Things go down all the time, like social media.
But when Spotify went down today, it made me realize
how cloud-dependent we've come as people.
You realize everything of yours is on the cloud, right?
Like, everything.
Social media goes down, it's fine.
Today I had no music.
Like, I just-- I had no music.
Where's the music? It's on the cloud.
Back in the day,
the Internet didn't affect my music.
You know what I mean? You could do whatever you wanted
with the Internet, I still had my K-Ci & JoJo CD.
You know what I mean? The worst that could happen
was that it could get a scratch.
That was, like, the worst thing that could happen to you.
♪ And all my-my-my-my-my-my-my... ♪
And then you just skip.
If you were really good, when your-your CD skipped,
you knew when to skip. You know what I mean?
You knew, like-- You knew it would happen at 1:34.
And so if you had people over, at 1:33,
you'd, like, pause and then say something.
"Ha-ha. You guys liking this?" And then skip over to 1:37.
"All right, I'll carry on."
That's why I-I think you should have a-a fair split.
Some physical.
You know what I mean?
Some virtual. Not everything in the cloud.
I'm gonna go back and buy some CDs now,
just to get back in the game.
Only the shit I really listen to.
Mixtapes coming back.
I actually want to go back to cassettes.
Rewind that shit, son. Take it back.
-♪ ♪ -ANNOUNCER: Coming to you from the heart of Times Square,
in New York City, the only city in America,
it's The Daily Show.
Tonight, the world has a gas problem.
Badass women of war.
And Sadhguru.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
Hey! What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.
And joining me for today's headlines
is my good friend Roy Wood Jr.!
-What's going on, Roy? -I'm good, man.
I'm not worried about none of that Spotify, the cloud.
None-- I ain't gonna lose none of my--
I printed every email I ever got...
in life.
I got 'em all at the house.
So you're not worried
because you've basically just physicalized everything
-in your life? -Everything.
Everything in-- Every picture. All that.
All that shit in a box at the crib, bro.
That is a miserable way to live,
-but at least you-you've got your emails. -Ask me--
ask me if I got every email.
-Ask me if-- ask... -Roy, do you-- do you have--
-do you have every email? -Yes, I do.
-Like, every email I've ever sent you? -You'll nev--
you'll never catch me slacking, bro.
Well, I-I hope you're happy?
Even the spam. I print that, too.
'Cause you never know.
-Good to see you, Roy. -Yeah.
All right! Let's jump into today's headlines.
♪ ♪
We kick things off with COVID-19.
Yesterday, the official global death toll from COVID
passed six million,
which, according to the U.S.,
means the pandemic is over!
Congratulations, everybody. We did it.
And, yes, things are getting better
as the Omicron wave recedes-- don't get me wrong--
because cases and hospitalizations are falling.
You know? Most places are ending mask mandates
and other antivirus measures,
which means you can now legally push the elevator buttons
with your tongue again.
We're back, baby.
But don't forget this--
around 1,400 Americans are still dying from COVID
every single day.
Right? The vast majority of them unvaccinated.
Which is why the one measure that all experts
are pushing harder than ever is vaccinations and boosters.
But it turns out
it's not all experts.
Florida's head doctor says
the state will be the first in the nation to recommend
that healthy kids should not get vaccinated for COVID.
State surgeon general made the announcement yesterday
during a round table discussion
organized by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.
It included doctors who criticized
coronavirus lockdowns and mandates.
The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics
do recommend the COVID vaccine be administered
to all children five or older.
The Florida Department of Health is going to,
uh, be the first state to officially recommend
against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children.
Okay, first of all, let me just say that it is shocking
to find out that Florida has a surgeon general.
Yeah, I didn't know they had that.
It's like finding out that T.J. Maxx actually has someone
who organizes the clothes.
What? What do you do all day? Have you seen that shit?
But, I mean, of course the Florida surgeon general
is going to have some weird opinions.
He's the surgeon general of Florida. Come on.
His other health recommendations are, like,
"Alligators can't hurt you if you're drunk."
What did we expect? It's Florida, people.
And don't get me wrong. I-I do get...
I do get where some people are coming from on this issue.
It is true that with a few rare exceptions,
COVID is not a problem for kids. I understand that completely,
especially since kids are little germ factories all the time.
Yeah, coronavirus doesn't make them more sick
than they already are the 360 days of the year anyway.
I get it. But don't forget how vaccines work.
The more everybody get them,
even the people who are not vulnerable,
the less the virus can spread,
which protects people who are vulnerable,
and it helps prevent new variants from emerging.
That's the main thing. Yeah, because what?
You thought Omicron was gonna be the last variant? No.
Not the way this shit is still spreading.
Next thing you know,
the new variant is probably gonna have legs.
Yeah, it's gonna infect your lungs and kick you in the nuts.
Pow! (coughs) Aah!
Here's the thing, though, man. This is what
people are not considering, Trevor.
There's gonna be some strong kids
coming out of Florida over the next two decades.
-(laughs) -'Cause, like, look at what they up against, man.
You up against COVID,
you up against the toxic algae down there,
the water is all crazy down there, too.
I'm telling, man, there's gonna be some strong...
Alligators. You got to run from gators.
There's going to be some strong kids. That's what they're doing.
Strong or mutant.
That's... Oh, that also means strong.
"Mutant" is another word for strong.
-There's gonna be some strong... -I agree with you there.
I can't fight you on that.
Some strong, unvaccinated children.
I might move my boy down there and teach him some football.
All right, let's move on
to the other pandemic
that people keep insisting is behind us-- racism.
And I know, I know there are all sorts of things
that make people go, "Oh, is that really racist, though?
"Is it really racist to touch a Black person's hair
or say the "N" word during karaoke?"
I mean, yeah, you were singing "Sweet Caroline."
There was no need for it, but... there is one thing
that absolutely everyone can agree is racist,
and that's lynching,
and now, that is finally official.
The U.S. Senate has just now passed a bill
making lynching a federal hate crime.
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act
was passed unanimously last night.
That bill is named for the 14-year-old
whose brutal torture and murder helped
to spark the civil rights movement,
and it designates lynching as a hate crime punishable
by up to 30 years in prison.
Congress had previously failed to pass antilynching legislation
despite over 200 attempts since 1918.
You see, people? This just goes to show
that both political parties can come together
and pass common sense legislation.
They just need 104 years to do it.
You just got to be patient.
And you know what that means.
Prescription drugs, you better watch out,
'cause your price is going down in the year 2122? 2123?
We'll be alive? We'll be alive by...? We'll still be alive.
Well, the prices will... Then they'll definitely be down.
You know, if you ask me, it's actually no coincidence
that they couldn't pass this law for 100 years,
and then Mike Pence almost gets lynched,
and suddenly, lynching is a hate crime. Yeah.
Yeah. It's a bit of a coincidence, don't you think?
Maybe... maybe that's how
Black people can solve all their problems.
Like, I'm not saying I want Mike Pence
to get beaten up by the police.
I'm saying if they tased him once or twice,
it would probably help speed things along.
And look, I know it's slightly disappointing
knowing that this law only got passed in 2022,
but all you got to do, all you've got to do
is treat the footage a little... a little bit
just to make it feel like it happened ages ago
when it actually should have.
(dramatic voice): The U.S. Senate has just now
passed a bill make lynching a federal hate crime.
And this just in.
I heard there's now a telephone in Europe.
Exciting times.
Happened so long ago, Roy. It feels good.
It-It did happen so long ago.
Should we still focus on old racism, or, at this point, we--
I just think we should just be proactive and just look at
future racism and just start passing the laws now,
so that by the time we need the law, the law will be in place.
Like, right now on the books should be the anti Mars...
The Mars Desegregation Act should be on the books now.
We should start discussing the desegregation of Mars.
Well you-you're assuming that Black people are gonna
make it to Mars.
They never will if we don't pass the legislation, Trevor.
That's why we have to now focus on making sure that
it's legal for Black people to go to Mars.
Well, what if they say, like, they're gonna send
all the Black people to Mars only.
You know what? Let me call my Congressman and discuss that,
-because I hadn't considered that option. -(laughter)
All right, let's move on.
Because our main story today is about
the continuing war in Ukraine.
So let's catch up on all the latest in our ongoing coverage
of the war in Ukraine.
♪ ♪
It is now day 13 of Russia's plan to "liberate" Ukrainians
by bombing all of their cities, and things don't look
like they will be getting better any time soon.
A third round of peace talks has ended with no resolution.
2 million Ukrainians have now fled the country,
and the Russians are reportedly trying to pay Syrians
to come fight with them against Ukraine.
And I don't know, man, I feel like Syrians must be pretty
conflicted about this, you know? 'Cause on the one hand,
Russia's asking them to fight in another war?
But on the other hand, there's finally one European country
happy to have Syrians come over.
Eh?
And you know, if you ask me, I think this is a pretty smart
strategy from Putin. He's probably thinking that
if he can turn this into a Middle East conflict,
then the West will stop caring about it.
Meanwhile, in the battle to isolate Russia,
McDonald's and Starbucks have become the latest
western corporations to cut ties with Russia,
with both announcing that they would temporarily close all
locations in the country. Yeah.
No Starbucks, no Mcdonald's.
That's a sad life to live.
And no pick-me-up in the morning, no Happy Meals--
Or as they call them in Russia, meals.
I don't think they have a word for happy.
You know? Yeah, they just, like, go to the drive-thru
and give the kid the food, just like,
"Look in meal, Dimitri. There is great toy of wheelbarrow,
"to remind you the purpose of like is work. (rhythmically):
"This is your birthday. This is your birthday.
You were born on this day. This is your birthday."
Now, As the situation in Ukraine gets more dire,
the economic fallout of the war is spreading
to the rest of the world.
This morning, gas prices soaring to the highest average
ever recorded, $4.17 a gallon.
I just filled up right now and it cost me $50,
versus normally it costing me $30.
NEWSMAN: Up ten cents in just one day
and 55 cents since last week,
eclipsing the previous record of $4.10 a gallon set 14 years ago.
NEWSWOMAN: In California, four dollars a gallon
would be a relief. The average there is $5.28.
Prices at this Shell station in Los Angeles
-hitting nearly seven dollars. -Oh, my God.
NEWSWOMAN: Gas prices shocking drivers at the pump.
It's $100,
and it's not even a full tank.
Yeah. If you thought gas prices were already high,
Russia invading Ukraine has only made things worse,
which sucks for everybody.
I mean, it sucks for parents who need to drive kids to school.
It sucks for small businesses
who have to spend more money to move things around.
It sucks for everyone, because the price of gas
affects the price of everything.
Like, if this keeps up, the next Fast and Furious movie
is gonna take place on public transportation.
It's all about saving gas.
And I feel so bad for everyone
who gets surprised when they fill up their tank.
I mean, think about it-- yesterday you had enough money.
And then, all of a sudden, today you don't.
Your salary didn't go up. Right? Nothing in your life changed,
you just don't have enough money.
Which, by the way, is weird. Can we agree on this
as a concept? It's weird.
It's weird that the price of gas changes...
but, like, instantly, at the pump.
Do-do you get what I'm saying?
Like, I feel like the change should only affect the gas
that's on its way, not the gas that's already there.
Like, this gas has been here for a week,
so, technically, that's the four-dollar gas.
You know what I mean? Give me the four-dollar gas.
In fact, give me the gas at the bottom of the tank,
that's, like, the two-dollar shit, it's been there
for a while. Won't charge-- The five-dollar shit's
still coming. The price changed. That price changed.
I want the stuff that's here now.
And can we spare a moment for this woman
who was surprised there?
I mean, just think about it-- a camera crew comes up to her
and they're, like, "Uh, can we film you
while you fill up your tank?" She was probably like,
"Oh, boy, I'm on a secret game show!
Oh! He's gonna finally propose!"
And then they're just like, "Ha, ha! We showed
"you don't have enough money on the news.
Have a good day."
And, you know, you've really got to hand it to corporations
when you think about it, man. Because you hear people
all the time going, like, "Aw, the price of oil has gone up,
so everything costs more." But they've done a great job
of tricking all of us into thinking
that prices are these magical things that nobody
has control over. Because, you understand, as consumers,
we understand it. We go, "The price of oil went up
so we're gonna have to pay more."
But who made that rule? Right?
Oil companies are making windfall profits right now,
over a hundred billion dollars a year.
Why don't can't they take the hit-- just a tiny hit?
Yeah. Because when prices go up,
you know, the oil companies are there, and
they're just making the money. They're just like,
"Oh, man, I-- I wish there was something we could do."
"Well, you could make a little less profit."
"Nah, no, something else, something else. Hmm.
"Something else we could do that wouldn't affect us.
"What would it be?
And the question is now, why are gas prices
surging the way they are?
Well, as you heard, Russia supplies a lot of oil
to the rest of the world, and even though
America and Europe have passed loads of sanctions
against Russia-- they've cut off its banks
and they've kicked it out of the U.N. book club--
they're still paying Russia
$500 million every day
for oil and gas.
Which, I mean, let's be honest, doesn't make a lot of sense.
You're sending money to a country
that you're basically at war with?
Like, if you were in a bar fight, wouldn't it be strange
to buy the other guy a bottle of Bud Light
so that he can smash you over the head with it?
In fact, it's such a weird arrangement that many countries
have been talking about boycotting Russian oil,
which then created fears of an oil shortage
that sent oil prices skyrocketing. Yeah.
And apparently those fears were well-founded,
because today, America did this.
NEWSMAN: Today more consequences from the United States.
President Biden announced a ban on all Russian oil,
natural gas and coal imports to the U.S.
Today, I am announcing the United States
is targeting the main artery of Russia's economy.
We're banning all imports
of Russian oil and gas and energy.
Americans have rallied support...
have rallied to support the Ukrainian people
and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing Putin's war.
This is a step that we're taking
to inflict further pain on Putin,
but there will be cost, as well, here in the United States.
Since Putin began his military buildup
on Ukrainian borders, just since then,
the price of the gas
at the pump in America went up 75 cents.
And with this action, it's gonna go up further.
I'm going to do everything I can
to minimize Putin's price hike here at home.
Yes, you heard the president.
Russian oil is now banned
from the United States.
But don't get it twisted.
America isn't just gonna start riding bikes everywhere,
all right? It's gonna get that oil from somewhere.
And luckily, America produces a lot of its own oil.
There's Texas. There's Alaska.
There's Rudy Giuliani.
But it's still not enough. It's still not enough oil.
So America has also been reaching out to countries
that it's not exactly on great terms with.
You know, like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia
to try and get them to pump more oil
to get the prices back down.
Which, you have to admit,
is a bit of an awkward situation to be in, you know?
'Cause, yeah, America's basically like,
"These countries are immoral,
and we will have nothing to do with them."
(imitates engine sputtering)
"You guys have any gas money, Saudi Arabia?" (chuckles)
"I said to that shit to you before I was home.
Yeah."
Wouldn't it be funny if those countries
turned around and-and flipped it on America?
If they were like, "America, we would love to sell you oil,
"but cannot do business with a country
"that drowns civilians in the Middle East.
Our conscience will not allow it."
(laughs) "No, we're just kidding. We'll take your money.
"You should have seen your face, though. You were so scared, huh?
Imagine we don't take your money."
(chuckles)
But while America's able to go cold turkey
on Russian oil, Europe is hooked.
They're completely hooked for now.
And, like, completely hooked.
The EU gets 40% of its gas
and a quarter of its oil from Russia,
which is why they couldn't join this boycott
even if they wanted to.
Yeah, without Russia's energy,
Europe wouldn't have enough heat for their homes
or fuel for their cars
or oil for their weird Christmas blackface celebrations.
Which means that Russia
has a lot of leverage in that relationship,
and it turns out that they know it.
NEWSWOMAN: As the weight of crippling sanctions
falls on Russia, Vladimir Putin is now threatening
to cut off Europe's gas supply.
NEWSMAN: In an address on state television on Monday,
Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak
warned that Russia has every right
to shut off its gas deliveries to Europe.
He added, "So far, we are not taking such a decision,
"but European politicians with their statements
and accusations against Russia push us towards that."
Yeah, you see, you can't go too hard
after the country that makes it possible
for you to survive winter.
That's why Europe
always has to pepper its denunciations of Russia
with, like, the occasional compliment.
"This war in Ukraine is as inexcusable
as Tchaikovsky's music is unforgettable, huh?"
Now, of course, this is a two-way street.
Sure, Europe needs Russian oil.
Russia needs Europe's money.
I mean, what else do they have to offer?
It's not like they're gonna fund a war by selling cabbage soup.
So, both sides of this relationship
are in a game of chicken,
and nobody knows who's gonna give.
The one thing we do know is this.
It would definitely be better for Europe and America
to not be in this situation in the first place.
Because Putin has shined a spotlight
on the trade-offs
that dependency on fossil fuels creates.
If countries want to move to renewable energy
or safe nuclear power, they can no longer afford
to make that, like, item number ten on the agenda.
Yeah. Because not only will the planet suffer
but you'll find yourself
constantly having to make deals with the devil.
All right, when we come back, we'll take a look
at the women who are helping to fight the Russian invasion.
You don't want to miss it.
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
When Russia invaded Ukraine,
most of the world thought
that they were just gonna roll their tanks in
and have the whole country in a few days.
But, as it turns out,
the Ukrainian resistance has been so effective
that, after two weeks, the Russians have barely captured
any of the cities that they've been attacking.
And considering that the Russian army
is eight times the size of Ukraine's,
this has been humiliating for Russia.
Right? It's like Godzilla
getting his ass whupped by the Geico gecko.
And a major part of Ukraine's resistance
has been thanks to Ukrainian women.
And I'm not just talking about the Ukrainian women
who protected their children while on the run
or helped lead others into bomb shelters
or even gave birth in subway stations
while Russian missiles rained down on them.
No, I'm talking about all the Ukrainian women
who have actively joined the fight itself.
As the fighting in Ukraine continues,
thousands of women of all ages,
some even without military training,
are taking up weapons and heading to the front lines
to defend their country.
NEWSWOMAN: Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women
have stayed behind to fight on the front lines.
NEWSWOMAN 2: They are Ukraine's mothers,
daughters, teachers, politicians,
now on the front lines,
defending their country under siege.
Men are required by martial law
to stay back and fight the Russian invasion,
but many women are foregoing the chance to leave.
I was helping my husband to pack for a war.
You know, T-shirts, underwear, weapons.
Um, and then I thought,
"Okay, he's going to war.
I'm going, too."
I want to fight, also,
because this is my country, this is my home.
Goddamn, the women of Ukraine are not (bleep) around.
And how about the woman who went to war to be with her husband?
I mean, people, the phrase "relationship goals"
gets thrown around a lot nowadays,
but that's next level.
Yeah, that's not even in wedding vows.
You realize, the priest is like,
"You've got to stay together in sickness and in health,
but if Russia invades, you do you."
Now, obviously, not every Ukrainian woman's
on the front lines, right, but even the women
who aren't fighting aren't just waiting at home,
hoping for the best.
No, they're joining the resistance in other ways.
NEWSWOMAN: From making protective gear,
like camouflage nets and bulletproof vests,
to building homemade weapons,
Ukrainian women are mobilizing, no matter how old or how young.
NEWSMAN: In a volunteer center in Lviv,
moms gather supplies for those fighting further east.
(translated): We understand we need to hold strong,
like a fist, like this.
NEWSWOMAN 2: Since military-age men can't leave Ukraine,
women are acting as couriers.
29-year-old Christinia came to this border crossing
with a mission-- to pick up and deliver this car to the front.
NEWSWOMAN 3: Women of all ages are now helping
to defend the besieged nation, making Molotov cocktails.
How did you learn how to make Molotov cocktails?
(speaking foreign language)
CLARISSA WARD: "Google helped," she tells me.
Okay, that's amazing. That grandmother learned
how to make Molotov cocktails from Google?
I didn't even know you could do that.
I mean, she is gonna pay the price, now, though.
Yeah, because every website she goes to is gonna give her ads
for Molotov cocktails, now.
Yeah, and then she's gonna be like,
"I don't need to see these ads! I already made the Molotovs!
"Oh, it's so annoying! I wish there was a way to tell
"the ads to stop popping up. You won! Leave me alone!
I bought the thing you told me to buy!"
And, by the way, If a grandmother is
making Molotov cocktails, it's probably going to be the best
tasting cocktails around.
Yeah, because I don't know about yours,
but my grandmother can make anything taste good.
Yeah, Russian soldiers are going to be on fire, like,
"(screaming) Ah...! Ah..! So tasty! Ah...!"
But it's not just Ukrainian women fighting against Putin.
No, it turns out there are also Russian women
fighting against him, too.
-(chanting in Russian) NEWSWOMAN: The chant "No To War"
is resounding throughout Russia.
(people shouting)
In St. Petersburg, this brave old lady stood up to
a goon squad of armored police during an antiwar protest.
She's said to be a childhood survivor
of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II.
NEWSWOMAN 2: Some saying they'd rather risk arrest
than live with guilt.
-(speaking Russian) -NEWSWOMAN 2: "I want
the whole world to see that we don't want it,"
this woman says.
NEWSMAN: One video on social media showed
Russian security forces in St. Petersburg
roughing up a woman holding a peace sign and a baby.
NEWSMAN 2: This woman even burning her Russian passport
in an antiwar protest in Germany.
(indistinct chatter)
(cheering)
Yeah, it turns out Russian women all over the globe
are also standing up against this unjust war.
I mean, that granny survived Nazis
and now she's fighting for this.
That mother was arrested with her baby attached to her chest.
And I'm sorry-- people, armored police
should not be roughing up a baby.
Only an armored police baby is allowed do that.
It's called a fair fight.
Now, look, I don't know if Ukraine's or Russian's women
will be able to stop Putin,
but on this International Women's Day,
I think it's worth highlighting how women across two countries
are coming together to fight a crazy man's war.
All right, don't go away, 'cause when we come back,
international spiritual leader Sadhguru
will be joining me on the show. So don't go away.
Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight
is yogi, mystic, visionary,
and best-selling author Sadhguru.
He's here to talk about why he's beginning
a global awareness campaign to save soil.
-♪ ♪ -SADHGURU: We have engineered
the outside world in so many ways,
but we have done nothing about this one.
If you want to know well-being,
in is the only way out.
-Sadhguru, welcome to The Daily Show. -Wonderful.
-(chuckles) -You see, now, this is weird for me,
because we tried to start this interview
and then we had a technical issue
and now we're starting the interview again
and now I'm like, "Am I being as authentic as I could be
with you as a guru or is this, in and of itself, inauthentic?"
-To-- You know? -Just be yourself.
There's nothing called authentic.
Nobody knows what's that, authentic.
Because, uh, human beings are a consequence of...
a thousand things they have picked up all over.
Man, that's deep.
Impressions, right?
We're gonna have a good time. I can tell.
-(chuckles) -We're gonna have a really good time.
By the way, I-I woke up today
a lot unhappier than I woke up yesterday,
because I-I had to do all the research
-for our interview. -(laughs)
And I-I knew that there's war in Russia.
I knew that there is, um...
you know, that we-we're facing a climate crisis.
And then now, thanks to you,
I know that we also are facing a soil crisis,
where some people are estimating that,
if we do nothing,
in 50 years' time, we may not be able to grow anything
because we may have run out of soil.
Which, forgive my ignorance,
I did not know that soil is even something
that we could run out of.
Um, the thing is, uh,
this has happened in the last 50 to 100 years
of industrialized farming,
that the organic content in the soil is going away
because there's no replenishment.
To replenish the soil,
we either need, uh, you know,
leaves and vegetative matter or animal waste.
Both of them have disappeared from the farms.
We thought we could do everything with the machines.
-Mm-hmm. -Machines can plow.
Machines can do the work
that animals and human beings were doing.
But organic content cannot come from the machine.
It has to come from vegetative or animal waste,
and that is not there.
Because of that, one must understand,
if you add organic content to sand, it becomes soil.
If you take away organic content from soil, it becomes sand.
So right now, desertification
is one of the most serious problems.
As you said, 50 years or 60 years' time,
after that, there's not enough soil to grow crops.
But the more important thing is,
by 2035 to 2040, they're expecting
that we will grow 40% less food
than what we are growing right now,
and our populations will be over nine billion.
That's not a world you want to live in.
That's not a world where you want to leave your children,
so we need to act now.
Why it's very important to act now
and institute or enshrine this in our policy is,
-on an average, according to U.N.FAO... -Mm-hmm.
On an average, 27,000 species
of microbes are going extinct per year.
And is that because of how we farm,
or is that a natural consequence of existence?
Because there is no organic content for the microbes. See?
-I see. -As you know, today,
that you cannot even digest the food that you eat
-if there are no gut microbion. -Yes.
Similarly in the soil, it's the same reflection
in a much more complex way.
Without the microbial activity in the soil,
the plants are not able
to get the necessary nourishment from the soil.
So we are throwing chemicals and boosting them up,
but without needed nourishment.
On an average, the drop in nourishment
in the United States from the early 20th century
to now is approximately 90%. Only ten percent is left.
If you ate one orange in 1920,
you need to eat eight oranges today to get the same stuff.
So that's simply impractical.
So we're moving to a place where
-food production is sliding down gradually. -Mm-hmm.
So this sliding down will affect...
FAO predicts that by 2035,
there could be dozens of civil wars across the world.
And that is not necessarily in African countries,
or South America. It could be anywhere.
The World Food Program talks about famines
around Chicago, Illinois area by 2035.
This is terrifying.
You know, it's-- (sighs) I was talking to a friend about how,
before the pandemic, I think there was a certain hubris that
humans had about everything. We just believed it would
always go on. You hear these doomsday prophecies,
or you hear these-- even warnings about the world ending
at some point, or humans not being able to inhabit the planet
but until the pandemic, I feel like we didn't have a-- Um...
-A tangible example of the world stopping. -Mm-hmm.
You know, people would even say, "How do you stop the world?"
How could you just stop travel? How could you stop countries?
-How-- And now we've seen it. -Yes.
And now you're telling us...
-No, this is not a doomsday prediction. -Okay.
This is a wakeup call, because we are at a cusp of time that if
we do the right things right now, in another 15 to 20 years,
we can make a significant turnaround.
So what are the right things to do?
We have been pushing this for the last two years.
We have these programs going for over 25 years in southern India
where we have brought in ten percent of the farmers' lands
under, uh, tree cultivation and animals.
Before that, this ten percent produces
-enough organic content for the remaining 90%. -Oh, okay.
So, once the organic content is about three to six percent--
minimum is three to six percent--
if you raise the organic content to eight
to ten percent in the soil, your elevation requirements
will come down to 30% of what it is,
because the water-holding capacity
of organically rich soil is such.
If you raise it to 12 to 15%, your irrigation requirement
would come down to ten to 15%. That is,
in, so, 100 liters of water you'd use 15 liters of water
for the same crop. That's what needs to happen.
And this is the same story everywhere.
When it comes to ecology, when it comes to soil,
-Yeah. -our national barriers--
racial discriminations, our religions, our gods,
our creeds, our gendered stuff,
our, uh, you know, political ideologies--
nothing matters. This is a unifying factor.
If we as a generation of people act now to change
the necessary policy changes, which is not some
rocket science, this is something.
-Always farmers in the past knew. -Yeah.
But we forgot in the last 50 years.
Are you-are you getting any signs that governments
are... are enthusiastic to try and do something about this?
See, in the last two years, I have been talking to various,
uh, country heads, various politicians, political parties,
we have written to 730 political parties on the planet
to make sure that they include soil and ecology
as a part of their election manifestos,
as their political philosophy.
Whatever they believe in-- right, left, center,
whatever they are-- soil is one thing
which is a common factor for all of us.
We're always looking at what divides us. It's time.
If you don't understand the consciousness
of this cosmos and stuff like that,
at least you understand you come from the soil,
you live off the soil,
when you die, you go back to the soil.
That much, you get it.
What I see is in the last two years
that I've been talking to people,
everybody knows there is a serious problem.
-Yeah. -Everybody knows what is the solution, also.
But I think it looks like they were all waiting
-for an idiot to build a cat. So here I am. -(laughing)
I'm 65,
and I'm riding 30,000 kilometers.
Must be an idiot, isn't it? (laughs)
Sadhguru, I could talk to you forever,
and I guess that's why people, you know, come to your events
and your, you know, uh...
It's the gatherings. They read your books.
They-they want to see what you're gonna do.
Um, on a journey of soil,
it-it feels like it is yet another thing
that we add to our list that governments need to do,
that people need to do, that...
You know, if we don't do this, it's over.
-If we don't do that, it's over. -So, this is not
-one more thing, Trevor. -No, no, no.
-I'm-I'm saying it feels like. -I... See, I'm...
I have enough on my hands. I don't have to take this up.
I've taken this up because, as a generation of people,
if we don't do this now, we will regret this, seriously.
If you don't enshrine it in the policy now,
it will get too late if you leave it
for another 20, 30 years' time.
This needs to happen now, so we want everybody
to talk about soil for 100 days in their own terms.
If they don't know anything, we'll provide
-a massive amount of information on our website. -Mm-hmm.
They can pick it up and use it on their own
or they can research themselves. Whichever way they want.
If they don't know anything else to say,
just say, "Save soil." Let's make it happen every day.
(laughs) If you... If you send a message
to somebody, close it with "save soil."
If you call somebody, say "save soil."
Save soil. It was great chatting to you, Sadhguru.
-(laughs) -Save soil, my friend.
-Thank you very much for being here. -Thank you.
-It's really been wonderful having you. -Yeah.
For more information on Sadhguru's Save Soil movement,
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as her mother figures out where they'll go next.
(man translating in Ukrainian)
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(man translating)
(speaking Ukrainian)
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"and not to worry.
"I want them to listen to their parents
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