The Savory Method Can Not Green Deserts or Reverse Climate Change

David D. Briske, Brandon Bestelmeyer, Joel R. Brown, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, H.Wayne Polley

Abstract


Allan Savory stated that his “planned grazing” method was necessary to reverse two of the world’s most challenging and interlinked global change processes—deserti cation and climate change—in the video “How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change” that was presented in session 7 at the 2013 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Confer- ence on 27 February 2013 in Long Beach, California.i As members of the scienti c community, it is our obligation to evaluate the claims made in this video relative to the existing scienti c information on this topic.

DOI: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v35i5_briske


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