STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The documentary, “The Need to Grow,” highlights the damage industrial agriculture is doing to soil health
- Seventy percent of the planet’s soils have already been destroyed
- The entire food chain and human life depend on billions of microorganisms that coexist in the soil
- Tilling the soil disrupts fragile soil life and turns soil carbon into atmospheric carbon dioxide, fueling the climate crisis
- The film features Michael Smith, inventor of the Green Power House, a power plant powered by sunlight and waste that efficiently creates biochar to accelerate the regeneration of soil
