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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
- Third Edition
- Narrated by: Paul W. Griffiths
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels with environmentally benign energy sources.
Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach for managing resources, developed by Savory decades ago after observing the devastation of desertification in his native Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Properly managed livestock are key to restoring the world's grassland soils, the major sink for atmospheric carbon, and minimizing the most damaging impacts on humans and the natural world.
This audiobook updates Savory's paradigm-changing vision for reversing desertification, stemming the loss of biodiversity, eliminating fundamental causes of human impoverishment throughout the world, and climate change. Reorganized chapters make it easier for listeners to understand the framework for holistic management and the four key insights that underlie it.
This long-anticipated new edition is written for new generations of ranchers, farmers, ecological and social entrepreneurs, and development professionals working to address global environmental and social degradation. It offers new hope that a sustainable future for humankind and the world we depend on is within reach.
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- rabbittibbar
- 08-06-20
read it right away!
compulsory reading for anyone who's decisions and actions have a profound impact on the lives of others. actually that's practically everyone. should be on the curriculum regardless of the chosen field of study or vocational training. a compendium of how to do things right. an important book for the world. very well done.
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- Drew L-J
- 24-07-20
A very important book.
Whether you are in food production or not, read this book. it will change your viewpoint.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-12-19
By far best land management book worldwide!
Great resource for everyone! didn't expect to find a budgeting section, which is great. Allan really covers it all, extremely well delivered. the narrator is amazing and allans own voice fills in voids which adds great depth
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- SteveN
- 28-10-21
Excellent
Both the authors and narrators have published a comprehensive and enjoyable book that illuminates and directs the way to better agricultural management.
if you wish to understand how we (humans) have reduced global stability by destabiling carbon levels for example, through the desire to improve livestock and grain production and therefore work to reduce our impact, then this is the book for you.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-03-20
A 'Must Listen'
If only our world leaders and farmers adopted the practices outlined in this book ...
The contents of this book give me hope for our future, thank you to Allan, his team and to all of the farmers working to save our planet. Thank you.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-01-19
A blueprint to save the Earth
A truly inspired book that needs the very widest circulation to reverse ecological damage to the Earth.
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- Mr Stuart
- 18-07-21
very informative
Be prepared for a new way of thinking, it just makes sense, all of it does.
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- Mr A J Spicer
- 01-03-19
Too good to be true
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2017-2-march-april/feature/allan-savory-says-more-cows-land-will-reverse-climate-change
"If I had most of the credible range scientists getting together to write papers saying I was full of crap, I'd do some real soul-searching," he replied. "As a scientist, that's what you'd have to do. But I don't know if he is a scientist."
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