Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of f

http://www.ted.com The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring.

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[straightsixstyle]

I hate how people like this have to struggle to find funding, yet we squander money saving the Chevy Tahoe from extinction.

[CaptScruffywhiskers]

Excellent talk as usual on a very serious subject,thankyou.

[twilightawakening]

What's the song at the end?

[HDXPC]

bad wig.

[Thinking4You]

Great talk.

[KhannKlan]

I agree.

Or if not a universal child cap perhaps a license to have children. It sounds like too much power but really, I would rather the government be giving the right people with good families and economic situations the chance to have kids rather than allowing poor or fundamentalist folks to push out kids in order to gain money or voting power.

The only question would be how to implement or enforce it.

[midare]

Diagnostic, the main reason the poor have so many children is lack of education, especially education for women. Education effects many things, among them awareness of contraception. Also, in situations where people are poor they often have large families in hopes that SOME children make it to adulthood to care for their parents. Until we can make sure their 1 child survives, is limiting them just? Think of this, the quake in China leveled that school that is a whole generation in a family dead.

[nicanicabad]

Support too, is ensuring an exponential population growth, the exact opposite of what needs to happen.

I am lucky that I live in a country now that has no additives in the tap water, and little pollution. It was a deliberate choice to move here. And we drive an Aigo.

[irrah77]

mass extinction... thanks to companies like Monsanto and other chemical companies. keep it up..and I know genocide will occur.

[DiagnosticHour]

Exactly.

The thing is most people might not want to change because they still have bottled water, McDonald's pushes out cheap unnutritional food, and we still drive cars that harm the environment.

But I think we do have to start changing now.

And sure, it may sound horrible to not support those families, but what else can we do?