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The Global Food Crisis- The Answer is Above Us | David Sirkin | TEDxYouth@JCP


we hear it every day carnitine is coming
listening to local repercussions
millions of people will be forced to
leave their homes as heavily populated
areas rising sea levels such as Boston
Florida in DC investments by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration sea levels skyrocket
device like a 6.6 feet by 2100 a
researcher by the name of nikolai Langer
I wanna see what these statistics would
look like in real life with the help he
created these gifts tell sure these
specific effects of climate change
here’s what the Back Bay neighborhood of
Gloucester is going to look like with
these rejected differences if this
happens today it’s going to displace the
26,000 people in their cues of Miami
Florida and Washington DC I’m gonna look
like with these projected enhances
imagine this is look like a global scale
but this is what Chicago’s gonna play
exactly the same
we’re looking at mistake that’s born is
it going to be virtually untouched by
the specific effects of climate change
but it begs the question why should the
need care
unfortunately for us the appears that
climate change may be impacting a lot
more than you may realize
due to the current trends in global
temperature increase decrease in air and
rainfall and the depletion of the so
nutritional eggs that we currently
cultivate it looks like we’re gonna say
goodbye to a lot of our favorite
students that want a cup of joe welcome
on your door to go away these foods one
scenes contemplates consuming from
London is only the mega rich you can
afford here’s a list of foods we can
what to say to my Center in the next
thirty news pasta why honey beer rice
corn
chocolate see paper sir
beans chariots avocados habits peanuts
and potatoes don’t believe me as a
temperature increases or edit rainfall
decreases the soil nutrition is gonna be
too long for example coffee Park has
already been devastated by global
temperature increase allow the bacterium
called coffee rust to dramatically
decrease the yogurt coffee in Central
America that’s right no more coffee
what’s that surprises a lot of people is
season one like that there with rising
sea levels we might also see an increase
in fish stuff but the reality is that
our product life is back to the ratin
unprecedent any point in history this is
due in large part to dead silence dead
cells are created by toxic runoff from
an industrial deep industry and other
agricultural practices 5 min away
finding their way into our oceans this
is what 550 dead zones in the world
today this specific data spends eight
thousand seven hundred square miles of
uninhabitable and filled with better my
life for another instance of our
industrial agricultural practices impact
on aquatic life let’s stick to Florida
for toxic green slime ecology of you
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or terrain closer home how about just a
couple of months ago when a blue whale
washed up with this time so why do I
care
yes I love sushi and what’s not about
the fun never having a beer
kind of freaks me out I mean yes wait
twenty years to get this stuff but more
than that I’d like to take a step back I
think this all clicked for me when I
realize there’s a problem we have to be
so many other facts but in seventh grade
view my friends and I were challenged by
the school I ought to teach you to fix
something instead of the normal science
fair every school has our teacher hosted
an innovation fair he challenged us to
find a problem we find interesting and
attempt to fix it seen the documentary
food and a lightbulb on this document it
goes into extreme detail
I was wrong with the industrial
agricultural process in America and this
is what sparked my interest in the
situation as a whole but sadly the one
element the more despair I had but
equally the more conviction I had to try
to make a difference in addressing this
issue when we watch this movie back in
seventh grade we were blown away with
how efficient many agricultural
practices work and how costly they were
for the planet so we decided to do
something about it we decided to build
an aquaponic farm for our school to have
fresh greens and fresh fish from for a
student-run business
this was my finished product
now let’s get real this project itself
was classic seventh grade to get my
drift a for effort a whole lot of
passion a lot of duct tape but
ultimately a bunch of dead tilapia
but that was at the point I get to teach
you to me that the point was it opened
my eyes to a whole part of my day-to-day
reality that’s a program food food is
everywhere and you have to think about
two new fridge it’s at the grocery store
– my lunch box and it’s you call to
interdict it can be delivered anywhere
if you if you pause and the Flex rolling
on the broader issue or even imagine
life whether killer slice of Holly’s
Pizza across the road you’re gonna take
concern this protein they may think
about sustainability something that I’ve
never really thought about and
nevertheless its importance or its
attainability
here I was a seventh grader making
sustainable on it was very doable
it struck me that I could be something
about a major issue that’s what I’m
talking here today this separate
aquaponics farm project maybe for a few
fence posts but don’t even wear a fish
tail pipes and pumps isn’t very special
I’m telling you today because of what
this Innovation Center did for me I told
you today because myself a teacher
challenged us to innovate and change the
world rather than when we created
repetative
and we create the problem innovation is
to liberate it it depends if you look at
things through a different lens that you
discard fear second-guessing that you
fail fast and learn from what didn’t
work that you apply creativity and never
take fairly recently this is what I hope
the challenge I’ll even do to innovate
today to solve the problems of tomorrow
we need people to reimagine where we
farm and help save our planet but all
across the world scientists innovators
my new answer that comes in
zero cost Chicago’s already been the
center of the agricultural and fire
revolution given 1870s we saw the
invention of refrigerated meat transport
which revolutionized the industry and
created an entirely new market for the
food sector the George Hammond from
Detroit built impacted their pretended
transport refrigerated meat transport
car that set the stage for the building
activity regulated transport car and
don’t any packing plant in northern
Indiana that was so important to the
area the dignitaries jannah heaven in
the era you stopped the swift advances
work and the more sophisticated
transport products that set the stage
for Chicago transformation of the
ignition and to an efficient responsive
and wide transportation system that’s
that month that set the stage for much
of the expansion of cities out west
let’s do it again let’s make sure that
Chicago is at the center in the
forefront of another agricultural
revolution let’s follow the footsteps of
companies like Gerald Lyons in New York
City which internally out reduces fields
farmer by a hundred and thirty times
this means that for every one day period
field farmer can get there before can
get a hundred and thirty all of this
without using any fertilizers pesticides
herbicides there are no inputs
eighteen ninety-five percent less water
let’s hold the foot such as a bye for
now living sustainable neighborhoods
with greenhouses in the center luckily
for us this looks like people done today
in Chicago by a company such as the
plant a fully functioning fully
sustainable urban farmer and one of the
embedded deep neck announces or on the
ecosystems a nonprofit organization who
claimed that over five acres
within the city or the various for I had
my animation event but with fully
functioning under fire with goats
chickens and enough greens to keep 500
hundred kids for school lunch maths
according to the Tribune chose over 230
community gardens and 6030 farms
wherever you look the products of
innovations there can be seen so I’m
finished I know what needs to do it and
when I did some dinner but the question
is what are you can in it you can do
what you always done and keep the can
down the road and have someone else pick
it up later or you can pick the can up
and transform into something it’s going
to reshape the way we interact with our
food it’s time to care thank you [Applause]
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