Some of the major problems that were dealing with and then a lot of people see live stock as part of the solution to Climate Change. That is a really healthy discussion. Wed like to invite you all to have it with us over lunch. Were not going to get into the debate too much during this panel. Were not going to have a panel. So can we transform our food system . Can we solve for this food water, and Climate Nexus with these intersecting issues . I believe we can but we have to talk about something that makes us all very uncomfortable. That is meat. So were in a consumption crisis right . I dont want to villainize the animals themselves and say theyre inherently evil as many maybe who advocate for plant based diets might share that perspective. They certainly play an integrated role in lots of farming systems that have been really critical to development of our agriculture over time. But we are in a consumption crisis at this point where live stock are a core driver of Climate Change, de
Increasing the soils viability and helping with the you get he more plants the bigger and the more roots backhe more carbon you put in the soil. Out did a wonderful project in california. Of land great plots and returned dry grasslands back to viable land and they in turn that by putting one year f commercial dairy maneuver spreading it out over the field, increased by 40 their carbon return to the soil. You find the Big Industrial d you hink that the waste is a huge problem. If its all confined its waste. Spread out if becomes a fertilizer and a good one that kills crobes. Mike so well continue this discussion with you if you like us later at lunch and also with the panelist from this to join us ld like and discuss this transformation agricultural and wed love to there. Up next the final discussion the american arenewable summit. They discuss corporate polluteers and other issues. Is a little over an hour half. Can yall hear me . Hanging in lks for there. All morning with the exceptio
The river party only lasted a few weeks, though. We did what any river loves would do. We floated it. By canoe, paddle boards. And eventually by foot crossing the shallows. I believe this is the colorado. Generally the real colorado has no water in it. But as you can see, its a pretty nice river right now. It looks amazing. Usually this part of the river is completely dry. Its sand. It has been many years like that. On may 7, after nine, 13hourlong paddling days we crossed 90 miles of the delta and reached the sea. It was the first and only paddle board crossing of the new delta. And the first time the Colorado River kissed the sea in nearly two decades. On many levels, it was a preposterous journey foolish, even wrong headed. I dont feel like im getting anywhere. The most absurd paddle Board Mission ever. Also beautiful and symbolic. And with a relative trickle, we can bring a river back to life if we try. [ applause] ill just say a couple words before we move on to bob and american r
Meet et cetera its all very clean. If you dont take care of the animal you cant return the cycle full saoeurbgl. Let me start again. If you dont take care of what the animal is eating that brings us down to the grass. If we dont take care of the grass, then were all going to find ourselves with emissions that are produced by cards. Everything it just goes into the atmosphere. So if we look at other ways to return the carbon from the air back in the soil one of the number one things you can come upon as a cow or rabbit eats grasses this is a root shoot ratio. When they eat a grass the root, the shoot is shorter. All the carbons that comes from the air they take the Carbon Dioxide and turn it into liquid carbon and then an animal eats it and knocks off their part of their roots and becomes in the soil and feeds the my kroebs and you return carbon to the soil. If it goes deeper into the ground you sequester it for long periods of time, carbon storage. But the first way to get there, the s