What does a warming planet mean for the foods you love? Hosting a dinner party that features a menu of foods that could disappear within our lifetimes, culinary entrepreneur Sam Kass invites us to chew on the reality of climate change by exploring the things — like chocolate and coffee — it puts at risk.(Recorded at TED Countdown Dilemma Series: Food on June 5th, 2024)
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@Christine-dz6wh
November 20, 2024 at 7:09 am
Good thing we have the rest of the world to try to combat global warming, it’s sure not going to be the USA.
We send the message to our children that it’s not real because that’s what the elders and leaders of our country teach them.
@citrusbitrus
November 20, 2024 at 7:16 am
And because mostly it is other countries that will feel the brunt first.
@7PlayingWithFire7
November 20, 2024 at 7:18 am
You don’t. It isn’t a thing that someone can do for others. Only collectively common together and stopping these practices will work. If the U.S and China aren’t with us, then it’s futile.
@HyperHorse
November 20, 2024 at 7:47 am
You cannot be serious.
@theinfinityspiral
November 20, 2024 at 9:37 am
@@HyperHorseTrump doesn’t believe in climate change.
@remyllebeau77
November 20, 2024 at 12:42 pm
No you don’t have the rest of the world. Developing countries don’t have the luxury of worrying about the climate and pollution, so naturally they are the biggest causes of pollution and litter in the ocean. Even if the USA stopped everything it was doing, it would barely make a dent in the overall problem.
@sooma-ai
November 20, 2024 at 7:10 am
Sam Kass presents a menu of foods at risk due to climate change, including fruits, grains, salmon, chocolate, and coffee. He emphasizes the urgent need for action to protect our food system and discusses potential solutions in agriculture and technology.
@georgedennis9319
November 20, 2024 at 7:47 am
Thanks.
@DynomiteKid65
November 20, 2024 at 7:47 am
i feed my obese pet mouse 50 kfc chicken wings everyday
@ShariJester
November 20, 2024 at 8:13 am
So the discussion is saying that climate change is declining the yield in crops. What studies are there and data to back up the timeframe of the climate change. For instance if we increase by 2° what is that increase of 2° over? What period of time? How sustainable is that 2° and when does that change?
@user-wp8yx
November 20, 2024 at 8:17 am
Proof that ai can do it better.
@sataneisen
November 20, 2024 at 8:54 am
Good robot ❤
@oldman5517
November 20, 2024 at 7:23 am
Mention the nuclear power plants 10’ diameter tubes of excessive hot water aimed at the North Pole. Meanwhile they focused on cow farts as a cause of global warming. Where are the collage students protests today? How much brain washing does it take to cause us to believe cow farts in the stead of superheated water is causing global warming? If you don’t mention this at this or next video, then you too are part of the problem.
@PrebenHPedersen
November 20, 2024 at 7:25 am
Well i live i Europa, and we a trying to be the forefront, on trying to reduce emissions. But its futile, because as long as india, Africa, south america and China on board , the world can do nothing to change the climate in the world for better.
@kostasmira2933
November 20, 2024 at 7:47 am
Yes we are nothing in comparison with those ones.
@TerrorTerros
November 20, 2024 at 7:53 am
Easy to say. Europe and by extension the global-north has had a 100+ year head-start on carbon emissions, take your responsibility, no more excuses. Your rethoric is neo-imperialist.
@remyllebeau77
November 20, 2024 at 12:43 pm
@@TerrorTerros No. We aren’t falling for the eugenicist agenda of depopulation.
@BruceReyes-nh9cu
November 20, 2024 at 7:36 am
Ventura county can hear you, thank you ted talks
@meganthearchitectbrown1111
November 20, 2024 at 7:43 am
I don’t think that these foods will be what we worry about.
@theflyingfool
November 20, 2024 at 10:24 am
I agree, it will be the starvation and strife caused by their absence…
@remyllebeau77
November 20, 2024 at 12:37 pm
You will eat bugs while the rich globalists that told you to be scared of the climate will keep eating these kinds of foods.
@zing111
November 20, 2024 at 7:43 am
It’s great to know that we have the solutions at hand, and hopefully, we can implement them just in time.
@cracked229
November 20, 2024 at 7:54 am
Food represents 0.00000001% of the problem, get real.
@fran6b
November 20, 2024 at 8:08 am
???
@katmar7870
November 20, 2024 at 8:43 am
What is your contribution?
@KyleRuggles
November 20, 2024 at 9:03 am
???????
@QueenofDeschutes
November 20, 2024 at 10:33 am
Right. It’s only one of the 3 requirements for life.
@strati5phere
November 20, 2024 at 7:57 am
he is like, here get anxious and invest in me ill save us
@johnbeckwith8313
November 20, 2024 at 8:00 am
Last time during the Middle Ages when the Europe warmed grapes that previously could only be grown in France now could be grown in Great Britain because of the warmer climate. Both man and agriculture are adaptable to change.
@johnbeckwith8313
November 20, 2024 at 8:07 am
Climate Change is more about Fear and Money than it is about a Warmer more Productive Greener World. 🌎 ❤
@katmar7870
November 20, 2024 at 8:16 am
In German is a term for comments like these „gefährliches Halbwissen“ xD
@Iwqrxtwuvk23547
November 20, 2024 at 8:37 am
Till your in the arctic with no land to grow them on
@nicholasgeorge4156
November 20, 2024 at 8:22 am
I wouldn’t mind no more salmon. It’s okay I guess. I’ll eat it but I can also do without it. Especially smoked. It smells and tastes funny. And as in getting older I realize chocolate is okay too I guess. But I can also do without that.
@Jme2692
November 20, 2024 at 8:42 am
bears would have a different opinion
@skydivekrazy76
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 am
I’m disgusted by the dishonesty. Look up the real reasons for the price of chocolate. Pestilence and tariffs….
@Jme2692
November 20, 2024 at 8:44 am
I just looked up the production of coffee and its increasing by each year.
@RISCGames
November 20, 2024 at 8:47 am
We have the technology and means to overcome all this.
@theflyingfool
November 20, 2024 at 10:20 am
…but not the leaders or will
@samplastik13
November 20, 2024 at 11:22 am
You mean rich countries will be just fine as long as poor ones won’t bother us 🤔
@remyllebeau77
November 20, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Don’t worry, the most incompetent and wasteful governments are here to save us.
@Betweoxwitegan
November 20, 2024 at 7:15 pm
@@samplastik13Not necessarily, a lot of “developing” countries in Africa for example derive most of their energy from hydro which is renewable although not as “green” as solar for example. It also creates geopoliticial tensions however as we can see between Egypt & Ethiopia.
Renewable energy is also getting cheaper than fossil fuels, even in unsubsidized regions and low tax jurisdictions as we see in countries like Algeria for example where fuel is dirt cheap.
The west definelty disproportionately benefits from their disproportionate wealth in every regard but it’s not hopeless and we need global innotives to develop the globe equally, obviously not everyone wants this though due to their vested interest.
@wearesebastian
November 20, 2024 at 9:10 am
200 years ago the global population was 1 billion people. If you had told them that the population would explode to 8 billion in such a short time, they would be horrified and predict a world of poverty and destitution. Whereas in fact humans have not lived in such a prosperous time as now. In 200 years, regardless of the climate and population, humans will be flourishing.
@stopgont7360
November 20, 2024 at 10:15 am
200 years ago we couldn’t predict this stuff, now we have the modelos to do so. It’s not a prediction anymore, everything scientists have been warning about regarding climate change it’s already happening, the dude on the ted even mentioned the example of the food that’s already getting lost.
@theflyingfool
November 20, 2024 at 10:22 am
I really wish we could both still be around to see if your vain hope came true
@BurgerofMan
November 20, 2024 at 10:59 am
Don’t worry we’ll have bugs to eat…
Thanks WEF!
@angryhairpeice
November 20, 2024 at 11:55 am
Most people don’t even understand where coffee comes from. They think it grows like beans, but it is the pits of cherries.
@emergingloki
November 20, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Unfortunately you are one of those who doesn’t understand. They aren’t pits (there is no hard shell such as with cherries, plums, peaches etc) they are seeds, and while the fruit of a coffee bush is called a cherry, it isn’t. It has a completely different structure, and comes from a plant that is only very distantly related to the true cherries (genus Prunus), needing to go all the way back to the Pentapetalae before you find a common root.
@michaelbateson8636
November 20, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Lol lies.
@felixccaa
November 20, 2024 at 8:28 pm
do more permaculture and stop wasting other ppl’s lifetime with Your wining
the time You are using for TED talks You could do something towards more sustainability and self-reliance
calculate how much electricity is used up by the servers AND devices we all sit in front and watch this non- sensical waste of time
now start all over again