This documentary's celebrity charmed message of hope is beautiful and wonderfully put together, that's for sure. But unfortunately its message of holistic grazing is not in alignment with the scientific consensus, the anecdotes (Alan Savory and Gabe Brown) within the film have not had any legitimate scientific testing of their methods and the film cherry picks/misleads findings from the 'Drawdown Report' by Paul Hawken, the report being the core research focus of the documentary.
One of the anecdote farmers within the doc is Alan Savory, whose methods have never been successfully repeated and have not had legitimate scientific testing. What's more, If he is the only one that can achieve the carbon sequestration that hes claiming, then that doesn't provide a lot of hope. Especially when you consider this is the same guy who ordered 40,000 African elephants to slaughter because he incorrectly thought they were damaging the land.
If they wanted to stay with the scientific consensus, such as oxford university's piece by Joseph Poore, showing the biggest positive impact an individual can have on the planet by analysing 40,000 farms across 119 countries. Or by just simply looking at the Drawdown' Report's outlined solutions, not cherry picking the lesser significant parts. Then they should have said eating a plant based diet is the single biggest thing an individual can do for the planet. This is because a plant based food system had the lowest greenhouse gas emissions, ocean acidification, ocean deadzones, land use , water use, deforestation, habitat destruction and both land and marine biodiversity loss. In the solutions of the Drawdown Report they say that the shift to a vegan diet is twice as powerful as a shift to silvopasture and 4 times as powerful compared as shifting to managed grazing - which are two types of regenerative agriculture involving livestock. Hawkens' of the report also concludes the two biggest effects an individual can have are switching to a plant based diet and reducing food waste.
I hope this doc doesn't detriment the required transition to a plant based food system, a part of the climate solution which is supported by the science and not just some damaging celebritised misleading message of hope in the wrong direction.
One of the anecdote farmers within the doc is Alan Savory, whose methods have never been successfully repeated and have not had legitimate scientific testing. What's more, If he is the only one that can achieve the carbon sequestration that hes claiming, then that doesn't provide a lot of hope. Especially when you consider this is the same guy who ordered 40,000 African elephants to slaughter because he incorrectly thought they were damaging the land.
If they wanted to stay with the scientific consensus, such as oxford university's piece by Joseph Poore, showing the biggest positive impact an individual can have on the planet by analysing 40,000 farms across 119 countries. Or by just simply looking at the Drawdown' Report's outlined solutions, not cherry picking the lesser significant parts. Then they should have said eating a plant based diet is the single biggest thing an individual can do for the planet. This is because a plant based food system had the lowest greenhouse gas emissions, ocean acidification, ocean deadzones, land use , water use, deforestation, habitat destruction and both land and marine biodiversity loss. In the solutions of the Drawdown Report they say that the shift to a vegan diet is twice as powerful as a shift to silvopasture and 4 times as powerful compared as shifting to managed grazing - which are two types of regenerative agriculture involving livestock. Hawkens' of the report also concludes the two biggest effects an individual can have are switching to a plant based diet and reducing food waste.
I hope this doc doesn't detriment the required transition to a plant based food system, a part of the climate solution which is supported by the science and not just some damaging celebritised misleading message of hope in the wrong direction.