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I no longer look at animals at the species level.
And my theme was this: Our Earth has existed for 45 million centuries, but this one is special — it's the first where one species, ours, has the planet's future in its hands.
Well, this may be on the science fiction fringe, but were even part of his scenario to come about, our ecology and even our species would surely not survive long unscathed.
Within two years of having this forest in our backyard, I could observe that the groundwater didn't dry during summers, the number of bird species I spotted in this area doubled.
At the click of a button, they can get to know all the native species of their place.
Third, how does all of this very systematic structure get built, both over development in childhood and over the evolution of our species?
To address questions like that, scientists are now scanning other species of animals, and they're also scanning human infants.
Each color you see is a tree species.
Each tree, each tree top, has up to 10,000 species of insects in it, let alone the millions of species of fungi, bacteria, etc.
We started the pilot last year, and now we're pretty sure that we will encounter a lot of ignorance across the whole world, and the idea is really to scale it up to all domains or dimensions of global development, such as climate, endangered species, human rights, gender equality, energy, finance.
Forests are the hosts to valuable plant and animal species.
And the way in which you could think about us as a species and us as a planet had just changed so much, and it was incredibly exciting.
A three degree centigrade climate change rise that will result in 50 percent species extinction.
Here's a data point: 1.4 percent of the entire land surface is home to 40 percent of the species of higher plants, 35 percent of the species of vertebrates, and this 1.4 percent represents the 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world, and this 1.4 percent of the entire land surface already provides for 35 percent of the ecosystem services that vulnerable people depend on.
From the scientific point of view, there are eight species of baobab in the world.
What I have showed you here is only the species from Africa, Adansonia digitata.
We have six species yet in Madagascar, and we don't know what is the potential of this plant, but one thing we know is that the flora is considered to be threatened with extinction.
It's very powerful for, I think, changing our relationship to the natural world and to the other species on whom we depend.
I plant the potatoes, I weed the garden, I domesticate the species.
And that's when I got the idea, which was, "Well, what would happen if we kind of looked at us from this point of view of these other species who are working on us?"
And agriculture suddenly appeared to me not as an invention, not as a human technology, but as a co-evolutionary development in which a group of very clever species, mostly edible grasses, had exploited us, figured out how to get us to basically deforest the world.
We have this intellectual, this Darwinian revolution in which, thanks to Darwin, we figured out we are just one species among many; evolution is working on us the same way it's working on all the others; we are acted upon as well as acting; we are really in the fiber, the fabric of life.
Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance.
It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean.
So who's the more sophisticated species?
It's based on this idea that we bend other species to our will and that we are in charge, and that we create these factories and we have these technological inputs and we get the food out of it or the fuel or whatever we want.
I went looking for a farm where these ideas about looking at things from the species' point of view are actually implemented, and I found it in a man.
And that is this: the farm is called Polyface, which means ... the idea is he's got six different species of animals, as well as some plants, growing in this very elaborate symbiotic arrangement.
He can graze again, he can cut, he can bring in another species, like the lambs, or he can make hay for the winter.
Well, look how much food you can produce on 100 acres if you do this kind of ... again, give each species what it wants, let it realize its desires, its physiological distinctiveness.
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