Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate Change

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🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Journalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff explains how changes in farming can allow dirt and plants to absorb carbon and potentially reduce climate change. At the end of the conversation he discusses the state of the science on hygiene, parasites, and auto-immune disorders that he discussed in his previous appearance on EconTalk in 2014.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:30.6	Today is May 18, 2018, and my guest is journalist and author, Moises Velosquez Manoff.
0:39.7	He first appeared on e-contalk in March of 2014.
0:43.4	Discussing his provocative book, An Epidemic of Absence, his look at the idea that avoiding
0:47.7	germs and parasites in modern times makes playing the rise of various autoimmune disorders,
0:53.4	asthma, various allergies.
0:55.3	Today we're going to talk about a recent article he wrote in The New York Times, Can Dirt
0:58.9	Save the Earth.
1:00.7	And if we have time, we'll circle back to the story of germs and parasites.
1:05.0	Moises, welcome back to e-con Talk.
1:07.0	Thanks for having me.
1:09.0	Great to be back.
1:10.0	Now your story in the time starts with a really bizarre and for me as an economist, fascinating
1:15.2	story, even though on the surface doesn't have that much to do with economics.
1:18.6	But what it has to do with his complexity and emergent order, which of course I'm always
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