José Andrés
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first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
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Well, for everyone. But then we have everything else. That's the one thing you absolutely need for survival. You need fossil fuels because of the way society is engineered. That's why you need fossil fuels, because we've gone in that way. This is the real suspicion about ancient civilizations is that they figured out a way, a different way to achieve great results. Like ancient Egypt.
To this day, we have no idea how they did that. How did they make those pyramids? How did they do it? How did they do it at the very least 4,500 years ago? Many people suspect that's far older than that. I'm one of them. I think civilization has been around a long, long time, and I think there's been catastrophes, and there's a lot of physical evidence that point to those catastrophes.
But the idea is that at one point in time, So our technology has evolved in a very specific path. Our technology has been the Industrial Revolution, the invention of the internal combustion engine, electronics, and all these things have led us to this incredible level of sophistication that we enjoy now that's so much different than people that lived just 200, 300 years ago.
My suspicion is that the people of Egypt, the people of Turkey, there's a lot of other places in the world. They achieved very similar levels of sophistication with completely different methods that are lost, that are lost in history. And we know for a fact that there was an immense – This is the catastrophe that's written in the Bible. This is the epic of Gilgamesh. This is Noah's Ark.
This is so many cultures share these stories of a great civilization that was wiped out by a great catastrophe. And science now believes that that is the Younger Dryas period. The Younger Dryas impact theory is this theory that we were hit by comets somewhere around 11,800 years ago. And it essentially wiped civilization out, brought us back to baseline again.
We were tribal hunter-gatherer people again. And then we reinvented civilization 6,000 years, 7,000 years later. That's what I think.
Food was wiped out.
No, food was here. Food's always been here. We've always needed food.
If you get hit by comets, and there has been much recent events on volcanoes covering very much the high parts of our atmosphere, and that then we had very bad harvest... Because there was not enough sun to produce enough food. And those were very dark moments for humanity. One of my big worries is precisely that. That right now we live in a moment that, yes, we have wars, we have conflicts.
But still I believe we live in a great moment of humanity that is full of opportunities.
If we have the right leaders that want to bring the best angels within all of us and not used to rely on cheap politics of bringing the worst demons. Not making each other fight each other, but making each other respect and love each other even when we disagree. And that's why for me, food is the ultimate uniter.
Because especially in emergencies, I've seen that in the worst moments of humanity, the best of humanity shows up. Yeah, you're right. It's true. Because as we mentioned at the beginning, the lovely mother feeding moment that unites you, food is the best way to tell somebody, I love you. I'm here with you. I'm going to respect you and I'm not going to let you alone.
And this is why for me going to emergencies through my lifetime, in the last 15 years especially, is the moment I've been seeing this moment of light, of hope, of saying in these worst moments of humanity is so much love. Where there is no religion, no color, no political party. It's only people helping people. That tells me that food is this thing that
People in a table can have a conversation about more meaningful things. And then gets deeper than that. Gets deeper on food, I said before, I think is the biggest power anybody can have. What's the one thing we all need? The power of feeding others. And I think we're taking this power for granted. Governments are being cocky. I think we feel like it's enough food to feed planet Earth.
And you mentioned before about this... How do you say it in English? Cataclysms? Cataclysmic, yeah. Moments? Yeah. Let's say for a second, because I've been there, that the perfect storm happens. You know how much food we have more or less on planet Earth to feed the eight plus billion people we are? 90 days? Yes. 90 days, let's say it's 100. It's no more. It's no more. 120, let's say.
It'll be different people. I would like to know the number because I think that's very important for national security. But I've seen in the first year, in the same year, I've seen back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes. hitting Central America, big food producers, parts of the United States with big food production, the Caribbean. I've seen typhoons in Asia at the same time, hitting very big food,
production areas, at the same time, droughts in South America, at the same time that we had hurricanes with a lot of water in Central America, droughts in Asia, wiping out rice production. At the same time, pests. Three, four countries in Africa with a couple of insects wiping out the entire harvest of the year.
Wars like Ukraine, Ukraine, the grain they export feeds close to 500 million people a year, and few other things I'm forgetting. Put everything together in the shaker, and if it happens, we go from we have enough food to feed humanity, But the problem is that we are not good enough in making sure that the voiceless and the very poor get their share of food.
Until one day the newspapers of the world will say, today we don't have enough food to feed humanity. This could be happening.
Obviously, I want to think about the happy moments, about my restaurants and all the restaurants of the world full, the supermarkets full, and everybody eating, and every mother and father being able to bring a plate of food to their children in America and in every country overseas. When everybody has food on the table, the place is a more peaceful place. And a happy place. And a hopeful place.
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