Also I really appreciate that you list all your sources, so many youtubers just expect you to trust everything they say at face value which makes me suspicious of them. Listing lots of sources makes you way more credible
That's not even close to all, just some of the ones I thought you guys would find interesting to peruse. But I get it! I'm always so curious to see where people learned they stuff the make the videos about
would be even more cool if someone actually tries to use those sources and gives us a little more feedback about them, like for a class project or something.
@@Claudia-AyusoI second this! It’s also very helpful for those of us in school who want to use TH-cam as a launch point for research. Amazing video thanks for your contributions ❤
yea, instead of those ex-vox guys (and cleo) who mostly just repeat tired western technocrat ideas, while being funded by western technocrats. you should do a reaction to cleo abrams' puff piece on "modern farm tech" where she straight up gushes about john deere who sponsored her.
I grew up on Vancouver Island (that big oblong land mass in the thumbnail) and honestly it's deeply troubling how much Indigenous knowledge in that region is being neglected, if not altogether lost. People have lived around the Salish Sea for _thousands_ of years, but in the past few hundred it feels almost like there's been an explicit attempt to undo all the work they put into managing the land and cooperating with the natural world in that region. Thank you for bringing attention to these things, on behalf of my friends back home
It feels like I read a semester's worth of research papers in one video. This is such a crucial issue and it makes it clear just how dire it is that we implement more sustainable land management into our agriculture systems. Thank you so much for sharing!
I ultimately think our relationship to our resources took a hard turn when our paradigm became shaped by "end times" thinking. No longer did we seek a way to nurture sustainability, instead content with exploiting it for what it could maximally produce TODAY. Our ancestors worked to cultivate the growth that we descendants have simply chosen to harvest for ourselves, and damn the future generations, because we've been conditioned to think the Apocalypse is just around the corner. It is with your kind of smart optimistic enthusiasm, Claudia, that maybe we can change this Paradigm.
The cultural 'norm' of supporting economic 'elites' as richly as they can extort is what will prevent a solution. Those kind of people would charge a fee for a seat on a lifeboat.
About the Dust Bowl: Bill Mollison is the co-originator of the Permaculture concept and traveled far and wide in the 70's 80's and 90's. He told a story of meeting a woman who was young when the dust bowl happened. She said: "The biggest mistake was when we put the 9th horse on the plow. Because before that we couldn't pull a plow through this dense rootmass of the prairie grasses. But with the 9th horse it was like the sound of undoing giant zippers. It just ripped through them." (paraphrasing from memory here) Imagine that. People tried to replace native grasslands with agriculture and got kicked in the teeth by nature.
I can't tell you how much I look forward to your videos! It made my morning when I got the notification you posted. Thank you for brightening up my day with your positivity. I can tell how much effort you put into your videos, you are greatly appreciated
This is a wonderfully made video! On a subject that’s so important but rarely addressed 😃 The Native American, like so many indigenous cultures, were truly incredible in their understanding of land and their role in it. We can have such a wonderful society if we shifted to this mindset again 🙌
Looks so well made, saw the thumbnail and thought "oh I don't know this creator but the thumbnail is giving quality content vibes, let's give it a shot" then realised how small of a creator you are (no offense) and was happy thinking I might have found a gem in the making! Only a few minutes in to the video rn (paused so I can write a hopefully encouraging comment) but my confidence in you and this video/channel is high! Already subbed! Edit: Small creator, much bigger than I thought, learned more after looking you up!
Unfortunately, in a country like the United States, working together for the common good would be called 'socialism' and would be polically demonized. The powers that be only believe in the 'freedom' for a few individuals or corporations to own, exploit, pollute and discard as many resources (including land) as possible.
I love your video style and passion you have for the topics you talk about. As I'm currently working on world building for my project your videos are very useful - my race will definitely have few clam gardens now. Already curious what's your next video will be about. And I can say with your approach you would be an amazing author, the world building would be top notch.
Super respectable and easy-to-follow academic educational content. You know when there’s a certain concept you know of, or “understand”, that not everyone knows of or understands, but then when someone perfectly adheres to one of those concepts, you get a super satisfying and “clear” or “awake”feeling - the charisma and pacing of this video is like an amalgamation of that.
Dios! Vi tus otros videos y estaba seguro que te había visto en algún lado. Vi esté y dije, dale, vamos a buscar. Ro en la Red, Curricé, Jpelirrojo, que recuerdos. Me llevaste de nuevo a una epoca muy bonita de mi vida. Gracias! Un placer encontrarnos de nuevo y ansioso por ver lo que vayas a ir sacando, incredible content so far!
i was thinking of that new info on the amazon as i started watching this! like with the discovery of towns cities and roads, and the soil they managed to create. as someone who just gardens more casually, it really feels like native ways of managing the environment are so under-heard and not as known as they should be. reminds me i gotta look into how my local area was treated, because the least i can do is start locally. like honestly even the coastal rocks idea has so many uses like stabilizing coasts as well
The enthusiasm is very contagious and the knowledge extremly interesting. Thank you for putting in so much work into these individually crafted videos. This is high quality educational content.
This style and theme of video is endlessly interesting to me :') I knew this one was gonna be good (TwT) I also really appreciate that you consider indigenous perspectives on this ! I can't wait to read more on this subject!!
Such an incredible video - well researched, such an important topic, and high quality presentation! You've earned my subscription and i really hope others do too, because what you're saying is what everyone should be listening to.
you could do another on food waste! 50% reduction sounds like a lot, and I think its got statistics similar to recycling where there is small scale (like in your home) stuff to improve, but a lot is very large scale and people don't know much about. Id be curious if there is a similar wealth of native knowledge on how to do that better too
the whole controlled burning concept is also used in australia by the indigenous people (and is now picked up by some councils as it is very beneficial for the ecosystem as you explained)
Great video. I am a terraformer who has been working in Egypt on a project to turn the Sahara green. I incorporate some of the ancient terraforming techniques from around the world. I am aware of how the South Americans created the Amazon, and I was in Peru studying the ancient Inca water harvesting structures. But I did not know about the loxiwe. I will now add that to my studies and practices, thanks to you . By the way, I discovered an amazingly simple terraforming technique that the Inca's developed that turned the desert mountains into grass and tree covered landscapes for over a thousand years. The structures are still there. I can discuss this with you, if you like.
This video and your whole series are amazing. It's so cool to learn about all the ways that humans have altered the earth other than just building cities for themselves. I'm gonna go down an internet rabbit hole about amazon floodplains since you managed to get me just as excited about them as you are. I'm really looking forward to seeing where you take this series, there are so many stories to be told!
Great to see more people talking about this. Indigenous Australians also used fire to tune the landscape, in particular to encourage the kangaroos population. This is in fact is a form of open range farming. The practice also improves wider biodiversity and helps reduce the chance of large destructive fires. A hearty like and sub. 😎au.
Very good video, but a big correction... The American Great Plains were burned by frequent fires long before Natives even crossed from Eurasia. While it's true that natives did ignite fires intentionally, their fires were much less frequent and large than those caused by lightning, etc. and they were only recreating natural processes. All those grass species do well only because they have evolved for millions of years to thrive under the frequent burns that occurred in the Great Plains. Natives likely noticed that grasses, especially flowering ones, bloomed after fires and simply reproduced that (likely during times they knew fires wouldn't burn as out of control). edit: also the goal of burning grasslands isn't to get rid of weeds. What we refer to as weeds are often nutrient dense fire dependant species that do extremely well in grassland environments frequented by fires.
It seems strange to only offhandedly hint at the insane productivity of high intensity farming. What percentage increase of landmass and labor would be required to shift to these older, more sustainable methods? What was the reason the British proposal failed? I honestly don't know, but it seems to be extremely pertinent to the core tenants of your channel. Do these ancient techniques scale up to an efficiency that can support our modern populations or are they more of a niche form of habitat management?
Per the British proposal it's not about removing all of the intensive farming systems it's about changing parts to less-intensive systems so that we don't crash the ecosystem in ways we can't see yet - that's why silent spring and the current insect collapse are good examples
Likely won't scale and would be more labor intensive. Maybe if we get advanced robotics, we can actually just have food forests and the bots would harvest crops as they ripen at different times of the year without damaging the permaculture.
productive farming isn't efficient farming. here in the USA we have highly productive farms covering the vast majority of the great plains and grow corn and soy beans mostly for livestock and ethanol and vasious other products not consumed directly as food. this is productive and makes a lot of money, but one of the least efficient ways to feed people. each acre of land produces a lot of agricultural product, and makes a lot of money, but a very small amount of food for people. the demand for year round produce means we mostly grow food (I mean produce specifically) for human consumption in the arid areas in the southhern USA or just import it from south America . the land in the USA, as in much of the rest of the world, is managed with the goal of making as much money as possible not to feeding people or sustaining land for the future.
1:15 / 2:10 - that's a great illustration, and a _very_ good point about asking the locals; even if they don't know, it only takes a few hours _and_ it gets them involved in the research. It's also a great aquaculture system. Planet Wild has a video out (17 Nov 2024) about putting statues and hollow blocks offshore to prevent illegal trawling along the Italian coast. Similar, but different; might be complimentary to put blocks further out from clam gardens, but you'd need to ask someone who understands the ecology and hydrology about the interactions and compatibility.
Hi Claudia! Your content is great and your passion is contagious! Could you point to where you draw the techniques applied by the bolivian indigenous people at 12:34? Sorry to be annoying! I knew about black soils in the Amazon, but had never heard about the zigzag structures or the fish ponds / hunting.
Really good video, well communicated. You may have already come across some of his work since you have an interest in the area but I would recommend looking into Liam Youngs work. He is a conceptual storyteller focusing on the built environment and has some great work in the area of. Keep up the high quality videos
Farming is not the enemy, before the 1920s farming worked with the land. It was during the 1930s and especially post WWII where massive chemical corporations needed new outlets for war chemicals. Supermarket seed oils started out as machinery oils for armaments. Fertilizers, herbicides, and bug sprays came from weapons research. They had to market to farmers all 'the benefits' of this new way to farm to convince them to abandon older methods. Now many farmers have lost the older ways, but some are relearning Regenerative Agriculture. The other big factor more worrying is that many farms, being nice flat clear cut land, are perfect conversions to housing developments. There are more acres of monoculture lawn grass grown with heavy fertilizers, herbicides, and bug sprays applied at rates farmers can never afford along with prodigious quantities of water on old farmland. Lawn grass acres exceed food production acres in the US by a wide margin. Focus on ways to get suburban homes to install their own food forests and gardens. Massive solar projects are converting farms as well, taking food production offline.
I love your videos! They give me so much hope for the future and the rest of the world! J'adore tes vidéos! Ils me donnent tellement d’espoir pour l’avenir et le reste du monde!
The Coast Salish people also worked to expand berry patches. It's pretty simple, but the results can be impressive. :) And it's for different reasons, but you'll also see rocks lined up perpendicular to the beach, where they made channels that were better for beaching their canoes.
Great video and meticulous research put into that! I just wanted to add one other important point to feed our human populations in the present and future: Redistribution! After all, famines in the past have often not been caused by shortages in the overall supply, but by shortcomings in equal distribution...
There's a lot of parallels with Australian Aboriginal agriculture and aquaculture here. Rock barrier fish traps and pippy beds, fire rejuvenation of bush and grassland for kangaroo hunting, water traps in floodplains to extend growing and bird seasons, etc. There's a lot to learn from people around the world. And honestly, you could do a lot of these things on a pretty reasonable but responsible scale considering the technology and infrastructure we now have.
I am thoroughly enjoying your channel as always learn a lot from the video. My only issue with this video is it feels shorter than your other video's and pacing felt rushed a bit. But overall another great video.
Firstly, thankyou for your video and research, Claudia =) We mine almost everywhere now, and leave trash to effect almost all water systems, so how will this feed people safely? Heavy metals from Bivalves/filter-feeders are not safe to eat in continuity. More needs to be done about cleaning up the mess we have made. Reducing mining etc to only areas that will not negatively effect water systems and retrieving and reprocessing land fill materials (safely and thoroughly as not to recontaminate the lands and waters). These are just some of the things we can start doing. We are massively capable and creative beings, we CAN align our living ways to be beneficial to all life.
Before we talk about feeding 10 billion people using the native American farming methods, I would like to know how many people were successfully fed by those practices in the past. If they couldn't generate enough food to sustain 25 million, expect them to be able to feed 400 times that many is a bit of a stretch.
these are some very interesting examples of indigenous tech, but i'm willing to bet there are hundreds if not thousands more examples out there, from all over the world. ofc, some of their plans may be underwhelming today, but we don't need to follow their plans exactly. say if we want to scale up those amazonian farming techniques, we can do so with different combinations of plants/wildlife, especially if we don't really need to hunt the game. i also recommend checking Andrew Millison if you're interested in more interesting farming improvements. he's got a long-term project in africa to help increase crop yields using very simple techniques, some of which i believe were inspired by ancients too.
The first Nations built fish traps, planted apples, Saskatoon berries and hazel nuts. I found out about this reading the Tyee. I also found about some groves near my home, which I will propagate. The pollen record is 7000 years ago these pollens showed up.
The INas figured it out for us: terraces. We should just terrace everything, and that alone will fix so many problems, and create so many abundant resources.
I used to worry about exponential population growth. But it seems like we will taper off naturally at some point, people have less o kids when living soft modern excessive lives. Want to keep more of it themselves. The problem is the ongoing increase in use per individual, there is no limit to greed. Billionaires demonstrate that the hunger is endless if you give your life to it, like a drug addiction. People gotta learn to see through it and voluntarily seek simple lives because they actually see it as a better, richer life than the excess approach. Time in the garden, hands in the soil, mind zooming in and out contextually and making connections between systems, can increase harmony and abundance of the system when in tune with it. Just thought about the language planetary ecologist Kynes taught the Fremen to deeply understand ecosystem regeneration. We could use something like that, some way to make it understandable and actionable by everyone. A bunch of shared stories around managing complex living systems. Haven't watched the video yet, paused at the begining to rant :)
Maybe you should take a closer look into „Permaculture“ a great system for agriculture ecosystem design with simple but effective and practical design principles. Developed by Bill Mollison & David Holmgren.
Anglo-saxon manorial farms were also indigenous land management systems as well as cultures in the fens ....this is not just exotic ... permaculture was also dreamed up in a university setting and is more of a teaching model than an affordable practicality
This is the idea that Bill Mollison had when he developed the "permaculture" farming methods. Unfortunately, people have twisted his ideas for their own profit and use the word where it shouldn't be used.
Great video, but I have a nitpick: no paper I've read claims to accurately assess conditions prior to native peoples' practices, so our (very rough at best) estimates of diversity in the past are "diversity after a substantial number of humans had already been living in the area AND while much of the surrounding landscape was still pristine." So while we know that some native practices were sustainable, we should be careful when inferring their impact on diversity today. This is an often neglected point: until the 20th Century most human-engineered landscapes existed WITHIN a biodiverse environment, and that biodiversity fed into farms. So clam and mussel farms can last for thousands of years, and the practices of indigenous Amazonians were sustainable, but the environment surrounding them wasn't a human-made deadzone. It's not fashionable to consider pre-industrial European agriculture sustainable, but there are farms in Europe that lasted for a thousand years because of the vast amount of natural reserves. So yes, there are sustainable practices and we should learn (I believe enforce) them, but we're in a deep hole and we shouldn't expect to climb up in less time that it took to dig down.
Mm, I think I disagree. Subsistence farming implies a European approach. Plowing, individual families, mono crop fields, etc. This is closer to wildcrafting. Which I agree, glamorized, to a degree. However, did you hear the UK plan? Mostly the same modern high yield agriculture. So... 🤷♂️
@raclark2730 Well, a subsidy is a wage that a governing body will pay a worker if their work doesn't profit them enough, maybe because there's not enough rain or if there's locusts, or whatever. Basically, the food has to made. So the people agree to support the attempt. Also, you know y'all can just google these definitions? Like, educating people is fun and all, but I'm literally just examining the definitions here. "Nuh unh, that's salubrious farming!" "No, it's stentorious farming!" "Right, salacious farming. That's what I said."
@@gillcaz Subsistence farming is a type of agriculture where farmers grow crops or raise livestock to meet the needs of their families and themselves, with little or no surplus for sale or trade. 5 second search and copy paste.
@raclark2730 Wow, five seconds! You must be great in bed. Critical reasoning is more important than knowing ctl+c and ctrl+v. For instance, you just quoted a super basic dictionary definition of subsistence farming --- but why? What's your point? What are you saying is that definition? My comment is, the other guys comment is, or the video is subsistence farming?
The gene revolution & green revolution are some of the greatest accomplishments in history. Hearing people say "monoculture" as if they're disgusted by our ability to produce more food for cheaper than ever... just wild
True, and the shear capacity to produce food is fundamentally important, _but_ the gene-tweaked monoculture systems tend to cause problems that aren't apparent in a pure cost basis, and can take years to unravel. e.g. silent spring back in the day, insect collapse now, soil fertility collapse that's _only_ propped up by energy intensive fertiliser. If marginally productive land can be farmed in a combined fashion then the _extremely_ productive monocultures can be kept without removing the buffers for us and for nature.
Also I really appreciate that you list all your sources, so many youtubers just expect you to trust everything they say at face value which makes me suspicious of them. Listing lots of sources makes you way more credible
That's not even close to all, just some of the ones I thought you guys would find interesting to peruse. But I get it! I'm always so curious to see where people learned they stuff the make the videos about
would be even more cool if someone actually tries to use those sources and gives us a little more feedback about them, like for a class project or something.
@@Claudia-Ayusopopulation IMPLOSION is occuring already... you're not even keeping up with PUBLISHED population data.
@@Claudia-AyusoI second this! It’s also very helpful for those of us in school who want to use TH-cam as a launch point for research. Amazing video thanks for your contributions ❤
The high quality videos feel like they are coming from a channel with millions of subscribers. Can’t wait to see this channel grow to that point!
Thank you 🥹
yea, instead of those ex-vox guys (and cleo) who mostly just repeat tired western technocrat ideas, while being funded by western technocrats. you should do a reaction to cleo abrams' puff piece on "modern farm tech" where she straight up gushes about john deere who sponsored her.
@@alveolatewe definitely need this information to counter John Deere, whose current goal is profit over people (their employees AND their customers).
I grew up on Vancouver Island (that big oblong land mass in the thumbnail) and honestly it's deeply troubling how much Indigenous knowledge in that region is being neglected, if not altogether lost.
People have lived around the Salish Sea for _thousands_ of years, but in the past few hundred it feels almost like there's been an explicit attempt to undo all the work they put into managing the land and cooperating with the natural world in that region.
Thank you for bringing attention to these things, on behalf of my friends back home
It feels like I read a semester's worth of research papers in one video. This is such a crucial issue and it makes it clear just how dire it is that we implement more sustainable land management into our agriculture systems. Thank you so much for sharing!
I ultimately think our relationship to our resources took a hard turn when our paradigm became shaped by "end times" thinking. No longer did we seek a way to nurture sustainability, instead content with exploiting it for what it could maximally produce TODAY.
Our ancestors worked to cultivate the growth that we descendants have simply chosen to harvest for ourselves, and damn the future generations, because we've been conditioned to think the Apocalypse is just around the corner.
It is with your kind of smart optimistic enthusiasm, Claudia, that maybe we can change this Paradigm.
So true! People don't care about earth when they think there's a heaven and that earth is evil or cursed instead of changeable.
The cultural 'norm' of supporting economic 'elites' as richly as they can extort is what will prevent a solution. Those kind of people would charge a fee for a seat on a lifeboat.
About the Dust Bowl: Bill Mollison is the co-originator of the Permaculture concept and traveled far and wide in the 70's 80's and 90's. He told a story of meeting a woman who was young when the dust bowl happened. She said: "The biggest mistake was when we put the 9th horse on the plow. Because before that we couldn't pull a plow through this dense rootmass of the prairie grasses. But with the 9th horse it was like the sound of undoing giant zippers. It just ripped through them."
(paraphrasing from memory here)
Imagine that. People tried to replace native grasslands with agriculture and got kicked in the teeth by nature.
Made me shiver
I recently learned about Permaculture and surprised that its not common knowledge!
@@BuildNewTownsit is interesting, and permaculture folks could learn much too, from studying indigenous cultural practices.❤
I can't tell you how much I look forward to your videos! It made my morning when I got the notification you posted. Thank you for brightening up my day with your positivity. I can tell how much effort you put into your videos, you are greatly appreciated
Awww! You made my day! This makes me so happy!!!!!! Thank youuu
Same!!!
This is so well-researched, written and edited. Love your show!
I love your editing! Its clear that you put a lot of work into it :)
Ah! That meas a lot!! It's team work with my editor and animator Sandy Paton :)
@@Claudia-Ayuso Definitely give them my props, it is on par with some much larger channels like Johnny Harris or Searchparty already!
Lots of info. Impressive work
Thanks Will!!
Excellent Content. Important Topics. Positivity. Thank you for your hard work!
This is a wonderfully made video! On a subject that’s so important but rarely addressed 😃 The Native American, like so many indigenous cultures, were truly incredible in their understanding of land and their role in it. We can have such a wonderful society if we shifted to this mindset again 🙌
I think this video is about to blow up. I'm being recommended this at 700-ish views
10k views now :)
Looks so well made, saw the thumbnail and thought "oh I don't know this creator but the thumbnail is giving quality content vibes, let's give it a shot" then realised how small of a creator you are (no offense) and was happy thinking I might have found a gem in the making! Only a few minutes in to the video rn (paused so I can write a hopefully encouraging comment) but my confidence in you and this video/channel is high! Already subbed!
Edit: Small creator, much bigger than I thought, learned more after looking you up!
So glad I found this video! Such hopeful stories like this and the greening of the Sahara are a real uplift in these often troubling times.
Unfortunately, in a country like the United States, working together for the common good would be called 'socialism' and would be polically demonized. The powers that be only believe in the 'freedom' for a few individuals or corporations to own, exploit, pollute and discard as many resources (including land) as possible.
I love your video style and passion you have for the topics you talk about. As I'm currently working on world building for my project your videos are very useful - my race will definitely have few clam gardens now. Already curious what's your next video will be about. And I can say with your approach you would be an amazing author, the world building would be top notch.
Super respectable and easy-to-follow academic educational content. You know when there’s a certain concept you know of, or “understand”, that not everyone knows of or understands, but then when someone perfectly adheres to one of those concepts, you get a super satisfying and “clear” or “awake”feeling - the charisma and pacing of this video is like an amalgamation of that.
Dios! Vi tus otros videos y estaba seguro que te había visto en algún lado. Vi esté y dije, dale, vamos a buscar. Ro en la Red, Curricé, Jpelirrojo, que recuerdos. Me llevaste de nuevo a una epoca muy bonita de mi vida. Gracias!
Un placer encontrarnos de nuevo y ansioso por ver lo que vayas a ir sacando, incredible content so far!
Jajaj! Omg! Holaaaaaaa!!
@@Claudia-Ayuso Jajajaja Holaa! Saludos desde Argentina y diría mucha suerte, pero con la calidad del contenido hasta ahora, no la necesitas.
I always love how well made(edition, info, storytelling) your videos are, amazing work!!
Super interesting topic, great investigation work, and nice editing! Also really appreciate the references. I'm definitely subscribing !
This was such an interesting topic. Loved your approach and the way you connected the parallels for all of those examples.
Thanks so much!
i was thinking of that new info on the amazon as i started watching this! like with the discovery of towns cities and roads, and the soil they managed to create.
as someone who just gardens more casually, it really feels like native ways of managing the environment are so under-heard and not as known as they should be. reminds me i gotta look into how my local area was treated, because the least i can do is start locally. like honestly even the coastal rocks idea has so many uses like stabilizing coasts as well
Loved learning about Loxiwe from this video!
The enthusiasm is very contagious and the knowledge extremly interesting. Thank you for putting in so much work into these individually crafted videos. This is high quality educational content.
Thank youuuu! :)
Thanks for the video! Extremely well researched and great topic. We need indigenous knowledge now more than ever!
This style and theme of video is endlessly interesting to me :') I knew this one was gonna be good (TwT) I also really appreciate that you consider indigenous perspectives on this ! I can't wait to read more on this subject!!
it's sooo fascinating to me, excited to dig more into it myself too
Thank you. Your videos bring attention to extremely important issues, keep doing what you're doing. :)
Such an incredible video - well researched, such an important topic, and high quality presentation! You've earned my subscription and i really hope others do too, because what you're saying is what everyone should be listening to.
Welcome! Thanks so much :)
The amount of views for this quality is ridiculous! How is this not in the millions?
you could do another on food waste! 50% reduction sounds like a lot, and I think its got statistics similar to recycling where there is small scale (like in your home) stuff to improve, but a lot is very large scale and people don't know much about. Id be curious if there is a similar wealth of native knowledge on how to do that better too
I love this channel. Everything you present is fascinating and novel to me and makes me love the planet. You are a breath of fresh air.
Love your videos! Appreciate all the work and integrity!
That guy around 2:00 was inspiring. An elder behaving as an elder. Passing on the wisdom they have held onto.
I really love this amazing and very positive content you are creating. Kudos!
thanks so much :)
the whole controlled burning concept is also used in australia by the indigenous people (and is now picked up by some councils as it is very beneficial for the ecosystem as you explained)
The editing is top-notch.
Great video. I am a terraformer who has been working in Egypt on a project to turn the Sahara green. I incorporate some of the ancient terraforming techniques from around the world. I am aware of how the South Americans created the Amazon, and I was in Peru studying the ancient Inca water harvesting structures. But I did not know about the loxiwe. I will now add that to my studies and practices, thanks to you .
By the way, I discovered an amazingly simple terraforming technique that the Inca's developed that turned the desert mountains into grass and tree covered landscapes for over a thousand years. The structures are still there. I can discuss this with you, if you like.
Love your vids!! The algorithm can be a fickle thing but your channel will pop if you keep it up
Love your channel, what a source of hope and inspiration!
Just found your channel! Love this, thanks for sharing
This video and your whole series are amazing. It's so cool to learn about all the ways that humans have altered the earth other than just building cities for themselves. I'm gonna go down an internet rabbit hole about amazon floodplains since you managed to get me just as excited about them as you are. I'm really looking forward to seeing where you take this series, there are so many stories to be told!
Great to see more people talking about this. Indigenous Australians also used fire to tune the landscape, in particular to encourage the kangaroos population. This is in fact is a form of open range farming. The practice also improves wider biodiversity and helps reduce the chance of large destructive fires.
A hearty like and sub. 😎au.
Very good video, but a big correction...
The American Great Plains were burned by frequent fires long before Natives even crossed from Eurasia.
While it's true that natives did ignite fires intentionally, their fires were much less frequent and large than those caused by lightning, etc. and they were only recreating natural processes.
All those grass species do well only because they have evolved for millions of years to thrive under the frequent burns that occurred in the Great Plains. Natives likely noticed that grasses, especially flowering ones, bloomed after fires and simply reproduced that (likely during times they knew fires wouldn't burn as out of control).
edit: also the goal of burning grasslands isn't to get rid of weeds. What we refer to as weeds are often nutrient dense fire dependant species that do extremely well in grassland environments frequented by fires.
Also I don't know why they only mention ashes. Fires also create biochar, which acts as a permanent soil amendment.
This is an amazing and inspiring video, I truly hope you go far with this.
Thank you so much!
Your 36,500th subscriber, I’m a bit late, but I’m happy I found this channel.
It seems strange to only offhandedly hint at the insane productivity of high intensity farming. What percentage increase of landmass and labor would be required to shift to these older, more sustainable methods? What was the reason the British proposal failed? I honestly don't know, but it seems to be extremely pertinent to the core tenants of your channel. Do these ancient techniques scale up to an efficiency that can support our modern populations or are they more of a niche form of habitat management?
Per the British proposal it's not about removing all of the intensive farming systems it's about changing parts to less-intensive systems so that we don't crash the ecosystem in ways we can't see yet - that's why silent spring and the current insect collapse are good examples
Likely won't scale and would be more labor intensive. Maybe if we get advanced robotics, we can actually just have food forests and the bots would harvest crops as they ripen at different times of the year without damaging the permaculture.
productive farming isn't efficient farming. here in the USA we have highly productive farms covering the vast majority of the great plains and grow corn and soy beans mostly for livestock and ethanol and vasious other products not consumed directly as food.
this is productive and makes a lot of money, but one of the least efficient ways to feed people.
each acre of land produces a lot of agricultural product, and makes a lot of money, but a very small amount of food for people.
the demand for year round produce means we mostly grow food (I mean produce specifically) for human consumption in the arid areas in the southhern USA or just import it from south America .
the land in the USA, as in much of the rest of the world, is managed with the goal of making as much money as possible not to feeding people or sustaining land for the future.
First Nations on the BC coast only had to work 9 weeks out of the year for food and shelter. They worked at art the rest of the time.
Another great Video, I hope this channel will blow up soon! Greeting from Germany
Thank you very much!
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1:15 / 2:10 - that's a great illustration, and a _very_ good point about asking the locals; even if they don't know, it only takes a few hours _and_ it gets them involved in the research.
It's also a great aquaculture system.
Planet Wild has a video out (17 Nov 2024) about putting statues and hollow blocks offshore to prevent illegal trawling along the Italian coast. Similar, but different; might be complimentary to put blocks further out from clam gardens, but you'd need to ask someone who understands the ecology and hydrology about the interactions and compatibility.
Hi Claudia! Your content is great and your passion is contagious! Could you point to where you draw the techniques applied by the bolivian indigenous people at 12:34? Sorry to be annoying! I knew about black soils in the Amazon, but had never heard about the zigzag structures or the fish ponds / hunting.
Thanks!! The study is in the description, there’s a few more sources you might find interesting too
You’re doing such important and inspiring work! Thank you!
Thank you for making this video ❤
Really good video, well communicated. You may have already come across some of his work since you have an interest in the area but I would recommend looking into Liam Youngs work. He is a conceptual storyteller focusing on the built environment and has some great work in the area of. Keep up the high quality videos
Farming is not the enemy, before the 1920s farming worked with the land. It was during the 1930s and especially post WWII where massive chemical corporations needed new outlets for war chemicals. Supermarket seed oils started out as machinery oils for armaments. Fertilizers, herbicides, and bug sprays came from weapons research. They had to market to farmers all 'the benefits' of this new way to farm to convince them to abandon older methods. Now many farmers have lost the older ways, but some are relearning Regenerative Agriculture. The other big factor more worrying is that many farms, being nice flat clear cut land, are perfect conversions to housing developments. There are more acres of monoculture lawn grass grown with heavy fertilizers, herbicides, and bug sprays applied at rates farmers can never afford along with prodigious quantities of water on old farmland. Lawn grass acres exceed food production acres in the US by a wide margin. Focus on ways to get suburban homes to install their own food forests and gardens. Massive solar projects are converting farms as well, taking food production offline.
Gracias por tu increíble trabajo ❤ Gracias por hacernos ver la esperanza que queda y el (salvaje) camino que nos queda por recorrer.
uff, amo como lo has dicho!
This breaks my heart. What have we done!?
I love your videos! They give me so much hope for the future and the rest of the world!
J'adore tes vidéos! Ils me donnent tellement d’espoir pour l’avenir et le reste du monde!
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The Coast Salish people also worked to expand berry patches. It's pretty simple, but the results can be impressive. :) And it's for different reasons, but you'll also see rocks lined up perpendicular to the beach, where they made channels that were better for beaching their canoes.
"humans are pernicious to the planet--yes, we can be, but also be the opposite!" ✨let us be custodians✨(love this video so much🩷)
Let's!!!
i really hope your channel takes off in a big way
Great video and meticulous research put into that!
I just wanted to add one other important point to feed our human populations in the present and future: Redistribution!
After all, famines in the past have often not been caused by shortages in the overall supply, but by shortcomings in equal distribution...
Thank you again for you work!
There's a lot of parallels with Australian Aboriginal agriculture and aquaculture here. Rock barrier fish traps and pippy beds, fire rejuvenation of bush and grassland for kangaroo hunting, water traps in floodplains to extend growing and bird seasons, etc.
There's a lot to learn from people around the world. And honestly, you could do a lot of these things on a pretty reasonable but responsible scale considering the technology and infrastructure we now have.
You're such a great speaker! Are you interested in giving lectures on subjects like sustainable development?
thanks!!
I am thoroughly enjoying your channel as always learn a lot from the video. My only issue with this video is it feels shorter than your other video's and pacing felt rushed a bit. But overall another great video.
Thanks for the feedback! I was playing around with a shorter format but I did feel kind of similar. Will keep it in mind for the future
Was reading a lot of these in my anth undergrad
Glad to hear it's catching on with folks
Let's find the people who we can do this work with
Firstly, thankyou for your video and research, Claudia =) We mine almost everywhere now, and leave trash to effect almost all water systems, so how will this feed people safely? Heavy metals from Bivalves/filter-feeders are not safe to eat in continuity. More needs to be done about cleaning up the mess we have made. Reducing mining etc to only areas that will not negatively effect water systems and retrieving and reprocessing land fill materials (safely and thoroughly as not to recontaminate the lands and waters). These are just some of the things we can start doing. We are massively capable and creative beings, we CAN align our living ways to be beneficial to all life.
How cool is your animation of switching pictures and passing the projector! Do you have any tips?
Great video! Good job!
More of this please.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Tending the Wild by M Kat Anderson. Excellent book on the horticultural practices of native people of California.
Let's not harness Nature, but dance with her. What we engineer transforms us too.
Before we talk about feeding 10 billion people using the native American farming methods, I would like to know how many people were successfully fed by those practices in the past. If they couldn't generate enough food to sustain 25 million, expect them to be able to feed 400 times that many is a bit of a stretch.
these are some very interesting examples of indigenous tech, but i'm willing to bet there are hundreds if not thousands more examples out there, from all over the world. ofc, some of their plans may be underwhelming today, but we don't need to follow their plans exactly. say if we want to scale up those amazonian farming techniques, we can do so with different combinations of plants/wildlife, especially if we don't really need to hunt the game.
i also recommend checking Andrew Millison if you're interested in more interesting farming improvements. he's got a long-term project in africa to help increase crop yields using very simple techniques, some of which i believe were inspired by ancients too.
You are the next Johnny Harris! But make it 30x times better❤
dunno if that's possible but wooooow! thank you!
@Claudia-Ayuso 💝
pedazo de video y de research wow!!
This is the vibe
Thank you for you inspiring work. Is time to rekindle the embers of ancestral struggles and the alter-globalization movement :D
The first Nations built fish traps, planted apples, Saskatoon berries and hazel nuts. I found out about this reading the Tyee. I also found about some groves near my home, which I will propagate. The pollen record is 7000 years ago these pollens showed up.
Please come to the Pittsburgh area to experience the Rachel Carson Trail!
New Amazonia, New Eden 🌎 ✌
Greetings from South Georgia, North America,
New Amazonia, New Eden
The INas figured it out for us: terraces. We should just terrace everything, and that alone will fix so many problems, and create so many abundant resources.
Regarding your content. Banger after banger. Minister for future advancements!
Very good orator. You have a very engaging talking style. Also I learned something completely new which is rare. Este viejito ya sabe todo! 🙄
😂😂 thank you and I’m glad!
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11:22 At first I thought you saw a spider.. but I think that was just you not being able to hold in your excitement for the subject! 🤪
I used to worry about exponential population growth. But it seems like we will taper off naturally at some point, people have less
o kids when living soft modern excessive lives. Want to keep more of it themselves. The problem is the ongoing increase in use per individual, there is no limit to greed. Billionaires demonstrate that the hunger is endless if you give your life to it, like a drug addiction.
People gotta learn to see through it and voluntarily seek simple lives because they actually see it as a better, richer life than the excess approach. Time in the garden, hands in the soil, mind zooming in and out contextually and making connections between systems, can increase harmony and abundance of the system when in tune with it.
Just thought about the language planetary ecologist Kynes taught the Fremen to deeply understand ecosystem regeneration. We could use something like that, some way to make it understandable and actionable by everyone. A bunch of shared stories around managing complex living systems. Haven't watched the video yet, paused at the begining to rant :)
Maybe you should take a closer look into „Permaculture“ a great system for agriculture ecosystem design with simple but effective and practical design principles. Developed by Bill Mollison & David Holmgren.
Anglo-saxon manorial farms were also indigenous land management systems as well as cultures in the fens ....this is not just exotic ...
permaculture was also dreamed up in a university setting and is more of a teaching model than an affordable practicality
This is the idea that Bill Mollison had when he developed the "permaculture" farming methods.
Unfortunately, people have twisted his ideas for their own profit and use the word where it shouldn't be used.
What do you mean when you say "feed the world"?
Great video, but I have a nitpick: no paper I've read claims to accurately assess conditions prior to native peoples' practices, so our (very rough at best) estimates of diversity in the past are "diversity after a substantial number of humans had already been living in the area AND while much of the surrounding landscape was still pristine." So while we know that some native practices were sustainable, we should be careful when inferring their impact on diversity today. This is an often neglected point: until the 20th Century most human-engineered landscapes existed WITHIN a biodiverse environment, and that biodiversity fed into farms. So clam and mussel farms can last for thousands of years, and the practices of indigenous Amazonians were sustainable, but the environment surrounding them wasn't a human-made deadzone. It's not fashionable to consider pre-industrial European agriculture sustainable, but there are farms in Europe that lasted for a thousand years because of the vast amount of natural reserves. So yes, there are sustainable practices and we should learn (I believe enforce) them, but we're in a deep hole and we shouldn't expect to climb up in less time that it took to dig down.
Ten billion people is such a sobering number!
What you are advocating for is called subsistence agriculture and it's a lot less romantic than people think.
Mm, I think I disagree. Subsistence farming implies a European approach. Plowing, individual families, mono crop fields, etc. This is closer to wildcrafting. Which I agree, glamorized, to a degree. However, did you hear the UK plan? Mostly the same modern high yield agriculture. So... 🤷♂️
@@gillcaz That is subsidized not subsistence.
@raclark2730 Well, a subsidy is a wage that a governing body will pay a worker if their work doesn't profit them enough, maybe because there's not enough rain or if there's locusts, or whatever. Basically, the food has to made. So the people agree to support the attempt.
Also, you know y'all can just google these definitions? Like, educating people is fun and all, but I'm literally just examining the definitions here.
"Nuh unh, that's salubrious farming!"
"No, it's stentorious farming!"
"Right, salacious farming. That's what I said."
@@gillcaz Subsistence farming is a type of agriculture where farmers grow crops or raise livestock to meet the needs of their families and themselves, with little or no surplus for sale or trade.
5 second search and copy paste.
@raclark2730 Wow, five seconds! You must be great in bed.
Critical reasoning is more important than knowing ctl+c and ctrl+v. For instance, you just quoted a super basic dictionary definition of subsistence farming --- but why? What's your point? What are you saying is that definition? My comment is, the other guys comment is, or the video is subsistence farming?
😂😂😂 we don't need to stop farmers we just need to buy food differently
The gene revolution & green revolution are some of the greatest accomplishments in history. Hearing people say "monoculture" as if they're disgusted by our ability to produce more food for cheaper than ever... just wild
Ever studied why monocultures are an unstable configuration?
True, and the shear capacity to produce food is fundamentally important, _but_ the gene-tweaked monoculture systems tend to cause problems that aren't apparent in a pure cost basis, and can take years to unravel. e.g. silent spring back in the day, insect collapse now, soil fertility collapse that's _only_ propped up by energy intensive fertiliser. If marginally productive land can be farmed in a combined fashion then the _extremely_ productive monocultures can be kept without removing the buffers for us and for nature.
It also to the displacement of farmers in the developing world. Most of those people live in slums now.
This SHOWS US WHEN THE "GREAT FLOOD" Happened, it's said the GREAT CEDAR FOREST was CUT DOWN!
NOW WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE PROOF IT EVEN EXISTED, Beside all the tree stumps left behind.....a few of them, not all but definitely NOT MOUNTAINS
Intuition is I and I
Hola, me promociona Green Peace otra vez 😅
Not gonna lie, your beauty caught my attention... but stayed for the lesson