There’s a biodiversity crisis and our food system is driving it | All Hail The Planet

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When most of us think about species extinction, the images that come to mind are of big predators like tigers or bears that are endangered, or vast swathes of forest habitat being razed along with the creatures in it. But how about this image: a supermarket aisle. It seems counterintuitive, supermarkets appear as spaces of such range and abundance. But look a little closer and you’ll soon realise they are, in fact, showcases of the staggering impact our global food system is having on the planet’s biodiversity - which is at risk more than you think… and valuable in more ways than you know.
Join Ali Rae in this ninth episode of ‘All Hail The Planet’ - a 10 part series delving into the social, economic and political forces undermining meaningful global action on climate change.
In this episode, Ali speaks with scholar & food rights activist, Vandana Shiva; farmer & former leader of Via Campesina, Elizabeth Mpoful; landscape architect & environmental educator, Costa Georgiadis; biologist, agronomist & Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) coordinator, Åsmund Asdal.
This is the third series of #AllHail - a programme dedicated to explaining the forces that hold power in our lives.
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10 июл 2024

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@whatreallyisart5898 19 дней назад

I love that Al Jazeera is covering this, more people need to know about food sovereignty. I hope Mexico wins the fight against US GM corn.

@BodrulAminSadi 19 дней назад

The way we treating nature, it will do the same. Sometimes far harder way

@inotcare 19 дней назад

glad your tackling these topic al jazeera!!

@roberthornack1692 19 дней назад

The problem is biodiversity decreases with expanding human populations!

@NathanHarrison7 19 дней назад

Excellent documentary. Excellent subject matter experts, excellent data, excellent citations. Well done.

@peterolero9634 18 дней назад

Excellent comment. Well done.

@donHooligan 19 дней назад

Archaeologists have found the solution. "Food forest cities" in South America were sustainable. "Terra Preta" is the key.

@mothersoul1 19 дней назад

Yay!!! Ali Rae

@volkerengels5298 19 дней назад

"This is the *fastest* climate change in earth history" IPCC 2019 Special Report. The faster - the more go extinct... WHAT are we talking about......?

@richardwiediger7298 19 дней назад

One of the major is animal agriculture, if people adopted a vegan diet, which requires far less water and land, this would greatly reduce world hunger and help promote a healthy planet!

@daveparkes2355 19 дней назад

Animals fertilise the soil naturally. Don't demonise it, just in order to virtue-signal your vegan ideology.

@hobo0210 18 дней назад

funnyyy... our DNA was designed millions of years ago and agriculture is ~10k years old thing ... reducing meat consumption is the way.

@karlwheatley1244 14 дней назад

@@hobo0210 "our DNA was designed millions of years ago and agriculture is ~10k years old thing" Uhhh, humans and our ancestors have been eating a wide variety of plant foods for over a million years. The earliest human ancestors were nearly vegan. Agriculture is just the organized mass planting of plant foods, but plant foods grew in the wild long before formal agriculture.

@DANIL-rb2jz 14 дней назад

@@karlwheatley1244 You should not underestimate the phenomenon of agriculture. Prior to this humans were hunter gatherers moving from place to place dependant on whatever food they could find. Agriculture, the planting of crops gave us food security for the first time and enabled us to put down roots and increase our populations which led to the formation of cities. It is only the basis of modern civilisation.

@karlwheatley1244 13 дней назад

@@DANIL-rb2jz "You should not underestimate the phenomenon of agriculture" Thanks for your reply. I wasn't underestimating agriculture, I was explaining that humans ate lots of plant foods long before agriculture. Take care.

@Blair62 18 дней назад

Help me understand this. Never once said the phrase "global animal agriculture".

@sandponics 16 дней назад

The potatoes and peas are growing just fine in my bio diverse garden.

@DANIL-rb2jz 14 дней назад

Yes but does their yield make it worthwhile? The cost of compost & nutrients to make the soil fertile & privatised water or water charges means you are lucky if you break even with your backyard garden compared to buying at the supermarket. So there is little incentive for people to grow at home except for the few who just do it for the love of it.

@taruveeravenkatamaruthisum928 13 дней назад

thanks for video

@nikaleabhijit 15 дней назад

good coverage!

@saturationstation1446 19 дней назад

fun fact - since the start of industrialization (and slightly before that too) , eurocentric culture has been responsible for eliminating nearly half the life that was on earth before that period. like, anyone alive today could not even imagine how many animals, bugs and plants there were just about everywhere humans were not. we're pretty close to tipping the ecosystem into a negative feedback loop where all the vital lifeforms of the ecosystem just dont have the other lifeforms they needed to survive. there's too much of the mindset of everything existing in its own isolated vacuum and not enough sober realization of natures interdependence when it comes to cellular life.

@user-ku4ix1sd6v 19 дней назад

Citation needed.

@gregorymalchuk272 19 дней назад

You act as if any culture with a steam engine and science wouldn't have done the same thing.

@karlwheatley1244 14 дней назад

@@gregorymalchuk272 But it was the values of the "Enlightenment" that led us toward a self-terminating civilization. Had we stuck with various versions of Indigenous values, we wouldn't have these problems.

@DANIL-rb2jz 14 дней назад

@@karlwheatley1244 If you mean the European Enlightenment....an intellectual and scientific movement which led to many discoveries and revolutionary ideas such as freedom of expression, individual liberty and equality and the restablishment of science as a source of knowledge from which modern civilisation benefits today. Unfortunately it also brought about the Industrial Revolution as Europe and it's western colonies sought to exploit the natural world and we see mass plundering of the earth's resources for the first time with the burning of fossil fuels. This is the source of today's climate and pollution problems. So your 2nd point is absolutely correct. We need to evolve with nature's wellbeing as our focus and the realisation that it's health and survival is inextricably linked with ours.

@karlwheatley1244 13 дней назад

@@DANIL-rb2jz Thanks for your reply. We totally agree on the legacy of the European "Enlightenment."

@iamchangingmychannelsname5931 19 дней назад

Yes

@richardwest8382 19 дней назад

Yay costa

@AKKHUPAWAR 19 дней назад

Great work!!!!!!!!!!

@YuvrajAtwal-b5o 7 дней назад

For example if I are to ask a question to an endangered wild Bengal Tiger like all other species and wildlife out there around the world especially the Indian Subcontinent all of them would probably most likely one thing in common. qoute: "it is largely your agriculture that you humans use for food production which is and has been damaging, degrading and destroying our homes for centuries on a large scale rather infrastructure expansion and urbanization as these only contribute to a part of your wicked environmental problems, so people please do your best not to let your farmlands expand and further encroach our precious, and vulnerable remaining homes."

@reginafefifofina 17 дней назад

0:35 that deforested land looks like terraces … like in Peruvian permaculture (ecofriendly farming)

@richardwest8382 19 дней назад

Yay vandana Shiva!

@Silks- 19 дней назад

great video. The seed vault’s a silly idea though because when the biosphere collapses, there’ll be nobody around to plant them 💀

@YVM3311 11 дней назад

100%. Modern agriculture is incredibly destructive to the environment. Short term gains do more food production. Long term effects: desertification and climate change. Not worth it. Regenrative agriculture is key to solve our agricultural crisis, dependency on the chemical and fertilizers lobbies , reverse climate change and reverse soil desertification. It’s amazing .

@garyharris4008 15 дней назад

Who was the gal that wrote 'Silent Spring'; then mysteriously died over banning of DDT?

@karlwheatley1244 14 дней назад

Rachel Carson

@steveford9294 17 дней назад

Very well done documentary. Having Vandana Shiva and the others interviewed was a great move. Only problem with Svalbard, seed bank is those seeds are living embryos and need to be grown out periodically which varies crop to crop. Also a few years ago the permafrost started to melt, if those seeds got wet it would be all over. Also keeping the Gates foundation and multinational companies out of it is critical. They would love to patent everything in there. We needs lots of smaller regional seed banks as well. Putting it all in one place is not perfect. The best way to save those seeds is to grow them out and eat the resulting crops and set aside more seed. If you do another series on this you should include open source seed initiative which is now global. Keeping these seeds open source and in the people’s hands is paramount. Overall well done.

@sam-515 19 дней назад

Wonderful work AJ

@martinhumble 19 дней назад

Meeting You With A View To A Kill

@betterpoliticsquetu 19 дней назад

slow birth rate

@garyharris4008 15 дней назад

This guy needs a haircut! Good things to say. Apartment dwellers can grow a few things in pots. Problem is: getting around infrastructure of greed!

@sanimsikder4176 19 дней назад

Make report on Bangladesh govtment job quota protest 😢😢😢

@sifatulla2354 19 дней назад

@@sanimsikder4176 they know well that hasina government playing with it's own people 🤣🤣🤣qot qot qot

@brittanykasha4825 12 дней назад

Wow is this really not common knowledge?

@user-ht1kp9kb7y 13 дней назад

More propaganda I have so many wild animals passing through my yard it's as if I live inside an open Zoo

@lesreed8803 18 дней назад

🤢

@JorgeRicardo540 19 дней назад

Nature is very important, but i dont worship it

@afghanica 19 дней назад

ya let's worship oil and methane instead........ bot behaviour^^^

@donHooligan 19 дней назад

Gaia is The Mother of All Life.

@gregorymalchuk272 19 дней назад

@@afghanica Oil and methane massively cleaned up the environment and increased human quality of life.

@afghanica 18 дней назад

@@gregorymalchuk272 oil bot is being obviously an oil bot.... nice spin lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

@robertpedersen6831 15 дней назад

We are dead without a functioning ecosystem. Imagine living in a dessert.

@geraldmantel4955 19 дней назад

Again, nothing new here ...

@sifatulla2354 19 дней назад

Preparedness for new world order....dajjal😂😂😂😂

@awesome8315 19 дней назад

😮😮😮😮😮😮

@geraldmantel4955 19 дней назад

Doesn't take a genius to conclude that climate change, pollution, and urbanization "might" have a negative effect on biodiversity. George Carlin even made reference to it about 15 years ago.