Dirt
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(Reflection)
I enjoy working with dirt because it relaxes me and it is fun. I especially love digging.
If the land of farmers was being taken here in Serbia, many families would become notably poorer and unhappier, especially if their only occupation was farming. I agree with Paul Stamets' analogy because we are ruining dirt and with dirt our whole planet including us humans, as a virus hurts its host and when the host dies the virus dies with it.
We should take care about every piece of fertile land by preserving it of any type of contamination and by cultivating policulture instead of monoculture on it. Wherever we can, we should reduce areas covered by concrete and asphalt. I do think that if everyone tries their best to conserve dirt we will succeed. People usually think that its not important to try conserving dirt because nobody else is trying and its not enough for one person to try, but if everyone changes their opinion, we would have millions and millions of people trying their best to conserve dirt. Governments should make a regulation to decrease monoculture cultivation and pesticide usage which would reduce the amount of ruined soil. They can also stimulate reforestation of some areas. Everyone should have in mind that dirt is a natural habitat for many animals. When dirt is contaminated or when it dries out, the animals will either die, or escape to another place, which isn't their natural habitat, causing the food chain to change, making some animals or plants extinct. This would destroy the balance of the whole ecosystem.
After this film, I feel that I should encourage my family and other people to have their own gardens with a variety of plants and that everyone should have a place to leave organic material to become dirt. Now I know that monocultures damage dirt in many ways as well as different chemicals. If mankind continue to destroy dirt, there would be a shortage of food everywhere in the world.
If the land of farmers was being taken here in Serbia, many families would become notably poorer and unhappier, especially if their only occupation was farming. I agree with Paul Stamets' analogy because we are ruining dirt and with dirt our whole planet including us humans, as a virus hurts its host and when the host dies the virus dies with it.
We should take care about every piece of fertile land by preserving it of any type of contamination and by cultivating policulture instead of monoculture on it. Wherever we can, we should reduce areas covered by concrete and asphalt. I do think that if everyone tries their best to conserve dirt we will succeed. People usually think that its not important to try conserving dirt because nobody else is trying and its not enough for one person to try, but if everyone changes their opinion, we would have millions and millions of people trying their best to conserve dirt. Governments should make a regulation to decrease monoculture cultivation and pesticide usage which would reduce the amount of ruined soil. They can also stimulate reforestation of some areas. Everyone should have in mind that dirt is a natural habitat for many animals. When dirt is contaminated or when it dries out, the animals will either die, or escape to another place, which isn't their natural habitat, causing the food chain to change, making some animals or plants extinct. This would destroy the balance of the whole ecosystem.
After this film, I feel that I should encourage my family and other people to have their own gardens with a variety of plants and that everyone should have a place to leave organic material to become dirt. Now I know that monocultures damage dirt in many ways as well as different chemicals. If mankind continue to destroy dirt, there would be a shortage of food everywhere in the world.
