At this moment, I think... biodiversity and the impacts of biodiversity, to think about the pollution crisis differently. But it's kind of gotten in the turn of disinformation.
plummeted. So Merlot is only now starting to climb its way back up. Biodynamic means that the wine was not only organic, but made according to the rhythms of the cosmos,
and the the cure to maintaining this one health is understanding biodiversity and so it seems so simple to people oh We need paper, so let's go destroy an entire rainforest. But look at these facts that 86% of existing
way of calculating how important biodiversity is. For an example of that we might say yeah having more biodiversity is a good thing because we have all of these different plants and we can utilize them for medicinal purposes. Whereas some might say actually the there's a study that shows that biodiversity is bad because we have
Well, as I was saying, my FT article tomorrow is about this year is the 40th anniversary of the tasting that turned Biodynamic is-- sounds very weird.
So you guys, there's mutations that happen natural-- I mean, every time you try to make a copy, there's going to be a change. Biodiversity. Yeah, how does it fit into evolutionary theory?
And remember, I talked about agriculture broadly being the enemy of biodiversity on the planet on the land, while livestock production is a really tough problem for biodiversity on the land. It also is a big producer of methane and, therefore, climate forcing activity on the planet.
traveled around the back woods of North Carolina in his beat-up Honda while he went from county to county trying to get local schools to buy into the idea of using biodiesel for school buses. And there's no way I could have had an opinion about any of that before I went because I didn't know any of it.
And he found that 4 out of the 5 cases, organic exceeded that in an academic protocol and biodynamic won the other one. And OFRF made those, made those grants.
not have a biological origin uh caused uh caused by biodiversity disruption uh by biodiversity disruption uh and land and land use change uh and came from the use change uh and came from the blockade blockade of Adessa uh and the invasion of Adessa uh and the invasion of Ukraine of Ukraine and from the closure of the
All of that needs to be stood up. to biodiversity loss, there is great hope that we could use these to conserve other species.
Coast of England, which allows fishing but doesn't allow the most destructive forms of fishing, you will get a very considerable bounce back in biodiversity and fish stocks. But if you want the maximum benefits, you need to protect it totally from all extractive activities.
A more benign impetus to return to the essay came from Henry. on biodiesel development or on wind farms in Eritrea, might read the piece and consider investing in work that produces results.
an evolutionary biologist and is really leading the application of digital Technologies to the study and taxonomy of biodiversity and um he's head of informatics at the Natural History Museum that's probably not a role that was around when it was founded definitely back in the day so we might talk about that as well but first could I invite Ian uh to just share a little
what was there now and being able to classify those different habitats we can start to then see where there's been the most biodiversity loss and we can also start to model how uh future things like climate change scenarios for example are going to impact that loss because the good news and there is some good news
And research was also showing that after you spray glyphosate, the microorganisms in the soil break it down into safe byproducts. It was biodegradable. Glyphosate was perfect, so they wasted no time in getting it on the market. In 1974, Monsanto had a new hit herbicide...
To your point, though, I just want... It's about biodiversity, pollution.
also for people like Professor Fritz Vollrath at the University of Oxford, who worked with spider silk but also the silk of nearly anything. So imagine biodegradable, implantable electronics that record health signals or vital signals.
on bringing biodiverse, beautiful, and accessible nature into the cities and communities that Google calls home.
They are magnets of biodiversity themselves.
It's biodegradable. I also view it as skin care.
One is protecting that biodiversity.
The last thing is biodiversity.
of threat to biodiversity.
in terms of biodiversity of the ocean, that is storing a lot of biodiversity, 30% of the biodiversity-- is linked to coral reefs.
So I said biodiversity.
That is about biodiversity.
The second one was biodiesel.
So the highest biodiversity in the world is out in Southeast Asia.
know all of our biodiversity?
And other biodegradable waste, all that is used in composting.
They basically took the biodynamic farming and expanded on that.
So it's biodiversity, it's art, and it's culture.
Likewise for biodiversity, maybe we should protect more areas.
So that will help biodiversity.
to do good for biodiversity-- we can actually come out with about a trillion or not or so more in ecosystem benefits.
He practices biodynamics, which is, sort of, organics beyond.
But not even Steinerien biodynamics-- although he would argue it's classical Steinerian biodynamics-- but he's pushed aside the by-the-numbers version of biodynamics
And is your wine biodynamic?
There's a large biodiversity, everything and anyone is there.
So I'm just going to finish by reading one passage that catches Dean Price just as he's making this conversion from being a failed truck stop entrepreneur to a local prophet of biodiesel. A two-lane asphalt road ran past the woods, white oak, shag bark hickory, Carolina ash.
So linen is biodegradable unlike plastic, and it's incredibly strong because it's natural fiber.
biofuels like biodiesel. If you can do that at scale you'd have something important. And we can debate whether you can do that or not. So what I thought I would do is just
It's biodegradable. it turns into fertilizer. That's a dream product right right there. And it's mainly targeted at
carbon in a non-biodegradable form that you can bury and therefore keeping that carbon out of the atmosphere there's a scientist called
and turn it into biodiesel neat idea immaterial at any relevant
gallons of biodiesel okay let's test it at buttermilk then we'll try it on Astra mountain we switched the whole company
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