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Absolutely love this video! Truly believe this is the way to have people see the benefits of greening is where there is layered ROI. Thank you for this video. Mark Shepard does a great version of this in the US. The Savannah Institute is a great resource.
During the Great Depression and "Dirty 30's" in Western Canada, Farmers were encouraged to plant trees around every field - to serve as wind-breaks, to stop soil erosion (the wind blowing away the dried soil), for shade and to encourage rainfall. This worked IMMENSELY WELL, and Western Canada returned to record-breaking productivity during WW2 and afterwards. Since the 1970's however - it seems many "Modern" farmers have forgotten WHY these trees were planted and have just removed them...... It's NOT going well for them.....
If it was originally forest, then he is reforestation with natural trees monocultrue? Surely monocultue only applies to single species tree plantations and/or non natives?
Unfortunately the demand around the world for low cost food is going to continue, so deforestation is never going to reduce. I live in Thailand every year more and more forest, more accurately jungle, is burnt to clear land for crop production. This is repeated in neighbouring countries: Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, in an attempt to reduce the poverty levels of small land owners. Not far from where I live about 80% of a significant sized mountain has been deforested, this has altered the local climate such that it's far hotter than another mountain just 60 KM away, which due to being a national park is still covered in jungle. I appreciate the need to change farming practices, but it doesn't address a more crucial and permanent problem: poverty. You can tell people as much as you like that trees are important for the long term health of the planet, but if burning down a forest will provide a crop income that will ensure your children don't go hungry, that forest is going to get burnt.
Australia has had three years of high rainfall and as such, its agricultural and horticultural industries have produced very high yields, nevertheless planting shelter belts and areas of trees will provide improvements over the longer term.
That's the point, isn't it? Short term high yields are not sustainable. If that arid land can be reclaimed it would be a benchmark for the rest of the world.
I live in south Western Australia and have a farm in the Great Southern. Since when have there ever been droughts in the S.W in the last 30 -40 years? The last 10 years we've had cool summers compared to previous summers so no global warming here mate. I don't know where the makers of this video are sourcing their information from, but it's news to me that the annual wheat harvest has plummeted. WA has always had a surplus which is why we are a big exporter of wheat.
We have had plenty of warm summers. Last one was easy, the year before we had the most 40 Deg days on record, 13 I think (in Perth) Average rainfall has decreased, but drought is only really seen in the northern and eastern limits of the wheat belt. But you are correct, we have seen increased crop harvests year on year almost constantly for 20 years now due to a raft of farming improvements. Bugger all rain this year so far in Perth though. Only around 30mm this month (May)of an average of 100mm with a week to go... Hope the Cockies get what they need🤞
@John B Nope. They are due to better varieties, more reliable longer term weather predictions, improved fertiliser use and application for a start. Not to mention better soil management, grazing practices and pest and weed control
All those trees planted, grow up ,then burn down creating more carbon ,these youngin's are getting fed doom from everywhere an believe weather is now called climate change and global warming, its just weather
OMG ... too much bullshit in this video! We have had bumper crops year in WA and Victoria Being farmers, we check the weather daily. My father in law has logged weekly temperatures and rainfall since the 80's . He's conclusion to-date is - last ~7 years have been the wettest he has seen in a long time. The fact that humans produce far more then we need and we waste so much food was not even mentioned in this dodgy video. Or that Population is on the decrease globally. As far as Scotland getting warmer ....it was warmer during the Roman Warm period., they even grew grapes then which they cant do today.. Today Greenland is mostly under ice,. the reason why the Nordics called it Greenland was because it used to be green and lush.
Australia is a vast area maybe your area is fine but that does not mean everywhere is, extremely wet weather can also cause erosion in desert areas, which isnt the best situation, since you loose valuable topsoil. the climate will shift soon since el nino is on the way. yes europe was supposedly warmer in midddle ages but thats not what we are talking about since that was effected by the increase in solar radiation also modified the atmospheric pressure system over the north Atlantic Ocean (North Atlantic Oscillation), which brought warmer winters and wetter conditions over northern Europe and most of north-eastern part of the North American continent. i dont think its right to just declare bull shit when you are talking from a very limited bias and limited understanding of the world without looking at other perspectives, it shows you feel threatened and because you are not able to communicate in a way that isnt defensive.
No , it's bullshit alright. 64 years living here and have friends all over the States. Please stop clutching at straws and stop your fear momgering. Go try it on another country where I don't live. And please don't be so patronising and try to tell an Australian about his own country. Reclaiming desert.. good idea.. but the rust is exaggerated rubbish
A farmer calling BS and not even pointing out that the grain being harvested in much of the "wheat" discussion looks more like oats than wheat... That's interesting. This video can be called on "the facts" in various ways without going fully political and asserting beliefs and talking points that may or may not be objectively supportable. Anyway, on "Today Greenland is mostly under ice,. the reason why the Nordics called it Greenland was because it used to be green and lush.", Greenland was almost entirely under ice then as well. At best some coastal areas were more green than they are today. The ice sheet that covers the island is ancient.
Greenland was marketing name. It used to be green > 2 million years ago - before humans existed. However, after the selfish (individual profiting )Anglo-Saxon Industrial Re-Pollutions, all went bad.
Here in South Western Australia we've had bumper yields for the last few years. Sandalwood has a really good return which has driven its expansion. Our issue with soil salinity is real and lots of various remedies have been put to use for decades.
Barley and some other crops take up a lot of salts. One way South Africa is combating salt is slit trenches which saline water pools in. It can be pumped back to the river. Israel developed a lot of crops that are saline tolerant.
I think they are confusing the fact that thanks' too the export restriction's placed on Russia there is less wheat available too western market's. Studies' are badly done nowadays .
Australia also had a triple dip la niña for the last three years. It was so cold that temperatures fell to... the historical average temperature. Not saying the vid is entirely correct of course.
Wheat is a grass and it is being grown in the grassland regions, not formally forested areas. Grasslands cover many millions of acres around the world and they store 30% of all stored carbon. The grasslands carry herbivores both large and small animals; their populations are controlled by carnivores ( large and small). In Australia we once had giant kangaroos and diprotodons ( giant wombat like creatures) about the size of hippos to control these populations we had marsupial lions which were the size of African lionesses. There are over 12,000 species of grasses and obviously the grasslands are not monocultures. Farmers are diversifying their crops and land use to break up the endless monocultures.
I call bull shit, the entire West Australian wheat belt, all the way to Kalgoorlie was dry land forest that was chained, windowed and burnt to grow wheat!
It's a bit of a stretch, and maybe disingenuous, to call Western Australia's eucalyptus woodland, and mallee scrub, grassland regions. Not forested doesn't make it a grassland.
My initial thoughts and comments were pretty snarky, but honestly, hats off to you. It's good to hear about monoculturists diversifying or any move towards permaculture. Keep it up! It is extremely hard to face facts and change corporate farming practices in a get big or get eaten world. I hope you can help and teach others to do the same and more.
@@gregsutton6258 no spinifex country in Western Australia is being used for grain production, let’s be very clear about that. And @Chris Nore, With very few exceptions, all of WA’s massive 20 million tonne a year wheat production comes from country that was formerly eucalyptus woodland. The exceptions are largely eremophila shrublands on sandy soils. There were very few natural grasslands in the area now covered by the WA wheatbelt, pre European settlement.
Absolutely and in WA we are not experiencing higher temperatures either as claimed in the video. If anything, we have been getting cooler summers and milder winters. over the last few years due to the Grand Solar Minimum and pole shifts. There is only one thing that will reduce wheat output and that is if the government bans fuel as we have reached peak oil.
the alarm has already been sounded mining, extraction, over exploitation, deforestation and desertification all causing havoc on the ecosystem, its not sensationalist, its a reality we are living with, but theres still a chance to turn it around
@@LeafofLifeWorld Mining has increased on a massive scale, particularly coal, as a direct result of the push for wind and solar. The demand for the raw materials to build this infrastructure is causing this. 82% of all the different materials mined globally are necessary to manufacture infrastructure for the green industry. Toxic waste from cradle to grave renewables is already extremely problematic and it will become far worse with the global transition. And of course people seem comfortable to overlook the humanitarian degradation in Africa and China. Slavery is an abomination, but more than 40,000 children are working in the unregulated copper and cobalt artisanal mines in Africa, and they are dying there too. Mining is not going anywhere, they can't dig the holes fast enough. And since China manufactures most of the planet's renewables, 90% of Australia's, they will need the coal to fire up the coal-fired furnaces and power plants. They have more than a thousand coal-fired power plants and they are currently opening two new plants a week! That's a lot if C02. You see, we haven't actually reduced emissions anywhere in the world, we have simply exported them to China along with the jobs. If you think that C02 is a problem you might want to consider the increase in global shipping as a direct result of the 'green' industry. Mined materials are shipped to China from all around the globe to be processed and manufactured into renewables infrastructure. The finished products are shipped around the globe and transported to their point of installation by massive diesel trucks that travel hundreds of kilometres to and from the ports for the duration of the project, sometimes 3 years. Shipping is one of the highest contributors of C02 and this too will increase with the global transition. This is absolute madness, it's a complete farce.
Maybe Australian farmers should think about growing hemp. ("Hemp" is the non-psychoactive cousin marijuana.) From what I understand, hemp is an extraordinarily useful plant.
There are people developing industry here in Western Victoria, but it is not a viable option until we can get a mill to process flax as well as the seed heads.
Just like everything else, agriculture in general and food production in particular has and is continued to be messed up by ignorant and dumb politicians. And the dishonest median is supportive of this. The world could easily produce more than enough food for many times the world population.
What world do you live in mate we cant produce enough to support what is on earth now with out genetic modifications to everything we grow Wake up mate
At last somebody has realised that the CO2 emissions need trees to to take out the CO2 build up, to give shade, cool the atmosphere, and give back to nature.
C02 has been called 'plant food' for decades, maybe even centuries. The politics and advertising materials of electric vehicle manufacturers have kept that knowledge as suppressed as possible until they got established.
Wow 👏 the last part of the video really surprised me 😮 it looks like paradise, this is how we should all live, I think we would be much more secure relying on trees 🌳 to increase our security for the future 💚
Weve lost some valuable old trees in our area due to electrical lines. They are clearing all tress over 1000 feet on both sides of a major lines. Why cant they start burying electrical lines that are insulated by layers of waste plastics made into large hoses to cover the live wires. Surely with all of the fast technical advances it seems that in order to save the trees and ground cover crops, the electrical companies should be finding ways to bury these lines. It would stop large forest fires from bad lines , conductors poles etc. I firmly believe someone can invent a fireproof hose that would keep live wires under the ground from delivering sparks to fires and electrocution.
That is too intelligent for the "quick fixers". You know the definition of insanity..."Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different outcome"!!!😳😵🤯
When European settlers first arrived in Australia for farming they were granted farm land by the government, but the rule was if they did not clear the land within a few years the state would take the land back, so early farmers clear felled everything to keep their farms, a big mistake the country is still paying for with species extinction and salinity.
What about the improvements in Israel 1867 Mark Twain described a desert where the cactus struggled , 1967the third largest exporter of citrus the Negev desert to productive farmland ,why was it not mentioned???????
@@stuartwilliams3164 Probably not mentioned as most fruit is not a diet staple. Rice, wheat, potatoes and corn is what feeds people. if Israel stopped exporting citrus tomorrow no one will starve. Ukraine reducing wheat exports caused a few ripples as it is a major exporter. If a few more dominoes were to fall, like Australia, USA, Russia or Canada some food importing nations will have trouble finding alternative suppliers.
Plants open their cell during the day to take in carbon (carbon is plant food). Plants loose 100 parts of water for every 1 part of carbon they take in. We need to increase the amount of carbon in our atmosphere. This will allow plants to grow in arid regions as they will not loose as much moisture. If we decrease the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, plants will need more water to survive.
i got a few minutes in and to stop to correct... everything.. the global human population is falling.. dangerously so.. for us that it.. we have been producing enough food to feed 14 billion for decades.. there is not and never was a food production shortage.. hunger comes from politics and greed not low production.. shall i go on..? next..!
In New Zealand damn near every tree between Gisborne and Wellington was cleared and we face the iinevitable consequences. No Government wants to deal with this and farmers continue to pretend they are the Lords of the Land, and can do what they damn well like !
This is the iterative feedback divergent causality of mass migration social disorder and continual never ending warring economies, since the latter day Rift and Nile Valley Pharaohs. Malaysia Sabah's primordial Garden of Eden is likewise undergoing desertification, when Palm Oil replaced logged out Tropical Primary Jungle.
Anybody who is making any change toward permaculture and away from the destructive corporate farm practices should be applauded, supported and encouraged. We need it in every form, large and small, local and regional.
Difficult to take this video seriously when a picture of Pont de Gennes at Les Rosiers-sur-Loire in France is used to illustrate an alleged drought in Australia.
Or when images of eucalyptus are used to promote sandalwood plantations. Such visual laziness reduces the credibility of the video, even if what it is saying g is substantially correct. Also stop talking like a poor quality AI and be a real person.
Plant tall spreading shadows various trees from the seeds flowers fruits of which get daily needs and income such as Ritha jamun jackfruit ,banyan peeple shivan karanj cotton wood parijat kanchan shammi ashoka mango Shalmali drumsticks dates maulashri Indian coral tree ardu Rohida et. Or Plant suitable for Soil&climate of the regions. Will get cooperation from people since earn daily needs and income..generate employment. Will give boost economy, Will cover regions with lushly green forest
01.30.2023 - By John Reidy CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - With wheat and barley leading the way, Australia is set for a third consecutive record grain crop and strong exports, according to a Global Agricultural Information. I doubt that this is mainly due to changes in land management.
yes years back I read about a project in south india where free tree seedlings were given. That area received much more rain and everybody was suprised...
As a farmer and soil scientist, who has also studied economics, I don't see a problem with "salinity" I call it poverty as that's the reason I have salinity. I have been involved in the industry all my life and now worked in the industry for 52 years. In that time our farm gate income for many products is as low as 5% as our production cost increases. Salinity is caused by low mineral levels in our soils, levels that were naturally low. By increasing our mineral levels, we would consume more water with more production, hence less salinity.
Some places need to be less concerned with trees and more concerned with what was natural. Turning an area that was grassland into forests is going to lead to some problems.
There alot of places where grassland is because of deforestation, Australia landscape is huge and they already working with the specific type of "country" which is local to the area specific when planting
@@LeafofLifeWorld Oh well now I know where you might be focusing. I just know as someone living in North America, I hear so much about trees when large parts of the middle were prairie 250 years ago. The Native Habitat Project has a lot on this. We protect trees but don't protect grassland as much.
So what exactly was this journalistic effort trying to communicate? That planting of trees and shrubs in W.Australia has potentially remediated desert land after agricultural degradation? The story line and conclusion is kind of lost in the choppy and abrupt editing I would say. Some interesting trivia and observations though.
Let’s also talk about historical climate cycles, as we are currently experiencing the effects of three such cycles: the 90 year Gleisberg cycle plus the coming super El Niño, as well as the 400 year solar cycle, and the 12,000 year orbital cycle. Plate techtonics are reactive to the orbital cycle along with increased volcanism, earthquakes & more. It should be noted that other planets are also experiencing these cycle changes but the UNIPCC is utterly silent about this.
Well said, the alarmists only seem to repeat what other alarmists say. About time they produced some corroborative facts. Indiscriminate vegetation destruction is never a good practice, but a balanced approach by our farmers with the best current information is definitely in the MAJORITY in Australia.
What crazy comentry in Europe rite now farmers are being told to stop growing food Ukraine used to grow wheat that is now being burnt and more by order of European union.get the message to those who can do something.
But when people suggest solar panels across the width of the Sahara, some 'scientific' community oppose it saying it will change the climate cycles across the world.
@@b_uppy Spain isn't far from Morocco. Italy and Greece not far from Libya and Tunisia. Atleast a few containers of EV batteries can be recharged and sent back to source countries
Yep great, but without markets why would farmers and graziers bother? For instance, Europe has had punitive trade embargoes on Australia for generations and their favoured source of imported food and feed is from the deforestation of the Amazon. In order for Australia to rehabilitate land there must be secure markets and as Australia is flat out trying to sell what it currently produces there’s no likelihood for increased production.
In upland Scotland in the early 1990s I helped in carrying out a large scale biological survey for the then Nature Conservency Council. Two years ago I returned to the same areas I was responsible for surveying. The key species had gone from grasses to rushes and mosses indicating a much wetter environment. As this was in a nature reserve and there were no other possible causes other than higher rainfall and I have personally observed same in multiple locations I do not agree Scotland is drier.
Australia cries when it rains, and then lets rivers run to the Sea. Builds on flood plains then cries when there are floods! Does nothing to retain floods or build flood canals to let water elsewhere that's in Drought! So tough!
Desserts plays an important part in the mechanism that brings summer rain. The hot air over the desert rises fast causing convection current loop that brings rain. Turning deserts into forest might disturb this summer rain. The concrete roof-top in cities, which has increased many fold in past 20 years, might be propelling hot air into atmosphere triggering unusual rain pattern. If this turns out to be true, then the global warming is not how it is projected. While cutting down on harmful emissions is good, it shouldn't be a hype.
There is an answer to save the food supply. There are many You tube experts that advocate farmers should regenerate the land with fungi and graze cattle to double or triple soil organic content. There would be no need to fertilize the land. Fungi root inoculation can make all the needed N P K and the rest like Zn Ca and S.
There is nothing "alarmist" about being worried about where the planet's human population is going to do about the gigantic issues that are being created.
Look to Israel how its mastered the desert. There are plantations of banana, dates, cherries, citrus fruits & eucalyptus trees where there were no trees at all. They have employed kms of drip line water feed all using grey water. Well done for what you have achieved so far.
israel is a comparably small region, supplied by a regional river and kept in shape by decades of intense management. you can not apply that to a continent, especially not with vast region void of rivers and people. australia has about 3.x times the population of israel while having about 350 times the land mass a miss match of a factor of 100
@@raclark2730 yes .. methods that require high air humidity and fog or transportation of bilions of gallons of water. everything in australia far off any river is close to impossible to green with any reasonable invest and no .. transporting water via truck isn't reasonable for large scale
I keep saying and nobody listens, it is not about carbon, it is not about if you eat meat or eat soy which has enough phytoestrogen to turn men into weeping hand wringing messes. What it is about is not your footprint's size, you can stop being stressed out about it. It takes what it takes for you to live a decent life. Live it. The entire problem is that people keep making ever more people and the planet can only sustain between 2 and 3 billion of us, any more than that and you start to degrade the environment, the more you have the quicker the degradation. Yes we have pressed a lot of very marginal land into agriculture in the last 55 or 60 years, in fact we have doubled the acreage we use for agriculture in that time, the green revolution made it possible for the world to have plenty of food and starvation that was in the news constantly when I was a kid went away. But it is about to return because the Green Revolution required huge amounts of petrochemicals in the form of herbicides, pesticides, and especially fertilizers. ALL of these are made from feedstocks that are byproducts of oil refining for fuels. As we convert to rare earth battery power and electricity that fuel refining will end. When it ends so will all the petrochemicals that we use for making these chemicals and even plastics. When that happens we will see a sudden drop in food production drop by half from that land no longer being productive, it will return to it s former state. And, the land that is arable will see yields drop by as much as 30-40%. We will be approaching 9 billion people by then and yet will see a drop in crops produced by as much as 70%, and that is without even considering water problems that are getting worse with every passing year. At that point you can expect billions of people to starve in a fairly short order and even wealthier nations like the US will eat a lot less and what you eat will be much lower quality. I can see the American diet going from roughly 3,000 calories per day for an adult male to half that. America could get very rich off of food sales but it will not, as people starve food will be given to the starving rather than sold, the starving will have nothing of value to trade for food anyway. By the time they get to starvation their nations will have been stripped of anything anyone wants. The world will go back to 2-3 billion people and how you or I feel about it simply does not matter. So enjoy while you can, by 2037 you will be eating soylent. And if you want to sit in one spot and never go anywhere so you can shrink your footprint you should remember when you do all that you will accomplish by doing so is making it possible for other people around the world to fuck more humans into existence so that any sacrifices you make will just be swamped by ever more mouths to feed. People simply will not NOT control their reproduction. As long as they will not you can ask me to be more eco friendly and I will in turn just ignore you. You should feel free to take on the weight of the dying planet if that is what makes you happy, just know that it will do zero good.
They've recently developed a corn that grows in the tropics. Before that, corn could not be grown in the subtropical environment. It was about as successful as growing citrus in Minnesota. Corn will soon be grown in Africa, South America, and other regions straddling the equator.
'On average, 40% or more precipitation over land originates from evaporation and transpiration of water from vegetation' (2:48). Very sorry, stupid question here. Since agriculture consists of the growth of vegetation, what is the problem? And if farmers in Australia are devoting 'anywhere from 25-75% of their land to alternative cropping, dryland timber and forestry', how is that going to help wheat farming?
@@LeafofLifeWorld Thank you. So it's in fact not 'transpiration of water from vegetation' but ditto from 'tree cover' or maybe even 'from tree cover and roots': the former providing shade, the latter presumably deeper than the roots of cereals?
thank you so much for this valuable work! We need to move towards more perenial food sources or at least implement polycultural, regenerative systems into our cultivation of annual crops which we're all addicted to. Slowly people are waking up to the damage we are doing to the earth; there is hope!
Thank you for your continued support, you are totally right changes are happening andd people are waking up, we need to heal this planet from the damage we are doing!
@@LeafofLifeWorld"The damage we are doing"? You must be talking about the massive amount of environmental damage being done globally from the production and installation of 'green' infrastructure. The vastly increased mining. The toxic waste from processing the necessary materials. The toxic waste from many of the manufacturing processes. The toxic waste from the recycling processes, that is if they're not being buried. Do you have any idea of the scale of what is proposed to be done in all developed nations? Did you know that most of this infrastructure is being installed on agricultural land? Do you know how much wildlife is being destroyed? Do you know that once close-knit communities are being torn apart? Yes, you are right. We are very awake. Are you?
Absolutely love this video! Truly believe this is the way to have people see the benefits of greening is where there is layered ROI. Thank you for this video. Mark Shepard of Restoration ag fame does a great version of this in the US where the trees used produce food and livestock feed Andis managed in part by lovestock. The Savannah Institute is a great resource.
@@kellyda517 Actually carbon capture happens with well-managed 'regreening.' The soil is a great battery for carbon and the plant life does a good job of depositing it there. A well managed system would mean adopting plants dictated by the local biome, using food-producing, primarily perennial-, vine-, shrub- and tree- based polyculture system. It would be managed in part by livestock for reducing weeds, pests and adding fertility. This type of system recaptures carbon into the soil for several reasons: one is the seasonal regrowth cycle of larger plants root systems depositing large amounts of carbon. The second is the soil biota of mycelium, nematodes, bacteria etc also capturing carbon into the soil. Thirdly because we are no longer losing carbon-rich soil into the air, it builds up soil carbon quickly that way as well. Then we get the top dressing of carbon from the leaves, manure etc. Livestock raised/finished on diverse pasture also have superior nutrition, compared to several other feed types. If we include small, frequent rainwater-harvesting earthworks made from onsite materials we can increase water availability while increasing flood-, wildfire-, drought- and heat wave- resiliency. It would recharge watertables and aquifers. This would also have the knock-on benefit of more overall food, livestock feed, plant diversity, resiliency, reduce grid strain, relocalize food security, increase lumber and wood production, etc. In going away from annual ag/CAFO/monoculture/bare earth-fallow/synthetic chemical input model that releases CO² into the air we reverse the carbon loss cycle, and turn it into a carbon recharge cycle. We need to move away from synthetic chemical input as that greatly reduces carbon-capturing biota in the soil. We need to get away from the carbon capture plowing/dead earth/fallow because that means loss of soil biota, soil cover, soil cohesion, and it takes longer to get the amount of carbon capture with mature, established plants. CAFOs are bad because they create algae blooms, livestock stress and reduce fattening/'condition', extra management costs, manure management complications, more synthetic chemicals inputs, more shipping and infrastructure costs, etc. Overgrazing results in much slower regrowth of pasture and a direct loss in money as well as lower carbon capture. Monocultures need artificial lifesupport because the soil biota fails to thrive when there is a lack of soil exudates to nourish and maintain it. Science has learned a lot in recent years about the importance of healthy, diverse soil biota in producing healthy plants, managing fertility weeds, increasing overall nutrition, optimum carbon capture, etc.
The global population is NOT increasing. In fact, it has been falling since 1961 when The Pill was introduced, China's One Child policy and the movement of populations from rural areas to the cities. Families today average 2 children whereas 60 years ago the Boomers had 5 children. China's demographic is rapidly changing and by 2030, the elderly will surpass young workers. By 2050 China's population will fall from 1.3B to 650M. Alarmism is not warranted when the global population is not even replacing itself, hence countries like Australia, NZ Canada etc who have strong immigration in order to keep never ending economic growth alive.
not quite correct global birth rates have stabilised since the early 2000's but we are still seeing growth due to longevity it has however turned the corner and should be declining across the planet except africa over the mid to later part of this century
@@peterjohn3634 Not true. China's demographic is already in free fall. Look it up . Also look up Top 20 Countries with the Fastest Population Decline 2020-2050 (United Nations 2019). Human lifespan is now contracting not increasing. The Bob Hope generation men lived 80-90 years removing those who died in wars. Women longer. The Boomer men are living into their 60s-70s. Women longer. and having fewer children than the Bob Hope generation. Today, the USA has the highest infant mortality rate in the world exceeding that of 3rd world countries.
this video was full off inaccuracies and plan bullshit - population is declining . in one generation China will be 50% less than today due to its one child policy, India has reached its peak and will soon start declining too, yet the knuckle dragging alarmists keep telling us the planet is over populated
Great video - Thank you. In addition Some 50% of the worlds habitable land is put over to meat production. Meat production is the leading cause of deforestation. The hole on your presentation is bringing in alien species, such as sandalwood in Australia. The likelihood is that no local species can thrive on it. For example, oak which is native to the U.K. can support up to 10,000 different animals and insects. Sycamore, which was imported supports less than a hundred types of species despite growing in the U.K. for some six hundred years. We need to eat less meat and grow more native trees and shrubs.
@@LeafofLifeWorld I think my main points were that you missed out so many key environmental considerations. And, oaks are only great when they fit into the native ecological system. That is the point. Sandalwood support some species sure... How many compared to native species? It's all about joined up ecosystems when it comes down to it. Your video was great and I thank you for it and I don't want to focus on the negatives only.
Excellent review of Australia's land-use and public-policy crisis. With peak wheat prices and sustained demand for monocultures, this becomes an argument of profit vs. longer-term, wiser development. Australia cannot afford to ignore this challenge to its future.
The stupidity of supposedly intelligent people is endemic worldwide. This blog is interesting, but what happens to the wheat production so badly needed?
I hang around midwest WA in the wheatbelt on different farms(canola, oat, wheat, hay, sheep). We had 6 month of no rain with the highest recorded temps then our annual rain dumped in just a few weeks+more rain in winter but.... 😮 2024, we need a splash of rain in sept or the bumper crop might be an above average crop 2023 good year 2022 drought 2021 good year Farmings changed, grow in winter, use soil wetting agents, farm chores and holidays in summer, yet produce more, grow trees/shrubs on unproductive land.... the biggest change will be fully automated farms being trialed in 2025 but we dont tell people about what were doing 😉🤑
the commentary on the bog is wrong... planting trees in the bog is actually bad as is draining the bog for farming. More info on bogs here: th-cam.com/video/MtsQPV49cAk/w-d-xo.html
Wars are not helping , in Western Australia the Vietnam war , hundreds of thousands tons of phosphorus did not help farming , climate change can not blamed , wheat varieties pushed upon farmers and modified grain play a big part
Americans call it silvopasture. You grow rows of trees for timber and shade of pasture. Grass between rows of trees for cattle and sheep. Cattle and sheep encourage fertilization of grass which retains water longer and stops erosion.
Turning desert into green to the peril of the future. A Chinese Corp have purchased a great swathe over the great Aquifer and plans to install Hydroponic houses to grow tomatoes for export elusively to China. That Aquifer supplies water that has taken 10,000 years to accumulate and Australia sold the ability to drain all of the Western Territory fresh potable water at their leisure to the total benefit of China.
What a lot of nonsense , come to Central Africa ,see the devastation being caused by overgrazing of game ,elephants destroying trees through the ages ,millions of wildebeest , zebra ,buffalo etc ,very little agricultural activity
The prediction given is catastrophic so it is necessary to start planting alternative crops such as cactus to produce cochineal, red dragon fruit and other similar crops that require low water. Also planting forest at the edges of the farms or every 10 hectare 1(one) of forestry would be helpful. We have to start seeing the best alternative to overcome the socio economic problems that will be coming in the next few years. The Government will play an important and decisive role in this problem, coordinating with rural organizations and farmers also.
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How does the war in Ukraine upset world fuel and food, they don't much for export nor do they supply oil................May I add as an Australian OUR drought broke four years ago not sure where you get your data from but its highly misleading, guess it gets clicks though.
Actually, for whatever reason, the rising humidity in the Southern hemisphere is CREATING arable land in central Australia' periphery. Its estimated that if this keeps up, in as little as 25yrs, a lot of that land will be workable. - Whole new coniferous forrests are coming outta nowhere. Don't worry about trees there either. Most of the deciduous forests in the East and South, are thriving. Its a bit of a balancing act controlling them. For obvious reasons. Dunno why we're wasting food when we can just can it.
How convenient it is to forget about Bill Millison and David Holmgrens permaculture and call it regenerative natural management Named so permaculture hopeful would be forgotten Only after this 75 year old dies Absolutely disgusting
Last 3 years the wheat harvest has been so much bigger than expected, in WA, that the grain exporters have been forced to build extra storage silos because they can’t transport it out quick enough, nd there’s not enough ships to float it away
I work in Ag policy. Your comments about recent droughts in WA are incorrect. I appreciate what you channel is trying to achieve but misinformation is not the way. The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory has recently criticised Environmental Solicitors for exaggerating environmental and cultural claims in a recent Court case putting future funding for the organisation at risk. Spreading a message at any cost can have unexpected consequences!!
There is away to fix australia lands. Bring those beavers from U.K and U.S to Australia. Give up Farmlands and Rivers for Beavers to build their Wetlands all around Australia. But that is not going to make profit now. But will make profit in 100 years. Again. Nothing can change the way those businesses are running. Nothing can change the way those farms are running. Nothing can change the way those human are consuming their foods and products from those farms. Nothing can stop those farmers from farming sheep on grass lands instead of inside a forest. Nothing can stop those cows farmers to farm their cows in forest instead of grasslands. Nothing can stop those big farmers from turning big patches of lands into a single weats farm. Nothing can stop those farmers from turning a giant rainforest into a corn farm. Just as sad as it sound. As bad as it looks. As depressed as it going to be for the future of "Greening" australia. They are turning australia into a farm. Not a rain-forest. To turn australia into a rain-forest? Those Leaders and farmers need to change a lot of their old ways of farming and doing businesses.😂 bring Beaver to australia? Some will even say it is going to ruin the Old australia.
This film is a bit deceptive, monoculture farm aren't so much the issue, it's what poisons (including most fertilisers) are put on the land and how the land is managed that is causing the soil to become poorer over time and therefore less yields.
Don't dig water which has been there for millions of years because it will create sinkholes, the people of sahara are doing the same mistake, they found giant reserve of prehistoric water
Is this misinformation?Old Fashioned Crop Rotation would save a lot of this. Some Australian farmers are already trying to refurbish the land by planting trees in different parts of their land long ago.
monocultural practices from the 18th through 20th centuries are a problem on the canadian prairies too. as you suggest, they take away certain risks from farming, but they also expose us to other risks. it's always a balancing game
I will concede the existence of the climate change issue when environmentalists ultimately acknowledge that there is an excessive migration of people from large populations to places that cannot support an excessive population. I shudder and feel ill at this homicidal, so-called beneficial environmental action when I witness green activists hopping with delight over massive, huge wind power towers that are about to be built directly in the path of migrating whales off the coast of NSW, Australia. Governments who use these band-aid fixes and back green parties are engaging in a deranged form of disease.
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Absolutely love this video!
Truly believe this is the way to have people see the benefits of greening is where there is layered ROI.
Thank you for this video.
Mark Shepard does a great version of this in the US. The Savannah Institute is a great resource.
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i spent aday watching vids about it and ended up on your site amazing stuff the cycle of permaculture
im 10 months late to your post but wow am im amazed at how it starts from ocean to deserts to lakes the rivers to lakes wow
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During the Great Depression and "Dirty 30's" in Western Canada, Farmers were encouraged to plant trees around every field - to serve as wind-breaks, to stop soil erosion (the wind blowing away the dried soil), for shade and to encourage rainfall. This worked IMMENSELY WELL, and Western Canada returned to record-breaking productivity during WW2 and afterwards. Since the 1970's however - it seems many "Modern" farmers have forgotten WHY these trees were planted and have just removed them...... It's NOT going well for them.....
If it was originally forest, then he is reforestation with natural trees monocultrue? Surely monocultue only applies to single species tree plantations and/or non natives?
Unfortunately the demand around the world for low cost food is going to continue, so deforestation is never going to reduce.
I live in Thailand every year more and more forest, more accurately jungle, is burnt to clear land for crop production. This is repeated in neighbouring countries: Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, in an attempt to reduce the poverty levels of small land owners.
Not far from where I live about 80% of a significant sized mountain has been deforested, this has altered the local climate such that it's far hotter than another mountain just 60 KM away, which due to being a national park is still covered in jungle.
I appreciate the need to change farming practices, but it doesn't address a more crucial and permanent problem: poverty.
You can tell people as much as you like that trees are important for the long term health of the planet, but if burning down a forest will provide a crop income that will ensure your children don't go hungry, that forest is going to get burnt.
Australia has had three years of high rainfall and as such, its agricultural and horticultural industries have produced very high yields, nevertheless planting shelter belts and areas of trees will provide improvements over the longer term.
That's the point, isn't it? Short term high yields are not sustainable. If that arid land can be reclaimed it would be a benchmark for the rest of the world.
@@davidtuer5825 Consistent high yields are possible if you stay away from chemicals.
@@marschlosser4540 I don't understand what you mean.
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I live in south Western Australia and have a farm in the Great Southern. Since when have there ever been droughts in the S.W in the last 30 -40 years? The last 10 years we've had cool summers compared to previous summers so no global warming here mate. I don't know where the makers of this video are sourcing their information from, but it's news to me that the annual wheat harvest has plummeted. WA has always had a surplus which is why we are a big exporter of wheat.
We have had plenty of warm summers. Last one was easy, the year before we had the most 40 Deg days on record, 13 I think (in Perth)
Average rainfall has decreased, but drought is only really seen in the northern and eastern limits of the wheat belt.
But you are correct, we have seen increased crop harvests year on year almost constantly for 20 years now due to a raft of farming improvements.
Bugger all rain this year so far in Perth though. Only around 30mm this month (May)of an average of 100mm with a week to go...
Hope the Cockies get what they need🤞
The increased crop yields are due to the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
@John B Nope. They are due to better varieties, more reliable longer term weather predictions, improved fertiliser use and application for a start. Not to mention better soil management, grazing practices and pest and weed control
@@emceeboogieboots1608 and non of those things you pointed out would be any good without ample CO2 in the atmosphere for the plants to breath
All those trees planted, grow up ,then burn down creating more carbon ,these youngin's are getting fed doom from everywhere an believe weather is now called climate change and global warming, its just weather
Keep politics out of real work : farming.
As a Dutchman, I love the clear thinking that farmers have and do.
Cheers ❤
OMG ... too much bullshit in this video!
We have had bumper crops year in WA and Victoria
Being farmers, we check the weather daily. My father in law has logged weekly temperatures and rainfall since the 80's . He's conclusion to-date is - last ~7 years have been the wettest he has seen in a long time.
The fact that humans produce far more then we need and we waste so much food was not even mentioned in this dodgy video.
Or that Population is on the decrease globally.
As far as Scotland getting warmer ....it was warmer during the Roman Warm period., they even grew grapes then which they cant do today..
Today Greenland is mostly under ice,. the reason why the Nordics called it Greenland was because it used to be green and lush.
Australia is a vast area maybe your area is fine but that does not mean everywhere is, extremely wet weather can also cause erosion in desert areas, which isnt the best situation, since you loose valuable topsoil. the climate will shift soon since el nino is on the way. yes europe was supposedly warmer in midddle ages but thats not what we are talking about since that was effected by the increase in solar radiation also modified the atmospheric pressure system over the north Atlantic Ocean (North Atlantic Oscillation), which brought warmer winters and wetter conditions over northern Europe and most of north-eastern part of the North American continent. i dont think its right to just declare bull shit when you are talking from a very limited bias and limited understanding of the world without looking at other perspectives, it shows you feel threatened and because you are not able to communicate in a way that isnt defensive.
No , it's bullshit alright. 64 years living here and have friends all over the States. Please stop clutching at straws and stop your fear momgering. Go try it on another country where I don't live.
And please don't be so patronising and try to tell an Australian about his own country.
Reclaiming desert.. good idea.. but the rust is exaggerated rubbish
A farmer calling BS and not even pointing out that the grain being harvested in much of the "wheat" discussion looks more like oats than wheat... That's interesting. This video can be called on "the facts" in various ways without going fully political and asserting beliefs and talking points that may or may not be objectively supportable.
Anyway, on "Today Greenland is mostly under ice,. the reason why the Nordics called it Greenland was because it used to be green and lush.", Greenland was almost entirely under ice then as well. At best some coastal areas were more green than they are today. The ice sheet that covers the island is ancient.
Greenland was marketing name. It used to be green > 2 million years ago - before humans existed. However, after the selfish (individual profiting )Anglo-Saxon Industrial Re-Pollutions, all went bad.
@@LeafofLifeWorld *Yawn
Here in South Western Australia we've had bumper yields for the last few years. Sandalwood has a really good return which has driven its expansion. Our issue with soil salinity is real and lots of various remedies have been put to use for decades.
didnt they make some rice that is solt tolerant, maybe some other stuff can be grown now days
Barley and some other crops take up a lot of salts. One way South Africa is combating salt is slit trenches which saline water pools in. It can be pumped back to the river. Israel developed a lot of crops that are saline tolerant.
I think they are confusing the fact that thanks' too the export restriction's placed on Russia there is less wheat available too western market's.
Studies' are badly done nowadays .
Australia also had a triple dip la niña for the last three years. It was so cold that temperatures fell to... the historical average temperature.
Not saying the vid is entirely correct of course.
There's too many humans on the planet, the demand is huge on planet Earth. Human plaque is destroying all the ecology.
Wheat is a grass and it is being grown in the grassland regions, not formally forested areas. Grasslands cover many millions of acres around the world and they store 30% of all stored carbon. The grasslands carry herbivores both large and small animals; their populations are controlled by carnivores ( large and small). In Australia we once had giant kangaroos and diprotodons ( giant wombat like creatures) about the size of hippos to control these populations we had marsupial lions which were the size of African lionesses.
There are over 12,000 species of grasses and obviously the grasslands are not monocultures. Farmers are diversifying their crops and land use to break up the endless monocultures.
I call bull shit, the entire West Australian wheat belt, all the way to Kalgoorlie was dry land forest that was chained, windowed and burnt to grow wheat!
It's a bit of a stretch, and maybe disingenuous, to call Western Australia's eucalyptus woodland, and mallee scrub, grassland regions. Not forested doesn't make it a grassland.
Instead of large herbivores we have termites to eat spinifex which nothing else can, that is what happens in our "grasslands"
My initial thoughts and comments were pretty snarky, but honestly, hats off to you. It's good to hear about monoculturists diversifying or any move towards permaculture. Keep it up! It is extremely hard to face facts and change corporate farming practices in a get big or get eaten world. I hope you can help and teach others to do the same and more.
@@gregsutton6258 no spinifex country in Western Australia is being used for grain production, let’s be very clear about that. And @Chris Nore, With very few exceptions, all of WA’s massive 20 million tonne a year wheat production comes from country that was formerly eucalyptus woodland. The exceptions are largely eremophila shrublands on sandy soils. There were very few natural grasslands in the area now covered by the WA wheatbelt, pre European settlement.
Western Australia is actually enjoying a bumper crop this year and last.
Absolutely and in WA we are not experiencing higher temperatures either as claimed in the video. If anything, we have been getting cooler summers and milder winters. over the last few years due to the Grand Solar Minimum and pole shifts. There is only one thing that will reduce wheat output and that is if the government bans fuel as we have reached peak oil.
This is not the place for facts and truth. They have an agenda to push.
Get rid of global corporations
that have anything to do with farming would be a good start
we dont need them
@@yvanapantino273 🎉 ²😂
Hasn't rained much in SA mallee this year. Not much at all
unscientific sensationalism (alarmist opinionated)
the alarm has already been sounded mining, extraction, over exploitation, deforestation and desertification all causing havoc on the ecosystem, its not sensationalist, its a reality we are living with, but theres still a chance to turn it around
@@LeafofLifeWorld Mining has increased on a massive scale, particularly coal, as a direct result of the push for wind and solar. The demand for the raw materials to build this infrastructure is causing this. 82% of all the different materials mined globally are necessary to manufacture infrastructure for the green industry. Toxic waste from cradle to grave renewables is already extremely problematic and it will become far worse with the global transition. And of course people seem comfortable to overlook the humanitarian degradation in Africa and China. Slavery is an abomination, but more than 40,000 children are working in the unregulated copper and cobalt artisanal mines in Africa, and they are dying there too.
Mining is not going anywhere, they can't dig the holes fast enough. And since China manufactures most of the planet's renewables, 90% of Australia's, they will need the coal to fire up the coal-fired furnaces and power plants. They have more than a thousand coal-fired power plants and they are currently opening two new plants a week! That's a lot if C02. You see, we haven't actually reduced emissions anywhere in the world, we have simply exported them to China along with the jobs.
If you think that C02 is a problem you might want to consider the increase in global shipping as a direct result of the 'green' industry. Mined materials are shipped to China from all around the globe to be processed and manufactured into renewables infrastructure. The finished products are shipped around the globe and transported to their point of installation by massive diesel trucks that travel hundreds of kilometres to and from the ports for the duration of the project, sometimes 3 years. Shipping is one of the highest contributors of C02 and this too will increase with the global transition.
This is absolute madness, it's a complete farce.
Maybe Australian farmers should think about growing hemp. ("Hemp" is the non-psychoactive cousin marijuana.) From what I understand, hemp is an extraordinarily useful plant.
YES IT IS
They already are. it rejuvinates soil apparently.
There are people developing industry here in Western Victoria, but it is not a viable option until we can get a mill to process flax as well as the seed heads.
My sheep keep on eating my cannabis crop.
@@shanewilson2484 Get rid of the sheep. You will make more off the weed. 😂
Just like everything else, agriculture in general and food production in particular has and is continued to be messed up by ignorant and dumb politicians. And the dishonest median is supportive of this. The world could easily produce more than enough food for many times the world population.
What world do you live in mate we cant produce enough to support what is on earth now with out genetic modifications to everything we grow
Wake up mate
Problem with reforestation is a new monoculture. The video did not make clear that one problem is replaced by another one
At last somebody has realised that the CO2 emissions need trees to to take out the CO2 build up, to give shade, cool the atmosphere, and give back to nature.
C02 has been called 'plant food' for decades, maybe even centuries. The politics and advertising materials of electric vehicle manufacturers have kept that knowledge as suppressed as possible until they got established.
Global population is decressing.
Wow 👏 the last part of the video really surprised me 😮 it looks like paradise, this is how we should all live, I think we would be much more secure relying on trees 🌳 to increase our security for the future 💚
I live in western Australia and am so proud of what is happening.
Weve lost some valuable old trees in our area due to electrical lines. They are clearing all tress over 1000 feet on both sides of a major lines.
Why cant they start burying electrical lines that are insulated by layers of waste plastics made into large hoses to cover the live wires. Surely with all of the fast technical advances it seems that in order to save the trees and ground cover crops, the electrical companies should be finding ways to bury these lines. It would stop large forest fires from bad lines , conductors poles etc.
I firmly believe someone can invent a fireproof hose that would keep live wires under the ground from delivering sparks to fires and electrocution.
Easily done but don't whine about a 10 X increase in your bill!
That is too intelligent for the "quick fixers". You know the definition of insanity..."Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different outcome"!!!😳😵🤯
America went through this just before the Dust Bowl you would think people would learn from America's mistakes because we publish them openly
We better let the wise corporations take control and solve all our problems. NOT.
When European settlers first arrived in Australia for farming they were granted farm land by the government, but the rule was if they did not clear the land within a few years the state would take the land back, so early farmers clear felled everything to keep their farms, a big mistake the country is still paying for with species extinction and salinity.
yep thats what happened though many people dont want to admit it
What about the improvements in Israel 1867 Mark Twain described a desert where the cactus struggled , 1967the third largest exporter of citrus the Negev desert to productive farmland ,why was it not mentioned???????
@@stuartwilliams3164 Probably not mentioned as most fruit is not a diet staple. Rice, wheat, potatoes and corn is what feeds people. if Israel stopped exporting citrus tomorrow no one will starve. Ukraine reducing wheat exports caused a few ripples as it is a major exporter. If a few more dominoes were to fall, like Australia, USA, Russia or Canada some food importing nations will have trouble finding alternative suppliers.
MUCH STUPIDITY IN THE RESENT PAST
What a load of twaddle.
Plants open their cell during the day to take in carbon (carbon is plant food). Plants loose 100 parts of water for every 1 part of carbon they take in. We need to increase the amount of carbon in our atmosphere. This will allow plants to grow in arid regions as they will not loose as much moisture. If we decrease the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, plants will need more water to survive.
Plants are not just plants some species are adapted to loose less water, like many Australian species.
not necessarily in the atmosphere but around the plants
anyway...we have seen a major greening up all over the planet since carbon levels have gone up
Engineered crisis
i got a few minutes in and to stop to correct... everything..
the global human population is falling.. dangerously so.. for us that it..
we have been producing enough food to feed 14 billion for decades..
there is not and never was a food production shortage..
hunger comes from politics and greed not low production..
shall i go on..? next..!
in some countries its falling some it is rising,
@@LeafofLifeWorld "the GLOBAL human population is falling." sadly the falling outnumbers the steady and the rising.. surprisingly so..
Do not forget to talk about the massive solar farms and wind farms that have cleared more forests than much of the farming area.
In New Zealand damn near every tree between Gisborne and Wellington was cleared and we face the iinevitable consequences. No Government wants to deal with this and farmers continue to pretend they are the Lords of the Land, and can do what they damn well like !
This is the iterative feedback divergent causality of mass migration social disorder and continual never ending warring economies, since the latter day Rift and Nile Valley Pharaohs. Malaysia Sabah's primordial Garden of Eden is likewise undergoing desertification, when Palm Oil replaced logged out Tropical Primary Jungle.
Anybody who is making any change toward permaculture and away from the destructive corporate farm practices should be applauded, supported and encouraged. We need it in every form, large and small, local and regional.
Difficult to take this video seriously when a picture of Pont de Gennes at Les Rosiers-sur-Loire in France is used to illustrate an alleged drought in Australia.
The intro was generically talking about droughts across the world, it wasn't about Australia specifically until later on the video
Or when images of eucalyptus are used to promote sandalwood plantations. Such visual laziness reduces the credibility of the video, even if what it is saying g is substantially correct.
Also stop talking like a poor quality AI and be a real person.
Plant tall spreading shadows various trees from the seeds flowers fruits of which get daily needs and income such as Ritha jamun jackfruit ,banyan peeple shivan karanj cotton wood parijat kanchan shammi ashoka mango Shalmali drumsticks dates maulashri Indian coral tree ardu Rohida et. Or Plant suitable for Soil&climate of the regions. Will get cooperation from people since earn daily needs and income..generate employment. Will give boost economy, Will cover regions with lushly green forest
Capping CO2 is going to suffocate these plants. Just sayin.
01.30.2023 - By John Reidy CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - With wheat and barley leading the way, Australia is set for a third consecutive record grain crop and strong exports, according to a Global Agricultural Information. I doubt that this is mainly due to changes in land management.
Best way to green semi arid areas is to produce more C02 in the atmosphere . It's happening in Africa.
you need more than co2, you need water, light and nutrient
@@LeafofLifeWorld With increased levels of C02 you actually need less water.
yes years back I read about a project in south india where free tree seedlings were given. That area received much more rain and everybody was suprised...
As a farmer and soil scientist, who has also studied economics, I don't see a problem with "salinity" I call it poverty as that's the reason I have salinity. I have been involved in the industry all my life and now worked in the industry for 52 years. In that time our farm gate income for many products is as low as 5% as our production cost increases. Salinity is caused by low mineral levels in our soils, levels that were naturally low. By increasing our mineral levels, we would consume more water with more production, hence less salinity.
Some places need to be less concerned with trees and more concerned with what was natural. Turning an area that was grassland into forests is going to lead to some problems.
There alot of places where grassland is because of deforestation, Australia landscape is huge and they already working with the specific type of "country" which is local to the area specific when planting
@@LeafofLifeWorld Oh well now I know where you might be focusing. I just know as someone living in North America, I hear so much about trees when large parts of the middle were prairie 250 years ago. The Native Habitat Project has a lot on this. We protect trees but don't protect grassland as much.
Correct.
WOW, who would have ever thought trees were good? - thank GOD for the amazingly intelligent Scientists.......
Yep, lets all get out there and plant some native trees.
🌳👍
What insane discovery? sounds like permaculture and common sense.
I live in WA and the crops look just fine.
And errr...What's the insane discovery again ? I must have missed it.
You Cannot eat sandalwood !
So what exactly was this journalistic effort trying to communicate? That planting of trees and shrubs in W.Australia has potentially remediated desert land after agricultural degradation? The story line and conclusion is kind of lost in the choppy and abrupt editing I would say. Some interesting trivia and observations though.
Let’s also talk about historical climate cycles, as we are currently experiencing the effects of three such cycles: the 90 year Gleisberg cycle plus the coming super El Niño, as well as the 400 year solar cycle, and the 12,000 year orbital cycle. Plate techtonics are reactive to the orbital cycle along with increased volcanism, earthquakes & more. It should be noted that other planets are also experiencing these cycle changes but the UNIPCC is utterly silent about this.
What drivel! Maybe you should do a bit of proper research and not rely on the social media swamp of conspiracy therories.
Sources?
Well said, the alarmists only seem to repeat what other alarmists say. About time they produced some corroborative facts.
Indiscriminate vegetation destruction is never a good practice, but a balanced approach by our farmers with the best current information is definitely in the MAJORITY in Australia.
@youbigtubership this info is readily available on Ytube university channels.
@youbigtubership this info is readily available on Ytube university channels.
What crazy comentry in Europe rite now farmers are being told to stop growing food Ukraine used to grow wheat that is now being burnt and more by order of European union.get the message to those who can do something.
But when people suggest solar panels across the width of the Sahara, some 'scientific' community oppose it saying it will change the climate cycles across the world.
You also lose efficiency when you move electricity because of 'ohms'...
@@b_uppy Spain isn't far from Morocco. Italy and Greece not far from Libya and Tunisia. Atleast a few containers of EV batteries can be recharged and sent back to source countries
@@psatyaharish
Except that is far in terms of electricity.
Can solar panels really handle the extreme temperature changes in one of the hottest deserts in the world?
@@LeafofLifeWorld
Good point. In heat solar panels wear out much faster, for one.
Yep great, but without markets why would farmers and graziers bother? For instance, Europe has had punitive trade embargoes on Australia for generations and their favoured source of imported food and feed is from the deforestation of the Amazon. In order for Australia to rehabilitate land there must be secure markets and as Australia is flat out trying to sell what it currently produces there’s no likelihood for increased production.
Or population, especially those seeking welfare support.
Slow down migration and promote reinvigorating Aussie ingenuity.
Any video that uses the word INSANE in the title cannot be worth looking at.
Thats funny, but you still clicked on it, looked at it and left a comment
In upland Scotland in the early 1990s I helped in carrying out a large scale biological survey for the then Nature Conservency Council. Two years ago I returned to the same areas I was responsible for surveying. The key species had gone from grasses to rushes and mosses indicating a much wetter environment. As this was in a nature reserve and there were no other possible causes other than higher rainfall and I have personally observed same in multiple locations I do not agree Scotland is drier.
Australia cries when it rains, and then lets rivers run to the Sea. Builds on flood plains then cries when there are floods!
Does nothing to retain floods or build flood canals to let water elsewhere that's in Drought!
So tough!
Desserts plays an important part in the mechanism that brings summer rain. The hot air over the desert rises fast causing convection current loop that brings rain. Turning deserts into forest might disturb this summer rain.
The concrete roof-top in cities, which has increased many fold in past 20 years, might be propelling hot air into atmosphere triggering unusual rain pattern. If this turns out to be true,
then the global warming is not how it is projected. While cutting down on harmful emissions is good, it shouldn't be a hype.
If you are looking for brainy people do not look towards the government.
There is an answer to save the food supply. There are many You tube experts that advocate farmers should regenerate the land with fungi and graze cattle to double or triple soil organic content. There would be no need to fertilize the land. Fungi root inoculation can make all the needed N P K and the rest like Zn Ca and S.
Can someone just please tell me what the freaking discovery was?
LOL
There is nothing "alarmist" about being worried about where the planet's human population is going to do about the gigantic issues that are being created.
yes there is. too many humans look at prehistory #s
WA highest grain output and export ever this season (22/2023)
This new initiative must be working for them
Look to Israel how its mastered the desert. There are plantations of banana, dates, cherries, citrus fruits & eucalyptus trees where there were no trees at all. They have employed kms of drip line water feed all using grey water. Well done for what you have achieved so far.
israel is a comparably small region, supplied by a regional river and kept in shape by decades of intense management.
you can not apply that to a continent, especially not with vast region void of rivers and people.
australia has about 3.x times the population of israel while having about 350 times the land mass a miss match of a factor of 100
@@TheyCalledMeT All methods are scalable.
@@raclark2730 no, when the region is void of rivers, there's nothing to scale
@@TheyCalledMeTThere are methods that don't require rivers. Also there are inland rivers in Australia. Many that dwarf the Jordan in size and flow.
@@raclark2730 yes .. methods that require high air humidity and fog or transportation of bilions of gallons of water. everything in australia far off any river is close to impossible to green with any reasonable invest and no .. transporting water via truck isn't reasonable for large scale
I keep saying and nobody listens, it is not about carbon, it is not about if you eat meat or eat soy which has enough phytoestrogen to turn men into weeping hand wringing messes. What it is about is not your footprint's size, you can stop being stressed out about it. It takes what it takes for you to live a decent life. Live it. The entire problem is that people keep making ever more people and the planet can only sustain between 2 and 3 billion of us, any more than that and you start to degrade the environment, the more you have the quicker the degradation. Yes we have pressed a lot of very marginal land into agriculture in the last 55 or 60 years, in fact we have doubled the acreage we use for agriculture in that time, the green revolution made it possible for the world to have plenty of food and starvation that was in the news constantly when I was a kid went away. But it is about to return because the Green Revolution required huge amounts of petrochemicals in the form of herbicides, pesticides, and especially fertilizers. ALL of these are made from feedstocks that are byproducts of oil refining for fuels. As we convert to rare earth battery power and electricity that fuel refining will end. When it ends so will all the petrochemicals that we use for making these chemicals and even plastics. When that happens we will see a sudden drop in food production drop by half from that land no longer being productive, it will return to it s former state. And, the land that is arable will see yields drop by as much as 30-40%. We will be approaching 9 billion people by then and yet will see a drop in crops produced by as much as 70%, and that is without even considering water problems that are getting worse with every passing year. At that point you can expect billions of people to starve in a fairly short order and even wealthier nations like the US will eat a lot less and what you eat will be much lower quality. I can see the American diet going from roughly 3,000 calories per day for an adult male to half that. America could get very rich off of food sales but it will not, as people starve food will be given to the starving rather than sold, the starving will have nothing of value to trade for food anyway. By the time they get to starvation their nations will have been stripped of anything anyone wants. The world will go back to 2-3 billion people and how you or I feel about it simply does not matter. So enjoy while you can, by 2037 you will be eating soylent. And if you want to sit in one spot and never go anywhere so you can shrink your footprint you should remember when you do all that you will accomplish by doing so is making it possible for other people around the world to fuck more humans into existence so that any sacrifices you make will just be swamped by ever more mouths to feed. People simply will not NOT control their reproduction. As long as they will not you can ask me to be more eco friendly and I will in turn just ignore you. You should feel free to take on the weight of the dying planet if that is what makes you happy, just know that it will do zero good.
They've recently developed a corn that grows in the tropics. Before that, corn could not be grown in the subtropical environment. It was about as successful as growing citrus in Minnesota.
Corn will soon be grown in Africa, South America, and other regions straddling the equator.
Rain follows Trees..the right selections, soil mgmt, coastal?flood collection.. Find the right balance ♎
Crop rotation is needed at least 1 in5 as used to be common practice.
decades of global HEATING "?????a fraction of 1 degree.what will improve faming crop production is INCREASING OUR HISTORIC LOW C02 LEVELS.
Exactly! Unless you live in an already hot city there’s not much downside to the climate warming up a couple of degrees.
'On average, 40% or more precipitation over land originates from evaporation and transpiration of water from vegetation' (2:48). Very sorry, stupid question here. Since agriculture consists of the growth of vegetation, what is the problem? And if farmers in Australia are devoting 'anywhere from 25-75% of their land to alternative cropping, dryland timber and forestry', how is that going to help wheat farming?
Because the more tree cover, the moisture held in the ground, less erosion and reduced soil salinity so it helps agricultural output
@@LeafofLifeWorld
Thank you. So it's in fact not 'transpiration of water from vegetation' but ditto from 'tree cover' or maybe even 'from tree cover and roots': the former providing shade, the latter presumably deeper than the roots of cereals?
thank you so much for this valuable work! We need to move towards more perenial food sources or at least implement polycultural, regenerative systems into our cultivation of annual crops which we're all addicted to. Slowly people are waking up to the damage we are doing to the earth; there is hope!
Thank you for your continued support, you are totally right changes are happening andd people are waking up, we need to heal this planet from the damage we are doing!
And starvation !
Pity is based on lies
@@LeafofLifeWorld"The damage we are doing"? You must be talking about the massive amount of environmental damage being done globally from the production and installation of 'green' infrastructure. The vastly increased mining. The toxic waste from processing the necessary materials. The toxic waste from many of the manufacturing processes. The toxic waste from the recycling processes, that is if they're not being buried. Do you have any idea of the scale of what is proposed to be done in all developed nations? Did you know that most of this infrastructure is being installed on agricultural land? Do you know how much wildlife is being destroyed? Do you know that once close-knit communities are being torn apart? Yes, you are right. We are very awake. Are you?
We know the Emus are behind it.
There are actually more trees on the planet now than they were in the early 1900s.
But are they the right kind of trees? Or just monoculture planting?
They are the kind that change CO2 into oxygen
Bringing agriculture to the desert. How novel. Let us know how that works out.
There are ways to do it, Its been done for thousands of years in fact. Its about technique and crop. Some described in this very video.
There are more trees in the United States today that when the Europeans first arrived.
Absolutely love this video!
Truly believe this is the way to have people see the benefits of greening is where there is layered ROI.
Thank you for this video.
Mark Shepard of Restoration ag fame does a great version of this in the US where the trees used produce food and livestock feed Andis managed in part by lovestock. The Savannah Institute is a great resource.
Really glad you enjoyed the video so much 🌳💚😊
spot on, forget sillyness like carbon capture, reforestation is the way fwd.
@@kellyda517
Actually carbon capture happens with well-managed 'regreening.' The soil is a great battery for carbon and the plant life does a good job of depositing it there.
A well managed system would mean adopting plants dictated by the local biome, using food-producing, primarily perennial-, vine-, shrub- and tree- based polyculture system. It would be managed in part by livestock for reducing weeds, pests and adding fertility.
This type of system recaptures carbon into the soil for several reasons: one is the seasonal regrowth cycle of larger plants root systems depositing large amounts of carbon. The second is the soil biota of mycelium, nematodes, bacteria etc also capturing carbon into the soil. Thirdly because we are no longer losing carbon-rich soil into the air, it builds up soil carbon quickly that way as well. Then we get the top dressing of carbon from the leaves, manure etc.
Livestock raised/finished on diverse pasture also have superior nutrition, compared to several other feed types.
If we include small, frequent rainwater-harvesting earthworks made from onsite materials we can increase water availability while increasing flood-, wildfire-, drought- and heat wave- resiliency. It would recharge watertables and aquifers.
This would also have the knock-on benefit of more overall food, livestock feed, plant diversity, resiliency, reduce grid strain, relocalize food security, increase lumber and wood production, etc.
In going away from annual ag/CAFO/monoculture/bare earth-fallow/synthetic chemical input model that releases CO² into the air we reverse the carbon loss cycle, and turn it into a carbon recharge cycle. We need to move away from synthetic chemical input as that greatly reduces carbon-capturing biota in the soil. We need to get away from the carbon capture plowing/dead earth/fallow because that means loss of soil biota, soil cover, soil cohesion, and it takes longer to get the amount of carbon capture with mature, established plants. CAFOs are bad because they create algae blooms, livestock stress and reduce fattening/'condition', extra management costs, manure management complications, more synthetic chemicals inputs, more shipping and infrastructure costs, etc. Overgrazing results in much slower regrowth of pasture and a direct loss in money as well as lower carbon capture. Monocultures need artificial lifesupport because the soil biota fails to thrive when there is a lack of soil exudates to nourish and maintain it.
Science has learned a lot in recent years about the importance of healthy, diverse soil biota in producing healthy plants, managing fertility weeds, increasing overall nutrition, optimum carbon capture, etc.
You love the lies they are pushing, sw Australia has now got cooler wetter summers.
@TClan J Topsom
Who are you talking to? Who is 'they'?
Australia should start hauling icebergs from the antarctic to supply water to the inland also prevent eventually lower sea level that is rising.
On the topic of Western Australia there is a plan for a battery solar desalination project.
The global population is NOT increasing. In fact, it has been falling since 1961 when The Pill was introduced, China's One Child policy and the movement of populations from rural areas to the cities. Families today average 2 children whereas 60 years ago the Boomers had 5 children. China's demographic is rapidly changing and by 2030, the elderly will surpass young workers. By 2050 China's population will fall from 1.3B to 650M. Alarmism is not warranted when the global population is not even replacing itself, hence countries like Australia, NZ Canada etc who have strong immigration in order to keep never ending economic growth alive.
not quite correct global birth rates have stabilised since the early 2000's but we are still seeing growth due to longevity it has however turned the corner and should be declining across the planet except africa over the mid to later part of this century
@@peterjohn3634 Not true. China's demographic is already in free fall. Look it up . Also look up Top 20 Countries with the Fastest Population Decline 2020-2050 (United Nations 2019). Human lifespan is now contracting not increasing. The Bob Hope generation men lived 80-90 years removing those who died in wars. Women longer. The Boomer men are living into their 60s-70s. Women longer. and having fewer children than the Bob Hope generation. Today, the USA has the highest infant mortality rate in the world exceeding that of 3rd world countries.
this video was full off inaccuracies and plan bullshit - population is declining .
in one generation China will be 50% less than today due to its one child policy, India has reached its peak and will soon start declining too,
yet the knuckle dragging alarmists keep telling us the planet is over populated
@@peterjohn3634 Bang on
The world population in 1961 was just over 3 billion. Now it is over 7 billion - closer to 8 billion. So, it has more than doubled.
ah so you want to depopulate in a very passive aggressive way
who wants to do that?
#Permaculture
Great video - Thank you.
In addition
Some 50% of the worlds habitable land is put over to meat production. Meat production is the leading cause of deforestation.
The hole on your presentation is bringing in alien species, such as sandalwood in Australia. The likelihood is that no local species can thrive on it.
For example, oak which is native to the U.K. can support up to 10,000 different animals and insects. Sycamore, which was imported supports less than a hundred types of species despite growing in the U.K. for some six hundred years.
We need to eat less meat and grow more native trees and shrubs.
Sure oaks are great,
Its not true that no species can use Sandle wood as explained in the video it has been proven to he beneficial to some species
@@LeafofLifeWorld I think my main points were that you missed out so many key environmental considerations.
And, oaks are only great when they fit into the native ecological system. That is the point. Sandalwood support some species sure... How many compared to native species?
It's all about joined up ecosystems when it comes down to it.
Your video was great and I thank you for it and I don't want to focus on the negatives only.
Excellent review of Australia's land-use and public-policy crisis. With peak wheat prices and sustained demand for monocultures, this becomes an argument of profit vs. longer-term, wiser development.
Australia cannot afford to ignore this challenge to its future.
The stupidity of supposedly intelligent people is endemic worldwide.
This blog is interesting, but what happens to the wheat production so badly needed?
It’s INSANE!!! Absolutely & utterly INSANE!!! It’s MORE INSANE than all other INSANE finding! INSANE INSANITY it is!!!
I hang around midwest WA in the wheatbelt on different farms(canola, oat, wheat, hay, sheep). We had 6 month of no rain with the highest recorded temps then our annual rain dumped in just a few weeks+more rain in winter but....
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2024, we need a splash of rain in sept or the bumper crop might be an above average crop
2023 good year
2022 drought
2021 good year
Farmings changed, grow in winter, use soil wetting agents, farm chores and holidays in summer, yet produce more, grow trees/shrubs on unproductive land.... the biggest change will be fully automated farms being trialed in 2025 but we dont tell people about what were doing 😉🤑
world population is actually declining //
not the Indian population though. 2021 figures indicate Indian population growth at 0.8%, compared to US and China of 0.1%
the commentary on the bog is wrong... planting trees in the bog is actually bad as is draining the bog for farming. More info on bogs here: th-cam.com/video/MtsQPV49cAk/w-d-xo.html
Wars are not helping , in Western Australia the Vietnam war , hundreds of thousands tons of phosphorus did not help farming , climate change can not blamed , wheat varieties pushed upon farmers and modified grain play a big part
Americans call it silvopasture. You grow rows of trees for timber and shade of pasture. Grass between rows of trees for cattle and sheep. Cattle and sheep encourage fertilization of grass which retains water longer and stops erosion.
Turning desert into green to the peril of the future. A Chinese Corp have purchased a great swathe over the great Aquifer and plans to install Hydroponic houses to grow tomatoes for export elusively to China. That Aquifer supplies water that has taken 10,000 years to accumulate and Australia sold the ability to drain all of the Western Territory fresh potable water at their leisure to the total benefit of China.
What a lot of nonsense , come to Central Africa ,see the devastation being caused by overgrazing of game ,elephants destroying trees through the ages ,millions of wildebeest , zebra ,buffalo etc ,very little agricultural activity
The prediction given is catastrophic so it is necessary to start planting alternative crops such as cactus to produce cochineal, red dragon fruit and other similar crops that require low water. Also planting forest at the edges of the farms or every 10 hectare 1(one) of forestry would be helpful. We have to start seeing the best alternative to overcome the socio economic problems that will be coming in the next few years. The Government will play an important and decisive role in this problem, coordinating with rural organizations and farmers also.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
How does the war in Ukraine upset world fuel and food, they don't much for export nor do they supply oil................May I add as an Australian OUR drought broke four years ago not sure where you get your data from but its highly misleading, guess it gets clicks though.
Actually, for whatever reason, the rising humidity in the Southern hemisphere is CREATING arable land in central Australia' periphery. Its estimated that if this keeps up, in as little as 25yrs, a lot of that land will be workable. - Whole new coniferous forrests are coming outta nowhere.
Don't worry about trees there either. Most of the deciduous forests in the East and South, are thriving. Its a bit of a balancing act controlling them. For obvious reasons.
Dunno why we're wasting food when we can just can it.
How convenient it is to forget about Bill Millison and David Holmgrens permaculture and call it regenerative natural management Named so permaculture hopeful would be forgotten Only after this 75 year old dies Absolutely disgusting
Last 3 years the wheat harvest has been so much bigger than expected, in WA, that the grain exporters have been forced to build extra storage silos because they can’t transport it out quick enough, nd there’s not enough ships to float it away
I work in Ag policy. Your comments about recent droughts in WA are incorrect. I appreciate what you channel is trying to achieve but misinformation is not the way. The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory has recently criticised Environmental Solicitors for exaggerating environmental and cultural claims in a recent Court case putting future funding for the organisation at risk. Spreading a message at any cost can have unexpected consequences!!
There is away to fix australia lands. Bring those beavers from U.K and U.S to Australia. Give up Farmlands and Rivers for Beavers to build their Wetlands all around Australia. But that is not going to make profit now. But will make profit in 100 years. Again. Nothing can change the way those businesses are running. Nothing can change the way those farms are running. Nothing can change the way those human are consuming their foods and products from those farms. Nothing can stop those farmers from farming sheep on grass lands instead of inside a forest. Nothing can stop those cows farmers to farm their cows in forest instead of grasslands. Nothing can stop those big farmers from turning big patches of lands into a single weats farm. Nothing can stop those farmers from turning a giant rainforest into a corn farm. Just as sad as it sound. As bad as it looks. As depressed as it going to be for the future of "Greening" australia. They are turning australia into a farm. Not a rain-forest. To turn australia into a rain-forest? Those Leaders and farmers need to change a lot of their old ways of farming and doing businesses.😂 bring Beaver to australia? Some will even say it is going to ruin the Old australia.
This film is a bit deceptive, monoculture farm aren't so much the issue, it's what poisons (including most fertilisers) are put on the land and how the land is managed that is causing the soil to become poorer over time and therefore less yields.
Don't dig water which has been there for millions of years because it will create sinkholes, the people of sahara are doing the same mistake, they found giant reserve of prehistoric water
Is this misinformation?Old Fashioned Crop Rotation would save a lot of this. Some Australian farmers are already trying to refurbish the land by planting trees in different parts of their land long ago.
monocultural practices from the 18th through 20th centuries are a problem on the canadian prairies too. as you suggest, they take away certain risks from farming, but they also expose us to other risks. it's always a balancing game
I will concede the existence of the climate change issue when environmentalists ultimately acknowledge that there is an excessive migration of people from large populations to places that cannot support an excessive population. I shudder and feel ill at this homicidal, so-called beneficial environmental action when I witness green activists hopping with delight over massive, huge wind power towers that are about to be built directly in the path of migrating whales off the coast of NSW, Australia. Governments who use these band-aid fixes and back green parties are engaging in a deranged form of disease.
...oh, so thank you, you good doyinundah theenkaz n' deegaz!...a bracing hope you make!...so laudable!...please wish us up here good luck with our bedeviling icepack and permafrost loss problems...toy m' keeng'roo doyn, spot!...magnificent allies!...
Doesn't anybody notice the amount of floods in unusual places? We have been able to create rains snd detour hurricane since the late 60's
More than agriculture, it is the use of fossil fuels that has resulted in climate change. Agroforestry can reverse deforestation.