Multiple Ways To Handle Food Insecurity Now By Neenah Payne for Natural Blaze
Food security is not something anyone can take for granted now. Industrial chemical agriculture is destroying our soils and our health. Since it ramped up in the 1970s, we’ve lost one third of the Earth’s topsoil.
Allan Savory: How Cows Can Save The World points out that Scientific American warns that the world’s remaining topsoil will be gone within 60 years. So, unless we find a way to save our soils, we have just 60 harvests left. When soils are damaged, they turn into dust in a process called “desertification”. About 60% of the world is turning into deserts — pushing 40 million people every year off their land. By 2050, it’s estimated 1 billion people will be refugees of soil desertification.
Ecologist Savory shows in his viral Ted Talk linked to below that cows are THE KEY to restoring our soils, providing clean water, feeding the world, protecting the oceans, and preventing drought and floods which drive political unrest and mass migration to cities and other countries. Understanding this profoundly different perspective is key to preventing the Sixth Great Extinction.
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Savory, Founder of Holistic Management, warns: “Poor land leads to poor people which leads to social breakdown”. Savory’s 2013 Ted Talk How To Green The World’s Deserts and Reverse Climate Change is among the TOP 100 MOST-WATCHED TED TALKS. It has been seen by over 7 million viewers and is going up by thousands a day. Savory explains why livestock (cattle, goats, sheep) which are now used on five continents on 37 million acres are the ONLY protection for soils and water and the ONLY way to save our civilization. This approach also allows soils to sequester carbon.
Savory said in his talk at Harvard Allan Savory Presenting at Harvard Law School that his Ted Talk overcame 50 years of academic opposition to these ideas. He explains that when public opinion changes, government policy changes. So, you can help shift policies by sharing this Ted Talk.
