The documentary offers hope at a time when environmental degradation, the climate crisis, the extinction crisis and threats to our natural resources are making us cynical.
By Ben Jealous
Soil. It’s where our food comes from and the foundation of all life on land.
The way human beings have traditionally farmed in the modern era devastates the soil. It impacts the quality of the food people and farmed animals eat and thus our collective health. It’s not sustainable, vastly reducing the amount of farmable land available to us and our ability to feed the planet.
There’s a solution. One that we need to consider carefully, that offers a path toward sustainability and environmental health. It’s called regenerative farming.
The recent documentary film Common Ground provides a groundbreaking look into this critically important crisis and how we can fix it.
Normally when I’m asked to watch the latest “environmental documentary,” I admit to being susceptible to that mild sense of dread we all get when we’re about to be presented with the problems of the world further solidified before our eyes.
But Common Ground is anything but bleak. To the contrary, it offers desperately needed hope at a time when environmental degradation, the climate crisis, the extinction crisis and threats to our natural resources are driving cynicism among even the most optimistic.