Learn how soil desertification affects global warming

​What is SOIL DESERTIFICATION? Soil desertification is land that is turning into desert when we create too much bare ground by cutting too many trees and killing plants. NASA data shows that about 2/3 of the world is desertifying. According to the United Nations, the world's remaining topsoil will be gone within 60 years. A solution to this huge problem is biosequestration, which uses plants, trees, bacteria, sustainable grazing and farming to capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil. This way, we can hope to reverse global warming.

Water and carbon are important components of soil. Healthy soil absorbs water and carbon dioxide CO2. But when we damage or destroy soil, water and carbon dioxide go back to atmosphere. This dries out soil and turns it into dust. Soil is connected to plants. In the living plants, water transpires from leaf surface and evaporates into the atmosphere. This increases humidity and brings more rain. Soil is connected to climate change. In fact, 60% of our rainfall comes from the ocean, and 40% from small water cycles from inland. If we disrupt the small water cycles, without living plants, we have a lot of heat released from bare soil. This can lead to huge vortexes of hot air that pushes rain clouds away. As a consequence, the local atmospheric conditions change, so it gets much colder at dawn and much hotter at midday. Global climate changes too as a result of extensive soil desertification that affects more than half the world's land.

​References Kiss the Ground Film Trailer (2020) - YouTube.