Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/06/2018
1:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Location
Relaxation Centre of Queensland
Categories
Here is a story with heart and soil.
The Movie – narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It is a call to action… and makes you want to get your hands dirty… We need to pay attention to the earth under our feet – It is our future survival.
Dirt, which is unique to Earth of any of the known planets and which acts as the planet’s “skin”, is made up of the same elements as humans, and is a living, breathing, complex and essential building block for human survival.
The relationship between dirt, which covers approximately the top five centimetres of the Earth’s surface, and humans is presented. Left to its own devices, the planet is able to regenerate dirt if all the necessary elements are available, such as a diversity in organic matter, microorganisms and water. The planet’s forests are a prime example, forest floors which have generally the richest dirt on the planet. But humans have largely altered the natural landscape to affect negatively the planet’s ability to maintain the existing dirt and regenerate it as a healthy entity. It is based on what humans generally consider more valuable uses of the land, whether it be for development i.e. covering the dirt with impermeable materials such as asphalt and concrete, resource extraction or something else. Even in the industrial age, mono-cultural farming practices of annual crops, i.e. miles upon miles of only one crop of an annual plant being grown, are depleting the health of dirt, with the answer being often to cut down more forests to create more farmland. As such, humans need to place a higher value on ecological sustainability, most specifically in dirt health, or else risk the species at our own hands.
Entry $5. NO BOOKING REQUIRED – Just come along – Payment on arrival.
