Allan Savory Speaks at the COP26 Peoples Summit - 2021

[@WellGrazed]

Allan, thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge with the world. You have inspired many, including me to master your work and carry it on for generations. You have already changed the world and my life, and I hope you're around long enough to see what you've discovered come to fruition on a grand scale. Sending blessings

[@BladeStar420]

We are listening, Allan. Your work will be instrumental in changing the world in the coming decades. I am sure of it and I will personally work towards that goal in my every day life. Share this video, guys!!

[@weboflifeproducts5310]

Thank you, Allan. You are pitching to the right people.

[@maryduggan3594]

Thank you so very much Alan Savory for one of the clearest honourable and truthful talks we have the privilege to hear. Alan May I respectfully ask Are you willing to go beyond where the human mind can not go to where there are no limitations, that is no cut of point. That is into the Artist of our Creation, meaning, our Creator. By using all your concepts and uniting with the balance our Creator created in the first place we must then have the true answer of saving the Planet and Humanity. Beyond the Human mind into Divine Intelligence

[@philipprint9510]

A succinct review of the world's problems and how to move forward with the answers. Alan Savory has talking sense for half a century, but few have been listening.

[@Stash777]

Wow what a visionary, I am avidly watching all your videos since discovering your Ted talk last night, I’m feeling so inspired and even more frustrated at governments and world leaders. The solution is so simple, the challenge now is not how to fix it but how to stop the governments working for the good of the corporations and start working for the good of the planet. Thank you for you tireless work Allan may the world wake up and listen to what you are teaching 🙏

[@SallysWheels-pn2cg]

Allan, thank you for pointing me here. Articulate, eloquent and on the button - I am going to do some more sharing. I can't help thinking that the more your work is publicised the better. In the big scale of things more exposure cannot hurt and might make a difference. I believe there is a growing wave of those who want to see things change - they need to be aware of your work.

[@mandegmahamoud5167]

You are my source of inspiration. Thank you for your service to humanity Allan.

[@anshuandkrish999]

Long leave Allan sir, we understand and digested your thoughts from your experiences. Allan sir's idea is going to change the world completely in next coming decades

[@iangeorgesmall]

One internationally observed case of a national holistic context to manage agriculture is great idea. If you organise a petition to the Royal Foundation, Royal Society and/or Prince William many of your friends including me will sign it.

[@tonytony1035]

Thank you Allen. But I wish the COP 26 could see the specific examples of your work. Your speeches are very abstract and you rightly focus on management. But the COP 26 needs to see your specific work with livestock and the real world examples. Please keep making more videos showing the dramatic field results.

[@lorrainegatanianhits8331]

they've seen it, but they don't want to see it

[@gabrieln3613]

There are many more farms that are practicing regenerative agriculture, and helping rebuild soils, increase water holding capacities on land, preventing erosion, increasing bio-diversity, etc. even if not following Mr. Savory's method's precisely. I have 45+ years' experience working in land design, habitat restorations in PNW, farms (including living on farms), even sustainable residential landscapes and home food-growing at also. And on our design team we have ones who have worked in about a dozen countries helping build permaculture food growing & aquaponics systems. There are plenty of operations such as Gabe Brown's farm that have good records on improving land while raising livestock and mixed with other crops. One problem the planet has is "academics" who do nothing more than sit around criticizing and analyzing their "data" and not really demonstrating in practice that their theories work. I have yet to see any of these scientists go out and get some land and let us see their theories demonstrate how we can feed the world and improve the environment while doing it.

[@leelindsay5618]

Allan is correct. Every yard, garden, farm, and field can be managed differently with soil health principles to draw down carbon and improve the water infiltration on the local level everywhere. People know that greening cities reduces the heat of the city. People know that bare dirt is hot in the sun and its cooler to walk with bare feet on grass (plants). People need to learn how much damage tillage does to the structure of the soil. Turning over/tilling the soil in a garden causes the excelerated release of carbon dioxide from the soil which is the opposite of sequestering carbon. As carbon is released from soil as carbon dioxide, water infiltration and water holding capacity decrease as the soil structure collapses without the carbon and biology in the soil dies. Bare dirt in farming is bad.

[@em945]

So well said.

[@jamesdecross1035]

Interesting… the value of design and the iterative approach.

[@adamfontana537]

Everyone need to listen to the wise words of Alan. The A C Grayling book The humanist Bible ( how long will you delay to be wise)

[@happinessyogateacher]

ROOT CAUSE is NOT what people think. You are so very correct!!! Only your plan will work. Please speak!!!

[@Truth15freedom]

Government is a horrible way to manage completely. Dictates have no rules to react to the inevitable problems that arise.

[@vanjibhaichaudhari4947]

Allan you are the next god for wild animal & poor people, god bless you. Long live ,thank you. V.c. chaudhari india.

[@arunkumaracharya9641]

I just saw your video on the peer review process and how science is on decay. Gone are those days of free flow of ideas. I can only imagine the giants of Galileo, Newton or Einstein and their original work that was not peer reviewed that we could learn from them today, that such creation today is impossible. Because anything original and unrelated or new is discarded. I wanna get in touch with you though I am into Physics!!!

[@jordan8168]

i believe his take on climate change is correct, the amount of plants bought and planted yearly globally when truly if you know what you doing you know the plant is wanting to seed by instinct so with that the seed will hit the floor store over the winter and then grow next year exactly the same the next spring, obviously flawed by early cutting of the flowers and harvesting crops but shows that we ourselves are the problem and we should all rethink the way we do things

[@siskokidd93]

I need to speak to the manager

[@nerdhub3460]

4:20 min "Our inability to manage complexity is the cause of the problem."

[@CoachJoshsteel]

Are we discussing this here? I believe you can achieve universal buy-in on the lowest rung of the holistic ladder. Conflict, division, and diversion increases each step up from there. The "how" is the root of faction or interest group tribalism. Is stopping desertification more important than preventing grazing on public land? Is water quality in the delta more important than crop yield? Is banning agricultural poison more important than the personal economy of the farmer? Costs are incurred in and by management decisions, debts accrued, and all debts are paid. If you outlawed feed lots, broke up the meat packing monopolies, open public lands to grazing, incentivized mono-croppers to incorporate livestock in their rotations, you could course correct and begin a slow, gradual comeback- but in doing so you create winners and losers. Any action that deviates from the present norm, simply rejiggers the winners and losers, and with that comes conflict and derision. It is baked in. It is a fight, personal economy is the engine/catalyst, management is the steering wheel and government is the gun pointed at the driver. This is not a kum-ba-yah framework. The manufactured crisis ("the sky is falling") does not even have definable metrics. What level of CO2 is right? What global temperature is right? What amount of global food supply is right? How much desert should there be and where? i like soil quality, air quality, and water quality goals- but somebody choose's those metrics. What are his motives? Are they humanitarian? Eugenic? Nationalistic? Nihilist? Globalist? I think you have to pick your outcomes and your methods, actively ward off detractors, and scheme to inflict material losses on your opponents and material gains for your followers. If you close the input loop on a vegan, their food comes from soil depleting, unsustainable mining, and as vegans do, they push that as "the way" on everyone who will listen. Should that be tolerated if your goal is soil health? The lines are drawn. I don't really know if we have an anti-vegetable organization, but we for certain have an anti-meat group. I know a lot of vegans are opposed to crop inputs and GMO innovations (Waiter, taste the soup, taste the soup, where is the spoon?...aha). Myopic. You sir, have posited a brilliant solution for desertification involving animals and management on the land. Why are there still feed lots and grazing restrictions, and insane corn feed demands? The lines are drawn.

[@navylaks2]

Have been a supporter ever since I saw his Ted talk back in 2013. Unfortunately, the current political parties are more interested in veganism and centralized power

[@vincentleone1833]

You have to find a way and allow for Greed to fuel the process. if for now other reason than money allows complex issues to be resolved using a language all peoples can understand. The Dollar. Allow people to purchase land at low cost, then allow them to develop the land using Dr. Savory's methods and watch the property value increase. Allow the starving populations of the world to come and exploit their own hard work for their own personal gain, nutritional and financial security.

[@jussie8015]

What are your thoughts on vertical farms in cities? Do you feel these are a step in the right direction?

[@smygskytt1712]

Personally, I think it's completely pointless. Think a bit, what is the big problem it is trying to address? It's the city-countryside dichotomy where all our food is produced far away from the cities and shipped long distances at a high energy cost, and as covid showed for a little bit there, extremely vulnerable to disruptions. But it doesn't solve anything, because it substitutes the high land requirement for conventional agriculture with a high energy low land requirement technical solution which is just a continuation of the same flawed 20th century industrial agriculture delusion which got us here in the first place. And besides, given how much more expensive land is in the cities compared to the countryside, it is no more profitable than conventional agriculture - plus its absolute reliance on the supply of energy makes it just as vulnerable to disruptions as the conventional system. Instead look at Havana and Cuba to see how a resilient and organic food supply for a city looks like. In the '90s after the Soviet collapse, Cuba was left without a market for its sugar exports and food imports, nor did it have a supplier of the chemical inputs for industrial 20th century type agriculture. So it was FORCED to feed its own population, it was FORCED to grow organically. And in the process the people of Havana were FORCED to take up urban gardening and keeping their own chicken pens on their rooftops, but that is the way a truly sustainable city food supply system will look like in the future.

[@idahardy4052]

I can’t change policies but I am willing to do what I can to apply this knowledge on a small scale. Is there a guide for anything that smaller landowners can do?

[@Cainbantam]

ok, but aren't there already case studies that may prove the results of the method? Where are the peer reviewed articles about it? Okay, I'll go check the institute's website...

[@SavoryInstitute]

Here’s a good place to start if looking for peer-reviewed: Gosnell, Hannah & Grimm, Kerry & Goldstein, Bruce. (2020). A half century of Holistic Management: what does the evidence reveal?. Agriculture and Human Values. 37. 10.1007/s10460-020-10016-w. Abstract: Holistic Management (HM) is a decision-making framework based on triple bottom line thinking and a proactive approach to managing complexity. Primarily associated with an approach to managing livestock, it has spurred long running and still unresolved debates in rangeland ecology and management. Less studied are the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of HM, which may hold the key to successful ecological outcomes. In this article, we describe the main tenets of HM as conceived by wildlife biologist Allan Savory and address the longstanding and unresolved controversy over its legitimacy. We then provide a meta-analysis that not only provides an up-to-date review of the multidisciplinary evidence and ongoing arguments about HM, but also provides a novel explanation for the controversy-that it is grounded in epistemic differences between disciplines associated with agricultural science that rule out any chance of resolution. We conclude that the way to resolve the controversy over HM is to research, in partnership with ranchers, rangeland social-ecological systems in more holistic, integrated ways. This can account for the full range of human experience, co-produce new knowledge, and contribute to social-ecological transformation.

[@Cainbantam]

@@SavoryInstitute thank you!

[@andrewbfrost7021]

The Savory Institute is quite possibly the number one reason why I think that the UN and World Economic Forum do not really see climate change as much of a problem. The solutions they put forward aren’t serious in any meaningful way. You simply are not going to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar, and Europe is paying for the theater they have put on in the past decade or two now that the whole world can see that they are still completely dependent upon Russian fossil fuels. At this point in time, clean energy is only possible through nuclear, and anyone that is not seeing that as the bedrock of the energy revolution is not serious about the issue. I feel the same way about the Savory institute. I watched a WEF video of them showcasing some company that takes relatively small amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and turns it into some form of rock, as if accumulating giant piles of rocks over time is sustainable. Restoration of ruminant in large numbers and management of their grazing in the only way to re-sequester carbon into the soil. Anyone who doesn’t see this as the bedrock of atmospheric carbon reduction is not serious about the issue.

[@AmericanExpatInThePhilippines]

Devil's advocate perspective: If those profiting from the way things are being done now see a threat to those profits then they will squash it. They don't want a positive future. They want money, and power.

[@peterclark6290]

This concept of 'Pastoral Management of the Planet' could lead to a position where governments start to cooperate, until you notice that Spain, Brazil, the USA, Australia, Chile are all busy contributing to their local deserts with all the awareness of a Helen Keller. Even single nations cannot assemble the political will to go through the relatively inexpensive process of eliminating their deserts. Is it reliance on God, fear of Big Money, or giving some indication of inner weakness that prevents these straightforward and highly recommended goals.

[@sivsankar4286]

If everyone lives one year for their need not for the lust,there will be significant improvement in biodiversity.🙏

[@johnschinnerer6881]

Viewing this on the eve of the 2024 USA Federal election, the naivete is remarkable. Ironically, at around 7:40 Savory says "Agriculture is the foundation of civilization." Such a blind spot for such an otherwise brilliant systems thinker. That, and no mention of overpopulation as a root cause - overpopulation made possible primarily by the "agriculture" that is "the foundation of civilization."