i wouldn't worry about livestock pandemics, because meat and milk production is one of the biggest reason for soil degredation and biodiversity loss :D but yeah I see your point
@@dertythegrower how would you eat without Monsanto? You realize that traditional methods of growing food would not work to feed everyone right? I'm curious what your genius mind came up with compared to all these people trying to grow food and feed people for a living.
@@Jake-bh1hm that is wrong. If everything from the ground up to the government will be worried about the nature and try to produce food only organic, we could easily feed the world's population and even more maybe 12 billion people. Nature can restore itself when we give it time and space. Substantial living would be the best
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 so you’re saying that you don’t have a solution to feed 8 billion people?? Other than what currently exists… I’m pretty sure everyone would love to eat organic foods grown without any pesticides. But currently no one can do this on a mass scale needed to feed billions
If you look out your front door you will see a lot of great soil wasted on a monoculture of green grass. Plant a native wildflower garden instead of that grass or even a vegetable garden and then you know where your food comes from.
Even a variety of plants will eventually denutrify the soil. You need animals to sequester nutrients and carbon back into the soil. Lack of giant wandering herds is destroying the soil.
Dr. Elaine Ingham is great then there is gardening in Canada TH-cam too. Don’t spread compost all over, dig down deep and put a bunch in one priority spot so it can start regenerating that soil. Make it aerobic, watch her videos on how to do it.
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431selling point. Stepping out your house and seeing hummingbirds, butterflies and other animals meandering about is peaceful and beautiful. I saw the same thing with native landscaping for front yards near my home. Those houses attracted all the animals, I have no doubt it increased their property value tremendously
80% of people in the world want their government to get active about climate change. Yet look at the lack of progress. Dictatorships don't give a damn about sustainable living.
"You are speradic, conflicted. Every situation is debated, every individual entitled to their own small opinion, You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness, it will be your undoing." 7 of 9
Urban agriculture is a solution! Dense food forests and permaculture orchards INSIDE the cities we live in! Use the rooftops of buildings, build coverings over parking lots and use those (plus collect solar - it will benefit the plants AND the solar cells work better with plants under them as the humidity from them keeps them cooler and more efficient) plus instead of mowing massive patches along highways, plant native wildflower species etc. Sprouting and microgreens are another great thing virtually ANYBODY can do indoors with some LED lights. Community gardens where people can rent spaces to grow their own plots of food is another very powerful tool that should be implemented at places like apartment buildings and parks that have large areas of grass that isn't doing anything. If it's a kids playground maybe not, but if the field sits empty like 90% of the time, turn it into raised garden plots. Also, VERY CRITICALLY,
Meanwhile, in Idaho, the state is forcing 640 farms, over half a million acres, to go dry this year. That's potatoes and cattle feed that won't exist anymore. It's one of our best water years in a decade. So why then? No one knows. The government seems to be creating this food crisis. They need it to happen.
what do you mean 'No one knows'? It's very well documented, even the farmer's news letters in the area discuss it in length.... It's telling that your first thought is 'there is no explanation and the government is evil'. For those curious on why this is happening, 'no one knows' is a BS answer, you can find the answer very quickly, but a very brief explanation goes like this: 1) In recent decades, Idaho water tables have not been replenished the way it used to. there are documented reasons for this. 2) there is literally a water war going on between several states up AND down stream that use the water, and despite several negotiations - no lasting agreements are made 3)Farmers in Idaho have been using more, and more water. Water provided by a natural system that only has a set amount of water (and as pointed out in #1, it isnt replenished fast enough) 4) This year is a great year for water in Idaho, its true, but the underlaying problem still exists: way too much water is being pumped out, meaning by the end of the year there will be no aquifer reserves. aka: no spare water. 5) If there is another drought in Idaho, which scientists say there will be - soon, AND farmers keep wanting to drain every drop of water - every single person in Idaho and in states down stream will face a crippling water shortage by next year. This means no filling swimming pools, no watering lawn, no golf course, no washing cars, no gardening, curtailed water use for showers and food. 6) conclusion: It is silly to purposely allow one or two industries to take all the regions water and leave absolutely nothing in reserve at the end of the year for the people living there. Ultimately, the state should pay the farmers most effected by this a hefty retirement package or innovation / retooling fund, because paying out $600 million to 20-30 farms is a LOT cheaper than lettings Idaho become a new dustbowl.
I know why, I live here, the fields are already sick, blight, scab, rot, these are the actual names, you can do a research of Viking Gold, none of the potatoes survied in the fields, But Huckleberry gold is new and doing very well. Thanks to advising a free and simple solution, stop watering, and that helps a lot. And Gardens come back.
The crazy thing is we just throw all our compost materials in the trash. Like think of it this way, that’s an energy input on your land, why you throwing it out? We could also be using those materials out in the desert!
It's not inherently human. It's the current system we have going that saps the environment of everything available. If people understood that, we'd be on a much better trajectory.
It's not already too late! And I am a nihilist 😅. We are on a bad trajectory right now but it's never too late to save a number of lives and reduce damage. We should be looking at damage reduction now.
Planting trees, spreading leaf fall, and regenerating grasslands are items to place on agendas across the nation. Reversal of desertification, has to become a global strategy that is prioritized.
It's crazy how many of the chemicals used in large scale industrial agriculture were invented and produced as weapons of war in the 1900s. Once the war was finished they declared war on the plants and insects. Money for corporations is the main reason our food is now grown with so many hazardous chemicals. The companies had to find a new market. 😢
Thank you for dumbing this down for the ecology-naive among us, ALL our human communities need to understand these basics, for us to begin to address these major life-sustaining issues. Much appreciated!
So as indivduals We can garden using permeculture... But the big fix is changing industrial farming to sustainable practices. Swales are great! Monocrops bad. Ltes fix this planet already!
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 sry. You can't grow food in peace - if your hood doesn't. you can't grow food - in rapidly changing climate. Hobby gardeners fail NOW!! Das Vorurteil, dass ein ostdeutscher mit hoher wahrscheinlichkeit afd gewählt hat - verzeihst du mir..? Die Statistik ist brutal :)
My small yard is overflowing with life especially around my raspberry plants. Planted 4 trees in last 7 years. Life needs more than vast fields of corn or wheat. Also, boring neighborhoods should be built on lands where deserted buildings are or once were. Reuse.
Deuteronomy 28. Deuteronomy 30. Governments harassing organic farmers and traditional small farms, governments denying fertilizers, governments closing down ranchers, governments denying water to Small farmers but not big corporate farms, Chinese buying big swaths of American farmland that could be used against American food needs. Georgia Guide Stones goals.
Regen farming, biodiversity, biodegradable, green energies, circular economy, UBI for climate and job crisis' management, reduction in human consumption of resources, reducing our dependency on plastic materials & our waste, and stop burning fuels into the atmosphere, are all needed today and going forward if we are serious about saving humanity and keeping what's left of our planet livable.☮❤
Here in the Niagara Region we are blessed with a very fertile stretch of land known as the greenbelt, This stretch of land is ideal for fruit orchards, vineyards, and crops... Too bad we are hard at work to tearing it all down to build subdivisions. we recently had 6,000 new houses built on prime agriculture land, and we get to complain as the price of all the fruits and vegetables grown locally skyrocket in price as they are imported from Mexico or the US.
You NEED to dig swales along the contours of a topographical map on hillsides. Pile up the soil that's dug on the downslope to build a burm. Plant trees, shrubs, and tall grasses in the burm. The roots will stabilize the burm and the swale will catch rainwater and reverse desertification and increase carbon capture. Make the running water crawl Make the crawling water creep Make the creeping water soak into the ground This charges the ground water. ALL soil needs to go under green cover for the microbial life to grow again. NO TILING! You're killing the microorganisms. #SaveSoil
Out in Colorado they’re paving over farmland as fast as they can turning the landscape into a suburban wasteland. I’m not saying humans don’t need homes but it might be a good idea to start looking into increasing density with low rise buildings 3 - 6 levels.
People are more than able to compost, grow their own food and care for live stock. I created plenty of my own fertile soil composting but I cant be self sustainable because of an HOA and the expectations to have green grass. We can fix most of our own problems if we get our hands a little dirty and all pitch in instead of waiting for one person to fix all our problems. The information is out there to teach yourself everything you need to know. We dont need Walmart, Costco, or the Government to fix this.
I can tell you the haber process over time, which is the artificial nitrogen in fertilizer, slowly acidifies the soil. I mean, we all know that all the farm land of the world has been exposed to multiple nuclear blast events and some of those radioactive particles that dispersed globally will persist for a few hundred more years. We know that 98% of the worlds rainwater is now contaminated with dangerous levels of PFA's and that has been shown to be impacting soil around the globe as well. As far as herbicides and pesticides go, I have heard stories of DDT lasting in the soil for decades. That subject and the resulting list is highly complex though, there is a vast number of chemicals used on crops throughout the world.
Unfirtunately the forces required to change the trajectory of desertification and biodiversity loss are beyond what we have at our disposal. It would require all governments to be on board with a complete overhaul of the economic system that needs material and economic growth in order to sustain it. And since that is incompatible with the biosphere, it will continue to collapse. I don't believe it will be planned.
The biosphere will be just fine as long as we don't try to "help". Coastal N. Africa where there is nothing but desert today, was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. Climate and ecology are always in constant change. Only we insist it remains static. We force rivers to stay in one channel and we try to prevent fires and climate adaption by wildlife, and are surprised when we get floods and huge wildfires.
Soil-less agriculture to the rescue. There's a 70,000 SF vertical farm in New Jersey, that grows vegetables, fruits, lettuce using no soil and the chefs from NYC rave about it.
Everyone can compost using red wigglers worms to rebuild your soil--I have clay soil that I have amended to usable organic soil with 50 fruit trees. Worms are the answer here with mulch and compost--
To add to this, vermicomposting is also apartment friendly! So, you can even do it to get "fertilizer" for a container food garden on a patio or other small space.
Here in the Interior BC Shuswap they decided to destroy the local wetlands. No riparian areas remain on the streams and lakes. Soil degradations, and cognitive dissonance goes along with that. Then they are widening the highway, making it a freeway with asphalt spiralling all over on top of agricultural lands. Car-culture Suburban Sprawl mind slog has taken hold. It’s ridiculous, but what can be done to stop the dystopian nightmare? Not much I figure.
Why does this reporter think that people watching this wouldn’t know what biodiversity means!?!? Hahaha. I had to back it up to see if I understood him correctly, thinking “no, that can’t be what he said “….. ETA: I watched a short documentary on the half moon gardens in Sahel and it really is fascinating how they are repairing the soil and pushing the desert back.
Governmental roles in improving classes mate crisis resilience requires citizens to comply. The distrust in Government currently being fomented in the U.S. is undermining this.
Americans are extremely distrustful of their government, and resistant to change. they will not handle climate change well, They've already turned it into a major political and cultural issue, somehow.
Most farmland humans currently use has always depended on fertilizers to be as productive as we want it to be. They immediately start talking about biodiversity and climate change without explaining what processes of land degradation they are referring to. Fear mongering piece.
There's a 70,000Sf Vertical farm in New Jersey than requires no soil. They grow vegetables, lettuce and the 5-star chefs in NYC rave about it, would prefer soil-less lettuce to lettuce grown in soil.
There are too many humans , i see land every year become developed . It needs to change. But it's so difficult because humans are so selfish and are afraid of changing for the future for the best .
It is incredible to me that people are still having kids!!! Look what they will be faced with: starvation and serious shortages of water combined with extreme heat. It’s the epitome of selfishness and irresponsible choices
That’s hilariously pathetic you think that way. People have had it so much harder in the past. These are just current challenges that human beings will find a way to get through. No need to bring other people down because you decided not to have kids.
He's talking about swales like they use in permaculture and regenerative farming practices or techniques. There's a video of these "half moons" being built in what looks like a desert and then you go back and they are a circle of green with the vegetation. But lotsa luck empowering women in these countries and the fact that they do the work isn't going to mean much.
Since there's a possibility of reversing this and there's a solution at hand, there's nothing to worry about. We'll let the women make mico dams and plants trees. Who needs dirty soil anyway when we have synthetic fertilizers and micro-nutrients? Chemistry is giving us a better way of life.
Too many people in the world. The only way to avoid problems like this is to actively have fewer kids. People don’t want to admit it, but it would help solve a lot of problems. And there’s no real benefit to having over 8 billion people in the world. It just makes everything worse.
i dont think we are overpopulated, yet. Your right though, there is no incentive to exceed 8 billion people. (other than for the major companies that are essential to our lives and need growth)
@@niagarawarrior9623 Obviously the permanent growth model of business can’t work over time with limited resources. Soil is a limited slowly replenishing resource, already very stressed. All land is quickly being developed, due to the growing population. Could write a book of reasons, but I’ll be surprised if this comment actually posts as is.
Allow free range cattle back into the wild and everything will return to normal. The giant herds of elk and bison in the US made it lush and green prior to their decimation and removal. Removing animals from the carbon cycle is destroying the environment.
P.S. Allan Savory's phony claims have been repeatedly de-bunked by science. Land almost always recovers better when you get livestock--and especially cattle--OFF of the land. Meanwhile, environmental research overwhelmingly demonstrates that vegan and vegetarian diets are by far the best for the planet.
Better zoning and land management policies would avoid arable lands to be paved and covered by shopping malls, we made /are making choices for profits first. Look at California, San Jose had one the largest fruit growing areas in USA just less than 40y ago. I saw a piece where beavers are reintroduced in the deserts, and what would you know, the deserts is greener a few years later. It does have to be based in huge technological investments.
Pollution is the cause but can be remedy through different choices such as creativity. Creativity being upgraded in the farming industry and utilizing science with cloning such as vegetarian products splicing others. Examples come from cloning sheep etc
We have been fighting to rid insects out of our fields in order to yield more or sometimes just it's disgusting to see creeping around. That's the beginning of inventing pesticides and with this our soils entering into the gradual degradation. What if banned these pesticides, will any woman willingly go in and cultivate her gardens?
"White Oak Pastures! " regardless of how they are raised, to save Earth's ecosystems, we must dramatically reduce meat and fish consumption (especially beef) and shift to plant rich diets. The math just doesn't work any other way because cattle are incredibly inefficient at turning land, water, and plant nutrients into calories and nutrients for humans. If everyone went vegan tomorrow, we would need 75% less land to feed the world, and could reforest and re-wild an area the size of North America plus Brazil. That would have massive benefits for restoring and healing ecosystems, helping biodiversity rebound on land and in the sea, reducing humanity's freshwater use by one third, reduce CO2 emissions, and sequester over 600 billion tons of CO2 in the ground, roots, and foliage of the re-wilded and reforested land. You can just look at the pictures on the White Oak Pastures website and see that if you got the cattle off those pastures, you could reforest that land, which would sequester WAY more CO2 than what they are doing now and wuld have WAY bigger benefits for helping biodiversity rebound on those acres. Take care.
This is one of the worst, most incoherent interviewees ever. He just has no idea how to listen to a question, and answer that question... Pleast vet these people before bringing them on air. Definitely don't highlight and post videos like this.
Egypt and Rome did it. Now west USA. The rivers and forests destroyed. The Spanish and Mexican law to send water to la and the delta meaningless and enslaved to support the la. Yet this is a hard issue due to history and native American and Mexican and all races mixed here and fought here against the southern politics.
There's a 70,000Sf Vertical Farm in New Jersey that requires no soil at all. The chefs of the 5 star restaurants buy it and they prefer the lettuce grown there than lettuce grown in soil.
@@michaelellringer5600 that’s great and all, but we need to be able to grow more than lettuce. Vertical farms are fairly limited in what they can grow.
@@michaelellringer5600 it’s not that they can’t grow other things already, it’s that it’s not economically feasible at all. The infrastructure and electricity it takes is enormous. Do you have any idea of the scale of farming? No one is going to be growing corn fields in an indoor vertical farm.
I personally congratulate to all world leader the UN and also the local goverment around the world you are done for the destruction of our ecosystem....mabuhay, hola😂😂😂😂😂😂
"You'll save the soil by putting the livestock back on it." That's the opposite of reality, and Allan Savory's claims have been repeatedly debunked. The best science shows that water retention and biodiversity recovery are generally far better if you get the cattle off the land. The best science also clearly shows that vegans diets are best for the planet (but vegetarian are close behind), in large part before you can use 80-90% less land to feed a person than if they are eating meat and dairy (and especially beef). That land you no longer need to feed the world can be re-wilded and reforested and become far more lush and biodiverse than it can become with livestock devouring the plant matter.
@@DCGreenZone "Used to be 30,000,000 or more bison on the plains, what did they eat." We have a lot more cattle, pigs, goats, and chickens than that to feed now in the US, and raising those livestock is THE leading cause of ecosystem degradation, moss of biodiversity, and depleted aquifers.
@@rayalexander411 a different way to phrase it for the pedantic among us could be ‘nobody below 40 will be dying of old age (except maybe the rich in their bunkers for a little while longer).’
10,000 views for the impending climate crisis. Meanwhile, 10M views for condemning the homeless and drug addicts 😂😂 I think we might deserve what we have coming 😂
8 Billion people is too few, we need 16 Billion people, 32 Billion people or best yet 64 Billion people because more wonderful people means more brilliant minds to solve problems.
Also, grazing small herds over wide areas creates soil fertility and, counter to assumptions, encourages the re-emergence of plant life preventing desertification. It seems counterintuitive but has been shown to actually be the case in the real world. We need more animals in areas at risk of desertification to prevent sterilisation of the land, add nutrients and kick start biodiversity. The animal dung also enables parched soils to hold on to more water.
Actually, the science is very clear that grazing so many livestock has been the most eco-destructive human activity ever for land ecosystems and other than having fewer children, switching to a vegan, vegetarian, or very low meat diet with no beef is the best thing most people can do to help save the Earth's ecosystems. Despite Allan Savory's repeatedly-debunked claims, grazing livestock promotes desertification and has been a main driver of desertification worldwide. In almost all cases, the land will recover faster and more completely if we get the cattle off of it.
Vertical farming is a thing, and it works very well. Using less labor, energy, space, pesticides and water to produce crops all year without worrying about weather. You could build one of these in the middle of a city!😲
@@MrChristianDT after a quick Google search and a bit of reading you could probably find out why. Verticals are a great option for urban areas, while greenhouses are better for areas with a bit more space.
There's a 70,000SF vertical farm in New Jersey that uses no soil at all. The chefs from NYC rave about it, they prefer produce not grown in soil, to produce grown in soil.
This is parallel to the selling of aquifer resources for irrigation of crops that won't grow without it... introduced exotic species in effect. Permaculture is the only form of agriculture that works with soil and water conservancy. check it out.
Those half moons are pretty good. Also methods like "FMNR" (from Tony rinaudo) and "holistic planned grazing management" (by Allan savory) can be great tools for just doing the first few steps and change the micro climate, soil and behavior in the area. The biggest benefit is also that locals can easily learn from it and building themselves a better base for the future. More good soil means better yields, and more water is stored in the ground means less damaging flooding and children can eat more and go to school. Nature is on our side when we just let it be
Less diversity of trees, plants, and wildlife, increases the risk of blights and livestock pandemics further reducing food supplies.
i wouldn't worry about livestock pandemics, because meat and milk production is one of the biggest reason for soil degredation and biodiversity loss :D but yeah I see your point
Yep you should go vegan if you care about any/all of those things!
Wow so maybe stop selling out to Monsanto lobbyists
Would help but the problem is different
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431No.. it isnt
@@dertythegrower how would you eat without Monsanto? You realize that traditional methods of growing food would not work to feed everyone right? I'm curious what your genius mind came up with compared to all these people trying to grow food and feed people for a living.
@@Jake-bh1hm that is wrong. If everything from the ground up to the government will be worried about the nature and try to produce food only organic, we could easily feed the world's population and even more maybe 12 billion people. Nature can restore itself when we give it time and space. Substantial living would be the best
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 so you’re saying that you don’t have a solution to feed 8 billion people?? Other than what currently exists… I’m pretty sure everyone would love to eat organic foods grown without any pesticides. But currently no one can do this on a mass scale needed to feed billions
If you look out your front door you will see a lot of great soil wasted on a monoculture of green grass. Plant a native wildflower garden instead of that grass or even a vegetable garden and then you know where your food comes from.
The planet is bigger than you think. Far bigger.
CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt... shows why
Don’t forget to harvest your rainwater and passively water your garden with the overflow
@@dertythegrowerbotany absolutely pays.
Even a variety of plants will eventually denutrify the soil. You need animals to sequester nutrients and carbon back into the soil. Lack of giant wandering herds is destroying the soil.
if only we actually knew how to farm in ways that replenish topsoi- oh wait we do we just dont do it 😂
Fact.. ❤
Permaculture.
Vertical farming www.ars.usda.gov/oc/utm/vertical-farming-no-longer-a-futuristic-concept/
They only don't do it because their goal is to control the food. If they control your food source, they control you.
Dr. Elaine Ingham is great then there is gardening in Canada TH-cam too. Don’t spread compost all over, dig down deep and put a bunch in one priority spot so it can start regenerating that soil. Make it aerobic, watch her videos on how to do it.
I’m in Colorado and I have a garden going you should see the wild life it brings. We are a desert.
what food do you grow without using fertilizer
What is your point of wildlife?
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431selling point. Stepping out your house and seeing hummingbirds, butterflies and other animals meandering about is peaceful and beautiful. I saw the same thing with native landscaping for front yards near my home. Those houses attracted all the animals, I have no doubt it increased their property value tremendously
@@everythingisfine9988 I don't understand what it means with "we are a desert"
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431wildlife brings back the soil
Humans are shockingly short sighted. It will be our undoing.
And somehow, the most shortsighted of us are the ones who most often end up in power 🤦♂️
80% of people in the world want their government to get active about climate change. Yet look at the lack of progress. Dictatorships don't give a damn about sustainable living.
"You are speradic, conflicted. Every situation is debated, every individual entitled to their own small opinion, You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness, it will be your undoing."
7 of 9
Urban agriculture is a solution! Dense food forests and permaculture orchards INSIDE the cities we live in! Use the rooftops of buildings, build coverings over parking lots and use those (plus collect solar - it will benefit the plants AND the solar cells work better with plants under them as the humidity from them keeps them cooler and more efficient) plus instead of mowing massive patches along highways, plant native wildflower species etc. Sprouting and microgreens are another great thing virtually ANYBODY can do indoors with some LED lights. Community gardens where people can rent spaces to grow their own plots of food is another very powerful tool that should be implemented at places like apartment buildings and parks that have large areas of grass that isn't doing anything. If it's a kids playground maybe not, but if the field sits empty like 90% of the time, turn it into raised garden plots. Also, VERY CRITICALLY,
Meanwhile, in Idaho, the state is forcing 640 farms, over half a million acres, to go dry this year. That's potatoes and cattle feed that won't exist anymore. It's one of our best water years in a decade. So why then? No one knows. The government seems to be creating this food crisis. They need it to happen.
what do you mean 'No one knows'? It's very well documented, even the farmer's news letters in the area discuss it in length.... It's telling that your first thought is 'there is no explanation and the government is evil'.
For those curious on why this is happening, 'no one knows' is a BS answer, you can find the answer very quickly, but a very brief explanation goes like this:
1) In recent decades, Idaho water tables have not been replenished the way it used to.
there are documented reasons for this.
2) there is literally a water war going on between several states up AND down stream that use the water, and despite several negotiations - no lasting agreements are made
3)Farmers in Idaho have been using more, and more water. Water provided by a natural system that only has a set amount of water (and as pointed out in #1, it isnt replenished fast enough)
4) This year is a great year for water in Idaho, its true, but the underlaying problem still exists: way too much water is being pumped out, meaning by the end of the year there will be no aquifer reserves. aka: no spare water.
5) If there is another drought in Idaho, which scientists say there will be - soon, AND farmers keep wanting to drain every drop of water - every single person in Idaho and in states down stream will face a crippling water shortage by next year.
This means no filling swimming pools, no watering lawn, no golf course, no washing cars, no gardening, curtailed water use for showers and food.
6) conclusion:
It is silly to purposely allow one or two industries to take all the regions water and leave absolutely nothing in reserve at the end of the year for the people living there.
Ultimately, the state should pay the farmers most effected by this a hefty retirement package or innovation / retooling fund,
because paying out $600 million to 20-30 farms is a LOT cheaper than lettings Idaho become a new dustbowl.
I know why, I live here, the fields are already sick, blight, scab, rot, these are the actual names, you can do a research of Viking Gold, none of the potatoes survied in the fields, But Huckleberry gold is new and doing very well. Thanks to advising a free and simple solution, stop watering, and that helps a lot. And Gardens come back.
Dig swales and grow food REGENERATIVELY.
The crazy thing is we just throw all our compost materials in the trash. Like think of it this way, that’s an energy input on your land, why you throwing it out? We could also be using those materials out in the desert!
Humans sure seem to love their vicious cycles!
It's not inherently human. It's the current system we have going that saps the environment of everything available. If people understood that, we'd be on a much better trajectory.
Yeah its not Humans its out of touch humans.
Unfortunately, it’s already too late… It’s like compound interest getting worse by the day… And I’m an optimist
It's not already too late! And I am a nihilist 😅. We are on a bad trajectory right now but it's never too late to save a number of lives and reduce damage. We should be looking at damage reduction now.
This isn’t a real thing happening. This is just fake news
Yeah we should've started the work in the 50 years ago, now we're done for
“Climate change” is all a government power grab. That’s it.
@@thisbarb exactly
Planting trees, spreading leaf fall, and regenerating grasslands are items to place on agendas across the nation.
Reversal of desertification, has to become a global strategy that is prioritized.
Time to hire people like me who work in solutions based Ecological design rather than fight every war on the planet. ❤
You underestimate the problem in many dimensions. Or Captain America 😂
"Solutions Based Ecological Design " Fancy title. Bet yer unemployed.
What do you think of biochar has a cure-all for soil degradation
You? ha, nah.
It's crazy how many of the chemicals used in large scale industrial agriculture were invented and produced as weapons of war in the 1900s. Once the war was finished they declared war on the plants and insects. Money for corporations is the main reason our food is now grown with so many hazardous chemicals. The companies had to find a new market. 😢
Time for the world to relearn how to grow food in partnership with nature
That would require our population to halve.
People are it needs more support.
WTF!!! Why aren't more people talking about this??
Permaculture and agroforestry are going to need to play a bigger role.
Maybe every one should go back to growing our own food.
Thank you for dumbing this down for the ecology-naive among us, ALL our human communities need to understand these basics, for us to begin to address these major life-sustaining issues. Much appreciated!
So as indivduals We can garden using permeculture... But the big fix is changing industrial farming to sustainable practices. Swales are great! Monocrops bad. Ltes fix this planet already!
Something else billionaires don't care about, they'll watch us all starve still believing greed is a trait not a sickness. 🙄
People are the problem, not only the billionaires.
You plant your own food and make good quality soil.
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 A really sweet trivialization of climate change
@@volkerengels5298 no why? The guy spoke about billionaires watching us starving....
@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 sry.
You can't grow food in peace - if your hood doesn't.
you can't grow food - in rapidly changing climate. Hobby gardeners fail NOW!!
Das Vorurteil, dass ein ostdeutscher mit hoher wahrscheinlichkeit afd gewählt hat - verzeihst du mir..? Die Statistik ist brutal :)
My small yard is overflowing with life especially around my raspberry plants. Planted 4 trees in last 7 years. Life needs more than vast fields of corn or wheat. Also, boring neighborhoods should be built on lands where deserted buildings are or once were. Reuse.
Please make this video go every where. This is life threatening.
Deuteronomy 28.
Deuteronomy 30.
Governments harassing organic farmers and traditional small farms, governments denying fertilizers, governments closing down ranchers, governments denying water to Small farmers but not big corporate farms, Chinese buying big swaths of American farmland that could be used against American food needs. Georgia Guide Stones goals.
Regen farming, biodiversity, biodegradable, green energies, circular economy, UBI for climate and job crisis' management, reduction in human consumption of resources, reducing our dependency on plastic materials & our waste, and stop burning fuels into the atmosphere, are all needed today and going forward if we are serious about saving humanity and keeping what's left of our planet livable.☮❤
At the same time we are losing our fertile land we are growing our population which is forecast to reach 10 billion at the same period.
Here in the Niagara Region we are blessed with a very fertile stretch of land known as the greenbelt,
This stretch of land is ideal for fruit orchards, vineyards, and crops...
Too bad we are hard at work to tearing it all down to build subdivisions.
we recently had 6,000 new houses built on prime agriculture land,
and we get to complain as the price of all the fruits and vegetables grown locally skyrocket in price as they are imported from Mexico or the US.
Raising ducks gives you both eggs, meat, and waste water perfectly fertilized for crops.
You NEED to dig swales along the contours of a topographical map on hillsides. Pile up the soil that's dug on the downslope to build a burm. Plant trees, shrubs, and tall grasses in the burm. The roots will stabilize the burm and the swale will catch rainwater and reverse desertification and increase carbon capture.
Make the running water crawl
Make the crawling water creep
Make the creeping water soak into the ground
This charges the ground water. ALL soil needs to go under green cover for the microbial life to grow again. NO TILING! You're killing the microorganisms.
#SaveSoil
Out in Colorado they’re paving over farmland as fast as they can turning the landscape into a suburban wasteland.
I’m not saying humans don’t need homes but it might be a good idea to start looking into increasing density with low rise buildings 3 - 6 levels.
this is 100% the case.
in most places, we need to start building upwards, or downwards, not sprawl outwards....
People are more than able to compost, grow their own food and care for live stock. I created plenty of my own fertile soil composting but I cant be self sustainable because of an HOA and the expectations to have green grass. We can fix most of our own problems if we get our hands a little dirty and all pitch in instead of waiting for one person to fix all our problems. The information is out there to teach yourself everything you need to know. We dont need Walmart, Costco, or the Government to fix this.
What amount of chemicals are leftover in US crops from previous years or decades? How do they affect today's crops?
I can tell you the haber process over time, which is the artificial nitrogen in fertilizer, slowly acidifies the soil. I mean, we all know that all the farm land of the world has been exposed to multiple nuclear blast events and some of those radioactive particles that dispersed globally will persist for a few hundred more years. We know that 98% of the worlds rainwater is now contaminated with dangerous levels of PFA's and that has been shown to be impacting soil around the globe as well. As far as herbicides and pesticides go, I have heard stories of DDT lasting in the soil for decades. That subject and the resulting list is highly complex though, there is a vast number of chemicals used on crops throughout the world.
not just the states...
A very valid question?
Urea 46 is not totally usable in the current season. It is only bioavailable in the next season.
As we spread human waste on our current farmlands and top soils…
This man, Martin Frick, is an excellent speaker. He is clear and direct
The all-time, best-selling book has been read by too few. Let's look at ourselves, and improve, but don't expect the masses to follow.
Unfirtunately the forces required to change the trajectory of desertification and biodiversity loss are beyond what we have at our disposal. It would require all governments to be on board with a complete overhaul of the economic system that needs material and economic growth in order to sustain it. And since that is incompatible with the biosphere, it will continue to collapse. I don't believe it will be planned.
The biosphere will be just fine as long as we don't try to "help". Coastal N. Africa where there is nothing but desert today, was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. Climate and ecology are always in constant change. Only we insist it remains static. We force rivers to stay in one channel and we try to prevent fires and climate adaption by wildlife, and are surprised when we get floods and huge wildfires.
Where I live they tear out trees so they can plant more corn. Government subsidized corn!
That's infuriating. Where I live they tear out the trees and build more houses that no one can afford to live in.
Government subsidized corn and then people found out how to make everything out of it. Corn sugar, corn oil, corn starch.
People just finding things out, we are cooked
Soil-less agriculture to the rescue. There's a 70,000 SF vertical farm in New Jersey, that grows vegetables, fruits, lettuce using no soil and the chefs from NYC rave about it.
Everyone can compost using red wigglers worms to rebuild your soil--I have clay soil that I have amended to usable organic soil with 50 fruit trees. Worms are the answer here with mulch and compost--
To add to this, vermicomposting is also apartment friendly! So, you can even do it to get "fertilizer" for a container food garden on a patio or other small space.
Here in the Interior BC Shuswap they decided to destroy the local wetlands. No riparian areas remain on the streams and lakes. Soil degradations, and cognitive dissonance goes along with that. Then they are widening the highway, making it a freeway with asphalt spiralling all over on top of agricultural lands. Car-culture Suburban Sprawl mind slog has taken hold. It’s ridiculous, but what can be done to stop the dystopian nightmare? Not much I figure.
Sad.
Sounds like they're trying to turn BC into Ohio.
#SaveSoil
The farming industry and cloning along with upgrades better resources.
The Industrial revolution did it... good job humans
Thanks to the west
Save Soil 🌳
Geo engineering. Landscape engineering. Agriculture bio dome construction. Rebuilding ecological infrastructure.
How many different indigenous communities said this would happen over the last, well since the beginning of mass agriculture? 🧑🌾
About 52 years to late
Why does this reporter think that people watching this wouldn’t know what biodiversity means!?!? Hahaha. I had to back it up to see if I understood him correctly, thinking “no, that can’t be what he said “…..
ETA: I watched a short documentary on the half moon gardens in Sahel and it really is fascinating how they are repairing the soil and pushing the desert back.
Is there more to this interview somewhere? ❤
Governmental roles in improving classes mate crisis resilience requires citizens to comply. The distrust in Government currently being fomented in the U.S. is undermining this.
The solution must be holistic and democratic.
Americans are extremely distrustful of their government, and resistant to change.
they will not handle climate change well,
They've already turned it into a major political and cultural issue, somehow.
Al are they still using food to make fuel? If there is lack of soil?
Greed. Thats why it’s happening.
Thats a lie America's bread basket has never been more fertile
Who paid you rockfellers
Most farmland humans currently use has always depended on fertilizers to be as productive as we want it to be. They immediately start talking about biodiversity and climate change without explaining what processes of land degradation they are referring to. Fear mongering piece.
There's a 70,000Sf Vertical farm in New Jersey than requires no soil. They grow vegetables, lettuce and the 5-star chefs in NYC rave about it, would prefer soil-less lettuce to lettuce grown in soil.
With the amount of killings you'd think soil'd be right rich
There are too many humans , i see land every year become developed . It needs to change. But it's so difficult because humans are so selfish and are afraid of changing for the future for the best .
China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Europe are all losing population, leaving rural ghost towns in their midst.
It is incredible to me that people are still having kids!!! Look what they will be faced with: starvation and serious shortages of water combined with extreme heat. It’s the epitome of selfishness and irresponsible choices
I couldn’t agree more
That’s hilariously pathetic you think that way. People have had it so much harder in the past. These are just current challenges that human beings will find a way to get through. No need to bring other people down because you decided not to have kids.
Those who have kids are taking them on holidays overseas, indulging them to a life style well not sustainable.
@@robertjamesonmusichow many do you have? We are parasites of the planet, let’s not create more.
@@robertjamesonmusicI agree with you
The end of this planet will be Swift almost overnight. We will feed on each other.
This is for all the homeowners, landowners and parents to figure out
I don't trust any of those cohorts. They've been the ones causing all the problems my entire life.
He's talking about swales like they use in permaculture and regenerative farming practices or techniques. There's a video of these "half moons" being built in what looks like a desert and then you go back and they are a circle of green with the vegetation. But lotsa luck empowering women in these countries and the fact that they do the work isn't going to mean much.
Since there's a possibility of reversing this and there's a solution at hand, there's nothing to worry about. We'll let the women make mico dams and plants trees. Who needs dirty soil anyway when we have synthetic fertilizers and micro-nutrients? Chemistry is giving us a better way of life.
I created a garden , you should too
Biodynamic farming methods!!
Either that or electrolytes, “it’s what plants crave”…
Too many people in the world. The only way to avoid problems like this is to actively have fewer kids. People don’t want to admit it, but it would help solve a lot of problems. And there’s no real benefit to having over 8 billion people in the world. It just makes everything worse.
i dont think we are overpopulated, yet.
Your right though, there is no incentive to exceed 8 billion people.
(other than for the major companies that are essential to our lives and need growth)
@@niagarawarrior9623 Obviously the permanent growth model of business can’t work over time with limited resources. Soil is a limited slowly replenishing resource, already very stressed. All land is quickly being developed, due to the growing population. Could write a book of reasons, but I’ll be surprised if this comment actually posts as is.
@@niagarawarrior9623 Literally causing one of the great mass extinctions…
Allow free range cattle back into the wild and everything will return to normal. The giant herds of elk and bison in the US made it lush and green prior to their decimation and removal. Removing animals from the carbon cycle is destroying the environment.
P.S. Allan Savory's phony claims have been repeatedly de-bunked by science. Land almost always recovers better when you get livestock--and especially cattle--OFF of the land. Meanwhile, environmental research overwhelmingly demonstrates that vegan and vegetarian diets are by far the best for the planet.
those days are gone, and will never return.
Wild herds could never survive a countryside full of cities, farms, and interstate highways.
@@niagarawarrior9623 we can do whatever we put our minds to.
"Nice....it will be like the road worior movie...."
Better zoning and land management policies would avoid arable lands to be paved and covered by shopping malls, we made /are making choices for profits first. Look at California, San Jose had one the largest fruit growing areas in USA just less than 40y ago. I saw a piece where beavers are reintroduced in the deserts, and what would you know, the deserts is greener a few years later. It does have to be based in huge technological investments.
Pollution is the cause but can be remedy through different choices such as creativity. Creativity being upgraded in the farming industry and utilizing science with cloning such as vegetarian products splicing others. Examples come from cloning sheep etc
"SOLVENT GREEN!"
Was a Sci-fi movie back in the 1960's! Where the popullists turned the Dead into Tablets that fed those that have survived 😢
Sounds like a cheap knock off of Soylent Green 🤔😏
Water it with sea water by helicopter and see what happens.
So when we get to start dressing like Tank Girl??😅
Don't go to bell tire.
Yes more regenerative carbon agriculture, soil building biodiversity building, less over using chemical agriculture, also sustainable logging too,🌎🍀🌲
We have been fighting to rid insects out of our fields in order to yield more or sometimes just it's disgusting to see creeping around. That's the beginning of inventing pesticides and with this our soils entering into the gradual degradation. What if banned these pesticides, will any woman willingly go in and cultivate her gardens?
Well, as a woman who uses no pesticides or herbicides in her garden and yard... yes. Why wouldn't we? Do you think we're afraid of bugs or something?
#SaveSoil Please keep your voice to make policy level changes.
White Oak Pastures! Y'all read A Bold Return To Giving A Damn
"White Oak Pastures! " regardless of how they are raised, to save Earth's ecosystems, we must dramatically reduce meat and fish consumption (especially beef) and shift to plant rich diets. The math just doesn't work any other way because cattle are incredibly inefficient at turning land, water, and plant nutrients into calories and nutrients for humans. If everyone went vegan tomorrow, we would need 75% less land to feed the world, and could reforest and re-wild an area the size of North America plus Brazil. That would have massive benefits for restoring and healing ecosystems, helping biodiversity rebound on land and in the sea, reducing humanity's freshwater use by one third, reduce CO2 emissions, and sequester over 600 billion tons of CO2 in the ground, roots, and foliage of the re-wilded and reforested land.
You can just look at the pictures on the White Oak Pastures website and see that if you got the cattle off those pastures, you could reforest that land, which would sequester WAY more CO2 than what they are doing now and wuld have WAY bigger benefits for helping biodiversity rebound on those acres.
Take care.
This is one of the worst, most incoherent interviewees ever. He just has no idea how to listen to a question, and answer that question... Pleast vet these people before bringing them on air. Definitely don't highlight and post videos like this.
Egypt and Rome did it. Now west USA. The rivers and forests destroyed. The Spanish and Mexican law to send water to la and the delta meaningless and enslaved to support the la. Yet this is a hard issue due to history and native American and Mexican and all races mixed here and fought here against the southern politics.
Bring back wandering herds of ruminants and the soil will be repaired.
You can’t feed herds of sheep on bare dirt.
There's a 70,000Sf Vertical Farm in New Jersey that requires no soil at all. The chefs of the 5 star restaurants buy it and they prefer the lettuce grown there than lettuce grown in soil.
@@michaelellringer5600 that’s great and all, but we need to be able to grow more than lettuce. Vertical farms are fairly limited in what they can grow.
@@CampingforCool41 They're still in their infancy, their product line will expand eventually.
@@michaelellringer5600 it’s not that they can’t grow other things already, it’s that it’s not economically feasible at all. The infrastructure and electricity it takes is enormous. Do you have any idea of the scale of farming? No one is going to be growing corn fields in an indoor vertical farm.
So just say Regenerative agriculture
I personally congratulate to all world leader the UN and also the local goverment around the world you are done for the destruction of our ecosystem....mabuhay, hola😂😂😂😂😂😂
I believe that biochar at a massive level could be a cure-all for our soils degradation
#SaveSoil Sadhguru had put his life in danger to bring this issue up. 40% of the environmental issue is because of soil
You'll save the soil by putting the livestock back on it.
What will they eat?
@@LostMySauce Used to be 30,000,000 or more bison on the plains, what did they eat.
Yes, that is part of the big picture. Also adding copious amounts of biochar
"You'll save the soil by putting the livestock back on it." That's the opposite of reality, and Allan Savory's claims have been repeatedly debunked. The best science shows that water retention and biodiversity recovery are generally far better if you get the cattle off the land. The best science also clearly shows that vegans diets are best for the planet (but vegetarian are close behind), in large part before you can use 80-90% less land to feed a person than if they are eating meat and dairy (and especially beef). That land you no longer need to feed the world can be re-wilded and reforested and become far more lush and biodiverse than it can become with livestock devouring the plant matter.
@@DCGreenZone "Used to be 30,000,000 or more bison on the plains, what did they eat." We have a lot more cattle, pigs, goats, and chickens than that to feed now in the US, and raising those livestock is THE leading cause of ecosystem degradation, moss of biodiversity, and depleted aquifers.
We’re all going to die.
good
"The sun arise in the morning"
8 Billion suffering like hell
Obviously. No one lives forever
@@rayalexander411 a different way to phrase it for the pedantic among us could be ‘nobody below 40 will be dying of old age (except maybe the rich in their bunkers for a little while longer).’
No
🤷 one of the things that'll be harmed forst are primary producers, how do you think that's gonna go for humans?
Wow!
10,000 views for the impending climate crisis. Meanwhile, 10M views for condemning the homeless and drug addicts 😂😂 I think we might deserve what we have coming 😂
Why are they growing food on football fields anyway?
😂
Stop eating animal products if you actually care.
Yes! I went vegan in January 2023. It takes over 600 gallons of water to produce a hamburger.
8 Billion people is too few, we need 16 Billion people, 32 Billion people or best yet 64 Billion people because more wonderful people means more brilliant minds to solve problems.
The vaccines aren’t letting people have brilliant minds
I hope ur being sarcastic
I assume that's satire.
@@HealingLifeKwikly no, because we’re making so many autistics we need way more people to solve problems.
@@HealingLifeKwikly if by "making autistics" u mean overdiagnosing then yes we are but the planet is already too overpopulated
takes healthy land, within 5 years theyve trashed it with poor farming practices
There we have it.
This isn’t real news. This is brought to you by bill gates and his nonsense control complex
I can see the culprits right there. Our domestication and abuse of certain animals
Also, grazing small herds over wide areas creates soil fertility and, counter to assumptions, encourages the re-emergence of plant life preventing desertification. It seems counterintuitive but has been shown to actually be the case in the real world. We need more animals in areas at risk of desertification to prevent sterilisation of the land, add nutrients and kick start biodiversity. The animal dung also enables parched soils to hold on to more water.
That’s too sensible and Natural for the elites to understand.
Actually, the science is very clear that grazing so many livestock has been the most eco-destructive human activity ever for land ecosystems and other than having fewer children, switching to a vegan, vegetarian, or very low meat diet with no beef is the best thing most people can do to help save the Earth's ecosystems. Despite Allan Savory's repeatedly-debunked claims, grazing livestock promotes desertification and has been a main driver of desertification worldwide. In almost all cases, the land will recover faster and more completely if we get the cattle off of it.
Vertical farming is a thing, and it works very well. Using less labor, energy, space, pesticides and water to produce crops all year without worrying about weather. You could build one of these in the middle of a city!😲
Not sure why, but I was told tons of those are failing & going bankrupt lately.
@@MrChristianDT after a quick Google search and a bit of reading you could probably find out why. Verticals are a great option for urban areas, while greenhouses are better for areas with a bit more space.
There's a 70,000SF vertical farm in New Jersey that uses no soil at all. The chefs from NYC rave about it, they prefer produce not grown in soil, to produce grown in soil.
cut the fake BS
This is parallel to the selling of aquifer resources for irrigation of crops that won't grow without it... introduced exotic species in effect.
Permaculture is the only form of agriculture that works with soil and water conservancy. check it out.
I am is coming.❤
Those half moons are pretty good. Also methods like "FMNR" (from Tony rinaudo) and "holistic planned grazing management" (by Allan savory) can be great tools for just doing the first few steps and change the micro climate, soil and behavior in the area. The biggest benefit is also that locals can easily learn from it and building themselves a better base for the future. More good soil means better yields, and more water is stored in the ground means less damaging flooding and children can eat more and go to school. Nature is on our side when we just let it be