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Independent Lens | Dirt! The Movie - Promo | PBS

Duration: 01:46
Program: Independent Lens #1121

Industrial farming, mining and urban development have endangered soil and resulted in cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. How can humans reconnect to dirt -- the living skin of the Earth?

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Post Date: November 23, 2010