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Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma

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http://www.ted.com What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant's-eye view -- to consider the possibility that nature isn't opposed to culture, that biochemistry rivals intellect as a survival tool. By merely shifting our perspective, he argues, we can heal the Earth. Who's the more sophisticated species now?

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: February 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Author: TEDtalksDirector

Length: 17:32
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Tags: animals  business  corporation  culture  evolution  food  global  issues  Michael  Pollan  science  ted  tedtalks  

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accent0mel (August 27, 2008 at 9:48 pm)
The bit about the permiculture farm from around minute 12:00-the end is simply facinating. The rest maybe hearsay and conspiracy theory, etc... but the farm is enlightening.
dLimboStick (August 15, 2008 at 8:53 am)
I've already come to this conclusion long ago and voiced it to my sons when we were talking about out theory of alien life. It is our conceit that make us look for or even care that there is "intelligent life" out there.
windex72 (August 7, 2008 at 11:29 am)
Elegantly put ,but I was taught this in grade school. Interesting stuff about the farm, though.
windex72 (August 7, 2008 at 11:22 am)
oh christ..
ecorevolutionery25 (August 3, 2008 at 5:50 pm)
I completely agree with pondman27, in these days people are so worried with working and earning more and more money that we simply forgot nature; the beauty in the simple things of life. I've lost the connection with are ancestry, like the Indians, and the way they respect and admire nature.
Frankmen99 (July 9, 2008 at 1:06 am)
shut up fukin redneck...cracker.
sexyloser (July 8, 2008 at 8:00 pm)
Yes, like how the theory of relativity was very popular in the 1910s...You are a moron.
pondman27 (July 4, 2008 at 1:39 am)
check out Permascience. I am also a possionate gardener and have grown up with the craft. Once we begin to understand symbiosese, we can see how we can manage our environment in a simular and more sympathetic way. The answer to everything is one. We are one and should as far as is possible, be at one with nature. We used to know this, but with the development with so called civilisation, we have forgotten this and thus stopped looking at world in terms of the age of an oak tree.
fnkyg4 (July 1, 2008 at 2:37 pm)
Go eat some McDonald's you fucking idiot fatass
c6gunner (June 29, 2008 at 11:15 pm)
If he was really serious about talking from a plant's point of view, he'd just sit down and shut up.

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