problems facing the chinese government. this week's national people's congress is the real estate sex to the building boom, which for so long fueled rapid growth stuff. it's during the economic slowdown, leaving developers crippled by debt and invest is empty handed. tammy chiang reports delegates assembled in the great hold of the people. i'm one of the biggest challenges the property market. but china is premier said the problem is under control. fact you from at 1st were made to stem the downturn on the restore stability in the real estate market, where you reduce the interest rates for housing loans and the ratios of dong payments will a promise of tax cuts and low interest rates help. it's too late for investors at the grand river side bay in northeastern china. the luxury c, sorry departments were designed, the affluent retirees. now the entire complex is in ruins. and the developing

company collapsed with $300000000000.00 of debt. and this isn't an isolated case. there are projects like this in cities across the country. china is housing over supply. problem is now so bad. it's estimated there are 60000000, they can homes. that's enough to house an entire medium sized country. exhibition centers office blocks in housing estates and list of the city full unoccupied. mrs. penn moved to several years ago, opened a pizza restaurant. but there were never enough customers. now she barely civilized by providing catering services to sports clubs, managing and cannot go to that young people are leaving the city to find jobs outside. in more, more people are going to big cities are fewer and fewer people are staying here to live in work. and all this development with no growth has come, i think huge cost. china is building boom,

has left the real estate site to $7.00 trillion dollars in debt. an amount the government comp, just rights off. if you have at that, that's around 10 percent of the entire gd, be just owing to the property sector. that is actually quite a, quite a, quite a, the amount that, that kind of just be heads off by a single year or no, it's a, it's a, it's clearly a multi your cycle that they were talking about. so it's not government stimulus has failed to kicks the property market empty apartments in houses across the country. the home thing remind to the dreaming big can come with a very high cost. tony chang al jazeera, you can co, ne, in china, a satellite for may, the news continues off the old health plan, the economic collapse, the east diploma, and the civil war. i just want to be clear,

i read opposing the roger parts of the why we were the but they found even to, you know, we need to finish. that is, you know, did you realize that's what the vision is? the new to the movie has and goes head to head with full mystery, like in president rhino. but converse thing go. i am really important even before you were born. i know we're so much i called the head to head on al jazeera. when you consider the planet spider, the city, she range in variety of life that exist on us. and then when you think about the threats to this diversity, what are the images that immediately come to mind? a polo bass stranded on a melting chunk of ok? maybe a loss way to be on this deforest, or perhaps stretches of coal res, bleached and slowly dying, or is images are on the la. they are indeed evidence of biodiversity. but how that this is a supermarket. it seems counterintuitive. supermarkets appear

a spaces of such a range and abundance. but look a little closer and you'll soon realize they are in fact, short cases of the staggering impact of global streets. so having on the plan, in spite of the city, which is more than you think and valuable in more ways than you know, the a sly of diversity by the by bio diversity by diversity. we handle what, but what is it really me? no, no, i don't actually b o you know they're less, you know, come ok in a,

b a either b and c. i'll come old body a particular the know what? hey, we kinda to, has it been a while? i know. so you know, some of you have shut off that have me in a, from an incentive. i mean, smithhaven nothing. i mean, this one how it will have me if i had the effects us because we also are part of that by our diversity by it. or the city refers to the intricate mission of living things on us. animals, plants in 6 micro organisms. but it goes way beyond just the existence of these different categories of living. things by diversity is the result of 3 intertwined features. ecosystem, diversity, spacing, sky, the city, and genetic diversity. the more complexity, variety, and intertwining. the dense of the width of life becomes the more resilience we see in the living world. however, the loss is already mounting. in the past, 50 years, wildlife populations have declined by an average 69 percent. it's an alarming statistic that many sides say,

is propelling us towards the 6 mass extinction on us. a phase when space in spanish much faster than they can be replaced. while the previous 5 mess extinctions that took place of the span of the last 500000000 years, came of that as a result of natural causes. what we're seeing now, there is a phase of rapid extinction cools as a result of human activity. and one of the key drive is applied is released industrialized agriculture. industrial agriculture based on chemicals does ride some cluster. abuse is a single biggest cause full bite of as the destruction depend on a shiva is regarded as one of the world's most for middle environmental us and food rights advocates. this targeting of divided this p. m. an interactive fiction by the listing, the targeting comes from the red code division of crops for chemical ports, which means you have to grow only more, just because if you create

a rate versus kind of a bunch of lines of them or reach the theme, has to be exactly the same, that's why you do the code to be to vegetable diverse these 92 percent. and then this was done rich destruction, of habitats to rule. but animal feed and biofuel human dishes. the way the palm creates the context for by that was the outside the phone just in the last put too large amount of damage. the vincent, just so with this is the, from the song by that was the problem by that was the punjab to be what it was, the same thing by them single or be killed and outside the fun. this system is destroying the habitats that allow why that was due to try and trickling the habitat of animals. also means you emerging infectious diseases. the viruses that will totally be part of the bottom of the animal. because the new infectious

disease of this animal, they given me if you want to understand how we go to this place, then you need to take a step back in history. because diversity is not something out global systems of production of very good. that whole setup for agriculture at mass scales, producing enormous volumes of crumbs that are predictable, consistent, and affordable, has seen us forcing nature to operate like a factory turning food into a commodity. there are 2 steps by which food has been converted into a commodity. the 1st was the pre industrial step, which is the colonial stand wetlands like mine would call it nice and belonged to the specialist as a college was being the property of england and rents. what collect $45000000.00 was promised from india street in the $200.00, he has a brochure, but it was the commodities that for a girl became create commodities rather than what nourished people. so the change of food as nourishment into food is a colonial commodity. but cree,

let's to time is of the last good. the 2nd commodification began, when can we go and we go to, was introducing the name of the green ribbon. and thoughts systems were transformed to commodity production systems. the green revolution that then don was talking about was one of the most dramatic developments in agriculture, in the 20th century. from the 1940s onwards technology that had already transformed food production in industrialized countries, especially the u. s. was exported 1st to mexico and then beyond the western hemisphere in places like symbolic way turkey focused on india and thailand. the impact was tangible within a decorative. so i'll think agriculture technologies being implemented attention was focused on seeds and soil, high yielding crops that were easy to how this sheets were developed through skilled grading and genetic modification. the slope was also supercharged with

modern irrigation systems sprayed with pesticides and enriched with synthetic certain lives. in the initial decades, it was hard to see the green revolution as anything but a success. agricultural production jumped policy more consistent on the price of food plunged in some places it actually prevented mass starvation. in fact, in 1970 the american agronomist to let the green revolution norman bold received the nobel peace prize for his efforts. it is true that the tide of battle against hunger has changed for the better during these past of 3 years. but the nice that shiny glee machine was some really big problems when they introduced lucy, you know what to me folks. we thought it's something we can bring to 3 l. b to the people, but they need the information. we received a letter and we found it very,

very complicated. and these advertisements know corporations will have their own. i kid to, i'm calling elizabeth pharma and former leader of via campuses and international farm is formed by 192 organizations in 81 countries. she's currently on a farm in rules. and bob way, with the internet connection can leg. they want to destroy all that they really deep. oh, i love the clips which i was just as a be growing for ages. it's a use. they will also took the much of the g. lizzie must have the use of heavy sized kidney coats. fit lies introduction systems because it will be damaged to the environment this low. so lucy, acid doesn't necessarily mean we are going to reduce the map and see that loads. we

have 200000 varieties of rice and media to see the bugs feeding the animals speeding all the human. i'm going to return, it will only go and commodity. what this does is stop the sign of pitch chance. nothing goes back to this one. and you'll last us to get this or to find the transitioning out through production, navigate drawers back to the onset as west by supermarkets and them just because having these veracious appetite costa, g, a dot us is one of strategy is best known environmental educators who is passionate about regenerated agriculture feed production and community building. when something gets big, it also means it has to simplify, have listings, but more of them. and that's being solved as convenience. and so as a result,

food system has gone from hundreds and hundreds and spaces of plants that we down to very few. and whether you talk about that in the realm of fruit or vegetables. 2 to the your average twice the food and you know, there's 3 or 4 apples. there's 4 or 5 pays each. if you're lucky colin is reduced it to you know, just a couple, a couple of space. eastern and tight. eyes are equally reduced to just a few. so agriculture, just big chain pack and we grab a lot and get it from a place where we can grow it cheaply to a place where we can get the maximum profit. so vegetables was growing for flavor anymore. they were driving the transportability and to have that transportability that had to be picked up early. otherwise, if that was so, i could travel the hundreds, sometimes thousands, sometimes even tens of thousands of kilometers. the system has basically reduced

food to an item. and how can we shift that all items by successfully for maximum profit that main spring is that means the beginning can we goes to extend the transport lot. all of these things have combined to turn out food into a commodity by system manufacturing states and synthetic fertilizes are at the heart of this commodity based industrialized system. a small group of madness, multinational corporations. go to the bay. yeah. can china and b a s s, in effect own and control key parts of what should be a primarily natural agricultural process. because crops are designed to meet certain requirements, a small group of spaces of selected at the expense of the office. plants are created to be responsive to chemicals, and crucially,

the seeds are often designed to deliver high you, often from the limited number of homes that traded on the commercial, proprietory seed market. this whole process has played a key role in destroying cups species. according to the u. n. food and act, cultural organization, 75 percent of the world script varieties disappeared between 1902000 huge welts of regionally specific, locally adapted crops, has been replaced by standardized motor called to variety. when you shrink by the just you to model conscious, you are eating just the same to commodities for calories because calorie became the measure. nothing. you know, is how many, how much was he kept the company's controlling the seat and no one asked well, so it be as the most important problem. but anything you pick up in a supermarket has a process. even your sugar now is not sugar. it's high fructose corn syrup from

html cool. and this has on the one hand lips to the erosion abiding this, the, you know, phones having the forest. but he just did to an erosion of body of a seat. you know, the last 20 is as chronic disease and exclude the to the need to the pie. this helps against the soul because the rich of your soul is in diversity. returning your plans are the nutritional that was as a result of speech, you're really not. she go, so then we come to the universe of agra, chemicals from pesticides to to decides to said, lies is the key ingredient in factory farming is nitrogen said eliza, which requires vast amounts of natural gas and even sometimes cold to produce. the problem is the message of this application of nitrogen food lies a decades has damage to include nitrous oxide, pollution. nitrous oxide by the way,

is almost $300.00 times more pollutants and carbon dioxide. so it's getting deserted by because you did the notes in the glitch elijah's we will not be able to go to the substrate. complex sizes are made by the sea techniques. that means to us, it's the same chemicals that we use to kill people in the consultation within adapted to be safe. agent orange is supposed to be built in the viet nam, who we can put aside the same companies that to kind of a tough to seats to kind of goes and they put people in the country, but then they adapted seats to generate you can do you need to bowl chemicals a good see, let me see an open front of me is invited to be used as a bunch of price to look with each. that is a living economy. when you start to control the see kill released, can you buy the say you buying a system and that system will name that say to the price price with

a pre image in the side. so that when this a comes out, this herbicides need, but they've also been modified in a way that the any see to ease you know, and if you want to plan to give the next 2, you have to get it back. and that's a massive shift in history, and it will always be sold on as well. we've done research and we've done this for these reasons. and so this is a market operations because we have value adding and you type and you pay for it if you. yeah. i mean, digit pharma will then already have it all the cool thing that the dates for the food tonight is using the seats. so as soon as the carpet, it's going to be the day a big way was to petition with each other to try. they'll price now and then same time i goes to buy, right. so the commodities,

which is 4 times more. so people hungry because of the debt and they get hungry because of the port rosie and the seats in pricing of a globalized corporate driven agribusinesses. the tragedy of intensive farming is not just the low supply diversity, the designation of swell systems and immense amounts of pollution. it's that the food security that was going to be the motivation behind all this industrialization, isn't secure, in most places west, through destroying today. hope you below because of most frequent heat waves was air pollution routes and phones. and that we can do that contribution kind of changes. also most fundamental model cautious as the boot collapse with one change in rain with one change in the months with one cycle. but the bite of a few of the seats, the peasants have, can see it through the cycling because they love government. so it's over the seats, they bridge dogwood seats. so paula reading is watch with c s photometry

salience. because logically, the principle is established. diverse systems resilience model cautious to collapse and we are following the labs right now. this is one of the by, as we get into and badly really gets received and very minimal and pull, some of us would rolling politically. we're going to have something, you know, the, the menu. that's the height, big size of the truck already. there's nothing one gets made between the k d t k e. is that the lucky because the sales of shedding tears because them look think they have enough to give the ability of this is a crisis, it's a crisis. the crisis of a world dominated by

a limited number of proprietary seats is not something scientists of taking mildly, seed collections serve as insurance from the dangers of standardized clubs, strains, intensive farming practices any increasing by it is there a mold and 1700 sea gene banks. around the world and the smell bad global seat bolt is arguably the most famous of its been dumped. the noah's ok see that the city all the library of life. i'm here in spelled lot in the arctic circle. just 1300 kilometers from the north pole. it's freezing cold, it's remote and while it may not look like it, this place has a repulsive tree that holds more agricultural diversity than anywhere else. one of the seatbelt provides long term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in gene things around the world. the deposit taking place today is the largest,

if the seat volts ending in 2008, 170 boxes from 36 different c. thanks around the world i've been added to the collection and that will bring the total number of unique species inside the volt to move in a 1000000. amongst us time deposit is representatives from k live in on south korea. and the 1st us try the cherokee nation. all that happened back in 2020, i visited the volt just 2 weeks before cause it looked down again. and i spoke to agronomist and seat volt coordinator jasmine as told for the last, the last of these farmers variety during the last 200 years. luckily we have seen banks that takes care of these devices because then they have d and that we need when we produce these 3 of our i to adapting 2 times and find that the width of the time as drugs you found, deceased and so on. with the us already experience in temperatures that have never

existed before in the history of agriculture. it's important to understand that it's how crops on the front lines as genetic by diversity is found out because of the need for stable, predictable, and industrial quantities of produce species a losing the ability to go. and it has seized on able to adapt to climate change in either way. if you do not have to, if you do not have the genetic varieties and genetic diversity within crops, we would not be able to develop regular tubs at the time. at the same thing. we need more food, new plant diseases, civil are and then you need new varieties. and without the domestic diversity, we will not be able to produce the food and we will actually them as type of so this is about the existence of humanity actually. in $9091.00, then donna founded the organization that's done. yeah. which works to protect the

biological diversity of seats. it's aims of rudely the same as the smell, but see, think, but the methods are different. they've done, you collects indigenous varieties and say, some from extinction. in addition, the organization promote so clinic, finding methods and protects from is from dependence on painted seats. you know, the 2 kinds of seat saving one days, knowing that it's living and must give life every day. it must be accessible to people. if there's a prompt, you can only have feet if you're going to see the 2 limitations with the idea of the sort of i think in a period of kind of change that's no with mentioned it did. you just started the switching this package, but the big can notes. i see 2000000 a 1000000 thomas gets a blessing to each other to exchange. but the package of c works fine if what you

want is the next generation of genetic modification, which is gene editing. you want the next generation a bunch of thing with just to general sequence, read it. you don't do anything with the see the files or the greeting, just to the general mac mac and say my 2500 kilometers in pageants. so those packages are fine for that. i've visited lots of savings find that had the sites, but if you don't know how to jim and i then then it's kinda like just having wrinkle, it's that you've done haven't wrinkled, flight or flight, but h and every one of those st. banks, the most proactive contributing is the growing of the seeds because we need to, let's say it's growing size that the adapting as to a shifting climate. so that's where that whole idea of growing and saving, growing and saving, growing and saving every year. that's the incremental insurance, not just these cases talking to why and hype to the best in fifty's a

bite of the city is the natural world safety net to safe god, survival without diversity that can be no adaptation. and without adaptation. extinction is only a matter of time. industrialized intensive agriculture is just one part of the why divided us the crisis. but it is the most significant edits. route is a fluid system, one that is destroying the fundamental elements that make it was swell seats and the cycle of life. i think we need to change the language around things because i'm not sure varies around consumption, inconvenience. and that becomes nice commodity and becomes an auction. it's not a lot of duties at the very heart of the valley guy assistance and the landscape scenario planet. but it also takes a very hot going. so it is the most intimate thing we engage with every day,

and we bring it into our bodies. and when we start to think about it with that level of care and concern, then we'll give it the priority that it needs. and we'll craft plan and a future that brings everyone together with st. twice pantry and a field fridge. human beings on not necessarily a destructive, but on this indigenous people have told us that we can be reached and are equals otherwise you wouldn't have 80 percent of the items in the literal age of 25 percent of the land that interested me last week. we need to take a listen from that. you want to bring the seats, listen, i could speak. would you ever got back in the paper relate to the as a living the we speak with the power then ship test to be we've got to get

off the fossil fuels. think the press the deals with the same key that came from the time of booking and ships to the part of the city thinking the bite of a few of the mines and by the sides of the country is worth a great rest of the city. each relationship with nature is one of in filing fossil fuel extraction, intensive agriculture over consumption. it becomes quite clear. we need a reset, ohio, the planet excuse how reassessing human kind place within the well is teen tech lean climate change? this is a totally different world piece, piece of will leave me with cost, with nature, no support from it. on our 20, we're facing a future that we don't understand. we can't predict fully. everyone has

this. nobody knows what would happen the i need to stay. most of these are really, but i need to do more with my life. i was like, you know what? i don't like myself. i want to change. why am i want to be trustworthy? i want to be responsible people keep getting inspired to the story is on one of those, bringing the communities to contact me. a great book defies. behind i move forward because board what we need is being able to move forward. and that isn't just a matter of science, that's a matter of of what do you think about your fellow human beings because it is a matter of democracy. the, the, the

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