Hope in a Changing Climate - by John D. Liu (2009)
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- Hope in a Changing Climate optimistically reframes the debate on global warming. Illustrating that large, decimated eco-systems can be restored, the BBC World documentary reveals success stories from Ethiopia, Rwanda and China which prove that bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and key to stabilising the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality.
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While the political outcomes of the COP were negligible the film has continue to inspire millions around the world for the last 4 years. During this time not only the Climate Change Convention but the Convention on Combating Desertification and the Convention on Biological Biodiversity has also begun to enshrine ecological restoration as a global priority. It is very important that these types of materials get produced. We can make them but who will finance them? This remains a dilemma.
The inspiration is invaluable and even if the inertia is great, the power of this knowledge will permeate and take hold. Impoverished people will take up the challenge.
John D Liu
Governments can move glacially, especially if you say "environment". What needs to shown are the other benefits, ie shade, wind reduction, more grazable lands, better/higher yielding fields, better profits, especially if they combine using trees on hill sides, savannahs on the flatlands. These changes will prompt and empower people to take action on a individual scale, and can cause a cascade movement to change things.
If people are able to improve their own situation, then they have more power to push back with. It really needs to start with the individual.
Hey John Liu! Im watching this as part of Kiss the Ground Soil Advocate Training!
Thanks for your movies, we are busy in South Africa with permaculture and water harvesting. The befores and afters and the lessons you show give us a lot to think about.
Is it really a dilemma though? There’s a vast and rangy digital economic ecology right here. If you took advantage of it by crowdsourcing funds… I mean come on, if your research had a patron I would sign up to send you monthly installments immediately. It’s ridiculous that your work and advocacy doesn’t have the kind of platform that someone like Greta Thunberg, who despite her passion is primarily only advocating for panic and blame, has enjoyed from the moment she became known...because the resources are there. They’re right here on the Internet. Please give me a button to click and send money to you! Its easy. you can make this happen.
If you’ve gotten this under wraps within the six years since you posted the comment I’m replying to, then ignore this. But if you haven’t...smh.
It is a crime that this video has less than 100k views.
Even stranger is the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. I think that actually many people have some Karma that they need to work out and it is very hard to finance this type of film. We premiered the film on BBC worldwide the day before the 15th convening of the parties (COP 15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) known mainly as the COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE and then showed the film several times at the COP in Copenhagen.
You're a genius
6 years after this was posted and only 40,000 views. What can be done to get this video and others like spread to the masses as they should?
It cant, it was done by the Chinese communist government, nobody in western world will spread these words.
share it on face book and other social media, there's a share tag top of the comments
It's just one of the many achievements by China that are miraculous in recent decades. However, they go against the Western's self-centered and self-interested narratives.
There are many, many TH-cam videos showing the process of “regreeninng” different areas around the world, some using the same sort of lattice work that retains the rain water. I; this case the Chinese are spreading the knowledge. The videos I’ve seen it’s Western environmental scientists came up with the same lattice work to retain water and create energy solutions using water. They are spreading their results all over the world.
The west simply will not acknowledged this amazing human efforts cos it is China. Until the west can stop being petty and mired in jealousy then hope is limited.
very educative firm, John. Thanks so much for this documentary and it was recommended by one of my professors. I have a great passion for ecological restoration especially in my native land of Africa. I'm tirelessly trying to seek support out there to implement restoration activities in Liberia where I come from. This firm has added something more to my ever growing desire to protect the environment.
Wow, how wonderful!! Whenever I look at photos of the denuded hills of Afghanistan and Iran, hills denuded by overgrazing, I wonder what can be done? This is what can be done.
Amazing film! I've watched this now at least a dozen times and post it for others to be aware of, while hoping for more change like this.
Yes. Let me echo this again. Why are there only 129k views?? For the sake of the world's future well being, there should have been 129 million views over its 10 years.
I loved this film! We have a region here in Brazil, where drought and hunger lasts for decades....Almost everything went wrong there, mainly because they tried "political, magical and quick" solutions. I asked myself for yerars if something like those could work there and now I'm sure it will.
Carla Valdetaro if the political will is there and the people press for the politicians and press for the action ,the action will happen that will turn it around.
If people can learn about Permaculture they can accomplish what governments are slow or hesitant to do. Permaculture is great because it can be accomplished on a smaller scale by individuals and yet bear those individuals a great and beneficial economic impact. It is good for the environment and is empowering to the people which is where the greatest benefit will be realized.
Very true indeed!
More people really need to watch this...... will do what I can to spread the video...Thanks for the post....
"Why don't we do this in a global scale?" Because people are selfish.
Thanks for this amazing, and uplifting docfilm. The low view statistics in relation to those of more harrowing and negative doc-films is illustrative of a mindset that thas harms us as a species.
Well it has also been broadcast worldwide several times so the broadcast reach is much larger than the online reach. It is also streaming on Ecoflix and doing well there. Another film about my work "Green Gold - Re-greening the Desert" has over 5 million views on TH-cam and has been broadcast worldwide reaching many millions more. So it is not a total loss.
I love this film. I wish everyone could watch it and open their eyes to the ecoside that is around them and the potential for natural climate solutions. Moronic how so few people have viewed this - Greta is right, we all need to wake up about this and our leaders should be doing more rather than shouting benign impotent empty rhetoric on carbon counting. I hope you're still making these films John. Great work all of you!
This is the type of documentaries that I spent hours watching on Discovery channel :( now it's all about the dramatic shows to bring in profits
Wonderful and Inspiring work, the knowledge being shared gives power back to people who live in arid and debilitating environments.
Amazing amazing!!! We all can benefit from this.. so are our future generation if we all work together!!!! Like they say it takes a village to raise a child. A good one!
Interesting analysis on Ethiopia and how the greening of the European hills and mountains directly benefits Egypt
Uzbekistan needs someone like John D.Liu.
Eye-opening, fascinating and hope-restoring, this movie needs to be watched in schools. Protesting makes sense (Greta...) but Mr.Liu is showing solutions.
Abdolutely phenomenal..very inspirational! There is Hope!!
Excelente documental gracias por lo que haces
I love this video, thank you so much! Sharing!
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Always forward, never ever backward!!
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This is an amazing documentary. If the Chinese could restore that huge expanse of land with their bare hands, we all can. We need the political will of our elected officials to start the ball rolling. Ultimately, humans need nutritious organic food to survive, not rockets.
Thank you very much for this eye opening series.
Very educative and persuasive.
Astoundingly amazing what human determination can achieve. I'm saddened that this great human achievements will never be acknowledged by most western powers just cos it is a Chinese product. At least there good human beings like John D Liu to carry on the good work. Thanks
Terrific doc. Thank you for sharing it.
Because our attentions are else where. By shifting our attention and acknowledging we are and will be facing issues. We can make a change happen.
"My hope is that the developed countries, those most responsible for climate change, will recognise the enormous potential of restoration" ...... 13 years in.... it is worse than ever.
This is amazing doing some community land restoration in Machakos Kenya
8:30 amazing changes!
thanks
An excellent documentary! It's worth noting that China has been doing the same at the national level for four decades. The result? "Between 2000-17, China alone accounted for 25 percent of the global net increase in canopy area with only 6.6 percent of global vegetated area." per forestdeclaration.org/the-latest/case-study-china
Of course, it's not the kind of image about China that the American and European media want you to know.
Amazing...
very interesting and inspiring 🎉 watching from Kenya
incredible story
DR LIU YO U ARE VERY IMPORTAN FOR YOU SUPER HUMAN JOB IN THIS PLANET THEN A NY POLITICIAN
It's time to properly look after the environment so we can create a world of abundance and harmony.
I feel sorry for the Chinese people, life was so hard for them. May their hard and smart work reward them a much much better lives.
cheers
Excellent
Good for them! This is wonderful:) They are being good stewards of the land and are prospering and learning valuable lessons. The idea of human induced climate change is ridiculous, but other than that comment throughout the video this was worth watching.
The idea of denying human induced climate change is ridiculous.
@@greenhearted8453 Climate change has been happening for millions of years. It is not man induced global warming, it is Sun activity that is warming our Planet. Good Comment KC 1776 but I guess they have to pay the Bills! ( Not Joking!)
@@AnnAnother100 You're right, "climate change has been happening for millions of years" (probably billions, frankly). (skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm)
And you're right that the sun warms our planet, and changes in its output have caused climate disruption in the past. (skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm)
But after that, you're wrong -- dead wrong. THIS unprecedented, abrupt, faster-than-we-can-adapt-to climate change is being caused by our species digging up carbon that has been locked away (via the long-term carbon cycle) for hundreds of millions of years, burning a huge amount of those fossil fuels in the course of just 150 years, and spewing BILLIONS of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.
I'm not sure what part of the anthropogenic global warming equation is hard for you to understand (and accept), but if you have questions, I'm happy to help answer them.
Mother Nature is the key to life . Trees and water
where can u see that?
Awesome video! Who can I work for to help make more of this stuff happen on Earth?
Great question! The Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement is your place too then ;) ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/
@@TamasTurcsan5577 Thanks for the window into this world. Perhaps I will someday decide to go that direction. Right now I'm not feeling it. Thank u though!
Here are my questions:
How can this be applied to a smaller desert environment, such as you might find in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, etc? How much time and consistent effort might be required? Is this feasible for an individual family on a small piece of land (say half an acre up to five acres)?
water, just add water. its not that complex, unfortunately y our governments charge and meter all of it.
Beth, with your questions in mind, you'll enjoy taking a permaculture design certificate (PDC) course.
You should read Gaia's Garden
@@morrisl7 Not add water like pumping it up.. Let the rain sink into the ground by slowing it down rather than rushing down rivers. Make sure that local plants are planted there and prevent it from evaporate under the sun. That way you replenish the ground water rather than using it up which is one of the major problems today.
Wow
I would like to find a project like this in the United States to help work on. It's hard to get communities here to come together to do big projects like this but maybe there's something going on somewhere. If anybody knows of anything I can help with in greening deserts or corroded places please let me know.. Thank you!
Also see James DeMeo from the USA about it and "desert greening "and Wilhelm Reich and Orgon and Viktor Schauberger.
Good film but why is oil industry (Rockefeller Foundation) and GMO industry (syngenta) producing it?
green wash, that's the word. Still I really respect him and this work
Energy industries are really interested in developing new tech, otherwise they may not be in business in the future. Companies have to adapt, and create new products in order to survive and Energy Industry companies are no different
Why DON'T we do this on a global scale?
Goats are the biggest problem in deforestation, besides man directly cutting trees down. Goats can denude a mature tree and kill it and leave soil truly vulnerable. Other livestock can pose some threat to trees and shrubs by sometimes girdling the bark, which can also kill a tree.
If shepherds choose to let livestock graze an area, they need to protect the trees by fencing them off at the bases of each tree. Having trees allows the graze in the field to grow better and yield more. It also provides comfortable areas for livestock to linger under, reducing stress to the animals. It also reduces the impacts of dessication from wind by slowing it down. All win-wins for the herders and dwellers of these areas.
Goats have their place. They can be great guardians and entertaining pets. They can be used to manage the occasional bit of undesirable growth, but they really need to be the animal least relied upon.
The Chinese government wasn't the kindest in the implementation of this plan. The government needed to push farmers to grow and protect individual trees and shrubs. Having farmers protect these plants they could have accomplished greater speed of regrowth. The effect would have been wider scale, sooner.
Better still is when the individuals accomplish this themselves. When they do it themselves it is because the person already knows the benefits to be reaped for personal gain among other reasons.
mob grazing is the key. watch Gabe Brown or Joel Salatin
I'm doing homework on this shtuff
are they replacing the "micro" nutrients? rock dust, kelp etc?
It wasn't several thousand years of abusive farming and ranching practices that caused the problem--it was all within the last hundred years.
I wonder if the elderly who was opposing at the beginning of the video seen the changes?
thats great!
You mean, if those ancestors were vegan, that means without cattle eating all the grassroots, the land would still be fertile?
Veganism is not the requirement for avoiding free-range grazing, nor is it actually as ecologically beneficial as you may think. (At the very least vegetarianism is much more sustainable and viable, especially when eggs, insects, and and various non-edible animal parts are included in responsible living.) Be well!
@@ThatsNotPoetry If you eat insects you're not vegan though.
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This is a wonderful depiction of the benefits of applying permacultural and regenerative agricultural techniques to problems of environmental degradation but the moral valence of the film is way off. Thoughout the film, blame for desertification, denudation, and erosion is placed on small farmers and described as having taken place over, or been the culmination of, millennia or centuries of these farmers subsistence agricultural activities, when, in fact, that we know the most extreme manifestations of these areas of degradation are the result of industrial and industrial-agricultural activities undertaken in the last century, especially in the last half century under the agricultural industrialization of the "green revolution".
The film only spent 10 %of the time on how it is done !
Mr. Liu, in 17:17 there is a pattern on the land: small ridges on contour and then sunken squares uphill from the ridges. Is this a water infliltration method? A sunken place for planting? If anyone can direct me to more information about this technique it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Lucía
This is called "fish scale" terracing and is for tree planting to capture water to maintain a tree on a slope.
@@johndliu2284 @Lucia Moreno Velo I trained as an environmental scientist at the University of Melbourne, and now have my own permaculture farm, that I own. I have been doing this "Fish Scale" terracing for planting trees, I have no heavy machinery, just a spade and a wheelbarrow, and each scale takes me about half a day to build. I dig down about 2-3 feet to the granite bedrock, (we have shallow soils), then I put in a wheelbarrow full of wood chips and two wheelbarrows full of well aged manure (per square meter). I then mix polyacrylate crystals into the manure, to help prevent hydrophobia, and then I plant it.
Usually, I plant a fruit or nut tree in the terrace, with an understorey of Canna lilies, Centaury, Parsley, Potatoes or some other plant. I then dig drainage canals to funnel rainwater into (and around) this system and plant cacti such as Opuntia ficus indica, Agave americana, Pigface, or Portulaca, on the terrace walls. Until I began doing this, I struggled to grow trees here, in North Central Victoria, Australia, but now, it's fairly easy, (but lots of work!) Down slope from the fish scales, the grass grows green and lush, and the dams have more water in them, so I can tell they help with groundwater infiltration.
Looked like the problem is erosion and over farming/grazing. Climate change was mentioned over and over but it seemed to have nothing to do with the problem or the solution.
hola como podemos conseguir este vídeo subtitulo en español completo mi correo es moralbotanic@hotmail.com para cual quier respuesta se les agradecería buen día
Hi there,
the spanish version also exists on our channel:
Esperanzas en un Clima Cambiante - de John D. Liu (2009)
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PERMACULTURE is not just an unfortunate nomenclature but paradoxically part of a greater problem. As long as we continue to promote the hypocritical practices of greedy industrialists, we will continue to live as hypocritical greedy parasites on this planet.
Our struggle for permanence, whether through religion, science or technology, is and has been for generations producing disastrous consequences, because, ironically, the desire for sustainability is actually counter-productive and ultimately self-defeating.
Developing economies and policies of scale to support billion and evermore billions of human beings is exacerbating an ecology already out of balance. The situation is analogous to the already wealthy hoarding more and more wealth in order to sustain the sensation of getting wealthier.
Only when we abandon our anxieties about permanence become ritualized as a “will to survive” through archaic belief systems, can we remember the simple joy of living. (The will to survive is diametrically opposed to the joy of living!)
Only then can simple understanding become the potential to live well and living well, a manifestation of simple understanding.
watch "cowspiracy"
I have been hugely inspired by the work of Mr Liu but I have one major misgiving. That the film is financed by the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and Syngenta. Now, you could perhaps be blind to the many shady practices of the WB and RF but Syngenta?! This is a company that produces pesticides and GMOs - surely not a company you'd want to be associated with? I cannot understand this. Yes, of course I understand why companies do it - 'greenwashing', but Mr. Liu? There are ethical companies out there, there are initiatives like Crowdfunding. Are the ecosystem regeneration camps (an amazing idea, by the way) also funded by these criminals?!
It is interesting but non of the funders had any influence on the content. It is funny how so many advertisements and movies without any solutions are funded with millions and not criticized and for a individual trying to do something for humanity it is almost impossible to be supported. Do you have any wish or the means to support films for the good of all?
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John....you're a dreamer...all these projects will fail w/o significant reduction of human numbers. ! OVERPOPULATION !
This podcast came apart towards the end. If Climate Change means Global Warming, then why has the Earth been cooling over the past decade? I loved the beginning about restoring habitat and ecosystems, but carbon dioxide is actually a fertiliser.
the earth has definitely been warming
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interesting that the Rockefeller Foundation and World Bank helped fund this film
greg copeland meaning?
But i kept cutting trees I make a lot of money.
Opinion mongolia looking nice lots of deer chicken cows land getting healthy ecology horses underwater pump get ur owm fish lij boat new gindea talk on a piece a wood greens grow on a pot apples oranges on a basket lemens ecology
A whole lot of talk and not a lot of practical info.
This video promotes several myths that deserves it to get a dislike, while usually these kinds of magnificent efforts are being liked by people.
1- climate is always changing, has been changed and will be changed. That's called natural cycles.
2- Chinese dry regions are certainly located on the arid belt of the world and they are naturally 'deserts', and have been existed as deserts for long geological periods.
3- The loess soils are produced over millions of years from wind erosion, and thick layers of fine silts have been transported by very well-known processes of wind erosion and dust disposition.
4- The yellow river, as it is clear by its name, is/was naturally a high sediment transporting river. This fact can be easily understood by searching papers investigating the geology of deposited sediments in the Basin.
5- Never in the history, agricultural practices caused the already arid region to loose vegetation. Humans does not 'desertify' the deserts. They can magically 'green' the natural poorly-vegetated dust-emmiting landscapes to fertile green lands. (As can be well observed from satellite images, humans have huge influence on greening the deserts, not the other way around.) Desertification is a false term and several books and articles had been published, which discredit this 'myth'.
6- Floods and droughts are natural cycles. Humans are not the cause of natural cycles. They may be affected by them due their weakness. (lack of the existense of controlling infrastructures (i.e., dams)). It is absolutely possible to eliminate both the risk of floods, and droughts which in the real-world, and in the yellow river Basin, it actually had happened.
7- Finally, humans are NOT destroying the environment. They are the only beings that can understand the nature, and can reclaim it. Excluding this fundamental 'green' myth, and the above misconceptions, the Chinese effort is a miracle by creating a brand new environment.
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