TEDTalk Tuesday: The Omnivore's Next Dilemma

[Occulus]

In this week's TEDTALKTUESDAY video, we hear from a professor of journalism at the University of California who happens to also be a "devoted gardener". Here, he speaks of how plant species such as corn, flowers, grasses and so forth manipulate other species into actions which benefit them, and also presents a new way to look at our relationships between ourselves and the species upon which we depend.

Enjoy!

MICHAELPOLLAN

Talk Title: The omnivore's next dilemma (Video runtime: 17:31)



Michael Pollan

Wiki bio

About this Talk

What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant's-eye view -- to consider the possibility that nature isn't opposed to culture, that biochemistry rivals intellect as a survival tool. By merely shifting our perspective, he argues, we can heal the Earth. Who's the more sophisticated species now?

[Mountainman]

1. Genesis tells us to subdue and conquer the earth. I think it really means sooner or later we are

going to wipe our asses out of existence and we will be the ones subdued.

The bible is where people get the idea that they are some how a superior being with the right to exist at the expense of every other living thing on earth.

Pagans and other earth religions taught that we were a part of nature and not above it. For all our intellect we are our own worse enemy.

At the beaches were near where I live it is getting time for plovers to nest. So parts of the dunes are put off limits and it really pisses a lot of people off. I don't understand why they don't get the why there is a canary in coal mine. If the bird goes that's one more step closer to our eventual demise.

[Occulus]

2. And a kickety-kick for the afternoon folks n/t

[Occulus]

4. And a final flick with my green thumb for the evening crowd n/t

[alfredo]

3. His "In Defense of Food" is required reading.