by growing plants which promote their presence.

na0002 — 2025-04-04 01:48:16 UTC

I am suprised that soil is alive

1100 kg of fungi in 1 acre of soil

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Composting

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composting helps soil flourish, adding nutrients and organic matter into the soil.

Talk about Farming in Australia's perspective of view

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Australia has high exports of wheat and wine. If our soil begins to degrade too much, our wine will begin to get more costly to make and the alcohol industry may get more expensive, affecting our bars and social parties.

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We are very surprised by the such high concentration of living organisms within soil

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I am surprised Earthworms matter so much, I mean I knew they did something but I thought they weren’t so essential.

Human have recognized the detrimental effects of maintenance of soil, thus perpetuating the change and a growth mindset in communities maing sure we all have the right to soil

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humans can compost organic soils