@@huntersmith8733 a square meter in remote areas of south americas costs less than 10 cents... You can't compare that to first world inner city real estate
I am lucky to live close to one of the National Parks ( Tompkins Pumalin) that Kristine and Douglas created . When I visited Pumalin 18 years ago it was such an inspiration for the conservation work I have done ever since. I wish more ( wealthy) entrepreneurs did the same thing and so make the world a livable place for many generations to come. Thank you Kristine for your persistence because I know it was a difficult road, especially in Pumalin, Chile. I hope one day you can see the 200 Alerce trees that we planted 17 years ago from the Vodudahue nursery and 44.000 other native trees from the Valdivian forest.
The Tompkins are legends in the field of rewilding that their influence had spread from here to Australia and that is outstanding. My father gifted me a North Face backpack ages ago, only to later realize that her late husband was the founder of it. With that in mind, I’m glad to carry that piece of his legacy and seeing the results of their work ever since I heard about Iberá National Park. May their names be remembered for all eternity.
Where we the useless eaters will be living in our slaves smart cities not ever allowed to leave or view these wonderful wildlands or if you escape the smart cities one if the millions of predators will eat us..people wake up to reality why you think predators are so important to them? Kind weird dint you think just predators
My uncle took over our 400 acre family cattle farm in Alabama. The streams were cloudy and the deer were sparse. He planted trees over the grass through a government program and the animals thrived and the water cleared. He did all this without ever making a fortune releasing forever chemicals into the environment and without an ounce of smugness or ill will. He’s retired and lives off hunting and the selected cutting of the new forest.
Lucky it should be All of us , Lucky that she have the Right mentality Not Broken inside , like many people that Don’t care I don’t know if you can Call that Lucky I CALL IT NORMAL But I Get the Point ❤
I read about rewilding under telephone lines in Europe. Networks of connected patches of land allowing animals, insects and birds safe corridors to travel.
Rewilding is THE THING. And not just patches, we need wilderness all around, so that people do not grow up without coming into contact with wild nature. Because the rewilding needs to include us, rewilding our souls by reconnecting our species with nature.
how can we if africans are just destroying animals habitats? they are domesticating them and they cannot undergo proper natural selection in domesticated conditions.
But how will it work? Where will the human population go? I'm a big fan of rewilding, but it seems like a fantasy dream when I consider our current state
@@denyoellamcy8251 Mega-reply incoming!!! Sorry, wasn´t gonna be this long, but, alas, it so happened, whoopsidaisy. It´s the subject. I can´t help myself :D I share your concern and doubt. Because it is indeed a fantasy dream... But it is also from dreams and imagination that new and different approaches can be harvested. So don´t let your critical thinking turn into despair, okay? Dream on! When I wrote ”wilderness all around”, I wasn´t thinking about everywhere being massive landscapes of complete wilderness, but a rethinking of planning to coexistance with wild nature. So I don´t mean that people need to ”go” anywhere (although some relocation will probably be necessary), but that we merge human habitation and other activities, with the natural landscape. Some short thoughts: Corridors is a big part of it, connecting wildlife everywhere so that wilderness becomes the ”backdrop” (however thin in places) to human infrastructure, instead of the other way aoround. I´m thinking a much finer web of habitat and corridors, than now. I imagine, instead of wilderness as islands in infrastucture, that this can be a tight knit infrastructure of interwoven wild and tech, (like ecoducts, suburban wild gardens, waterways, insect habitats) merging with the human landscape and smudging the lines between them. In other places the landscape could be turned the other way with tech being islands in stretches of wilderness. Which would mean setting land free to turn wild, that is now domesticated land. Changing the way we eat is crucial to set land free. I´m not talking everyone going vegan, but eating much less animal products, and of a completely different kind, is key. Animals grazing can make a very good ecological contribution if done in appropriate places, but the vast majority of animal fodder is grown, processed and then fed to them. (Millions of animals never see the sun.) The numbers vary,, but everyone agrees that the part of agricultural land used for farming animal feed, is enormous, I´ve seen numbers from 50-80%. This is a problem, but above all it´s a possibilty; so much land potentally wild! (How plant based human food is grown, need to change in some places as well obviously. The agricultural landscape hold great potential for the kind of interwoven-ness I´m talking about. Same goes for forestry.) Foremost, I believe it is key that we reevaluate ourselves, stop seeing ourselves as ”other” than nature. Not only on an intellectual level, because many people are aware, and don´t dispute, that we are animals, but they still don´t identify with the wild. The real realization is not an intellectual one, the paradigmal shift of consciousness that is required to re-identify oneself to the core, takes imagination and empathy. What ever we do as an animal species, nature is doing to itself. Whatever we do to nature, we are doing to ourselves. There is no separation. We are not perpetrators, nor is nature a victim. We as a collective will likely not be able to do large scale rewilding, if it is something ”we” as subject do for ”nature” as an object to our disposal and mercy. So when I write about ”rewilding our souls” in the first comment,, I´m not being poetic, I mean it quite literally. The rewilding of our hearts and minds is not something else than rewilding done ”out there”, like releasing beavers. They are parts of the same whole. Each person building an ”ecoduct” from their inner world, reconnecting it to the basic manifold unity of all life, is doing their part of liberating us collectively from our self proclaimed otherness. You Tube has an annoying habit of disappearing my replies sometimes. I hope this reaches you, and that you can reap something good from it. Thank you for sharing your concern. I usually don´r write long replies anymore, because it is so disheartening when YT gets them lost... (it´s not cencorship, it´s an annoying f-ing bug in their system) This was supposed to be short and blunt...but rewilding is dear to my heart and I gotr a little carried away :D
@@denyoellamcy8251 Mega-reply incoming!!! (second atempt to post...) Sorry, wasn´t gonna be this long, but, alas, it so happened, whoopsidaisy. It´s the subject. I can´t help myself :D I share your concern and doubt. Because it is indeed a fantasy dream... But it is also from dreams and imagination that new and different approaches can be harvested. So don´t let your critical thinking turn into despair, okay? Dream on! When I wrote ”wilderness all around”, I wasn´t thinking about everywhere being massive landscapes of complete wilderness, but a rethinking of planning to coexistance with wild nature. So I don´t mean that people need to ”go” anywhere (although some relocation will probably be necessary), but that we merge human habitation and other activities, with the natural landscape. Some short thoughts: Corridors is a big part of it, connecting wildlife everywhere so that wilderness becomes the ”backdrop” (however thin in places) to human infrastructure, instead of the other way aoround. I´m thinking a much finer web of habitat and corridors, than now. I imagine, instead of wilderness as islands in infrastucture, that this can be a tight knit infrastructure of interwoven wild and tech, (like ecoducts, suburban wild gardens, waterways, insect habitats) merging with the human landscape and smudging the lines between them. In other places the landscape could be turned the other way with tech being islands in stretches of wilderness. Which would mean setting land free to turn wild, that is now domesticated land. Changing the way we eat is crucial to set land free. I´m not talking everyone going vegan, but eating much less animal products, and of a completely different kind, is key. Animals grazing can make a very good ecological contribution if done in appropriate places, but the vast majority of animal fodder is grown, processed and then fed to them. (Millions of animals never see the sun.) The numbers vary,, but everyone agrees that the part of agricultural land used for farming animal feed, is enormous, I´ve seen numbers from 50-80%. This is a problem, but above all it´s a possibilty; so much land potentally wild! (How plant based human food is grown, need to change in some places as well obviously. The agricultural landscape hold great potential for the kind of interwoven-ness I´m talking about. Same goes for forestry.) Foremost, I believe it is key that we reevaluate ourselves, stop seeing ourselves as ”other” than nature. Not only on an intellectual level, because many people are aware, and don´t dispute, that we are animals, but they still don´t identify with the wild. The real realization is not an intellectual one, the paradigmal shift of consciousness that is required to re-identify oneself to the core, takes imagination and empathy. What ever we do as an animal species, nature is doing to itself. Whatever we do to nature, we are doing to ourselves. There is no separation. We are not perpetrators, nor is nature a victim. We as a collective will likely not be able to do large scale rewilding, if it is something ”we” as subject do for ”nature” as an object to our disposal and mercy. So when I write about ”rewilding our souls” in the first comment,, I´m not being poetic, I mean it quite literally. The rewilding of our hearts and minds is not something else than rewilding done ”out there”, like releasing beavers. They are parts of the same whole. Each person building an ”ecoduct” from their inner world, reconnecting it to the basic manifold unity of all life, is doing their part of liberating us collectively from our self proclaimed otherness. You Tube has an annoying habit of disappearing my replies sometimes. I hope this reaches you, and that you can reap something good from it. Thank you for sharing your concern. I usually don´r write long replies anymore, because it is so disheartening when YT gets them lost... (it´s not cencorship, it´s an annoying f-ing bug in their system) This was supposed to be short and blunt...but rewilding is dear to my heart and I gotr a little carried away :D
@@denyoellamcy8251 I posted a long reply that YT wouldn´t let me post. So, in short: I share your concern and doubt. Because it is indeed a fantasy dream... But it is also from dreams and imagination that new and different approaches can be harvested. So don´t let your critical thinking turn into despair, okay? Dream on!
Im All for this. The restoration of planet Earths nature ecosystem of flora & fauna. The expansion of native wildlifd parks in every country and the growth of technology and new ways to house people can work hand in hand. Immense gratitude to giants like these who have achieved this feat. They should both be household names in every family, yet l have never heard of them before. l hope l live to see the day this is happening in Australia and New Zealand .. everywhere.
There should be global laws that reduce human expantion and limit it to certain land area. We dont need to spread on every inch of the planet and agriculture is no longer needed to be made horizontally
Necessary work full of reciprocity for our own well-being and all of the soil, the ecosystems, and high nutritional value of an extensive food chain. To our peace and health around the world. Love this brilliant necessary work.
"Rewilding our mind." This is great to life in our planet! I'm from Brazil end our Cerrado, Pantanal, Caatinga, Amazônia, Pampas, Mata Atlantica wilderness is calling for wilding... Thanks for the ideias and actions
I don't want to say this and I hate saying its something we have been doing and we still do it and that is AGRICULTURE. For the natural habitats its been the world's biggest leading cause of land-use and habitat loss!
At least try meatless meals, once a week maybe? That would help slow down clear-cutting for pasture. But I hear you, those poor plants. I'm forever apologizing to lettuce.@@canadiangemstones7636
The interesting thing about this is that when humans first started growing crops, it actually led to an increase in biodiversity, as they practiced crop rotation and grew a variety of plants. In some cases, and disturbing the soil can be beneficial for many groups of plants. Modern practices like growing monocultures and using pesticides, among other methods, are indeed very harmful to the earth.
If every person had a goal, to save wetlands, ancient forests, seascapes, etc, and some of those people might get wealthy, and if so, they spend their money on this, instead of luxury private planes or yachts ... we would be such a healthy, abundant, better planet.
I'm 74 and have made a priority of spending as much of my life as possible on long trips backpacking, bicycle touring, paddling and sailing in many of the wildest places on the planet. It has been heartbreaking to see the 6th great extinction occurring during my lifetime. With the human population still increasing and habitat loss still accelerating, I don't have much hope we will be able to avoid the worst effects of species loss.
This gives me hope that other parts of the world will get this courage to try and rewild at a larger scale, because in order for wilderness to thrive, it really should thrive everywhere.
We all have the power to rewild our corner of the world. Let the daisies grow. Buy less stuff. Choose plants not animals on your plate . Explore your country and shun long haul flights. So many options several times a day to live more kindly to wildlife , even though I live in the city. It's not easy, but I do the best I can, until I am buying millions of acres of wild land !!
I hope this touches the hearts of all the other CEOs and billionaires out there who can make effective change. This has shown me that the cure is funding. Buying up land and leaving it alone instead of exploiting it for profit. Funding environmental folks to help key species return.
If even a small fraction of the world’s wealthy people took this approach, massive change could be made. Nature deserves our protection. If you don’t have money, invest your time and effort into local conservation efforts. Eat in a way that’s less damaging to the environment. Reduce your plastic and waste. Everyone can make a difference!
I dont think you have to be rich to make a difference. Anyone dedicated to this cause can make a difference. From the humble farmer who decides to plant a few fast growing exotic trees for firewood in stead of chopping down a 1000 year old Alerce, to the teacher in a rural school teaching the kids about keeping the rivers clean and not shooting owls and so on can make a tremendous difference. We know a couple here in Chile that are propagating native trees, plants and flowers and planting them in all kinds of bare spaces in a city without outside resources. Saying that, I really appreciate and laud wealthy people who embark on projects to conserve nature. I've visited Parque Pumalin already and experienced the beauty of it. So that is wonderful but as she said a community who can embrace conservation to the fullest is wonderful too.
Many organisms will be fine with microplastics and a hotter climate. The athmosphere exists because of earths gravity and magnetic field. We will probably not change those much. Some bacteria don't need oxygen. At the very least there will be life at undersea volcanoes which gets it's energy from chemosynthesis. And after a few hundred million years nature will probably be back thriving.
problem is we are not only "self" destroying.... we´re taing everything with us... But sure, life will eventually thrive again... it always adapt, hope we are still here to see it
@@twilit We're not on a path to completely destroy the atmosphere, though; only on one that would return to a carbon-saturation point unseen since the carboniferous period. The extremely rapid transition to that state we are on would indeed cause/ continue a planet-wide extinction event and likely collapse civilization as we know it. It would not, however, take all life with it. A flourishing and evolutionary expansion event would certainly follow; just as it happened after the 5 previous mass extinctions.
Today, with floods in the eastern states, it should be obvious that all flood plains should be rewilded and returned to the wild animals and plants. The cost of fixing unwise human development has colossal costs! It would be cheaper for the government to buy the land and remove the structures, including roads and dikes that pinch river channels.
And where would all the people go? What if we don't want to sell our piece of paradise? Oh yes I know Emanate Domain? Small compensation for a person's life work? Are you willing to give up your home for it to be demolished and returned to wilderness and be shoved into a city. Not me. I resist. My piece of paradise is wild enough.
Well done! I Think there’s a real role for wealthy people to do something substantially. And if rewilding on a large scale is not possible, then, maybe on a small scale. Like buying agricultural land and transferring it to organic farming in order to help the bacteria and insects survive.
Wonderful life path Kristine, joy truly is in our visions and spending time in pristine nature, "joy is within us, not in things." Yes keystone species are key to supporting the whole eco-system. I always think how amazing bees/ a keystone species are without bees higher mammals inc. humans could not exist. Eating plant based helps too reduces deforestation for raising cattle, plant based eating lots of vegs/fruit/beans avocados for healthy fats some people eat fish ie. in Japan whose life expectancy is increasing y/y they also spend lots of time in nature 2/3rds of Japan is parks.
how can we? elon musk keeps helping africans and they are destroying wildlife habitats and forcing animals to suffer in domesticated conditions where they cant undergo proper natural selection. they are most likely going to turn to genetically modifying plants as well. maybe we should promote climate change to speed up extinction. then earth can restart and there will be no more exploitation done to wildlife.
I know that no human is perfect... I've heard Patagonia has done a good amount of destruction in other countries.... But.... at least they are trying to make things right in some places. We need more rich people to care about the Earth at least as much as these guys do.
She got rich so can crow about her "legacy." It kind of makes me sick hearing her boast. How many gallons of jet fuel has she burned in her life promoting a healthy ecosystem? How many mansions does she own around the globe? How many fawning servants serve her tea while her family jet sets? She bought nature.
Miss Tompkins thanks for all you've done... I want to live knowing I did all that I could to save the natural world but it feels so hopeless when I know the corporations and lobbyists will fight tooth and nail
REWILDING IS THE ANSWER! But what about socio-economics and politics of land-use such as agriculture? Agriculture used both for crop cultivation and livestock production is humanity's biggest land-use covering 44% of the world's landmass as it is and has been the leading and root cause of habitat loss. People throughout most of history have been converting vast tracts wild habitats into agricultural fields which can also be seen on satellite imagery Google Earth!
I think the first major step is more plant based meals and better meat alternatives. Of the 44% agricultural lands, about 80% is used for animal agriculture. crops for human consumption are not the main problem, animal agriculture and crop cultivation for animal fodder are the elephant in the agricultural room. Now, there are a lot of alternatives for meat and dairy in the making but many are bombarded with policy that hamper their industries, policy that is made up under pressure of the agrculture lobby. What we need is regenerative agriculture and meat that comes from rewilding projects such as Knepp or from lab grown projects.
@@marr123n The area data for this comparison is not really an equal one. A broad acre crop is total, grazing can be partial. For example places like Australia have cattle stations have areas the size of small countries. This is the on paper area figure only. Not all of the land in set area is used for grazing all the time or at all. Grazing can have a place were savannah, grasslands and meadow biomes are part of the natural order. That should also only involve numbers that the soil itself can provide for. Totally agree that the import fodder practice has to go. There is also the matter of exotic animals in their teeming millions. If they were properly utilized at scale this would also help take pressure of natural systems. Make mine a fillet of Tilapia with fresh Asian seasonings. Ile pass on the lab meat.👍😎. au
@@raclark2730 absolutely, that’s exactly what I meant with meat from rewildingprojects. Intensive grazing is ridiculous and destroys the land. Extensive grazing can restore the land and increase biodiversity in places where native megafauna is lost such as the majority of Europe. The only thing to watch out for is that our grazing animals don’t directly compete and through that negatively affect native grazers if they are there. In any case, extensive grazing can be used to increase biodiversity by replacing most native fauna if done right!
That's it. Thank you. If we can do 2% a year. The earth will return in a mere 50 years. By example, it's taken 50 years: but in north eastern Canada tens of thousands of lakes once "dead" from acid rain are now back to normal. Only 2% are still dead. 40% are still recovering. But 60% are now returned. Act!
This model manes more people will live in cities who depend on industrial farms. The wilderness model is based on Muir's effort who literally pushed for the native people to be removed from Yosemite so he could me it a park.
As a fauna, myself, I agree in expansion of territories that support an ecosystem that I can thrive in. Have we "conquered" the wilds? Or have we doomed them? As humans, we do create a lot of waste, and we exploit our environment to dangerous levels. Make it economically beneficial, and everyone will jump on board - as we've seen with industrialization, and we could also see with conservation. Else, really the only species we need to hang onto are the ones we consume (plant, animal, & fungi), and those who play roles in our human agriculture (pollinators, pest control, aerators, & organic matter). We have the technology and ideas to be more symbiotic with nature, and less parasitic.
Well, corporations and CEOs are absolutely the wrong model and mindset if we want to save nature. The right mindset would be relatives--all these other species are family so we need to protect them.
Absolutely 🙌 Protect the Land, then actively Steward the Land. Too often we set land aside as “protected”, only to have serious ecological loss due to the “Hands Off” approach. The land Tompkins set aside in Chile was actively Stewarded by Indigenous Peoples for time immemorial before colonization. So, is that was is being done with the Land being “protected”? If not, it needs to be. I advise looking to the Indigenous of the southern Chile region. Keep up the good work 👏
I think the main issue is centralized purveyors of information. They act as sort of gate keepers to information people need to hear to reach the point of understanding. They might not realize it, but they are controlling the narrative in a non productive fashion. Once conversation about such topics are normalized in regular conversation, then the problem will be solved.
I sometimes wish for the downfall of human civilization. We've been such awful caretakers of our planet. I'm often ashamed of my species, and I'm part of the problem too. I hear stories like this, and it temporarily uplifts me, but I know we're doing more harm than good. We're quickly losing a battle with ourselves. I wish I had the resources to help on this scale, but I'm afraid I'm just another consumer who does little more than consume. Too few of us deserve the space we inhabit.
@@Thewritingisonthewallforusall My husband and I have been married for over 30 years, no kids. It can be done without a fall of civiliztion, but more people need to commit to fewer kids.
it wont happen. population growth is getting worse and trump are trying to win presidency where him and jd vance will force people to have kids. there cant be rewilding if humans are on the planet growing at a fast rate. there can only be deforestation and more destruction to nature.
Fantastic and uplifting talk!! I do wish, however, that this video was accurately titled. It's not a plan for the Earth, it's a plan for South America. I understand that keystone and apex predator species are key, so maybe that's why they titled it this way...?
I saw a big terrifying spider in my pool the other day and I allowed to live (I helped it out of the pool). This is my contribution to saving the planet.
Commendable! Every little bit. In a million years, when arachnids are the dominant, sapient lifeform on this world, they might have you to thank for saving their progenitor.
A radical idea 💡 Replace the asphalt roads with Earth roads made of soil and small stones. Replace heavy steel automobiles with lightweight lifted 4x4 vehicles which run on energy, which does not pollute the planet. Develop land bridges or tunnels which go above or below the roads so that animals may have a safe passage.
May all of you that fight, and speak in the name of our beautiful priceless Earth have the deepest most sincere respect of all beings great, and small. May the greedy dark hearted, and destroyers of this world reap the whirlwind.
@@jjgrenwich264 Yes and they left things to their wildness, without domesticating or trying to subjugate them. Hunting was not sport, it was for sustenance.
I so love what has been achieved here but sparsely populated lands are not where the problem lies. Our sprawling cities and their monstrous suburbs are what is killing our planet. Let's tell it like it is a put the blame where it belongs, that is with human ambition and population growth.
keeping humans contained to certain areas and holding wild land away from human development is the point. sparsley populated lands today are tomorrows sprawling suburbs and cities unless they are protected.
This is an oversimplification. If you design a city the right way it can actually be far more eco-friendly than a rural area of the same population, mainly due to the fact that 1. Less land is required and therefore 2. Fewer motor vehicles are required for people to get from point A to B on a daily basis meaning 3. Less CO2 is emitted on a per-person basis. Humans occupying less land and emitting fewer Greenhouse gasses would expedite rewilding efforts enormously. Well-designed walkable cities can help with that. Of course if we’re designing cities to be exclusively traversable by personal car like is the case in a lot of US cities especially in the Sun Belt, then yes, what you say is completely correct.
This woman and her husband bought over 2 million hectares to protect the habitat. Seascapes too. Absolutely amazing
And they gave it to the people of the nations in which they bought it. Now that is true heroics.
Must be nice. The rest of us slave away to buy 100 square meters.
@@huntersmith8733 Very true. Not to mention the legalities involved when you actually want to raise fertility in a natural way.
They also made tons of waterproof clothing with PFAS and other toxins that will go into the ecosystem and never leave.
@@huntersmith8733 a square meter in remote areas of south americas costs less than 10 cents... You can't compare that to first world inner city real estate
I am lucky to live close to one of the National Parks ( Tompkins Pumalin) that Kristine and Douglas created . When I visited Pumalin 18 years ago it was such an inspiration for the conservation work I have done ever since. I wish more ( wealthy) entrepreneurs did the same thing and so make the world a livable place for many generations to come. Thank you Kristine for your persistence because I know it was a difficult road, especially in Pumalin, Chile. I hope one day you can see the 200 Alerce trees that we planted 17 years ago from the Vodudahue nursery and 44.000 other native trees from the Valdivian forest.
Beautiful.
Thank you Kristine, from the deep of my heart, for helping protect nature in my country, Argentina.
The Tompkins are legends in the field of rewilding that their influence had spread from here to Australia and that is outstanding. My father gifted me a North Face backpack ages ago, only to later realize that her late husband was the founder of it. With that in mind, I’m glad to carry that piece of his legacy and seeing the results of their work ever since I heard about Iberá National Park. May their names be remembered for all eternity.
“If your life goals can be achieved in your life time, then your not dreaming big enough…” - gr8 ted talk on conservation !!
A future with wildness, abundance and dignified human communities is a beautiful and necessary vision. Brilliant TED Talk. Thank you.
Where we the useless eaters will be living in our slaves smart cities not ever allowed to leave or view these wonderful wildlands or if you escape the smart cities one if the millions of predators will eat us..people wake up to reality why you think predators are so important to them? Kind weird dint you think just predators
My uncle took over our 400 acre family cattle farm in Alabama. The streams were cloudy and the deer were sparse. He planted trees over the grass through a government program and the animals thrived and the water cleared. He did all this without ever making a fortune releasing forever chemicals into the environment and without an ounce of smugness or ill will.
He’s retired and lives off hunting and the selected cutting of the new forest.
Wish more people were listening, the bit about having to connect these wilderness areas is so true, very important.
Humanity is lucky to have angels like Kristine and Douglas giving their life to nature. Eternal thanks ❤
Lucky it should be All of us , Lucky that she have the Right mentality Not Broken inside , like many people that Don’t care I don’t know if you can Call that Lucky I CALL IT NORMAL
But I Get the Point ❤
Those angels are hypocrites
I read about rewilding under telephone lines in Europe. Networks of connected patches of land allowing animals, insects and birds safe corridors to travel.
Rewilding is THE THING. And not just patches, we need wilderness all around, so that people do not grow up without coming into contact with wild nature. Because the rewilding needs to include us, rewilding our souls by reconnecting our species with nature.
how can we if africans are just destroying animals habitats? they are domesticating them and they cannot undergo proper natural selection in domesticated conditions.
But how will it work? Where will the human population go? I'm a big fan of rewilding, but it seems like a fantasy dream when I consider our current state
@@denyoellamcy8251
Mega-reply incoming!!!
Sorry, wasn´t gonna be this long, but, alas, it so happened, whoopsidaisy. It´s the subject. I can´t help myself :D
I share your concern and doubt. Because it is indeed a fantasy dream... But it is also from dreams and imagination that new and different approaches can be harvested. So don´t let your critical thinking turn into despair, okay? Dream on!
When I wrote ”wilderness all around”, I wasn´t thinking about everywhere being massive landscapes of complete wilderness, but a rethinking of planning to coexistance with wild nature. So I don´t mean that people need to ”go” anywhere (although some relocation will probably be necessary), but that we merge human habitation and other activities, with the natural landscape.
Some short thoughts:
Corridors is a big part of it, connecting wildlife everywhere so that wilderness becomes the ”backdrop” (however thin in places) to human infrastructure, instead of the other way aoround. I´m thinking a much finer web of habitat and corridors, than now. I imagine, instead of wilderness as islands in infrastucture, that this can be a tight knit infrastructure of interwoven wild and tech, (like ecoducts, suburban wild gardens, waterways, insect habitats) merging with the human landscape and smudging the lines between them.
In other places the landscape could be turned the other way with tech being islands in stretches of wilderness. Which would mean setting land free to turn wild, that is now domesticated land.
Changing the way we eat is crucial to set land free. I´m not talking everyone going vegan, but eating much less animal products, and of a completely different kind, is key. Animals grazing can make a very good ecological contribution if done in appropriate places, but the vast majority of animal fodder is grown, processed and then fed to them. (Millions of animals never see the sun.) The numbers vary,, but everyone agrees that the part of agricultural land used for farming animal feed, is enormous, I´ve seen numbers from 50-80%. This is a problem, but above all it´s a possibilty; so much land potentally wild!
(How plant based human food is grown, need to change in some places as well obviously. The agricultural landscape hold great potential for the kind of interwoven-ness I´m talking about. Same goes for forestry.)
Foremost, I believe it is key that we reevaluate ourselves, stop seeing ourselves as ”other” than nature. Not only on an intellectual level, because many people are aware, and don´t dispute, that we are animals, but they still don´t identify with the wild. The real realization is not an intellectual one, the paradigmal shift of consciousness that is required to re-identify oneself to the core, takes imagination and empathy.
What ever we do as an animal species, nature is doing to itself.
Whatever we do to nature, we are doing to ourselves.
There is no separation. We are not perpetrators, nor is nature a victim.
We as a collective will likely not be able to do large scale rewilding, if it is something ”we” as subject do for ”nature” as an object to our disposal and mercy.
So when I write about ”rewilding our souls” in the first comment,, I´m not being poetic, I mean it quite literally. The rewilding of our hearts and minds is not something else than rewilding done ”out there”, like releasing beavers. They are parts of the same whole. Each person building an ”ecoduct” from their inner world, reconnecting it to the basic manifold unity of all life, is doing their part of liberating us collectively from our self proclaimed otherness.
You Tube has an annoying habit of disappearing my replies sometimes. I hope this reaches you, and that you can reap something good from it. Thank you for sharing your concern. I usually don´r write long replies anymore, because it is so disheartening when YT gets them lost... (it´s not cencorship, it´s an annoying f-ing bug in their system) This was supposed to be short and blunt...but rewilding is dear to my heart and I gotr a little carried away :D
@@denyoellamcy8251 Mega-reply incoming!!! (second atempt to post...)
Sorry, wasn´t gonna be this long, but, alas, it so happened, whoopsidaisy. It´s the subject. I can´t help myself :D
I share your concern and doubt. Because it is indeed a fantasy dream... But it is also from dreams and imagination that new and different approaches can be harvested. So don´t let your critical thinking turn into despair, okay? Dream on!
When I wrote ”wilderness all around”, I wasn´t thinking about everywhere being massive landscapes of complete wilderness, but a rethinking of planning to coexistance with wild nature. So I don´t mean that people need to ”go” anywhere (although some relocation will probably be necessary), but that we merge human habitation and other activities, with the natural landscape.
Some short thoughts:
Corridors is a big part of it, connecting wildlife everywhere so that wilderness becomes the ”backdrop” (however thin in places) to human infrastructure, instead of the other way aoround. I´m thinking a much finer web of habitat and corridors, than now. I imagine, instead of wilderness as islands in infrastucture, that this can be a tight knit infrastructure of interwoven wild and tech, (like ecoducts, suburban wild gardens, waterways, insect habitats) merging with the human landscape and smudging the lines between them.
In other places the landscape could be turned the other way with tech being islands in stretches of wilderness. Which would mean setting land free to turn wild, that is now domesticated land.
Changing the way we eat is crucial to set land free. I´m not talking everyone going vegan, but eating much less animal products, and of a completely different kind, is key. Animals grazing can make a very good ecological contribution if done in appropriate places, but the vast majority of animal fodder is grown, processed and then fed to them. (Millions of animals never see the sun.) The numbers vary,, but everyone agrees that the part of agricultural land used for farming animal feed, is enormous, I´ve seen numbers from 50-80%. This is a problem, but above all it´s a possibilty; so much land potentally wild!
(How plant based human food is grown, need to change in some places as well obviously. The agricultural landscape hold great potential for the kind of interwoven-ness I´m talking about. Same goes for forestry.)
Foremost, I believe it is key that we reevaluate ourselves, stop seeing ourselves as ”other” than nature. Not only on an intellectual level, because many people are aware, and don´t dispute, that we are animals, but they still don´t identify with the wild. The real realization is not an intellectual one, the paradigmal shift of consciousness that is required to re-identify oneself to the core, takes imagination and empathy.
What ever we do as an animal species, nature is doing to itself.
Whatever we do to nature, we are doing to ourselves.
There is no separation. We are not perpetrators, nor is nature a victim.
We as a collective will likely not be able to do large scale rewilding, if it is something ”we” as subject do for ”nature” as an object to our disposal and mercy.
So when I write about ”rewilding our souls” in the first comment,, I´m not being poetic, I mean it quite literally. The rewilding of our hearts and minds is not something else than rewilding done ”out there”, like releasing beavers. They are parts of the same whole. Each person building an ”ecoduct” from their inner world, reconnecting it to the basic manifold unity of all life, is doing their part of liberating us collectively from our self proclaimed otherness.
You Tube has an annoying habit of disappearing my replies sometimes. I hope this reaches you, and that you can reap something good from it. Thank you for sharing your concern. I usually don´r write long replies anymore, because it is so disheartening when YT gets them lost... (it´s not cencorship, it´s an annoying f-ing bug in their system) This was supposed to be short and blunt...but rewilding is dear to my heart and I gotr a little carried away :D
@@denyoellamcy8251 I posted a long reply that YT wouldn´t let me post. So, in short:
I share your concern and doubt. Because it is indeed a fantasy dream... But it is also from dreams and imagination that new and different approaches can be harvested. So don´t let your critical thinking turn into despair, okay? Dream on!
Not cried for years but that made me cry joy and sadness and hope and positivity and helplessness and everything
Im All for this. The restoration of planet Earths nature ecosystem of flora & fauna. The expansion of native wildlifd parks in every country and the growth of technology and new ways to house people can work hand in hand. Immense gratitude to giants like these who have achieved this feat. They should both be household names in every family, yet l have never heard of them before. l hope l live to see the day this is happening in Australia and New Zealand .. everywhere.
OMG I worked for the Esprit headquarters in San Francisco back in the day. I used to see Doug around occasionally. Such good work!
There should be global laws that reduce human expantion and limit it to certain land area. We dont need to spread on every inch of the planet and agriculture is no longer needed to be made horizontally
Necessary work full of reciprocity for our own well-being and all of the soil, the ecosystems, and high nutritional value of an extensive food chain. To our peace and health around the world. Love this brilliant necessary work.
"Rewilding our mind." This is great to life in our planet!
I'm from Brazil end our Cerrado, Pantanal, Caatinga, Amazônia, Pampas, Mata Atlantica wilderness is calling for wilding...
Thanks for the ideias and actions
I don't want to say this and I hate saying its something we have been doing and we still do it and that is AGRICULTURE. For the natural habitats its been the world's biggest leading cause of land-use and habitat loss!
Do your bit: stop eating!
At least try meatless meals, once a week maybe? That would help slow down clear-cutting for pasture. But I hear you, those poor plants. I'm forever apologizing to lettuce.@@canadiangemstones7636
@@canadiangemstones7636 Just stop eating animals and their fluids. A plant based agricultural system would use 80% less land than our current one.
it is important to differentiate between crop and animal agriculture. Crop cultivation for human consumption is not the main problem.
The interesting thing about this is that when humans first started growing crops, it actually led to an increase in biodiversity, as they practiced crop rotation and grew a variety of plants. In some cases, and disturbing the soil can be beneficial for many groups of plants. Modern practices like growing monocultures and using pesticides, among other methods, are indeed very harmful to the earth.
If every person had a goal, to save wetlands, ancient forests, seascapes, etc, and some of those people might get wealthy, and if so, they spend their money on this, instead of luxury private planes or yachts ... we would be such a healthy, abundant, better planet.
One of the best TED videos I have seen. I wish more people would join her.
Heal the web of life on Earth 🌞🤝🌞🤝🌞
I'm 74 and have made a priority of spending as much of my life as possible on long trips backpacking, bicycle touring, paddling and sailing in many of the wildest places on the planet. It has been heartbreaking to see the 6th great extinction occurring during my lifetime. With the human population still increasing and habitat loss still accelerating, I don't have much hope we will be able to avoid the worst effects of species loss.
That is very grim.. i know you are worried. But so many ppl are changing, and holefully before it is to late.
We must do this and learn to live in balance with the nature we protect.
Excelent! We will do our best to get there Kristine! You are wonderful!
This gives me hope that other parts of the world will get this courage to try and rewild at a larger scale, because in order for wilderness to thrive, it really should thrive everywhere.
Wonderful! i share the same dream... one where nature can thrive and is respected and recognized by humans.
We all have the power to rewild our corner of the world. Let the daisies grow. Buy less stuff. Choose plants not animals on your plate . Explore your country and shun long haul flights. So many options several times a day to live more kindly to wildlife , even though I live in the city. It's not easy, but I do the best I can, until I am buying millions of acres of wild land !!
I hope this touches the hearts of all the other CEOs and billionaires out there who can make effective change. This has shown me that the cure is funding. Buying up land and leaving it alone instead of exploiting it for profit. Funding environmental folks to help key species return.
Instead of big initiatives like this, we see them playing politics to increase their wealth and power. Very disheartening.
beautiful and hopeful. Dream big and keep speaking for those with no voice.
I'd love to have a job rewilding and general positive cultivation of our mother earth , I feel I'm designed for it .
Absolutely incredible work!
If even a small fraction of the world’s wealthy people took this approach, massive change could be made. Nature deserves our protection. If you don’t have money, invest your time and effort into local conservation efforts. Eat in a way that’s less damaging to the environment. Reduce your plastic and waste. Everyone can make a difference!
I dont think you have to be rich to make a difference. Anyone dedicated to this cause can make a difference. From the humble farmer who decides to plant a few fast growing exotic trees for firewood in stead of chopping down a 1000 year old Alerce, to the teacher in a rural school teaching the kids about keeping the rivers clean and not shooting owls and so on can make a tremendous difference. We know a couple here in Chile that are propagating native trees, plants and flowers and planting them in all kinds of bare spaces in a city without outside resources. Saying that, I really appreciate and laud wealthy people who embark on projects to conserve nature. I've visited Parque Pumalin already and experienced the beauty of it. So that is wonderful but as she said a community who can embrace conservation to the fullest is wonderful too.
We need millions of people to have the mindset of this woman if we want to have any chance of saving our species.
Not millions but billions
I’m pretty sure when humans self destruct, Mother Nature will thrive again
If it doesn't choke in the heated microplastic soup
not if the atmosphere is destroyed
Many organisms will be fine with microplastics and a hotter climate. The athmosphere exists because of earths gravity and magnetic field. We will probably not change those much.
Some bacteria don't need oxygen. At the very least there will be life at undersea volcanoes which gets it's energy from chemosynthesis. And after a few hundred million years nature will probably be back thriving.
problem is we are not only "self" destroying.... we´re taing everything with us... But sure, life will eventually thrive again... it always adapt, hope we are still here to see it
@@twilit We're not on a path to completely destroy the atmosphere, though; only on one that would return to a carbon-saturation point unseen since the carboniferous period. The extremely rapid transition to that state we are on would indeed cause/ continue a planet-wide extinction event and likely collapse civilization as we know it. It would not, however, take all life with it. A flourishing and evolutionary expansion event would certainly follow; just as it happened after the 5 previous mass extinctions.
Great TED, great ideas and work!
Amazing what two people have accomplished 👏👍
Today, with floods in the eastern states, it should be obvious that all flood plains should be rewilded and returned to the wild animals and plants. The cost of fixing unwise human development has colossal costs! It would be cheaper for the government to buy the land and remove the structures, including roads and dikes that pinch river channels.
And where would all the people go? What if we don't want to sell our piece of paradise? Oh yes I know Emanate Domain? Small compensation for a person's life work? Are you willing to give up your home for it to be demolished and returned to wilderness and be shoved into a city. Not me. I resist. My piece of paradise is wild enough.
Valeu!
Wonderful! More, more, more! ❤️🌎
We should really track the amount of oxygen in the air. Seems like it would go down when you delete millions of acres of rainforest every year.
We do! And forests do not really have any influence on oxygen. Most comes from the ocean.
Well done! I Think there’s a real role for wealthy people to do something substantially. And if rewilding on a large scale is not possible, then, maybe on a small scale. Like buying agricultural land and transferring it to organic farming in order to help the bacteria and insects survive.
"If there is enough nature in every man's life, we'll quickly learn we don't need much of everything else"
Let nature be nature and stop destroying it
Thank you for the incredible things you have done! Lots and lots of good wishes always. ✨🌎✨🕊
Good example to emulate. Congratulations 🎉
We need to change how we farm our land
Well, the biggest issues are that we need to consume far less meat (especially beef and mutton), dairy, and seafood.
Exploitative capitalism of the Anlo-Saxon model is a dead end which leads to ecological collapse. It needs to be overcome and reformed.
Such an inspiring talk❤❤❤
Wonderful life path Kristine, joy truly is in our visions and spending time in pristine nature, "joy is within us, not in things." Yes keystone species are key to supporting the whole eco-system. I always think how amazing bees/ a keystone species are without bees higher mammals inc. humans could not exist. Eating plant based helps too reduces deforestation for raising cattle, plant based eating lots of vegs/fruit/beans avocados for healthy fats some people eat fish ie. in Japan whose life expectancy is increasing y/y they also spend lots of time in nature 2/3rds of Japan is parks.
This got me so choked up
Let people hunt and manage the wild areas, and I’m with you
Truthful, thanks for saving the wildlife sanctuary amen, you are wonderful great teacher amen
What an inspiring talk. Thank you!
Thank you. ❤❤❤
I agree. Let's do TND and TPD and make the whole of Africa and India a giant wildlife reserve!
how can we? elon musk keeps helping africans and they are destroying wildlife habitats and forcing animals to suffer in domesticated conditions where they cant undergo proper natural selection. they are most likely going to turn to genetically modifying plants as well.
maybe we should promote climate change to speed up extinction. then earth can restart and there will be no more exploitation done to wildlife.
Thank you for all your work ❤❤❤❤❤❤ If all the people with your means were like you, this world would be so much better 😢
“The antidote of despair is to act.”
I know that no human is perfect... I've heard Patagonia has done a good amount of destruction in other countries.... But.... at least they are trying to make things right in some places. We need more rich people to care about the Earth at least as much as these guys do.
She got rich so can crow about her "legacy." It kind of makes me sick hearing her boast. How many gallons of jet fuel has she burned in her life promoting a healthy ecosystem? How many mansions does she own around the globe? How many fawning servants serve her tea while her family jet sets? She bought nature.
Amazing!
Thank you!
Wonderful Ted talk
Miss Tompkins thanks for all you've done... I want to live knowing I did all that I could to save the natural world but it feels so hopeless when I know the corporations and lobbyists will fight tooth and nail
Their story is extraordinary thank you for your work
REWILDING IS THE ANSWER! But what about socio-economics and politics of land-use such as agriculture? Agriculture used both for crop cultivation and livestock production is humanity's biggest land-use covering 44% of the world's landmass as it is and has been the leading and root cause of habitat loss. People throughout most of history have been converting vast tracts wild habitats into agricultural fields which can also be seen on satellite imagery Google Earth!
I think the first major step is more plant based meals and better meat alternatives. Of the 44% agricultural lands, about 80% is used for animal agriculture. crops for human consumption are not the main problem, animal agriculture and crop cultivation for animal fodder are the elephant in the agricultural room. Now, there are a lot of alternatives for meat and dairy in the making but many are bombarded with policy that hamper their industries, policy that is made up under pressure of the agrculture lobby. What we need is regenerative agriculture and meat that comes from rewilding projects such as Knepp or from lab grown projects.
@@marr123n The area data for this comparison is not really an equal one. A broad acre crop is total, grazing can be partial. For example places like Australia have cattle stations have areas the size of small countries. This is the on paper area figure only. Not all of the land in set area is used for grazing all the time or at all.
Grazing can have a place were savannah, grasslands and meadow biomes are part of the natural order. That should also only involve numbers that the soil itself can provide for. Totally agree that the import fodder practice has to go.
There is also the matter of exotic animals in their teeming millions. If they were properly utilized at scale this would also help take pressure of natural systems.
Make mine a fillet of Tilapia with fresh Asian seasonings. Ile pass on the lab meat.👍😎. au
@@raclark2730 absolutely, that’s exactly what I meant with meat from rewildingprojects. Intensive grazing is ridiculous and destroys the land. Extensive grazing can restore the land and increase biodiversity in places where native megafauna is lost such as the majority of Europe. The only thing to watch out for is that our grazing animals don’t directly compete and through that negatively affect native grazers if they are there. In any case, extensive grazing can be used to increase biodiversity by replacing most native fauna if done right!
Pver half of crops is used to feed animals. If we reduce meat and dairy consumption, we can rewild.
@@jonatanolsen37 And get rid of stupid size and shape screening within the commercial fruit and vegetable industry.
2 million acres down, 126 billion to go.
That's it. Thank you. If we can do 2% a year. The earth will return in a mere 50 years. By example, it's taken 50 years: but in north eastern Canada tens of thousands of lakes once "dead" from acid rain are now back to normal. Only 2% are still dead. 40% are still recovering. But 60% are now returned. Act!
@@onfungi8815 Not quite. Two million down, 126 BILLION. That equals .002% or 50,000 years.
@@timeenoughforart well, none of those numbers is actually correct. But dammit.
Yes Humanity we can Do This if we Stand Together ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤I Love The Nature it’s ME I’m it All One ❤
Thank you
Rewilding our own minds- a brilliant way to put it!
Thank you Kristine
Good to hear
Wow, i see TED in my natural language, thanks TED
This model manes more people will live in cities who depend on industrial farms. The wilderness model is based on Muir's effort who literally pushed for the native people to be removed from Yosemite so he could me it a park.
As a fauna, myself, I agree in expansion of territories that support an ecosystem that I can thrive in.
Have we "conquered" the wilds? Or have we doomed them?
As humans, we do create a lot of waste, and we exploit our environment to dangerous levels. Make it economically beneficial, and everyone will jump on board - as we've seen with industrialization, and we could also see with conservation.
Else, really the only species we need to hang onto are the ones we consume (plant, animal, & fungi), and those who play roles in our human agriculture (pollinators, pest control, aerators, & organic matter).
We have the technology and ideas to be more symbiotic with nature, and less parasitic.
CEO of the earth, the model of a corporation with human and natural purpose❤🎉
Well, corporations and CEOs are absolutely the wrong model and mindset if we want to save nature. The right mindset would be relatives--all these other species are family so we need to protect them.
Absolutely 🙌
Protect the Land, then actively Steward the Land. Too often we set land aside as “protected”, only to have serious ecological loss due to the “Hands Off” approach. The land Tompkins set aside in Chile was actively Stewarded by Indigenous Peoples for time immemorial before colonization.
So, is that was is being done with the Land being “protected”? If not, it needs to be. I advise looking to the Indigenous of the southern Chile region.
Keep up the good work 👏
Thank you Madam
Awesome 👏
We need more of this.
I think the main issue is centralized purveyors of information. They act as sort of gate keepers to information people need to hear to reach the point of understanding. They might not realize it, but they are controlling the narrative in a non productive fashion. Once conversation about such topics are normalized in regular conversation, then the problem will be solved.
Im all in!
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I sometimes wish for the downfall of human civilization. We've been such awful caretakers of our planet. I'm often ashamed of my species, and I'm part of the problem too. I hear stories like this, and it temporarily uplifts me, but I know we're doing more harm than good. We're quickly losing a battle with ourselves. I wish I had the resources to help on this scale, but I'm afraid I'm just another consumer who does little more than consume. Too few of us deserve the space we inhabit.
Yet, we keep breeding
@@Thewritingisonthewallforusall My husband and I have been married for over 30 years, no kids. It can be done without a fall of civiliztion, but more people need to commit to fewer kids.
It will happen! We will make it work. 🙂
it wont happen. population growth is getting worse and trump are trying to win presidency where him and jd vance will force people to have kids. there cant be rewilding if humans are on the planet growing at a fast rate. there can only be deforestation and more destruction to nature.
Passenger Pigeon. American Chestnut. Frogs.
Pause at 7:23.... Tubes! We travel in tubes!
Fantastic and uplifting talk!! I do wish, however, that this video was accurately titled. It's not a plan for the Earth, it's a plan for South America. I understand that keystone and apex predator species are key, so maybe that's why they titled it this way...?
Legendary work!!
I saw a big terrifying spider in my pool the other day and I allowed to live (I helped it out of the pool). This is my contribution to saving the planet.
More than most people do.
Commendable! Every little bit.
In a million years, when arachnids are the dominant, sapient lifeform on this world, they might have you to thank for saving their progenitor.
We need more than that. We need to plan a moneyless society.
a moneyless society would only cause humans to reproduce in mass amounts and destroy wildlife even more.
Im doing my part by building a natural swimming pond in my yard.
A radical idea 💡
Replace the asphalt roads with Earth roads made of soil and small stones.
Replace heavy steel automobiles with lightweight lifted 4x4 vehicles which run on energy, which does not pollute the planet.
Develop land bridges or tunnels which go above or below the roads so that animals may have a safe passage.
Thanks for trying to save the world, I like forests and wildlife to amen
Incentives are everything. That's why hunters and anglers have always been better at this than the general public.
Another amazing talk with a vision for our healthier future planet.
Thank you.
Beautiful ❤️❤️
Let's make earth wild again.... 💚
What's with the broker spam in the comments?
Agreed, wtf? I reported it.
Suckerfishing.
its all over all of youtube
May all of you that fight, and speak in the name of our beautiful priceless Earth have the deepest most sincere respect of all beings great, and small. May the greedy dark hearted, and destroyers of this world reap the whirlwind.
I believe the "godfather" of environmental activism was Teddy Roosevelt.
What?! He was a hunter. Like most Eurocentric people, he wanted to conquer nature, not honor its wildness.
I thought it was native americans..
@@ZoneZero-sm9jvdid native americans hunt?
@@jjgrenwich264 Yes and they left things to their wildness, without domesticating or trying to subjugate them. Hunting was not sport, it was for sustenance.
I so love what has been achieved here but sparsely populated lands are not where the problem lies. Our sprawling cities and their monstrous suburbs are what is killing our planet. Let's tell it like it is a put the blame where it belongs, that is with human ambition and population growth.
keeping humans contained to certain areas and holding wild land away from human development is the point. sparsley populated lands today are tomorrows sprawling suburbs and cities unless they are protected.
This is an oversimplification.
If you design a city the right way it can actually be far more eco-friendly than a rural area of the same population, mainly due to the fact that 1. Less land is required and therefore 2. Fewer motor vehicles are required for people to get from point A to B on a daily basis meaning 3. Less CO2 is emitted on a per-person basis. Humans occupying less land and emitting fewer Greenhouse gasses would expedite rewilding efforts enormously. Well-designed walkable cities can help with that.
Of course if we’re designing cities to be exclusively traversable by personal car like is the case in a lot of US cities especially in the Sun Belt, then yes, what you say is completely correct.