How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters bring it up in climate and food threads as a hopeful, if contested, idea about grazing and soil carbon.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TED

Topic

holistic grazing and desertification

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• > This view ran counter to a lot of conservationist thought, as well as a great deal of evidence. Grazing has been blamed for turning vast swaths of the world into deserts. But from Creque’s perspective, how you graze makes all the difference. This is …

• I would eat dog if it wasn't raised as someone's pet. Actually I just got back from Vietnam, and I'm pretty sure I ate both dog and cat at some point. Didn't bother me because they didn't raise them as pets. They raised them with …

• Reminds me about this TED talk [VIDEO] where Allan Savory speaks about the behavior of herbivores with/without predators and the impact on flora. Fascinating, really. I hope the day will come when we understand the biosphere of this wonderful planet we live on.