Thank you Michael. Thank you Michael. Thank you Renee
My punch line is being displayed here. This was
Not my hope that my joke
Would start off this presentation perhaps we could go back to the start of the presentation
If you can hear me back there Jacob
Thank you very much
But you know it's raining today because of global warming
The global warming means that there's more water evaporating from the oceans and what goes up must come down
So therefore there's more rainfall in areas like Denmark
We've had tremendous problems for our music festivals during all of August and of course when Renee wants to make his
Pond on to the Roskilde festival. He gets the Roskilde mudslide too
And we should keep an eye on this problem of the climate because it's it's very personant so this whole discussion about
the wild food and the tame food, but now to
To start I would like to show you an image a picture of vegetation that I like very much
It's not edible vegetation. It's vegetation from the American prairie
It's grasses and you'll see that these proud plants have a lot above
The surface but even more below the surface
It's like four or five meters below the surface the root systems and if you don't think that the roots are longer than the top
Look at it upside down and you can see that actually
The roots are the most important part of this
But what I particularly like about this picture is that you can see also
Something else apart from these wild grasses
You can see civilized grass the kind of grass that makes it funny to be in a city
Where we enjoy when there's a park or there's some other
Lawn in in in our suburb or we go to a sports stadium where they play soccer on on the lawn
The civilized grass the kind of grass we use in in civilization
It's a very very small kind of grass
We're almost without roots and almost without stretching up into the sky
It's called Kentucky bluegrass the most common thing in American sports arenas and stuff
The Kentucky bluegrass that you have up there is very shallow very superficial
Doesn't go down into the earth for very much water and minerals not very much up to the Sun for for energy
And it's the the question that I want to post here is why is it that we live in such a superficial?
Civilization why is it that the plants that we plant on purpose and sing our nice in parks?
Stretching so little into the universe and into the planet we live on as compared to wild food
Why is that what has happened if you compare to a natural ecosystem like a forest you can see there are there are
Vegetables here and vegetable growth on all scales
You see trees that stretch far up into the sky and also
The same deep into the earth you see at all levels of heightened depths
You see someone trying to grab the resources there and next time you take a walk in the park
Or in a forest think about the fact that there's as much below ground as as above ground
And when you walk at a grass lawn think that no one is using most of the area below
the
Level where your feet are standing so this is how
Natural vegetation vegetation looks like if you take a field like a weed field
You have a lot of plants in our monoculture all of them equal height and equal depth
So you don't really use the resources that are there and you actually also spoil the soil in which these plants are growing
And so the question is when nature is so diverse. Why is civilization so monotonous?
Why do we choose to plant this way?
What is the strategy we are having? Why are we doing this and basically we're doing this because
10,000 years ago there was a climate change for natural reasons astronomical reasons the end of the last ice age the
Water level in the oceans rose very much like 100 meters a lot of the most fertile areas where people were hunting
Disappeared like the dockerland between
Denmark and England which is now for fishermen
But that at that time was the most fertile hunting ground in Europe like the Persian Gulf
Which was the the paradise of that of that time named the paradise, but now of course is is covered in water
So there was a big change and people had to do something and hunter-gatherer
People who were living at that time like five million human beings on the planet started taking on reluctantly
The technology of farming which they had known for a long time, but didn't really like so they became far farmers
They settled down and they started a
A huge change in what they were eating. We know historically that the hunter-gatherers
Before this transition 10,000 years ago
We're eating a manifold of different fish animals and plants and we know also today that hunter-gatherer cultures that are still around
Even the white even though the white man tries to wipe them out these hunter-gatherers eat an enormous variation of plants
Animals insects whatever hundreds of different plants during a year hundreds of different weird kinds of animals during a year
And this has been collapsed into a very very few fish animals and plants that we eat because we wanted to
Tame them to cultivate them to control them to take them into our sphere of control
So that we knew what we were doing and so that we knew what we had to rely on
So we tamed the wild and domesticated the wild so that it became part of our household
Dumus means house so domestication is about taking the wild stuff the wild beast the wild plants into our
sphere of influence into our household to domesticate them and cultivate them and make them tame and lame and
Therefore having something to eat now the interesting thing is that this strategy is basically based on what you could call?
Catastrophe and this is not a value judgment. This is a technical statement
You create a catastrophe coming back all the time to make sure that you can
Have the plants that you want to dominate the the area where you live and this
Catastrophe is brought about by the plow which is usually seen as the big symbol of human civilization
And and and here this history starts and the plows a good thing and we want to to to melt arms into plows and so on
But on reflection it seems now that the plow has been the big murderer in
Human history and it's the big problem because what you do when you plow the soil when you plow the earth that you want
Plants to grow in is that you create a recurring annual catastrophe
What you do is that you turn the top soil around so that all the optimistic plants that were planning for years and years of
Existent are wiped out and you only have a certain group of plants left which are the pessimistic plans the pessimistic plans are the ones
Who do not believe in a far future?
They are pretty sure that there will be a flooding or there will be a fire or there will be some human beings coming around with their
Plows or whatever so they have a strategy. That's very very short-sighted
And you want to get rid of all their competitors which are the optimistic plants which will build, you know trunk
They like trees they build trunks and and and and branches and stuff that will stand there for hundreds of years
They're very optimistic that will not be a forest fire or flooding
So they invest a lot of their energy and talent into this structure that will survive from year to year
And you want to get rid of all that because you only want to allow that which you want
Which are the very very short-sighted plans the annual plans like the grasses and most of what we eat in fact are
Grasses that we have cultivated into is something that we at least believe is edible
The annuals have the strategy of using all their talents and all the energy and put it into a grain with a DNA
That will tell how to build a new plant and a little energy depot of
Something called starch
That will allow this little grain to to become a plant after the flood after the fire after the plowing and when we
Apply plowing in agriculture. We create this
yearly
Catastrophe wiping out all the optimistic guys and just letting the pessimistic short-sighted guys
Be around with their little starchy seed now. Is that a good idea?
Well, it's it's a very narrow-minded idea if you take the statistics from FAO the UN food organization
It turns out that 60% of the calories consumed by human beings today on on this planet come from only four fucking crops
Four crops
Take any stone age hunter-gatherer and he'll be eating hundreds and hundreds of different plants
But we rely on rice weed corn and potatoes potato is not an annual
But we treat it as an annual in the way we grow it we rely on these grasses basically no monkey would eat that shit
We can only eat it because we can eat it. It's not edible to our stomachs in its raw form
So it's a weird thing that after 10,000 years of technology development and civilization and and
Wonderful chefs and then whatever we came up with this situation where six percent of what we eat come from only four crops
We're dependent on these we are hooked on these crops
We are junkies on these crops and if you go further and say what the 90% of the calories we come from only 30 crops
Other crops like these. This is a very very narrow strategy
This is a sad story because we eat so few plants and it's a sad story because we waste the talent and
The burning and the burning souls of all those very very skilled people who want to make food
What they basically do is take these very few and very very dull crops and try to make something ever
Interesting out of them. So gastronomy you could say at least in the first approximation
Gastronomy is really all about how to bear the fact that you have to eat potatoes 200 days per year
So you prepare them in two thousand different ways or rice you can make it many different ways
Or the other wheat you can turn into bread or into pasta or into whatever noodles
So that you can bear the fact that it's so unimaginative what you are or you are offered to eat and
My claim and I'm being pertinent here. I'm not a gastronomer
But I like food and and my claim is all of gastronomy up till this date up till the birth of
The wave and the movement that noma is part of
All gastronomy here has been about making something rich out of something very very poor like a supermarket
Everything you buy in the supermarket basically is based on corn on maize
And but it's packet it in many different ways and colors
So you you get a variation out of something that's that's very monotonous monotonous
And it's the same thing with gastronomy you try to make the very monotonous stuff
It's interesting by preparing it in many different ways. This is a waste of
Gastronomers, this is a waste of chefs. This is a waste of your skills your heart and your brains
We want to go somewhere else
Also, because the problem with the starch in these grains is that starches is a very weird
Stuff to get into your body. It gives you a very fast increase in blood sugar levels
Which means that you will be hungry very soon. Why would any restaurant in the world offer people bread when they arrive before?
They actually order on the menu because bread will make you
Satisfied but for a very short time
so
People get all kind of diseases from this very starchy diet like circulatory diseases hard and and and and
circulation diabetes
Overweight or obesity and all this stuff comes from this agricultural food that we are eating
But this is our problem and that is not the biggest problem the real problem the real SOS here
Save our souls is dealing with our soils
Because the soil cannot bear this way of growing food. The soil is a fantastic
Complex ecosystem sort of the skin of the earth the most complex ecosystem on on the earth
Which is sort of the borderline between heaven and earth where the sunlight from from the star above us?
Will make plants grow and and they will go into the soil when when they die and and there
They will meet the minerals coming from the rocks from the earth below
With withering there will be released minerals that that come up
There's that also water will come up from from the groundwater passing and you will have the soil as a meeting between heaven and earth
And this goes on all the time. There's a reproduction of soil all the time
But it only has a slow pace and we are using the soil at a much quicker
pace because we are weight raping the soil essentially by by
By plowing it and it leads to waste and loss of soils through dust balls through
scarcity of nutrients in the soil by
Compactification of the soil and so on because of the way we treat it and this is really a big problem
You can make a simple calculation due to an American geologist David Montgomery who says if you have it on average one meter of soil
On the surface of the earth at the land masses one meter of soil, which is a fair measure
You know that from agricultural practice you will lose like one millimeter of soil per year any farmer knows this
If you lose one millimeter of soil per year, it means that in one thousand years
You'll reduce up this one meter of soil that you are growing your stuff in
soil is essentially mined away treated like a mine and
Civilizations fall when their soil is gone. It happened to the Maya's the Incas the Greeks the Romans the Mesopotamians
Down in the Middle East that's a heal area in Africa in China and so on people used up their soil
Now look at this map. It's a map of where on earth
Every culture started ten thousand years ago. There were nine different centers where it started
That's the the red areas and if you look at them
You will notice that the red areas are in parts of the planet where today you would actually
You would actually more think of a desert like you have the fertile crescent in the Middle East
You have Sahil which is now a desert in Africa. You have the Andes and Amazonia areas
And you have parts of Mexico. You have parts of New Guinea, which are now and not very fertile anymore
You'll see in the lighter shade
You'll see where the planet is fertile agricultural now and you ask yourself the simple question
Why is this? Why would agriculture start like in the fertile crescent?
Why all you hear about are people beating each other with clubs and trying to it's nothing but trouble from those regions
It's nothing but deserts and if people are not successful in killing each other we send our young boys down to do the job for them
Killing them in Iraq in Afghanistan in the Middle East nothing but trouble
Why would you start agriculture in such an area which is so desert like you wouldn't people didn't start our culture in areas
That were deserts the areas became deserts because of agriculture the cradle of human civilization is now a desert
because they used up the soil and
And this is the pace of human history that we use up the soil and there's basically a
500 to 1500 year lifetime of civilizations and then they go and the history books doesn't tell us why but David Montgomery
Tells us why because they used up the soil. So how about us?
We've been around for more than 1,000 years. Yes, but we have been rented the fertilizer
We put nutrients back into the soil
At a ever more desperate pace to make this happen in Tokyo
500 years ago almost they were banning the use of
Putting urine and feces shit and piss
Into the rivers and canals not because they were worried about the the recipient quality of the waters or the pollution
But because they needed the nutrients in
The feces and the urine for rice production in China. There's a beautiful tradition among peasants that you're welcome to come and eat
You're welcome to have your meal. You're welcome to be very satisfied and happy and and and all that stuff
But you cannot leave the estate without delivering your
Shit and piss because he needs the nutrients you can take the sunshine in the food away, but you cannot take the nutrients in the food away
The present agriculture practice do not return the atoms from the soil the matter from the soil
Because of this monoculture tradition that we have and this is a big problem
We need to learn how to recycle the soil how to put the atoms back again
And we have many different historically techniques for this we can rotate the crops
We can use night soil, which is a nicer word for the shit and piss you produce during night
We can use animal fertilizer, which is a nice word for the shit and piss produced by animals
Or you can use the chemical fertilizer, which is what we what we tend to use up nowadays
But cannot use for a very long time because of the rain because the chemical fertilizer is all based on
On the use of fossil energy
When we produce NPK fertilizer, we really need to
Use all this fossil we use it for the hydrogen we need to the atoms part of the fertilizer
Part of the fertilizer plus process necessitates that we use hydrogen from natural gas
And we most of all need the energy from the oil the coal or the natural gas and the climate
Producing the rain showers forbids us to go on doing this. We cannot
Proceed there's no future for the present
Regime of agriculture. It's the end of fossil fuels and therefore also the end of chemical fertilizers
and
With the end of the fertilizers is also the end of the regime of the annuals of the pessimistic plans
So we have to do something entirely new and we have to discuss what this entirely new is we have to save our soils
and
Producer planet that will keep feeding us for the coming generations
The key concept to doing this is the concept of flow and let me now
Turn away from vegetation and show you my pet animal which which are small shrimps
I have a trouble making my laser pointer. Well, you can see perhaps a faint red spot. Can you see that?
Yeah, you see that a few shrimps here swimming around in this bowl of glass
You have also a call that's that's basically a just a platform for things happening
But you have these little shrimps swimming around
And they may be edible, but I don't know because you cannot open the glass bow
and the funniest thing about this these pet animals are the fact that
They do not require any maintenance at all. You don't have to feed them
They will swim happily around in this little bowl of glass on your table for years and years and years
I think the record is like something like 10 years
Never being fed and this this could be a mystery
But it is not because there are two other species in there. There's some algae and some bacteria
And and they they live together in a very simple way. You have your shrimps swimming happily around over here
They produce waste that the bacteria will break down into nutrients for the algae
The algae will take in daylight and that's the source of energy in the system
the day on on your desk and use that for photosynthesis
Producing food and oxygen the shrimps will inhale the oxygen eat the food combust the stuff
They have already got the energy to swim around and being funny
They will exhale co2 that the algae will use to build up the new sugar in in the food
So this is a closed systems. You don't need to put anything into the glass bowl
You don't need to take anything out all you need is a little light flowing on it
And they will swim around happily a year after year after year. It's a fantastic list little system
And and it's very funny to look at and think about the basic law of this system
Of course is that waste equals food the waste of one organism is the food of another organism
If an organism makes some kind of waste that nobody else is interested in eating
It will pile up inside the glass ball and you have trouble if you want to eat something that nobody else produces
As waste you will run out of food very quickly
So the basic law of this system is waste equals food or as I prefer to call it that if you want to live in there
You have to share your shit with her with the other guys
Now this is a somewhat bigger glass ball, but it has the same basic
Physical laws no matter goes into it a little stardust from time to time when shooting stars
Nobody leaves it a few astronauts going with their tubes of
Food and and a back to shit into the moon and back after three days
But basically no one leaves this system basically atoms are just recycled all the time like jumping from the shrimp to the algae to the
Bacteria here you have the same basic system and and your actors are basically the same you have the plants you have the
Animals and you have the bacteria the plants is the generalized algae
That's the vegetation part you have the animals that's creatures like us
Swimming around or shouting around in the rain and you have the bacteria who do the job of recycling the nutrients
This is a closed system and if you follow an atom here
It could be inside someone Swedish one day next day will be inside a beetle
Or or some kind of bacteria and then a little later you might find it in a plant or somewhere in the atmosphere
It's a constant circulation the CO2 in the atmosphere is moving at a middle time of something like eight years
between the biological organisms and and and the and the atmosphere
So it's a constant flow of matter
Driven by the sunlight that fuels the plants so that the animals can have something to eat and run around and
Spread the nutrients from the plants in the form of shit so that new plants will have fertilizer to grow in
It's a very simple and very beautiful system that all living species on this planet at her to accept one
Species that you can easily guess is us
We don't understand this simple fact of life that life is a flow of matter in a closed loop
And we have to accept that it is closed we have to accept that life is a flow
We have to accept the very simple fact that we can have this running in an ecosphere on a planet
On the very simple condition that we just add daylight. That's all we need to do
All you need is light and then the system runs
But we insist on doing something else even though there's lots of light the big cube
There is the amount of solar energy falling on this on the surface of the planet
That's a lot and the little red one on your right is the global consumption of energy
Everything including the Americans with their air conditioning
Everything is in that little one and and the engineers and the politicians and the businessmen tell us
We are not able to get that little red square from the big yellow square, and I say you are
mis-talented idiots
Come on. Do your job. It's not very difficult to do
But they insist on depot energy
They insist on on taking oil gas and and and and coal from the depots below or even uranium for nuclear power plants
To take from this limited depot burn it and put it into another depot of waste
Which seems then unlimited instead of just reaching out into the flow of energy flowing through our planet and say, okay
We have lots of light during daytime. Maybe we should spare a little for the night if we feel
That it would be
Nice to have light in the night so we could have it based on solar wind and wave biomass and so on
This is a very simple thing to learn, but we are in a very deep civilization crisis and it rains when we have the mad food festivals
Because we stop this flow because we don't go with the flow and we have to learn to do that
Our civilization is based on depots from the planet below
We will have to reorient reorient ourselves towards the flow of energy from the star above the Sun
The climate tells us we have to do so the climate specifically tells us that the problem comes from the greenhouse effect
You know co2 the carbon and oxygen combination
And we also have learned that the co2 or carbon problem really comes from agriculture agriculture is the most important source of greenhouse gases
Historically more important than the use of fossil fuels
So so agriculture and the change land use is a real reason for the climate problem
But today the fossil fuels are on top of that the thing that keeps alive a sick
Agricultural system through the energy input from these fossil fuels
So we have to get back to the flow thinking we have to get back to what I will provocatively call the thinking in terms of reincarnations
And I'm not turning into a Buddhist here at the end of my lecture. I'm talking not about anything
Outside or transcendent. I'm talking about you. You are reincarnations. We are all flows of matter flows of energy
And if you think about how much you eat and drink it's like one kilograms of food per day like three four liters of water
Depending on the climate per day add that up and you find out that into your mouth goes every year one and a half ton of matter
Fifteen hundred kilograms of matter goes into you every year and from the laws I just show you we can we can deduct that
Fifteen hundred kilograms of matter goes out of you again through the openings that you have in your body including the your sweat
So there's a lot of matter going through you. You're not like a car that only burns the petrol. It's also you are made of this flow of matter
It's incredible amount of matter and many people stand there on on their scales on their weight once a year and look and instead of thinking
Wow fifteen hundred kilograms of matter went through me in a year and I've only one point five kilogram more than last year
They are very unhappy that they have one point five kilogram matter more than last year. It's a high precision one per million
It's a very good precision that we have in our appetite regulation. What does this mean you can you can label the atoms or the molecules in your body
With isotopes where you active isotopes and you can measure how long time does water stay in your body. It turns out to be like eight to 13 days
Is the half time of the lifetime of water in your body depending a little on the climate so in a month all the water has been replaced
Water is like sixty eight percent of you so most of you is not the same as as a month ago. Now if you take then you say bones
That would take longer time not really calcium in your bones three months and it's replaced
It means that if you meet here in a year from now and I think any would like us to meet here in a year from now
When we meet here in a year from now most of us will not be there
We will still be able to remember that silly lecture coming after the presentation it turns out that 90% of the atoms in your body is replaced in one year
This is a shocking number in the sense that it tells you that what is continuous in you and makes you remember your childhood is not the atoms
Because they've been replaced in that constant flow. It's something else that remembers your childhood
Now if you think of music of digital media, we all were raised to music that well
I was raised to music on long playing records
Some of you are too young for that then it then it then it was on magnetic tapes
Then it came on to CD discs and now it's some ephemeral wireless network or hard disk whatever existence
The music the music will jump from physical representation to another physical representation
But if it's not at any time represented physically you you you lose it
If it's the Beatles other people have copies if it's your music you lose it
And with your childhood memories it's the same kind of permanent reincarnation
Incarnation as you might know means to take flesh again
Carnet is flesh reincarnation means to take the form of flesh again
And I'm not talking about soul wandering here
I'm talking about you you're in a state of permanent reincarnation in that your childhood memories
Has to reincarnate all the time get new flesh all the time
If they don't you're in trouble
So when whenever a year starts you have to teach like 1,500 kilograms of spaghetti and meatballs
How it was to grow up in southern Stockholm or Düsseldorf
And it's a hard job teaching those spaghetti and meatballs all that and it's no wonder that when people get very old
They claim to be senile and can no longer remember anything
Because it's so hard work to teach all these atoms all your memories
But it is the food you had a few days ago that now remembers your childhood
Because we are not things we are something very different
If we compare things and flows and this is important to do
You can say a diamond is the same thing because the atoms are sitting there forever
A flame is a flame and burns because the atoms the air that heats up and lights is replaced all the time
It's the dynamic character of a flame
A rock sits there at least in human time scales forever
A river is only a river because the water is replaced all the time
If the water stops flowing in a river it becomes a lake and evaporates and it's no longer anything interesting
The same thing with the chair you're sitting in the atoms better stay together or the chair goes into pieces
But the chef sitting in the chair will be a dead chef unless he replaces his atoms all the time
You can try to keep your breath and after two minutes you will acknowledge that not only do you have to take in new atoms all the time
But you also have to take in atoms which is the shit of all the organisms because oxygen is just shit of plants
So you have to do that all the time to survive the flow must go on
But then we have of course the problem that if we cannot get security from the depots the oil, coal and gas
Or the depot we have in our stomach I've calculated that if you have a 10 kilogram overweight you have calories enough to survive a month
So that's not really a very wise strategy if you want to survive you have to instead trust your environment
And go into the world and find food that's a much better strategy than to depend on the flows
If you want to find food for the 9 billion people that will be on this planet in a few decades
We have to find a strategy that allows us to do this
And the strategy we should take an interest in is the strategy of the wild, of the wilderness
Why not eat what's already there instead of trying to control the surface of the planet
The wild stuff is it edible? Well people used to eat a lot of wild stuff but is it edible?
The big question is is there wild food? Is there perennial plants that we could depend on?
Could we replant the earth? Could we start using what's already there for its own reason instead of trying to control all the time
We have to ask simple questions like how much wild food is there in the world
I've asked a lot of people working in different areas like botany or animals or ethno botany and so on
How much wild food is there in the world? I did so for a book last year and the question was nobody knows
It's very simple, nobody has any idea how much wild food there is on this planet
All we know is that if we didn't cultivate the planet, if we didn't try to have agriculture
The bioproductivity will go up 10% but most of it wouldn't be edible, it would be like trees
But then how do you know trees are not edible?
We have biochemists and stuff today that we didn't have earlier
10,000 years ago we made the simple choice to eradicate what was going by itself by plowing
And instead introduce a very few plants
Was that a wise decision? Were they well informed when they did that decision?
Well of course they were stone ages, they didn't have the apparatus of chemistry
The skills of the gastronomers, of the chefs that we have today
Who says that you cannot eat what's there all by itself?
In the hunter-gatherer society you had many many kinds of plants and animals you ate
They were based on solar power and life we know from anthropological studies was healthy
In agriculture you have a very few plants all driven by solar and a lot of human power
Hard work in industrial agriculture, the modern agriculture, it's all basically corn
It's all basically one plant almost and it's driven by fossil means
And the health state of the people who eat it is not very good
So we have somehow to go back to what I could call a high-tech stone age
Rediscover the wild and make the wild edible through modern methods
We need a lot of stuff here, we need another approach to nature
Because the wild in terms of language comes from the word will
To be wild means to have its own will as opposed to the tame, the cultivated
Which has our will, which we control, the wild is what wants to be there on its own
What's there when there's no human project in between the human projects and the human fields
You could say that the wild grows in the no man's land where there's no human agricultural project
The wild is sort of the generosity of nature, the surplus of nature
And there is a reason that no man's land has the same starting as restaurant Noma
When they called restaurant Noma, Noma they thought it meant Nordic mal, Nordic food
But actually it meant no man's land, they just didn't know because they were wild in their mind
So as my final tribute to you and to gastronomy and to Noma
What is it really all this stuff is about? What is this tent with this rain falling?
What is this group of people doing? Why are we here today?
We're here today because we are gastronauts
We're not astronauts who have been to the moon eating out of a tube and shitting in a bag
We're gastronauts and we have a fantastic mission
This tent is a spaceship that just landed on this planet
This is the planet where we are natives, where we started off
Ten thousand years ago we've been on this long, long civilization traveling through the galaxy
And now we are coming back with one burning question
Is the world outside this tent friendly?
Is the earth edible? Is there something we can rely on?
Or do we have to take these tubes of freeze-dried food with us out into the space outside the tent?
Is this planet friendly to us?
Can we trust the planet? Can we go out there and go with the flow?
Do we need to have a meal box with us or is there plenty out there?
That is the real question and we need your skills, we need your curiosity
Your brilliance in preparing your stuff to answer this question
We need you to go out there and research the planet
Look at the planet again, respect the planet, means the same
Look at the planet again and restore the state of the planet and the state of human health
Through finding all the good stuff out there
And as you know, to restore, that's a word that developed into another word of a place where you restore people
A place where you work, a restaurant is a place to restore the planet, to restore people
And you have a mission which is not to feed the rich guys with some new variation on potato
You have a mission which is rediscover this planet
And that's why you landed on this spaceship looking like a tent
And of course, this is not the Noah's Ark where he went when the rain came and the floods came in
and just ran away with a few animals
No, no, no, this is the Noah's Ark where you come back to the planet with a lot of skilled astronomers
to go out and say, we are the natives of this planet, we belong here, the planet needs our shit
And we come back now to feed on the wild and we are proud to do so
And I thank you for being with us on this show
