This is a fantastic, lively and very informative short video on the vital importance of dirt. Basically, soil keeps us all alive, because it grows the food we eat. It can also be an important carbon sink.
“Soil provides 95% of our food, helps regulate the Earth’s atmosphere and is a bigger carbon sink than all the world’s forests combined. In fact, it basically enables all life on this planet to exist. So why do we treat it like dirt?”
Watch: The Guardian’s It’s Time We Stopped Treating Soil Like Dirt