One seed at a time, protecting the future of food | Cary Fowler
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2009
- www.ted.com The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed bank, buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop for whatever tomorrow may bring.
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It worries me that such a magnificent TED talk with such a pressing and profoundly meaningful message only has about 50k views in 10 years, while a TED talk about procrastination has 20 million in 2 years... It kind of exemplifies the problems we are in... Let these procrastinators watch this talk and help/support this work...
Men like this will save humankind. Not movie stars, not religions, not politicians.
Men like this.
Very incitement Mr. Spock
Cary Fowler and Dr Vandana Shiva are both heroes for saving seeds. I do hope he is working with her and her organisation Navdanya. We need their combined wisdom to ensure the future of our crops for the next 1,000 years.
Finally... crop scientists talking about biodiversity.... thank you TED for presenting responsible food science here. This is very important knowledge.
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I never TRULY understood why seed variation was so important in my biology class last year, now I really get it! Gees this is a big deal and a good talk!
Как жаль, что он не упомянул огромный труд, проведенный в этом направлении Николаем Ивановичем Вавиловым.
Schade, dass er die gewaltige Arbeit von Nikolai Wawilow in dieser Richtung nicht erwähnt hat.
What a pity that he did not mention the tremendous work done in this direction by Nikolai Vavilov.
Great talk.
9 years later and the ice/snow there is melting... :-(
well it depends anuals should be easy. things that require several years to reach fruition are a bigger worry.
true true. i just hope we can do both.
Wow Letterman looks younger then ever in this video. Didn't even know he did TED talks.
Haha, interesting talk. TED rocks!
I guess it would be most beneficial to do both, but we have to look at the potential costs of doing the reservoir thing. From what I could understand, it seems like it's not very expensive, just kept in poor locations.
and it's possible we may not even need the actual seed but just their genetic variance in some sort of information based document, like a pdf or a some sort of text file.
thank you folx, that number enough to give a *care*, while others don't give a *care*, and keep *caring* only for their self *caring* needs.
well i didnt use care, on my rough draft...TY Greenland, doubt I'll ever, but would I ever, enjoy seeing your place.
eye opening
I agree with elspoko. Long live Nerd's!
Thanks TED
God I love his speech!
Vangalex wrote:
"Climate change... yes, this is the coldest summer on record in Western New York"
What exactly with the word "global" you dont understand? Is not called "local climate change" for a reason, it is called "global climate change" implying a global trend of raising temperatures.
There is total consensus among scientists that the global temperate is rising, but what it is disputed is the degree of human involvement in the temperature rising.
讲的不错
What's the song at the end?
I am getting major Horizon Zero Dawn vibs from this. It's a game where the same thing happens, a catastrophe and vaults were created to preserve human genes, knowledge, education, vegetation, culture, and many more. It's quite scary when I compare it the game, it's not a dream anymore, as he said, it's becoming a reality. His speech is so amazing, he got me scared of what is goin to happen with apples and beans.
The ending of this video with all the orbs, kind of tripped me out
bravo
curious people. but the thing is there's always going to be somewhere a person can go to carry knowledge forward where knowledge isn't taboo and they will find that place and keep on pushing forward.
it may be colder here in NY, but on a global scale the temperature is rising, albeit slowly. I don't think his assertion that the hottest weather now will be peanuts to the coldest then is all that accurate, considering he's trained in genetic variability, not climate change. But it's still not a bad point either way.
The climate has changed dramatically in the past, and there's no real way of knowing that it won't change again.
Well you are right, ultimately the main contributor of energy input on the earth system is the Sun, either directly as EM energy or indirectly as stored energy in fossil fuels, biomass etc.
It is also true that the output of EM energy from the Sun has increased but it doesnt correlate very well with the increase of global temperature, which has been even more dramatic. On the other hand important green house gases have increased which do correlates better with increased temp. over the years.
And what of wild plants from which all these agricultural crops come? Surely their natural diversity is of some value.
This guy seems to be so sentimental about crops.
A pity that he did not mention the negative affect that Monsanto has on all these seeds with its patenting program currently.
See the documentary 'The future of food'.
The varieties weren't created from scratch -- they either existed in nature or were crossed from the wide variety existing in nature. If we don't have any genetic variety to start with, we can't really do much in terms of creating varieties to tolerate climate change.
Also...we might not get a century to develop new varieties.
It's supposed to say "Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food". But I'm guessing they couldn't fit all that into the title on youtube
500 seeds per sample sounds like an awfully small sample for long term storage.
he used the analogy of dog breeds. To get the diversity of dogs you see today it's taken 10,000 years. Seeds are a little easier for obvious reasons of interbreeding and shorter generations. But nevertheless it isn't a quick process.
12 anos desse video e ja estamos sentindo os efeitos graves das mudanças climaticas. imagina mais algumas decadas pra frente. a gente ta fodido
f is a very very important letter
i wouldn't put all hope in 1 spotof seed storage, what if there is an earthquake....
i would definitely split the move some into a different facility just incase something happens.
Nope, it if Monsanto has its way. See the documentary 'The future of food', you will know why then.
by the time we get to 2070 I doubt genetic variability will be an issue. That's considering how rapidly our understanding genetics and genetic engineering is advancing.
Climate change... yes, this is the coldest summer on record in Western New York
imagine in the far future when we're terraforming planets when we can go through all known genomes of crops and grasses trees and animals and whip up a batch of whatever would be most survivable on a new planet. won't that be fun?
why take the chance?
all of those species are just dna information, just information.
If we can sequence the genomes of all species, then store them as data just as we do computer data. Then perhaps that would be the best and safest way to store that information.
or "coolwhip"?
Does anyone else pronounce the "h" in wheat?... how would you say "whip cream"?
Protecting the future of F ??? what does that mean ?
like hwip and hweat?
where you kinda pronounce the h first?
or do you say wu-heat and wu-hip?
I pronounce them as wip and weat... so no i do not
As a species we're always advancing. Would you believe islam was actually the reservoire of all the greek and roman scholarly and mathematical work while the west was involved in the dark ages? Sure it was a time of slow advance but there were some advances made like the conceptualization of the atom durring that period. The scottish charcoal burners were a group of hermit scholars who traded books back and forth and debated ideas.
the next poison ivy lol
6000?????? extinct holy shiet! maybe missing cure gone?
I disagree, mainly from the standpoint of duplicating work. Suppose we need a crop that can withstand high salt content in the soil; with genetic engineering, it might take several iterations (a couple growing seasons) to find a good crop, when instead we could find one in the seedbank that works with little or no modifications. That one instance is likely more than enough to pay back the cost of running this bank.
I felt like nudging him and saying "Psst shut up, don't tell everyone about this amazing seed bank in Svalbard - I'm afraid some nutcase(s) is going to go and blow it up!"
well....simple....because it's mainstream media :D.
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Please, please... do never accept any GMO seeds in this amazing seed bank!
They don't.
Should hold human eggs Nd sperm for humanity insurance policy
I agree.
Or if not a universal child cap perhaps a license to have children. It sounds like too much power but really, I would rather the government be giving the right people with good families and economic situations the chance to have kids rather than allowing poor or fundamentalist folks to push out kids in order to gain money or voting power.
The only question would be how to implement or enforce it.
UFO was here..
PEACE
Advantageous minor traits from wild types can be crossed over with transgenisis. Hopefully people wake up from anti GM propaganda and we can see this technology be used for the good of man kind :))
As an atheist I am opposed to all notions of a God.
As a human being, familiar with the folly and foolishnesh of mankind, making man a god is infinately worse.
ok...we have back up seeds ... but we still need the water!!!
Ok this is kinda screwed up that place looks like something I've seen in mass effect
Oh, are you saying god will help humanity? Last I checked, god allows attrocities and injustice to happen everyday.
I guess he's too busy telling people to give him money.
I'm inseminating my bed and other places everywhere, everyday. But my seedlings don't grow, they just seem to die all the time. I'm confused. Help me
Well I blame religion. When people spend all their time roleplaying that they're in a 3000 year old fantasy novel that says that people never really die they tend to treat the world and life and discovery the sufferings of other and the future as meaningless.
lame talk
only JESUSCHRIST SAVES.no one else!!