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Our food systems have not been designed to adapt to major disruptions like climate change, says environmental journalist Amanda Little. In this eye-opening talk, she shows how the climate crisis could devastate our food supply — and introduces us to the farmers, entrepreneurs and engineers who are radically rethinking what we grow and how we eat, combining traditional agriculture with state-of-the-art technology to create a robust, resilient and sustainable food future.
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Mutant Buzzard
November 17, 2020 at 4:20 pm
u heard it here folks, liberals wan u to eat bugs
psimon
November 17, 2020 at 5:10 pm
One guess; you’re american.
Mutant Buzzard
November 17, 2020 at 5:35 pm
@psimon That’s American 2 u, 1 guess u r liberal that hate freedom
Mutant Buzzard
November 17, 2020 at 4:22 pm
every plot of ground u put under solar is just that much less u have 2 grow food for the bugs liberals want u 2 eat
Mutant Buzzard
November 17, 2020 at 4:24 pm
yeah, lets let the robots take over, all hail our robot overlords
Mutant Buzzard
November 17, 2020 at 4:31 pm
mmm gmos, free to a good home used robot eats anything and everything, loves pets, kids
all I love
November 17, 2020 at 4:48 pm
Even clothes production industry use so much water and spread pollution
psimon
November 17, 2020 at 5:04 pm
Capitalism btw
Divyansh Srivastava
November 17, 2020 at 5:16 pm
developing countries like mine is looking up on countries like America for ways of tackling climate change but America recently withdrew itself from paris accord! wut !?
Soletestament
November 17, 2020 at 5:22 pm
I’m not hearing what needs to be said here. All I’m hearing are buzzwords. The reason food rots on the field isn’t because there’s no infrastructure. Its because nobody bought them. A trucker isn’t going to buy potatoes off a farmer to then give them away to a food bank. Nor is a farmer going to donate his crop when doing so could cost them their farm. Talking new tech ignores the fact that in times of crisis government should be organizing purchase and transport of food, and they didn’t. They didn’t even think of it. And that’s the problem.
The only solution to food security in a post climate change world is to decentralize it. Every home should be designed with food production in mind. It won’t completely solve distribution but it provides individual households a buffer, so that distribution from larger farms can catch up. It also reduces the amount of land needed to feed everyone significantly since a sizable portion of production is moved into urban and suburban landscapes. Allowing nature and reforestation efforts to take over. At the end of the day climate change can’t be solved with capitalism or innovation. It needs to be solved by decentralization and self sufficiency.
elfboi523
November 17, 2020 at 5:39 pm
The elephant in the room is capitalism, which cannot possibly become sustainable, since it has to grow or perish.Capitalism is a cancer, a malignant tumour oft he economy. It is a heat engine driven by fossil carbon, and there is no alternative with a similar EROEI and robustness, so we have never developed any real alternatives to the Diesel engine for rural areas, for tractors, for trucks, for generators.
Without fossil fuels—and we will eventually run out if we don’t stop using them–we don’t know how to produce and distribute food on an industrial scale. We may need other types of heat engines that can run on a wide variety of fuels, not necessarily internal combustion engines but maybe also external ones, like steam turbines or Stirling engines.
The future will be rough, we will need technology which is robust and versatile, and which is as modular as possible so that it can easily be taken apart and reassembled into something different. We will need farm machines that can run on anything, and which every small village can produce on its own in a tiny factory. We will have to deal with infrastructure breakdown due to decades of neglect and corruption and climate change, of course.
Jorge Amado Soria Ramírez
November 17, 2020 at 5:48 pm
“How is it possible…”
Capitalism. That’s how.
clearmenser
November 17, 2020 at 11:31 pm
Unrestrained capitalism. Well regulated capitalism is perfectly sustainable.
Gerald Key Sr.
November 17, 2020 at 5:49 pm
Again the only reason that there is not enough food is because of greed not supply not demand. When the elites stop treating the people of this world as pawns and start treating them like family then will the spirit change. All the money in the world all the taxes can not change the climate and neither is man. It’s time to stop worrying about CONTROL and actually start making the world a better place.
A N
November 17, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Replace cows and sheep for chicken and we can replant half the amount of land being wasted on them .
Order the veggie burger or chicken and don’t eat beef if you are against land clearing .
I worked on a chicken farm that was on about 4 acres of land and that included the owners house .
30.000 birds every 8 to 10 weeks , one bird will feed four people , 120.000 meals EVERY eight weeks.
Over a year about 600.000 meals.
The same area used for cattle , you might get 4 cows if you remove his house .
One cow minimum , two /three years to grow fat enough to make 800 meals x 4 cows 3200 meals from the same property.
Jarrod S
November 17, 2020 at 6:58 pm
Only changing climate is the radical government and political tactics that only hampers the average joe, favoring the sovereign citizens and profiting corporations and the elite bankers. Its that big club. If you’re in it there’s no change in Climate. Just some bad weather, and brighter days ahead
1 0
November 17, 2020 at 7:03 pm
Climate changing faster then ppl can adapt….Game over !!!
lit lit
November 17, 2020 at 7:11 pm
The more I see of these elites, the more it looks like this is all planned.
Maurice B.
November 17, 2020 at 8:18 pm
“Plant based meat” is a very odd way to say “Plants”
Alyssa Lilly
November 17, 2020 at 8:34 pm
The beginning of the video mentioned the San Antonio Food Bank so I wanted to share some information about why that photo of all the cars is troubling, The SA Food Bank is absolutely massive. In addition to the enormous warehouse for food storage, they have a 40 acre farm on site for vegetables, fruit, and dairy where I’ve volunteered. They also provided meals to students in the after-school program I worked for at another nonprofit and created a food pantry on my college campus. Basically, if you live in or around San Antonio you’ll see how much impact this one organization has over a city of 1.5 million people PLUS the surrounding areas. So why is it troubling to see so many cars and know there’s still not enough food to go around? Well, other orgs from around the country sent their staff to SA Foodbank to learn from their procedures but if our food bank is one of the best in the country and still doesn’t have enough food to go around (especially when there are smaller orgs helping out too) then we have a real problem. We’re seeing tens of thousands of people depend on SA Foodbank alone but if they can’t even provide food to everyone then it speaks volumes about our society and the lack of government and corporate efforts to end hunger. TLDR; If we rely solely on nonprofits to fix hunger then we’re never going to have enough for every family that needs it. Government and corporations need to be held accountable for food insecurity, too.
Dashbshots
November 17, 2020 at 9:09 pm
Sounds like a conspiracy theory.
20 Percent
November 17, 2020 at 10:36 pm
Technology moves as fast as I go to the store for beer.
José Martins
November 17, 2020 at 10:54 pm
F**k, what is that she does with her eyes?
yawaragirl
November 17, 2020 at 11:03 pm
If the robot can see the weed why not mechanically remove it ? Why herbicide
Frankie 4fingers
November 18, 2020 at 12:00 am
Your Science is pointing you in strange directions
IgnoredJoel
November 18, 2020 at 12:15 am
Make skiing great again!
With love, from Switzerland
Unmutual
November 18, 2020 at 12:42 am
Or we could just scrap this whole thing and grow our own food.
Todd F Wright
November 18, 2020 at 1:03 am
I’m dying to know what you thought about the duck. Almost everyone I ever discuss cultured meat with has the same reaction, which is one of revulsion. I think it will be overcome so quickly that it will turn out to be a non-issue.
Black Knight Fool
November 18, 2020 at 2:25 am
Is this a lesbian who’s trying to exploit climate change for homosexuality and that women shouldn’t have children with men? 🤔
Derek Hudson
November 18, 2020 at 2:26 am
Make being nice to our fellow humans financially profitable and all the problems go away.
Black Knight Fool
November 18, 2020 at 2:28 am
You mean they can’t support socialism.. and feminism that’s what you really mean.
B E
November 18, 2020 at 3:10 am
NO! as a consumer I am NOT excited about it! Yeah, first push the use of GMO seeds, which requires TREMENDOUS amounts of water and kills all life in the soil and than come up with something to cover it up what has been done?! that is your idea??! You guys are just “brilliant”!
Jesse Yules Film
November 18, 2020 at 3:25 am
The food produced in each of these high tech ways will be left to rot just like the potatoes, if capitalism is not kept in check by responsible government.
Ben Silver
November 18, 2020 at 3:38 am
Climate change is a natural curing event that has happened for thousands of years. The real problem facing the Earth is pollution in different forms many of those can come through solids, liquids and gases but there is an invisible pollution that you cannot see through technology (radiation) and genetic engineering that is much more dangerous and longer lasting than any other concern.
Sara Sharp
November 18, 2020 at 3:57 am
Blaming climate change for a problem created by greed and corruption is an interesting take. Nice try. We’re not buying this nonsense.
tmc che
November 18, 2020 at 4:15 am
What you’re tasting is bravo sierra spewing from your mouth.
Geo Helios
November 18, 2020 at 5:28 am
Why do I sense that everything she is saying is misinformation?
Scott Wurth
November 18, 2020 at 5:30 am
It was only 50 years ago that scientist were talking about global cooling. Just stopped by to say hello to all the sheeple!!
Giovanni
November 18, 2020 at 5:45 am
In a few years, this is video is going pop up again, and we’re going to feel the heavy hand of hindsight.
c8
November 18, 2020 at 6:12 am
out of all the comments, could anyone tell me solutions i can work towards for the big spectrum of climate change? i feel like no matter how much research i do, talking to other ppl is more informative than research will ever be.. i know it’s a broad question, but i want to be part of the solution idk (no sarcastic responses lmao)
aprilalice84
November 18, 2020 at 1:11 pm
The biggest contribution you can give to the planet is eating a plant based diet 😊
Væringjar
November 18, 2020 at 3:44 pm
just consume smarter, it’s the best thing we can do. But we still need structural change if we’re going to solve this.
Naglak2008
November 18, 2020 at 8:04 am
to say this was a great video but it was not on par with the how to fit in much more people in less space video
.x.
November 18, 2020 at 9:00 am
Thanks for the acting I listened comprehended digested and I think I may have misfiled mostly information but, that’s Ted
Shannon G
November 18, 2020 at 11:01 am
This was clearly recorded in front of a green screen. Was the echo added in post? Why would you do that?
rommana paiva
November 18, 2020 at 1:39 pm
Creating an artificial duck was scary, I wouldn’t eat that! Why all that when you have a variety of plants to eat? Discover non conventional plants from your region, they usually grow spontenously without much care. In Brazil we call them PANCS.
Sahil 18bc07
November 18, 2020 at 1:40 pm
She is smiling during serious issue.
Best Buy
November 18, 2020 at 1:59 pm
You are Right. Thank you for this describe about important Tofic.
O L
November 18, 2020 at 2:22 pm
Globalism is the problem. Not fake climate change. If we produce and sell locally there would be much less transport and less waists. Local communities would florish again.
Alex leee
November 18, 2020 at 2:55 pm
why is climate change so important?? like we all gonna die anyway… there’s no possibility for us to “save” out planet like what if there an asteroid or an invasion? climate change is the least important problem
Væringjar
November 18, 2020 at 3:42 pm
The planet will be fine, it’s humans that are screwed if we don’t start treating our environment better.
Alex leee
November 18, 2020 at 5:45 pm
@Væringjar humans are the worst…like if you think about it animals are better lol
Lisa Love Ministries
November 18, 2020 at 3:39 pm
Seek God’s wisdom and knowledge daily.
Proverbs 9:10
Luke 10:27💞
Lance Farrar
November 18, 2020 at 5:39 pm
Artificial kelp. = Food
ursula serle
November 18, 2020 at 6:07 pm
I’ve found myself wondering if covid19 is nature’s way of reducing the overpopulation.
Væringjar
November 18, 2020 at 6:21 pm
How exactly would that work? Most people who die do so way past reproductive prime.
Mr Marvelous & the Unicorn.
November 18, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Hydro electric dams cause climate change. Consider all the mineral rich water that never reaches the sea.
Sina Ngag
November 19, 2020 at 1:23 am
we need to realize that altering things in nature will just destroy it! look at the virgin forests, untouched by humans, so much life thriving, its time we live the woods alone, stop getting stuffs from it to make large projects, and live with it in harmony
Thomas Krarup
November 19, 2020 at 1:52 am
Capitalism.
Bart Roberts
November 19, 2020 at 4:45 am
Cap relative to 2019 levels fossil emitting activities, leases and permits below 90% in 2021, 80% in 2022, 70% in 2023 steadily down to 0% by 2030.
Collapse of food systems can only be avoided if we avoid chain reaction, tipping point, runaway to Hothouse. Even then, it will be hard. We’ve already lost 25% of the forestry due to mature in the 2040s; fisheries and farms can fare no better.
Michael Gainer
November 19, 2020 at 5:52 am
How is Stuart doing Amanda?!
denunci mesmo
November 19, 2020 at 6:14 am
The world’s problem is not a lack of food, the problem is the division of food, while in some countries food is wasted by millions of tons, in other children they die of malnutrition.
as well as water, as well as oil, as well as energy, as well as employment, as well as income.
The problem in today’s world is the lack of empathy with those at the bottom of the social pyramid. Just as the richest are getting richer every day, the poor are getting hungry, thirsty, more vulnerable.
I do not defend a socialist system, but the capitalist is indefensible. and praneta terra depends on the human being finding a model that remains within the parameters established by nature.
there is no way for a capitalist model to grow infinitely as it is occurring.
Problems affect society and the planet, if we have a big problem with the environment, it is our economic model, if we have a problem with our social it is because of our economic model.
If there is no remodeling of the current capitalist models, we will not have to worry about the lack of food or the current agroeconomic model, there will be countless problems, some we can imagine as war, population displacement, floods, diseases, but there are those that we do not even think about. to happen…
Just to give you an idea, Brazil today sells practically all of their soybeans to China, and believe me if you want, to give to the pigs, for meat production.
do you know why? why china cannot afford to spend on so much water. 50.5 million tons every six months. this gives about 100,000,000,000,000 liters of water per semester that goes only to china in water used for soybeans. Now imagine when things start to go missing?
Patrick Barry
November 19, 2020 at 6:28 am
I bit into a chunk of coal, washed down with a cup of petrol. Tasted disgusting. Now I’m feeling sick.
Alka Soli SEER CREATORS
November 19, 2020 at 6:39 am
Still many humans are like ‘Why should I care?? ‘..Selfish creatures
Balraj Sagar
November 19, 2020 at 7:40 am
Your system is so corrupt that is why…in the future Canada is going to lead the way
prateek priyadarshy
November 19, 2020 at 8:56 am
there is a only solution to stop climate change. let’s go extinct.😂😂
i am serious😆😆
Feeling moovey!
November 19, 2020 at 12:52 pm
It’s because Australia’s livestock farmers have depleted the underground water table that the outback burns easily nowadays, the roots and trees are tinder dry , nothing to do with climate change
AMAN JAIN
November 19, 2020 at 1:43 pm
This is revolutionary….
Alejandro Enciso
November 19, 2020 at 1:56 pm
science has discovered that: the heating and cooling of the earth is cyclical, it follows the cyclical process of the sun, the atomic explosions on the sun, and excess solar energy will overheat the earth and when the sun enters a process of calm, the minimum radiation will create a glacial climate on earth. This behavior has been repeated for thousands of years, and will continue to repeat itself, this means that it is cyclical, it does not depend on the action of man, emission of carbon, carbon oxide, cows, etc. the action of this component is insignificant. So please stop telling lies.
Anand Gautam
November 19, 2020 at 2:57 pm
Until human controls human population…. everything is worthless.
Væringjar
November 20, 2020 at 11:33 am
well then the good news would be that birthrates have been falling for the past 50 years.
Roberto Chávez Maldonado
November 19, 2020 at 3:26 pm
It seems morelikely big bussines and media terror in order to keep control.. Greta it’s the best example of imposed tolerance, fake empathy and human stupidity!! 👀
APARNA DWIVEDI
November 19, 2020 at 4:41 pm
afterall any development we humans are seeking, we are still destroying the mother nature to grab resources for any purpose ,may it be a sustainable or green revolution .
Flying fig
November 19, 2020 at 5:35 pm
“I’m a failed vegan” hm you do realize that veganism is not a diet but rather a philosophy of not harming animals. So you failed in not harming animals needlessly.. why? for your convenience? for your taste pleasure? these things are more important than the life of a sentient being who wishes to live. Who suffers, and feels pain just like us, living a life of confinement and torture. You may want to change the wording because it’s basically like if i would say “I’m a failed wife beater or failed racists or failed sexist etc.
Loredana Agosta
November 19, 2020 at 7:47 pm
“Nuestros sistemas alimentarios no fueron diseñados para adaptarse a grandes trastornos y prevenirlos” dice, pero kilos y kilos de comida se han tirado cada año y el covid no es justamente la razón de tanta ruina.
silverhairdemon
November 19, 2020 at 8:01 pm
If people could learn how to intergrate nature into their infrastructures like more trees, green walls, roofs and grow their own foods as much as possible (like we did for many MANY generations) then there was no such thing as ”climate change” People should be more involved again into the food they eat, whenever modern technology or not .
Roberto C
November 20, 2020 at 12:08 am
Mostly greed, that’s the biggest problem, also corruption and governments that don’t care.
Айдар Алимов
November 20, 2020 at 4:33 am
I need key elements of the arguments of this video
kevin mortimer
November 20, 2020 at 8:00 am
Tastes fresh to me. The ugly unpleasant taste is that of the corruption in place forcing us to pay billions for personal offshore greed in the name of false climate change rubbish. The earth heats up and cools down by its self every 10 millenia or so. We are in that phase. Im off to by a big v8 to rev up outside extinction rebellion terrorist hq.
Sunil Kumar
November 20, 2020 at 1:05 pm
Nature’s changes are not problem but are possibilities. Only human made changes becoming problem.
Risc
November 20, 2020 at 6:22 pm
Honestly it’s sad, because there’s only so much us normal citizens can do, it’s all up to theses stupid so called “politicians” who don’t realize humanity’s fate is under their hands
Sagar Bhamare
November 21, 2020 at 10:32 am
Hydroponics though it seems promising to capitalize,commercialise and provide decentralized food supply amidst disturbed supply chain.Don’t u think it will ruin lives of poor toiling farmers in low developed countries whose livelihood depend on markets of developed world?
mr.dragon emperor
November 21, 2020 at 8:58 pm
When science began the world also changed cause science is bad nature is fat better
We humans aren’t evolving we are only degrading
Cal Cervo
November 22, 2020 at 1:56 pm
I have a combustion motor that runs 24/7/365 just for the fun of it.
Steve Moyer
November 22, 2020 at 8:33 pm
Money is a failed system.
Martin Elfast
November 22, 2020 at 11:46 pm
The worst TED talk I have ever seen, this makes me sad, please TED dont give in to lobbyists money.
Clickbait title, entitled talker (look her up), misleading portrayal of several issues, the list goes on..
codyjones109
November 25, 2020 at 5:50 pm
Gotta say man and our current situation wont make 2050! WHY? The giant MONSTER is the N POLE melting one of the Septembers. When, not if; but when and all are saying before 2030 this happens all bets are off! The Jet stream will be reduced to a small ribbon of twisting, looping vortex’s this will signal the end of all those major food crops ALL! The jet pushing the systems around keeps really cold air in North and Warm in southern and moves them along. When not it the Jet goes so goes the climate crops needs to grow. then Man dont grow no more! its adios apex creatures and fast!
Nichole
November 26, 2020 at 12:46 am
As long as we the people vote those into power that will implement these ideas, then our future will be on the right path. Otherwise, the old ways of thinking will continue to hinder future growth.