172: The soilution
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
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🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's one of the most important parts of the earth's ecosystem. We get our food from it, walk on it, and even breathe it in, but many of us hardly give it a second thought! It's the soil. The quality and health of the soil has such a huge impact on our own health and the health of the planet. "Sustainability" is not enough. We must reverse the damage and restore the soil to avert our growing climate crisis. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Josh Tickell tells us why we should care about the health of the earth and how we can make a difference, once we do. Listen and learn how to become a part of the soil-ution that will help generations to come enjoy good health, springing from a peaceful, fruitful planet.
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| 0:00.0 | You could convert every power plant to solar tomorrow, every car to a Tesla, turn off every coal |
| 0:06.6 | smokestack, stop every diesel engine, and we would still have a thousand gigatons of extra CO2 in the atmosphere. |
| 0:16.8 | So now the question becomes, great, we have a plan for stopping the bathtub from overflowing? What's the plan from removing the water |
| 0:27.8 | that's already in the bathtub? And soil is the drain. Soil is where you pull the |
| 0:32.4 | plug and the CO2 goes into the soil. So the |
| 0:36.0 | soil is where the carbon can go. It's the only place it can go. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:56.0 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 1:03.0 | Hey everybody, I'm holisticilda and this is episode 172. |
| 1:11.0 | Our guest today is Josh Tachell. Josh is a Sundance Award-winning film director, |
| 1:18.0 | a best-selling author, and a thought leader in the fields of youth, climate, and alternative energy. |
| 1:24.7 | He is the author of Kiss the Ground and the Revolution Generation. He is the co-director and producer of the upcoming |
| 1:31.1 | documentaries based on both books. |
| 1:34.0 | Today, Josh makes a strong case for why our health |
| 1:37.8 | and the entire future of the human race, actually, |
| 1:41.2 | depends on the health of the soil. We discuss why the soil is in such |
| 1:45.8 | bad shape, what needs to happen to regenerate it, and surprisingly why reducing our |
| 1:51.4 | carbon footprint may just be a band-aid on this big problem of climate |
| 1:56.1 | change. |
| 1:57.1 | Even so, Josh is hopeful about the future and he gives us some concrete steps to take to begin |
| 2:02.4 | to make a difference for this world of ours. |
| 2:04.8 | To be a part of the Soil Lution, so to speak. |
| 2:07.9 | Before we get our hands dirty, we want to give a quick shout out to our sponsors who help make |
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