Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of f
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http://www.ted.com The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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This guy seems to be so sentimental about crops.
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eye opening
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The reality is that this cave, keep the genetic diversity of the world, or better sequester the genetic diversity of tropical countries to usufruct the economically and culturally in the future in and which the Western powers are planning the destruction of existing civilizations to start his so-called new world order.
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It's supposed to say "Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food". But I'm guessing they couldn't fit all that into the title on youtube
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The ending of this video with all the orbs, kind of tripped me out
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Protecting the future of F ??? what does that mean ?
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Cary Fowler and Dr Vandana Shiva are both heroes for saving seeds. I do hope he is working with her and her organisation Navdanya. We need their combined wisdom to ensure the future of our crops for the next 1,000 years.
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I disagree, mainly from the standpoint of duplicating work. Suppose we need a crop that can withstand high salt content in the soil; with genetic engineering, it might take several iterations (a couple growing seasons) to find a good crop, when instead we could find one in the seedbank that works with little or no modifications. That one instance is likely more than enough to pay back the cost of running this bank.
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bravo
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UFO was here.. PEACE
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Please, please... do never accept any GMO seeds in this amazing seed bank!
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What's the song at the end?
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Great talk.
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I agree. Or if not a universal child cap perhaps a license to have children. It sounds like too much power but really, I would rather the government be giving the right people with good families and economic situations the chance to have kids rather than allowing poor or fundamentalist folks to push out kids in order to gain money or voting power. The only question would be how to implement or enforce it.
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Diagnostic, the main reason the poor have so many children is lack of education, especially education for women. Education effects many things, among them awareness of contraception. Also, in situations where people are poor they often have large families in hopes that SOME children make it to adulthood to care for their parents. Until we can make sure their 1 child survives, is limiting them just? Think of this, the quake in China leveled that school that is a whole generation in a family dead.
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Ok this is kinda screwed up that place looks like something I've seen in mass effect
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I think the long term human solution to overpopulation was created the very day man evolved from whatever spark or collision that created him in the first place. Not to just simplify matters...but... ; he will eat the food until it is gone and die. Sorry to say but that is all living things. It doesn't take mental awareness to know 'Adapt or DIE"! It's even more base than mating.
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I wouldn't go as far to say an end of humanity, but maybe an end to society as we know it. Sure there may be widespread disease and hunger strikes, but it wouldn't be enough to eradicate the human race. Sadly it might take a few catastrophes across the globe for us to learn how to treat each other and the rest of the world.
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or "coolwhip"?
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A very interesting topic. I did a lil research and Monsanto is in bed with bill gates on this one. Very depressing. Still a very interesting topic.