Full Transcript for Save Soil

and 71 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.399 that is not there. Because of that, one must understand. 72 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.079 If you add organic content to sand, it becomes soil. 73 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.800 If you take away organic content from soil, it becomes sand. 74 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.639 So right now, desertification is one of the most serious problems. 75 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.319 As you said, fifty years or sixty years time after that, 76 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:47.000 there's not enough soil to grow crops. But the more 77 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.800 important thing is by twenty thirty five to twenty forty, 78 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.600 they're expecting that we will grow forty percent less food 79 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.439 than what we are growing right now, and our populations 80 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:59.759 will be over nine billion. That's not a world you 81 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:01.920 want to live in. That's not a world where you 82 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.720 want to leave your children. So we need to act now. 83 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.399 Why it's very important to act now and institute or 84 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:12.639 enshrining this in our policy. Is on an average, according 85 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:17.199 to UNFAO, on an average, twenty seven thousand species of. 86 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:19.560 Microbes are going extinct per year. 87 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:22.959 And is that because of how we form or is 88 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:25.040 that a natural consequence of existence? 89 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.560 Because there is no organic content for the microps see 90 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.160 I see as you know today that you cannot even 91 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.000 digest the food that you eat if there are no 92 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.399 gut microbioms. Yes, Similarly, in the soil, it is the 93 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.879 same reflection in a much more complex way. Without the 94 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.160 microbial activity in the soil, the plants are not able 95 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.800 to get the necessary nourishment from the soil. So we 96 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.600 are throwing chemicals and boosting them up, but without needed nourishment. 97 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.639 On an average, the drop in nourishment in the United 98 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:57.600 States from early twentieth century to now is approximately ninety percent. 99 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.040 Only ten percent is left. 100 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.240 If you ate one orange in nineteen twenty, you need 101 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:04.600 to eat eight oranges today to get the same stuff. 102 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:07.680 So that's simply impractical. So we're moving to. 103 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:12.439 A place where food production is sliding down gradually. So 104 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:16.360 this sliding down will affect ife. Were predicts that by 105 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:18.759 twenty thirty five there could be dozens. 106 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:20.360 Of civil wars across the world. 107 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:24.920 And that is not necessarily in African countries or South America. 108 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:28.439 It could be anywhere fell I mean, the World Food 109 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:32.959 Program talks about famines around Chicago, Illinois area by twenty 110 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:33.519 thirty five. 111 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:38.680 This is terrifying, you know, it's I was talking to 112 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:43.560 a friend about how before the pandemic, I think there 113 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.319 was a certain hubris that humans had about everything. 114 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:48.079 We just believed it would always go on. 115 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.959 You hear these doomsday prophecies, or you hear these even 116 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.360 warnings about the world ending at some port, of humans 117 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.319 not being able to inhabit the planet. But until the pandemic, 118 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:00.560 I feel like we didn't have a tangible example of 119 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.600 the world's stopping. You know, people would even say, how 120 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:04.360 do you stop the world? How can you stop travel? 121 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:06.759 How can you stop countries? And now we've seen it, 122 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:08.240 and now you're telling. 123 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:10.519 Us, no, this is not a doomsday production. 124 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.480 This is a wake up call because we are at 125 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.800 a cusp of time that if we do the right 126 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.839 things right now, in another fifteen to twenty years, we 127 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.639 can make a significant turnaround. So what are the right 128 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:23.959 things to do. We've been pushing this for the last 129 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.199 two years. We have these programs going for over twenty 130 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.759 five years in southern India where we have brought in 131 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:35.319 ten percent of the farmer's lands under tree cultivation and 132 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.879 animals so that this ten percent produces enough organic content 133 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.319 for the remaining ninety percent. So once the organic content 134 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.480 is about three to six percent, minimum is three to 135 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.480 six percent. If you raise the organic content to eight 136 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:53.399 to ten percent in the soil, your irrigation requirements will 137 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:56.040 come down to thirty percent of what it is. Because 138 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:59.759 the water holding capacity of organically rich soil is such 139 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.560 if you raise it to twelve to fifteen percent, your 140 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:04.639 irrigation

requirement would come down. 141 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:06.360 To ten to fifteen percent. 142 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:08.720 That is, instead of one hundred liters of water, you 143 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.199 would use fifteen leaders of water for the same crop. 144 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:14.000 That's what needs to happen. And this is the same 145 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:17.040 story everywhere when it comes to ecology. When it comes 146 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:23.720 to soil, our national barriers, racial discriminations, our religions, our costs, 147 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:28.399 our creeds, our gender stuff, our you know, political ideologies, 148 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:29.279 nothing matters. 149 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:30.839 This is a unifying factor. 150 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.360 If we as a generation of people act now to 151 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.679 change the necessary policy changes, which is not some rocket science. 152 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.679 This is something always farmers in the past new but 153 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.600 we've forgot in the last fifty years. 154 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:48.799 Are you getting any science that governments are enthusiastic to 155 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:50.159 try and do something about this? 156 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:52.679 Say, in the last two years, I've been talking to 157 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:58.799 various country heads, various politicians, political parties. We have written 158 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:02.399 to seven hundred political parties on the planet to make 159 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.000 sure that they include soil and ecology as a part 160 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:09.000 of their election manifestos, as their political philosophy, whatever they 161 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:12.159 believe in, right, left, center, whatever they are. Soil is 162 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.480 one thing which is a common factor for all of us. 163 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:17.440 We're always looking at what devices it's time. 164 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:20.960 If you don't understand the consciousness of this cosmos and 165 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.559 stuff like that, at least you understand you come. 166 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.039 From the soil, You live off the soil. When you die, 167 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.600 you go back to the soil. That much you get it. 168 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:30.600 What I see is in the last two years. 169 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.240 That I've been talking to people, everybody knows there is 170 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.480 a serious problem. Everybody knows what is a solution also, 171 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.559 But I think it looks like they were all waiting 172 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:42.360 for an idiot to beld A cat so here I am, 173 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.759 I'm sixty five and I'm writing thirty thousand kilometers. 174 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:51.279 Must be an idiot, isn't it, Sabur, I could talk 175 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:51.799 to you forever. 176 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.519 And I guess that's why people you come to your 177 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:57.840 events and you you know, it's the gatherings. They read 178 00:09:57.879 --> 00:09:59.600 your books. They want to see what you're going to 179 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:05.080 do on a journey of soil. It feels like it 180 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.240 is yet another thing that we add to our list 181 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.279 that governments need to do, that people need to do that. 182 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:12.080 You know, if we don't do this, it's over. If 183 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.080 we don't do that, it's over. Not one more thing 184 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:17.480 travel No, no, no, I'm saying. It feels like I have 185 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:19.559 enough on my hands. I don't have to take this up. 186 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.559 I've taken this up because as a generation of people, 187 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:24.080 if we don't do this now. 188 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:25.600 We will regret this. Seriously. 189 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.879 If you don't ensin it in the policy now, it'll 190 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.960 get too late if you leave it for another twenty 191 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.279 thirty years time. This needs to happen now. So we 192 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:36.879 want everybody to talk about soil for one hundred days 193 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:39.000 in their own terms. If they don't know anything, if 194 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.399 we will provide a massive amount of information on our website. 195 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.399 They can pick it up and use it as their own, 196 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.480 or they can research themselves whichever way they want. If 197 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:50.240 they don't know anything else to say, just a save soil. 198 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:53.639 Let's make it happen every day. If you send a 199 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:55.960 message to somebody, close it with save soil. If you 200 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:57.919 call somebody says save soil. 201 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:58.279 Save soil. 202 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.120 It was great sharing to you Save soil, my friend. 203 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.360 Thank you very much for being here. It's really been 204 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.159 wonderful having you. For more information on sad Guru's save 205 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.279 soil movements, all you got to do is visit the 206 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:12.840 website below. 207 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:22.879 You're listening to Luckless Avenue Preadio. 208 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:31.639 Jothie. 209 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:33.720 Delighted to have you on. Thank you for being with 210 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:34.240 us today. 211 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.879 This is so exciting I and I always look forward 212 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:40.759 to an opportunity to talk about savee soil, and this 213 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:42.759 is something that's very near and

dear to my heart. 214 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.639 So you'll see as we continue on, there's a lot 215 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:47.600 of passion that I feel on this topic, so I'm 216 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:49.120 very excited to talk about. 217 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:53.080 It, Jothie. Many listeners are curious about how these large 218 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:56.679 environmental movements start and how they grow. How did you 219 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.639 first connect with soud Guru's work and what eventually led 220 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.120 you to volunteering and taking on a leadership role within 221 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:04.080 Conscious Planet. 222 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:08.639 Well, Nian, this is this is a long journey for 223 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.879 me to say. I did my first program with Seth 224 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:15.159 Gurdu back in two thousand and three. Uh So I've 225 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:19.440 been volunteering since then. The first year I didn't volunteer, 226 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.039 but starting since, I've been volunteering since two thousand and four, 227 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.759 and it's been such a huge part of my own 228 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.759 personal growth. You hear this from many volunteers, right that 229 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:34.320 volunteering is just it's just so difficult to put into 230 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.639 words the impact and the profoundness. 231 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:37.919 Of that experience. 232 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:41.480 And anything that Seth Gurdu has brought has brought that 233 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.919 same kind of profoundness and the impact that it has 234 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.039 on human lives has just been incredible. So watching all 235 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.360 the work that he's been doing over the last couple 236 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.639 a few decades, you know, three plus decades, and seeing 237 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:57.600 all this environmental work from Project Greenhands, when he you know, 238 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.200 when we set the world record, world Guinness record for 239 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.639 the most number of trees planted over eight hundred thousand 240 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.240 in one year. Watching all of this, you know, so 241 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.720 it was all happening in India, right, and it was great, 242 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:11.919 and we could support it. We can donate money, we 243 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.200 could go see what they're doing, whether it's Project Greenhands 244 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:19.000 or got Ery calling. But then when Safe Soil Journey 245 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:23.399 and the movement was being planned, there was an opportunity 246 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:27.759 for global involvement and they know they asked to see 247 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.440 if I could help support from the initial aspects of 248 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.679 supporting the

five or one C three filing, and I 249 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.399 jumped at the chance. I was not aware of the 250 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.960 issues with Soil right. I jumped in because my passion 251 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:43.639 was Seth Guru and what he does. 252 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:45.360 So that's where it began. 253 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:50.120 But then as the topic became more and more clear 254 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.840 to me about the dire need, the urgency and the 255 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:58.080 projections and what the future can hold, it became something 256 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.320 that I'm very very passionate about. We need to do something. 257 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:04.320 There's such an urgency to this and people are not 258 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.159 connecting the dats. This seems like something in the future, 259 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.480 but we have to do it right now. It's not 260 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.159 like plastics where we can just sit down and come 261 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:14.679 together as a civil act. This is something that it 262 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:18.440 takes its own time because we're talking asking the earth, 263 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:21.600 the soil to regenerate itself. So there's such an urgency 264 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.320 and there's that's where where my passion comes in. 265 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.440 Well, that's fantastic, and as you said, it's you know, 266 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:29.679 the time is now to act on it. I turned 267 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.399 back the clock Sethguru has been working forwards regenerating the 268 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:36.879 environment for over the last three decades. He took it 269 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:40.000 to another level entirely in twenty twenty two when he 270 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:44.200 undertook the Save Soil Journey with over now four billion 271 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:49.799 people reached worldwide. Now nearly four years later, what's happening 272 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:50.840 with the savee Soil movement? 273 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:55.279 Yeah, so much has happened. I think we're all very 274 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.919 very much tuned in. During the one hundred days that 275 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:59.879 said Gourdu was on this journey, right, we were all 276 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:04.000 watching his journey, listening to him speak, whether it was 277 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:08.480 in Germany or whether it was in Dubai, and hearing 278 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:15.240 all the incredible guests and policymakers and leaders and people speaking. 279 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:19.919 But the journey and the movement has continued on and people, 280 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.000 the earth buddies has just been incredible to see how 281 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:25.879 they've all come together. So we still have the same 282 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:28.480 holistic approach that we're looking at with soil Right. We're 283 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.600 working with farmers in India. We've been having We have 284 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:33.960 about over two hundred and fifty thousand farmers that we're 285 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.200 working with. Some new programs have been initiated with that. 286 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:41.320 People don't realize, but it's not just that these farmers 287 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:47.080 have transitioned to agraforestry or regeneritive agriculture or they're part 288 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:50.960 of the farmer producer organizations, but we've also created what 289 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:53.519 sapp groups to be able to support them. We have 290 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:57.240 over one hundred thousand farmers on what sapp groups and 291 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.720 they're manned twelve hours a day, seven days away. So 292 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:04.799 we're supporting farmers and we're continuing to grow that. We 293 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:09.200 have nurseries that are producing. We have one single site 294 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.840 nursery that's able to produce eight million saplings and right 295 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.759 now we're at we're probably about six point five million 296 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.240 that we're doing. And this is also the same nursery 297 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.799 is ninety eight percent run by women. So like this, 298 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:25.480 we're definitely continuing on. Govey calling is continuing on and 299 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.279 all of that work is happening. And then we also 300 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:31.519 have the awareness aspect right that's the second part of 301 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:34.600 what we're doing is creating continuing on with this awareness. 302 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:37.440 The journey allowed us because of the digital world that 303 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:40.600 we live in live in, with all the events that happen, 304 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:43.200 we've been able to reach over four billion people. 305 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:45.960 But that awareness hasn't stopped. It's continuing. 306 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.960 For example, recently, there was a soil of monitoring law 307 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.960 that Europe just passed. It's a phenomenal thing that's happened 308 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.159 in Europe. To help support that, we were able to 309 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:01.919 get twelve thousand petition signatures over one hundred and sixty 310 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.759 countries to be able to show them that we support this, 311 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:08.599 and our Safe Soil team also helped with the you know, 312 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:11.920 with the soul law itself and the monitoring law itself 313 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.559 and providing inputs at that level. 314 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.480 But the awareness is really key and. 315 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.440 When they see that this many people are supporting

this, 316 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.599 policymakers are listening and they are being feeling like they 317 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:26.079 are supported, which is exactly what Seth Goodwa talked about 318 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:28.880 as one of the aims for Save Soil. So we 319 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.720 are have many different initiatives throughout a year, we have 320 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:36.319 several different campaigns that are happening. Usually this around maybe 321 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.039 like March twenty first, which is the Safe Soil Day, 322 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.559 or maybe it was like Earth Day which is usually 323 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:46.039 April twenty second, or World Environment Day, So we have 324 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.480 different campaigns that happen during that time period. 325 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:49.839 And then cops. 326 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:54.119 We've been going attending the cops for the last several years. 327 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.079 If you remember, during the journey, Seth good To attended 328 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:00.640 COP fifteen and he spoke to all the name there 329 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.400 and that's where he laid out the three prong strategy 330 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:04.880 in that we. 331 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:10.279 Need to be working in creating in a revenue stream 332 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:11.039 for the farmers. 333 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.279 We need to have policies in place, and we need 334 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.880 to be thinking about how to maybe do the carbon 335 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:19.839 credit system or the marketplace like this to help support farmers. 336 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.039 So this is the strategy, the three pronk strategy he 337 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:24.960 laid out in COP fifteen. But since then we've gone 338 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:28.920 to COP twenty eight, We've gone to in Dubai, We've 339 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:33.119 gone to COP twenty nine in Azerbaijan and Baku, and 340 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:37.279 then we went to COP sixteen, which was the UNCCD 341 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.559 COP and that was in Riyad, and then just recently 342 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:43.920 we were at COP thirty in Brazil and each one 343 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.720 of these times. We've just been able to garner so 344 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:50.440 much awareness around these topics, and not just in the 345 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:55.839 mass mainstream, but also with policymakers and making sure those 346 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:59.160 that are working on, for example, say climate finance, that 347 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:01.559 they think about when they're looking at climate finance, they 348 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:04.000 should also be thinking about soil as part of that. 349 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:06.559 So a lot of work has gone on to that 350 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:08.759 and it's been a lot of fun. I can share 351 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:11.759 so many stories now in so you know, you'll have 352 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:13.960 to stop me because there's so many wonderful things to 353 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:14.799 share about this. 354 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:19.799 Well, it's fantastic. And what's striking me is the sheer 355 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.319 magnitude of the effort and the sheer magnitude of the impact, 356 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:26.720 not only as you're talking about all the nations impacted, 357 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:30.559 but you think about stakeholders, right, we have farmers, you know, 358 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:35.200 we've got policy makers, change makers, scientists, and then of 359 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:38.440 course end users and people right that live on the planet. 360 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:43.640 Save Soil has reached over four billion people around the world. 361 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:46.839 From your vantage point, and this is where I think 362 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:49.319 I'm going to I am going to opt in asking 363 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:53.200 you about your experience from your vantage point as the 364 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.480 strategy and operations lead in North America for Conscious Planet, 365 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.880 which includes Save Soil. What's something that you know, people 366 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:04.160 might not see about the scale or complexity of making 367 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:09.359 a global ecological movement actually work day to day. 368 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:11.680 It is the persistency that's needed. 369 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:16.079 Right, people when they first hear about soil, and first 370 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:18.400 of all, the just save soil. When people hear that, 371 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:20.000 the first thing is like, well, why do we need 372 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:23.799 to save soil? And that's a very fundamental question, And 373 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:27.559 the discussion starts there, and that's the awareness, right that 374 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:30.279 needs to happen, But then the impact from that needs 375 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.599 to continue. So there's a certain level of persistency I 376 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.039 could just share, for example, at COP and up to 377 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.119 this point, the persistency that our volunteers have at COP 378 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.720 to be able to get the media attention to soil 379 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:50.599 health and the soil crisis. They are NonStop working and 380 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:52.799 trying to get in front of the journalists to make 381 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:57.000 sure that they also give the soil some kind of 382 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:00.559 visibility when they're talking about climate, when they're talking about 383 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.880 any of these aspects. Right, And I'll say proudly that 384 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:07.200 in the last four years, because these volunteers have

just 385 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.759 persistently been working with the journalists We've had over fourteen 386 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:15.039 thousand media articles in the last four years, So that 387 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:17.880 right there shows you that's not something that happens overnight, 388 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:22.160 but this continuous, you know, just constantly speaking about it, 389 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:24.519 making sure that people are aware about it, you know, 390 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:25.839 all the different avenues. 391 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:27.920 So media is one aspect. 392 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:30.640 Social media, I think, you know people can see on 393 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.640 our Instagram. There's many things that we've been doing, but 394 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.519 we're also doing things like a webinar. Last year, we 395 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:40.839 held two webinars with the set Through Center for Conscious 396 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.839 Planet as well as other experts too, and we brought 397 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.480 the attention of eco anxiety and one of the webinars 398 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:51.960 because there is a lot of anxiety that children are 399 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:54.839 the young adults are feeling right now and even up 400 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:57.519 to children because they see this, they see this in 401 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:00.880 the news, they hear about this, they actually experience it 402 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:03.400 because there's climate crisises that are happening. 403 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:05.920 So there's outlet actually eco anxiety. 404 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:09.319 So we did a webinar to talk about this topic 405 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:11.880 and what is it the Safe Soil movement can offer 406 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:13.920 to those that are feeling this. There's a way to 407 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:17.400 be engaged, to be involved, whether you're talking to your neighbors. 408 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.359 Whether you're talking to your school or your policy makers, 409 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.440 or maybe posting on social media. There's a certain level 410 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:26.880 of engagement and involvement that makes that allows a person 411 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:29.240 to feel like they can do something about it. So 412 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:32.160 we had this webinar. Then the second webinar that we 413 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:36.559 had was connecting soil to food and food to human health. 414 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:37.680 It's interesting. 415 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:40.559 I had a conversation with a family friend who is 416 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:43.440 a retired physician, and he was asking me what I'm doing. 417 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:45.960 So I was mentioning to him and he said to me. 418 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:49.480 He said, you know, as a physician, we talk about 419 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:53.079 food and nutrition and how it

affects human health. He goes, 420 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:55.720 but I never sat down and thought about that soil 421 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:59.759 health affects the quality of our food and therefore affects 422 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:02.559 human and health. So when I had this conversation, this 423 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:05.279 idea came up and said, this is really an issue. 424 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:08.559 Many people don't connect that with soil and food. So 425 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:11.599 we did this webinar to bring the attention to that aspect. 426 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:14.960 It so like this, we're doing things. Volunteers are also 427 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.400 continuing on They're doing walks, they're going to farmers' markets. 428 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:21.440 We have a group of volunteers right now that are 429 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.960 putting together a whole school curriculum that is going to 430 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:28.480 that can be embedded into science, math, arts, you. 431 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:29.599 Know, social studies. 432 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:31.839 So we do have a lot of things that we're 433 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:35.960 working on that we're continuing and keeping the momentum going. 434 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:41.240 That's fantastic. And you talked about, you know how, how 435 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:44.039 the messaging, how we're creating awareness in a way that's 436 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:46.599 making it real for people, right from soil health to 437 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:48.400 our food right when you talk to when you bring 438 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:51.000 it to that level, all of a sudden, it becomes 439 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:54.079 really real. And so I'm good too often speaks about 440 00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:57.839 soil as a living organism and the very foundation of 441 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:02.200 our survival. Where is there a just as you to 442 00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:04.200 get your personal take on this, was there a personal 443 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.119 movement or insight that made the urgency of soil health 444 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.680 really click for you on a personal level? 445 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:16.880 Yeah, Being a mother of three young adults, right, my 446 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:21.359 children are in their twenties, and this one simple fact 447 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:24.960 that by you one is predicting that by twenty fifty 448 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:27.839 ninety percent of our soils are going to be degraded, 449 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:31.039 but we're going to have nine point two billion people. 450 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.640 The food crisis. 451 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:35.880 That we're going to have at that point and what 452 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:39.000 that means and how that translates into not just our 453 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:43.480 human our health, but the planet's health, but also civil 454 00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:48.559 like when we're at that kind of dire situations, how 455 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:50.680 our nations are going to be towards each other, how 456 00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:52.960 is humanity going to be towards each other? And as 457 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.000 a mother and thinking about this is the future of 458 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:58.559 my children, how can we safeguard our future of our children? 459 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:01.079 This one simple statement. 460 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:06.400 Has really, you know, ignited that passion for me to 461 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:09.119 just continue working on this and making sure that there 462 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:11.079 is some kind of impact with all the things that 463 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:11.599 we're doing. 464 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:14.400 Yeah, some of those stats you raised, I mean, my 465 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:17.319 eyebrows are raised. I was like, is this actually you know, 466 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:19.119 is that what the science says? But that's what the 467 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:22.000 science is saying, So it underscores the importance of bringing 468 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:22.960 awareness to this. 469 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:25.920 It's not like the next future generations or you know, 470 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:29.400 my grandchildren or anything like that. We're twenty five years 471 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:31.799 from that from now, you know that we're talking about that. 472 00:25:32.119 --> 00:25:35.039 And even right now, fifty two percent of soils in 473 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:37.599 the globally are already degraded. 474 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:41.359 Pace at which speed goes or the pace at which 475 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:44.680 time goes these days, right, twenty five years is going 476 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:46.799 to be here tomorrow like before we know it, right, 477 00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:51.759 and so taking action now is just so important in 478 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:55.279 this process. You know, we've talked about the scale of 479 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:58.720 conscious planet and the scale of the safe Soil movement 480 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:03.680 this process. In your leadership role, you've interacted with so 481 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:08.519 many heads of state, scientists, change makers in the environmental world. 482 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:12.920 How have they been personally responding to save soil. 483 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:18.119 It's quite interesting because they respond actually quite positively in 484 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:20.960 the sense that they're well willing to listen and they're 485 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:24.000 willing to really think about, Okay, this is something that 486 00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:27.240 we need to work towards. Whether it happens or not, 487 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:31.039 it's such as a slow process, right when you're talking 488 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:35.160 about changing policies, when you're talking about nations coming together. 489

00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:40.519 But the response from policymakers and like you said, change 490 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:45.759 makers is very positive. For example, just this last cop thirty, 491 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.680 governor from California, right, Governor Newsom was there and he 492 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.880 did a press conference, and one of our volunteers went 493 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:58.079 and spoke to him right after and actually handed one 494 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:00.160 of our Safe Soul booklets to talk to him about 495 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:03.400 it and he actually just perked up and he's like, yes, 496 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:05.880 this is something so important to me. This is so 497 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:09.519 important to California, you know, so much of his GDP 498 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:10.960 is agriculture based. 499 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:13.720 And he sat and he listened to this volunteer. 500 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:16.920 And then as he was walking away, one of our 501 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:20.000 other volunteers that works in the media also said something 502 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:22.319 and he held up the booklet and he said, yes, 503 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:24.119 we're doing a lot of work towards. 504 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:25.400 This, and we need to continue doing more. 505 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:29.559 So just that small interchange, you know, small exchange right 506 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:34.680 there in conversation brought about, you know again, awareness, right 507 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:38.200 so as policies are making being made, as farm bills 508 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:40.440 are happening, things like this, this will stay at top 509 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:41.200 of mind for them. 510 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:42.799 That's terrific, you know. 511 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:43.480 And I and you were. 512 00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:47.759 Asking me about how things have progressed since Seth Good 513 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:51.039 had taken that journey, and just to share it. For example, 514 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:54.000 what we've been doing in this space of soil health 515 00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:58.759 has been recognized by experts and by others as well too. 516 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:00.839 So you know, many of you may be familiar with 517 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:04.319 the movie Kiss the Ground, and then there's another film 518 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:07.039 called Common Ground, and these are both on Amazon Prime 519 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:09.839 and they talk about soil health. Kiss the Ground is 520 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:12.599 a great way to kind of start an understanding about 521 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.799 what soil health is. Common Ground talks about how it 522 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.799 is in the United States. But then they're filming a 523 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:20.960 third one it's called ground Swell that's just on a 524 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:24.839 global level. But they understand the importance of what we've 525 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.079 been doing with safe Soil that we are actually going 526 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:29.920 to be featured in this film, in this documentary film 527 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:31.599 that's going to be released at the end of twenty 528 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:33.960 twenty six, And they actually had a film crew come 529 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.680 out to India to film some of our farmers and 530 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.200 include their stories in this documentary. And then they've also 531 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:43.880 interviewed Seth good Or to include in the documentary as well. 532 00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:46.839 So now we are at the level that they understand 533 00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:49.200 there is a certain impact that Safe Soil has been 534 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:52.599 able to bring, and there's a certain level of expertise 535 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:55.000 that we have with the farmers and what we've been 536 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:58.079 doing over the last three decades that is not going 537 00:28:58.119 --> 00:28:59.519 to be featured in a documentary. 538 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.839 I think that's that's created just underscores that what we're 539 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:06.599 talking about here, the importance of save, save soil and 540 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:09.640 soil health is not a one off thing. It's integrated 541 00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:13.240 into our you know, into our culture, into our mainstream, 542 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.680 and that's you know, that's that's fantastic. I'm greating. I'm 543 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.519 glad it's getting that kind of uh, you know, notoriety 544 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:23.960 and recognition, you know, Joti working this closely with Seth 545 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:28.400 Guru's environmental initiatives. I'd love to hear how you balance 546 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:32.480 sort of the you know, the practical or business side, 547 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:37.440 you know, with with data, logistics, operations, strategy, global coordination 548 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.359 with your own you know, inner dimensions of yoga and 549 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:43.640 your own growth on this path. 550 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.279 Yeah, it goes back to what I was saying in 551 00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:49.720 the beginning nine that volunteering is such a huge part 552 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:55.599 of my own spiritual growth when you think about what 553 00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:57.920 said you says when you offer yourself in a way 554 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:01.079 and not think about what about me, anything that I do, 555 00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:04.240 whether it is working with Safe Soil in this capacity, 556 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.559 whether it is volunteering at the Aisha Institute in Tennessee, 557 00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:13.759 whether it's volunteering locally, whether it's volunteering at big programs 558 00:30:13.880 -->

00:30:18.000 like you know, the more recent programs that Sethua has 559 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.160 been doing, the Ecstasy of Enlightenment type of programs, whatever, 560 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:25.279 it is, whatever type of volunteering it is. It's just 561 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:28.200 such an opportunity for my own inner growth as well too. 562 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:32.839 So the safe Soil has definitely been that, you know, 563 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.440 connecting with people, connecting with people that are not necessarily 564 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:40.359 even know who sud GOODU is, but they're connecting to 565 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.440 us because of the ecological aspect of it and because 566 00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:46.160 of the soil aspect of it, and then being with 567 00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:48.400 them and kind of them seeing what do we bring 568 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:51.240 and how are we and then exposing them to who 569 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:54.240 sud Good is and all of this stuff just again 570 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:58.720 really really within myself just makes me feel so thankful 571 00:30:58.759 --> 00:31:03.400 that I have this in my life. The grace, the clarity, 572 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:06.799 the perception that all these practices have been able to 573 00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:09.759 allowed us to have so when we have having these conversations, 574 00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:11.519 we know how to navigate. 575 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:12.319 And work with it. 576 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:15.200 So all of it is all sad now and it 577 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.119 really truly does feel like that for me, and it's 578 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:18.640 been a huge part of my growth. 579 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:23.319 What a great opportunity to have this be you know, 580 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:26.920 the you're kind of blending both together, right, so in 581 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:29.200 the way I sort of position the question there were 582 00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:32.400 separate your growth and then you know, taking on this 583 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.920 leadership role and the global coordination and all of them 584 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:37.000 work involved, but you're saying it's kind of one and 585 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.319 the same, which is so beautiful. So Jothie, for our 586 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:42.599 last question, I'm going to bring it back to the 587 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:45.839 name of our show. After all, our show is called 588 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:50.960 a Wave of Bliss. I'm curious, when do you feel 589 00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:53.240 most in a state of bliss? 590 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.559 It's it's when I'm the most receptive to it. It's 591 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:00.519 always around us, it's always there, but it's about me 592 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:04.039 and where I am within myself is when I can when. 593 00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:05.160 I experience it. 594 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.240 It could be in while I'm driving, it could be 595 00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:11.920 in within my own household and you know, within my 596 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.680 own space. But it could also be you know, when 597 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.720 I'm at Aisha institute and sitting in the abode of 598 00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:23.319 yoga without the yogi or presence, or it could be 599 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:26.440 with when I'm sitting with Linga Paidevi Davi. But at 600 00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:29.559 the end of the day, whether I'm experiencing the bliss 601 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.519 or not is about how we open and receptive. Am 602 00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:36.119 I What is my willingness level at that time? And 603 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:38.519 that's what I have to keep bringing my focus back 604 00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:42.319 on to. So it's not any one particular thing. It's 605 00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:46.200 about am I leaning into this and my surrendering. Am 606 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:49.079 I allowing myself to open up and have the willingness 607 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:51.720 to receive whatever this is because it's always there. 608 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:53.440 It's just me that changes. 609 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:58.160 Wow, that is so beautifully said. It's your willingness to 610 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:01.240 receive whatever whatever is in front of you and to 611 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:04.319 be fully involved with it and then to be receptive 612 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.640 to it. So it's beautifully said. Thank you so much 613 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:11.000 for everything that you're doing in your leadership role within 614 00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:14.599 the Save Soil and Conscious Planet. 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