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- Ricardo Romero inherited a former cattle ranch in Veracruz, Mexico, from his father decades ago. Since then, he’s turned the land into the Las Cañadas Farm Cooperative, a place that’s at the forefront of a new agriculture technique called carbon farming.
When plants grow, they draw carbon from the air and deposit it in the soil. Carbon farming is a simple way to grow crops and manage soil that encourages the buildup of carbon in the ground. Over 200 food companies, nongovernmental organizations, and scientists have endorsed the technique for countering rapidly warming temperatures around the world due to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
According to researchers at Ohio State University, if farmers worldwide did what Romero does, they could take up to 1.2 billion tons of carbon out of the atmosphere each year, which in 100 years would bring carbon levels down to where they were in pre-industrial times.
This segment originally aired April 18, 2017, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
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I haven't seen one comment about how cool this is so I'll say it, this is pretty cool.
and the food looked really tasty.
''>MAN CAN NOT ALTER CLIMATE CHANGE ON THIS PLANET.
This farm is growing the solution to climate change: ...plants.
Wow!! This is awesome, love that some people take the initiative to make a change and prove that it can be done!! 👍🏽👍🏽
Thank you Mexico
Hemp should be used instead of bamboo,bamboo can be invasive and hemp performs as bamboo probably better
Sheatiel Anthony I agree particulary where bamboo doesn’t grow like US and Canada - Hemp is amazing!
+IKEA USA, 'One acre of bamboo forest can take almost 5 tons of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. The same amount emitted by a car.'
I will sleep better tonight knowing that Ricardo has solved the global warming problem.
Problem is bamboo takes a lot of water to grow and isn't suited for most areas
It's rain season in Mexico right now and it rains almost every day
@Boo TV Been there, done that... never again
We all know that water cleaning tech could and should be further studied and deployed.
Most of the countries in the growing climates could all expand/grow further in a sustainable way, and growing carbon-capturing plants for richer nations, whom use taxpayers money to invest in the environment and offset their own destructionary habits, is a truly sustainable and practical way for the world to resolve climate change and all related concerns.
Each of these cows produce as much greenhouse gas (methane) as a car driven for a year. To produce this environmental tale the reporter and her crew's trip to Mexico is worth at least a year of farts from the cow who fertilizes the trees. Not producing this video would have been the equivalent of planting 1 acre of forest.
Believe it or not the stuff will grow with no care at all. It grows depending on the variety a foot a day. Atlanta has a plethora of bamboo. The Atlanta put out a call for bamboo and were overwhelmed with people calling offering the stuff.
This is the coolest shit! Maybe it's time we change our lifestyles. People don't see the benefit of growing their own food. Evolving in a way where we can implement modern day tactics [appropriate] commodities to an ancient way of living that can better the health of all constituents on this planet.
That guy's a badass
This can be done in almost any place in the world, it has even been done in the Sahara Desert. However, the same species of plants are not possible. The systems though are adaptable, it is called polyculture or permaculture. It involves watching natural systems and mimicking them. While some people might not support animal husbandry; in most, if not all, ecosystems animals play a very important role in their ecological niches and if these animals can also help support people as a food source or for other purposes, then it is well-worth it.
We all know that more efficient water cleaning tech will be R&D'd & then deployed in an Open Source manner. + Most of the countries in the growing climates could all expand/grow further in a sustainable way, and growing carbon-capturing plants for richer nations, whom use taxpayers money to invest in the environment and offset their own destructionary habits, is a truly sustainable and practical way for the world to resolve climate change and all related concerns.
Countries that choose not to participate in such a system or to capture the carbon themselves will clearly be seen as DumbAsses by international communities and the media, so in-time in order to keep a good brand image -> the destructionary countries will surely change their ways!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most farms are stuck growing food for people and livestock so im not sure you could get more than a small fraction to switch over to this kind of system but it is doable if you change ur species according to ur climate and region
Good, so now we all need is to grow an acre of bamboo for every car in the road!
....Drive Electrics.... grow hemp.... we'll get there....
1 acre of bamboo = 5 tons of co2 removed. there is 7.68 billion acres of arable land. 7.68 * 5 = 38.4 billion tons of co2 removed from the atmosphere. 38.2 billion tons are emitted every year.
"history ends in green.".....T Mckenna
That's why it grows so quickly. 👍
The corporations which have a much greater impact on the climate need to be forced to fund projects like this.
If trump was to watch this he would say that its fake news😂😂
Love this content. Cheers Vice!
Why don't we just ditch our Dumass addiction with coal?
Going to this place changed my life
This isn't sustainable in a hell of a lot of places in the world. It's a dream, nothing more.
sure....
Also Acacia trees, 🌱🌲🌳🌿
If he has methane cows grassing among the bamboo trees there is not much point to it.
Nature would do the same thing, if given the chance. If we disappeared, things would be put right in few thousand years. In earth time that's a fraction of a second.
Does anyone know where I can find the whole episode ? I don’t have HBO here
That might work for tropical equatorian countries but it might have a diferent effect on different locations of the world and this climate change problem will be only endemic. Nice solution tho and that is one beautiful garden you got.
this is the type of video that got vice good. i want the old journalist back tho, or i just want to know they didn't die in latin america and the middle east.
Stop recycling paper and cardboard. That's carbon sequestration.
Bamboo is very useful
bamboo is great for kicking ass.
manual labor is only a problem, when large corporations refuse to share the profits. There are billions of people in the world, that live in conditions they'd love to improve. If they got a stretch of land and got taught how to work the land to produce enough for them to live off, while giving something extra for sale, doing it in a way that even helps the environment, you would have no problem getting workers. But you would have a problem finding Corporations willing to help you take a part of their profit and giving it to the people actually working.
People don't have a problem with hard labor, when it gives them an advantage. People have a problem with labor of any kind, when they get nothing out of it and it only makes someone else richer and richer.
Most farmers in the world work with their hands. it might not be a lucrative replacement for a large factory-farm, but if all the small farmers in the world were able to sustain themselves, while helping the environment, the negative impact of those large factory-farms would be decreased by a large margin.
It shouldn't be up to the farmers to fix the systematic issues that have been plaguing humanity since the Industrial Revolution
The other problem is factory farms.
Dream life 🤍🤍🤍♥️♥️♥️🤍🤍🤍 Good Job!!! Hopefully I can buy land some day & have a similar set up.
What does this succesful gentleman have that illegal Mexicans don't? An EDUCATION!
Boi when ever I visit my family in Mexico I’m always told to stay way from big bamboo patches cause they have snake
And then Trump says we don't need Mexicans
Christ Vice, you ask people the questions before-hand so they can have well researched answers ready! How is a farmer in Mexico going to know how his crops grow in Atlanta, Georgia unless you give him forewarning for the question!? That’s basic for even mainstream comedy news…
Or we could make it illegal to cut down old growth trees? Even as a conservative I think it's wrong for ppl to cut down trees that are older than you...
If only we were allowed to grow hemp.
We should not be impressed by this since this was what happened on earth before men ruin everything. Should we focus on eliminating the problem?
Nice looking farm, nice and lush.
'' MAN CAN NOT ALTER THE CLIMATE CHANGE ON EARTH.''THE EARTH IS RETURN'ING TO THE SUN FROM WHICH IT CAME''...''SIMPLE,EASY''end:
dont criticise bamboo it grows faster than i dont know just imagine
I believe the methane produced by the ruminant animals and the copious amount of water required for the bamboo to grow is counter-productive for the cause. This farm seems to produce far more greenhouse gases than it is able to absorb unfortunately.
There is a difference between having a couple of cows that can feed from the land in contrast to having thousands of cows in a disgusting western farm squeezed into a tiny shithole that have to be fed with corn solely produced for them. And the bamboo gets all the water it needs from rain since it is a different climate zone.
Jp K There is no sustainable way to raise animals. They produce too much waste and consume too much food. Think about it like this, you have a system where you put energy into something e.g. water, corn, hay, and then you take energy out in the form of food. The animals waste tons of energy by excreting waste and radiating heat. By the time you eat a pound of hamburger you've used thousands of gallons of water and created tons of co2, methane etc.
The waste that animals produce is a brilliant fertilizer for plants. Energy can`t be "wasted" since the amount of energy in a system is always the same. Energy just gets transformed into other kinds of energy. Your point is still valid in regards to how we raise animals nowadays. This does not mean that it is impossible to raise animals in a sustainable matter. People gotta stop to buy cheap supermarket meat and go back to eating meat once a week or maybe even less like in earlier days and THAT enables us to be able to sustainably produce or raise animals..
We need the animals. It's all symbiotic. Their waste fertilizes the ground we grow our crops in. It is high in potassium and nitrogen and calcium etc. They are necessary to our existence. Perhaps the fact we will hit 9 billion people in 30 years is a bigger problem then how many cattle we have.
Lol new form of tree huggers.
This dosn't add up his farm isn't neutral not only that iff every other farm in the world would actualy do this we would have to exterminate half of human life on this planet to come close to feed everybody
This is all based on the erroneous assumption that CO₂ is detrimental to life.
I want to try to plant bamboo now
I would appreciate if you guys could do more on middle east/North Korea. Like the docs you made 3 years ago they were good, thanks.
There is always that one person who says this smh.
any link?
Go to Ukraine and do more docs there please.
If everyone like Mother Nature him . I have a Friend who don't even like to step on grasses
Very nice I respect u any one who plants bamboo y mucho mas plantas
thee Ohio State University!!!!
Yes Yes Yes!!! ✌💚🌲🌱🌾🌳🌍🌎🌏
who knows the name of reporter in this movie?
If you are looking for away to help the environment and fight climate change you can use ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees
Carbon Quackery.
Bullshit...not enough water.
This is pretty much a cult.
Okay if you pulled down the pants of this presenter thing its got to be 50/50 what you might find surely.
AMAZING !!!
About that solution. The 3 seeds of Definite Honor. Would help. Climate change is cautiously turning around d already.
You can't feed the world by this process lesbian
I'm glad that there are people who cares, but it won't do anything measurably significant on a big scale. And we need scalable solutions because we live on one planet. Not some small farms.
Only real solution I can think of and it's already very promising is the use of nanotechnogy in new filters that use very little energy. We are far beyond proof of concept, we just need to keep perfecting these technologies.
is that a man or a women
Why would you want to stop the climate from changing. It's been changing since the beginning of time.
whats wrong with that guy in blue ? His voice sounds like a woman?
I love bamboo 😋😋
As long as we ain't growing Avacado this sounds great!
Sheeps, baaa
We need some global warming in Russia. It's so cold here.
no, no you dont. the permafrost in siberia holds vast amounts of water, and possibly unknown viruses. do you want a flood along with a second black death?
EDIT: what I meant by flood is that most of russia would turn into a swamp
LEL believing the climate change meme.
Surprised there not making cocaine lol.
the bamboo was just one part of the farm, wink wink.
Art Smosh XD
Thats colombia dip shit.
Its just a cover cocain lab is underneath))
FourDogs Mexicans don't make cocaine we grow weed dumb ass watch Narcos.
1 acre = 1 single car
Yah;....good luck with that
They should stick to just weed.
ShadowDrift XD
What do you mean?
Climate has always changed, that's the nature of the weather, and as for "global warming" it's all about Sun's activity and no human touch has any effect on that. What we can do is pollute less, but when it comes to carbon it is not a problem and never was.
That is simply wrong, I must say.
Please read up on the topic and you'll see we DO in fact have an effect on global temperatures changes.
MCMeru just bc al gore says it's a problem doesn't mean it's true. The global warming g fanatics have been caught multiple times faking and changing the data to fit the agenda. What happened to global warming?? Now it's climate change??? All fake
Evidence?
Scoundrel yes you are.
MCMeru no we don't.