Allan Savory | Desertification's Causes, Problems + Solutions | 165
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- 165: Allan Savory joins Dave for an eye-opening conversation about the best path forward for solving our most-crucial planetary problems and symptoms, including Climate Change, rapid loss of biodiversity, desertification, wildfires, and the inability of humans to act collectively and organizations to create impact. His views on the management of select grasslands to reverse course alone should grab the attention of environmental activists, government officials, parents, grandparents; really, any Earthling.
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Allan Savory is the original spark for Holistic Management, an agricultural approach with a focus on moving grazing animals over pasturelands, as well as a life planning tool for individuals, families, farms, and organizations. His work has continued on at The Savory Institute alongside his wife Jody Butler and their co-founder Daniela Ibarra-Howell. His Ted Talk "How to Fight Desertification and Reverse Climate Change" has been viewed 9 million times:
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Could listen to this guy talk for hours.
Has a great book reading voice
Gaia Theory, soil-food-web, agro-ecology, holistic management/regenerative grazing, the land ethic, watershed restoration, forest stewardship... These are all the same things, and are all the determinant factors in the creation and stabilization of the SOIL-CARBON-SPONGE, which is the true reservoir and storage system of energy, which makes biodiversity possible.
Allan Savory is a living legend, and his work has been proven and replicated over and over again, and his message is absolutely critical to the survival of our species and the habitability of our planet.
If you don't understand the desertification problem, come on out to New Mexico and let's go for a walk together, because it is only by coming together that we can begin to resolve the world's largest problem: desertification.
It's not desertification that is the world's biggest problem; it's the ideas that rule management of territory. Someone thought it was a good idea to slaughter millions of American buffalo. Someone thought it was a good idea to slaughter millions of Eurasian bison to extinction.
I think there is a great misconcept from my perspectiv or an other understanding of tools in this matter.
1. The first tool we use and that we are often not see, are we, we ourself, our body, is the first tool we use before we use any other tool. And I think in our time we startet to prioritize thinking and speaking. There are so many other thing we can or could do and we are sloly starting to realise that there is more.
2. The Enviorment those things, which seems to be not alive but in many cultures they also have a soul, even if we can´t grasp them.
3. Then there are alle the other living beeings, which we can live within harmony and they can help to develope further in their way.
4. There is that what we eat, wa we left behind when we eat and what our body is giving nature back.
5. There are the things we can see, feel, perceive and what we can imagine.
6. And we can start not to distance us from Natur, even more.
I think not alle the things are seen as tools but I thing they are essantial in one or another way. And there are more thing to discover. And pleas forgive my english I'am not fluently speaking it.
A must read: Regenesis of George Monbiot
Agreed! Did you see George and Allan's "debate" at Oxford?
@@MrNick3742 yes
Plenty of Hungry and desperate places in the US.
The diets of the majority of the children in the public school system is disastrous.
Indeed. The only healthy diet for humans is whole foods plant based but schools offer processed food, meat and dairy which cause heart disease, diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Love this man. Can you imagine his horror after killing all the wild animals he was instructed to, and being mature enough to realize the error and educate others about it? I can’t! New subscriber here. Love what you’re doing on this channel, and sad that it’s needed. ☮️❤️🐾
Have you ever looked into his history with Apartheid South Africa?
He was ordered to kill the elephants because the local natives relied on the elephants for food. Same with the sheep in the American indian reservations. There's a lot of evil disguised as "conservation" and we need to educate ourselves to discern Bad from Good.
I agree with Dave that overpopulation is a problem… and disagree with Mr. Savory that population only presents a management problem. It is possible to conclude that population size at some point becomes unmanageable, given human nature as we know it. I believe that point has been reached.
Well I believe that you are very wrong, and for you, or anyone who believes the world is overpopulated, I ask of you to go out and live in the middle of a vast desertifying environment for a few years, or even just a few months, and then come back and give your opinion. These vast areas of the world make up at least half of the world's habitable lands, so it's really not hard to find a place to go to where you can experience this phenomenon first hand for yourself. If you have not done this, and have spent your lifetime living in one of the limited areas of temperate climate and abundant moisture, which also happen to be mostly overcrowded areas of the world too, then you really just aren't informed enough to accurately assess the situation.
Ok then, isn’t that a management problem? How else would you address it? Waiting for the heavens to intervene?
Act militantly, manage holistically.
Allan Savory, the "Graham Hancock" of agriculture! or maybe Erich von Däniken, perhaps
I encourage everyone here to watch Allan's debate with George Monbiot at Oxford earlier this year. There is no valid science backing up any kind of animal farming as beneficial for any environmental benefits, and organic, grass fed ruminants are literally enemy number one to survival on our planet. The only benefit is that it's so much more inefficient that we'd all have to eat about 99% less meat to make it feasible, so it would help us transition to a plant based agricultural system more quickly. However, the methane emissions alone would make our climate uninhabitable too quickly regardless. Read "Grazed and Confused" by Oxford, "Regenesis" by George Monbiot, or any of the hundreds of studies on the environmental impacts of animal agriculture for more specifics. We have to choose now: cows and extinction or plants and survival of all known life in the universe. Choose life.
Wrong. People like you are really "enemy number one" when it comes to the survivability of species on our planet.
The first duty of the scientist is observation. Wherever farmers and other land managers are properly (i.e. bio mimicry) incorporating animals they are improving soil function. These people are increasing biodiversity and increasing the nutrient density of their animal and plant products.
@@forgetful3360 They've observed plenty to know what's working and what isn't. The best way to fix soil or ecosystems is to allow biodiversity to flourish, not to try to profit from it by exterminating apex predators, competing herbivores, native plants like milkweed, and prairie dogs. Breeding fast-growing animals that emit large amounts of methane and then protecting them from predators until they're just big enough to be profitable is not bio-mimicry. Reintroducing wolves, mountain lions, and native fauna and flora in general and walking away is. Read "Merchants of Doubt" in addition to the two pieces of literature above. The exact same people and methods used to obscure the carcinogenic reality of tobacco and asbestos, to deny acid rain and the ozone hole were problems, and to deny the existence and origins of climate collapse are the ones trying to make grazing and animal consumption seem fine. Eating animals kills us and destroys our planet according to all real science and it's only a handful of right wing capitalists that are trying to obscure those facts for their own financial gains. It will end up in global extinction unless we wake up and stop soon.
@@MrNick3742 What kills prairie dogs is intensive industrial monocrop farming.
@@marlan5470 Ranchers kill prairie dogs because their holes are dangerous for their "product." Most intensive industrial monocrop farming is animal feed, including but not limited to 80% of soy, 50% of grains, and all alfalfa. In total, 83% of global farmland is used for animals and their feed crops, and they produce only 18% of our calories.