| 00:00:00 | TO DISCUSS, SIT AROUND WITH A GROUP AND MAKE USE OF THE DIFFERENT KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS OF THE DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THAT GROUP AND COME UP WITH NEW IDEAS. |
| 00:00:11 | FOR THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE A SPECIES WHERE THE YOUNG ONES CAN BE TAUGHT ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE NOT PRESENT. |
| 00:00:19 | SO THERE'S A QUESTION THAT I WANT TO COME BACK TO. |
| 00:00:24 | LATER, GIVEN THAT WE HUMANS ARE WITHOUT QUESTION THE MOST INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR BEINGS THAT EVER WALKED THE PLANET. |
| 00:00:33 | WE AND PERHAPS SOME OF OUR HOMINID ANCESTORS. |
| 00:00:37 | HOW COME WE ARE DESTROYING THIS PLANET? |
| 00:00:38 | AND THIS IS WHERE I RELY ON SOPHISTICATED AUDIENCE SUCH AS YOU. |
| 00:00:45 | I DON'T NEED TO GO INTO ALL THE DETAILS OF WHAT WE ARE DOING TO THIS PLANET. |
| 00:00:49 | BECAUSE I SUSPECT THAT YOU KNOW. |
| 00:00:51 | AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE THE ABSURD USE OF CHEMICAL PESTICIDES AND FERTILIZERS, AND THE CONTINUING USE OF SUCH THINGS EVEN WHEN IT'S BEEN PROVEN BEYOND MORE POSSIBLE DOUBT THAT THEY CAN LEAD TO CANCER OR OTHER DISEASES, WHICH PLAGUE US AT THIS TIME. |
| 00:01:11 | AND YET, THESE CHEMICALS LEACHING DOWN FROM AGRICULTURAL LAND, FROM HOUSEHOLDS, AND FROM INDUSTRY, LEACH INTO THE WATER, STREAMS, THE RIVERS, LAKES AND BUSY CREATING SEAT CREATING AN INCREDIBLY POLLUTED WATER SYSTEMS. |
| 00:01:27 | AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE FIND THAT SURFACE WATER IS SHRINKING, THAT THE GREAT AQUIFERS ARE SHRINKING AND POLLUTERS. |
| 00:01:37 | WE FIND TERRIBLE SOIL EROSION. |
| 00:01:38 | WE KNOW THAT THE GREAT RAIN FOREST AND THE WOODLANDS AROUND THE PLANET ARE DISAPPEARING AT AN INCREDIBLY FAST RATE, AND THAT PARTICULARLY IN THE TROPICS IS LEADING TO SOIL EROSION AND HUNGER. |
| 00:01:54 | WE KNOW THAT WE ARE LOSING BIODIVERSITY. |
| 00:01:59 | WINDOW THIS ENTIRE ECOSYSTEMS ARE BEING DESTROYED. |
| 00:02:00 | WE DO NOT YET KNOW THE EFFECT WHICH MAY BE CAUSED BY REMOVING ONE SMALL AND SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT CREATURE FROM AN ECOSYSTEM, AND YET THERE HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATIONS OF HOW THIS CAN LEAD TO A COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF AN ECOSYSTEM. |
| 00:02:21 | BECAUSE REMOVE ONE THING WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE THE MAIN FOOD OF ANOTHER, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE THE MAIN FOOD OF ANOTHER, AND SO YOU WORK YOUR WAY UP THE FOOD CHAIN AND CAN CAUSE SOME KIND OF TERRIBLE COLLAPSE OF A WHOLE ECOSYSTEM, AS HAS HAPPENED FROM TIME TO TIME. |
| 00:02:39 | WE KNOW ABOUT GREENHOUSE GASES. |
| 00:02:44 | WE CERTAINLY KNOW ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF BURNING FOSSIL FUEL. |
| 00:02:48 | IT'S LESS WIDELY REALIZED THAT THE LARGER PERCENTAGE OF THE GREENHOUSE GAS IS CAUSED BY THE METHANE WHICH RESULTS FROM A INTENSIVE FARMING OF ANIMALS OF FOOD. |
| 00:03:07 | THAT METHANE ACCOUNTS FOR MORE OF THE GREENHOUSE GASES THAN ALL THE CARS AROUND THE WORLD PUT TOGETHER. |
| 00:03:15 | AND OF COURSE, NOT ONLY DOES THIS INTENSIVE FARMING OF ANIMALS LEADS TO THE PRODUCTION OF METHANE, BUT LARGE AREAS OF WILDERNESS ARE CONTINUALLY BEING DESTROYED TO CREATE NEW AGRICULTURAL FIELD TO GROW CORN TO FEED THE ANIMALS AREN'T GRAZING FOR CATTLE. |
| 00:03:35 | IT'S VERY WASTEFUL. |
| 00:03:36 | IS WASTEFUL OF WATER, AND IN ADDITION, WE FIND THAT TO KEEP ANIMALS ALIVE AND INTENSIVE FARMS, IS NECESSARY TO REGULARLY FEED THEM ANTIBIOTICS. |
| 00:03:47 | THAT'S JUST TO KEEP THEM ALIVE IN THESE STRESSFUL CONDITIONS. |
| 00:03:51 | THESE ANTIBIOTICS ARE GETTING OUT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE BACTERIA OF BECOMING RESISTANT. |
| 00:03:58 | SO ACTUALLY PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DIED FROM A SIMPLE SCRATCH BECAUSE THERE WAS A STRONG ENOUGH AND THE BODY. |
| 00:04:05 | IF ANYBODY IS INTERESTED IN THIS, THERE IS A RATHER TERRIFYING BOOK CALLED THE KILLER WITHIN, ONE OF THE AUTHORS IS MARK PLOTKIN. |
| 00:04:14 | AND PEOPLE I THINK ARE LESS PREPARED TO THINK ABOUT THAT THAN FOSSIL FUELS, BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT TO BE FED TWO OR THREE MEALS OF MEAT A DAY. |
| 00:04:22 | WE NEED TO REDUCE OUR MEAT EATING, EVEN THE |
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