The Wizard and the Prophet | Charles C. Mann

[@SarbbottamBandyopadhyay]

Pushiled on May 28, 2020 and today is Aug 30, 2021. I can't believe that it has only 2,284 views. Come on KZbin, debug your recommendation algorithm. This should have millions of views by now.

[@kiki29073]

I know. I had to look it up. It wasn't recommended

[@js290]

@@kiki29073 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ_XaoyQrqiHd7M

[@Walmart_Sandal]

Loved this book! And his others, 1491 & 1493!

[@ChrisVNicholson]

It's astounding that this talk by Mann has had so few views, and so few likes. He's a genius, his books are mind-blowing, and his perspective is very much aligned with the Long Now...

[@RyanLewis11]

One year later after your comment and I can say I was thinking the same thing before I read it.

[@trishapellis]

It is one and a half hours long. I watched a video on Borlaug and in the comments there were people recommending a look at William Voght. So I looked for a video on Voght and this seems to be the only one that actually gives information, but it's one and a half hours long! I watched half an hour of it and I still haven't even heard Voght mentioned (and aside from that, eveything I *have* heard, I'd already learned from the video on Borlaug). I'm sorry man but I'm going to Wikipedia, I didn't sign up for that kind of time commitment. I assume other people who do a search where this video shows up as a result will also prefer something that's max 15-20 minutes long, and maybe has a title that says more about what it's actually about, because "The Wizard and the Prophet" sounds like a young-adult fiction novel 🤷

[@js290]

@@trishapellis 26:35 Weston A Price documented his observations of the Humboldt Current, native Peruvians, and the bird guano in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

[@js290]

@@RyanLewis11 44:45 it has so few views probably because he himself is violating the "basic chemistry"... combined gas law is not affected by gas composition

[@js290]

meh, he correctly observes the loss of freshwater and biodiversity but goes all in on CO2 which is still only on the order of 0.05% by volume... 22:40 real life chemtrails nobody wants to talk about, actual real pollutants... Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture - Fertilizer & pesticide runoff kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZPCpWCpi7utfJIm35s

[@mikekenney8362]

Stunning synapse. There is a continental divide between what scientists know and what the public and their politicians espouse

[@kiki29073]

It's what the powers that be allow the general public and even politicians to know.

[@js290]

@@kiki29073 stientist know what their funding wants them to know...

[@judithwyer389]

70 percent of all American agriculture is corporate agribusiness. Two of the largest are foreign, one from China and the other Brazil. They are in the forefront of mono-cropping which along with the outsized use of oil based fertilizer is a leading edge of pollution and climate change. They also are in the lead of inhumaine animal husbandry. Billions of subsidy dollars goes into the coffers of these massive agribusinesses. Many small farmers continue to struggle. Many, like chicken farmers, are at the mercy of these big corporate agribusinesses.

[@sergiovaldez9864]

What about the intro video? It is something coming out the foundation? It is a great take!

[@stephen_hynes]

Wonderful talk, needs to be shared!

[@ernsthoyer]

Great vision. thanks

[@curtisnixon5313]

Plus greetings from New Zealand where we have had un-subsidised agriculture after 1984. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_New_Zealand

[@neilcronk]

Good video...EXCEPT for the interminable opening sequence. There was absolutely not reason for that to go on for 4 and a half minutes. 13 seconds tops would have been plenty.

[@curtisnixon5313]

Should rename artificial intelligence as artificial stupidity

[@halneufmille]

I have a leaking pipe at home. - The wizard plumber says: no problem I have a technological fix that costs little and the chance of success is 99%. - The prophet plumber says: I'll just cut the water and the chance of success is 100%. My preference ordering is 1. wizard plumber 2. Do nothing 3. prophet plumber. All environmental crises of the past have been solved by wizards not because prophets are wrong, because their solutions are worse than the problem.