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Home - CUPS Videos - Carlo Petrini: The Earth Is Not An Infinite Resource, part 2 (video)

Carlo Petrini: The Earth Is Not An Infinite Resource, part 2 (video)

The Earth is not an infinite resource. Agriculture too, has built-in limitations imposed by nature. But according to Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini, we have figured out how to bypass many of those limits. As a result, society is paying a terrible price.

In this segment, Petrini describes the serious problems we face as a result of too much effort toward enhancing food production at the expense of quality, along with the mounting toll on the environment. Though there are 6 billion people living on this planet, we produce enough food to feed a population of 12 billion people. So why then, are there 800+ million people suffering from global hunger? Why Petrini asks, are our farms more polluted than our cities?

Petrini makes an impassioned plea for a transformation in our thinking about agriculture, and a recalibrating of our goals as a global society to live in harmony with the natural world.

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April 12, 2010

Categories: CUPS Videos, CUpS: Talks, Video Interviews and Talks About Our Food System

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