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Allan Savory talks about the use of intensive grazing as a method for combatting desertification in Africa [0]. Herd fertilize while eating grasses that would o

by mceoin 7y ago

Allan Savory talks about the use of intensive grazing as a method for combatting desertification in Africa [0]. Herd fertilize while eating grasses that would otherwise fall into senescence and create pockets of erosion. [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

pas 7y ago
Alas their experiment concluded without significant difference between the treatment and non-treatment zones. Basically the guy (and holistic grazing) is a quack(ery). :/ https://www.truthordrought.com/holistic-grazing-myths https://www.truthordrought.com/holistic-grazing-myths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_management_(agriculture)#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_management_(agricultu...
- flukus 7y ago
  Thanks for that, I believed this. I've got to stop trusting TED talks.
  - pas 7y ago
    I loved TED Talks, but .. it turns out 20 minutes is rarely enough to get new and complex issues topped out with very unheard of solutions across. [0] And it became a ripe ground for crackpots and PR stuntfolk. There are great and amazing TED talks, and Chris Anderson and the whole team seems to be able to pick great stories. But they probably lacked a scientific review panel back then. (They have a guideline nowadays: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-science-standards https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-term... and it talks about advisors and a science curator, etc.) They would probably go a long way to supporting real proper 100% real world science by having a redactions list. (So a list of talks that turned out to be completely wrong or partially flawed.) [0] topics like cosmology, quantum-computing-anything, artificial intelligence, energy (carbon capture, nuclear [especially thorium]), bio/sustainable/green/animal-friendly anything (recycling, food, plastics, construction, energy again), medical/health, and of course psychology (also behavioral economics) are all very much still work in progress, so accurately reporting on them would require at least 1-2 hours. unless we're talking about something very concrete like a picture of a black hole 53 million light years away reconstructed from petabytes of radio interferometry.

by mceoin 7y ago

pas 7y ago

Alas their experiment concluded without significant difference between the treatment and non-treatment zones. Basically the guy (and holistic grazing) is a quack(ery). :/ https://www.truthordrought.com/holistic-grazing-myths https://www.truthordrought.com/holistic-grazing-myths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_management_(agriculture)#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_management_(agricultu...

flukus 7y ago
Thanks for that, I believed this. I've got to stop trusting TED talks.
- pas 7y ago
  I loved TED Talks, but .. it turns out 20 minutes is rarely enough to get new and complex issues topped out with very unheard of solutions across. [0] And it became a ripe ground for crackpots and PR stuntfolk. There are great and amazing TED talks, and Chris Anderson and the whole team seems to be able to pick great stories. But they probably lacked a scientific review panel back then. (They have a guideline nowadays: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-science-standards https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-term... and it talks about advisors and a science curator, etc.) They would probably go a long way to supporting real proper 100% real world science by having a redactions list. (So a list of talks that turned out to be completely wrong or partially flawed.) [0] topics like cosmology, quantum-computing-anything, artificial intelligence, energy (carbon capture, nuclear [especially thorium]), bio/sustainable/green/animal-friendly anything (recycling, food, plastics, construction, energy again), medical/health, and of course psychology (also behavioral economics) are all very much still work in progress, so accurately reporting on them would require at least 1-2 hours. unless we're talking about something very concrete like a picture of a black hole 53 million light years away reconstructed from petabytes of radio interferometry.