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Sam Kass

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
141 total appearances

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TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

And the CMO is like, I can't sell that.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

The mass market's not buying that.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

Right.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

There's a premium.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

There's a cost to this transition.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

And one thing we haven't figured out is who's going to pay for it.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

And consumers have to start sending a very strong signal to these big companies, especially, that I'm going to choose products that are at least claiming to try to do a better job with the environment.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

So with the right practices and some tools, food and agriculture can be sequestering megatons and gigatons of carbon, like really bend the global emissions curve.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

So you start doing practices like cover cropping and no tilling, so you're not turning up the soil and you're helping to build the ecological health around, that ecosystem, those microbes in the soil will start pulling down carbon through the plants and storing it in the soil.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

One company I'm very excited about has fungi microbes, like little fungi,

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

that you coat seeds with.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

And they're pulling down like three tons of carbon per acre per year and storing that carbon more permanently in the soil.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

So shifting our practices with a different mindset and starting to incentivize and pay farmers to solve some of these big problems is the answer.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

The problem right now is like we're asking farmers to make all these changes and take on all the risk in those changes and with no real short-term economic benefit to them.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

This is the one place in our daily lives that we can collectively have a really big impact.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

And how we eat gives us a shot every single day to try to do a better job.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

And it doesn't have to be some big overhaul.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

Little by little, it can have a big impact.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

Not to be stressed about it, not to get all worked up about it.

TED Radio Hour
What we'll eat on a warmer planet

And if you have a steak every once in a while, I have a steak every once in a while.