I have known this since I was a child in the 50's playing in the swamps of Farmington, Michigan. As an organic gardener I sense the plants and often have words like water or feed me come from an area of my garden. I let the plants know I am grateful for their bounty and enjoy listening to the birds sing the trees awake every spring. Even the soil has different forms of life that seem to communicate. My best friend's daughters did a science experiment that proved that plants respond to human emotions of love, hate and neutral. When I was growing tomatoes on an urban farm in La Habra Heights the owner's son played rap while he worked and a circle of tomato plants around his radio became ill. I had him remove the radio and managed to bring the plants back to health.
SURE BUT THE IDEA THAT RAP MUSIC IS HARMFUL IS DUMB. IT WAS PROBABLY JUST LOUD SOUND WAVES. LOUD DECIBELS ARE ALSO HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS. SORRY I'M STUCK IN CAPS LOCK
🌈Superior speaker with fantastic vocabulary to clearly express many great ideas while injecting humor and irony to keep the audience fixated. Absolutely amazing speech!😁👍
Isn’t it funny that no one knows everything about anything but someone just decided to name it something one day ie ‘plant’ and we all just stuck to that story. Wild.
Wonderfully insightful, inspiring speech, full of information, humor and hope. Thank you for this, for your organization and for a beautiful, meaningful conference this year.
Dear Kenny, I agree with much of what you say...but there is a major omission in your call for movements to work together. You mention only human-centric movements, not the animal rights movement. Animal Ag contributes more greenhouse gases (& the worst) than ALL oil/gas emissions combined, yet our leaders--including 'environmental' organizations and environmentalists DON'T talk about this. How we can continue to slaughter our fellow animals so that our society can achieve complete obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other killing diseases, and meanwhile destroy the environment? Even friends waging battle on the frontline to 'save' the environment eat animals and many are overweight. Frankly, I can't take them seriously and talking about diet is TABOO and the fastest way to lose a 'friend.' When will humans release their death grip on eating animals? When we're extinct? Why can't we talk about moving to a human, animal and earth-healthy diet? No, there is no such thing as "humanely" killing an animal - the ultimate cruelty is killing another. Yes plants are eaten on a veg/vegan diet but a lot fewer plants than plants fed to animals and then the animal slaughtered. And water. My calculator doesn't have enough spaces to calculate freshwater savings by watering plants instead of animals for a small population assumption of 100k people let alone millions. Sincerely...
To eat something should be to honor it, we have gotten so disconnected with our food that the last thing they see before they die is a machine. Eating something with life is not the problem, and is necessary for survival, eating something without respecting and appreciating the life it’s giving for you and making sure it’s a good one, that’s the sin.
I have known this since I was a child in the 50's playing in the swamps of Farmington, Michigan. As an organic gardener I sense the plants and often have words like water or feed me come from an area of my garden. I let the plants know I am grateful for their bounty and enjoy listening to the birds sing the trees awake every spring. Even the soil has different forms of life that seem to communicate.
My best friend's daughters did a science experiment that proved that plants respond to human emotions of love, hate and neutral. When I was growing tomatoes on an urban farm in La Habra Heights the owner's son played rap while he worked and a circle of tomato plants around his radio became ill. I had him remove the radio and managed to bring the plants back to health.
That is beautiful and amazing, Robert!
Love and light
SURE BUT THE IDEA THAT RAP MUSIC IS HARMFUL IS DUMB. IT WAS PROBABLY JUST LOUD SOUND WAVES. LOUD DECIBELS ARE ALSO HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS. SORRY I'M STUCK IN CAPS LOCK
I wish everybody would listen to this.
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What a deeply considered text, not a wasted word, I will be viewing this repeatedly just to begin to absorb the content. Thank you.
Here you can read the full speech too: www.huffingtonpost.com/kenny-ausubel/imagining-our-way-out-of-_b_12594074.html
Huff post !!!!!1 Jeezus The home of left wing crap
The lefties, as you call us, are the ones opening their mind to new possibilities. What are you doing here, then?
So Do I take it you work for Huff then ? If then ,perhaps you could tell us when they had an open mind?
Yes, A beautifully considered and thoughtfully woven speech. I will view this many times as well. It is filled with quotable thoughts.
Hope....thank you for sharing this. Amazing speech.
He just summed up everything that's wrong in the world! Very concise!
If Ausubel hasn't considered this already, this would make a great TED talk.
Wow. This is one of the most spiritual talks I have ever heard.
I see hope after this man's speech.
“We can do this, this is what we get to do” ❤️
🌈Superior speaker with fantastic vocabulary to clearly express many great ideas while injecting humor and irony to keep the audience fixated. Absolutely amazing speech!😁👍
Kick ass speech!
genius even the slime mold would appreciate, we can do this, its in our power to imagine it into reality
Great speech! Standing ovation! Kudos!
Yes! Well spoken. Thank you Kenny
Beautiful, cogent, and thoroughly inspiring.
It may be of little comforrt to know but those who destroy the world are also doomed to die with it
Wonderful! love it.
i love you all!!!
Isn’t it funny that no one knows everything about anything but someone just decided to name it something one day ie ‘plant’ and we all just stuck to that story. Wild.
There's a cause I can get behind!
yes Great job!
bravo!
Wonderfully insightful, inspiring speech, full of information, humor and hope.
Thank you for this, for your organization and for a beautiful, meaningful conference this year.
"It's high time to expand our view of personhood to the natural world, not to corporations."
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I came here, inspired by a passion for science.. and got politics instead. ?
Same lol. Still a good speech. I don't consider myself a liberal, but I really liked it.
facebook and youtube belong to the people, we need to take them back!!!
Dear Kenny, I agree with much of what you say...but there is a major omission in your call for movements to work together. You mention only human-centric movements, not the animal rights movement. Animal Ag contributes more greenhouse gases (& the worst) than ALL oil/gas emissions combined, yet our leaders--including 'environmental' organizations and environmentalists DON'T talk about this. How we can continue to slaughter our fellow animals so that our society can achieve complete obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other killing diseases, and meanwhile destroy the environment? Even friends waging battle on the frontline to 'save' the environment eat animals and many are overweight. Frankly, I can't take them seriously and talking about diet is TABOO and the fastest way to lose a 'friend.' When will humans release their death grip on eating animals? When we're extinct? Why can't we talk about moving to a human, animal and earth-healthy diet? No, there is no such thing as "humanely" killing an animal - the ultimate cruelty is killing another. Yes plants are eaten on a veg/vegan diet but a lot fewer plants than plants fed to animals and then the animal slaughtered. And water. My calculator doesn't have enough spaces to calculate freshwater savings by watering plants instead of animals for a small population assumption of 100k people let alone millions. Sincerely...
What will vegans eat now🤦🤷😂
To eat something should be to honor it, we have gotten so disconnected with our food that the last thing they see before they die is a machine. Eating something with life is not the problem, and is necessary for survival, eating something without respecting and appreciating the life it’s giving for you and making sure it’s a good one, that’s the sin.
Vegetarians now eat gravel.
blah blah blah...