Some of the major problems that were dealing with and then a lot of people see live stock as part of the solution to Climate Change. That is a really healthy discussion. Wed like to invite you all to have it with us over lunch. Were not going to get into the debate too much during this panel. Were not going to have a panel. So can we transform our food system . Can we solve for this food water, and Climate Nexus with these intersecting issues . I believe we can but we have to talk about something that makes us all very uncomfortable. That is meat. So were in a consumption crisis right . I dont want to villainize the animals themselves and say theyre inherently evil as many maybe who advocate for plant based diets might share that perspective. They certainly play an integrated role in lots of farming systems that have been really critical to development of our agriculture over time. But we are in a consumption crisis at this point where live stock are a core driver of Climate Change, de
Ith this first picture is of t ai po harbor in hong kong when i was a child in the 1960s. And these are fisher people mostly haka. And they live on the boats. They ate on the boats. They fished from the boats and the children took care of each other and of course they through everything that was excessive into the ocean. So they are very low impact as far as into the environment. I was in that area for several years living in the area, so i really got a direct perspective on how people lived in a different way. Also in the same area were a lot of fabric and garment factories. At the end of the processing of whatever it was there processing, the water with the dye stuff, all the water what we were doing, stone washing or garment washing all that went directly into the river and into the ocean. So its not a perfect system. But it gave me an understanding of what happens. Now several years later, maybe 15 years later in the 1980s, hong kong became much more affluent and those areas this i
Increasing the soils viability and helping with the you get he more plants the bigger and the more roots backhe more carbon you put in the soil. Out did a wonderful project in california. Of land great plots and returned dry grasslands back to viable land and they in turn that by putting one year f commercial dairy maneuver spreading it out over the field, increased by 40 their carbon return to the soil. You find the Big Industrial d you hink that the waste is a huge problem. If its all confined its waste. Spread out if becomes a fertilizer and a good one that kills crobes. Mike so well continue this discussion with you if you like us later at lunch and also with the panelist from this to join us ld like and discuss this transformation agricultural and wed love to there. Up next the final discussion the american arenewable summit. They discuss corporate polluteers and other issues. Is a little over an hour half. Can yall hear me . Hanging in lks for there. All morning with the exceptio