A reflective journey into the harmony between humans and nature. In Search of Balance_2 explores how ancient wisdom, modern challenges, and personal choices shape our quest for equilibrium in life.
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00:00:00The Net of Indra
00:00:25The metaphor of Indra's jeweled net asks us to envision a vast net that, at each juncture there lies a jewel.
00:00:34Each jewel reflects all the other jewels in this cosmic matrix.
00:00:39Every jewel represents an individual life form, atom, cell, or unit of consciousness.
00:00:46Each jewel, in turn, is intrinsically and intimately connected to all the others.
00:00:52Thus, a change in one gem is reflected in all the others.
00:01:01Hundreds of thousands of people have died unnecessary deaths.
00:01:08The question is why?
00:01:09Most of what I treat in my office is chronic disease.
00:01:22We're living in an environment our bodies are real prepared for and a lot of disease results.
00:01:52Probably about half of the disease you see in the hospital is due to living in an environment we're not prepared for.
00:01:58But perhaps the most startling part is that many of these chronic diseases could have been prevented.
00:02:03Chronic disease is all the ailments from heart disease to diabetes to depression that are just chipping away at our quality of life.
00:02:14Make rounds in a modern hospital with me in the medical ward sometime and just make a note of each patient as you go through.
00:02:38Which of these patients would actually be there if they lived in a natural environment compared with our modern environment?
00:02:45These chronic diseases seem to be moving ever further down in the age bracket to the point where I'm seeing more and more children with diabetes and heart disease and morbid obesity.
00:02:55Experts call it diabetes.
00:02:57Over the past decade childhood cases of type 2 diabetes have increased tenfold because of rising rates of obesity.
00:03:04The immune systems in modern people, particularly in the developed rich countries, are trigger happy.
00:03:10They're doing crazy things, attacking our own tissues, like attacking the brain.
00:03:14So then you have multiple sclerosis.
00:03:16All of these are situations where the immune system is doing things it should not be doing.
00:03:20And in developing countries it doesn't do these things.
00:03:23So something has changed in the rich developed countries, which is causing our immune systems to lose the control mechanisms that normally stop them from behaving irresponsibly.
00:03:34The medical profession is now actually the third leading cause of death in the United States.
00:03:53People didn't understand why when we get antibiotics, it causes many problems.
00:03:57Not only death, but each cell in our body has mitochondria that's been before bacteria.
00:04:03So bacteria is the fabric of all the living system.
00:04:07So we did so many mistakes on our gut bacteria.
00:04:10As we have less and less infectious disease, we have more and more chronic disease.
00:04:14But even conditions like multiple sclerosis and depression are now thought to have some microbial involvement.
00:04:20And so it may be, as we've conquered infectious disease, some of the strategies like antibiotics have been either eliminating beneficial microbes
00:04:27or promoting the growth of harmful microbes that are contributing to these chronic diseases in ways that we're just beginning to understand.
00:04:33Most of it relates back to our lifestyle.
00:04:36So to the foods that we're eating, the highly processed foods with, you know, lots of sugar and very low nutrient.
00:04:43To the fact that we experience a huge amount of stress and that we're disconnected from our communities.
00:04:48We're starting to discover also to the fact that we're disconnected from the natural world.
00:04:53We're gradually killing ourselves off.
00:04:56People have to start realizing that we're all connected.
00:05:01I mean, including the creatures of the earth, including the plants, the aina, the land.
00:05:07At some point, it'll come back and bite us if we don't start changing our ways.
00:05:14Actually, it's starting to bite us already.
00:05:15I love to garden without gloves.
00:05:20My name is Dr. Daphne Miller, and I'm a family doctor and a nutrition explorer.
00:05:27And I feel like I wear gloves enough in my medical practice.
00:05:31And why should I have to wear them in my garden where everything is so wonderful
00:05:36and where they're the kind of microbes that I want to be connected to?
00:05:40Agroecology is the science that provides the basic ecological principles
00:06:03for how to study, design, and manage agrosystems
00:06:07that are both productive and natural resource-conserving
00:06:11and that are culturally sensitive, socially just, and economically viable.
00:06:18We can get behind that, right?
00:06:21Agroecology goes beyond a one-dimensional view of agrosystems.
00:06:25At the heart of the agroecology strategy is the idea that an agroecosystem
00:06:30should mimic the functioning of local ecosystems.
00:06:34But the word health has not come up once yet.
00:06:38The key agroecological strategy in designing a sustainable agriculture
00:06:43is to reincorporate diversity into the agricultural fields and surrounding landscapes.
00:06:49How about human health?
00:06:50I'm pleased to introduce our next speaker, Ms. Daphne Miller.
00:07:06She will be talking about diverse farming systems, diverse diets.
00:07:11She is family physician, writer, and associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine
00:07:17at the University of California, San Francisco.
00:07:20I wanted also to add this sentence, which I like myself.
00:07:23Ms. Miller approaches medicine with the idea that opportunities for health and healing
00:07:28are found not only in the medical system, but in such unexpected places such as home kitchens,
00:07:37school gardens, community organizations, spiritual centers, farmers, and natural trails.
00:07:44We're hitting a wall, and we know that pills and surgeries are not making a dent
00:07:50in the rates of diabetes and heart disease that we're seeing.
00:07:52The most important thing to understand is that there is no one answer.
00:07:57Health is something that needs to be engaged with every day throughout the day
00:08:02in dozens of little choices that we make.
00:08:06The bad news is that it's complicated.
00:08:16My 40th birthday, I had a really bad headache.
00:08:20Ultimately, it was determined that I had a disorder called neurosarcoidosis.
00:08:27They started treating me with prednisone, with steroids.
00:08:31I tried to watch TV.
00:08:33TV was too slow.
00:08:34So I finally had to bring in my laptop, and that was the only thing that was, you know,
00:08:38fast enough that I could deal with, because these drugs just had my brain in.
00:08:43106,000 Americans are killed every year for side effects of prescription drugs.
00:08:49This is not drug errors.
00:08:51This is not illicit drugs.
00:08:53And this is actually just confined to drugs given in hospitals.
00:08:56And the steroids were great, and that the symptoms that I was having went away.
00:09:03And within maybe two weeks of going on these massive doses of steroids, my appetite was back.
00:09:10And I had gained somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 or 40 pounds in two weeks because I was eating like a teenage boy.
00:09:17What I didn't know at that time was that prednisone can lead to diabetes.
00:09:22So I began a course of medication for diabetes.
00:09:26We tend to medicalize health.
00:09:28We tend to really think of it within the purview of what we can do that's either a drug or a surgery or some kind of chemical intervention to make us feel better.
00:09:41And in fact, we know that there's many, many other things out there that have everything to do with creating this balance.
00:09:49I mean, I'm really thankful that Western medicine saved his life because, you know, definitely it was going downhill fast.
00:09:56But at the same time, you know, the prednisone has got such terrible side effects that it's just one of those things that, ugh.
00:10:03It's like those old 40s and 50s movies where somebody saves your life and now they own you.
00:10:08This is where I pay you off.
00:10:12The hubris of thinking that we could simplify this complex system, put it all on a pill.
00:10:19We should be surprised if that ever worked.
00:10:22If a drug company came up with a pill that had the benefits of broccoli, I mean, they'd be making billions of dollars because it's just so clear cut.
00:10:30So our reductionist approach is doing very little in the face of this epidemic of chronic disease.
00:10:38Reductionism means taking a system and reducing it into its component parts as if the whole is just the sum of its parts.
00:10:49We can take any single part out, you know, get the same effect as the whole.
00:10:55Such processes do not really occur in nature.
00:10:58One of the first ones was Descartes, which basically said you cannot study nature in its complexity, you have to study in its parts.
00:11:06And that's when the transdisciplinary nature of knowledge was divided into commodities or disciplines.
00:11:13The second influence was Darwin.
00:11:15Darwin, although he came up with the theory of evolution, he emphasized the survival of the fittest, which means competition.
00:11:22The ones that are successful competitors make it, when it turns out that in nature there's much more complementarity and collaboration and cooperation than competition.
00:11:33The traditional linear model, the pharmaceutical company model is let's identify one probiotic that we put into this extremely complicated system, which is equally complicated to our brain, and that will cure disease.
00:11:46In the modern systems view, not the right way of looking at it.
00:11:51We see now that we don't live in a linear world, that A causes B causes C.
00:11:55What in fact we live in is a complex network.
00:11:58It's a complex system where everything is related to everything else.
00:12:02It's that kind of thinking, the science of complex systems or adaptive complex systems that determine our future.
00:12:09What you need for a complex problem is a complex solution.
00:12:14One of the things that we've done that was really important to us was we started to garden when we got the house.
00:12:28That was one of the first things that we did and started growing our own food.
00:12:32It's kind of something that's become more integrated into our lives.
00:12:35It tends to drive a lot of things, like we look at some of the food in the grocery store now and just go, I don't want that.
00:12:42I want tomatoes from my garden.
00:12:46I started really thinking about how I eat and what I eat and started to refine that.
00:12:58I grew up outside of Buffalo and a friend of mine who grew up there too, she calls it the land of meat.
00:13:02A meal is meat with other things around it.
00:13:06To have a salad as a meal would be like having a side dish as a meal.
00:13:11It was harder to avoid it than it was to just take it in.
00:13:15You grow up, you don't question it, but when you get to, I don't know, our age and meat has some bad effects on your body.
00:13:21My life then was really very much about my work and eating as conveniently as possible.
00:13:29Food is emotional. It's part of, I don't know, who you are.
00:13:33That was the Ronnie then.
00:13:35Gotten down to where I'm about, average around 210 or so, and that keeps me healthy over here.
00:13:41My blood sugar level has been in the normal range now for actually probably a couple of years.
00:13:48Does that mean that you don't have diabetes anymore?
00:13:50I no longer have diabetes.
00:13:52Because you're not taking any medication for your diabetes.
00:13:56No.
00:13:57And before I was taking daily medication, well twice daily medication for my diabetes.
00:14:03What we were taught in medical school is that you can't reverse diabetes.
00:14:07That was really what we were taught, that it was kind of like a runaway train.
00:14:11And once it was, you know, the brakes were off, it just, it was never coming back to the station.
00:14:19And you really have disproved that and I just find it amazing.
00:14:26And you're not alone, but it's something that's very inspirational for other people to know that that can happen.
00:14:33My life has, especially in the last 10 years or so, has been about trying to establish routines where I could be comfortable and focus on what's really important to me.
00:14:45If the revolution continues the way it's gone the last five years, I think we will have to see some dramatic changes.
00:15:03That dietary interventions may have a much bigger influence, I think, in medical care.
00:15:08Both prevention of diseases, but also treatment of various disorders.
00:15:11I kind of think of it too as that's money that I don't have to spend going to the hospital or something else later.
00:15:19It's part of my insurance plan.
00:15:41We had an epidemic of diabetes, epidemic of nutrition-related problems.
00:16:02And I show up at Harvard and there's only one MD in my nutrition program and that was me.
00:16:10And I was absolutely shocked.
00:16:11I had a couple of people lower their cholesterol over 50 points in 10 days.
00:16:17If you can lower your cholesterol 50 points in 10 days, why would you want to take a statin drug that's known to cause liver damage, muscle damage, memory loss?
00:16:25And now there are lawsuits about Lipitor causing diabetes.
00:16:31Why would you want to take that stuff if you can do it naturally?
00:16:34And by the way, the side effects of doing it like that is, well, your blood sugar gets better, your blood pressure gets better, and you might lose weight if you were, well, you will lose weight if you're overweight.
00:16:44Here in the United States, the number one killer is diet.
00:16:49So what we eat determines our lifespan, our healthspan in terms of both disability and mortality.
00:16:58I went from close to 300 pounds with a 42-inch waist down to about 190 with a 34-inch waist.
00:17:10Blood pressure was probably one of the biggest things that changed.
00:17:12I was diagnosed pre-diabetic because both my blood pressure numbers were completely off the charts, and that almost changed immediately.
00:17:21It also changed my palate.
00:17:22A lot of the food that's actually available right now in our supermarkets or in our restaurants didn't taste good.
00:17:28I had to go out and find or grow the type of food that my body wanted to eat.
00:17:35In less than, I would even say nine months, completely changed how I look, how I felt.
00:17:41People who I've seen my whole life didn't recognize me, and I was often accused of being on drugs because the amount of weight that I dropped and my body just completely changed.
00:17:52The Native people have just about the worst health in the nation.
00:17:57If you look at mortality statistics, we were, unfortunately, double the rate of heart disease, double the rate of cancer, double the rate of stroke.
00:18:07This is in terms of mortality for pure Hawaiians, five times the rate for diabetes.
00:18:12So I actually went back to the Bishop Museum and started collecting photographs of Hawaiians in the old days, including drawings from Captain Cook's artists back in 1778.
00:18:24And you saw slim Hawaiians.
00:18:26Number one, there was no sugar.
00:18:28I mean, they didn't have it back in 1778.
00:18:32I mean, that was a Western invention.
00:18:35Their main staple was taro and poi, which is made from taro, sweet potatoes and yams and a little bit of breadfruit.
00:18:43The change in the diet, lifestyle, eating processed food and so much meat and so much fat has contributed to the obesity epidemic here.
00:18:54And, of course, all the diseases that come along with it.
00:18:58I remember when I was a kid, you could count the number of fast food places on one hand on the whole island.
00:19:03Now there's fast food places on every corner.
00:19:06We're faced with a society that's already been brainwashed to eat meat three times a day, dairy three times a day, taught that lean meat and chicken is health food, which it is not.
00:19:19We need to educate people.
00:19:21The healthiest way is nature's way.
00:19:24After all, for thousands of years, we've been eating whole grains and vegetables and beans and animals were not fattened up like they are today or chemicalized.
00:19:35Basically, we're gradually poisoning ourselves.
00:19:38All you have to do is look at the obesity maps in the U.S.
00:19:41It's getting worse and worse and worse.
00:19:48We're just totally being screwed over.
00:19:50You've got this junk food industry that's spending billions of dollars to get the young kids to eat their shit.
00:19:57By the time these poor kids are 13, 14 years old, they've got all kinds of diseases.
00:20:03They've got asthma, they've got attention deficit, they've got so much going on that it's just out of control.
00:20:10And it's really, really, really sad.
00:20:12These remarkable studies in which the progression of cancer was reversed with the whole food plant-based diet, progression of heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes reversed in cases even cure.
00:20:26It's the complexity in the diet, how those foods come together, and how those foods interact with the soil that really offers us the real medicine.
00:20:36Is there anybody who's in the health field in this room?
00:20:40Anybody working in health at all?
00:20:43Wow.
00:20:43Okay.
00:20:44I really am alone.
00:20:45How many farmers do we have here today?
00:20:49A couple of farmers.
00:20:50Wonderful.
00:20:51Well, to the farmers in the room, I look at you and me as one in the same.
00:20:57We're doing the exact same work.
00:21:00We're here to keep people healthy and heal our communities.
00:21:03And hopefully, by the end of my talk, you'll all agree with me that that is the case.
00:21:08We've got the kitchen waste compost in here.
00:21:17And down inside there, we have worms.
00:21:20And so the worms are eating up the kitchen compost.
00:21:24And we're getting a little bit of rain now.
00:21:26If it was a drought time, we'd water it.
00:21:28And every day, we collected it this morning already, but we get this incredible worm juice.
00:21:34And we use it for watering our nursery and other plants that are in need of help.
00:21:39As far as obtaining anything in the store, nothing comes close to how wonderful this works
00:21:46at putting nutrients into your plants.
00:21:49Look at these coconuts, man.
00:21:50They're only four years old, and I'm eating coconuts off of them.
00:21:54Yeah, this is quite the sight, is to have a coconut tree where you've got to get down
00:21:58on your knees to harvest.
00:21:59Right there, there were 16 coconuts.
00:22:02Nice view.
00:22:03See, we get to watch the whales every winter.
00:22:05Wow.
00:22:05The whales park out here.
00:22:07It's all winter long, we get to watch the whales breaching out here.
00:22:10It's really beautiful.
00:22:11They call me Ginger John.
00:22:12That's what everybody knows me by on the island.
00:22:25Not only are they producing the food that keeps us healthy, but they're protecting the land
00:22:31and the soil, which is absolutely critical to our own health.
00:22:35Gaffney?
00:22:41Good to meet you, too.
00:22:44Aloha.
00:22:44This is your property, huh?
00:22:46It's all of ours.
00:22:47So it's mine, too?
00:22:48It's yours, too.
00:22:49Okay.
00:22:49Just stand in here.
00:22:50Life brought you here.
00:22:52Enjoy.
00:22:52You look fantastic.
00:22:54So obviously it's...
00:22:55I'm 68 years old and I work circles around these 20-year-olds.
00:22:57I was the vanguard of the hippie movement and somehow I got the message to come to Hawaii.
00:23:02So I got here in 1967.
00:23:04Ended up living on this beach, McKenna Beach on Maui, for two years.
00:23:09With no clothes and no money, no blanket, nothing.
00:23:14Getting disconnected, so to speak, connected me.
00:23:18I was laying on the beach and thinking, you know, you can die.
00:23:22You better go into town so they can do something for your body.
00:23:24I was sitting about ready to fall over and this old Hawaiian lady came up to me and saw
00:23:28that I was really ill and just embraced me and asked her what was wrong and I told her
00:23:32I was bleeding from my lungs.
00:23:34I couldn't eat.
00:23:34I couldn't sleep.
00:23:35And she said, well, when the Hawaiians had lung diseases, they ate noni.
00:23:39And she took me to a noni tree because noni used to grow everywhere.
00:23:42And I started eating nonis and I haven't stopped.
00:23:47I've been eating nonis for 50 years, man.
00:23:48I'm weighing into eating noni.
00:23:50I eat it every morning.
00:23:51That's amazing.
00:23:52So you were near death.
00:23:55I've been near death many, many times.
00:23:57I've had just about every disease you can think of and I just lay down on the ground
00:24:00and go through it.
00:24:02I don't go to doctors.
00:24:03I'm sure John told you all about tarot and how beautiful it is.
00:24:05This is the only hypoalleritonic food in the world.
00:24:08Give this to a baby, a day old.
00:24:10They have a milk allergy to their own mother's milk.
00:24:12Give it to a baby.
00:24:13It'll sustain them.
00:24:16That's the stuff.
00:24:17My name is Connor Garrett.
00:24:18I'm from Naples, Florida.
00:24:20I'm looking here on Ginger John's farm.
00:24:22I initially came here with the intention to do so and then move on, go back to what I was
00:24:27doing.
00:24:27But now I've become quite enveloped in this lifestyle and I don't really plan on going back anytime
00:24:33soon.
00:24:34John's somebody who will definitely blow your mind in a lot of ways.
00:24:38This tool's called a ho-dad.
00:24:41My favorite tool.
00:24:42You know, he does intensive farming.
00:24:44It's not like gardening.
00:24:45It's not anything in a hoop house where you're spraying chemicals and you get to prance around
00:24:50with flowers.
00:24:51You've got to rip things out of the ground and beat the dirt off of them.
00:24:55How could that be?
00:25:00Get a little lick of this.
00:25:14Full bucket.
00:25:15Pulled them out.
00:25:16Pulled them out.
00:25:46Pulled them out.
00:25:50I'm glad you could make it.
00:25:55I'm glad you could make it.
00:25:56This is all yours?
00:25:57This amazing estate here?
00:25:59Sort of.
00:26:00Sort of.
00:26:00The bank owns some of it.
00:26:02And my children own some of it.
00:26:04But this is a family farm.
00:26:05Can we have a tour first?
00:26:06You can do anything you want to do.
00:26:07Yeah, let's have a tour and then sit down and pack.
00:26:09I pity the man that says no to you.
00:26:11We've got about a hundred acres of soybeans and we just finished this field Monday.
00:26:21That was the one we planted after wheat that we dried and this was the one we just planted
00:26:28and the one that we're finished working on right now is what we call early beans, they
00:26:33were planted in May.
00:26:36Do you buy seeds from Monsanto by the way?
00:26:38Monsanto technology card.
00:26:41My goodness.
00:26:43So genetic modification allowed us to use some simple applications of a herbicide, Roundup
00:26:48primarily.
00:26:49It killed everything but the corn, it killed everything but the soybeans.
00:26:53Our cost went down, it was easier to farm, it was easier to maintain.
00:26:56We used to have like a smorgasbord of chemicals we were trying to pick out what to use.
00:27:01So you'd have to make a cocktail mixture of what to apply to kill the weeds that were choking
00:27:05the crop.
00:27:06Roundup took it all.
00:27:07You can imagine that anything that is engineered to kill off bacteria in the soil is going to
00:27:13do the same thing in our gut and pesticides and herbicides do exactly that.
00:27:19They work the same way as antibiotics work.
00:27:22They kill living things.
00:27:24So we're standing at the side of the century experiment which is a hundred year research
00:27:29experiment looking at the sustainability of different agricultural systems.
00:27:35And so there's this contrast between managing soil sort of like cookbook style following a
00:27:40menu and you put in this and that at this time then you spray this.
00:27:44So it's pretty much a codified approach that you might get from an extension as opposed to other
00:27:51farmers who actually talk about farming the soil and they talk about having a relationship with the
00:27:57soil.
00:27:57They talk about doing as much for the soil as they're doing for their crops.
00:28:01They may even put more emphasis on the soil because they feel like if they take care of the soil then
00:28:07the crops are going to do fine.
00:28:08An organic farmer grows soil.
00:28:11It's light.
00:28:13A chemical farmer grows crops.
00:28:15So how do you put nutrients back in?
00:28:17So we will buy usually commercial fertilizers.
00:28:21It's got an earthworm in it.
00:28:23Hey buddy.
00:28:24Yo you're on camera.
00:28:27That's good.
00:28:28So if my crops don't do well it's not because of what I'm putting in it's because of the soil.
00:28:32We don't really know where it's sourced.
00:28:33Right.
00:28:34Does that ever worry you?
00:28:35That you're putting all this stuff on your fields from some foreign place?
00:28:39No it doesn't.
00:28:40When you're locked into a system that seems to be working it's really hard to make the change.
00:28:46The whole agribusiness system has separated this whole and I think that's part of what the local
00:28:52food movement and a lot of what's going on with.
00:28:54How do we make that connectivity to it and I don't know how individually to bridge that gap.
00:29:00I don't know how to do it.
00:29:01I don't know my consumer.
00:29:03I have no connection whatsoever.
00:29:05My farming style is to grow the food crops that have sustained civilization.
00:29:09When I sit down to eat, 90% of what I eat comes from this farm.
00:29:13I really feel like I'm cheating.
00:29:14So where do you get your food?
00:29:16I go to the Kroger stores.
00:29:18Really?
00:29:18Yeah.
00:29:19You go and shop in a grocery store for food?
00:29:22Sure.
00:29:23Every farmer does.
00:29:24I know very few who actually consume the food on their own farm.
00:29:30The average food that we eat travels about 1,500 miles.
00:29:34And a city like Rome, for example, has to import 5,000 tons of food per day.
00:29:39Can you imagine the fragility of a system like that?
00:29:41The consequences of a system like that that has on transportation, energy and greenhouse gases.
00:29:47I mean, things have to change and that's local agriculture and much of that local agriculture is
00:29:53founded in traditional agriculture.
00:29:55To feed a person in the developed world with conventional agriculture,
00:29:59we need about 12 barrels of oil per year, per person.
00:30:03If we think about the moment in which the world produced its peak of oil,
00:30:08that was about five barrels per person, per year.
00:30:13There is not enough oil in the world to sustain food production under the conventional model.
00:30:19It works because it only works in a small part of the world.
00:30:21Most farmers don't raise food.
00:30:24We don't know much about food.
00:30:26We know about product.
00:30:27I think some sadness in your eyes when I say that,
00:30:29but I think it's a legitimate statement,
00:30:32is that we just don't have a way to connect with that aspect.
00:30:35Organic farming receives, in a country like the Netherlands,
00:30:39about 10% of the funding for agricultural research.
00:30:44Now, the Netherlands invest then in organic farming something like $4 million per year.
00:30:49A company like Monsanto invests $900 million per year in research.
00:30:54And most of the governments in the world invest most of the money in conventional farming.
00:30:58When I harvest the wheat, I can put it under loan with USDA.
00:31:03I can at least get three quarters of its market value the day I harvest it.
00:31:08So there's lots of incentives for me to stay inside of that safety net.
00:31:12What you're telling me is that the government is a lot more reliable customer for you.
00:31:17On the basic commodities that we raise in this country,
00:31:21the feed grains, the wheat, the corn, and the government through farm bills,
00:31:24has provided a way to at least protect you and have a marketing system.
00:31:30Although the gap in yields between organic and conventional is only 20%,
00:31:34the gap in investments in research is 100%.
00:31:38And yet, without research, without funding,
00:31:41organic farming is pushing and coming closer to conventional farming.
00:31:45So the results, the progress made per dollar invested in research is huge.
00:31:50It's a way of life.
00:31:51You live like a peasant.
00:31:54You work like a slave.
00:31:55But you eat better than any king ever ate.
00:31:58And the important part about that is that is your health insurance.
00:32:03I don't have health insurance.
00:32:04I don't have social security.
00:32:07I have this.
00:32:07There's another cemetery on the farm over there on the hillsides.
00:32:11And there's some hintons buried over there.
00:32:12But this is sort of the plot.
00:32:16I figure that's my spot about there at some point.
00:32:18I'm curious to hear what happens with you in the next couple of years, Hoppy.
00:32:23Because I do believe maybe you will help.
00:32:25Hopefully you're going to talk to my daughter,
00:32:27and she's going to have a whole new approach on this thing, okay?
00:32:30This is the generational shift.
00:32:32This is going to change.
00:32:37That statement about not growing food,
00:32:39that farmers don't grow food,
00:32:43was unbelievable to me.
00:32:46That was amazing.
00:32:47I mean, I just wrote a whole book about farmers being healers,
00:32:51and that they had the health of their community as this sort of primary concern.
00:32:59And I think that might be the case for a small subset of farmers.
00:33:04But from what Hoppy was saying,
00:33:07that certainly isn't the case for the majority of farmers.
00:33:10I see this as the single largest health issue that is facing our country.
00:33:18Can growing food or growing products be something that is net positive for us?
00:33:28Can it be healing?
00:33:32Last Sunday, we told you about a WHO report that listed several chemicals as potentially
00:33:39cancer-causing, including glyphosate, found in the popular weed killer, Roundup.
00:33:44Now, in an interview for an upcoming French documentary, a Canadian scientist has been
00:33:49caught in an Aaron Brockovich-like moment when he's asked to defend that chemical against links to
00:33:54cancer rates in Argentina. Take a look.
00:33:57I do not believe glyphosate in Argentina is causing increases in cancer.
00:34:03You can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you.
00:34:06You want to drink some? We have some here.
00:34:08I'd be happy to, actually.
00:34:10Not really, but I know it wouldn't hurt me.
00:34:12If you say so, I have some glyphosate.
00:34:15No, no, I'm not stupid.
00:34:16Ah, okay, so you, you, you...
00:34:18No, but I know...
00:34:18So it's dangerous, right?
00:34:19No, people try to commit suicide with it and fail fairly regularly.
00:34:23Tell the truth.
00:34:24It's not dangerous to humans.
00:34:25No, it's not.
00:34:26So are you ready to drink one glass of glyphosate?
00:34:28No, I'm not an idiot.
00:34:30Even though this may look disgusting to most people because this is really, um, kind of dirty looking,
00:34:38I know that the microorganism living in here is, is the most beneficial one on earth and so
00:34:47I'm not afraid to take a big drink of it and, um, super probiotic.
00:34:52Oh, got a little bite to it too.
00:34:54And this is essentially the food for the microorganisms when I put them out there.
00:35:00And this one's much better.
00:35:01For two years, I was trying to grow taro in these fields.
00:35:06And I've been growing taro for about 40 years.
00:35:10And I never had a problem.
00:35:11Yet I couldn't get a crop to really grow.
00:35:14I was getting really discouraged.
00:35:15And then I heard about Master Cho and Korean Natural Farmer.
00:35:20It's kind of designed for peasants like myself.
00:35:37it's kind of designed for peasants like myself and all these different things when combined in the
00:35:52right proportions make the microorganisms thrive and brings their back to life the microorganisms
00:35:58are inside of us they're on our skin they're in our lungs they are really what connect us to the
00:36:06world around us nothing was growing there wasn't an earthworm here and he had IMOs to reintroduce
00:36:13that fungal network into his soil here and the results have spoken for themselves indigenous
00:36:20microorganisms are basically probiotics for agriculture IMOs are made by farmers using the
00:36:29materials from that land and then fermenting it and putting it back into the land where it can help
00:36:35the plants and the fungi and all the soil and everything that's there thrive
00:36:41nice if you have totally white mold like this is the excellent IMO1 that we cultivated from from this
00:36:58stage you would collect all of this into a jar and add equal amount of sugar to the rice and so that
00:37:07we will move it to IMO2 we planted the red lettuces I was spraying them with the Korean natural farming and then I guess when I wasn't paying attention I forgot the one at the end
00:37:22then I came back and the other red lettuces are four times the size of the other red lettuce and they were all planted on the same day except for the front half of the row received Korean natural farming nutrients
00:37:29four inches deep that this tester can get into the ground this is three inches and their
00:37:44this is aolic conventional practice so this is six inches and I have about itā
00:37:598 inches deep in the organic plant. So I have gathered the IMO for last season before we planted
00:38:07tomato in here. So you can see that I get to a deeper level in the soy compaction. Now we can
00:38:18see how deep it gets. So this is 12 inches. I have it about 14 inches. So from 4 inches
00:38:27in the conventional practice, 8 inches in the organic. Now we have 14 inches in the Korean
00:38:35nature farming. When you have a commercial plant, you have a very small root system because they're
00:38:40drug dependent. So the roots don't have to travel. There's nothing for them to go out there for. It's
00:38:45dead. It's a dead zone. And they're just living on these chemicals that have been fed them. If you're
00:38:50farming with microorganisms, you're doing a biological farming and you have a good population of microbes
00:38:57in the soil, the root systems will grow very far out, hundreds of feet. Korean natural farming,
00:39:03what farmers are doing is recognizing that the microbes that are there on that farm and in that
00:39:09soil are really critical to the life cycle of the farm and to the health of the plants and to the
00:39:15health of the people who eat those plants. I have a degree in computer science and decided to
00:39:22learn how to farm. Of all the techniques you can pick, Korean natural farming is right on with the
00:39:29kids because every single thing we use is edible. And so with the kids, I don't have to worry about
00:39:35them getting poison on them and eating it or getting in dangerous situations. Everything they can eat,
00:39:41if they spill it, it's not a problem. It just goes into the ground and makes things better.
00:39:45Now right here, you're probably looking at six billion microorganisms in this little chunk here.
00:39:52What Ginger John is practicing is basically complexity medicine, you know, or complexity farming.
00:39:58Can you see that white on your film? That's the microorganisms going to work here.
00:40:03The ones with the microorganisms were flourishing. They were twice as large, very green,
00:40:10the cups were full of roots. So right then we knew, wow, what is this magic? And here's an IMO4 pile here.
00:40:18The first time that I started applying my IMO4 to the land and I'm dumping it out, I had this incredible
00:40:25feeling of sovereignty that I was freeing myself from the need of spending hard-earned money on anything
00:40:34that was being shipped over across the ocean from the mainland.
00:40:38A plant will put out a stress signal that it's lacking some kind of nutrient. It could be like
00:40:42boron or magnesium or calcium. The fungus that are attached to the roots of the plant will sense
00:40:47that imbalance. It can actually send a signal to an area that's rich and it will bring that to the plant.
00:40:54Some of them live in the rhizosphere, in the root of plants. Root of plants is extremely complex
00:41:01environment because there are many, many organisms living there. Some of them cooperate, some of them
00:41:07compete. So they have to develop, in order to survive, extremely sophisticated social intelligence.
00:41:15Very much like human in social intelligence, just more advanced. So I came with this idea,
00:41:20what are the features that characterize social intelligence? Then I found that our own bacteria,
00:41:26other bacteria that I discovered, fall in the three standard deviation above the average.
00:41:31So they are like Einstein. They have special circuits to process the information and even engage in
00:41:38decision-making. Looking at the desert, these social bacteria play enormous role on the integrity of
00:41:46Earth because all these bushes that you see here are connected underneath. So all these things that you see
00:41:52around us, it's one big network. It's super far out. It's almost so, like I'm way too scientific,
00:41:59at first I was like, no, that's some hippie stuff. No, it's real. It happens and it's part of healthy
00:42:05soil and you'll never see it in commercial agriculture. One of the things I've been studying is soil biology
00:42:10with a 400 power microscope and with that I'm able to see the beneficial fungus and bacteria and very
00:42:18quickly, quantitatively decide if I'm doing it right or not. All throughout this sample of the beneficial
00:42:23microorganisms, I'm finding nice fungus and I'm finding much more biodiversity. They're the ones who
00:42:29are harvesting nutrients from the soil and passing them on to the roots of the plants. We're then
00:42:36passing them on to us. Scientists have now discovered important clues about the role of so-called
00:42:42good bacteria. A new study in the journal Nature finds that people without certain microbes are more
00:42:47likely to be obese and to have diabetes or other serious health problems. The fascinating thing
00:42:52about the human microbiome is that we now realize there is an entire organ inside of us that until
00:42:59about five or ten years ago nobody even thought about and all the medical theories about health
00:43:03and disease have been made without that organ. It's a mass of cells that weigh about the same as your brain
00:43:09but it has more genes, more cells, arguably more connections and more complexity and it plays some
00:43:15physiologically well-defined roles. We're just beginning to understand what all these roles
00:43:20are. It's not an insubstantial organ because it has composed of a hundred trillion cells. These are
00:43:26ten times more cells than our entire repertoire of human cells. There's so much excitement about it
00:43:31because it turns out that most of our genes are not human genes but microbial genes. There's something
00:43:36going on inside of us that is very exciting, mysterious and people are now shifting their attitude towards
00:43:42understanding this, implicating the microbiome in virtually every function of the body. They're
00:43:47doing all kinds of things we had no idea that they were involved with until very recently. Everything
00:43:51from affecting how we process our diet to how we respond to different drugs, even to things like how
00:43:57we resist different kinds of diseases. One of the more intriguing things about the microbiome is its
00:44:01possible role in human obesity. Millions of microbes that live in the guts of slim people
00:44:07could be turned into potential fat fighters to help the nation's obesity epidemic according to a new
00:44:12study. They've taken stool material from lean and obese twins so they're twin humans and if you take the
00:44:20stool from the obese twin and give it to a mouse that mouse will become fat and if you take the stool
00:44:26from a lean twin and give it to a different mouse that mouse stays thin. What's really important about
00:44:31that is that the two mice they eat the same they exercise the same so the only factor that was different
00:44:36was the microbiome that they receive. They're not just sitting there as inactive bystanders they produce
00:44:43many chemicals that are very similar to the neurotransmitters that our brain uses they talk to
00:44:49immune cells they talk to various cells within our gut. The reason that it's truly caught the imagination
00:44:56of people is this idea that we are host to all these creatures and those internal bacteria we're
00:45:03discovering are maybe as important as our own DNA in our own cells when it comes to determining
00:45:10our mood how we process food how our immune system works.
00:45:28When I was a kid I was a huge germaphobe one of the things that we've learned is you know they're not most of them
00:45:34aren't germs most of them aren't bad so if you eat a little dirt it's not going to hurt we're you know
00:45:40introducing diversity to ourselves and that diversity especially as children is so important for helping
00:45:46our immune system develop properly so now I'm not so worried about touching door handles or getting my
00:45:53hands dirty because I know that I'm just increasing the diversity of my microbes that's pretty good for
00:45:59my health. Having a dog is one of the best evidence-based things that you can do in terms
00:46:04of reducing the rates of allergies later on. They're as much our inheritance as the genes in our
00:46:10chromosomes are and yet much of the way we live nowadays we seem to be trying to stop transmission
00:46:16of mother's microbes to the baby. We need to transmit the microbiota to the baby. Everyone assumes that
00:46:21breast milk is sterile but not only is it not sterile there is a biological mechanism to ensure that it is
00:46:27not and there are organisms being picked up from the guts transported in the blood and put into breast
00:46:33milk. One has to guess that that those are organisms that is quite difficult to get from the maternal gut
00:46:38into the baby's gut in other ways and mother's milk contains a succession of interesting polysaccharides
00:46:44produced at different stages during lactation which act as growth factors for the organisms that need
00:46:50to be developing in the baby's gut at each stage of after after birth. But we do seem to be trying to
00:46:56block this essential transmission of the microbiota to the next generation. You come out the regular
00:47:01way as you pass through the birth canal you're coated with a particular set of microbes from
00:47:05your mother whereas if you're delivered by c-section instead you miss out on that inoculation and
00:47:10essentially what you pick up is skin microbes from other people or possibly from dust floating around
00:47:16in the air. All of these things are limiting the transmission of the microbiota which is part of
00:47:22the family's heritage part of the genetics of the family. The reason why this is important is if
00:47:27you're delivered by c-section you have higher rates of a whole lot of diseases with immune complications
00:47:33including asthma allergies atopic disease even obesity. They really determine who we are. The
00:47:39bushes you see around is a colony of many microorganisms. We are also a colony of many microorganisms.
00:47:47The art was part of the science and the science is part of the art. The coloring started not really
00:47:58just to make art but for us to capture different features in different motifs in the pattern because
00:48:05it seems like many secrets are hidden there. So each time we do new experiment we find new patterns and I
00:48:13keep like a child. Wow! Complexity of the pattern reflects the fact that you have distribution of
00:48:21tasks. You have these dots on the colony that you see there are tens of thousands hundreds of thousands
00:48:27of bacteria that connect together they hold hands and they dance together they circle around and they pave
00:48:34the way to the colony to move on hard surfaces. When you have a complex pattern when the environment
00:48:39changes and in the soil the environment changes they can change the shape change the mix makeup of the
00:48:46colony and adapt to the new conditions. This is mother nature is the microorganisms in the soil and that's
00:48:54what make all of the globe one big organism. Restoring this and rejuvenating back to growing your own
00:49:03beneficial microorganisms and re-inoculating them into the environment is really the only way to turn
00:49:10the page and to heal our forests to heal our ocean and the systems that keep us alive. On an ordinary day
00:49:17out in a out walking in the park or something there might be maybe a hundred thousand organisms per cubic
00:49:24meter of air but if you're out there with your brush cutter on the summer's day or if you're in a cow shed
00:49:30you're up to hundreds of millions and so you're taking an enormous numbers of organs from the natural
00:49:36environment. Our bodies are not islands we are very very porous creatures who are constantly exchanging
00:49:44information and exchanging DNA with the environment around us and as we go on this adventure to discover
00:49:52what makes us healthy and what keeps us in balance that has to be part of the equation sort of these
00:49:58microscopic influences that have a huge amount to do with our well-being. So there we're beginning to
00:50:05have real evidence real hard evidence that exposure to the green environment is doing things to our
00:50:11immune systems which is relevant to how our immune systems function and which is therefore relevant to
00:50:16human health. The problem is we don't live in either a natural or an urban environment anymore we live indoors.
00:50:22To think that we have evolved with a contact with nature for tens of millennia and to think that
00:50:30moving ourselves to a profoundly artificial environment have no consequences is I think you'd be willfully
00:50:35naive to believe that. As of 2008 more people live in cities than in the countryside all around the world.
00:50:42That's the first time in human history. It raises big questions about the future of our cities. It raises huge
00:50:51questions about the future of the human race. That means one of two things. Either the human species will continue
00:50:57to lose whatever connection to nature it still has or it means the beginning of a new kind of city.
00:51:02If you're interested in trees and how they benefit people then ultimately you realize the trees that give
00:51:08the greatest benefit are in cities. They're near the people. The paradox of an urban society. We get most of our
00:51:14interaction with the natural environment in an urban environment. The Atlantic did an interesting piece
00:51:19about this research and they had a somewhat provocative title. It's when trees die people die.
00:51:26Where there are the trees with the nicest trees in urban areas they're also the people who tend to be
00:51:30whiter, wealthier, better educated. They're more privileged. They're going to people who are going to
00:51:34tend to have better health outcomes anyway and trying to disentangle that relationship can be really
00:51:39it can be tricky. The cold weather nothing compared to what the emerald ash borer can do. This tiny bug
00:51:45is eating its way through trees and destroying landscapes all across western New York. Let's see
00:51:50what happens when the emerald ash borer spreads out from Detroit and see if there are health consequences.
00:51:55I looked at two causes of death cardiovascular disease and then lower respiratory disease. We did see
00:52:01increased levels of these two types of diseases in counties that were infested with emerald ash borer.
00:52:06There was a bigger impact in wealthier counties. If trees are good for you and we know that those
00:52:12wealthy counties are going to have more of them then killing those trees should be have a bigger
00:52:17health impact and that is indeed what we saw. People who are at the bottom end of the socioeconomic
00:52:21scale and are not close to green space are about twice as likely to die in that five-year period as
00:52:29the people at the top of the socioeconomic scale. As they get closer to green space so this difference
00:52:35between the top and the bottom of the socioeconomic scale starts to disappear. Most people who talk in
00:52:40the environmental movement talk about you know the morality of it. We're very stern and we have to
00:52:45protect nature because it's the right thing to do. Well I'm an economist. I study selfishness and what
00:52:51I understand is that you know scolding people do things ain't very effective. The type of stuff I do
00:52:56in other people is showing that looking after the natural environment is profoundly self-interested and
00:53:00when you appeal to people's self-interest then that's a different matter. Then you know if you
00:53:05can show people this is in really really in your best interest to do that then I think we are going
00:53:10to see some change. Nature deficit disorder is not a known medical diagnosis. Basically what it is is a
00:53:16metaphor to describe the harm that comes to the human species when it doesn't have much connection to
00:53:23the natural world. And the way to show that is not by saying this kid has nature deficit disorder and this
00:53:28kid exhibits these symptoms you could do that but what I would rather do is look at all this positive
00:53:36research that's come out and then ask if that's connected to the natural world what happens when
00:53:41you take the natural world away. Shouldn't every kid and in fact I think every adult have a right
00:53:48to the benefits of being in the natural world. Really what it gets down to are these small choices
00:53:54about you know we plant a tree here we preserve a park here that's what's going to really make the
00:53:58day-to-day difference in people's lives I believe. I was in a hotel room one day in San Francisco and
00:54:05I picked up one of those magazines that you wonder where they come from in the hotel rooms and I was
00:54:10flipping through it and I looked at the back page and there was this black and white photograph of a
00:54:14little boy on a beach. He's running along and his eyes are filled with life and the story next to this
00:54:19photograph said this little boy had a problem. He had the wiggles he couldn't sit still he was
00:54:24disrupted in class the school finally kicked him out the parents were upset of course but they'd been
00:54:31very observant they'd noticed how a little bit of time in nature helped their little boy calm himself
00:54:39and focus so for the next 10 years they took their little boy all over the great western wilderness
00:54:45areas the kid turned out okay the photograph was taken in 1906 the little boy's name was Ansel Adams
00:54:52so here's a question what would have happened if they'd taken little Ansel and put him in a chair
00:54:56in front of a desk in front of a computer told him to sit there take tests all day cancelled recess
00:55:02which more and more schools are doing cancelled field trips lengthened the school day lengthened
00:55:07the school and then given him ritalin would we have the gifts of nature that Ansel gave us would we
00:55:13have the political support such as it is for the national parks without his photographs how many little
00:55:19Ansels and Anselettes are out there right now who could give us great gifts in the future if we give
00:55:25them the great gift of nature now kind of been slowly peeling back the story of what is ailing Hawaiians
00:55:34finally this afternoon we started to get at a glimmer of amazing hope for how to heal by seeing that
00:55:43these kids by reconnecting to that land and really understanding how to grow things and how to nourish
00:55:50themselves and how to nourish the soil their soil can make themselves healthy working with the kids has
00:55:55been so powerful because showing them that the earth is alive at a young age really will impact
00:56:02how they grow up you know are they going to be going and buying roundup are they going to be going out to
00:56:06their soil and and realizing it's alive and really feeling that heart space connection to caring for the
00:56:13land the kids here they need economic opportunity and through this agricultural practices where it's
00:56:20affordable to do where it's environmentally sound i believe it'll give everyone in this area a great
00:56:27opportunity to have a great life and to provide for their family and to be happy every day until you
00:56:34start doing this natural farming and realizing that the earth is alive it changes your whole perspective
00:56:41has just made me so much more conscientious in every part of my life brought so much more respect to the
00:56:46whole systems that are naturally there providing such abundance already
00:57:04so i went to the market region it's like a fantasy land for agroecologists they've been
00:57:10farming in these little plots for hundreds of years ever since uh the benedictines who are like the
00:57:17original hippies went there and uh started to create these little farms in it with their monasteries
00:57:25and the soil there is very healthy and it's very beautiful
00:57:28so
00:57:41Oh, bravo, bravo!
00:57:57Forte come la morte e l'amore, e nasce come gli inferi e la gelosia.
00:58:02Le sue rampe sono rampe di fuoco, una fiamma del sinistro.
00:58:06Questo ĆØ il tipico della vita monastica.
00:58:09Pregare all'alba quando appena viene la luce,
00:58:13vedi la luce e viene fuori il nuovo canto,
00:58:17che ĆØ la luce del giorno, che ti senti in sintonia con questo respiro del creato che rinasce.
00:58:24Questo ĆØ un ritmo vitale per ciascuno di noi,
00:58:28ma ĆØ il ritmo che mi mette in sintonia con la natura che respira.
00:58:33La mentalitĆ che ĆØ stata portata ĆØ soprattutto la cura al creato,
00:58:39diciamo cosƬ, la cura alla terra dalla quale abbiamo tutto.
00:58:45La salute, ma quando ĆØ che la persona sta in salute?
00:58:54Quando la persona agisce, vive e si dimentica anche un po' di se stessa.
00:58:59In un anno io ho festeggiato 5 centenari a fermo e la percentuale ĆØ molto alta rispetto ai 38 mila abitanti.
00:59:18Presumo che questo sia dovuto anche alla situazione di una regione che comunque ha sempre curato in modo particolare il benessere attraverso il cibo, direi anche il lavoro.
00:59:37Nemmeno la prevenzione, perchĆ© la prevenzione ĆØ la prevenzione contro le malattie, ma ĆØ la promozione della salute e la ricerca del benessere.
00:59:47La differenza tra prevenzione e promozione ĆØ questa. La prevenzione previene la malattia, la promozione invece la mantiene, la esalta, la aumenta.
00:59:58E soprattutto perchĆ© ĆØ una regione dove si ĆØ molto curato i prodotti dell'agricoltura.
01:00:14Vegliando, anzi, questa sorella anziana che vigila, li custodisce con tanto amore.
01:00:20Sor Beatrice ci parla, lei ci parla con questo luogo, lei parla con la pianta, con il pomodoro, con i fiori.
01:00:38E si rende conto di come vogliono essere trattati, detto tra virgolette, perchĆ© non sono persone, perĆ² se deve dare piĆ¹ acqua, se deve aspettare, se deve togliere qualche germoglio in piĆ¹.
01:00:51CioĆØ proprio...
01:00:53Oh, oh, oh, oh!
01:00:55Fagiolina!
01:00:57Fagiolina!
01:00:58I'm so sorry, I don't want to hurt the bees!
01:01:00Dice, non vuole rovinare la coltivazione.
01:01:03Ha detto che sono finiti, Fagiolina.
01:01:05Oh, I'm sorry.
01:01:07Dice, finiti i fagiolini.
01:01:09Oh, non ce sono, non ve li puĆ² offrire.
01:01:11No, ok.
01:01:12Hello, I'm so honored.
01:01:14Questa signora ĆØ una dottoressa che viene dall'America.
01:01:18Allora?
01:01:20Andiamo un attimo che ci fa qualche domanda.
01:01:23Oh, ma la domanda che mi ha andato a me.
01:01:26Eh, ma vediamo, qualcosa rispondi, no?
01:01:29Eh, perchƩ non ce lo sento.
01:01:31Te lo dico io.
01:01:32Va bene, la serviettrice suggerisce le risposte, dai!
01:01:39Andiamo, dai.
01:01:40Piano piano, dai.
01:01:41Piano piano, dai.
01:01:42Except that she's moving faster than everybody else.
01:01:44So that's what made a good class of the youth.
01:01:51Questo va coperto perchĆ© sennĆ² si secca.
01:01:54Oh, well.
01:01:55Ok, this is how you live to be 96.
01:01:58Right here!
01:01:59Right here
01:02:09She climbs those trees?
01:02:11Yes, yes.
01:02:13She climbs that tree to get fruit?
01:02:15Yes, for taking fruit.
01:02:17How to collect fruit?
01:02:19You go there?
01:02:21No, there's no fruit.
01:02:23Now he's finished the fruit.
01:02:25They're all done.
01:02:27No more fruit.
01:02:29No more fruit.
01:02:31Okay, we don't have to worry about her until next year.
01:02:33Where's this?
01:02:35Where's this?
01:02:41You came here a few years ago
01:02:43to take the land
01:02:45where you were when you were a child, right?
01:02:47I was five years old.
01:02:49So, this I didn't tell you about it.
01:02:51Suor Beatrice
01:02:53always had a fever, it was bad.
01:02:55She was also in the hospital in Rome
01:02:57and they didn't find any medicine to cure her.
01:03:01You wanted to work?
01:03:03But I didn't want to visit her.
01:03:05I didn't think she could have it.
01:03:07I thought she would send her a visit to her.
01:03:09When you came to work on the land,
01:03:11you were okay?
01:03:13Yes.
01:03:15And she lived in the monastery and in the prayer
01:03:21and dedicated to this work.
01:03:23And so, she knows every centimeter of this land.
01:03:27She knows everything.
01:03:29What I want to talk to you right now is about what we have lost.
01:03:41When we move away from those little fields in the Marque region,
01:03:45what are the health things that we've lost?
01:03:47These are all parts of agroecology.
01:03:49Crop diversity, perennials and native seeds,
01:03:51traditional technologies,
01:03:53soil vitality, community.
01:03:55But what they really are is health.
01:03:59I've been operating a tumor in the pancreas.
01:04:02So, all the doctors tell me,
01:04:04what are you still doing here?
01:04:06Because you have to be in the paradise.
01:04:08You had a tumor in your pancreas?
01:04:10Yes.
01:04:11How long ago was that?
01:04:13Nine years ago.
01:04:14Nine years ago.
01:04:15You had a pancreatic tumor nine years ago?
01:04:18Pancreas, stomach, fegato, cistifilia, duodenum.
01:04:23Everything was eaten.
01:04:25I'm still here to say this.
01:04:28Are they studying you?
01:04:29Are they from the scientific standpoint?
01:04:32You are...
01:04:33You are...
01:04:34You are a miracle.
01:04:36I'm here because the grace of God keeps me here.
01:04:39And then, for that desire, for that joy I have to live.
01:04:42Not only food, not only things,
01:04:45but our life is linked to nature,
01:04:48to the nature of nature.
01:04:50Everything that I live, that I feel, that I feel,
01:04:54is for me, for my physical and spiritual health.
01:05:04Can you give us the rundown of it?
01:05:06Just give me one sec, okay?
01:05:08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:05:15Padre Giovanni just shared stuff that was incredibly personal to him,
01:05:20and that I didn't get the sense that he talks about it all the time.
01:05:25And it affected me very deeply.
01:05:28He just got so much at the crux of what I'm trying to understand
01:05:32about those connections between our bodies and the earth.
01:05:37And he's just living this every day for him.
01:05:40And it's his awareness.
01:05:44It's his existence.
01:05:46And that story about him getting pancreatic cancer nine years ago.
01:05:52I mean, the life expectancy from what sounds like he had metastatic pancreatic cancer
01:05:58he had in his gut and everything is three to six months.
01:06:03And it's really amazing.
01:06:06He said he did all the medical treatments, but there was this other side of what he did,
01:06:11which possibly was the reason that he's still with us nine years later.
01:06:23People talk about healing the earth.
01:06:25The earth heals us.
01:06:26Look around us and see the beauty.
01:06:28I mean, every sunrise and every sunset and every rain shower
01:06:32and every breeze and every cloud is so magnificent.
01:06:35I mean, what more beauty could there be?
01:06:39Even when we're living in a city on the 30th floor of a concrete high-rise,
01:06:44we have to start to think of ourselves as part of an agroecological cycle.
01:06:50Only with that mentality are we going to actually leave something for our children and our grandchildren.
01:06:57So increasingly, instead of saying sustainable, I say nature rich.
01:07:05What does a nature rich city look like?
01:07:07A nature rich future.
01:07:09A nature rich yard filled with native species that bring back butterfly migration routes and bird migration routes.
01:07:16What does that future look like?
01:07:17When you begin to use terminology like a nature rich city, people can see that in their mind's eye.
01:07:22And I can tell you, particularly young people resonate to that.
01:07:25They want to go there.
01:07:26They want to create that.
01:07:28We humans are so arrogant that we think the hypothesis that we come up with actually have anything to do with the complexity of the world around us.
01:07:37So, ai in Hawaiian means to eat, means food, means reproduction, and then na is in reference to the land.
01:07:51So, it's the land that feeds.
01:07:54You are the servant to the land.
01:07:57So that land doesn't only mean land, it also means the ocean.
01:08:00Right?
01:08:01Everything in nature.
01:08:02You are the servant to nature in order to live.
01:08:06There's a movement that is sometimes called the New Agrarians.
01:08:09These are often young people who are dedicated to organic farming near a city or in a city.
01:08:15They're changing their neighborhoods.
01:08:17They're really dedicated to creating a different kind of food distribution.
01:08:22The attitude that we're now developing is a much more humble and modest attitude,
01:08:27where we essentially say, we really don't understand nature, but we will listen to it in an unbiased way
01:08:33and we'll let the wisdom and intelligence of nature tell us how it's working and how it's operating.
01:08:40So, we're really starting to think about how all these parts interconnect, not just to keep the land healthy,
01:08:46and not just to keep the air healthy, but also to keep us healthy.
01:08:50The big challenge of life in general is trying to find balance, and once you find it, trying to maintain balance.
01:08:56It's not a goal that you achieve and then that's it.
01:09:01The balance is always going to shift again and then you'll have to regain the balance.
01:09:05It's something that's constantly adapting, constantly moving, with thousands of different variables.
01:09:11And that, in fact, is balance.
01:09:14Almost everything is organized in interconnected systems, the simplest systems to the most complex ones.
01:09:20There's a natural law that when systems are organized, they will obey one just like the law of gravity.
01:09:26You could say there's a high intelligence that used the design to create the universe by a very beautiful, simple design that is scalable,
01:09:35that can be used in tiny little networks of insects or ants talking to each other.
01:09:40There's two ways of explaining it, as an engineer or as a spiritual person.
01:09:44And I think at the moment they're both equally valid.
01:09:47There's two ways of explaining it.
01:09:48There's two ways of explaining it.
01:09:53Awareness of interconnectedness is increasing in leaps and bounds as the new age of globalization accelerates.
01:10:01Our civilization has evolved, emphasizing the separation into parts for too long.
01:10:07On this realization of unbroken wholeness, our future may depend.
01:10:17hacklenosen. Many units are going to prey on some of our topic.
01:10:20The universe is Carmine and Runners.
01:10:22On this ŠæŠ¾Š½ŃŠ», all the action abundance between the maximum numerals and ultimately are planning to create an vessel.
01:10:23Tmetricion, thearius v?
01:10:26Guys, donate some sectors from the afternoon of the bosom for stalls to get by the human hours.
01:10:28You can also allow them to carry on!
01:10:30The universe isoa.
01:10:34Choosing the universe and have missions to get by the force of Nelson Puigdhala
01:10:41The universe and can run symbols and learn przetadils is understandably unas Wide earthly,
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