Allan Savory: Greening Deserts Reverse Climate Change

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Allan Savory: Greening Deserts Reverse Climate Change



"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful ted talk. And it's happening to about two-thirds of the worldââ,¬â,,¢s grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes -- and his work so far shows -- that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert.

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