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Allan Savory is at best a very stubborn misleading self-deluded crackpot. His ideas simply don't pan out. He shows his fancy power point slides over and over an

• maerF0x0 5y ago
  Huh, i read what you linked and it's mixed. I'm not trying to imply he's right about climate change, but more about ecosystem change (rebuild soil, retain water)
  • pas 5y ago
    The important part is that he claims that holistic grazing helps to make land (and thus the whole regional ecosystem) amazingly productive, but this simply fails to replicate. It's bad science, but it unsurprisingly refuses to die, because people like steak, a lot of people had enough of them damn' treehuggers, some people just see the nice pictures cow dung on the African grasslands, and intuitively feel that it "makes sense". (I felt too years ago.) And it does, but the attached grandiose claims don't. I was in a bit of a hurry, but now with one more search I found one of my older comments about the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797102