Latif Nasser on the connection we all share

vutran | Dec. 5, 2021, 7:22 p.m.

"The dead Bodélé Dpression fishy friends dust from Lake Mega Chad have been fertilizing the Amazon for at least a thousand years. Without the world's driest most desolate place, the world's most vital and vibrant place wouldn't be what it is. Out of death, life.

The dead did not die for nothing, they are alive in all kinds of ways you'd never expect: 

in a climate-change-fighting plankton bloom, 

in a family home that didn't get hit by a hurricane, 

in the trees in Brazil, the nuts and berries they produce that you eat everyday

 maybe even in the oxygen in the breath you just took.

Science has yet to figure out so many more of these dusty secrets, but there is one thing we know for sure, wherever on this globe you take a breath, you're breathing in somewhere else. For better or worse, we're all connected."

— Latif Nasser, https://www.netflix.com/vn-en/title/81031737?trackId=13752289