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The 'Net of Indra';
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the metaphor of Indra's
jeweled net asks us
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to envision
a vast net that,
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at each juncture
there lies a jewel;
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each jewel reflects
all the other jewels
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in this
cosmic matrix.
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Every jewel represents
an individual life form,
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atom, cell or unit
of consciousness.
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Each jewel, in turn,
is intrinsically
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and intimately connected
to all the others.
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Thus, a change in one gem is
reflected in all the others.
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Hundreds of thousands of people
have died unnecessary deaths.
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The question is, why?
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Most of what I treat in my
office is chronic disease.
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We are living
in an environment.
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Our bodies are ill-prepared
for a lot of disease results,
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probably about half of disease
you see in the hospitals
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is due to living
in an environment
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we are not prepared for.
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But perhaps the most
startling part is that
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many of these chronic diseases
could have been prevented.
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Chronic disease
is all the ailments from
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heart disease, diabetes,
to depression,
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that are just chipping away
at our quality of life.
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Make rounds in
a modern hospital
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with me in the
medical ward sometime
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and just make a note of
each patient as you go through
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which of these patients
would actually be there
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if they had lived in
the natural environment
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compared with our
modern environment.
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These chronic diseases
seem to be moving ever
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further town
in the age bracket
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to the point where I am
seeing more-and-more children
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with diabetes and heart
disease, morbid obesity.
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Experts call it
'Diabesity.'
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Over the past decade childhood
cases of type 2 diabetes
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have increased ten-fold because
of rising rates of obesity.
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The immune systems in
modern people specifically
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in the developed rich
countries are trigger happy,
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they are doing crazy things,
attacking their own tissues
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like attacking the brain so then
you have multiple sclerosis.
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All of these are situations
where the immune system
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is doing things it
should not be doing,
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and in developing countries
it doesn't do these things.
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So something has changed in
the rich developed countries
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which is causing
our immune systems
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lose the control
mechanisms
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that normally stop them
from behaving irresponsibly.
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The medical profession is
now actually the third leading
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cause of death
in the United States.
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People didn't understand
why when we get antibiotics
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it causes many problems,
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not only that but each cell
in our body has mitochondria
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that has been
before bacteria.
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So bacteria is the fabric
of all the living systems.
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So we did so many mistake
on our gut bacteria.
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As we have less-and-less
infectious disease
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we have more-and-more
chronic disease,
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but even conditions like
multiple sclerosis
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and depression had our thought
had some microbial involvement.
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And so it may be, as we have
conquered infectious disease,
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some of the strategies
like antibiotics
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have been either eliminating
beneficial microbes
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or providing the growth
of harmful microbes
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that are contributing to these
chronic diseases in ways
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that we are just beginning
to understand.
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Most of it relates
back to our lifestyle.
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So to the foods
that we are eating,
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the highly processed foods
with lots of sugar
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and very low nutrient,
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to the fact that we experience
a huge amount of stress
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and that we are disconnected
from our communities.
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I am starting to discover
also to the fact
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that we are disconnected
from the natural world.
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We gradually killing
ourselves off.
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People have to start realizing
that we are connected,
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I mean, including the creatures
of the earth, including plants,
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the land, at some point it
will come back and bite us
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if we don't start
changing our ways.
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Actually it's starting
to bite us already.
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I love to garden
without gloves.
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My name is Dr. Daphne Miller
and I am a family doctor
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and a nutrition explorer.
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-- and, I feel like
I wear gloves enough
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in my medical
practice,
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and why should I have
to wear them in my garden
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where everything
is so wonderful
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and where there
is a kind of microbes
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that I want to be
connected to, so --
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Agroecology is the
science that provides
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the basic ecological
principles for how to study,
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design and manage agrosystems
that are both productive
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and natural
resource-conservative
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and that are
culturally-sensitive,
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socially-just and
economically viable.
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We can get
behind that, right.
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Agroecology goes beyond
a one-dimensional view
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of agroecosystems.
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At the heart of the agroecology
strategy is the idea
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that an agroecosystem
should mimic the functioning
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of local ecosystems.
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But the word 'health'
has not come up once yet.
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The key agroecological
strategy in designing
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a sustainable agricultural
is to reincorporate diversity
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into the agricultural fields
and surrounding landscapes.
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How about human health?
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No, no, no
health here, okay!
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I am pleased to introduce
our next speaker,
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Ms. Daphne Miller.
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She will be talking about
diverse farming system,
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diverse diets.
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She is a family
physician, a writer,
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and associate professor in the
Department of Family Medicine
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at the University of
California, San Francisco.
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I wanted also to add this
sentence which I like myself,
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Ms. Miller approaches
medicine with idea
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that opportunities
for health
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and healing are found not
only in the medical system
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but in such unexpected
places such as home kitchens,
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school gardens, community
organization, spiritual centers,
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farmers,
and natural trades.
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Thank you.
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We are hitting a wall,
and we know that pills
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and surgeries are not making
cadent in the rates of diabetes
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and heart disease
that we are seeing.
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The most important thing
to understand is that
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there is no one answer.
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Health is something that needs
to be engaged with everyday
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throughout the day in dozens
of little choices that we make.
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The bad news is that
it's complicated.
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On my 48th birthday
I had a really bad headache.
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Ultimately
it was determined
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that I had a disorder
called Neurosarcoidosis.
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They started treating me
with prednisone, with steroids.
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I tried to watch TV,
TV was too slow,
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so I finally had to bring in
my laptop and that was the only
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thing that was, you know,
fast enough that I could feel
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because these drugs
just had my brain go --
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A 106,000 Americans
are killed every year
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from side-effects
of prescription drugs.
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This is not drug errors,
this is not illicit drugs,
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and this is actually
just compliant to drugs
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given in hospitals.
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And the steroids were great
and that the symptoms
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that I was having went away and
within maybe two weeks of going
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on these massive
dosage of steroids,
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my appetite was back
and I gained somewhere
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in the neighborhood 30
or 40 pounds in two weeks,
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because I was eating
like a teenage boy.
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What I didn't know at that
time was that prednisone
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can lead to diabetes.
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So I began a course of
medication for diabetes.
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We tend to medicalize health,
we tend to really think of it
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within the purview of what we
can do that's either a drug
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or a surgery or some kind
of chemical intervention
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to make us feel better,
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and in fact we know
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that there is many, many
other things out there
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that have everything to do
with creating this balance.
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I mean,
I am really thankful
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that Western medicine
saved his life
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because, you know, definitely
it was going downhill fast.
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But at the same
time, you know,
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prednisone caused terrible
side-effects that is --
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it's just one of
those things that --
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It was like those
old '40s and '50s movies
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where somebody saves your
life and now they own you.
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This is where I pay you off.
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The hubris of thinking
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that we could simplify
this complex system,
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put it on a pill, we should be
surprised if that ever worked,
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if a drug company
came up with a pill
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that had the
benefits of broccoli,
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I mean, they would be
making billions of dollars
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because it's
just so clear-cut.
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So, our reductionist
approach is doing very little
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in the phase of this epidemic
of chronic disease.
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Reductionism means
taking a system
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and reducing it into
its component parts
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as if the whole was
just the sum of its part
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so we can take
any single part out,
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you know, get the same
effect as a whole.
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Such processes do not
really occur in nature.
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One of the first
ones was Descartes
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which basically said you cannot
study nature in its complexity,
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you have to study
in its parts,
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and that's when the
transdisciplinary nature
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of knowledge
was divided
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into commodities
or disciplines.
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The second
influence was Darwin.
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Darwin, although he came up
with the Theory of Evolution,
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he emphasized the
survival of the fittest,
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which means competition,
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the cones that are successful
competitors make it,
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when it turns out
that in nature
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there is much more
complementarity
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and collaboration and
covariation than competition.
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The traditional
linear model,
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the pharmaceutical
company model is,
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let's identify
one probiotic,
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they would be put into this
extremely complicated system
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which is equally
complicated to our brain
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and that will
cure disease.
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In the modern system's view not
the right way of looking at it.
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We see now that we don't
live in a linear world
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that A causes B causes C.
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What in fact we live in
is a complex network.
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It's a complex system
where everything is related
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to everything else,
it's that kind of thinking,
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the science of complex systems
are adaptive complex systems
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that determine our future.
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What you need for a complex
problem is a complex solution.
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One of the things that
we have done is that
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was really important to us
was we started a garden;
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when we got the house that
was one of the first things
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that we did and started
growing our own food.
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It's kind of something
that's become more integrated
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into our lives, it tends
to drive a lot of things,
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like we look at some of the
food in the grocery store now
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and just go,
I don't want that.
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You know, I want
tomatoes from my garden.
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I started really thinking
about how I eat and what I eat
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and started
to refine that.
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I grew up outside of Buffalo
and a friend of mine
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who grew up there too she
calls it 'The Land of Meat.'
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A meal is meat with
other things around it.
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Have salad as a meal, you like
having a side dish as a meal.
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It was harder to avoid it
than it was to just take it in.
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You grow up, you
don't question it,
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when you get married
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and meat has some bad
effects on your body.
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My life then was really
very much about my work
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and eating as conveniently
as possible.
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Food is emotional and it's part
of, I don't know, who you are.
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That was the running down.
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Gotten down to
where I am about -
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around 210 or so
and that keeps me going.
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My blood sugar level has
been in the normal range now
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for actually probably
couple of years.
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Does that mean that you
don't have diabetes anymore?
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I no longer have
diabetes, so --
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So you are not taking any
medication for your diabetes.
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No, and before I was
taking daily medication
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or twice daily medication
for my diabetes.
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What we were taught
in medical school is that
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you can't reverse diabetes that
was really what we were taught,
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that it was kind of like a
runaway train, and once it was,
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you know, the breaks
were off, it just --
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it was never coming
back to the station,
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and you really have disproved
that and I just find it amazing,
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and you are not alone
but it's something
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that's very inspirational
for other people to know that
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that can happen.
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My life, especially
in the last ten years or so
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has been about trying
to establish routines
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where I could
be comfortable
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and focus on what's
really important to me.
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If the revolution
continues the way
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it's gone the
last five years
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I think we will have to
see some dramatic changes
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that dietary interventions may
have a much bigger of influence
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I think in medical care;
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both prevention
of diseases
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but also treatment
of various disorders.
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Yeah I kind of think
of it too as that's money
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that I don't have to spend
going to the hospital
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or something else later.
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It's a part of my
insurance plan.
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Hi! I am Daphne Miller.
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Oh hi! Nice to meet you!
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Thank you!
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All right! We had
an epidemic of diabetes,
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epidemic of
nutrition-related problems
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and I show up at Harvard
and there is only one M.D.
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in my nutrition program
and that was me
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and I was absolutely shocked.
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I had a couple of people lower
their cholesterol over 50 points
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in 10 days.
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If you can lower your
cholesterol 50 points
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in 10 days,
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why would you want
to take a statin drug
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that's known to cause
liver damage, muscle damage,
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memory loss and -- I mean,
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now there are lawsuits about
Lipitor causing diabetes.
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Why would you want
to take that stuff
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if you can
do it naturally?
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And by the way the side-effects
of doing it like that is, well,
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your blood sugar gets better,
your blood pressure gets better
289
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and you might lose
weight if you are --
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well, you will lose weight
if you are overweight.
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Here in the United States,
the number one killer is diet.
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So what we eat
determines our lifespan,
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our health span in terms of
both disability and mortality.
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I went from -- close to 300
pounds with a 42-inch waist
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down to about a 190
with a 34-inch waist.
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Blood pressure was probably
one of the biggest things
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that changed.
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I was diagnosed
pre-diabetic
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because both my blood
pressure numbers
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were completely
off the charts
301
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and that almost
changed immediately.
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It also changed my pallet.
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A lot of the food that's
actually available right now
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in our supermarkets or in our
restaurants didn't taste good,
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I had to go out and find
or grow the type of food
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that my body
wanted to eat.
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In less than - I would
even say 9 months,
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completely changed
how I look, how I felt.
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Now people who have
seen my whole life,
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it didn't recognize me, and I
was often accused of being on
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drugs because the amount of
weight that I dropped down
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and my body just
completely changed.
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The native people
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have just about the worst
health in the nation.
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If you look at
mortality statistics,
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we were unfortunately double
the rate of heart disease,
317
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double the rate of cancer,
double the rate of stroke,
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this is in terms of mortality
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for pure Hawaiians five times
the rate for diabetes.
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So I actually went back
to the Bishop Museum
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and started collecting
photographs of Hawaiians
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in the old days
323
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including drawings from Captain
Cook's artists back in 1778
324
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and you saw slim
Hawaiians,
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number one,
there was no sugar
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and they didn't have
it back in 1778,
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I mean that was
a western invention,
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their main staples taro and
poi which is made from taro,
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sweet potatoes, and yams,
little bit of breadfruit.
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The change in the
diet, lifestyle,
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eating processed food and
so much meat and so much fat
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has contributed to the
obesity epidemic here,
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and of course, all the diseases
that come along with it.
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I remember when I was a kid,
you could count the number
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of fast food places on one
hand on the whole island.
336
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Now, there's fast-food
places on every corner.
337
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We are faced with a society
that's already been brainwashed
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to eat meat three times a day,
dairy three times a day,
339
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taught that bean/meat
and chicken is health food,
340
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which it is not.
341
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We need
to educate people;
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the healthiest way
is nature's way.
343
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After all for
thousands of years,
344
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we have been eating whole grains
and vegetables and beans
345
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and animals were not fattened
up like they are today
346
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or chemicalize;
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basically, we are gradually
poisoning ourselves.
348
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All you have to do is look
at the obesity maps in the US,
349
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it's getting worse
and worse and worse.
350
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We are just totally
been screwed over.
351
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You've got this
junk-food industry
352
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that's spending
billions of dollars
353
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to get the young kids
to eat their shit.
354
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By the time these poor
kids are 13, 14 years old
355
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they got all kinds
of diseases, they got asthma,
356
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they got attention deficit,
they got so much going on,
357
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that is just
out of control,
358
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and it's really,
really, really sad.
359
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These remarkable studies in
which the progression of cancer
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was reversed with the
whole food, plant-based diet;
361
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progression of heart
disease, hypertension,
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type 2 diabetes reversed
and cases even cured.
363
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It's the complexity in the diet,
how those foods come together
364
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and how those foods
interact with the soil
365
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that really offers
us the real medicine.
366
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Is there anybody who is in
the health field in this room?
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Anybody working
in health at all?
368
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:43,608
Wow!
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Okay, I really am alone!
370
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How many farmers
do we have here today?
371
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Oh, a couple of
farmers, wonderful!
372
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Well, to the
farmers in the room,
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I look at you and me
as one in the same,
374
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we are doing the
exact same work,
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we're here to keep
people healthy
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and heal our communities, and
hopefully by the end of my talk,
377
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you will all agree with
me that that is the case.
378
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I've got the kitchen
waste compost in here,
379
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and down inside
there we have worms,
380
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so the worms are eating up
the kitchen compost
381
00:21:23,381 --> 00:21:25,650
and we are getting
a little bit of rain now,
382
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so it's a drop
time to water it
383
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and everyday we collect --
we collected this one already
384
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but we get this
incredible worm juice
385
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and we use it for
watering our nursery
386
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and other plants
that are in need of help.
387
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As far as obtaining
anything in the store,
388
00:21:41,933 --> 00:21:46,437
nothing comes close
to how wonderful this works
389
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at putting nutrients
into your plants.
390
00:21:48,873 --> 00:21:50,108
Look at these coconuts,
man, they are only --
391
00:21:50,108 --> 00:21:53,745
they are only four years old
and I am eating coconuts also.
392
00:21:53,745 --> 00:21:56,381
Yeah, this is
quite the site.
393
00:21:56,381 --> 00:21:57,982
It's to have a coconut tree
where you got to get down
394
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on your knees to harvest.
395
00:21:59,517 --> 00:22:02,453
Right there, there
were 16 coconut.
396
00:22:02,453 --> 00:22:04,722
Nice view. So we get to watch
the whales every winter.
397
00:22:04,722 --> 00:22:05,923
Wow!
398
00:22:05,923 --> 00:22:07,658
The whales park out
here, so all went along,
399
00:22:07,658 --> 00:22:09,527
we get to watch the
whales breaching on here.
400
00:22:09,527 --> 00:22:10,895
It's really beautiful.
401
00:22:10,895 --> 00:22:11,963
They call me Ginger John,
402
00:22:11,963 --> 00:22:15,133
that's what everybody
knows me by on the island.
403
00:22:25,109 --> 00:22:29,147
Not only are they producing
the food that keeps us healthy
404
00:22:29,147 --> 00:22:32,583
but they are protecting
the land and the soil
405
00:22:32,583 --> 00:22:36,687
which is absolutely critical
to our own health.
406
00:22:40,458 --> 00:22:41,459
Daphne?
407
00:22:41,459 --> 00:22:42,960
Yeah. All right.
408
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,562
Good to meet
you too! Aloha!
409
00:22:44,562 --> 00:22:45,830
This is your
property, uh-huh?
410
00:22:45,830 --> 00:22:47,465
It's all of ours.
411
00:22:47,465 --> 00:22:49,133
That's yours too.
412
00:22:49,133 --> 00:22:50,134
Okay.
413
00:22:50,134 --> 00:22:51,702
You're standing here,
life brought you here.
414
00:22:51,702 --> 00:22:52,904
Enjoy!
415
00:22:52,904 --> 00:22:54,705
You look fantastic,
so obviously it's --
416
00:22:54,705 --> 00:22:57,040
68 years old and I work
circles around as 20 year old.
417
00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,644
I was the vanguard
of the Hippie Movement
418
00:22:59,644 --> 00:23:02,079
and somehow I got the
message to come to Hawaii
419
00:23:02,079 --> 00:23:06,083
so I got here in 1967
ended up living on this beach,
420
00:23:06,083 --> 00:23:10,154
the Canoe Beach on Maui
for two years with no clothes
421
00:23:10,154 --> 00:23:14,625
and no money,
no blanket, nothing.
422
00:23:14,625 --> 00:23:18,696
Getting disconnected
so to speak, connected.
423
00:23:18,696 --> 00:23:20,698
I was laying on the beach
and thinking, you know,
424
00:23:20,698 --> 00:23:22,166
you are going to die,
you better go in the town
425
00:23:22,166 --> 00:23:24,035
so that you can do
something about it.
426
00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:25,870
I was sitting and
about ready to fall over
427
00:23:25,870 --> 00:23:27,905
and this old Hawaiian
lady came up to me
428
00:23:27,905 --> 00:23:30,875
and saw that I was really
ill and just embraced me,
429
00:23:30,875 --> 00:23:31,876
and asthma was drying
430
00:23:31,876 --> 00:23:33,845
and I told her I was
bleeding from my lungs,
431
00:23:33,845 --> 00:23:36,047
I couldn't eat,
I couldn't sleep,
432
00:23:36,047 --> 00:23:38,483
and she said, well, when the
Hawaiians had lung diseases,
433
00:23:38,483 --> 00:23:40,751
they ate noni and she
took me to a noni tree
434
00:23:40,751 --> 00:23:43,254
because noni used
to grow everywhere,
435
00:23:43,254 --> 00:23:46,257
and I started eating nonis
and I haven't stopped.
436
00:23:46,257 --> 00:23:48,226
I have been eating
nonis for 50 years.
437
00:23:48,226 --> 00:23:50,862
Now I am a grand-eater of noni,
I eat it every morning.
438
00:23:50,862 --> 00:23:51,963
That's amazing!
439
00:23:51,963 --> 00:23:54,799
So you were - you were
near death, it sounds like.
440
00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:57,168
I have been near death
many, many times,
441
00:23:57,168 --> 00:23:59,170
I have had just about every
disease you can think of
442
00:23:59,170 --> 00:24:01,539
and I just lay down on the
ground and go through it.
443
00:24:01,539 --> 00:24:02,840
I don't go to doctors.
444
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,509
I am sure John told
you all about taro
445
00:24:04,509 --> 00:24:05,610
and how beautiful it is,
446
00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:07,879
this is the only hypoallergenic
food in the world,
447
00:24:07,879 --> 00:24:10,147
you can give this
to a baby, a day old.
448
00:24:10,147 --> 00:24:11,949
If they have a milk allergy
to their own mother's milk,
449
00:24:11,949 --> 00:24:14,118
give it to a baby and
it will sustain that.
450
00:24:16,254 --> 00:24:17,389
That's the stuff.
451
00:24:17,389 --> 00:24:19,924
My name is Connor Garrett,
I am from Naples, Florida.
452
00:24:19,924 --> 00:24:21,993
I am living here on
Ginger John's farm.
453
00:24:21,993 --> 00:24:24,962
I initially came here with
the intention to do so
454
00:24:24,962 --> 00:24:27,198
and then move on, go back
to what I was doing,
455
00:24:27,198 --> 00:24:31,135
but now I've become quite
involved in this lifestyle
456
00:24:31,135 --> 00:24:33,971
and I don't really plan
I am going back anytime soon.
457
00:24:33,971 --> 00:24:36,541
John is somebody who will
definitely blow your mind
458
00:24:36,541 --> 00:24:37,009
in a lot of ways.
459
00:24:38,009 --> 00:24:42,079
The tool is called the
hodad, my favorite tool.
460
00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:45,216
No, he doesn't tend to farming,
it's not like gardening,
461
00:24:45,216 --> 00:24:47,818
it's not anything in
a hoop house
462
00:24:47,818 --> 00:24:48,819
where you're spraying
chemicals
463
00:24:48,819 --> 00:24:50,021
and you get to prance
around in the flowers,
464
00:24:51,021 --> 00:24:52,023
you got to rip things
out of the ground,
465
00:24:53,023 --> 00:24:55,126
beat the dirt off of them.
466
00:25:13,711 --> 00:25:15,746
Here we go!
467
00:25:15,746 --> 00:25:17,315
Good to see you!
468
00:25:52,083 --> 00:25:54,852
I am, I am glad
you could make it,
469
00:25:54,852 --> 00:25:56,754
I am glad
you could make it.
470
00:25:56,754 --> 00:25:58,990
This is all yours,
this amazing estate here?.
471
00:25:58,990 --> 00:25:59,991
Sort of!
472
00:25:59,991 --> 00:26:01,159
Sort of!
473
00:26:01,159 --> 00:26:03,728
The bank owns some of it,
and my children owns some of it,
474
00:26:03,728 --> 00:26:04,862
but this is
a family farm.
475
00:26:04,862 --> 00:26:06,197
Can we have
a tour first?
476
00:26:06,197 --> 00:26:08,199
You mean, the main
thing you want to do.
477
00:26:08,199 --> 00:26:10,201
Yeah, let's have a tour
and then sit down --
478
00:26:10,201 --> 00:26:14,238
I pity the man
that says no to you.
479
00:26:14,238 --> 00:26:16,974
How many acres
do you have?
480
00:26:16,974 --> 00:26:19,076
We've got about
100 acres of soybeans.
481
00:26:19,076 --> 00:26:22,346
We just finished
this field Monday,
482
00:26:22,346 --> 00:26:25,149
now this is the one we planted
after wheat that we dried --
483
00:26:25,149 --> 00:26:26,684
Right!
484
00:26:26,684 --> 00:26:28,352
And this was the one
we just planted and the one
485
00:26:28,352 --> 00:26:31,789
that we are just finished
working on right now is,
486
00:26:31,789 --> 00:26:35,860
we call early beans
that we planted in May.
487
00:26:35,860 --> 00:26:38,061
Do you buy seeds from
Monsanto by the way?
488
00:26:38,061 --> 00:26:40,164
Monsanto Technology Card.
489
00:26:40,164 --> 00:26:42,900
My goodness!
490
00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:45,069
So the genetic modification
allowed us to use
491
00:26:45,069 --> 00:26:49,273
some simple applications of
a herbicide Roundup primarily,
492
00:26:49,273 --> 00:26:51,275
it can kill everything
but the corn,
493
00:26:51,275 --> 00:26:53,277
it can kill everything
but the soybeans,
494
00:26:53,277 --> 00:26:55,279
our cost went down
and it's easier to farm,
495
00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:57,048
and it's easier to maintain.
496
00:26:57,048 --> 00:26:58,816
We just have like a
smallest fog of chemicals
497
00:26:58,816 --> 00:27:01,152
we were trying
to pick out what to use.
498
00:27:01,152 --> 00:27:04,055
So you have to make a cocktail
mixture of what to apply
499
00:27:04,055 --> 00:27:06,290
to kill the weeds that
were chocking the crop,
500
00:27:06,290 --> 00:27:07,558
Roundup took it all.
501
00:27:07,558 --> 00:27:12,063
You can imagine that anything
that is engineered to kill off
502
00:27:12,063 --> 00:27:14,031
bacteria in the soil is going
to do the same thing in our gut,
503
00:27:15,031 --> 00:27:18,969
and pesticides and
herbicides do exactly that.
504
00:27:18,969 --> 00:27:21,739
They work the same way
as antibiotics work.
505
00:27:21,739 --> 00:27:23,207
They kill living things.
506
00:27:23,207 --> 00:27:27,311
So we are standing at the side
of the center experiment
507
00:27:27,311 --> 00:27:32,116
which is a hundred-year research
experiment looking at
508
00:27:32,116 --> 00:27:35,086
the sustainability of
different agricultural systems.
509
00:27:35,086 --> 00:27:38,088
And so there is this contrast
between managing soil
510
00:27:38,088 --> 00:27:40,825
sort of like cookbook
style, following the menu
511
00:27:40,825 --> 00:27:43,961
and you put in this and that at
this time, then you spray this.
512
00:27:43,961 --> 00:27:46,464
So it's pretty much a --
513
00:27:46,464 --> 00:27:47,965
you know a codified approach
514
00:27:47,965 --> 00:27:49,767
that you might get
from an extension,
515
00:27:49,767 --> 00:27:52,036
as opposed
to other farmers
516
00:27:52,036 --> 00:27:54,405
who actually talk
about farming the soil
517
00:27:54,405 --> 00:27:58,041
and they talk about having
a relationship with the soil.
518
00:27:58,041 --> 00:28:00,177
They talk about doing
this much for the soil
519
00:28:00,177 --> 00:28:02,179
as they are doing
for their crops.
520
00:28:02,179 --> 00:28:04,248
They may even put more
emphasis on the soil
521
00:28:04,248 --> 00:28:06,884
because they feel like
if they take care of the soil
522
00:28:06,884 --> 00:28:08,886
then the crops are
going to do fine.
523
00:28:08,886 --> 00:28:12,289
An organic farmer
grows soil, it's light;
524
00:28:12,289 --> 00:28:15,159
a chemical farmer
grows crops.
525
00:28:15,159 --> 00:28:17,028
So how do you put
nutrients back in?
526
00:28:18,028 --> 00:28:21,165
So we will buy usually
commercial fertilizers.
527
00:28:21,165 --> 00:28:24,101
It's got earthworm
in it, hey buddy!
528
00:28:24,101 --> 00:28:26,103
You are on camera.
529
00:28:26,103 --> 00:28:27,972
That's good.
530
00:28:27,972 --> 00:28:30,274
So if my crops don't
do well it's not
531
00:28:30,274 --> 00:28:32,109
because of what I am putting in,
it's because of the soil.
532
00:28:32,109 --> 00:28:34,111
So we don't really
know where it sourced.
533
00:28:34,111 --> 00:28:35,179
Okay. Does that
ever worry you
534
00:28:35,179 --> 00:28:37,314
that you are putting
all the stuff on your field
535
00:28:37,314 --> 00:28:39,383
from some foreign place?
536
00:28:39,383 --> 00:28:40,584
No, it doesn't.
537
00:28:40,584 --> 00:28:44,789
When you are locked into a
system that seems to be working,
538
00:28:44,789 --> 00:28:46,891
it's really hard
to make the change.
539
00:28:46,891 --> 00:28:50,828
The whole agribusiness system
has separated this whole,
540
00:28:50,828 --> 00:28:53,063
and I think that's part of
what the local food movement
541
00:28:53,063 --> 00:28:56,834
along was going on, how do we
make that connectivity to it.
542
00:28:56,834 --> 00:28:59,837
And I don't know how
individually to bridge that gap,
543
00:28:59,837 --> 00:29:01,505
I don't know how to do it.
544
00:29:01,505 --> 00:29:03,040
I don't know
my consumer.
545
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,242
I have no connection
whatsoever.
546
00:29:05,242 --> 00:29:07,845
My farming style is
to grow the food crops
547
00:29:07,845 --> 00:29:09,847
that have sustained
civilization.
548
00:29:09,847 --> 00:29:12,917
When I sit down and eat, 90% of
what I eat comes from this farm.
549
00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:14,885
I really feel like
I am cheating.
550
00:29:14,885 --> 00:29:16,353
So where do you
get your food?
551
00:29:16,353 --> 00:29:17,288
I go to the
Clover Stores.
552
00:29:17,288 --> 00:29:18,289
Really?
553
00:29:18,289 --> 00:29:19,557
Yeah.
554
00:29:19,557 --> 00:29:22,193
You go and shop in a
grocery store for food?
555
00:29:22,193 --> 00:29:24,295
Sure! Every farmer does.
556
00:29:24,295 --> 00:29:29,266
I know very few who
actually consume the food
557
00:29:29,266 --> 00:29:30,434
on their own farm.
558
00:29:30,434 --> 00:29:34,438
The average food that we eat
travels about 1,500 miles.
559
00:29:34,438 --> 00:29:35,606
And a city like Rome,
560
00:29:35,606 --> 00:29:39,143
for example, has to import
5,000 tons of food per day.
561
00:29:39,143 --> 00:29:41,879
Can you imagine their fragility
of a system like that,
562
00:29:41,879 --> 00:29:43,881
the consequences
of a system like
563
00:29:43,881 --> 00:29:45,883
that it has on transportation
energy and greenhouse gases,
564
00:29:45,883 --> 00:29:51,188
I mean, things have to change
and that's local agriculture,
565
00:29:51,188 --> 00:29:53,557
and much of our local
agriculture is founded
566
00:29:53,557 --> 00:29:54,859
in traditional
agriculture.
567
00:29:54,859 --> 00:29:57,595
To feed a person
in a developed world
568
00:29:57,595 --> 00:29:59,363
with commercial
agriculture
569
00:29:59,363 --> 00:30:02,233
we need about
12 barrels of oil
570
00:30:02,233 --> 00:30:03,434
per year per person.
571
00:30:03,434 --> 00:30:07,037
If we think about the moment
in which the world produced
572
00:30:07,037 --> 00:30:12,977
its peak of oil that was about
5 barrels per person, per year.
573
00:30:12,977 --> 00:30:17,548
There is not enough oil in the
world to sustain food production
574
00:30:17,548 --> 00:30:18,850
under the conventional model.
575
00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:21,986
It works because it only works
in its model part of the world.
576
00:30:21,986 --> 00:30:26,056
Most farmers don't raise food,
we don't know much about food,
577
00:30:26,056 --> 00:30:27,124
we know about product.
578
00:30:27,124 --> 00:30:29,894
I see some sadness in
your eyes when I say that,
579
00:30:29,894 --> 00:30:32,061
but I think it's a
legitimate statement
580
00:30:32,061 --> 00:30:35,332
is that we just don't have a way
to connect with that aspect.
581
00:30:35,332 --> 00:30:38,969
Organic farming receives in a
country like the Netherlands
582
00:30:38,969 --> 00:30:44,408
about 10% of the funding
for agricultural research.
583
00:30:44,408 --> 00:30:46,944
Now the Netherlands invests
in organic farming something
584
00:30:46,944 --> 00:30:49,246
like $4 million per year,
585
00:30:49,246 --> 00:30:52,516
a company like Monsanto
invests $900 million
586
00:30:52,516 --> 00:30:54,118
per year in research,
587
00:30:54,118 --> 00:30:56,654
and most of the governments
in the world invest
588
00:30:56,654 --> 00:30:58,656
most of the money in
conventional farming.
589
00:30:58,656 --> 00:31:02,693
When I harvest a weed, I can
put it under loan with USDA,
590
00:31:02,693 --> 00:31:06,530
I can at least get three
quarters of its market value
591
00:31:06,530 --> 00:31:08,132
the day I harvest it.
592
00:31:08,132 --> 00:31:10,067
So this last sentence
of the sentence,
593
00:31:10,067 --> 00:31:11,001
we have to stay inside
of the safety net.
594
00:31:12,001 --> 00:31:13,504
What you are telling me
is that the government
595
00:31:13,504 --> 00:31:16,440
is a lot more reliable
customer for you?
596
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,644
On the basic commodities
that we raise in this country,
597
00:31:20,644 --> 00:31:23,047
the feed grains,
the wheat, the corn,
598
00:31:23,047 --> 00:31:26,183
and the government through
farm bills has provided a way
599
00:31:26,183 --> 00:31:30,621
to at least protect you
and have a marketing system.
600
00:31:30,621 --> 00:31:33,089
Although the gap
of yields between organic
601
00:31:33,089 --> 00:31:35,359
and conventional
is only 20%,
602
00:31:35,359 --> 00:31:38,329
the gap in investment
and research is 100%,
603
00:31:38,329 --> 00:31:42,066
and yet without research,
without funding organic farming
604
00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:45,436
is pushing and coming closer
to conventional farming.
605
00:31:45,436 --> 00:31:49,206
So the results, the progress
made per dollar invested
606
00:31:49,206 --> 00:31:50,674
in research is huge.
607
00:31:50,674 --> 00:31:53,143
It's a way of life,
you live like a peasant,
608
00:31:53,143 --> 00:31:55,212
you work like a slave,
609
00:31:55,212 --> 00:31:58,716
but you eat better
than any king ever ate.
610
00:31:58,716 --> 00:32:00,718
And the important
part about that is
611
00:32:00,718 --> 00:32:03,287
that is your
health insurance.
612
00:32:03,287 --> 00:32:06,123
I don't have a health insurance,
I don't have social security,
613
00:32:06,123 --> 00:32:07,658
I have this.
614
00:32:07,658 --> 00:32:10,494
Another cemetery on the farm
over there on the hillside
615
00:32:10,494 --> 00:32:13,063
and there's some Hentons
buried over there.
616
00:32:13,063 --> 00:32:15,299
This is one of the --
617
00:32:15,299 --> 00:32:19,370
well I figure that's my spot
about there at some point.
618
00:32:19,370 --> 00:32:21,638
I am curious to hear
what happens with you
619
00:32:21,638 --> 00:32:23,707
in the next couple
of years probably,
620
00:32:23,707 --> 00:32:26,143
because I do
believe maybe up --
621
00:32:26,143 --> 00:32:27,378
Hopefully you are going
to talk to my daughter
622
00:32:27,378 --> 00:32:30,280
and she is going to have a whole
new approach on this, okay.
623
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,687
This is the generational shift,
this is going to change.
624
00:32:36,687 --> 00:32:39,690
That statement about
not growing food,
625
00:32:39,690 --> 00:32:46,263
that farmers don't grow
food was unbelievable to me,
626
00:32:46,263 --> 00:32:49,066
that was amazing, I mean
I just wrote a whole book
627
00:32:49,066 --> 00:32:51,068
about farmers
being healers
628
00:32:51,068 --> 00:32:54,605
and that they had
the health of their community
629
00:32:54,605 --> 00:32:58,375
as they serve
primary concern
630
00:32:58,375 --> 00:33:02,613
and I think that
might be the case
631
00:33:02,613 --> 00:33:04,448
where a small
subset of farmers
632
00:33:04,448 --> 00:33:08,352
but from what Happy was saying
that certainly isn't the case
633
00:33:08,352 --> 00:33:10,154
for the majority
of farmers.
634
00:33:10,154 --> 00:33:16,693
I see this as the single
largest health issue
635
00:33:16,693 --> 00:33:18,729
that is facing our country.
636
00:33:18,729 --> 00:33:25,135
Can growing food
or growing products
637
00:33:25,135 --> 00:33:30,374
be something that
is net positive for us?
638
00:33:30,374 --> 00:33:32,810
Can it be healing?
639
00:33:32,810 --> 00:33:36,580
Last Sunday we told you
about a WHO report
640
00:33:36,580 --> 00:33:40,350
that listed several chemicals
as potentially cancer causing
641
00:33:40,350 --> 00:33:44,521
including glyphosate found in
the popular weed-killer Roundup.
642
00:33:44,521 --> 00:33:47,357
Now in an interview for an
upcoming French documentary,
643
00:33:47,357 --> 00:33:50,794
a Canadian scientist has been
caught in an Erin Brockovich
644
00:33:50,794 --> 00:33:53,297
like moment when he
is asked to defend
645
00:33:53,297 --> 00:33:56,700
that chemical against links
to cancer rates in Argentina.
646
00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:58,368
Take a look.
647
00:33:58,368 --> 00:34:00,370
Do not believe glyphosate,
648
00:34:00,370 --> 00:34:03,307
in Argentina it's causing
increases in cancer.
649
00:34:03,307 --> 00:34:06,243
You can drink a whole quart
of it and it won't hurt you.
650
00:34:06,243 --> 00:34:08,278
Yes, do you want to drink
some, we have some here?
651
00:34:08,278 --> 00:34:10,314
I would be happy to actually,
not really, but --
652
00:34:10,314 --> 00:34:11,315
Not really?
653
00:34:11,315 --> 00:34:12,216
I know it
wouldn't hurt me.
654
00:34:12,216 --> 00:34:14,751
If you say so,
I have some glyphosate.
655
00:34:14,751 --> 00:34:16,687
No, I am not stupid.
656
00:34:16,687 --> 00:34:18,755
Uh okay, so it's
dangerous, right?
657
00:34:18,755 --> 00:34:21,692
No, but I know people
try to commit suicide
658
00:34:21,692 --> 00:34:22,893
with it fairly regularly.
659
00:34:22,893 --> 00:34:24,761
Tell the truth,
it's dangerous.
660
00:34:24,761 --> 00:34:26,563
It's not dangerous
to humans, no, it's not.
661
00:34:26,563 --> 00:34:28,465
So, are ready to drink
one glass of glyphosate?
662
00:34:28,465 --> 00:34:30,667
No, I am not an idiot.
663
00:34:30,667 --> 00:34:33,637
Even though this may look
disgusting to most people
664
00:34:33,637 --> 00:34:38,408
because this is really
kind of dirty looking,
665
00:34:38,408 --> 00:34:40,878
I know that the microorganism
living in here
666
00:34:40,878 --> 00:34:43,881
is the most
beneficial on earth,
667
00:34:43,881 --> 00:34:48,819
and so, I am not afraid
to take a big drink of it,
668
00:34:48,819 --> 00:34:53,724
and super-probiotic,
had a little bite to it too.
669
00:34:53,724 --> 00:34:56,727
And this is essentially the
food for the microorganisms
670
00:34:56,727 --> 00:34:59,696
when I put
them out there,
671
00:34:59,696 --> 00:35:01,899
and this one
is much better.
672
00:35:01,899 --> 00:35:06,270
For two years I was trying
to grow taro in these fields
673
00:35:06,270 --> 00:35:09,773
and I have been growing
taro for about 40 years
674
00:35:09,773 --> 00:35:11,742
and I never had a problem.
675
00:35:11,742 --> 00:35:13,810
I couldn't get a crop
to really grow.
676
00:35:13,810 --> 00:35:15,812
I was getting
really discouraged,
677
00:35:15,812 --> 00:35:20,610
and then I heard about Master
Cho and Korean Natural Framing.
678
00:35:46,610 --> 00:35:49,313
It's kind of designed
for peasants like myself.
679
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:51,448
And all these
different things
680
00:35:51,448 --> 00:35:53,584
when combine in
the right proportions
681
00:35:53,584 --> 00:35:57,621
make the microorganisms thrive
and bring them back to life.
682
00:35:57,621 --> 00:35:59,590
Microorganisms
are inside of us.
683
00:35:59,590 --> 00:36:02,492
They are on our skin,
they are in our lungs.
684
00:36:02,492 --> 00:36:07,464
They are really what connect
us to the world around us.
685
00:36:07,464 --> 00:36:09,833
Nothing was growing, there
wasn't an earthworm here
686
00:36:09,833 --> 00:36:15,439
and he had almost reintroduced
that fungal network
687
00:36:15,439 --> 00:36:18,909
into his soil here and the
results have spoken themselves.
688
00:36:18,909 --> 00:36:23,480
Indigenous microorganisms
are basically probiotics
689
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,282
for agriculture.
690
00:36:25,282 --> 00:36:31,255
IMOs are made by farmers using
the materials from that land
691
00:36:31,255 --> 00:36:34,391
and then fermenting it and
putting it back into the land
692
00:36:34,391 --> 00:36:38,962
where it can help the plants and
the fungi and all the above --
693
00:36:38,962 --> 00:36:41,339
soil and everything
that's there thrive.
694
00:36:49,339 --> 00:36:52,909
Nice! If you have totally
white mole like this,
695
00:36:52,909 --> 00:36:57,314
it's an excellent IMO-1
that we cultivated.
696
00:36:57,314 --> 00:37:01,285
From this stage you would
collect all this into a jar
697
00:37:01,285 --> 00:37:05,322
and add equal amount
of sugar to the rice
698
00:37:05,322 --> 00:37:09,575
and so that way
we will move it to IMO-2.
699
00:37:25,575 --> 00:37:28,578
We planted
the red lettuces,
700
00:37:28,578 --> 00:37:30,847
I was spraying them with
the Korean Natural Farming,
701
00:37:30,847 --> 00:37:32,081
and then I guess,
702
00:37:32,081 --> 00:37:34,018
when I wasn't paying attention
I forgot the one at the end.
703
00:37:35,018 --> 00:37:38,054
Then I came back and
the other red lettuces
704
00:37:38,054 --> 00:37:41,591
are four times the size
of the other red lettuce
705
00:37:41,591 --> 00:37:43,593
and they were all
planted on the same day
706
00:37:43,593 --> 00:37:46,363
except for the front
half of the row
707
00:37:46,363 --> 00:37:49,566
received Korean
Natural Farming nutrients.
708
00:37:49,566 --> 00:37:53,870
Four inches deep that this
tester can get into the ground,
709
00:37:53,870 --> 00:37:56,540
so this is a
conventional practice.
710
00:37:56,540 --> 00:37:58,642
So this is six inches,
711
00:37:58,642 --> 00:38:01,878
I have about eight inches
deep in an organic plot.
712
00:38:01,878 --> 00:38:05,515
So I have scattered
IMO for last season
713
00:38:05,515 --> 00:38:09,522
before we planted
tomato in here.
714
00:38:12,522 --> 00:38:15,425
You can see that
I get to a deeper level
715
00:38:15,425 --> 00:38:17,861
in this soil compaction.
716
00:38:17,861 --> 00:38:20,063
Now we can see
how deep it gets.
717
00:38:20,063 --> 00:38:24,968
So this is 12 inches,
I have it about 14 inches.
718
00:38:24,968 --> 00:38:29,706
So from four inches in
the conventional practice,
719
00:38:29,706 --> 00:38:31,675
eight inches in the organic,
720
00:38:31,675 --> 00:38:34,711
now we have 14 inches
in Korean Natural Farming.
721
00:38:34,711 --> 00:38:36,847
When you have a
commercial plant,
722
00:38:36,847 --> 00:38:39,549
you have a very
small root system
723
00:38:39,549 --> 00:38:41,585
because they
are drug-dependent
724
00:38:41,585 --> 00:38:43,587
so the roots don't
have to travel.
725
00:38:43,587 --> 00:38:45,589
There is nothing for them to
go out there for, it's dead,
726
00:38:45,589 --> 00:38:48,425
it's a dead zone and they are
just living on these chemicals
727
00:38:48,425 --> 00:38:49,293
that have been fed them.
728
00:38:49,293 --> 00:38:52,829
If you're farming
with microorganisms
729
00:38:52,829 --> 00:38:54,998
you're doing
a biological farming
730
00:38:54,998 --> 00:38:58,135
and you have a good population
of microbes in the soil,
731
00:38:58,135 --> 00:39:01,538
the root systems will grow
very far out hundreds of feet.
732
00:39:01,538 --> 00:39:05,409
Korean Natural Farming, what
farmers are doing is recognizing
733
00:39:05,409 --> 00:39:10,079
that the microbes that are there
on that farm and in that soil
734
00:39:10,079 --> 00:39:13,483
are really critical
to the lifecycle of the farm
735
00:39:13,483 --> 00:39:15,485
and to the health
of the plants,
736
00:39:15,485 --> 00:39:18,054
and to the health of the
people who eat those plants.
737
00:39:18,054 --> 00:39:20,056
I have a degree
in Computer Science
738
00:39:20,056 --> 00:39:24,828
and decided
to learn how to farm.
739
00:39:24,828 --> 00:39:26,897
With all the techniques
you can pick,
740
00:39:26,897 --> 00:39:29,466
Korean Natural Farming is
like right on with the kids
741
00:39:29,466 --> 00:39:32,003
because every single
thing you use is edible,
742
00:39:33,003 --> 00:39:35,472
and so with the kids I don't
have to worry about them
743
00:39:35,472 --> 00:39:36,840
getting poison on them
744
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,543
and eating it or like getting
in dangerous situations.
745
00:39:39,543 --> 00:39:41,878
They just -- everything they
can eat if they spill it,
746
00:39:41,878 --> 00:39:43,014
it's not a problem you know,
it just goes into the ground
747
00:39:44,014 --> 00:39:44,014
and makes things better.
748
00:39:44,915 --> 00:39:48,151
Now right here you
are probably looking
749
00:39:48,151 --> 00:39:52,489
at 6 billion microorganisms
in this little chunk here.
750
00:39:52,489 --> 00:39:54,591
What Ginger
John is practicing
751
00:39:54,591 --> 00:39:56,726
is basically
complexity medicine,
752
00:39:56,726 --> 00:39:58,728
you know,
or complexity farming.
753
00:39:58,728 --> 00:40:00,530
Can you see that
white on your film?
754
00:40:00,530 --> 00:40:01,798
Yeah.
755
00:40:01,798 --> 00:40:03,733
That's the microorganisms
going to work here.
756
00:40:03,733 --> 00:40:07,604
The ones with the
microorganisms were flourishing,
757
00:40:07,604 --> 00:40:09,005
they were twice
as large, very green,
758
00:40:10,005 --> 00:40:12,609
the cups are full of roots,
so right then we knew,
759
00:40:12,609 --> 00:40:15,579
wow, what is this magic?
760
00:40:15,579 --> 00:40:17,614
In here is an IMO pile here.
761
00:40:17,614 --> 00:40:21,918
The first time that I started
applying my IMO to the land
762
00:40:21,918 --> 00:40:23,954
and I am dumping it out,
763
00:40:23,954 --> 00:40:27,224
I had this incredible
feeling of sovereignty
764
00:40:27,224 --> 00:40:29,593
that I was
free in myself
765
00:40:29,593 --> 00:40:34,698
from the need of spending
hard-earned money on anything
766
00:40:34,698 --> 00:40:37,099
that was being shipped
over across the ocean
767
00:40:37,099 --> 00:40:37,099
from the mainland.
768
00:40:37,934 --> 00:40:40,103
A plant will put
out a stress signal
769
00:40:40,103 --> 00:40:42,105
that it's lacking
some kind of nutrient.
770
00:40:42,105 --> 00:40:44,608
It can be like boron
or magnesium or calcium.
771
00:40:44,608 --> 00:40:46,010
The fungus that is attached
to the roots of the plant
772
00:40:47,010 --> 00:40:51,081
will sense that imbalance,
it can actually send a signal
773
00:40:51,081 --> 00:40:54,784
to an area that's rich and
it will bring that to the plant.
774
00:40:54,784 --> 00:40:56,720
Some of them live
in the rhizosphere,
775
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:58,722
in the root
of plants.
776
00:40:58,722 --> 00:41:02,058
Root of plants is extremely
complex environment
777
00:41:02,058 --> 00:41:05,595
because there are many,
many organisms living there.
778
00:41:05,595 --> 00:41:08,698
Some of them can operate,
some of them compete,
779
00:41:08,698 --> 00:41:11,067
so they have to develop
in order to survive
780
00:41:11,067 --> 00:41:15,070
extremely sophisticated
social intelligence.
781
00:41:15,070 --> 00:41:17,741
Very much like human
in social intelligence,
782
00:41:17,741 --> 00:41:18,742
just more advanced.
783
00:41:18,742 --> 00:41:22,178
So it gave us an idea
what are the features
784
00:41:22,178 --> 00:41:24,681
that characterize
social intelligence.
785
00:41:24,681 --> 00:41:26,683
Then I found that
our own bacteria,
786
00:41:26,683 --> 00:41:28,985
the bacteria that
I discovered fall in this list
787
00:41:28,985 --> 00:41:31,588
under a deviation
above the average.
788
00:41:31,588 --> 00:41:33,223
So they are like Einstein.
789
00:41:33,223 --> 00:41:36,893
They have special circuits
to process the information
790
00:41:36,893 --> 00:41:40,864
and even engage in decision
making, looking at the desert,
791
00:41:40,864 --> 00:41:44,200
the social bacteria
like enormous soil
792
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,038
on the integrity of else
because all these bushes
793
00:41:48,038 --> 00:41:51,241
that you see here are
connected underneath,
794
00:41:51,241 --> 00:41:56,346
so all these things that you see
around has its one big natural.
795
00:41:56,346 --> 00:41:59,316
It's super fun, it's almost --
like I am way too scientific,
796
00:41:59,316 --> 00:42:03,720
at first I was like, no, that's
a heavy stuff, no, it's real,
797
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:05,755
it happens, and it's
part of healthy soil,
798
00:42:05,755 --> 00:42:07,991
and you will never see it
in commercial agriculture.
799
00:42:07,991 --> 00:42:10,594
One of the things I have been
studying is Soil Biology
800
00:42:10,594 --> 00:42:12,029
with a 400 power microscope
801
00:42:13,029 --> 00:42:16,065
and with that I am able
to see the beneficial fungus
802
00:42:16,065 --> 00:42:19,836
and bacteria, and very quickly
quantitatively decide
803
00:42:19,836 --> 00:42:21,371
if I'm doing it
right or not.
804
00:42:21,371 --> 00:42:24,608
All throughout this sample of
the beneficial microorganisms
805
00:42:24,608 --> 00:42:26,076
I am finding nice fungus
806
00:42:26,076 --> 00:42:28,012
and I am finding much
more of biodiversity.
807
00:42:29,012 --> 00:42:31,982
They are the ones who
are harvesting nutrients
808
00:42:31,982 --> 00:42:35,785
from the soil and passing them
on to the roots of the plants,
809
00:42:35,785 --> 00:42:38,622
we are then passing
them on to us.
810
00:42:38,622 --> 00:42:40,390
Scientist has now
discovered important clues
811
00:42:40,390 --> 00:42:43,693
about the role of
so-called Good Bacteria.
812
00:42:43,693 --> 00:42:45,029
A new study in the journal
'Nature' finds that people
813
00:42:46,029 --> 00:42:49,099
without certain microbes
are more likely to be obese
814
00:42:49,099 --> 00:42:51,735
and to have diabetes or other
serious health problems.
815
00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:53,003
The fascinating thing about
the human microbiome
816
00:42:54,003 --> 00:42:57,841
is that we now realize there
is an entire organ inside of us
817
00:42:57,841 --> 00:43:00,110
that until about
five or ten years ago
818
00:43:00,110 --> 00:43:01,678
nobody even thought about
819
00:43:01,678 --> 00:43:03,680
and all the medical
theories about health
820
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,149
and disease have been
made without that organ.
821
00:43:06,149 --> 00:43:08,785
Its massive cells weighs
about the same as your brain
822
00:43:08,785 --> 00:43:11,955
but it has more genes,
more cells,
823
00:43:11,955 --> 00:43:14,257
arguably more connections
and more complexity,
824
00:43:14,257 --> 00:43:16,960
and replacing physiologically
world-defined roles,
825
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,029
we are just beginning
to understand
826
00:43:19,029 --> 00:43:20,063
what all
those roles are?
827
00:43:20,063 --> 00:43:22,132
It's not an insubstantial organ
828
00:43:22,132 --> 00:43:25,769
because it has composed
of 100 trillion cells,
829
00:43:25,769 --> 00:43:27,137
these are ten
times more cells
830
00:43:27,137 --> 00:43:30,306
than an entire repertoire
of human cells.
831
00:43:30,306 --> 00:43:32,709
There is so much excitement
about it because it turns out
832
00:43:32,709 --> 00:43:35,879
that most about genes are not
human genes but microbial genes.
833
00:43:35,879 --> 00:43:36,012
There is something
going on inside of us
834
00:43:37,012 --> 00:43:39,049
that is very
exciting, mysterious,
835
00:43:39,049 --> 00:43:41,951
and people are now
shifting their attitude
836
00:43:41,951 --> 00:43:44,454
towards understanding this,
implicating the microbiome
837
00:43:44,454 --> 00:43:46,790
in virtually every
function of the body.
838
00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:47,691
They are doing
all kinds of things.
839
00:43:47,691 --> 00:43:49,859
We have no idea what
they were involved
840
00:43:49,859 --> 00:43:50,927
with until very recently,
841
00:43:50,927 --> 00:43:53,363
everything from affecting
how we process our diet
842
00:43:53,363 --> 00:43:56,000
to how we respond to different
drugs even to things like
843
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,102
how we resist different
kinds of diseases.
844
00:43:59,102 --> 00:44:00,003
One of the more intriguing
things about the microbiome
845
00:44:01,003 --> 00:44:04,240
is its possible role
in human obesity.
846
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:07,177
Millions of microbes that live
in the guts of slim people
847
00:44:07,177 --> 00:44:09,779
could be turned into
potential fat fighters
848
00:44:09,779 --> 00:44:11,448
to help the nation's
obesity epidemic
849
00:44:11,448 --> 00:44:13,083
according
to a new study.
850
00:44:13,083 --> 00:44:17,087
They have taken stool material
from lean and obese twins
851
00:44:17,087 --> 00:44:20,957
so they are twin humans,
and if you take the stool
852
00:44:20,957 --> 00:44:23,359
from the obese twin
and give it to a mouse,
853
00:44:23,359 --> 00:44:25,128
that mouse will become fat,
854
00:44:25,128 --> 00:44:28,865
and if you take the
stool from a lean twin
855
00:44:28,865 --> 00:44:30,032
and give it to a different
mouse, that mouse stays thin.
856
00:44:30,032 --> 00:44:32,268
What's really important about
that is that the two mice
857
00:44:32,268 --> 00:44:34,304
they eat the same,
they exercise the same.
858
00:44:34,304 --> 00:44:37,173
So the only factor that was
different was the microbiome
859
00:44:37,173 --> 00:44:38,341
that they receive.
860
00:44:38,341 --> 00:44:41,945
They are not just sitting
there as inactive bystanders,
861
00:44:41,945 --> 00:44:45,782
they produce many chemicals
that are very similar
862
00:44:45,782 --> 00:44:48,118
to the neurotransmitters
that are brain users,
863
00:44:48,118 --> 00:44:49,886
they talk to
our immune cells,
864
00:44:49,886 --> 00:44:52,422
they talk to various
cells within our gut.
865
00:44:52,422 --> 00:44:57,794
The reason that has truly
caught the imagination of people
866
00:44:57,794 --> 00:45:01,431
is this idea that we are
host to all these creatures
867
00:45:01,431 --> 00:45:04,234
and those internal bacteria
we are discovering
868
00:45:04,234 --> 00:45:09,072
or maybe as important as our
own DNA in our own-selves
869
00:45:09,072 --> 00:45:13,810
when it comes to determining
our mood, how we process food,
870
00:45:13,810 --> 00:45:15,245
how our immune
system works.
871
00:45:28,525 --> 00:45:30,527
When I was a kid
I was a huge germophobe.
872
00:45:30,527 --> 00:45:32,896
One of the things that
we learned is, you know,
873
00:45:32,896 --> 00:45:37,065
most of them aren't germs,
most of them aren't bad.
874
00:45:37,065 --> 00:45:39,869
So if you eat a little dirt
it's not going to hurt,
875
00:45:39,869 --> 00:45:42,472
we are, you know, introducing
diversity to ourselves
876
00:45:42,472 --> 00:45:45,375
and that diversity especially
as children is so important
877
00:45:45,375 --> 00:45:48,244
for helping our immune
system develop properly.
878
00:45:48,244 --> 00:45:50,980
So now I'm not so worried
about touching door handles
879
00:45:50,980 --> 00:45:54,484
or getting
my hands dirty,
880
00:45:54,484 --> 00:45:57,085
because I know that I'm just
increasing the diversity
881
00:45:57,085 --> 00:45:59,389
of my microbes, that's
pretty good for my health.
882
00:45:59,389 --> 00:46:02,225
Having a dog is one of the
best evidence-based things
883
00:46:02,225 --> 00:46:04,928
that you can do in terms
of reducing the rates
884
00:46:04,928 --> 00:46:06,496
of allergies later on.
885
00:46:06,496 --> 00:46:11,434
There is much our inheritance as
the genes in our chromosomes are
886
00:46:11,434 --> 00:46:14,237
and yet much of the way we live
in our days we seem to be trying
887
00:46:14,237 --> 00:46:17,941
to stop transmission of
mother's microbes to the baby.
888
00:46:17,941 --> 00:46:20,310
We need to transmit the
microbiota to the baby.
889
00:46:20,310 --> 00:46:22,478
Everyone assumes that
breast milk is sterile,
890
00:46:22,478 --> 00:46:26,282
but not only is it not sterile
there is a biological mechanism
891
00:46:26,282 --> 00:46:28,050
to ensure that it is not,
892
00:46:28,050 --> 00:46:30,220
and there are organisms
being picked up from the guts,
893
00:46:30,220 --> 00:46:33,356
transported in the blood
and put into breast milk.
894
00:46:33,356 --> 00:46:35,525
One has to guess that
those are the organisms
895
00:46:35,525 --> 00:46:37,961
that is quite difficult
to get from the maternal gut
896
00:46:37,961 --> 00:46:40,063
into the baby's
gut in other ways,
897
00:46:40,063 --> 00:46:42,532
and mother's milk
contains a succession
898
00:46:42,532 --> 00:46:45,501
of interesting polysaccharides
produce the different stages
899
00:46:45,501 --> 00:46:48,872
during lactation which
act as a growth factor
900
00:46:48,872 --> 00:46:51,908
for the organisms that need to
be developing in the baby's gut
901
00:46:51,908 --> 00:46:54,978
at each stage after birth.
902
00:46:54,978 --> 00:46:56,546
So we do seem
to be trying to block
903
00:46:56,546 --> 00:46:58,114
this essential
transmission
904
00:46:58,114 --> 00:46:59,916
of the microbiota
in the next generation.
905
00:46:59,916 --> 00:47:00,016
We come out
the regular way,
906
00:47:01,016 --> 00:47:03,253
as you pass through the
birth canal you are coated
907
00:47:03,253 --> 00:47:06,289
with particular set of
microbes from your mother
908
00:47:06,289 --> 00:47:09,092
whereas if you are delivered
by C-section instead,
909
00:47:09,092 --> 00:47:11,160
you miss out on that
inoculation and essentially
910
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,596
what you pick up is good
microbes from other people
911
00:47:13,596 --> 00:47:17,099
or possibly from dust
flushing around in the air.
912
00:47:17,099 --> 00:47:19,636
One of these things are
limiting the transmission
913
00:47:19,636 --> 00:47:23,506
of the microbiota which is part
of the family's heritage,
914
00:47:23,506 --> 00:47:25,508
part of the genetics
of the family.
915
00:47:25,508 --> 00:47:27,210
The reason why this
is important is because
916
00:47:27,210 --> 00:47:28,945
if you are delivered
by C-section
917
00:47:28,945 --> 00:47:31,281
you have higher rates
of a whole lot of diseases
918
00:47:31,281 --> 00:47:35,083
with immune complications
including asthma, allergies,
919
00:47:35,083 --> 00:47:37,353
atopic disease,
even obesity.
920
00:47:37,353 --> 00:47:39,589
They really determine
who we are.
921
00:47:39,589 --> 00:47:43,526
The bushes you see around is
a colony of many microorganisms.
922
00:47:43,526 --> 00:47:47,600
We have also the colony
of any microorganisms.
923
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,269
The art was part
of the science
924
00:47:53,269 --> 00:47:55,271
and the science
is part of the art.
925
00:47:55,271 --> 00:47:59,142
The coloring started not
really just to make art,
926
00:47:59,142 --> 00:48:02,245
but for us to capture
different features
927
00:48:02,245 --> 00:48:05,214
in different motives
in the pattern,
928
00:48:05,214 --> 00:48:08,618
because it seems like many
secrets are hidden there,
929
00:48:08,618 --> 00:48:12,655
so each time we do new
experiment we find new patterns
930
00:48:12,655 --> 00:48:15,725
and I keep like
a child, wow!
931
00:48:15,725 --> 00:48:19,595
Complexity of the pattern
reflects the fact
932
00:48:19,595 --> 00:48:21,597
that you have
distribution of task,
933
00:48:21,597 --> 00:48:24,300
you have these dots
on the colony that you see.
934
00:48:24,300 --> 00:48:26,469
There are tens
of thousands,
935
00:48:26,469 --> 00:48:29,205
hundreds of thousands of
bacteria that connect together,
936
00:48:29,205 --> 00:48:31,975
they hold hands
and they dance together,
937
00:48:31,975 --> 00:48:34,744
they circle around, and they
pave the way to the colony
938
00:48:34,744 --> 00:48:36,479
to move on hard surfaces.
939
00:48:36,479 --> 00:48:40,450
When you have a complex pattern
when the environment changes
940
00:48:40,450 --> 00:48:42,452
and in the soil
the environment changes
941
00:48:42,452 --> 00:48:45,221
they can change the shape,
change the mix,
942
00:48:45,221 --> 00:48:48,358
make up of the colony and
adapt to the new conditions.
943
00:48:48,358 --> 00:48:53,030
This is mother nature, it's
the microorganisms in the soil
944
00:48:54,030 --> 00:48:59,235
and that's what makes all
of the globe one big organism.
945
00:48:59,235 --> 00:49:01,237
Restoring this
and rejuvenating
946
00:49:01,237 --> 00:49:04,774
back to growing your own
beneficial microorganisms
947
00:49:04,774 --> 00:49:08,478
and reinoculating them
into the environment
948
00:49:08,478 --> 00:49:12,615
is really the only way to turn
the page into heal our forest,
949
00:49:12,615 --> 00:49:16,452
to heal our ocean and the
systems that keep us alive.
950
00:49:16,452 --> 00:49:18,755
On an ordinary
day out in a --
951
00:49:18,755 --> 00:49:21,324
out walking in
the park or something
952
00:49:21,324 --> 00:49:25,328
there might be maybe a 100,000
organisms per cubic meter,
953
00:49:25,328 --> 00:49:27,597
but if you are out there
with your brush-cutter
954
00:49:27,597 --> 00:49:30,733
on a summer's day
or if you're in a cowshed,
955
00:49:30,733 --> 00:49:33,069
you're up to hundreds
of millions,
956
00:49:33,069 --> 00:49:35,405
and so you are taking an
enormous number of organisms
957
00:49:35,405 --> 00:49:36,639
from the natural
environment.
958
00:49:36,639 --> 00:49:39,375
Our bodies
are not islands,
959
00:49:39,375 --> 00:49:41,811
we're very, very
porous creatures
960
00:49:41,811 --> 00:49:45,214
who are constantly
exchanging information
961
00:49:45,214 --> 00:49:48,451
and exchanging DNA with
the environment around us,
962
00:49:48,451 --> 00:49:52,221
and as we go on this
adventure to discover
963
00:49:52,221 --> 00:49:55,558
what makes us healthy and
what keeps us in balance
964
00:49:55,558 --> 00:49:57,593
that has to be part
of the equation,
965
00:49:57,593 --> 00:50:00,496
it's sort of these
microscopic influences
966
00:50:00,496 --> 00:50:03,733
that have a huge amount
to do with our well-being.
967
00:50:03,733 --> 00:50:06,202
So there we are beginning
to have real evidence,
968
00:50:06,202 --> 00:50:09,839
real hard evidence, the exposure
to the green environment
969
00:50:09,839 --> 00:50:12,074
is doing things
to our immune systems
970
00:50:12,074 --> 00:50:14,811
which is relevant to our
immune system's function,
971
00:50:14,811 --> 00:50:17,079
which is therefore
relevant to human health.
972
00:50:17,079 --> 00:50:19,715
The problem is we don't
live in either a natural
973
00:50:19,715 --> 00:50:21,384
or an urban
environment anymore.
974
00:50:21,384 --> 00:50:22,418
We live indoors.
975
00:50:22,418 --> 00:50:24,420
To think that
we have evolved
976
00:50:24,420 --> 00:50:26,189
with a contact
with nature
977
00:50:26,189 --> 00:50:28,090
for tens
of millennium,
978
00:50:28,090 --> 00:50:30,560
and to think that
moving ourselves
979
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,795
to a profoundly
official environment
980
00:50:32,795 --> 00:50:34,797
have no consequences.
981
00:50:34,797 --> 00:50:36,799
I think it would be willfully
naive to believe that.
982
00:50:36,799 --> 00:50:41,204
As of 2008 more people live in
cities than in the countryside,
983
00:50:41,204 --> 00:50:42,472
all around the world.
984
00:50:42,472 --> 00:50:45,541
That's the first time
in human history.
985
00:50:45,541 --> 00:50:49,378
It raises big questions
about the future of our cities.
986
00:50:49,378 --> 00:50:54,117
It raises huge questions about
the future of the human race.
987
00:50:54,117 --> 00:50:56,752
That means one or two things;
either the human species
988
00:50:56,752 --> 00:51:00,323
will continue to lose whatever
connection the nature still has,
989
00:51:00,323 --> 00:51:02,725
or it means beginning
of a new kind of city.
990
00:51:02,725 --> 00:51:05,328
If you're interested in trees
and how they benefit people
991
00:51:05,328 --> 00:51:08,197
and ultimately you
realize the trees
992
00:51:08,197 --> 00:51:10,233
that give the greatest
benefit are in cities,
993
00:51:10,233 --> 00:51:11,501
they are near the people,
994
00:51:11,501 --> 00:51:14,871
the paradox of an urban society,
we get most of our interaction
995
00:51:14,871 --> 00:51:16,873
with the natural environment,
in an urban environment.
996
00:51:16,873 --> 00:51:19,475
'The Atlantic' did
an interesting piece
997
00:51:19,475 --> 00:51:20,710
about this research
998
00:51:20,710 --> 00:51:23,346
and they had a somewhat
provocative title,
999
00:51:23,346 --> 00:51:25,882
it's 'When Trees
Die, People Die'.
1000
00:51:25,882 --> 00:51:28,484
Where there are trees, with
the nicest trees in urban areas
1001
00:51:28,484 --> 00:51:30,853
there are also the people who
tend to be whiter, wealthier,
1002
00:51:30,853 --> 00:51:32,855
they are educated,
they are more privileged,
1003
00:51:32,855 --> 00:51:34,657
they are going to people
who are going to tend
1004
00:51:34,657 --> 00:51:35,925
to have health
outcomes anyway.
1005
00:51:35,925 --> 00:51:37,860
I am trying to disentangle
that relationship,
1006
00:51:37,860 --> 00:51:39,862
it can be really --
it can be tricky.
1007
00:51:39,862 --> 00:51:41,597
The cold weather
nothing compared to
1008
00:51:41,597 --> 00:51:44,267
what the Emerald
Ash Borer can do.
1009
00:51:44,267 --> 00:51:46,669
This tiny bug is eating
its way through trees
1010
00:51:46,669 --> 00:51:49,839
and destroying landscapes
all across Western New York.
1011
00:51:49,839 --> 00:51:52,341
Let's see what happens when the
Emerald Ash Borer spreads out
1012
00:51:52,341 --> 00:51:54,810
from Detroit and see if there
are health consequences.
1013
00:51:54,810 --> 00:51:57,213
I looked at two
causes of death,
1014
00:51:57,213 --> 00:52:00,383
cardiovascular disease and then
lower, a respiratory disease.
1015
00:52:00,383 --> 00:52:04,554
We did see increased levels
of these two types of diseases
1016
00:52:04,554 --> 00:52:06,822
in counties that were infested
with Emerald Ash Borer.
1017
00:52:06,822 --> 00:52:08,925
There was a bigger impact
in wealthier counties.
1018
00:52:08,925 --> 00:52:10,860
If trees are good for you
1019
00:52:10,860 --> 00:52:12,862
and we know that those
wealthier counties
1020
00:52:12,862 --> 00:52:14,130
are going to have
more of them,
1021
00:52:14,130 --> 00:52:17,466
then killing those trees should
have a bigger health impact
1022
00:52:17,466 --> 00:52:18,701
and that isn't what we saw.
1023
00:52:18,701 --> 00:52:22,738
People who are at the bottom
end of the socioeconomic scale
1024
00:52:22,738 --> 00:52:26,909
and are not close to green space
are about twice as likely to die
1025
00:52:26,909 --> 00:52:29,879
in that five-year period
as they with people
1026
00:52:29,879 --> 00:52:31,681
at the top of the
socioeconomic scale,
1027
00:52:31,681 --> 00:52:33,950
as they get closer
to green space.
1028
00:52:33,950 --> 00:52:36,519
So this difference between
the top and the bottom
1029
00:52:36,519 --> 00:52:38,821
of the socioeconomic scale
starts to disappear.
1030
00:52:38,821 --> 00:52:40,856
Most people who talk in
the environmental movement,
1031
00:52:40,856 --> 00:52:43,459
talk about, you know,
the morality of it.
1032
00:52:43,459 --> 00:52:44,827
We have to protect nature
1033
00:52:44,827 --> 00:52:47,663
because it's the
right thing to do.
1034
00:52:47,663 --> 00:52:49,565
Well, I am an economist.
1035
00:52:49,565 --> 00:52:52,768
I study selfishness, and
what I understand is that,
1036
00:52:52,768 --> 00:52:55,371
you know, scolding people
do things ain't very effective.
1037
00:52:55,371 --> 00:52:57,640
The type of stuff I do in other
people is showing that looking
1038
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:00,543
after a natural environment
is profoundly self-interest
1039
00:53:00,543 --> 00:53:02,778
and when you appeal
to people's self-interest
1040
00:53:02,778 --> 00:53:04,247
then that's
a different matter.
1041
00:53:04,247 --> 00:53:06,649
You know, if you can show
people this is really,
1042
00:53:06,649 --> 00:53:08,884
really in your best
interest to do that
1043
00:53:08,884 --> 00:53:11,454
then I think we are
going to see some change.
1044
00:53:11,454 --> 00:53:15,258
Nature deficit disorder is
not a known medical diagnosis.
1045
00:53:15,258 --> 00:53:18,928
Basically what it is, is a
metaphor to describe the harm
1046
00:53:18,928 --> 00:53:20,997
that comes
to the human species
1047
00:53:20,997 --> 00:53:23,866
when it doesn't have much
connection to the natural world.
1048
00:53:23,866 --> 00:53:25,868
And the way to show
that is not by saying,
1049
00:53:25,868 --> 00:53:28,371
this kid has nature
deficit disorder
1050
00:53:28,371 --> 00:53:30,007
and this kid exhibits
these symptoms.
1051
00:53:31,007 --> 00:53:33,876
You could do that but
what I would rather do
1052
00:53:33,876 --> 00:53:36,479
is look at all this
positive research
1053
00:53:36,479 --> 00:53:37,014
that's come out
and then ask,
1054
00:53:38,014 --> 00:53:40,850
if that's connected
to the natural world,
1055
00:53:40,850 --> 00:53:43,619
what happens when you take
the natural world away?
1056
00:53:43,619 --> 00:53:45,621
Shouldn't every
kid, and in fact,
1057
00:53:45,621 --> 00:53:49,592
I think every adult have
a right to the benefits
1058
00:53:49,592 --> 00:53:51,794
of being in
the natural world.
1059
00:53:51,794 --> 00:53:54,630
Really what it gets down to the
small choices about, you know,
1060
00:53:54,630 --> 00:53:56,766
we plant a tree here,
we preserve a part here,
1061
00:53:56,766 --> 00:53:58,801
that's what's going to really
make the day-to-day difference
1062
00:53:58,801 --> 00:54:00,903
in people's lives,
I believe.
1063
00:54:00,903 --> 00:54:04,840
I was in a hotel room
one day in San Francisco
1064
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,443
and I picked up
one of those magazines
1065
00:54:07,443 --> 00:54:10,313
that you wonder where they
come from in the hotel rooms
1066
00:54:10,313 --> 00:54:12,682
and I was flipping through
it and I looked at the back page
1067
00:54:12,682 --> 00:54:14,684
and there was this
black-and-white photograph
1068
00:54:14,684 --> 00:54:15,852
of a little boy
on a beach.
1069
00:54:15,852 --> 00:54:18,321
He is running along and his
eyes are filled with life,
1070
00:54:18,321 --> 00:54:20,323
and the story next
to this photograph
1071
00:54:20,323 --> 00:54:22,491
said this little
boy had a problem.
1072
00:54:22,491 --> 00:54:24,493
He had the wiggles,
he couldn't sit still.
1073
00:54:24,493 --> 00:54:25,895
He was disruptive
in class.
1074
00:54:25,895 --> 00:54:27,697
The school finally
kicked him out.
1075
00:54:27,697 --> 00:54:30,866
The parents were
upset of course.
1076
00:54:30,866 --> 00:54:32,835
But they had been
very observant,
1077
00:54:32,835 --> 00:54:36,572
they noticed how a little
bit of time in nature
1078
00:54:36,572 --> 00:54:40,676
helped their little boy
calm himself and focus.
1079
00:54:40,676 --> 00:54:42,912
So for the next 10 years
they took their little boy
1080
00:54:42,912 --> 00:54:45,748
all over the great
western wilderness areas.
1081
00:54:45,748 --> 00:54:47,049
Now the kid
turned out okay.
1082
00:54:47,049 --> 00:54:49,418
The photograph
was taken in 1906,
1083
00:54:49,418 --> 00:54:51,721
the little boy's
name was Ansel Adams.
1084
00:54:51,721 --> 00:54:53,122
So here's a question.
1085
00:54:53,122 --> 00:54:55,391
What would have happened
if they had taken little Ansel
1086
00:54:55,391 --> 00:54:57,460
and put him in a chair
in front of a desk,
1087
00:54:57,460 --> 00:54:59,829
in front of a computer,
telling him to sit there,
1088
00:54:59,829 --> 00:55:02,665
take chess all day,
canceled recess,
1089
00:55:02,665 --> 00:55:06,068
which more-and-more schools
are doing, cancel field trips,
1090
00:55:06,068 --> 00:55:08,604
lengthen the school day,
lengthen the school,
1091
00:55:08,604 --> 00:55:10,139
and then given
him Ritalin.
1092
00:55:10,139 --> 00:55:13,041
Would we have the gifts of
nature that Ansel gave us?
1093
00:55:13,041 --> 00:55:14,910
Would we have the
political support
1094
00:55:14,910 --> 00:55:18,914
such as it is for the national
parks without his photographs?
1095
00:55:18,914 --> 00:55:22,618
How many little Ansels and
Anselets are out there right now
1096
00:55:22,618 --> 00:55:25,154
who can give us great
gifts in the future
1097
00:55:25,154 --> 00:55:27,523
if we give them the
great gift of nature now?
1098
00:55:27,523 --> 00:55:31,660
Kind of been slowly
peeling back the story
1099
00:55:31,660 --> 00:55:34,630
of what is
ailing Hawaiians.
1100
00:55:34,630 --> 00:55:38,534
Finally this afternoon we
started to get at a glimmer
1101
00:55:38,534 --> 00:55:43,773
of amazing hope for how
to heal by seeing these kids,
1102
00:55:43,773 --> 00:55:46,776
but reconnecting
to that land
1103
00:55:46,776 --> 00:55:48,778
and really understanding
how to grow things
1104
00:55:48,778 --> 00:55:52,615
and how to nourish themselves
and how to nourish the soil,
1105
00:55:52,615 --> 00:55:54,850
their soil can make
themselves healthy.
1106
00:55:54,850 --> 00:55:58,621
Working with the kids has been
so powerful because showing them
1107
00:55:58,621 --> 00:56:00,790
that the earth is
alive at a young age,
1108
00:56:00,790 --> 00:56:02,958
really will impact
how they grow up
1109
00:56:02,958 --> 00:56:05,059
and are they going to be
going and buying Roundup
1110
00:56:05,059 --> 00:56:07,196
or are they going to be
going out to their soil
1111
00:56:07,196 --> 00:56:10,199
and realizing it's
alive and really feeling
1112
00:56:10,199 --> 00:56:12,902
that heart space connection
to caring for the land.
1113
00:56:12,902 --> 00:56:17,206
The kids here they need
economic opportunity
1114
00:56:17,206 --> 00:56:19,708
and through this
agricultural practices
1115
00:56:19,708 --> 00:56:21,677
where it's affordable to do,
1116
00:56:21,677 --> 00:56:23,712
where it's
environmentally sound,
1117
00:56:23,712 --> 00:56:27,016
I believe it will give everyone
in this area a great opportunity
1118
00:56:28,016 --> 00:56:31,520
to have a great life and
to provide for the family
1119
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,155
and to be happy everyday.
1120
00:56:33,155 --> 00:56:36,725
Until you started doing this
natural farming and realizing
1121
00:56:36,725 --> 00:56:40,930
that the earth is alive it
changes your whole perspective.
1122
00:56:40,930 --> 00:56:43,132
It just made me so
much more conscientious
1123
00:56:43,132 --> 00:56:44,700
in every part
of my life,
1124
00:56:44,700 --> 00:56:46,836
brought so much more respect
to the whole systems,
1125
00:56:46,836 --> 00:56:48,904
they are naturally
there providing
1126
00:56:48,904 --> 00:56:50,639
such abundance already.
1127
00:57:04,253 --> 00:57:06,755
So I went to
the Marche region,
1128
00:57:06,755 --> 00:57:09,925
it's like a fantasy
land for agroecologists.
1129
00:57:09,925 --> 00:57:12,828
They have been farming
in these little plots
1130
00:57:12,828 --> 00:57:16,765
for hundreds of years
ever since the Benedictines
1131
00:57:16,765 --> 00:57:18,767
who were like
the original hippies,
1132
00:57:18,767 --> 00:57:23,205
who went there and started
to create these little farms
1133
00:57:23,205 --> 00:57:26,775
with their monasteries and
the soil there is very healthy
1134
00:57:26,775 --> 00:57:27,010
and it's very
beautiful.
1135
00:57:28,010 --> 00:57:29,778
92!
1136
00:57:29,778 --> 00:57:33,616
92! You
are 92 years old!
1137
00:57:42,558 --> 00:57:45,239
Oh! Bravo, bravo!
1138
00:59:00,302 --> 00:59:03,639
It's also known for
being the place in Europe
1139
00:59:03,639 --> 00:59:05,808
that has the
most sanitarians,
1140
00:59:05,808 --> 00:59:08,920
people who are over
a hundred years old.
1141
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,228
Oh, oh, fragile, I am so sorry,
I don't want to hurt the beans
1142
01:01:06,228 --> 01:01:07,868
Oh, I am sorry!
1143
01:01:12,868 --> 01:01:14,331
Hello!
I am so honored.
1144
01:01:42,331 --> 01:01:45,170
She's moving faster
than everybody else.
1145
01:01:48,170 --> 01:01:50,510
Yes, yes.
1146
01:01:54,510 --> 01:01:55,510
How old?
1147
01:01:54,510 --> 01:01:55,844
Okay. This is how --
1148
01:01:55,844 --> 01:01:56,678
96 now.
1149
01:01:56,678 --> 01:02:00,526
-- you live to be 96.
Right here!
1150
01:02:10,526 --> 01:02:12,194
She climbs those trees?
1151
01:02:12,194 --> 01:02:13,395
Yes! Yes!
1152
01:02:13,395 --> 01:02:15,397
No! She climbs
that tree to get fruit?
1153
01:02:15,397 --> 01:02:16,505
Yes, for
taking the fruit.
1154
01:02:23,505 --> 01:02:25,274
Now it's finished,
the fruit.
1155
01:02:25,274 --> 01:02:26,875
Oh, they are all down
so she threw --
1156
01:02:26,875 --> 01:02:29,311
She threw down,
she threw down.
1157
01:02:29,311 --> 01:02:30,547
No more peach.
1158
01:02:31,547 --> 01:02:33,279
Okay, we don't have
to worry about her.
1159
01:03:37,279 --> 01:03:40,883
What I want to talk to you right
now is about what we have lost.
1160
01:03:40,883 --> 01:03:43,285
When we move away
from those little fields
1161
01:03:43,285 --> 01:03:44,987
in the Marche region
1162
01:03:44,987 --> 01:03:46,989
what are the health
things that we have lost,
1163
01:03:46,989 --> 01:03:51,059
because these are all parts of
argo-ecology, crop diversity,
1164
01:03:51,059 --> 01:03:53,395
perennials and native seeds,
traditional technologies,
1165
01:03:53,395 --> 01:03:58,143
soil vitality, community, but
what they really are is health.
1166
01:04:08,143 --> 01:04:10,345
You have a tumor
in your pancreas?
1167
01:04:10,345 --> 01:04:11,380
Yes.
1168
01:04:11,380 --> 01:04:13,117
How long ago was that?
1169
01:04:15,117 --> 01:04:18,463
You had a pancreatic
tumor nine years ago?
1170
01:04:28,463 --> 01:04:29,998
Are they studying you
1171
01:04:29,998 --> 01:04:32,301
or are they from
the scientific standpoint,
1172
01:04:32,301 --> 01:04:35,733
you are a miracle.
1173
01:05:04,733 --> 01:05:06,568
Can you give us a
rundown of this?
1174
01:05:06,568 --> 01:05:08,170
Just give me
one second, okay?
1175
01:05:08,170 --> 01:05:09,077
Yeah, yeah!
1176
01:05:15,077 --> 01:05:17,679
Padre Giovanni
just shared stuff
1177
01:05:17,679 --> 01:05:20,682
that was incredibly
personal to him
1178
01:05:20,682 --> 01:05:23,218
and that I didn't get
the sense that he talks
1179
01:05:23,218 --> 01:05:27,023
about all the time and
it affected me very deeply.
1180
01:05:28,023 --> 01:05:30,425
He just got
so much of the crux,
1181
01:05:30,425 --> 01:05:34,596
what I am trying to understand
about those connections
1182
01:05:34,596 --> 01:05:37,532
between our bodies
and the earth
1183
01:05:37,532 --> 01:05:39,768
and he is just living
this every day.
1184
01:05:39,768 --> 01:05:46,208
For him it's his awareness,
it's his existence,
1185
01:05:46,208 --> 01:05:51,246
and that story about him
getting pancreatic cancer
1186
01:05:51,246 --> 01:05:53,515
nine years ago,
I mean, the life expectancy
1187
01:05:53,515 --> 01:05:58,320
from what sounds like he had
metastatic pancreatic cancer,
1188
01:05:58,320 --> 01:05:59,622
he had in his gut,
1189
01:05:59,622 --> 01:06:06,094
and everything is three to six
months and it's really amazing.
1190
01:06:06,094 --> 01:06:08,263
He said he did all
the medical treatments
1191
01:06:08,263 --> 01:06:13,068
but there was this
other side of what he did,
1192
01:06:13,068 --> 01:06:17,305
which possibly was the reason
that he's still with us
1193
01:06:17,305 --> 01:06:19,211
nine years later.
1194
01:06:23,211 --> 01:06:26,515
People talk about healing
the earth; the earth heals us.
1195
01:06:26,515 --> 01:06:28,550
Look around us
and see the beauty,
1196
01:06:28,550 --> 01:06:32,220
I mean, every sunrise and
every sunset, every rain shower
1197
01:06:32,220 --> 01:06:36,158
and every breeze and every
cloud is so magnificent.
1198
01:06:36,158 --> 01:06:39,594
I mean, what more beauty
could there have been.
1199
01:06:39,594 --> 01:06:42,531
Even when we are living
in a city on the 30th floor
1200
01:06:42,531 --> 01:06:47,636
of a concrete high-rise, we have
to start to think of ourselves
1201
01:06:47,636 --> 01:06:50,472
as part of an
agro-ecological cycle.
1202
01:06:50,472 --> 01:06:53,675
Only without mentality
are we going to actually
1203
01:06:53,675 --> 01:06:56,311
leave something for our
children and our grandchildren.
1204
01:06:56,311 --> 01:06:57,813
Thank you!
1205
01:07:01,516 --> 01:07:03,852
So increasingly instead
of saying "sustainable,"
1206
01:07:03,852 --> 01:07:06,354
I say, "nature rich."
1207
01:07:06,354 --> 01:07:08,256
What does a nature
rich city look like?
1208
01:07:08,256 --> 01:07:11,593
A nature rich future,
a nature rich yard,
1209
01:07:11,593 --> 01:07:14,196
built with native
species that bring back
1210
01:07:14,196 --> 01:07:16,665
butterfly migration routes
and bird migration routes.
1211
01:07:16,665 --> 01:07:18,733
What does that
future look like?
1212
01:07:18,733 --> 01:07:19,367
When you begin
to use terminology
1213
01:07:19,367 --> 01:07:21,336
like a 'nature rich city,'
1214
01:07:21,336 --> 01:07:24,306
people can see that in their
minds, and I can tell you,
1215
01:07:24,306 --> 01:07:26,308
particularly young
people resonate to that.
1216
01:07:26,308 --> 01:07:29,277
They want to go there,
they want to create that.
1217
01:07:29,277 --> 01:07:32,180
We humans are so arrogant
that we think the hypothesis
1218
01:07:32,180 --> 01:07:34,850
that we come up with,
actually have anything to do
1219
01:07:34,850 --> 01:07:37,786
with the complexity
of the world around us.
1220
01:07:37,786 --> 01:07:41,289
So 'ai' in Hawaiian
means to eat,
1221
01:07:41,289 --> 01:07:43,425
means food,
1222
01:07:43,425 --> 01:07:47,162
means reproduction,
1223
01:07:47,162 --> 01:07:51,399
and then 'na' is
in reference to the land.
1224
01:07:51,399 --> 01:07:54,469
So it's the land
that feeds us.
1225
01:07:54,469 --> 01:07:56,738
You are the servant
to the land,
1226
01:07:56,738 --> 01:07:59,407
so that land doesn't
only mean land,
1227
01:07:59,407 --> 01:08:00,709
it also means the ocean.
1228
01:08:00,709 --> 01:08:01,710
Right?
1229
01:08:01,710 --> 01:08:02,778
Everything in nature,
1230
01:08:02,778 --> 01:08:06,314
you are the servant
to nature in order to live.
1231
01:08:06,314 --> 01:08:07,482
There's a movement
1232
01:08:07,482 --> 01:08:10,152
that is sometimes called
the new agrarians.
1233
01:08:10,152 --> 01:08:14,189
These are often young people who
are dedicated to organic farming
1234
01:08:14,189 --> 01:08:15,757
near a city or in a city.
1235
01:08:15,757 --> 01:08:17,559
They are changing
their neighborhoods;
1236
01:08:17,559 --> 01:08:19,694
they are really dedicated
1237
01:08:19,694 --> 01:08:22,664
to creating a different
kind of food distribution.
1238
01:08:22,664 --> 01:08:26,434
The attitude that we are now
developing is a much more humble
1239
01:08:26,434 --> 01:08:29,538
and modest attitude
where we tend to say
1240
01:08:29,538 --> 01:08:31,506
we really don't
understand nature
1241
01:08:31,506 --> 01:08:33,942
but we will listen to it
in an unbiased way
1242
01:08:33,942 --> 01:08:37,579
and will let the wisdom
and the intelligence of nature
1243
01:08:37,579 --> 01:08:40,615
tell us how it's working
and how it's operating.
1244
01:08:40,615 --> 01:08:42,617
So we are really
starting to think about
1245
01:08:42,617 --> 01:08:44,719
how all these parts
interconnect,
1246
01:08:44,719 --> 01:08:46,721
not just to keep
the land healthy
1247
01:08:46,721 --> 01:08:48,723
and not just to
keep the air healthy
1248
01:08:48,723 --> 01:08:50,458
but also to
keep us healthy.
1249
01:08:50,458 --> 01:08:52,561
The big challenge
of life in general
1250
01:08:52,561 --> 01:08:54,396
is trying to find balance
1251
01:08:54,396 --> 01:08:56,965
and once you find it,
trying to maintain balance
1252
01:08:56,965 --> 01:09:01,469
it's not a goal that you
achieve and then that's it.
1253
01:09:01,469 --> 01:09:03,905
The balance is always
going to shift again
1254
01:09:03,905 --> 01:09:05,974
and then you'll have
to regain the balance.
1255
01:09:05,974 --> 01:09:07,976
It's something that's
constantly adapting,
1256
01:09:07,976 --> 01:09:12,214
constantly moving with
thousands of different variables
1257
01:09:12,214 --> 01:09:14,549
and that in fact is balance.
1258
01:09:14,549 --> 01:09:17,852
Almost everything is organized
in interconnected systems,
1259
01:09:17,852 --> 01:09:20,956
so simplest systems
to the most complex ones.
1260
01:09:20,956 --> 01:09:24,459
There is a natural law
that when systems organize
1261
01:09:24,459 --> 01:09:27,229
there will be one just
like the law of gravity.
1262
01:09:27,229 --> 01:09:29,297
You can say there
is a high intelligence
1263
01:09:29,297 --> 01:09:32,334
that used to design
to create the universe
1264
01:09:32,334 --> 01:09:35,670
by very beautiful simple
design that is scalable
1265
01:09:35,670 --> 01:09:37,772
that can be used in tiny
little networks of insects,
1266
01:09:37,772 --> 01:09:40,642
so ants talking
to each other.
1267
01:09:40,642 --> 01:09:42,877
There's two ways of explaining
it as an engineer
1268
01:09:42,877 --> 01:09:44,613
or as a spiritual person,
1269
01:09:44,613 --> 01:09:47,822
and I think at the moment
they are both equally valid.
1270
01:09:53,822 --> 01:09:55,690
Awareness of
interconnectedness
1271
01:09:55,690 --> 01:09:57,859
is increasing
in leaps and bounds
1272
01:09:57,859 --> 01:10:01,429
as the new age of
globalization accelerates.
1273
01:10:01,429 --> 01:10:05,400
Our civilization has evolved
emphasizing the separation
1274
01:10:05,400 --> 01:10:09,571
into parts for too long
on this realization
1275
01:10:09,571 --> 01:10:15,377
of unbroken wholeness
our future may depend.
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