Riassunti per Orale di Inglese I (Video Ted, Media)

Teach every child about food

In this video, the speaker is a chef and activist, Jamie Oliver, English. Jamie displays a graph that shows that statistically greater obesity is a cause of death, and only at the bottom there are murders. Because of junk food, kids will live 10 years less than their parents. And 2/3 of Americans are obese. Jamie ironically says that England is immediately after America in the statistics by tapping American pride and also says that obesity costs Americans approximately 10% of total healthcare expenditure and they don't have all this money. He presents real people such as Brittney, who is 16 years old and has the remaining 6 years of life, and then there's Stacey with her family, all obese, even the youngest child of 4 years. All this because nobody in America teaches how to cook. Fast food restaurants are everywhere on the streets and at home, no cooking with healthy things. At school, children do not distinguish potatoes from tomatoes. Most kids eat at school and drink two cartons of milk per day. Nowadays, however, the milk is full of sugar, and to really see how much sugar they take, children in 5 years. To work around this problem and change, the big brands have to put food education at the heart of their business. In schools, fresh food must be cooked. You have to hand on healthy recipes. Just a little.

How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit

In this video, the speaker comes from Detroit and is called Devita Davison. Detroit nowadays is the symbol of decadence. The 84% of the population are African American. Because of divestments, the stores don't sell more fresh produce. For this reason, 70% of the population of Detroit is obese. The inhabitants live near fast food restaurants and gas stations. In Detroit, 100 square kilometers are unused. The inhabitants decided to turn the city into an agricultural paradise and have even opened a vegan restaurant. She uses a classic 3-point organization of topics. Has the same communicative setting as Martin Luther King; looks like a preacher. Sends a message of hope and uses a lot of repetitions (in the city of Detroit, healthy fresh food). It's about the future in a positive way by spreading a message of social cohesion and love.

How food shapes our cities

In this video, the speaker Carolyn Steel is an award-winning architect, writer, and lecturer. Feeding cities is a great challenge of our time. The process has a larger social and physical impact on us and our planet than anything else we do, yet few of us are aware of it. Industrialisation has distanced us from the effort required and made feeding cities seem easy. But in an era of climate change, peak oil, and a rapidly growing urban population, that illusion is wearing off. We urgently need a new model for human dwelling – one that recognises the interdependence of city and country and treats them as a single, organic whole. My proposal is a new concept that could lead to such a model: sitopia (from the ancient Greek sitos, food + topos, place). Sitopia is ‘food place’: a way of seeing that acknowledges food’s centrality in our lives and its power to shape us and our world. Food is our greatest shared need – which makes it our greatest potential asset. If we recognise its power to connect, we can harness it as a tool to shape the world for the better. It’s a very different style from the previous two speakers. It’s more of a formal academic presentation (more similar to a university lecture). Her material is not well-structured or well-organised.

A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA

Ron Finley is a Los Angeles-based fashion designer to professional athletes. Ron Finley grows a nourishing food culture in South Central L.A.'s food desert by planting the seeds and tools for healthy eating. Finley's vision for a healthy, accessible food forest started with the curbside veggie garden he planted in the strip of dirt in front of his own house. When the city tried to shut it down, Finley's fight gave voice to a larger movement that provides nourishment, empowerment, education — and healthy, hopeful futures — one urban garden at a time. Finley’s vision for a healthy, accessible “food forest” started with the curbside veggie garden he planted in the strip of dirt in front of his own house.

George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Carver developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts. Although he spent years developing and promoting numerous products made from peanuts, none became commercially successful.

Finley says that all this cannot be free, but you have to support him because so you can create new spaces and new jobs; You can eat healthy and be proud of their city. Finley uses negative terms (as a gangster, Sai) and turns them into something positive, in a slogan.

How China is (and isn’t) fighting pollution and climate change

In this TED talk, the speaker Angel Hsu is a professor, researcher, writer, and speaker who spends much of her time analyzing large datasets to develop policy solutions to the world's most pressing environmental problems, such as climate change and air pollution. Angel begins with a real story and then presents statistical evidence and facts. She views graphs and numbers. China's role is important when it comes to pollution because it can have a global impact on all of us. China uses coal for many things. But the closing of coal-fired plants and the use of solar energy and wind power has helped to decrease the pollution by 30%. This leads people to live longer.