Tomorrow (Demain) (Demain)

A group of scientists 21 published a study in the journal Nature.

Warming, resource destruction

and overpopulation lead us to a tipping point.

The biology of the Earth will experience a revolution

at least as radical

that during the last glaciation, 11,000 years ago.

Will we a mass extinction

similar to those which, in the distant past,

have eradicated most species in a geological nod?

We do not realize:

the upheavals affecting the world today

take place at a speed

and a magnitude never seen.

We cause the extinction of animal and plant species

to an unprecedented pace

since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

It goes very fast and it is we who are doing this.

The last time temperatures

have reached the level that we will know in a few decades,

it was there 14 million years,

long before the appearance of humans.

Our species has never lived so under temperatures

we might know in our lifetime.

The global population is growing at such a rate

it has tripled during my existence.

This is unheard!

These persons we add to the planet

need more food

at the same time we devastate biodiversity.

Can be accommodated if change is slow,

but when it's so sudden, so unexpected,

then the problems begin.

And it is in this world we live today.

What will most likely happen

due to limited resources,

particulary water,

which is one of the crucial problems

is that people will feel cornered and migrate.

In move, they will come into contact

with less poor and this will create

animosity between individuals from different parts of the world.

So the war, violence...

We do not have much time...

20 years maybe

to take the right direction.

This is THE critical time for humanity.

It's fascinating as our species

is gifted

to imagine its own extinction,

its own demise.

We make films where we are exterminated by zombies,

atomic bombs, disease, robots, aliens,

funny little Gremlins... all kinds of stuff.

We love it.

But where are the movies that show how to do things differently

and solve the problem?

There are not, we do not know them.

When scientists tell us:

"If you want to maintain the biosphere

"Within the limits allowed the appearance of civilizations,

"All that we associate with our history,

"We must first reduce our emissions by 8, 9, 10% per year."

We do not have stories that tell that.

We see this as a loss, degradation.

If you say: "How it will be in 20 years

"If we start to reduce our emissions? "

Many already think in ice caves,

to eat rotten potatoes.

It's the end of the world...

Exactly. But it could be fantastic!

Looks a butterfly...

It'll be the best.

Someone wants him?

With double ration of garlic.

Someone else?

We gave the daring mission

to create an autonomous city with food,

where most of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the city

has grown in Detroit by its inhabitants, for its inhabitants.

In 2050,

the world will be very different.

We will not have the oil and energy we have,

we will not have the same access to water

or arable land.

Above all, the population: 9 billion people,

70% live in cities.

Food should push around people.

All communities face challenges

and if some have not yet experienced it,

it is likely that it will happen to them.

So...

Why am I doing this? Because we must understand

how to make it work here,

rather than change of place because there is no other place to go.

There's a lot of romance around urban agriculture.

This is the new sexy thing, right?

It is nothing new,

but many see it

but many see it as a new way to revive cities

and that's exactly it. The potential is huge.

But this romanticism that surrounds it,

this is very far from the reality of the work that must be.

That's why I sometimes say that urban farms,

it looks great on a PowerPoint presentation.

You find yourself here, it's hot,

the sun hits you over, you get dirty.

It's not easy,

provide an intense work.

So, we must

give ourselves the means to have courage.

This is a sacred place for me.

I come here...

I work...

Life is full of frustrations,

problems that we must face.

Here it is quiet and peaceful,

I can make a connection with the earth,

get my hands dirty...

Urban agriculture has great potential...

to feed city dwellers,

but it will not replace rural agriculture.

The two must go hand in hand.

Urban, suburban and rural areas

must all produce food.

This is quite logical,

the majority of the world population

is concentrated in urban areas,

that food grows closer to where people live.

And it is better for the environment.

In the USA,

food travels an average of 2400 km

from where it grows and where it is consumed.

The ecological impact is phenomenal.

Let me help you...

Y wrote what?

Sage.

It's good, Irah.

Incredible Edible Food share

should pick...

Me, me, me, me!

There are nearly 7 years

I was at a conference on the state of the world resource

depletion everything we already know.

I thought: I wait that long,

but nobody does anything.

Not ordinary people.

They talk about economy, but not what we let our kids.

Then it came to me like that, in a flash:

Why not start in our city?

Here, in this café, in our homes, in our streets...

Why not?

So Mary and I

we created this movement.

We do not say: "Are we going to save the planet?"

We just started where we were.

And then what did you do?

We held a meeting here:

What future for your children? What food?

And 60 people came.

- We were stunned! - No one knew what to do.

We were not ready! We hoped to 5.

Incredible Edible has been created, the daughter of Mary found the name.

We invented the idea of propaganda-gardens

and roads in front of schools, buildings...

It was interesting, funny, alive,

of simple things to change our lives.

That's where we are: food in the heart of the streets,

before the doctor or at the station.

What good these gardens, so nobody sees them?

It takes where people speak:

a busy street, which was used as dog toilet

that nobody respected.

We created

a reason to talk through a plant.

It's crazy, right?

Strangers

are in front of a massive and discuss.

That's what we need for the future:

connect with each other.

I am convinced that the food

and the conversation is the answer.

Corn is slow this year.

Our special maize police.

He should be there, right?

You should expect...

Do not tempt me! One might even break a raspberry.

People take their foot to gather outside the police station.

Free, without permission.

What did you think

seeing these people appropriate the space

and plant these vegetables?

A mixture of confusion, fear...

Who are these people? Where do they come from?

What are they doing on our land, not theirs!

We were very bureaucrats:

where forms are, the project, insurance?

The usual inhibitions official structures.

It took this dialogue...

Pam, Mary, Estelle, another, Nick...

Talking to them, we saw that they were sincere,