among others. She also offered some beautiful illustrations throughout the book. "Planta Sapiens" is a book with a call to truly think differently, and speaking personally, absolutely did that for me. So Natalie and Paco, welcome.
And then when you go further south-- starting off with Ghana, kind of going all the way to Angola-- it's more about root crops, so tropical yams, cassava, plantains, all right? Now, there was a wonderful Nigerian restaurant in Denver, and this is a meal that I had there just to give you a sense of the kind of meal.
Sand. Fun for your toes. Plantain. To fill up your belly. To fan your face.
house the Atlantic slave trade brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern us to work on agricultural plantations they weren't workers they were slaves well technically they worked so they were workers no workers get to choose their jobs workers get to leave whenever they want to slaves are
And Borneo's a really neat place. It has lots and lots of forests, but the forests are under a great deal of threat. Their in threat from palm oil. Oil of palm got planted in huge plantations and that creates enormous, enormous problem for the forests there. One of the problems that happens is as the wet soil dries up it releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide. The cutting of these native forests allows Indonesia to be ranked in the
a kind of peculiar Justice the best coffee tends to come not from Big plantations but from small farms that are high that are high up and sometimes farmers in Africa own half an acre or less but almost not very
Only now, instead of having just a few rubber trees here and there, they made farms of acres and acres of nothing but rubber trees. These plantations produced far more than the Amazon. Brazil's share of the rubber supply dropped from over 80% in 1907 to 1.6% just over three decades later.
It could house 10,000 people, all working to plant millions of rubber trees. - Ford Plantation is a successful enterprise, a tribute to skill and science. - But in the early 1930s, things started to go wrong.
Like you can't even move around. And plantation, none of the equipment can do it.
Europe but he also remembered what he learned in India and so he bought a coffee plantation in India and turned it over to a poor Indian farmer to run and he paid him above market prices for the coffee doing a kind of a fair trade
and photographs of women's high-heeled shoes; the side, one devoted to the side-effects of psychotropic medication; one on writing; one on skin care; one on the proper treatment of plantar fasciitis; and I will say that they all get ugly, all of them. Even, the raw food one, definitely. They all get ugly, but the vitriol is the worst of all, when the topic is motherhood. And, um, I don't know why that is. I mean, other than that it's a perfect manifestation of everything we most hate, I, this kind of nexus conjunction
So the idea that all organisms have to live in these incredibly complex dynamic environments. When Paco speaks of planta sapiens, he's talking metaphorically.
Es decir, mira, hay herramientas, las herramientas con las que habéis venido todos, con las que tenéis todos en casa, con las que todos venís de series, la misma planta tienes la solución, porque puedes moverte, pero los problemas horizontales, eso sí que son problemas.
They were slave owners. Many of them had planta -- sugar plantations in the West Indies, brought their slaves from there. These were all sort of gentlemen's plantations.
"Let's make them an offering of peace." So they got a canoe with no motor, and we piled it with plantains, just full of plantains, 16 feet of endless green bananas. And then, I mean, the balls on this guy, the anthropologist- he gets into the river, takes the canoe, and it's the
Well, mangú is boil. You boil the plantains and then you mash it. Mangú, for those that don't know, it's like-- the way I describe it is like mashed potatoes but with green plantains.
Mangú, for those that don't know, it's like-- the way I describe it is like mashed potatoes but with green plantains. With green plantains, yes. And then mofongo is that you fry the plantains and then you mash it, and you add a little garlic to give it a little more flavor.
But it's essentially the same thing. It's plantains, cooked plantains and mashed. Tastes different because of the way that you prepare.
And the East India Company could effectively grow as much of that new currency as they needed. They had huge plantations for it in India. And so this pipeline-- pumping opium, forcing it into China-- expanded and expanded until, in 1806, just
It's basically a plantain that you're going to toss in this spice rub that has a little bit of heat to it, a little kick to it.
I love plantains. We eat it almost daily in my household.
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of his plantation onto these otherwise poorly controlled spaces of the fieldwork.
He had held plantations in West Florida-- what's now the little toe on Louisiana sticking east of the Mississippi River--
That's the plantation observatory that William Dunbar kept.
to hum in the plantations.
So much so that plantation owners were looking for people from the West part between Guinea, Senegal, and Gambia who knew how to cultivate rice.
hand owners of the plantation the overworked and underpaid workers the global Traders and Transporters
just homemade plantain chips.
escaped a plantation and moves to South Carolina and North Carolina.
On a plantation he's the guy that is-- he's of the ethnicity of the forced labor, but he answers to and gets to stay in the big house.
They had plantains. They had things like that.
They had both sweet plantains and they had-- and they make sandwiches out of those called Yo Yos.
And the plantain, where are they?
by Southern plantations that used slaves.
They were attacking rubber plantations.
just dump behind the plantations in giant lagoons.
So if you have plantar fasciitis or iliotibial band syndrome, part of what we do with you is get you started on a good functional strength training program to strengthen that entire
it a plantation system at this point. We are just all like micro serfs like Douglas Cooper in his book, right? So the Happy Planet Index tries to
get a table 11 Plantation so I started putting these plants out in
because of cotton plantations in that area that shirt is dyed a gorgeous blue
on so the plantation owners uh had this great need for uh indentured workers and
But there's one called Planta app, I think it is.
hands of foreign powers and plantation owners and trading companies, but at the hands of tech companies and government agencies.
even okay? Can we talk about this?" Because if you talk about this, and you tell people there's these uncontacted tribes, people have misconceptions. where we'd given them the plantains. We'd given them the bananas. And he'd said, "Look, that's it." He said, "We've given you what you asked for. You asked for bananas. We don't—
Who was going to make the plantation owners abide by it?
We try to grow these simplified plantations that supposedly are supposed to just grow what we want.
So we see that kind of replication. Here's an example of a plantation. So beyond the pasture area-- that big square there-- would be-- the commodity crop would be grown.
So the local people-- it's big plantations that are creating the problems.
Because that's going in to plantations of soya and other things.