0:10 Joanne Chory had an epiphany 0:54 Who is Joanne Chory? 1:42 Her Team 2:12 CO2, Photosynthesis 3:50 Plant 🌱 Death/Decompisition 4:25 *Suberin* 5:06 Why now? 6:25 Biology 6:47 Three Things 1. More Suberin 2. More Roots 3. Deep Roots 8:13 Gene 🧬 Expression 9:05 Challenges 10:27 The benefit of Suberin displayed in an image 11:23 Optimism for Plants and The Earth 12:36 After talk recap
@@pity_alvarez every bit of their talk is important so skipping the video to a certain part could lead you to miss information and leave you lost. I suggest watching the whole video since it is all so important.
@@ufewl did you listen to the talk, the genetically altered plants would produce the same yield as current crops, the only change would be the increase if suberin in the plants roots, also genocide is deliberate killing which she is definitely not doing, and it would be the climate change that would cause mass fatalities, not the plants
Unless the farmer uses 'no-till' method, that sequestered carbon still gets released. Instead of doing that, or in addition to no-till farming, why don't we all plant more broad-leafed and other non-deciduous shrubs and shade trees at all businesses and residences (urban and suburban), parks, green spaces, and everywhere we can----surpassing the numbers of acres used for mass production and monoculture style crop production? I am in zone 9, and I tend to favor my gardenias, which I have increased in their numbers from cuttings.
You're not wrong, the tilling will release it on a semi-annual basis; but this would still increase the amount sequestered at all times because the farmer behavior would remain constant while the plants put more carbon away. It's still a fantastic thing. And just because food is the more easily scaleable doesn't mean that we couldn't get other types of plants for other places and climates too. It seems the farm method is a great way to get the ball rolling quickly since it has immediate impact on us, and is more visible to companies/private interests/consumers.
Or incorporate both no-till and new root formation and include the high-root system plants in urban and suburban areas for biodiversity. This could be revolutionary and lead to lower necessity of fertilizers since the roots will supply microbes and the soil will be sustained. Lower fertilizer use leads to less algal bloom and marine life won't be affected as greatly.
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist carbon isn't a pollutant, that's not even a sensible argument. CO2 does effect heat in the atmosphere and while it may not be an immediate existential threat, developing technologies and methods to deal with a potential threat to our existence is prudent. Having an open mind, not an ideology, is far more useful and of more utility to the species than discounting one opinion outright. Also, UA-cam is probably not the best place to reference support for your argument.
Joanne and/or her team, not all farmers are against the environment, I am sure there are many out that that would like to help, I think all you need to do is set up a website looking for interested farmers that can spare some land and would be willing to help, and if the results are that good and its all in a positive way then it wont take long for the rest of the farming community to follow suit, you just need to get some trailblazing farmers on board first, I dont think your going to need to sell (convince) to anyone.
Probably alot easier to get started in the landscaping side of agriculture and probably more effective with plants that already have huge root systems like bamboo
Redwoods are the most efficient on the planet, and there's a great project going on in california aiming at having a massive acreage of redwoods. They also utilize char which makes it even better!
I don't like the thought of genmodified plants too, but if the option is to rather have more pesticides or gmo plants, than I would prefer the second option
I'm not thrilled about gmo plants that do things like create their own pesticides because then we eat that.. but this actually sounds like a much safer modification that could potentially do the world a lot of good. I also am feeling a little like desperate times call for desperate measures because at the rate we are going the earth will be practically uninhabitable and have a complete breakdown of society in the next 30 years.
Unless you have a completely organic farm, and even then, you already are using those seeds. Or eating what comes from those seeds. Most of the corn today is modified, for example. We have decades of scientific studies showing that GMO's are safe. Please get informed. I'm not saying that to bash you, but just because there is a real problem with the public perception of GMO's, that perceives them as bad, while all the evidence so far shows the opposite. They allow for better yields due to crops that are more drought resistant, for example, or are providing the greatly needed Vitamin A, thanks to modified rice, to people who otherwise would have a deficiency that could leave them blind. Plants would naturally evolve on their own in nature, and they do just that in fact. The difference with GMO's is that we're modifying them in a controlled manner, allowing for mutations that are beneficial and selected for. A plant in the wild could have evolve to have the exact same mutations, but it typically would take more time...
F Yo I do actually and have heritage seeds and plants from generations of my family. I don’t plant corn and such crops that are known for their gmo’s and stick to the seeds and plants I trust. Seeds saved from generations of plants. I also forage my natural forest for foods. There is no reason why we should all embrace gmo. So far gmo has walked hand and hand with over use of spraying of chemicals I don’t allow on my land and won’t.
Its nice to know there are people commited in creating a better environment to save our planet for current and future generations. I hope that this research will pave the way for the solution we need. We need more people to think like her :solution-oriented.
But deeper roots mean that they suck up more ground moisture than before. That is the reason why plants like Eucalyptus are banned in India due to heavy water use of plants having deeper roots.
Where can I fund this project, I mean if we all can get a crowdfund going and everyone gives a tiny bit of money her lab and team can get excellent results in fewer time. Alone the little likely hood for this to save the world is enough for me to help by spending money.
What about the symbiotic microbes that live on plant roots? I think that might be another avenue for exploration-microbes can mutate or even just be “discovered” more quickly than more complex plants (as in maybe the microbes that can do carbon sequestration exist, and we can select / propogate them)…
Here's a funny thing: if you grow trees, chop them down and turn them into lumber, it sequesters the carbon for far longer. New trees also absorb carbon faster than old trees, so if you do that and plant new ones, we can use trees to capture carbon faster than just planting trees once and letting it grow. So if we changed the lumber industry such that it was more distributed and used less gas-powered heavy equipment and transportation, one of the most notoriously eco-unfriendly industries could become one of the greenest in the world.
Phytoplankton and algae are the key to complete clean up of the damages already caused by humans that and massive co2 scrub facilities by 2197 there are only seventeen of them strategically placed throughout the world and let me tell you they are enormous in size and are considered one of the five greatest feats of humankind engineering unfortunately I’m unable to tamper an jumpstart these events that already will happen but no need to panic we did it!!!One of the eight savant peoples of science was born in the beginning of this year who plays a key role in the necessary biotechnology invented for this to become a reality his work in doing this inadvertently also contributed to a key resource we use in are colonies.Btw as you guys say a lot of these scientists will be what are referred to as the “new celebs” I can’t believe there was a time in my timeline in which these people weren’t giving out autographs I mean they are the changers of the world responsible for eradicating starvation the need for hydrocarbons and the existence of most disease/parasites but we still like are entertainers as well I sure do like not being reminded all the time on every package the negative effects of some of my favorite snacks/drinks which for the most part aren’t relevant anymore anyways sense everyone gets monthly full body cybercleans anyways hate that metallic taste 🤢 but Apple health knows best sorry off topic just thought it would be safe to write this since very little will see it plus I can say hi to the person I told I would hi grandma love you remember to write wat it was like in 2139 an will have home g.i. Read it to us when I get back love you!!im burying some unique stuff I think you and my moms and dads will like also blasting you sis I told you I wouldn’t find anyone with your name commonly here you were right about the bananas they do taste different an they said they got the taste the same when they relifed them no even close I’m gonna see if I can freeze dry them but in are time they probably will have gone bad (();)~ enjoy your trip to martianathens dad please be safe I know the wars almost won keep fighting those scaly subhums tell we wipe there history from are stars I pray to creation for yours safety here’s the i.d. So you guys can search the archives 16848479295748649926317 that should pop up easy be home soon
Oh Frank, of course we can live like that. Nature finds balance in everything in time. Population can just shrink to sustainable amounts of people by mass starvation. No need to worry. Even if half of all species would die off there would still remain the other half. Mass extinctions happened several times in the past.
I would be interested to see the models that predict how much CO2 this would actually sequester. I hate to be pessimistic, but I have a hard time believing this could even make a dent. (I hope I'm wrong). Engineering a handful of agricultural species? Maybe if you could get every tree in the rain forests to sequester more carbon, along with all of the photosynthetic marine organisms.... I hate to be negative, and I honestly hope solutions like this can work, but I'd like to see the data.
Grandma you working on wrong plants! We need supercharged algae. You know the single cell algae. Which we can use this for make biodisel fuel and food.
It's a great idea in theory. The problem is with those single cellular species that may be more effective is that they have a higher risk of a run-away reaction. Humans are notorious for messing with systems that are way over their heads and dooming the lot. I'm not making fun of you or anything; its nothing personal but humans can barely clean up oil spills imagine the damage of oil spill that multiplies themselves with great haste doing the damage of a mega algae bloom in it's wake. Plants arnt nearly as hard to regulate (although still dangerous). Ask any engineer and they will tell you to always keep an eye on an overclocked system because they are super chaotic.
@@wastelesslearning1245 That is true but think which that comes to crispr they are super chaotic but still no limit. but still we can create that single cellular species with addictive to our lab made chemical which that doesn't exist on nature mean we can strictly control it. Well wirh this added one more option to end we can use this for make biodisel fuel, food and weapon
The reason I mention the plants cancer passivity was to compare it to the Tasmanian Devil's transmittable face cancer. Yes that cancer is contagious through bite and is lethal. It's the closest thing I know of that resembles multiceular life's cells turning into a rogue "new species" in the since that it can self proliferate. "Life uh finds a way." There is also the story of life producing a byproduct it could not repurpose, and so drained the entire biosphere of resources, causing a great mass extinction. But that's not really related except for that wood and reed build up during those times were where we get our fossil fuels from and that is yet another way life can backfire on itself.
@@wastelesslearning1245 well, Still life itself is weak to be controlled by simple dna ofcourse there is no way to make stop evolve of life small as celluar and there is hope for us to be escape from a future where is no food nor fuel but full of war. If there is a right choice that life can backfire because we still have many ways to taming the danger
Rick James How is climate change total bs? If you’ve seen the state of the planet recently, you’d know that it’s a very big problem that we need to solve. We only have twenty years to do that before we can’t fix it anymore.
Thats what I was thinking. More people need more oxygen and that means we need more plants which need more CO2. Also her point on how the plants put the CO2 in the ground which attracts more good things for the soil making the plants better. So the idea that CO2 causes bad climate change confuses me. If we dont have enough plants, we need more. This is something we all know.
We should do whatever it takes without being attached to the outcome , it is probably too late and I don't think humans will be around by the end of the century , if we're lucky maybe 2050 . This year has already be catastrophic for agriculture around the globe and it won't get better , global dimming will also give us a challenge we have not yet addressed or have answers to . Live without hope so one can deal with the reality of our impending extinction maybe we can exit gracefully .
The sad thing is: With a solution to this problem, people will probably see this as a reason to justify higher CO2 emissions. Too high to use plants... and we have to start over again.
Actually I'm pretty sure that hers solution while helpful will anyways have insignificant effect in comparison with our current CO2 emissions. Like, they don't even know the exact numbers for tonnes of CO2 absorbed per acre per year or anything like that.
Hmm, interesting. Thought messing with nature's bio could cause other problems down the road. I really like idea skyscraper air scrubbers. So many forest fires every year, hard to be positive about putting faith in nature when temps are already too hot to handle it seems. I do like the idea though, thank you for your research and efforts.
So, organize a movement to plant everywhere rather than talking only and stop cutting trees to building hollow house and try to influence to build solid buildings. Do not talk in a language common man cannot understand
There's one thing that bothers me about this. Aren't the (rain)forests around the world by far the largest CO2 cleaner?! Changing the few crops to produce more suberin sounds like a small scratch on the surface.... More important and impactful would be to radically slow down our society. No intracontinental, or short distance flights, cheaper (or free) public transport and longdistance trains. A rise of vegetarianism and an altered view on fashion and trends, leaning towards an indifference for that and getting used to secondhand stuff.
Yeah and everyone forgets about the phytoplankton as well. Also, a little CO2 is a good thing, if these plants store too much the earth could potentially get colder.. I say we just slow down our production of CO2 and leave the damn plants alone.
There's an exponential increase in temperatures when the industrial revolution was occurring. Plot that against the sudden increase of CO2 and there ya go. Do you know of any other factors that could be causing it?
@@RexHalbeisen "The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939-1940, but some regions of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years." What's this have to do with climate change?
The Dust Bowl only affected some regions of America and Canada for about 6 years, not most of the world and progressively over decades like climate change. I don't think you can compare both events.
Well, you're acting in a kind of "upside-down" way. This is about how science works, and be it clear, ignorance is not an actual problem. Actual problems are disonhesty and lack of humility. You have to provide proofs in order to falsify all the discorses which assert human activities have consistent/important effects on climate change/s. You have to do it because "many people" already have provided proofs which "sustain" the discourses you deem as false.
I seriously don't get why people like you are leaving comments like that? Why? You think the World can seriously benefit from your nasty opinion? Ugh... Try speaking with Parkinson's and you'll understand why her speech pattern was a little different. I know you don't get it, but that's actually very difficult to do. Just standing still is so imagine...
@@holocene2164 she doesn't have Parkinson's though That would have been a different case I'm just saying that her presentation should have been more organized and better planned A guy had to summarize and state all the important facts that she didn't mention Consider this as a constructive criticism
to get carbon in the soil. you dont need genetic engineering you need to change conventional agricultural practices, stop plowing and switch to no-till regenerative agriculture is the solution, it cares about soil health and soil carbon feeding earth's population isnt an excuse to destroy and deplete soils anymore
this could save our generation and the future. i just want to thank all the people related to the research and those who are trying to highlight it.. "thanks a lot for trying to save us."
@@ufewl how tf would it wipe out life, the genetically altered plants would produce the same yield as current crops, the only change would be the increase if suberin in the plants roots, and it would create more life not kill it
@@calisthenicschicken8812 the thing is, we are super effective on producing CO2. even if the day comes where we face shortage of CO2 we can just step back and use the regular seeds . i agree with you on "balancing" point but we are ruining the balance now. and something needs to be done. As nobody is stopping the extra production of the moneymaking gas i think this solution can be supper effective.
Martyr4JesusTheChrist your lack of concision seriously undermines your point and for someone to think so highly of themselves and assume that I have no knowledge of basic biology like photosynthesis yet deny the human induced enhanced greenhouse effect is truly incredulous. You are quite certainly one of a kind Although I do agree that CO2 is not a pollutant as such and NOT THE MAIN CAUSE OF HUMAN INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE (refrigators contribute to 40% of global warming).
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist Heya. I wonder - why did you not cite even a single study? No one is claiming that CO2 is a pollutant in itself. It is a greenhouse gas - it makes the world warmer by trapping radiation energy from the sun. It is true that plants enjoy a CO2 rich environment, some greenhouse gases are built next to powerplants where they transfer the exhaust CO2 to the greenhouses for the plants to grow. This does not anyhow impact the argument that anthropological CO2 emissions are causing the climate change that we are experiencing right now.
Cash crops only photosynthesis light for a couple months out of the year. And the rest of the year fields aren’t taking up that free solar energy. We need diverse perennials and annuals in our fields year round like grasses, legumes and forbs. Then just graze them with cattle. Rather than grow corn in a field to feed cattle in a feedlot when they don’t even have a damn beak in the first place.
@@musiclaboratory9694, " căpșunii" din decembrie au doar forma de căpșună..La cât sunt de "imbunatatiti" cu "parfum" si la cât sunt de "fardati" ... ar trebui să fie comercializați strict doar în drogherii ! :)
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist if you want the preach the bible to people who haven't asked that's already pretty awful, but the bible teaches us to love the lord out god with all our heart mind and soul and to love our neighbour as yourself, so do not go and try and use the bible in your defence when you are condescending and plain mean to the people you are talking to. That is not okay. By all means, be an annoying turd, but don't say that the bible or anything about it is on your side. And you're one to speak about ultracrepidarians.
@Anti Apartheid Israel You can't prove it's human induced, you can't prove it's not. You can only acknowledge the problem and work towards a solution rather than deny it because "it will fix itself". Funny thing is, doing nothing isn't the worst possible thing you can do. Neither is telling people to do nothing. It is what you're doing which is telling people to tell people to do nothing.
@Anti Apartheid Israel the polar ice caps began to melt because of human induced climate change which sped uyp the procces since the ice caps hold huge supplies of cco2 and mathane in them
A truly inspiring woman. I do hope her study produces the results she hopes for and even if it doesn’t she will still inspire a lot of people to do better
The more organic matter you add to the plant, and less chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the longer and deeper the rootsystems. Organic farming is the way.
I think botanists also need to identify those plants & trees which thrived during the mid-Pliocene era because apparently that climate is the direction we are heading into. Should we now, for example, be starting plantations of such as the Bunya Pine as the sub-tropical regions expand? This tree as a mature giant has potential as a firebreak/storm break as well as being a heavy cropper of food nuts. There must also be many more trees/plants we can & should consider for planting to reach maturity in the predicted temperatures of +2°C any time after 2040?
Deeper roots mean better soil stabilization too, useful to combat soil erosion. Hopefully increased suberin doesn't significantly increase a plant's water requirements thus putting extra pressure on that often scarce resource. Every home gardener can help by having a (deep rooted) comfrey patch in an unused corner of their backyard; the leaves are rich in minerals for use as natural soil manure/compost tea.
Except this can be done without GMOs and done better. That said, soil carbon is really important in ways she doesn't discuss here, or prolly even know about. She doesn't understand the failings of monocropped, field-grown annual foods and the myriad cascade of negatives it entails, including diminishing soil carbon. Permaculture succeeds over GMO solutions in that it is cheaper overall, is better for *farmer sustainability* and security, accomplishes better the goals of good food, and good environmental practice. It builds good soil quickly where conventional farming constantly depletes it. Permaculture is better in that it considers what she is ignorant of and compensates for and works around it. An excellent teacher of large-scale permaculture is Mark Shepard, and his book "Restoration Agriculture". Read the book before you watch his videos to get a better understanding of the system as a whole.
The microbes in the soil break down the plant matter and store much of the carbon in the soil. That’s why our soils were like chocolate cake before we degraded them with tillage and modern agriculture. Cover crops go a long way to fix soil structure and store carbon in the ground.
This is amazing, I feel so inspired. I am attending the college of agriculture and life science next year, I want to do something big and this keeps affirming my path. I hope this technology changes the world.
Its like my grandma became a scientist to make her plants save her grandkids
Let's Talk Health! With Dr Ryan finally that stupid generation does something useful
This would be literally true for her own grandkids.
@@cedrickulacz8468 that's pretty awesome
@Paulo Costa which potential impacts do you think there could be?
At anyway, smart question man 👍
Yours is one of my favorite youtube comments I've ever read. :)
0:10 Joanne Chory had an epiphany
0:54 Who is Joanne Chory?
1:42 Her Team
2:12 CO2, Photosynthesis
3:50 Plant 🌱 Death/Decompisition
4:25 *Suberin*
5:06 Why now?
6:25 Biology
6:47 Three Things
1. More Suberin
2. More Roots
3. Deep Roots
8:13 Gene 🧬 Expression
9:05 Challenges
10:27 The benefit of Suberin displayed in an image
11:23 Optimism for Plants and The Earth
12:36 After talk recap
Thanks .. but now it makes me wanna no see... Idk why
Thank you.
We need more people like this in all ted's videos
@@pity_alvarez every bit of their talk is important so skipping the video to a certain part could lead you to miss information and leave you lost. I suggest watching the whole video since it is all so important.
Nice set-list, really loved the encore. 8/10 live gig
This lady is determined to save the world before she leaves it🙏🏻
she is low IQ she would cause famine and genocide
The world doesn`t need to be saved it`s the ecosystem that support`s us that need s saving!!!!!
@@ufewl did you listen to the talk, the genetically altered plants would produce the same yield as current crops, the only change would be the increase if suberin in the plants roots, also genocide is deliberate killing which she is definitely not doing, and it would be the climate change that would cause mass fatalities, not the plants
@@johnelphick9973 You don't want to be messing about with plants like that, plants bury more CO2 at higher CO2
anyway.
@@johnelphick9973 At higher CO2 plants produce more root to support the bigger plant, so plants do that anyway naturally.
Unless the farmer uses 'no-till' method, that sequestered carbon still gets released.
Instead of doing that, or in addition to no-till farming, why don't we all plant more broad-leafed and other non-deciduous shrubs and shade trees at all businesses and residences (urban and suburban), parks, green spaces, and everywhere we can----surpassing the numbers of acres used for mass production and monoculture style crop production?
I am in zone 9, and I tend to favor my gardenias, which I have increased in their numbers from cuttings.
You're not wrong, the tilling will release it on a semi-annual basis; but this would still increase the amount sequestered at all times because the farmer behavior would remain constant while the plants put more carbon away. It's still a fantastic thing. And just because food is the more easily scaleable doesn't mean that we couldn't get other types of plants for other places and climates too. It seems the farm method is a great way to get the ball rolling quickly since it has immediate impact on us, and is more visible to companies/private interests/consumers.
Or incorporate both no-till and new root formation and include the high-root system plants in urban and suburban areas for biodiversity. This could be revolutionary and lead to lower necessity of fertilizers since the roots will supply microbes and the soil will be sustained. Lower fertilizer use leads to less algal bloom and marine life won't be affected as greatly.
Over half of farmers are on no till or strip till and very few till annually aside from organics and small guya
thank god for people like this awesome lady who are trying to come up with solutions, these little glimmers of hope is what sustains me :')
The literal greening of the planet truly is the answer. I hope her team is able to make super plants happen!
one of the most genius inventions of our time....i hope it makes it and it gets funded by the large organisations of the world
Extraordinary and important research. This will change our world.
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist carbon isn't a pollutant, that's not even a sensible argument. CO2 does effect heat in the atmosphere and while it may not be an immediate existential threat, developing technologies and methods to deal with a potential threat to our existence is prudent. Having an open mind, not an ideology, is far more useful and of more utility to the species than discounting one opinion outright.
Also, UA-cam is probably not the best place to reference support for your argument.
This is definitely a Batman Poison Ivy arch.
90 years old poison ivy?
@@calisthenicschicken8812 1:53 Julie Law, the associate professor next to Joanne Chory could totally fit into the story.
This makes me hopeful! Great work.
Joanne and/or her team, not all farmers are against the environment, I am sure there are many out that that would like to help, I think all you need to do is set up a website looking for interested farmers that can spare some land and would be willing to help, and if the results are that good and its all in a positive way then it wont take long for the rest of the farming community to follow suit, you just need to get some trailblazing farmers on board first, I dont think your going to need to sell (convince) to anyone.
Probably alot easier to get started in the landscaping side of agriculture and probably more effective with plants that already have huge root systems like bamboo
So grateful for people like her on this planet!! Blessings
*This Grandma Is a̶v̶e̶r̶a̶g̶e̶ Awesome* ! 👍🏼
OAKS naturally produce a very thick cover of suberin: CORK, which also is a GREAT NATURAL INSULATOR. I´m planting hundreds of oaks. (Spain)
Redwoods are the most efficient on the planet, and there's a great project going on in california aiming at having a massive acreage of redwoods. They also utilize char which makes it even better!
Thank you. I surround myself and my home with plants that clear my energy continuously.
Plants are amazing! I still don’t want gmo seeds on my farm thanks. Not today and not tomorrow.
I don't like the thought of genmodified plants too, but if the option is to rather have more pesticides or gmo plants, than I would prefer the second option
May we know what's incorrect with gmo seeds please?
I'm not thrilled about gmo plants that do things like create their own pesticides because then we eat that.. but this actually sounds like a much safer modification that could potentially do the world a lot of good. I also am feeling a little like desperate times call for desperate measures because at the rate we are going the earth will be practically uninhabitable and have a complete breakdown of society in the next 30 years.
Unless you have a completely organic farm, and even then, you already are using those seeds. Or eating what comes from those seeds. Most of the corn today is modified, for example.
We have decades of scientific studies showing that GMO's are safe. Please get informed. I'm not saying that to bash you, but just because there is a real problem with the public perception of GMO's, that perceives them as bad, while all the evidence so far shows the opposite.
They allow for better yields due to crops that are more drought resistant, for example, or are providing the greatly needed Vitamin A, thanks to modified rice, to people who otherwise would have a deficiency that could leave them blind.
Plants would naturally evolve on their own in nature, and they do just that in fact. The difference with GMO's is that we're modifying them in a controlled manner, allowing for mutations that are beneficial and selected for.
A plant in the wild could have evolve to have the exact same mutations, but it typically would take more time...
F Yo I do actually and have heritage seeds and plants from generations of my family. I don’t plant corn and such crops that are known for their gmo’s and stick to the seeds and plants I trust. Seeds saved from generations of plants. I also forage my natural forest for foods.
There is no reason why we should all embrace gmo. So far gmo has walked hand and hand with over use of spraying of chemicals I don’t allow on my land and won’t.
Best speech on climate change I’ve heard in a while!!
Its nice to know there are people commited in creating a better environment to save our planet for current and future generations. I hope that this research will pave the way for the solution we need. We need more people to think like her :solution-oriented.
But deeper roots mean that they suck up more ground moisture than before. That is the reason why plants like Eucalyptus are banned in India due to heavy water use of plants having deeper roots.
Yes but also deep rooting plants help excess water to be transported to subsoil, so there are many aspects to water balance to think about
Are root vegetables helpful?
Where can I fund this project, I mean if we all can get a crowdfund going and everyone gives a tiny bit of money her lab and team can get excellent results in fewer time. Alone the little likely hood for this to save the world is enough for me to help by spending money.
What about the symbiotic microbes that live on plant roots? I think that might be another avenue for exploration-microbes can mutate or even just be “discovered” more quickly than more complex plants (as in maybe the microbes that can do carbon sequestration exist, and we can select / propogate them)…
I was just talking about this the other day... is UA-cam listening through my phone?
Hummmmm...
Certainly!
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@@skjelver4 MATH!!!
What an absolute gem!
Here's a funny thing: if you grow trees, chop them down and turn them into lumber, it sequesters the carbon for far longer. New trees also absorb carbon faster than old trees, so if you do that and plant new ones, we can use trees to capture carbon faster than just planting trees once and letting it grow.
So if we changed the lumber industry such that it was more distributed and used less gas-powered heavy equipment and transportation, one of the most notoriously eco-unfriendly industries could become one of the greenest in the world.
Phytoplankton and algae are the key to complete clean up of the damages already caused by humans that and massive co2 scrub facilities by 2197 there are only seventeen of them strategically placed throughout the world and let me tell you they are enormous in size and are considered one of the five greatest feats of humankind engineering unfortunately I’m unable to tamper an jumpstart these events that already will happen but no need to panic we did it!!!One of the eight savant peoples of science was born in the beginning of this year who plays a key role in the necessary biotechnology invented for this to become a reality his work in doing this inadvertently also contributed to a key resource we use in are colonies.Btw as you guys say a lot of these scientists will be what are referred to as the “new celebs” I can’t believe there was a time in my timeline in which these people weren’t giving out autographs I mean they are the changers of the world responsible for eradicating starvation the need for hydrocarbons and the existence of most disease/parasites but we still like are entertainers as well I sure do like not being reminded all the time on every package the negative effects of some of my favorite snacks/drinks which for the most part aren’t relevant anymore anyways sense everyone gets monthly full body cybercleans anyways hate that metallic taste 🤢 but Apple health knows best sorry off topic just thought it would be safe to write this since very little will see it plus I can say hi to the person I told I would hi grandma love you remember to write wat it was like in 2139 an will have home g.i. Read it to us when I get back love you!!im burying some unique stuff I think you and my moms and dads will like also blasting you sis I told you I wouldn’t find anyone with your name commonly here you were right about the bananas they do taste different an they said they got the taste the same when they relifed them no even close I’m gonna see if I can freeze dry them but in are time they probably will have gone bad (();)~ enjoy your trip to martianathens dad please be safe I know the wars almost won keep fighting those scaly subhums tell we wipe there history from are stars I pray to creation for yours safety here’s the i.d. So you guys can search the archives 16848479295748649926317 that should pop up easy be home soon
Loved this, thank you for your work!
We must do something! We can't continue to live like this!
residue junkie so how do you explain the extreme climate in recent years?
@residue junkie No? The science clearly shows a high uptrend starting during the industrial revolution.
@residue junkie That's not evidence against climate change.
@residue junkie I can't find any link
Oh Frank, of course we can live like that. Nature finds balance in everything in time. Population can just shrink to sustainable amounts of people by mass starvation. No need to worry. Even if half of all species would die off there would still remain the other half. Mass extinctions happened several times in the past.
So basically just make plants better at being plants. ?
Nope, it just makes them more useful for us and makes our existence lead to a minor damage towards the ecosystem we (need to) live in.
I would be interested to see the models that predict how much CO2 this would actually sequester. I hate to be pessimistic, but I have a hard time believing this could even make a dent. (I hope I'm wrong). Engineering a handful of agricultural species? Maybe if you could get every tree in the rain forests to sequester more carbon, along with all of the photosynthetic marine organisms.... I hate to be negative, and I honestly hope solutions like this can work, but I'd like to see the data.
Compare global plant biomass to yearly CO2 emissions. That gives us a nice estimate that hers solution is not going to have significant impact.
You are my heroes
Grandma you working on wrong plants!
We need supercharged algae.
You know the single cell algae.
Which we can use this for make biodisel fuel and food.
It's a great idea in theory. The problem is with those single cellular species that may be more effective is that they have a higher risk of a run-away reaction. Humans are notorious for messing with systems that are way over their heads and dooming the lot. I'm not making fun of you or anything; its nothing personal but humans can barely clean up oil spills imagine the damage of oil spill that multiplies themselves with great haste doing the damage of a mega algae bloom in it's wake. Plants arnt nearly as hard to regulate (although still dangerous). Ask any engineer and they will tell you to always keep an eye on an overclocked system because they are super chaotic.
@@wastelesslearning1245 That is true but think which that comes to crispr they are super chaotic but still no limit. but still we can create that single cellular species with addictive to our lab made chemical which that doesn't exist on nature mean we can strictly control it. Well wirh this added one more option to end we can use this for make biodisel fuel, food and weapon
The reason I mention the plants cancer passivity was to compare it to the Tasmanian Devil's transmittable face cancer. Yes that cancer is contagious through bite and is lethal. It's the closest thing I know of that resembles multiceular life's cells turning into a rogue "new species" in the since that it can self proliferate. "Life uh finds a way." There is also the story of life producing a byproduct it could not repurpose, and so drained the entire biosphere of resources, causing a great mass extinction. But that's not really related except for that wood and reed build up during those times were where we get our fossil fuels from and that is yet another way life can backfire on itself.
@@wastelesslearning1245 well, Still life itself is weak to be controlled by simple dna ofcourse there is no way to make stop evolve of life small as celluar and there is hope for us to be escape from a future where is no food nor fuel but full of war. If there is a right choice that life can backfire because we still have many ways to taming the danger
Rick James How is climate change total bs? If you’ve seen the state of the planet recently, you’d know that it’s a very big problem that we need to solve. We only have twenty years to do that before we can’t fix it anymore.
Viva a ciência.
Awesome!
People of earth, we just met our savior 🤞🏽
What if we make a park for an experimental ecosystem of plants modified to sequester carbon?
The Theory of evolution by human selection is a beauty 😁
Co2....is plant food
Thats what I was thinking. More people need more oxygen and that means we need more plants which need more CO2. Also her point on how the plants put the CO2 in the ground which attracts more good things for the soil making the plants better. So the idea that CO2 causes bad climate change confuses me. If we dont have enough plants, we need more. This is something we all know.
Roots run deep
We should do whatever it takes without being attached to the outcome , it is probably too late and I don't think humans will be around by the end of the century , if we're lucky maybe 2050 . This year has already be catastrophic for agriculture around the globe and it won't get better , global dimming will also give us a challenge we have not yet addressed or have answers to . Live without hope so one can deal with the reality of our impending extinction maybe we can exit gracefully .
"It's too late. Always has been. Always will be... too late." - Dr. Manhattan
Feed me, Seymour
Woohoo I'm on the road to microbiology!
It sounds like we need to planet more gardens and trees and put up less buildings and cell phone towers.
The sad thing is: With a solution to this problem, people will probably see this as a reason to justify higher CO2 emissions. Too high to use plants... and we have to start over again.
Actually I'm pretty sure that hers solution while helpful will anyways have insignificant effect in comparison with our current CO2 emissions. Like, they don't even know the exact numbers for tonnes of CO2 absorbed per acre per year or anything like that.
Why don't scientists use this technology for COVER CROPS until they are certain that yields won't be affected?
Sounds like the best plan. Alot better then renewables
Hmm, interesting. Thought messing with nature's bio could cause other problems down the road. I really like idea skyscraper air scrubbers. So many forest fires every year, hard to be positive about putting faith in nature when temps are already too hot to handle it seems. I do like the idea though, thank you for your research and efforts.
Just use Schachtelhalm...
super charged idea
My favorite plant is Robert.
Her sentence structure is slightly jolting
I love it
Triffids it is then...
A plant geneticist saying there’s too much CO2 in the air...
Sounds like organic ag on steroids. So much run down farmland in the world it could actually work.
Eye opening
It's like plants vs zombies. We acting as the zombies.
except that we have less than 10 years to act
This is how the zombie apocalypse starts.
loved the talk,..but will it change my behaviour?..or i'll repeat it, to impress others with my éarthy wisdom'.
When are we going to start tapping the sun as a food source? Derps...
So, organize a movement to plant everywhere rather than talking only and stop cutting trees to building hollow house and try to influence to build solid buildings. Do not talk in a language common man cannot understand
Come on... a comfortable chair for her!
There's one thing that bothers me about this.
Aren't the (rain)forests around the world by far the largest CO2 cleaner?!
Changing the few crops to produce more suberin sounds like a small scratch on the surface....
More important and impactful would be to radically slow down our society.
No intracontinental, or short distance flights, cheaper (or free) public transport and longdistance trains.
A rise of vegetarianism and an altered view on fashion and trends, leaning towards an indifference for that and getting used to secondhand stuff.
Yeah and everyone forgets about the phytoplankton as well. Also, a little CO2 is a good thing, if these plants store too much the earth could potentially get colder.. I say we just slow down our production of CO2 and leave the damn plants alone.
Yes, the Amazon actually uses every bit of oxygen it produces as well though with its density of life. Now that’s a sustainable system
Mutant plants to the rescue
1 view.
Agriculture is about 4 percent of the earth's surface. Not much.
Please explain the Great Dust bowl from 1930,-1936. Climate change and back. Human activities have little effect
There's an exponential increase in temperatures when the industrial revolution was occurring. Plot that against the sudden increase of CO2 and there ya go. Do you know of any other factors that could be causing it?
@@catkit86 please address the dust bowl...
@@RexHalbeisen "The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939-1940, but some regions of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years."
What's this have to do with climate change?
The Dust Bowl only affected some regions of America and Canada for about 6 years, not most of the world and progressively over decades like climate change. I don't think you can compare both events.
Well, you're acting in a kind of "upside-down" way.
This is about how science works, and be it clear, ignorance is not an actual problem.
Actual problems are disonhesty and lack of humility.
You have to provide proofs in order to falsify all the discorses which assert human activities have consistent/important effects on climate change/s.
You have to do it because "many people" already have provided proofs which "sustain" the discourses you deem as false.
Very interesting and nice lady
But god it was tiring listening to her.
Put it on at least 1.5x times speed if that's the case.
I seriously don't get why people like you are leaving comments like that? Why? You think the World can seriously benefit from your nasty opinion? Ugh... Try speaking with Parkinson's and you'll understand why her speech pattern was a little different. I know you don't get it, but that's actually very difficult to do. Just standing still is so imagine...
@@holocene2164 she doesn't have Parkinson's though
That would have been a different case
I'm just saying that her presentation should have been more organized and better planned
A guy had to summarize and state all the important facts that she didn't mention
Consider this as a constructive criticism
hahahahaha if you think the climate wont change, you must have failed history!
CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX GRANDMA😜😜
to get carbon in the soil. you dont need genetic engineering
you need to change conventional agricultural practices, stop plowing and switch to no-till
regenerative agriculture is the solution, it cares about soil health and soil carbon
feeding earth's population isnt an excuse to destroy and deplete soils anymore
Just stop eating animals ant it will be nice for a planet
Give this woman a Nobel Prize!…thanks for all your years of service as a scientist! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
YES!!!!!
this could save our generation and the future. i just want to thank all the people related to the research and those who are trying to highlight it.. "thanks a lot for trying to save us."
It would wipe out all life on the planet, she is an idiot, so are you.
@@ufewl how tf would it wipe out life, the genetically altered plants would produce the same yield as current crops, the only change would be the increase if suberin in the plants roots, and it would create more life not kill it
Could this plant cause shortage of Co2? That's not good either. Co2 needs to be balanced. Not removed
@@calisthenicschicken8812 the thing is, we are super effective on producing CO2. even if the day comes where we face shortage of CO2 we can just step back and use the regular seeds . i agree with you on "balancing" point but we are ruining the balance now. and something needs to be done. As nobody is stopping the extra production of the moneymaking gas i think this solution can be supper effective.
@@saikatazad5631 or we could just produce more to help us, but yea i agree with you
Glad I clicked on this one
Martyr4JesusTheChrist don’t rly understand what ur trying to say but less co2 in the atmosphere is definitely a good thing at this point in time
Martyr4JesusTheChrist your lack of concision seriously undermines your point and for someone to think so highly of themselves and assume that I have no knowledge of basic biology like photosynthesis yet deny the human induced enhanced greenhouse effect is truly incredulous. You are quite certainly one of a kind
Although I do agree that CO2 is not a pollutant as such and NOT THE MAIN CAUSE OF HUMAN INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE (refrigators contribute to 40% of global warming).
Martyr4JesusTheChrist dumbass English is not my first language which is ironic because my first sentence makes perfect sense 😂
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist stupid concision makes perfect sense in that sentence, and you obviously still clearly lack it.
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist Heya. I wonder - why did you not cite even a single study? No one is claiming that CO2 is a pollutant in itself. It is a greenhouse gas - it makes the world warmer by trapping radiation energy from the sun.
It is true that plants enjoy a CO2 rich environment, some greenhouse gases are built next to powerplants where they transfer the exhaust CO2 to the greenhouses for the plants to grow. This does not anyhow impact the argument that anthropological CO2 emissions are causing the climate change that we are experiencing right now.
"Monsanto has joined the server"
What an irony it would be if Monsanto ended up saving the world.
Andrew Harvey they would probably charge interest on it
Monsanto deals death, not life!
@@andrewharvey5208 that would be interesting.
Ok, so what? Is it interesting? If yes, why is it interesting?
How can I support her project?
plant something.
They need donors. Support the initiative Plant at the Salk Institute.
Cash crops only photosynthesis light for a couple months out of the year. And the rest of the year fields aren’t taking up that free solar energy. We need diverse perennials and annuals in our fields year round like grasses, legumes and forbs. Then just graze them with cattle. Rather than grow corn in a field to feed cattle in a feedlot when they don’t even have a damn beak in the first place.
The GMO fanatics heads just exploded.
If you have ever eaten a strawberry in December you have eaten GMOs get over it
@@musiclaboratory9694, " căpșunii" din decembrie au doar forma de căpșună..La cât sunt de "imbunatatiti" cu "parfum" si la cât sunt de "fardati" ... ar trebui să fie comercializați strict doar în drogherii ! :)
This research is stunning!!
I hope we can get good results on this matter.
Davi Oliveira we cant unfortunately, it’s all fake, plants fixing it, climate change, all of it, it’s a money grab to tax us more
No doubts you both are the same who believe in the Flat Earth or sort of things. You answers are unbelievable!
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist if you want the preach the bible to people who haven't asked that's already pretty awful, but the bible teaches us to love the lord out god with all our heart mind and soul and to love our neighbour as yourself, so do not go and try and use the bible in your defence when you are condescending and plain mean to the people you are talking to. That is not okay. By all means, be an annoying turd, but don't say that the bible or anything about it is on your side. And you're one to speak about ultracrepidarians.
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist lemme just say everything you said, herbert spencer, a wise/smart/hero man, intellectual suicide, and pride and consensus
Love her. What an amazing idea.
Anti Apartheid Israel just because you say it doesn’t make it true
@Anti Apartheid Israel so whats making the coral reefs die out ?
@Anti Apartheid Israel but what makes it change so fast ?
@Anti Apartheid Israel You can't prove it's human induced, you can't prove it's not. You can only acknowledge the problem and work towards a solution rather than deny it because "it will fix itself". Funny thing is, doing nothing isn't the worst possible thing you can do. Neither is telling people to do nothing. It is what you're doing which is telling people to tell people to do nothing.
@Anti Apartheid Israel the polar ice caps began to melt because of human induced climate change which sped uyp the procces since the ice caps hold huge supplies of cco2 and mathane in them
A truly inspiring woman. I do hope her study produces the results she hopes for and even if it doesn’t she will still inspire a lot of people to do better
The more organic matter you add to the plant, and less chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the longer and deeper the rootsystems. Organic farming is the way.
I get why fertilizers would be less needed, I don't get why pesticides should be less needed too.
Could you please give me a clarification please?
Isn't it fun evolving! :)
Skillet Mage sad clap for flat earthers tho
I think botanists also need to identify those plants & trees which thrived during the mid-Pliocene era because apparently that climate is the direction we are heading into. Should we now, for example, be starting plantations of such as the Bunya Pine as the sub-tropical regions expand? This tree as a mature giant has potential as a firebreak/storm break as well as being a heavy cropper of food nuts. There must also be many more trees/plants we can & should consider for planting to reach maturity in the predicted temperatures of +2°C any time after 2040?
When will Ted finally talk?
Deeper roots mean better soil stabilization too, useful to combat soil erosion. Hopefully increased suberin doesn't significantly increase a plant's water requirements thus putting extra pressure on that often scarce resource. Every home gardener can help by having a (deep rooted) comfrey patch in an unused corner of their backyard; the leaves are rich in minerals for use as natural soil manure/compost tea.
GO GRANDMA!!!
it's easier to imagine supercharged plants than the end of capitalism
Why should we care about that?
This woman is just amazing, the world is better for her 🌱
Except this can be done without GMOs and done better. That said, soil carbon is really important in ways she doesn't discuss here, or prolly even know about. She doesn't understand the failings of monocropped, field-grown annual foods and the myriad cascade of negatives it entails, including diminishing soil carbon. Permaculture succeeds over GMO solutions in that it is cheaper overall, is better for *farmer sustainability* and security, accomplishes better the goals of good food, and good environmental practice. It builds good soil quickly where conventional farming constantly depletes it. Permaculture is better in that it considers what she is ignorant of and compensates for and works around it.
An excellent teacher of large-scale permaculture is Mark Shepard, and his book "Restoration Agriculture". Read the book before you watch his videos to get a better understanding of the system as a whole.
Meanwhile the Amazon forests are losing a football field size of trees every minute. Yay?
The microbes in the soil break down the plant matter and store much of the carbon in the soil. That’s why our soils were like chocolate cake before we degraded them with tillage and modern agriculture. Cover crops go a long way to fix soil structure and store carbon in the ground.
This is amazing, I feel so inspired. I am attending the college of agriculture and life science next year, I want to do something big and this keeps affirming my path. I hope this technology changes the world.
Where you at, Elon??!!
Is this the lady from minority report?
boring
The return of the killer tomatoes?