'Dirt !': Movie Analysis

As we start to understand the importance and usefulness of soil, we see its relationship to other environmental movements. Dirt! The Movie insinuates that this understanding naturally transitions into a period of sustainable degrowth by wanting to be around nature, reducing food waste and practicing communal agriculture. Some might argue that degrowth is not necessary for countries like Canada especially when the conditions such as war and food riot mentioned in the movie do not apply. This point is indeed true, but the issue of scale is relevant. There are other places around the world that currently suffers from food insecurity because of economic depression and anthropogenic impact on soil. Degrowth allows these communities to focus on attaining communal and social credits that are useful within a given society (Newman, 2007). Though food riots might not occur in Canada, there has been an increase in the number of food banks in since 2000 (Food Bank Canada FBC, 2015). The lack of sufficient food is an indicator that the contemporary model is failing because the "rich continue to get richer" while people of lower class struggle to make ends meet. Degrowth looks at distributing resources evenly amongst several groups of people regardless of their race, gender and class. On a global scale, Canada’s decision to enrich soil fertility may also mitigate food crisis in Syria through the exportation of desirable products. A solution to the problem of unsustainability is to seek methods that cut across local and global scale (Herndl, 2014).
Moving into a paradigm where degrowth is the practice conflicts with the economic approach since degrowth innately reduces the GDP by plummeting excessive production, conspicuous consumption and commercialism associated with the GDP (Schneider et al.,