Hope in a Changing Climate—John Liu at Geography of Hope

Thank you for posting. I think this video shows a crucial problem for the humanity to survive on this planet.

Life out of balance, Fukuoka spoke of it decades ago, as John has said. We can learn from nature and return to the rhythm. It is still there.

John Liu zorgt  met met zijn filmpjes voor de oplossing van het WERELDVOEDSELPROBLEEM. Ik werk hier graag aan mee door verspreiding van zijn boodschap.

amazing :) inspiring, creed must be cleaned, more people must not only listen but also hear ,,,,

Did you hear that he basically said that the seed and chemical companies were a big part of the problem. Monsanto, the seed and chemical company. Put it together.

taiwanjohn88 made a thoughtful comment (below).  Thumbs up! 

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Agrarians - farmers, ranchers, pastoral herders, truck farmers, veggie growers - agricultural operations of all sizes are - are under multiple pressures to practice 'extractive', degenerative farming.  One of them is the pressure to produce enough to not only feed their families, and participate in the 'goods & services' economy, but also to pay taxes.  Historically,  pastoral and other migratory societies were able to live in a reasonable equilibrium with the eco-systems that sustained them.  The move to staying in one place has created significant pressure on eco-systems - but made it easier for governments to track, conscript (draft), and tax the people.

@31m: I'm surprised he doesn't have an answer to this question. It's pretty simple really, just a matter of education. Permaculture techniques are more productive and less expensive than "green revolution" ways. Who wouldn't want that on their own "private" land? From a policy standpoint, the US gov't controls millions of acres of "desertified" rangeland. Just opening up this land to intensively managed grazing would re-green the desert and sequester vast amounts of CO2. watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

Humans = Pollution  may be true, but has only been true for the tiniest fraction of human existance.  Humans are a part of nature, and were a part of the mosaic of life on earth.  Life was not without challenges, but as other animals thrive in a balanced, functioning habitat, why can't humans also thrive as part of a balanced, functioning habitat aka eco-system?

The idea of no private ownership of land - as the Mongolians practice it, and as the American Indians practiced it (thought there was lots of warfare, maintence of territory and 'face'...) is suductive.  However, private ownership of land does NOT neccesarily equal land abuse or degredation.  There is a strong tradition of land stewardship among private land owners in America (and elsewhere in the world).  The Loess plateau was damaged so badly for so long partly because NO ONE owned it.  With no ownership, each person tried to get what they could from that land - before someone else got it. Which is what the huge multi-national corporations are doing with resouces around the globe today - including mining, logging, and otherwise exploiting and degrading the lands of indigenous people - and sanctioned by the governments (which get a cut, of course.)  For a sad example, see Liu's 'A Steppe Ahead'.  BLM lands are greatly degraded from the condition they were in when they began management.  The huge forest fires in the USA that have put massive amounts of carbon and massive amounts of even more damaging pollutants into the air mostly took place on government owned and managed lands. The conservation efforts Liu mentions done by the CCC have, (other than a few signs at some parks, etc) - have largely been undone:  windbreaks planted across the midwest have been removed, swales are gone or unused in isolated desertified areas deeply damaged by groundwater irrigation... 

How to make an ecological economy matter to Americans and private land ownership? Tax everyone in the country with an environmental usage fee, which cannot be deducted. Meanwhile all landowners with wetlands, lakes, and forests are given an environmental tax credit. Private acreage is calculated and this credit is paid out based on the size of the privately owned ecologically beneficial areas. This causes farmers and businesses to actually preserve and create wetlands rather than drain them and turn them into fields or parking lots, because they can make enough or possibly even more income from the wetland in its natural state than from growing cash crops on the land or building a shopping mall.

Lets build the garden of eden again.

Banning the use plants - and even the knowledge of how to use plants - to both prepare for, and TIME THE SPACING OF CHILDREN  by women that was once common knowledge in all indigenous cultures is just one instance of a re-occuring theme.  When considering the deep root causes of land and environmental degradation around the world... the consolodation of 'power' by controlling other people is a major re-occuring theme.  Examples incude putting American Indians* on reservations instead of allowing them to continue their free-roaming life, for instance; slavery is another.