DW Planet A Dec 9, 2022
Half the world eats it. One-fifth of our calories come from it. But rice has a dark secret: It pumps pollutants into the air and is vulnerable to extreme weather. So how can we grow rice better? Credits Reporter: Ajit Niranjan Camera: Florian Mettke Video Editor: Nils Reinecke Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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See related:
- The “Green Revolution:” Its Essence, Achievements & Aftermath
- BBC World Service – The Climate Question, Can we feed the world without using chemical fertilisers?
- The Greenhouse Gas No One’s Talking About: Nitrous Oxide on Farms, Explained | Civil Eats
- The Fertiliser Trap | IATP
- “The Truth about the Green Revolution,” contribution to GTI Forum “Technology and the Future,” Great Transition Initiative (February 2022).
- Overcoming the Multiple Legacies of European Colonialism: Can The West Survive Its Most Cherished Historical Myths?
- Misplaced Metaphors in the Anthropocene: Beware of the Devastating Power of Cultural Clichés & Misconstrued Metaphors on a Small Planet
- The Vulnerability of the Global Food System and the Strategies Needed for a Sustainable “Recovery”
- The Malthus Insight and the Global Limits of “Green Revolution” Food Production
- The mistake of petro-intensive agriculture – the UNA “Global Engagement Summit”
- Global-Balliol – T.C. Weiskel
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