What If We Were Good For the Earth?

Here is a brief, 10 minute, video of Michael Pollan discussing Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farms, complete with stats on the farm’s annual yield, and a dream at the end:

Is it possible that 7 billion humans, if we tried, could be GOOD for the planet? Not if we’re consumers, but if we are stewards, perhaps. Hard to know what the planet’s carrying capacity for human stewards would be. We know it can’t accommodate 7 billion consumers. Maybe we can change our relationship with the planet, and heal the damage we and our pdecessors have caused …