TEDxTC - Jonathan Foley - The Other Inconvenient Truth

[tvaatakt1]

This guy is absolutely right, we need every possible resource to fix this, there is not ONE single solution, but rather taking the best from every production system that we know today.One example: Replace rice and corn in our diets with crops that generates up to 5 times more carbohydrates per hectare, such as potatoes and cassava. That is, feed 5 times the number of people from the same land! This crisis can be solved, it just require 100% commitment from politicians, consumers and business.

[NatureIsInfinite]

Step 1.  Research PERMACULTURE.

[NatureIsInfinite]

How will Veganism save us when we are violently cutting down entire forests to provide everyone with food? How will veganism save us when we are transporting food all around the world to give everyone a complete diet? How will green technology save the planet when it takes the complete fragmentation of ecosystems to create such technology? How will GMO's save us when they are reliant on synthetic chemicals that pollute or water & land? We must return to the earth, we must return to the origin.

[NatureIsInfinite]

We are doing everything we can to try and maintain our current way of life instead of considering that maybe our whole way of life is wrong. People believe that various infrastructure solutions and consumer choices will be able to save the planet? This is untrue. The human race must live indigenous again and will live indigenous again whether we like it or not. The real question is how much do we want to destroy the land in the meantime? And how much of a toxic legacy we will be left with?

[iraleecantellia]

@NatureIsInfinite I'm not sure we have to go all the way back to living "indigenous", but I like a lot of the ideals that permaculture espouses. Unfortunately adopting some of them without becoming a hippie communist in the eyes of my suburban friends might prove to be a challenge...

[101101101777]

AQUAPONICS over parking lots

[MrRDDOCTOR]

Very timely and thoughtfully presented. Well done.

[brucegodin]

one big solution he only briefly alluded to is a vegetarian or vegan diet. it would greatly reduce the impact of feeding all of us if more and more people (or everyone) went vegetarian or vegan. it makes so much more sense to eat the soybeans, corn etc ourselves instead of feeding it to animals that are later murdered for food. sadly it seems like a solution no one seems to want to talk about.

[doublebubbaguy]

@brucegodin

you are right. the obvious solution is to greatly restrict food-animal populations. they are competing with us for food.

[boii1990]

He held a lecture at my university in Sweden today! He was such an inspiring person, albeit I did leave the lecture hall with a slight feeling that, well, we're fucked..

[ganonandhisminions]

#scottstgeorge

[fuddruff]

@ganonandhisminions lolol

[veganroast]

The best way forward is a vegan world. If humans strive to live lower down on the food chain there will be less suffering, less environmental destruction, less violence, more water and more humanity.

[frencheneesz]

@veganroast The vegan diet is the cheapest. Economics will take care of our diet. We don't need militant vegans for this change

[iraleecantellia]

@veganroast Hmmmm... I remember reading somewhere that we've evolved to need animal protein in our diets. Just a couple ounces a day, but still necessary. How do you as a vegan supplement your protein intake?

[SBudidarsono]

nice presentation.

[Bourkie55]

Check out the venous project

[geniemist]

watch George Carlin - Saving the Planet on youtube ;)

[mitsukai89]

In fact if you can send me the video with the text in the end of this video i might be able to show it at a politcal meeting in the netherlands in november.

[sjszurek]

@mitsukai89 youtube.com/umnione#p/u/3/F1IW­kbU0SG4

[mitsukai89]

Thank you for this wonderful video.. we need to spread the word.

[Jude1955]

This is one of the better TedX Talks I've seen. Too bad that few people are likely to see it. Since there's no description, this is mine: Jonathan Foley describes the impact of agriculture on the environment. Since we have to eat, how we can minimize the negative impacts of growing food?

[coolboyhanseh]

hi