Here’s a wild stat: nearly one-third of the world’s food production goes to waste each year, a major contributor to the climate crisis. Farmer and UN climate champion Gonzalo Muñoz sheds light on the international negotiations aimed at turning the food system into a climate solution, rather than part of the problem — and shows the progress already underway.(Recorded at TED Countdown Dilemma Series: Food on June 5, 2024)
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@brendacx6100
October 29, 2024 at 7:27 am
Yes yes yes!
@angeldominguez5952
October 29, 2024 at 7:39 am
Politics and government intervention that is what I heard meaning more control over the people, and guess who will be paying for it? The solution would be educating the youth by getting them to know where food comes from and to start growing gardens and field trips to farms that are using permaculture. etc. Climate is always changing that is a constant variable.
@Vscustomprinting
October 30, 2024 at 11:04 pm
Anything to avoid accountability for yourself, right? Kick the can while you eat animal products, is that your plan?
@ceciliabechem3205
October 29, 2024 at 7:40 am
Great ❤
@CosmicExplosion
October 29, 2024 at 7:45 am
Let Alex Jones back on YouTube if climate change is a scientific fact
@محمدعبدالله-ف5و9ل
October 29, 2024 at 7:49 am
Thinks ❤
@peterweller8583
October 29, 2024 at 8:07 am
An absolute essential topic.
A.I. take me away.
Synthesizing novel proteins creating enzymes that
could act just like a universal solvent.
Best to keep that one on close watch.
Actions are much more sustainable than words.
@robindao5
October 29, 2024 at 8:38 am
lay off the hopium piupe.
@oluwaliblue8684
October 29, 2024 at 8:42 am
Veganism is the answer
@trickslies844
October 29, 2024 at 11:11 am
Its not. Or at least not in its current state but I look forward to the day it does get there. Problem is that a lot of it still tastes like crap or is the same processed junk like chicken nuggets with often worse nutritional value
@krninja22
October 29, 2024 at 11:30 am
To malnourishment.
@oluwaliblue8684
October 29, 2024 at 11:52 am
@@trickslies844 all false
@MrGav777
October 29, 2024 at 8:50 am
It’s not a mystery, the future is plant based foods. We could feed the world by stopping filtering our calories through the cruel and inefficient system of animal agriculture
@Comenta-san
October 29, 2024 at 9:18 am
yeah, strange that he didn’t mention cutting meat consumption, but you know he was thinking about it
@calmnsense
October 29, 2024 at 10:09 am
And it has awful effects on the environment and health.
@calmnsense
October 29, 2024 at 10:10 am
@@Comenta-san It can set off a firestorm of contentious debate and make people angry. I have seen it happen.
@Comenta-san
October 29, 2024 at 10:11 am
@@calmnsense true
@krninja22
October 29, 2024 at 11:30 am
That’s nice, I’m going to go enjoy a steak now.
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October 29, 2024 at 9:44 am
🐒
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@fredschoemaker7042
October 29, 2024 at 4:32 pm
Pretty bad Science
THE CLIMATE-CHANGER GOD-ROCK KNOWS WHEN WHERE AND WHY THE CLIMATE CHANGED
AND WHEN YOU ACKNOWLEDGE IT ALL QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED
THE EARTH HAS TWO MAJOR SEISMIC SHIFTS AND TWO MAJOR 50 YEAR CYCLES
1-CYCLE HAS THE EARTH CLOSED UP THE TECTONIC PLATES
1985 TO 2011 FOR A 25 YEAR PEROID EVERY 50 YEARS
2-CYCLE HAS THE EARTH OPENS UP AND CLOSES UP IN A 25 YEAR PEROID EVERY 50 YEARS
THE CLIMATE-CHANGER GOD-ROCK KNOWS THAT SURPRISED YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT?????????
@krystleyoung5328
October 29, 2024 at 5:21 pm
Plant based diets are the future. Even just reducing beef intake will reduce human impact on the climats. Beef production is the number reason for deforestation. One pound of beef needs almost 2,000 gallons of water.
@BobQuigley
October 29, 2024 at 10:22 pm
Every 6 days another 1 million net new precious humans join us. This creates an average lifespan 30,000 day demand for food energy etc for each person.
@FranzDörig
October 30, 2024 at 3:33 am
when i see howe the indian people in Mexio handle the climate change i think the mankind has nothing to do wihe the small small changes to day. there thinking will survey an other millions of years.
@fouziaqazi9400
October 30, 2024 at 4:55 am
Thought provoking. It’s the responsibility of all!
@michaelmardy5016
October 30, 2024 at 6:49 am
Permaculture
@Vscustomprinting
October 30, 2024 at 11:06 pm
The history if permaculture is just white washing of sustainable practices already known, while trying to include animal slaves. Its bullshit.
@RobertGrant-j8z
October 30, 2024 at 6:09 pm
Why are we insisting in staying in an Ice Age?
Any Smart People around? Why? Ice Age?
Our Current Ice Age, Why?
@Milchkaffee3000
October 30, 2024 at 11:13 pm
A plant-based diet is essential if we want to somehow save this planet.
Currently, 80% of the world’s agricultural land is used exclusively for the production of animal feed. It is important to know that animal foods cover just 17% of the global calorie requirement and only 38% of the protein requirement. The approx. 20% of global agricultural land that remains for plant-based foods therefore already covers 83% of global calorie requirements and 62% of protein requirements.
Source: United Nations: UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Article: Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture (ourworldindata)
Industrial livestock farming alone is largely responsible for climate change (approx. 25%). We are clearing forests, above all the rainforest in South America, to create agricultural land, destroying huge CO₂ reservoirs, destroying the habitats of a wide variety of wild animals and thus destroying entire species. The result is a collapse of the ecosystem.
If the world were to adopt a plant-based diet, we could return around 75% of arable land (an area the size of Africa) to nature and create large reservoirs for CO₂ sequestration and bring back biodiversity through reforestation. This could reduce emissions on a large scale, by 30-50%. And that is urgently needed to stop climate change.
We could therefore save a large part of this land and would only need a small amount of this land to feed the rest of the world with plant-based food instead of feeding these plants to animals in 16-fold quantities to then eat them (1 kg of beef requires 16 kg of grain). Meat is an extremely inefficient food system.
The IPCC report SPM7 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows how we can save the most emissions and the agricultural sector is simply the most efficient.
Eating a plant-based diet means protecting the climate and the environment. We should all care about the future of our planet. And we can still manage to turn the tide. It’s never hopeless.
Go vegan 🌱 For the animals, for humanity, for our planet 💚
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
November 1, 2024 at 11:52 am
3 calories of fossil fuel are burnt to generate 1 calorie of food and seven more are burned to bring it to table. millions of hectares are cleared for single crop factory farms, the largest portion grows animal fodder, which not only require 10x calories per calorie meat but also consume enormous volumes of water. Single crop large farms are the least productive per unit land, while multi-crop small farms require little to no external inputs and produce far more food per unit land; the very variety is its productivity.
@anatolyrozhkov3009
November 3, 2024 at 9:42 am
Long story short, 150 heads of states paid lip service that we need to fix our food supply system.
I expected this vid to tackle some particular problem with a concrete framework of actions to solve it and instead, I’ve got 8 minutes of explanation how the UN arranged a gazillion meetings to discuss how world hunger is bad and should be solved somehow, by protecting nature or something.
@memento.moriah
November 3, 2024 at 5:06 pm
Wow, so many words used to say absolutely nothing. Typical.
@jayh8457
November 4, 2024 at 3:49 am
Feed me MEAT