GE CLST M1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Masanobu Fukuoka, Dickson Despommier, David Holmgren
6 Mar 2017
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Kindred spirits care farm karen snook 02/06/2017. Current (or increasing) levels of meat consumption are a given. People are waking up to the idea that meat consumption isn"t healthy for animals, people or the planet. Not always the solution to every problem. We can"t sol(cid:290)e problems by using the same kind of thinking (cid:291)e used when we created them (einstein) What if we cooperated with nature rather than trying to dominate nature with technology. What is diversity was valued on a farm? (rather than monocultures) ~ (cid:554)(cid:552)(cid:553)(cid:555) un conference on trade and de(cid:290)"t ~ We need to reevaluate our over consumption of meat. (cid:617)the (cid:291)orld needs a paradigm shift in agricultural de(cid:290)"t. This implies a rapid and significant shift from conventional, monoculture based and high external input dependent industrial production towards mosaics of sustainable, regenerative production systems that also considerably improve the producti(cid:290)ity of small scale farmers. (cid:618)
