WHILE WATCHING

9 Watch the film clip and fill in the script with the words given below.

atmosphere • carbon • centuries • global • health • microorganisms • perennials • reasonable • reverse • technology

Kristin Ohlson
Agriculture is the biggest way that humans impact our landscape. We have unleashed, through agriculture, over the 1. ............................................, over the millennia, carbon from the land, and it’s now up in the 2. ............................................. It’s now part of that legacy load of carbon dioxide. Many people are coming to this discussion about soil 3. ............................................ because it can bring that carbon back down and put it in the ground.
Anchorman
First, here is an environmentalist and the editor of Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to 4. ............................................ global warming. Please welcome Paul Hawken. Tell us why your plan is different and why it is the most comprehensive.
Paul Hawken
Well, it’s very different because it’s the first one ever. You cannot achieve drawdown without bio sequestration. Bio sequestration is using plants, trees, 5. ............................................, and techniques of grazing and farming to capture carbon and store it in the sink of the soil, and retain it for decades, if not centuries. What we did is mapped, measured, and modelled the hundred most substantive solutions to 6. ............................................ warming. And what I mean by solutions, I mean things that are at hand. We know how to do it. There’s scaling. And if we continue to scale in a rigorous, but 7. ............................................ way, over 30 years, we can reverse global warming.
Kristin Ohlson
When you talk to people about this great 8. ............................................ that has existed for millions of years, that takes 9. ............................................ out of the atmosphere and stores it safely in the soil, and that it’s called plants working with soil 10. ............................................, it seems too simple.

10 Decide if the statements are true or false and correct the false ones.

1. Agriculture affects the environment both positively and negatively.
☐ T ☐ F
2. The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been released through agriculture for millions of years.
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3. There is no relationship between soil health and carbon sequestration.
☐ T ☐ F
4. Drawdown is one of the various plans dealing with global warming reversal.
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5. Bio sequestration implies storing carbon in the soil and retain it for long time.
☐ T ☐ F
6. Paul Hawken says they have modelled few significant solutions to global warming.
☐ T ☐ F
7. Paul Hawken claims there are solutions to reverse global warming.
8. Plants do not cooperate with soil microorganisms.
☐ T ☐ F

AFTER WATCHING

11 Describe the picture, giving details about the background and the foreground, the people portrayed, what they might be doing, their mood.