Green Gold - Documentary by John D. Liu
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- "It's possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems." Environmental film maker John D. Liu documents large-scale ecosystem restoration projects in China, Africa, South America and the Middle East, highlighting the enormous benefits for people and planet of undertaking these efforts globally.
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Dear All: Thank you to the many people who have given me an honorary doctorate but actually I have not completed my PhD so it is better to just call me John. Thanks and best regards, John D. Liu
May GOD bless you and maintain your work, so that we may eat the fruits of it. I would like to donate to this cause, is there some way I can do so and also I think you need to do a new doc and revisit these projects and I hope many more to come...V
P.S. you ask the word potentially, in the land of milk and honey. Like the joke, would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars, kid trying to understand the difference between realistically and potentially... Dad asks the kid to ask his mom and brother and sister, and give him the results...Buddy comes back to dad, and says, potentially we are millionaires...yet realistically we are living with 2 whores and a gay...Maybe a politically incorrect joke, yet we are prostitutes when it comes to the environment, and if this would be the focus, not LGBT, petroleum or electric cars, who thiungs might start to change. Not bullshite green policies asking congress billions for shite,, yet real grass roots getting down in the dirt solutions by all people. How selfish we have become that we are now complicit in our own extinction, if we dont get real. NOT WOKE just WAKE the F up....V
Hello John, loved the documentary, my daughter has a degree in environmental earth science, I sent her a link to the video. We need more educational avenues for our communities on keeping green spaces green all across the United States, Thank you for sharing knowledge. Peace out!
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You are a planet doctor. 💚
Why doesn't John Liu get a nobel peace prize instead of a monsanto exec?
Because money is our God.
why doesn't he share it with the Permaculture people who actually did the design and hire the people and everything else. He's a photographer. That's cool. but he didn't do any of the work. Just saying
@@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut I'm a Permaculture volunteer and I'm not rich in even the slightest! But I do get what you're saying, I think. Any way that any one of us can try to teach others is beyond valuable.
@@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut You have nothing to apologize for. I thank you for the feedback to support those around us who are trying to do good and share it. Care for the earth. Care for the people (even the furry and feathered wee ones) and share. Caring is half the battle. One good place to start learning is some of the basic core principles. This young man put it to song so it's easy to remember. Write any time you have a question. th-cam.com/video/DBgYfkuydaI/w-d-xo.html
ha. i wrote this comment before google took over the accounts. i recently took a trip from maine back home to the midwest. I went from lush old growth forests to the midwest that really is a desert of corn and soy beans. We need these designs to revitalize the midwest and frankly, all agricultural communities that have poor land management. Which is all of them. California is too dry, the midwest is too wet and too dry. (I live in WI around where the 2018 floods were) I've mentioned this documentary to someone in agriculture on NPR years ago. He laughed at me and said something like "ya, and we would have to get people eating stuff like quinoa"
Which really, it's pretty much come to that. America just needs to eat their vegetables and use locally made products. (the midwests' notorious crop is corn from which most is used for feeding livestock (think fast food) and ethanol.
He is doing great work. His method should be more widely known and used.
People need to understand this is cool.
Waaaaay cooler than having lots of money. Kids need to be taught this and not watch shitty TV
Joe Hayman word
This is a documentary from our channel.
You can watch it with subtitles in English, French and Spanish here: th-cam.com/video/IDgDWbQtlKI/w-d-xo.html
The second part of this documentary, "Regreening the planet", is available here: th-cam.com/video/OC_Y1ZTZXQ4/w-d-xo.html
this makes me want to buy a few acres in the desert and start planting!
Go to it Bro
me too
Chris Rush Dudley I’m with you!!!
I'm in to work with you when you are
If the Sahel zone get regreened again, people there will get a better life. And it will also stop the migration to Europe and local conflicts! I hope all politicians all over the World will see this video! And they should start to think in an ecological way rather then always talking about economics. If the local environement get restored, the local economy will improve autamatically.
Thank you. Yes it can be done. Contact us for cooperation wordwide. Marco Russ visionaere2016@gmail.com facebook.com/GreenMission20122050GreeningTheDesertsOfTheWorld/
+darthvader5300 Afford to shutdown? I don't think you mean looking after the workers. Return of investment and initial investments?
2 things.
Let go of material worth, monetary wealth, value your life in other ways, a richness of diversity is worth far more than a positive bulging bank balance...really.
And #EcocideLaw - do not invest in Planet destroying activities in the first place. Restitution demands all such damaging industries are shut down forthwith, any assets stripped and used, to help to repair the damage already caused, and frankly the workers currently employed, retrained in 'saving the world', in averting the looming crisis point.
CEO are obliged by laws currently, to maximise shareholder returns. Without which investments wouldn't take place. I say good. Go get a better job. Implement a law which first and foremost demands a duty of care for our collective ecology, before any right to profit, and we may just start to make the shift-change necessary to start to tackle growing climate chaos around the world. Where will people put their cash now? Into real and viable sustainable proposals which currently cannot get a foothold.
By definition the word sustainable seem to imply not for profit, certainly, without profits to cream off, so it has to start somewhere or we remain on this hell-bent road to destruction, unsustainable - means eventually, and in not long now relatively, game over. Kaput.
I don't see anyone has a choice, its do it right or die.
Alexander Nijman dcff
this is epic im doing this my self but tiny im going to go mad now and plant plant plant
GAIA needs us all guys
goodluck bro!
the seventh apprentice
Im with you!
phoenix rises We need people like you. But especially i need people like you. I want to built a community of people so we can live in harmony with nature and each other. Just tell if you are interested
Gaia Project go on fb add food abundance program ;) then we will talk
This documentary gives me hope.... things are bleak but there are actually possibilities, it's not the end! Awesome.
By far one of my top favorite documentary about the planet ever
This was an incredible documentary. I hope that the work continues to improve the land through permaculture.
Best video ive watched on youtube.
It is really heart warming to see there are solutions to the destruction mankind has created on this planet.
Ive started my own backyard organic garden few years ago as a hobby but now I really think I should do this in a bigger scale to feed my family and neighbors.
And get my neighbors to get into this wonderful ideah of eating organically grown food and help the invironment in the process.
Now, isnt it time to get rid of monsanto and stop what its doing to our eco system and hurting farmers around the globe?
But first, we need a better government to do the right thing.
Well, first thing first. I gotta go water my babies. ;)
This is a smart man, we can all do our part, thats the great thing. I have an area near enough to me that i can plant on and restore my native species, and i am currently doing it and its one of my main life goals to increase the biodiversity in my country by planting on wasteground and unused fields, i have Trees, Plants and Wildflowers to bring back Bee populations and Butterflies, and by doing this i will create something for not only myself but for other people to look at and enjoy for years to come. We can all do it, we need a new 1960s but a more sensible one.
Yes, but the cities are filled with drug addicts who could care less about gardens or working in any way.
@@SipLeila So?, nobodys asking junkies to build gardens are they?. Just focus on your aim in life and try not to get distracted from that, stay on course.
@@irishelk3 Yes, junkies are being asked to work - where on earth do you live?
Outstanding stuff! I'm stunned and my eyes have been opened! Who'd-a-thought you could get places like Jordan and Ethiopia to look like New Zealand? Truly astonishing how the earth can heal itself when left alone. And the river re-generating itself left me absolutely gobsmacked! God bless your fine work sir, and may your message be spread far and wide!
I saw message that Liu should be recognized with a Nobel and that “his” system should be spread.
Hello, why you think he deserves it and that’s “his” method and not the Chinese government that leads by example please?
All he did was publicizing what Chinese govt did for the last thirty some years, while taking the blame of air pollution and smock! IS THAT FAIR please?
PS: China also succeeded in turning arid desert into cultivatable land too FYI.
This guy deserves the Noble Prize
A great example of ARRIVING at solutions instead of superimposing solutions that work in other regions and areas on to sites and areas that need restored. Thanks for your work John. I share this documentary every teaching opportunity that I get. It turns "doom and gloom" into hope for us and the masses to see. Peace.
A one world government would also be a poor option, since it would still be made up of humans. We can barely trust ourselves to exhibit self-control. If we can't control ourselves - why would we give others lots of power and expect them to do better? You and me as individuals - we're the answer.
Interesting... Basically, the key is to give the land a rest from the destructive practices of over grazing and industrial farming, and allow the indigenous vegetation to grow again so there's a cover to retain rain and protect the soil from erosion and the harmful effects of the sun. Soil structure improves, microbial activity in the soil increases, supporting plant life; and in the process, more carbon is sequestered, and the hydrology cycle is restored as well-- water is retained and released in a steady supply downstream. Ultimately, this improves the lives of everyday people, as the land can support them again.
What about deserts that have been untouched...yet are still deserts. The great basin, for example.
Val Cronin It doesn't rain in the deserts and bringing fresh water there would have most of it evaporated and soaked up by the dehydrated land.
Those deserts are natural unlike the lands humans break.
Val Cronin Well some of it depends on climate as Randomjack stated . . . But you can actually green even a desert in an arid climate if you know what to plant, when, and how much. The more plants you grow, the more moisture it will draw in. Even the shitty desert brush can pull in moisture, and in fact a lot of desert brush is nitrogen fixing so it can create fertile soil. The deserts we had before human impact actually were greening themselves, albeit very slowly, through natural selection (and we as humans can manipulate and use that to make it happen faster, which is what permaculture is all about). . . . . However, you also have to realize having desert ecosystems in some areas isn't necessarily a bad thing. You need a diversity of ecosystems for a healthy planet and deserts are a part of that. You just don't want all desert and no green, which is where we're headed right now unfortunately.
essentially yes, but if we wait for nature to do it in her own time it will take longer, Geoff alludes to intelligent design, this is where we, as assistants to the system 'nudge' it with the species we plant, order/location we plant them in and physical factors such as earthworks and water management, designed to serve the system as a whole, not just the human element. The key, as in demonstrated in China, is to assist the local people to do it for their own benefit rather than preaching yet another gospel to them.
1MinuteWithDC what if all the deserts were made to be green...green even faster then they would have been working on their own? Like what would happen if the world were a jungle and the grocery store was your bike path?
you know when guys like this talk about crisis situations and 'humanity wont be suppressed, they wont go gently into that good night', you know you should pay heed because these guys are integrated with nature as a lifestyle and they are removed from societal trends so you cant say they're paranoid either. its with good reason.
+darthvader5300 Utter nonsense - go plant strawberries. (everywhere..)
But but but how are we supposed to whine about being doomed?
darthvader5300
yep ways to excuse that humanity needs the industry for profit armaments...
This documentary is great but missing valuable and necessary information. The overwhelming majority of people do not understand basic principles of ecosystem restoration, like carbon sequestration. It would have been great if this documentary elaborated a bit more about the principals if improving carbon sequestration and water retention in arid climates.
Knowledge is power.
Something that really strikes my interest is how we humans tend to deal with our own excrement.
We destroy valuable nutrients and biomass in the form of raw sewage. We believe that storing human excrement in a stagnant anaerobic environment is somehow sustainable practice.
I think there is a stigma associated with humanure composting, but before the advent of indoor plumbing, many early cultures pioneered the process of turning human waste into a nearly limitless supply of fertile soil.
The process is somewhat labor intensive and involves a careful attention to detail, but if done properly, humanure composting poses zero risk for pathogens and human health.
Some of the most fertile soil on Earth, the amazonian 'Terra Preta' soils were built this way. Composting human manure with organic materials amended with biochar, created a humus rich soil several feet deep. Soil that became immune to drought and erosion, and supports a plethora of abundant life.
Living on the high plains of the western US, I can still see the evidence of the great dust bowl of the 1930s. I wonder if I can begin to restore some of the neighboring land by planting native trees and shrubs. But I'm not quite sure how to deal with the low humidity and calcareous soils native to my area. I've concluded that I'll need to bring in a few truck loads of organic matter, like compost, and go from there. The pH of my soil tested at around 8.0 and I need to bring that down by a few orders of magnitude. Reducing the pH should make nutrients in the soil available to plants, nutrients that were previously "locked out" by the excessive calcium carbonate, or 'lime' alkalinity.
I have a hot compost pile a meter square, consisting of horse manure, straw, hay, and wood shavings. I'm hoping to use this to fill some raised beds in the spring... but I need about hundred times more than that. You can never get enough organic sequestered carbon (compost).
I'll need to airlayer some native trees from my area and plant them on my 10acre lot.
It's pretty much barren aside from some grass and the sweetclover biennials that have taken over. I was thinking about starting my trees in a gully or trench that seems to generally hold more moisture than the rest of my lot.
Anyway, if you know a thing or two about growing trees above 6,000 ft. elevation, feel free to share them :)
I am determined to get some fruit trees out here...
He "discovered" Permaculture. Look into that. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them.
Try a simple manure pile, humanize, horse, cow...anything, along with straw and layer,after layer, straw, newsprint, dead animals, leaves, hardware, carry on, and nauseum,spread evenly(ish) as it matures, repeat constantly. Add worm(earthworms, fishworms, as many as you can find, allow them to migrate in, multiply and migrate out, as they will, never discourage them!
Hi Synthia, did you get anywhere with restoring some of your neighbouring land? I'm not sure if you're aware, but John's Ecosystems Restoration Camps are doing an online Ecosystem Restoration Design course: ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/ecosystem-restoration-design-online-course/
Thank you. I agree with Allan about grasslands. I have discussed this with him and seen his method in Australia. It works well. However, not all land is grasslands. Some is forest and when this is lost due to slash and burn or other reasons I don't believe this should be restored to grasslands but back to something resembling a forest. My observations suggest that the percentages and total amounts of biomass and the percentages and total amounts of accumulated organic matter determine function
Really great video! We will make sure we do our part when we buy our piece of land :) and hope to help others learn to live a sustainable life so the world can slowly restore ecological function.
Got a great affordable block of land for you in QLD Australia. 140 acres for $185,000. Thats the price of one acre in Western Australia.
Thank you, Dr. Liu, for this documentary, really magical to see the loess transformed into a verdant valley. Thanks to Geoff Lawton for showing the world that it is possible to restore our planet. Indeed, more people should go "in the service of saving earht". Thank you so much for being that!!!
great Tegenlicht makes this in English!! And there are more like him standing up. See also Willie Smits TED talk on his work on Borneo.
To-do list for you :
1. Research what REAL honey can do for your health.
2. Find a beekeeper (you can't find real honey in European stores/supermarkets) like myself (see my channel for my website).
3. Buy & Enjoy !
Thank you and I bow to the divine within you.
They could also just commit to be off grid and use no fossil fuels. This would mean for instance that they would have to produce their own Methane and convert this to transportation fuel if they wanted to use existing transportation vehicles. They could reject the idea of a consumer society and share tools, musical instruments, transport, etc. They could build houses for everyone using natural materials, they could manage education, health care, recreation, for all. A good future.
Look at this and do your back yard ;-)
38:55 Isn't the derivative more valuable than the source because of the work that was put into managing the source and deriving the derivative (producing the product)? Also, how can he continue on to say that the functional ecological system has no monetary value? Can one not purchase degraded land, rehabilitate it, and turn it over for a profit? Wouldn't that go to show that ecological function does have monetary value? What could we do to help increase that value, well, not increase that value, but help others see the value that's there? 41:17, change what money is based on.
This video is so important! Please share on all your social media sites.
191 people disliked it?! What did they not like? Hope? Life?... What? Can one of them say, please?
Allan Savory's TED talk was much more on point and effective: rotational grazing will save the planet. What's missing for me in this documentary are two critical points of info. What was the area like BEFORE it was damaged? What is the history of HOW it got damaged? It's good to know alternatives to restoring an area. We need to also know how it happened so we can keep it from happening again. And again.
I re-watched the first 10 minutes and I still have the same questions. There are many assumptions here and an ignorance of anything other than recent history. Humans are hunter gatherers and that lifestyle has been stopped. THAT is what has damaged the land. The solution is not to fence off and exclude humans and livestock but to teach them rotational grazing -- to mimic the hunter-gatherer effects on the land. Have you seen Allan Savory's talk? It offers real solutions for real life. Responsible farming will save the earth.
Sally Oh
Yes I love these strategies for 'regreening the desert' but it is often thought that humans are the problems, when some of the most biodiverse and ecologically healthy regions of the world have historically been USED by humans - rotational grazing but also replanting useful species and having a hand in the genetic selection (where variety has been valued and encouraged) - We should be looking for ways to coexist with nature, not fence it off!
Colten Jackson
Absolutely agree 100%!!!
It's also important to raise species of animals that DON'T overgraze or destroy the environment. Here in North America, the American bison produces a leaner, more nutritious, and tastier meat on a tenth of the grass of domestic cattle and produce quality leather as well. Yet "we" still stick to beef. You can raise ten alpacas on one acre of good forage (for meat, leather, and great quality wool), yet "we still raise goats and sheep that overgraze and require ten times the acreage. Geese can be raised on forage instead of grains that are required by ducks and chickens, and still provide quality eggs, meat, and down.
Alan Savory?. Is it that guy who killed 40,000 elephant??
there are only 500 mln of Whiterace (half of it is already mixed) and 15 times more of darkraces, so just make it 50/50
This film provides an interesting and valuable complement to the ideas presented by Alan Savory in his TED talk.
We should approach this material with caution. Liu combines two messages in this film, what to do, and how to do it.
1. The question of what to do is clearly addressed. I don't think resting the land works in all areas, Alan Savory's work has demonstrated this. But it is also clear that not all land is well suited to livestock.
So a measure of intelligence will be needed to decide the appropriate system to employ in an area, that meets the needs of the environment and the locals.
2. The idea of large scale change is a troubling one. Despite what many people think, the planet is being destroyed on the small scale, not a large scale. People look at the mass deforestation, mining and oil industries. They see the huge wealth they use to take over countries and build huge industrial plants.
What they don't see is the billions of people handing over a few dollars every day to these corporations. Destroying the planet is an expensive business. We the people are funding the corporations that are doing it.
The first thing people need to do is to track where their money is going and what it is supporting and stop funding things that are destructive. Then begin to actually grow some food. Even if it is in a plant pot. Watching videos and reading books cannot teach you what you learn from actually growing your own salad.
Teaching this to children is of immense value.
I agree. Almost everyone has enough space for a small garden. Your one little garden may not make much of a difference, but if every backyard in North America had one, that's a huge amount of agricultural space that is not requiring the use of lands that currently remain wild.
Jeremy McKinley
Joel Salatin goes further when he points out that there is more land in N America given over to recreational animals, and lawns than there is under cultivation.
Add to that if every home kept 2 chickens and fed them on kitchen scraps, they could out produce the egg industry and produce eggs of superior quality.
Finally half the human edible food grown on earth is never eaten by humans. It is wasted, fed to animals or composted.
Add to that the huge numbers of plant species that are wild and edible, but people don't eat and there is no shortage of food at all.
Last autumn I picked 3 months supply of blackberries. I could have got a lot more but I thought I should leave some for others as they were growing wild.
They just rotted on the bush, so this year I will get a year's supply and freeze them. They are lovely in smoothies and taste better than the domesticated varieties.
this Alan Savory killed 40K elephant, do not get how we can take this guy as an example. Its a very bad assumption to compare the effect of wild life and living stock on the nature.
ben ur
Why do you think this is a bad idea?
Wildlife is very adaptable and will occupy the niches left by livestock.
Ding beetles bury the manure that they leave. Flies lay eggs in it, and birds feed on the larvae. Insects stirred up by movement are food for birds.
As the water is retained new plants grow and with it the echo system.
We know this because this happens all around the world on farms.
ben ur
Mr. Savory says this was the worst mistake of his life and he deeply grieves over a mistaken decision. We are all human and human beings make mistakes. Identifying that error and working to rectify a mistake is what counts. Savory's observations and work since has been valuable.
This video should have milliions of views. Sadly people still hoping for miracles when the change is so easy!!! Just takes a shift in peoples perspective and action the planet does the rest! Dammit people wake up!!
The Royal family of Jordan is a blessing to the entire region. God Bless them!
Amen! This is exactly how monarchs should act - protecting ecosystems that allow us all to exist.
We also need to regreen the cities. They make a huge part of our planet's surface and people are too often afraid of the green. Because they don't know enough. Knowledge truth and peace make us prosper, in the real way. Our green environment is an indispensable part of it.
Who could hate this? I love the whole idea of restoring ecosystems. Here in Florida there is a project called CERP, which is to restore the balance of natural water filtration of the Everglades and Big Cypress by connecting those areas back with the original source - Lake Okeechobee and other central lakes and rivers. This will help filter Floridas' water supply the old fashion way, while restoring all plant and wildlife. I'm doing my part by planting and supporting native Floridian plants, including flowering plants that support the local butterfly and bird population. I'm so happy to read the comment section and seeing many other people are doing the same in their areas. ^_^
I was just going to point out the same thing, Yusiley! How could folks thumbs-down this documentary!?! This is a genius and obvious method he's embarking on. Like, THIS is how our ecosystem works. Although- of course, we're entitled to freedom of speech/opinion, there's no other way around this! This is simply HOW the earth works! Lol Smh What an inspiration John, Geoff, the Professor and the Princess of Jordan are! I'm in SC. I need to go research how I can do my part, with my husband and I living and renting a condo. Any collaboration ideas would be great. My husband and I are also creating a conscious website to present this kind of material to our friends and family. I had no idea that this was being done in these barren regions! All you see in the news and commercials is hopelessness of these regions and not the action that's obviously being taken place on a HUGE scale.
*this is HOW the earth functions!*
Nina Diaz
I wish to thumbs up your comment many times over. That is such a wonderful response. I too want to do my part to help out. We're all connected... what effects you and others in one way or another effects me. This is why I help out people and other species whenever I can. I start off locally by planting plant species that are native to the area and go from there (to restore local areas), including buying locally to restore economy, volunteering locally to restore hope in ones own communities, etc. Thank you for your response.
All Is Self! I love and have great compassion for all. Synchronicity, consciousness and becoming awakened is taking place as we speak.
Cool! John D. Liu with an appearance / of / by / Geoff Lawton.
I enjoy seeing projects like this come to fruition. I applaud John D. Liu for working with governments in order to bring these solutions to a wider audience and to help advise them on transforming their environment as well as their economy. The one thing I have an issue with in his videos is that in regards to ruminants, he seems to only have negative references. Yes, in a restoration situation you need to keep the animals off of it for a 2-5 years depending on your circumstances and state of degradation, but then you must bring ruminants back in, especially in an area such as the wide open spaces where it's historically been savanna. These ruminants (whether it's goats, sheep, llamas, cows, etc) need to then be on a rotational grazing schedule. This will prevent a recurrence of the problems we're trying to fix in the first place.
Ruminants "prune" the grasses which encourages further growth. Their urine and feces falls on the ground. Birds eat the bugs in the feces and the ruminants churn the soil which helps to break up the feces and incorporate it all into the soil where the organisms there can continue to break it all down to usable nutrients.
The prairies in the US were/are one of the most successful ecosystems for soil building that we know of. African savannas are very similar. Wide grasslands dotted with trees and covered by huge masses of grazing and migrating animals. Without the buffalo, the prairie cannot sustain itself. So to for the African plains with buffalo and deer and giraffes. Grass root systems can go 10+ feet below the surface. The photosynthetic process continues as the plant is regularly pruned or eaten and then grows again. When the top is pruned, the roots die back accordingly. Those roots are then decomposed into new soil.
Just a simple change of taking out your Kentucky Bluegrass lawn and putting in buffalo grass helps as the buffalo grass roots can go down several feet. While I don't have buffalo grass, I force my current lawn to send down longer roots. I kept extending the length of time between watering until I now do ONE deep watering a month on my lawn and it's still mostly green in the 4th year of drought. I also keep it mowed to about 3.5 inches which helps conserve water as well. If I owned the house, there would be less lawn and what lawn I have would ideally be made up of various deep rooted prairie grasses and perennials.
In a semi-forested system with large animals, the animals knock off lower branches which helps prevent many destructive fungi and diseases from gaining a foothold and keeping the system healthy. These downed branches are then broken down by fungi and other organisms into more soil.
All of this leads to healthier soils which then can filter the water down through the system underground from the tops of the mountains to the valleys and lowlands instead of allowing it to run off as sediment. This system also recharges the aquifers with clean water and helps to regenerate springs and streams across the landscape.
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It is not how to reclaim but how did it happen. Why would people do such a thing? Who owned that land? Did the people that owned the land destroy it over many years? The likely answer is a tragedy of the commons. Freedom and property rights can unleash sanity where none exist.
Mineral rights destroy land that isn't even owned by the exploiter of those resources, yes, even when the land is owned privately... and increasingly, publicly. Read.
Áine MacDermot Reading is of little use without understanding. After the mining, the land in private hands is generally reclaimed.
This is so beautiful and heartening it made me cry. Thank you John for raising awareness and showing us deserts turning into Gardens of Eden.
Dont get me wrong one day these kinds of people will be vital to agricultural engineering. But these kinda of initiatives are short sighted ways to detsroy the last pristine areas left on the planet. That arent deforested by humans but have other natural beauties to offer such as anchient river beds that could have valleu not just for acheology but also some are the places were certain type oflive evolved from into its current shap there amny things to consider. If you valleu nature in that its pristine we shouldnt sacrevice those other type of pristine areas even if more devoided of life. We would just use these last pristine ares up untill there none left on all the problem here is systematic and needs a long therm solution. We have too many people for a too small planet this is our birth ground but we cant grow up in our mother house without wrecking it or at the least damaging mother anture her house or even alterring the way she id herself. We need more planets to populate and in the mean time a more controlled birth rate that allows the population to grow without needing to take away damage or change the most uninque parts of our planet. and as soon as technological development brings us the oppertunity to grow food and live in other star systems we can alter the planets that are purely lifeless to the fullest extent of mr liu his vieuws. But i wouldnt let him plow up the grand canyon and its serounding to be more ssuitable for directed water flow or plant growth etc or any other are that even comes close to being pristine like some dried up lake bed in australia or utah usa or where ever maybe containing the foot prints of the first organisms that started to produce oxygen or had any kind of major impact on the development of life on our planet so we can study it and understand our own place of origin better. Theres alot of planets left to grow food on / live on les not be short sighted in a way as skilled as this man his expertise thats just a well educated way of doing it wrong another way maybe nto destroying as much life but the last pristine aprts of our planet
what a better way to appreciate and show love to our planet we live on!
i love my planet! we all love the planet we live on!
there is enough room on this planet and means to support all of the population!
we can stop abusing our planet! instead of being busy how to stop abusing the environment! we can add and give to the environment! lets support the abundance of air we have! lets clean it and make it tastier! we are willing to live in lush places full trees and forests! i see a future for sophisticated cities were greenery integrate and dominate the environment! building skyscrapers were trees are so incorporated that the design makes it to be green on the out side! and even on the 101th floor there are trees outside the window!
+Coocoo Recoo
I too see your vision, but in most designs to date the wildlife has been left out - we need the full diversity of nature, for things to work effectively, not just the oxygen. Consider this and it will go far = )
Mount Hymettus in Athens, Greece has been transformed by the people in 10 years, via volunteering tree planting, from a barron dessert rocky landscape to a functional ecosystem. It would be truly fascinating to see what impact this has had on the surround people. Top soil is returning and meadows can be seen during Autumn and Spring.
Everyone who understand TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS theory knows that the lack of property rights is the reason of environment degradation. If the land has no owner (it's owned by government who has no incentives to take care of it), even restored, will eventually degrade.
It's not a poor people who should be blamed for land degradation but the governments which made them poor and deprived of land ownership.
Thank you. This is what is missing from this video. You might enjoy Allan Savory's TED talk. Brilliant.
Sally Oh
Thank you. I'll see it for sure.
We have recently made a film called "The Promise of the Commons". You might want to take a look at that.
www.yousendit.com/download/ZUczTkFsUnI1R09wSHNUQw
Thank you John. Very interesting.
Commons discussed in the film are not classical examples of commons I was referring to. In fact they are privately owned pieces of land. Commons here are actually owned by locals who made an agreement on how it's going to be used and by whom. They were left alone by government, and are able to manage this land as if it was their property: they can discriminate others from using it.
Institution of private property is not responsible for farmers being overtaken by corporations. It's the government, corrupted bureaucrats agreed (have been bribed) for that.
Situation without private property or partial existence results in pathological situations like shown in the film. Solution are strong property rights (could be in form of commonly shared property) and government respecting and protecting it - fundamentals of andy healthy society.
Kind regards.
***** You've just nailed it.
World's environmental problems would not exist in that scale if utopians didn't try to help.
my up thumb didn't register....👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Kindly let me know how i can get in touch with John D Liu we need him in Kenya kindly help
+Agwanda Charles If you search him online you can find he has a website where you can contact him, leave messages etc. I think it was mentioned at the end of the vid.
johndliu@icloud.com
its a biblical solution -- the land lays unused every 7 years to renew itself --
"Almost miraculously, a clear, flowing stream has emerged where once there was a muddy trickle." * looks at stream * Sold. If you can create a year-round source of clean water where there wasn't before, then I am sold.
Eco system damage has lots to do with human greeds. I surprise no one see that and try find a solution to change thos mentality.
Hey Green Gold I like your channel
He's naive about people who don't work and that they deserve food.
He looks like a Asian ...Tom Hanks, lol
16:00 32:00
I think I want my job in life to become making the world greener. And feeding more people. Im also in love with that princess lol.
I have spent many years studying and working in ecology, agriculture and design. I live in the United States. In my experience it has been very difficult to convince people of the value of functional ecosystems. I have practical experience doing this, research to back it and have made compelling stories and arguments for this. I have presented this to city planners, town councils, farmers, businesses and landscape architects. Most organizations don't see the economic value and won't partake. It boggles my mind. I hope as a population we embrace these ideas. For my heart, for the earth and my career.
Dear Luc07ry: It is certainly baffling that Ecological Function is not yet in the collective consciousness of all of humanity.
My experience over several decades suggests to me that biodiversity loss could be explained as "Original Sin" because human beings really did emerge in paradise. But by reducing biodiversity we began to lower biomass and the accumulation or organic matter and this altered photosynthesis (lowering carbon sequestration and oxygen release), nutrient release and nutrient recycling (reducing natural soil fertility) and massively disrupted infiltration and retention of rainfall (which naturally regulates hydrology, weather and climate) and paradise was lost.
Now is the time when we collectively have the knowledge and the responsibility to shift societal intention to a new Ecological Age in which everyone is aware that ecological function is necessary.
Watch Allan Savory's TED Talk. Rotational grazing will save the soil and the planet.
It boggles my mind too, and is obviously a major forefront to take on. For instance, 38:55 Isn't the derivative more valuable than the source because of the work that was put into managing the source and deriving the derivative (producing the product)? Also, how can he continue on to say that the functional ecological system has no monetary value? Can one not purchase degraded land, rehabilitate it, and turn it over for a profit? Wouldn't that go to show that ecological function does have monetary value? What could we do to help increase that value, well, not increase that value, but help others see the value that's there?
Its called greed and satanism my friend!
Noah Body I always called it greed and ignorance. The greed already insinuates the Satanism.
What a wonderful documentary John, thank you 🙏 for spending your time and efforts on this fragile planet that we call home.
I love how the princess talks about how the ignorance of shepherds causes land degradation. Well that's part of it, but so is poverty, and the fact that this is their entire livelihood. Everyone needs food and a roof over their heads, which means that the land will always have to be a source of food. Our food requirements need not hurt the planet. And although I agree with Liu when he says that "we" demand too many manufactured goods, the truth is that impoverished farmers don't; they're trying to survive. We need to adopt permaculture techniques all over this planet, but it also involves a shift in our diets. We can no longer use animals as grass-or-grain-to-meat conversion machines, because ultimately everything suffers.
E Centimetres I agree. If people ate less meat (or no meat or dairy like me), a lot of ecological problems would be solved. However, I think we need to create everywhere waterscapes, that would change the hydrological balance quickest. In this area, the most outstanding specialist is: Sepp Holzer, a mountain farmer from Austria and inventor.
E Centimetres If they didn't ignore the change in the environment it wouldn't have happened. But blaming them is too simple (and I think most people understand this to be a complicated matter).
But that's where knowledge comes in.
I totally agree with you.. These people need to live and have food security. Blaming them for making sure they have something to feed their children is basically blaming them for being alive. These people simply don't ahve the necessary information and/or resources to instantly change.
We have to stop blaiming people for their wrongs, because most of them are doing what they precieve as the best they can. Educating them and healing the land is a precoess and won't happen overnight but over the course of years. We have to precieve those who are going in the wrong direction as possible allies not the enemy and we should treat them that way.
Eleanor, I was agreeing till you said "We can no longer use animals as grass-or-grain-to-meat conversion machines". Animals such as ourselves ARE vegetation conversion machines. Grazers convert grass to meat, milk, manure, urine, saliva and all these get converted back to soil to feed a new ger=neration of carbon sinking plants. Lest get eco literate ! The land needs animals, albeit properly managed.
The people in dry regions should be shoot to death with their heard of livestock!
But BEFORE someone fuck about "mercy" i tell you: this is Africa! You CAN not help anyone, someone must die, of other want to live!
Like this stupid farmer "trees do not make the food" when after he ate fruit!
I want sew his head for that! Planting let's say banana should be solution.
Africa was the "granary" of the world. Now not because there is too much people. Kill the people to restore the balance.
All these Grand issues are Consumer Driven.
Thoughtful Consumerism ( ie. Cowspiracy ) and Voluntary Population Reduction will clean up this mess !!!!!
+Kamaar Taliaferro Humans are short sighted and emotional so altering human consumption behavior through education is a slow long shot.
Population reduction is the only Guarantee to curtail the damage we all do to the ecosystem through day to day living ( ie. Plastic Paradise the doc. )
Wow ! you must enjoy coffee.
Sure there is alot of hypotheticals that Might work as we are all holding hands and skipping under a rainbow . Humans will destroy the planet by the time the " perfect plan " is formulated.
So lets all man up and get a vasectomy
+Kamaar Taliaferro K.I.S.S.
+Kamaar Taliaferro No
Just the Best one............K.I.S.S.
***** You must be young.
KISS = a slang engineering term/ keep it simple stupid.
Pls. lets not flog a dead horse.
If you cannot see the obvious in your face need for Population Reduction your beyond reason.
i`m done. Have a good life
Great video. But the whole video looks to make John D. Liu out to be the master mind behind this revolution. It's Geoff Lawton (who appeared in the video) who is the real master of permaculture. So, it should read, "if you would like to follow Geoff's work, etc etc". In other words, look for Geoff Lawton's work. He's amazing. No offence to John. It was still another great video of Geoff Lawton's work.
+Barry Jordan Geoff Lawton has greened the desert, but it takes Willie Smits to restore a rainforest. Don't underestimate what any of those major permaculturists have to offer.
+crazy808ish Oh, no underestimation here at all. I'm on board.
Actually, the Chinese loess plateau project was done by the Chinese scientists, thru the collection of millennium knowledge passed down. John Liu did a good job document all this. Including, but not shown here, his old record, about international experts' discussion at that time doubting how long it would take even if it was possible.
+Barry Jordan Liu's work is about spreading the word about this model, which is exactly what he's doing. He's not pretending to be leading nor implementing any of these projects, he's just gathering, documenting and compiling the information created by others into a usable format, then distributing it to the right people in order to help make things happen. This is very valuable work too, don't underestimate it.
+crazy808ish fact is it has taken the efforts of many great men and women to develop an awareness that there is a HUGE problem in the world, and it belongs to ALL of us. Look at Elaine Inghams work, and Paul Stammets. They have done amazing research in fungus and biology in soil and all these great minds are basically all in the same page. This is a situation that require great sweeping huge paradigm shifts on earth to change people's subconscious awareness. But thanks be to God the Creator of all things that He is showing us that the problem IS the solution. We can do this if we find unity and be of one mind, repent of the wrongs we have done and ask Yeshua, Prince of Peace to restore all things.
What a fabulous job on this documentary John! The key is to educate...and perhaps each small little village needs to have a member educated and pass on the knowledge. It is the ignorance of people which cause them to farm and carry on in a damaging way. Good luck to you.
This is what we should have prisoners working on for their daily lodging and food.
+David Egesdal Err...and you.
15% prisoners are psychopaths. Over 90% prisoners have a mental disorder. I think it goes beyond paying your dues to 'society'.
***** Can you fact check this info?? 90% seems highly unlikely and possibly your definition of a mental disorder is that part that needs questioning..if true prison seems the wrong way to be dealing with such cases by and large.
I don't know if it's 90%, but, knowing someone who is about to graduate with a master's degree on social work, I can tell you that prisons are by far the most common institution ("solution" if you can call it that) for dealing with mental illness in the United States. It's horrible.
Currently, most prisons have specific rules for therapists, such as (I kid you not) "Don't talk with the inmate about their trauma." Working through trauma is the foundation of therapy, and the vast majority of psych hospital patients have had some sort of trauma (usually in childhood).
On a personal level, my family and I have had our lives completely changed for the better because of therapy, working through and coming to terms with each of our traumas. We are all in recovery from various mental illnesses, such as addiction, suicidal depression, and generalized anxiety disorder.
We must, must, must create programs and change prison systems so that the mentally ill are given the tools for a happy life, just like for the physically ill. There is no cure, but there is treatment that is getting better every day.
I'm sorry for the long comment. I am very passionate about these things, and it pains my heart to see so many people suffering unnecessarily.
P.S. There is a book called "First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery", which is just what it sounds like. The ones written by people in recovery from schizophrenia, in particular, show that even with frightening diagnoses, there is hope, and one can be very happy even with these diseases.
Thank you for your time.
Thanks, I am replying because this is not OFF topic. All disease begins in the gut , fact. This includes mental or behavioural or learning disorders from which many people in jail suffer. HEaling the Earth, growing food organically , making fermented pro biotic food can help all people recover . Round Up is the root cause of epidemics of autism ( and Oppositional defiance disorder is on the spectrum) , cancer, auto immune diseases ( 200 of them) Kids with asthma, excema, diabetes. Addictive substance sugar ( cane) is sprayed with Round Up just before harvest as is wheat, potatoes, lentils. Big long term effect on our children
thank you Geoff Lawton and John Liu, many are naysayers, but you have helped more people than oppose you. We are headed in the wrong direction, we know that because things keep getting worse, your work provides hope for millions. Respect.
I spend a LOT of time in our local waterway and I saw a lot of die off not for lack of water and not all due to parasites but a pink stain rises up inner cores and 12 inch and bigger trees just snap off at ground level I don't even need a saw just push them over but I clear cut all dead trees piled branches for habitat to hide in removed dead fall and in the aprox.mile it has fully covered the soil thus trapping moisture but my actual realization was the beavers actual intent and their eco building value they don't want the water they want what it transports and nurtures to grow the plants it consumes and parasitically all the rest of the animals are drawn back to the water and possible food sources that it creates and one asshole one gun and two shells kills that whole eco system if they ate it or skinned it ok but nope they just kill it to kill it then cry cause skeeters are mauling them mice are running ass wild in their homes and their wells are near dry gone and it is directly related to the loss of key stone plants and animals that supported the base thus sustaining the system
This should be done also in the UK where they have now those floods! China, Africa or Europe, its more or less the same problem! Land in the past deforested and overgrazed should be restored again to the old origenal situation. About desserts, most desserts are not the result of climate chance but centuries of overgrazing by goats and sheep! Forget CO2, its the sheep and goat who are the real pest! And that there are so many conflicts now in the Middle East has also to do with the overgrazing and desertification!
+Alexander Nijman That's a lot of really good points imo!!!
You know what I heard? Well I'm from Australia, and English came over here in 1788 or thereabouts. Well if you know anything about this country you know it's basically a desert. Oh btw you were saying "dessert" with 2 s's hahaha, it's like "About custard tarts, most custard tarts are not the result of climate change ..." LOL. Just joking with ya LOL.
Anyway, I heard from more unconventional sources, that before English got their sticky hands on this country, that Australia was actually quite colourful, fruitful (lots of fruit-trees), and bountiful. Our gum trees were different and more colourful, and wildlife was more bountiful. And our soil was nice and rich, not dry and lifeless like a desert, which is how it is now!
I know this may sound crazy, but I think that along with the physical effects of modern life, that an ecosystem can also be effected in it's psyche and start getting bombed out. I think this happens perhaps. It's like one thing effects another and another and another.
Maybe another better way to say it instead of psychic effect is that the morale of the land gets affected, like whole species of animals and plants get bombed out, and the spirit of the land dies, if you will. Well I reckon the Aboriginals, who used to be very in tune with the land, used to see the land as a very living interconnected place!!! They probably called it the Spirit of the Land.
In fact that unconventional source I was talking about was an Aboriginal spirit that lived in Australia about a century before the English colonized the country, so you know, in the 1700s or so. This Aboriginal spirit was channeled by a medium, in a way that the Aboriginal was actually talking through the medium.
I realize that may sound crazy, but I could tell with this one that it seemed genuine. Like I think that this could be the case, that Australia was lusher before English came!!! XD
GOD is great, what your doing is what GOD has told us to do long ago :)
and you are a moron .....its humans that will save the planet not a DOG ops got it backwards
I cast you out of this person satan in the name of the Jesus Christ get out and never return!!!
Noah Body
idiot
It is obvious you have no education what so ever.
Well i believe the Word of GOD/ Jesus before i believe a man that can be corrupted by evil, sorry dude u lose!!
I'm really into land healing since a couple of years now. Working on my own permaculture garden too. I have seen the documentary and all it's offshoots many times and i keep watching them when i feel hopeless. Every single time i see the image morph from that eroded desolate area to this lush green landscape tears roll down my face of pure gratitude. Thank you to all the people who work on these kinds of things. You are the real heroes in this world. Never stop, you are too important.
Why is this film not mandatory viewing in All schools, in every country in the world?!?
Because it would be necessary to translate into the languages spoken in these countries and that is very expensive.
This is great Documentary .
Someone needs to give john liu and geoff laughton a billion dollars and just watch what happens.
A new strain of apple that gets you high or crack berrys haha
This is life changing information take it and use it for the betterment of mankind.
Gotta love that inception OST.
Very interesting. Turning desolate land into productive land by understanding ecological systems.
If those animals was only on the hills for a short duration at the right times they wouldn't eat all the grass.
Gustav animals are part of the natural balance
Michael Robles
Yes?
Gustav so animals defecate and add to the yum yums of dirt bacteria.
thats one of the reasons why he shouldnt remove them
John Liu, have you heard of the recent news of Jadav Payeng planting a 1360 acre forest in India? I'm pretty sure you have. Anyways, great documentary and thank you for your sincere effort! We all inhabit the same earth and need to take care of it.
For more information about cool new farms you can also watch ...NEW FARMS, BIG SUCCESS at www.mondefilms.com/#!__new-farms-big-success
You're now in the "Our Historic Moment - Solutions" playlist!
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Green = the Gold of life and future
John, PLEASE do not encourage lazy people to demand free food. THAT IS SICK!
I AM ASIAN, TOO! PEOPLE ALL HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE WORK - AND THAT IS NOT BEING DONE IN THE US. STOP ENCOURAGING THE MASSIVE WELFARE PROGRAMS - WHICH ARE ALSO FILLED WITH FRAUD, BY THE WAY - BILLIONS IN FRAUD.
Check out out "will work for free 2013" and "technological unemployment 60 minutes"
We should unite and rise against the corporate abuse of OUR MOTHERLAND !!!
Humankind MUST do that! If NOT the cruel world know no mercy! If earth take just ONE summer...billions will die! ONE big volcano eruption is ENOUGH! Someone remember Krakatau and Tambora? Yes...something like that!
So it's need to find good power source, green the desert and...start making stores of food (mostly cereals and rice)
like wat the camels did in australia? which are now supposedly a problem.
SURVIVAL or DESTRUCTION? No can live life?Whaaaaaat? heya heya heya heya great wonkontonka. Anybody seen smokey the bear lately? Tell'em were in for a barbeque picnic invite berry too o.k.? Oh, berry is a beautiful momma bear. That's right, bear.Beaaaaaaaaryyyyyyyyyyy. Oh bearrryyyyy!
Mr. Liu, rain= moister=atmosphere, equals life sustinance of each living exterior surface on the face of mother earth.PERFECTIONALweather enhancments. Every ability has it,s own disability of only itself being simply put. There's no genius about it! If I can help, i will help.
Ah - this feels right, what you say - "rotational grazing." Managing our resources with the broader view, not the narrow one centered only on self & getting ahead. Time to be stepping more into our true union as one people, one planet.
I am so grateful both for your work & for your great sharing of it with us, here - helping to give us the vision. Thus it enters the collective awareness, there to do its great work. Source bless & protect you & your work in every way, sir.
Namaste
~♥~
Education on and offering birth control would help immensely. "If you can't feed'em don't breed'em". Harsh, some may think but, TRUE .
Liu did not discover landscape remediation, sorry, that's just not true. Ecological remediation is much older than 1995. Landscape remediation goes back to the 1960's, and arguably earlier. After the Dust Bowl, land recovery on large scale began to be researched, mostly in terms of agricultural needs. In the 60's and 70's, conservation organizations, universities, and US Dept of Interior began inentsive study of the idea of restoring damages ecosystems to address endangered species protection, toxic waste land recovery, and fire control, among other reasons. Liu is a newcomer to this subject.
WRONG! AMERICANS discovered landscape remediation, in the modern sense, although you can argue there are ancient cases of the same. US and Canada led the world in researching the restoration of landscapes, species, and ecosystems. This began long before 1995. China borrowed the basics of landscape remediation that were developed in USA to restore damaged rare ecosystems.
Just saw your inspiring documentary. We are trying here in Tamil Nadu, south India in an intentional community called Auroville to restore what is considered semi-desert area, planting trees for over 40 years, building check dams, creating parks and maintaining forests. Check out our auroville website and come visit us some time if you're in the area!
I worked for WELFARE and you are very naive, John. People do NOT DESERVE food at the expense of taxpayers who are working - day in and day out. Do you think it is fun to work for welfare every day and see thousands sitting idle?
Amazing video, this is our aim in life too, to show that healing of our farmland can be done, going back to nature by moving forward is the only way, our intensive mass farming ways have depleted this earth and its beauty, we are dedicated to show how we can all create a haven for wildlife, heal the planet whilst make a living from the land. It's the only way. Well done John, great video, everyone should see this. The Backyard Vegan
Hi there, I am wondering if you ever heard of permaculturist by the name of Bill Mollison as well as Geoff Lawton? They are running some kind of 12 week course online on permaculture. Its call PDC (permaculture design course). Perhaps you have done the course before? Its pretty pricey and I am a bit leary of the program. Geoff Lawton seems like a genuine guy, but I think a practical course would compliement an online course. I want to learn permaculture, but I am wondering if this online course is a way to start. What do you think about this? Should I take a chance on this course or do you know a better source for learning? Thanks for your input!
This is an amazing video. Love it.
He is naive about people in cities begging. They do NOT WORK and do NOT WANT TO WORK and are therefore living off drugs, food stamps and this is NOT OK.
nothing improves without energy input,,, 2nd law of thermodynamics.
The Real Secret is that the best way to put Carbon back into the Soil, in the form of Humus, is from the Roots of Plants, which give off Root Honey, to feed the Microbes, with that Carbon, and that Energy, who then make Humus out of that Carbon, and the Minerals, in the Clay around the roots, and using that Energy, that is embedded, within the Honey, and by getting Nitrogen from the Air, which is used to make Protein. And so it is our job to put the plants to work at doing this important work, of feeding the Microbes, in our EcoVillage Based Restoration Camps, and everywhere else. - T
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Dear Assala: It is important to learn about your native plants. It is also necessary to build organic soils. There are some wonderful people at SOIL who have a nursery system and who create soils from human waste. Try to meet Theo who works in Cap Hatian or Sasha Kramer in Port au Prince. They can help you. Also look at /innovationcenters on FACEBOOK. We will help in whatever way we can. Best regards, John
I think we need to integrate all the technologies and consistently train skilled people in all techniques to rehydrate landscapes, build soils, massively revegetate to achieve again near climax canopy heights and biomass and perhaps most important protect natural biodiversity so that we don't create genetic dead ends.
I'm working with many other to build research, training and innovation centers for ecological restoration. Innovationcenters on FACEBOOK