Dear All: Thank you to the many people who have given me an honorary doctorate but actually I have not completed my PhD so it is better to just call me John. Thanks and best regards, John D. Liu
May GOD bless you and maintain your work, so that we may eat the fruits of it. I would like to donate to this cause, is there some way I can do so and also I think you need to do a new doc and revisit these projects and I hope many more to come...V
P.S. you ask the word potentially, in the land of milk and honey. Like the joke, would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars, kid trying to understand the difference between realistically and potentially... Dad asks the kid to ask his mom and brother and sister, and give him the results...Buddy comes back to dad, and says, potentially we are millionaires...yet realistically we are living with 2 whores and a gay...Maybe a politically incorrect joke, yet we are prostitutes when it comes to the environment, and if this would be the focus, not LGBT, petroleum or electric cars, who thiungs might start to change. Not bullshite green policies asking congress billions for shite,, yet real grass roots getting down in the dirt solutions by all people. How selfish we have become that we are now complicit in our own extinction, if we dont get real. NOT WOKE just WAKE the F up....V
Hello John, loved the documentary, my daughter has a degree in environmental earth science, I sent her a link to the video. We need more educational avenues for our communities on keeping green spaces green all across the United States, Thank you for sharing knowledge. Peace out!
I'm really into land healing since a couple of years now. Working on my own permaculture garden too. I have seen the documentary and all it's offshoots many times and i keep watching them when i feel hopeless. Every single time i see the image morph from that eroded desolate area to this lush green landscape tears roll down my face of pure gratitude. Thank you to all the people who work on these kinds of things. You are the real heroes in this world. Never stop, you are too important.
A great example of ARRIVING at solutions instead of superimposing solutions that work in other regions and areas on to sites and areas that need restored. Thanks for your work John. I share this documentary every teaching opportunity that I get. It turns "doom and gloom" into hope for us and the masses to see. Peace.
This is a documentary from our channel. You can watch it with subtitles in English, French and Spanish here: ruclips.net/video/IDgDWbQtlKI/видео.html The second part of this documentary, "Regreening the planet", is available here: ruclips.net/video/OC_Y1ZTZXQ4/видео.html
thank you Geoff Lawton and John Liu, many are naysayers, but you have helped more people than oppose you. We are headed in the wrong direction, we know that because things keep getting worse, your work provides hope for millions. Respect.
I enjoy seeing projects like this come to fruition. I applaud John D. Liu for working with governments in order to bring these solutions to a wider audience and to help advise them on transforming their environment as well as their economy. The one thing I have an issue with in his videos is that in regards to ruminants, he seems to only have negative references. Yes, in a restoration situation you need to keep the animals off of it for a 2-5 years depending on your circumstances and state of degradation, but then you must bring ruminants back in, especially in an area such as the wide open spaces where it's historically been savanna. These ruminants (whether it's goats, sheep, llamas, cows, etc) need to then be on a rotational grazing schedule. This will prevent a recurrence of the problems we're trying to fix in the first place. Ruminants "prune" the grasses which encourages further growth. Their urine and feces falls on the ground. Birds eat the bugs in the feces and the ruminants churn the soil which helps to break up the feces and incorporate it all into the soil where the organisms there can continue to break it all down to usable nutrients. The prairies in the US were/are one of the most successful ecosystems for soil building that we know of. African savannas are very similar. Wide grasslands dotted with trees and covered by huge masses of grazing and migrating animals. Without the buffalo, the prairie cannot sustain itself. So to for the African plains with buffalo and deer and giraffes. Grass root systems can go 10+ feet below the surface. The photosynthetic process continues as the plant is regularly pruned or eaten and then grows again. When the top is pruned, the roots die back accordingly. Those roots are then decomposed into new soil. Just a simple change of taking out your Kentucky Bluegrass lawn and putting in buffalo grass helps as the buffalo grass roots can go down several feet. While I don't have buffalo grass, I force my current lawn to send down longer roots. I kept extending the length of time between watering until I now do ONE deep watering a month on my lawn and it's still mostly green in the 4th year of drought. I also keep it mowed to about 3.5 inches which helps conserve water as well. If I owned the house, there would be less lawn and what lawn I have would ideally be made up of various deep rooted prairie grasses and perennials. In a semi-forested system with large animals, the animals knock off lower branches which helps prevent many destructive fungi and diseases from gaining a foothold and keeping the system healthy. These downed branches are then broken down by fungi and other organisms into more soil. All of this leads to healthier soils which then can filter the water down through the system underground from the tops of the mountains to the valleys and lowlands instead of allowing it to run off as sediment. This system also recharges the aquifers with clean water and helps to regenerate springs and streams across the landscape. www.swac.umn.edu/classes/soil2125/doc/s10chap1.htm
This is a smart man, we can all do our part, thats the great thing. I have an area near enough to me that i can plant on and restore my native species, and i am currently doing it and its one of my main life goals to increase the biodiversity in my country by planting on wasteground and unused fields, i have Trees, Plants and Wildflowers to bring back Bee populations and Butterflies, and by doing this i will create something for not only myself but for other people to look at and enjoy for years to come. We can all do it, we need a new 1960s but a more sensible one.
@@SipLeila So?, nobodys asking junkies to build gardens are they?. Just focus on your aim in life and try not to get distracted from that, stay on course.
Outstanding stuff! I'm stunned and my eyes have been opened! Who'd-a-thought you could get places like Jordan and Ethiopia to look like New Zealand? Truly astonishing how the earth can heal itself when left alone. And the river re-generating itself left me absolutely gobsmacked! God bless your fine work sir, and may your message be spread far and wide!
John D. Liu I love you. You are one of the wise people that brings knoledge that helps to heal to our ill behaviour. Thank you so much for bringing this profound wisdom and the practise of it to the world!
Thank you, Dr. Liu, for this documentary, really magical to see the loess transformed into a verdant valley. Thanks to Geoff Lawton for showing the world that it is possible to restore our planet. Indeed, more people should go "in the service of saving earht". Thank you so much for being that!!!
We are so fortunate to have such wonderful souls as John Liu, Dr. Suzuki and the ancient knowledge of people still practicing their simple and sustainable agricultural methods.
Who could hate this? I love the whole idea of restoring ecosystems. Here in Florida there is a project called CERP, which is to restore the balance of natural water filtration of the Everglades and Big Cypress by connecting those areas back with the original source - Lake Okeechobee and other central lakes and rivers. This will help filter Floridas' water supply the old fashion way, while restoring all plant and wildlife. I'm doing my part by planting and supporting native Floridian plants, including flowering plants that support the local butterfly and bird population. I'm so happy to read the comment section and seeing many other people are doing the same in their areas. ^_^
I was just going to point out the same thing, Yusiley! How could folks thumbs-down this documentary!?! This is a genius and obvious method he's embarking on. Like, THIS is how our ecosystem works. Although- of course, we're entitled to freedom of speech/opinion, there's no other way around this! This is simply HOW the earth works! Lol Smh What an inspiration John, Geoff, the Professor and the Princess of Jordan are! I'm in SC. I need to go research how I can do my part, with my husband and I living and renting a condo. Any collaboration ideas would be great. My husband and I are also creating a conscious website to present this kind of material to our friends and family. I had no idea that this was being done in these barren regions! All you see in the news and commercials is hopelessness of these regions and not the action that's obviously being taken place on a HUGE scale.
Nina Diaz I wish to thumbs up your comment many times over. That is such a wonderful response. I too want to do my part to help out. We're all connected... what effects you and others in one way or another effects me. This is why I help out people and other species whenever I can. I start off locally by planting plant species that are native to the area and go from there (to restore local areas), including buying locally to restore economy, volunteering locally to restore hope in ones own communities, etc. Thank you for your response.
Mr. Liu, Thank you for you contribution to society and to the planet. I pray that for your remaining time on earth that your further able to continue to rebuilding of natural lands that have been degraded by us.
Best video ive watched on youtube. It is really heart warming to see there are solutions to the destruction mankind has created on this planet. Ive started my own backyard organic garden few years ago as a hobby but now I really think I should do this in a bigger scale to feed my family and neighbors. And get my neighbors to get into this wonderful ideah of eating organically grown food and help the invironment in the process. Now, isnt it time to get rid of monsanto and stop what its doing to our eco system and hurting farmers around the globe? But first, we need a better government to do the right thing. Well, first thing first. I gotta go water my babies. ;)
This film provides an interesting and valuable complement to the ideas presented by Alan Savory in his TED talk. We should approach this material with caution. Liu combines two messages in this film, what to do, and how to do it. 1. The question of what to do is clearly addressed. I don't think resting the land works in all areas, Alan Savory's work has demonstrated this. But it is also clear that not all land is well suited to livestock. So a measure of intelligence will be needed to decide the appropriate system to employ in an area, that meets the needs of the environment and the locals. 2. The idea of large scale change is a troubling one. Despite what many people think, the planet is being destroyed on the small scale, not a large scale. People look at the mass deforestation, mining and oil industries. They see the huge wealth they use to take over countries and build huge industrial plants. What they don't see is the billions of people handing over a few dollars every day to these corporations. Destroying the planet is an expensive business. We the people are funding the corporations that are doing it. The first thing people need to do is to track where their money is going and what it is supporting and stop funding things that are destructive. Then begin to actually grow some food. Even if it is in a plant pot. Watching videos and reading books cannot teach you what you learn from actually growing your own salad. Teaching this to children is of immense value.
I agree. Almost everyone has enough space for a small garden. Your one little garden may not make much of a difference, but if every backyard in North America had one, that's a huge amount of agricultural space that is not requiring the use of lands that currently remain wild.
Jeremy McKinley Joel Salatin goes further when he points out that there is more land in N America given over to recreational animals, and lawns than there is under cultivation. Add to that if every home kept 2 chickens and fed them on kitchen scraps, they could out produce the egg industry and produce eggs of superior quality. Finally half the human edible food grown on earth is never eaten by humans. It is wasted, fed to animals or composted. Add to that the huge numbers of plant species that are wild and edible, but people don't eat and there is no shortage of food at all. Last autumn I picked 3 months supply of blackberries. I could have got a lot more but I thought I should leave some for others as they were growing wild. They just rotted on the bush, so this year I will get a year's supply and freeze them. They are lovely in smoothies and taste better than the domesticated varieties.
this Alan Savory killed 40K elephant, do not get how we can take this guy as an example. Its a very bad assumption to compare the effect of wild life and living stock on the nature.
ben ur Why do you think this is a bad idea? Wildlife is very adaptable and will occupy the niches left by livestock. Ding beetles bury the manure that they leave. Flies lay eggs in it, and birds feed on the larvae. Insects stirred up by movement are food for birds. As the water is retained new plants grow and with it the echo system. We know this because this happens all around the world on farms.
ben ur Mr. Savory says this was the worst mistake of his life and he deeply grieves over a mistaken decision. We are all human and human beings make mistakes. Identifying that error and working to rectify a mistake is what counts. Savory's observations and work since has been valuable.
Mr.Liu, you have the oppertunity to nurture land regions and keep the world from aging away, crumbling in desolation. Way better than crime directed especially from ignorance and stupidity created from terror and war. I pray God lead and protect the functional earth we deserve and not the manmade problems of the mother earth, love, father time. heya heya wonkantonka, spirit of god, you'll be amazed!
If the Sahel zone get regreened again, people there will get a better life. And it will also stop the migration to Europe and local conflicts! I hope all politicians all over the World will see this video! And they should start to think in an ecological way rather then always talking about economics. If the local environement get restored, the local economy will improve autamatically.
Thank you. Yes it can be done. Contact us for cooperation wordwide. Marco Russ visionaere2016@gmail.com facebook.com/GreenMission20122050GreeningTheDesertsOfTheWorld/
+darthvader5300 Afford to shutdown? I don't think you mean looking after the workers. Return of investment and initial investments? 2 things. Let go of material worth, monetary wealth, value your life in other ways, a richness of diversity is worth far more than a positive bulging bank balance...really. And #EcocideLaw - do not invest in Planet destroying activities in the first place. Restitution demands all such damaging industries are shut down forthwith, any assets stripped and used, to help to repair the damage already caused, and frankly the workers currently employed, retrained in 'saving the world', in averting the looming crisis point. CEO are obliged by laws currently, to maximise shareholder returns. Without which investments wouldn't take place. I say good. Go get a better job. Implement a law which first and foremost demands a duty of care for our collective ecology, before any right to profit, and we may just start to make the shift-change necessary to start to tackle growing climate chaos around the world. Where will people put their cash now? Into real and viable sustainable proposals which currently cannot get a foothold. By definition the word sustainable seem to imply not for profit, certainly, without profits to cream off, so it has to start somewhere or we remain on this hell-bent road to destruction, unsustainable - means eventually, and in not long now relatively, game over. Kaput. I don't see anyone has a choice, its do it right or die.
why doesn't he share it with the Permaculture people who actually did the design and hire the people and everything else. He's a photographer. That's cool. but he didn't do any of the work. Just saying
@@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut I'm a Permaculture volunteer and I'm not rich in even the slightest! But I do get what you're saying, I think. Any way that any one of us can try to teach others is beyond valuable.
@@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut You have nothing to apologize for. I thank you for the feedback to support those around us who are trying to do good and share it. Care for the earth. Care for the people (even the furry and feathered wee ones) and share. Caring is half the battle. One good place to start learning is some of the basic core principles. This young man put it to song so it's easy to remember. Write any time you have a question. ruclips.net/video/DBgYfkuydaI/видео.html
ha. i wrote this comment before google took over the accounts. i recently took a trip from maine back home to the midwest. I went from lush old growth forests to the midwest that really is a desert of corn and soy beans. We need these designs to revitalize the midwest and frankly, all agricultural communities that have poor land management. Which is all of them. California is too dry, the midwest is too wet and too dry. (I live in WI around where the 2018 floods were) I've mentioned this documentary to someone in agriculture on NPR years ago. He laughed at me and said something like "ya, and we would have to get people eating stuff like quinoa" Which really, it's pretty much come to that. America just needs to eat their vegetables and use locally made products. (the midwests' notorious crop is corn from which most is used for feeding livestock (think fast food) and ethanol.
what a better way to appreciate and show love to our planet we live on! i love my planet! we all love the planet we live on! there is enough room on this planet and means to support all of the population! we can stop abusing our planet! instead of being busy how to stop abusing the environment! we can add and give to the environment! lets support the abundance of air we have! lets clean it and make it tastier! we are willing to live in lush places full trees and forests! i see a future for sophisticated cities were greenery integrate and dominate the environment! building skyscrapers were trees are so incorporated that the design makes it to be green on the out side! and even on the 101th floor there are trees outside the window!
+Coocoo Recoo I too see your vision, but in most designs to date the wildlife has been left out - we need the full diversity of nature, for things to work effectively, not just the oxygen. Consider this and it will go far = )
We just found permaculture and now you and so relieved. I'd really given up hope and I've found it again. This represents the kind of authentic life so many of us are searching for, that we want our world to be about. I will spread it far and wide! Thank you.
Really great video! We will make sure we do our part when we buy our piece of land :) and hope to help others learn to live a sustainable life so the world can slowly restore ecological function.
un reportage plus que remarquable qui mériterait d'ếtre diffusé en classes. So much hope raised here! if in many aspects of sciences, several revolutions occur, enlarging our point of view and showing us how ignorant we are, and how humble shall we be, our relation to food, soil, earth, productivity or what we do with our time down here need to know such a change. thanks for your work
Interesting... Basically, the key is to give the land a rest from the destructive practices of over grazing and industrial farming, and allow the indigenous vegetation to grow again so there's a cover to retain rain and protect the soil from erosion and the harmful effects of the sun. Soil structure improves, microbial activity in the soil increases, supporting plant life; and in the process, more carbon is sequestered, and the hydrology cycle is restored as well-- water is retained and released in a steady supply downstream. Ultimately, this improves the lives of everyday people, as the land can support them again.
Val Cronin It doesn't rain in the deserts and bringing fresh water there would have most of it evaporated and soaked up by the dehydrated land. Those deserts are natural unlike the lands humans break.
Val Cronin Well some of it depends on climate as Randomjack stated . . . But you can actually green even a desert in an arid climate if you know what to plant, when, and how much. The more plants you grow, the more moisture it will draw in. Even the shitty desert brush can pull in moisture, and in fact a lot of desert brush is nitrogen fixing so it can create fertile soil. The deserts we had before human impact actually were greening themselves, albeit very slowly, through natural selection (and we as humans can manipulate and use that to make it happen faster, which is what permaculture is all about). . . . . However, you also have to realize having desert ecosystems in some areas isn't necessarily a bad thing. You need a diversity of ecosystems for a healthy planet and deserts are a part of that. You just don't want all desert and no green, which is where we're headed right now unfortunately.
essentially yes, but if we wait for nature to do it in her own time it will take longer, Geoff alludes to intelligent design, this is where we, as assistants to the system 'nudge' it with the species we plant, order/location we plant them in and physical factors such as earthworks and water management, designed to serve the system as a whole, not just the human element. The key, as in demonstrated in China, is to assist the local people to do it for their own benefit rather than preaching yet another gospel to them.
1MinuteWithDC what if all the deserts were made to be green...green even faster then they would have been working on their own? Like what would happen if the world were a jungle and the grocery store was your bike path?
As an Env.Sci. major from the days when convincing ppl of the damage to the planet might have made a difference (they laughed at us), I love this man. He is my #1 hero. Thanks Jon and good luck.
you know when guys like this talk about crisis situations and 'humanity wont be suppressed, they wont go gently into that good night', you know you should pay heed because these guys are integrated with nature as a lifestyle and they are removed from societal trends so you cant say they're paranoid either. its with good reason.
Superb! Everybody in this world should watch this. Especially those who burnt their crops and land thinking they are gaining value (but in fact they are becoming poorer by burning) by doing so.
I have spent many years studying and working in ecology, agriculture and design. I live in the United States. In my experience it has been very difficult to convince people of the value of functional ecosystems. I have practical experience doing this, research to back it and have made compelling stories and arguments for this. I have presented this to city planners, town councils, farmers, businesses and landscape architects. Most organizations don't see the economic value and won't partake. It boggles my mind. I hope as a population we embrace these ideas. For my heart, for the earth and my career.
Dear Luc07ry: It is certainly baffling that Ecological Function is not yet in the collective consciousness of all of humanity. My experience over several decades suggests to me that biodiversity loss could be explained as "Original Sin" because human beings really did emerge in paradise. But by reducing biodiversity we began to lower biomass and the accumulation or organic matter and this altered photosynthesis (lowering carbon sequestration and oxygen release), nutrient release and nutrient recycling (reducing natural soil fertility) and massively disrupted infiltration and retention of rainfall (which naturally regulates hydrology, weather and climate) and paradise was lost. Now is the time when we collectively have the knowledge and the responsibility to shift societal intention to a new Ecological Age in which everyone is aware that ecological function is necessary.
It boggles my mind too, and is obviously a major forefront to take on. For instance, 38:55 Isn't the derivative more valuable than the source because of the work that was put into managing the source and deriving the derivative (producing the product)? Also, how can he continue on to say that the functional ecological system has no monetary value? Can one not purchase degraded land, rehabilitate it, and turn it over for a profit? Wouldn't that go to show that ecological function does have monetary value? What could we do to help increase that value, well, not increase that value, but help others see the value that's there?
Geoff Lawton you and Roger Payne Janine Benyus and Jane Goodall have been my heroes for year. Now I get to add the brilliant visionary John Liu! I feel blessed the planet and the world are lucky to have you. As Geoff once said, We are the Weeds!'
phoenix rises We need people like you. But especially i need people like you. I want to built a community of people so we can live in harmony with nature and each other. Just tell if you are interested
Thank you John for all your hard work and creative storytelling. We're big supporters and advocates for rebuilding our land and balancing the climate and have added this to our playlists.
"Almost miraculously, a clear, flowing stream has emerged where once there was a muddy trickle." * looks at stream * Sold. If you can create a year-round source of clean water where there wasn't before, then I am sold.
Allan Savory's TED talk was much more on point and effective: rotational grazing will save the planet. What's missing for me in this documentary are two critical points of info. What was the area like BEFORE it was damaged? What is the history of HOW it got damaged? It's good to know alternatives to restoring an area. We need to also know how it happened so we can keep it from happening again. And again.
I re-watched the first 10 minutes and I still have the same questions. There are many assumptions here and an ignorance of anything other than recent history. Humans are hunter gatherers and that lifestyle has been stopped. THAT is what has damaged the land. The solution is not to fence off and exclude humans and livestock but to teach them rotational grazing -- to mimic the hunter-gatherer effects on the land. Have you seen Allan Savory's talk? It offers real solutions for real life. Responsible farming will save the earth.
Sally Oh Yes I love these strategies for 'regreening the desert' but it is often thought that humans are the problems, when some of the most biodiverse and ecologically healthy regions of the world have historically been USED by humans - rotational grazing but also replanting useful species and having a hand in the genetic selection (where variety has been valued and encouraged) - We should be looking for ways to coexist with nature, not fence it off!
It's also important to raise species of animals that DON'T overgraze or destroy the environment. Here in North America, the American bison produces a leaner, more nutritious, and tastier meat on a tenth of the grass of domestic cattle and produce quality leather as well. Yet "we" still stick to beef. You can raise ten alpacas on one acre of good forage (for meat, leather, and great quality wool), yet "we still raise goats and sheep that overgraze and require ten times the acreage. Geese can be raised on forage instead of grains that are required by ducks and chickens, and still provide quality eggs, meat, and down.
5 years later and this is STILL so relevant...in fact, more relevant. So true, Humans NEED to be educated and poverty is a vicious cycle. thank you Sir for this amazing difference you are making and thank you too, to all those that are being proactive.
Everyone who understand TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS theory knows that the lack of property rights is the reason of environment degradation. If the land has no owner (it's owned by government who has no incentives to take care of it), even restored, will eventually degrade. It's not a poor people who should be blamed for land degradation but the governments which made them poor and deprived of land ownership.
We have recently made a film called "The Promise of the Commons". You might want to take a look at that. www.yousendit.com/download/ZUczTkFsUnI1R09wSHNUQw
Thank you John. Very interesting. Commons discussed in the film are not classical examples of commons I was referring to. In fact they are privately owned pieces of land. Commons here are actually owned by locals who made an agreement on how it's going to be used and by whom. They were left alone by government, and are able to manage this land as if it was their property: they can discriminate others from using it. Institution of private property is not responsible for farmers being overtaken by corporations. It's the government, corrupted bureaucrats agreed (have been bribed) for that. Situation without private property or partial existence results in pathological situations like shown in the film. Solution are strong property rights (could be in form of commonly shared property) and government respecting and protecting it - fundamentals of andy healthy society. Kind regards.
Ah - this feels right, what you say - "rotational grazing." Managing our resources with the broader view, not the narrow one centered only on self & getting ahead. Time to be stepping more into our true union as one people, one planet. I am so grateful both for your work & for your great sharing of it with us, here - helping to give us the vision. Thus it enters the collective awareness, there to do its great work. Source bless & protect you & your work in every way, sir. Namaste ~♥~
I love how the princess talks about how the ignorance of shepherds causes land degradation. Well that's part of it, but so is poverty, and the fact that this is their entire livelihood. Everyone needs food and a roof over their heads, which means that the land will always have to be a source of food. Our food requirements need not hurt the planet. And although I agree with Liu when he says that "we" demand too many manufactured goods, the truth is that impoverished farmers don't; they're trying to survive. We need to adopt permaculture techniques all over this planet, but it also involves a shift in our diets. We can no longer use animals as grass-or-grain-to-meat conversion machines, because ultimately everything suffers.
E Centimetres I agree. If people ate less meat (or no meat or dairy like me), a lot of ecological problems would be solved. However, I think we need to create everywhere waterscapes, that would change the hydrological balance quickest. In this area, the most outstanding specialist is: Sepp Holzer, a mountain farmer from Austria and inventor.
E Centimetres If they didn't ignore the change in the environment it wouldn't have happened. But blaming them is too simple (and I think most people understand this to be a complicated matter). But that's where knowledge comes in.
I totally agree with you.. These people need to live and have food security. Blaming them for making sure they have something to feed their children is basically blaming them for being alive. These people simply don't ahve the necessary information and/or resources to instantly change. We have to stop blaiming people for their wrongs, because most of them are doing what they precieve as the best they can. Educating them and healing the land is a precoess and won't happen overnight but over the course of years. We have to precieve those who are going in the wrong direction as possible allies not the enemy and we should treat them that way.
Eleanor, I was agreeing till you said "We can no longer use animals as grass-or-grain-to-meat conversion machines". Animals such as ourselves ARE vegetation conversion machines. Grazers convert grass to meat, milk, manure, urine, saliva and all these get converted back to soil to feed a new ger=neration of carbon sinking plants. Lest get eco literate ! The land needs animals, albeit properly managed.
The people in dry regions should be shoot to death with their heard of livestock! But BEFORE someone fuck about "mercy" i tell you: this is Africa! You CAN not help anyone, someone must die, of other want to live! Like this stupid farmer "trees do not make the food" when after he ate fruit! I want sew his head for that! Planting let's say banana should be solution. Africa was the "granary" of the world. Now not because there is too much people. Kill the people to restore the balance.
This documentary is great but missing valuable and necessary information. The overwhelming majority of people do not understand basic principles of ecosystem restoration, like carbon sequestration. It would have been great if this documentary elaborated a bit more about the principals if improving carbon sequestration and water retention in arid climates. Knowledge is power. Something that really strikes my interest is how we humans tend to deal with our own excrement. We destroy valuable nutrients and biomass in the form of raw sewage. We believe that storing human excrement in a stagnant anaerobic environment is somehow sustainable practice. I think there is a stigma associated with humanure composting, but before the advent of indoor plumbing, many early cultures pioneered the process of turning human waste into a nearly limitless supply of fertile soil. The process is somewhat labor intensive and involves a careful attention to detail, but if done properly, humanure composting poses zero risk for pathogens and human health. Some of the most fertile soil on Earth, the amazonian 'Terra Preta' soils were built this way. Composting human manure with organic materials amended with biochar, created a humus rich soil several feet deep. Soil that became immune to drought and erosion, and supports a plethora of abundant life. Living on the high plains of the western US, I can still see the evidence of the great dust bowl of the 1930s. I wonder if I can begin to restore some of the neighboring land by planting native trees and shrubs. But I'm not quite sure how to deal with the low humidity and calcareous soils native to my area. I've concluded that I'll need to bring in a few truck loads of organic matter, like compost, and go from there. The pH of my soil tested at around 8.0 and I need to bring that down by a few orders of magnitude. Reducing the pH should make nutrients in the soil available to plants, nutrients that were previously "locked out" by the excessive calcium carbonate, or 'lime' alkalinity. I have a hot compost pile a meter square, consisting of horse manure, straw, hay, and wood shavings. I'm hoping to use this to fill some raised beds in the spring... but I need about hundred times more than that. You can never get enough organic sequestered carbon (compost). I'll need to airlayer some native trees from my area and plant them on my 10acre lot. It's pretty much barren aside from some grass and the sweetclover biennials that have taken over. I was thinking about starting my trees in a gully or trench that seems to generally hold more moisture than the rest of my lot. Anyway, if you know a thing or two about growing trees above 6,000 ft. elevation, feel free to share them :) I am determined to get some fruit trees out here...
Try a simple manure pile, humanize, horse, cow...anything, along with straw and layer,after layer, straw, newsprint, dead animals, leaves, hardware, carry on, and nauseum,spread evenly(ish) as it matures, repeat constantly. Add worm(earthworms, fishworms, as many as you can find, allow them to migrate in, multiply and migrate out, as they will, never discourage them!
Hi Synthia, did you get anywhere with restoring some of your neighbouring land? I'm not sure if you're aware, but John's Ecosystems Restoration Camps are doing an online Ecosystem Restoration Design course: ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/ecosystem-restoration-design-online-course/
This video encourages me. I am working on a private project in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is known for droughts. But I am sure, we can give back live for nature. Thanks for the video! Greetings from Ethiopia Thomas
+Agwanda Charles If you search him online you can find he has a website where you can contact him, leave messages etc. I think it was mentioned at the end of the vid.
I saw message that Liu should be recognized with a Nobel and that “his” system should be spread. Hello, why you think he deserves it and that’s “his” method and not the Chinese government that leads by example please? All he did was publicizing what Chinese govt did for the last thirty some years, while taking the blame of air pollution and smock! IS THAT FAIR please? PS: China also succeeded in turning arid desert into cultivatable land too FYI.
Thanks John, I could watch this video 2 million times a day. Thanks so much for taking part in the lead to replenish the destroyed earth. If we had all these vital information 100 yrs ago we will not be in this mess we are now in terms of global warming and other related problems. Keep up the good work and I shall be following you on the net.
Im so glad i got into green mountain college, now its really time to change what is wrong! I love sustainability this documentary made me so happy, thank you! Humanity is one!!!!
I spend a LOT of time in our local waterway and I saw a lot of die off not for lack of water and not all due to parasites but a pink stain rises up inner cores and 12 inch and bigger trees just snap off at ground level I don't even need a saw just push them over but I clear cut all dead trees piled branches for habitat to hide in removed dead fall and in the aprox.mile it has fully covered the soil thus trapping moisture but my actual realization was the beavers actual intent and their eco building value they don't want the water they want what it transports and nurtures to grow the plants it consumes and parasitically all the rest of the animals are drawn back to the water and possible food sources that it creates and one asshole one gun and two shells kills that whole eco system if they ate it or skinned it ok but nope they just kill it to kill it then cry cause skeeters are mauling them mice are running ass wild in their homes and their wells are near dry gone and it is directly related to the loss of key stone plants and animals that supported the base thus sustaining the system
Dear John Liu, thank you for sharing your insights and efforts with the world. I hope that we, as a species, will come to understand the importance of this (forgotten?) knowledge, before we deplete Earth with our greed. Awareness could grow exponentionally like plants, if the message is spread like seeds, into a diverse social community like soil, and attention is given like water and daylight. My blessings to you, friend of Earth...
Great video. But the whole video looks to make John D. Liu out to be the master mind behind this revolution. It's Geoff Lawton (who appeared in the video) who is the real master of permaculture. So, it should read, "if you would like to follow Geoff's work, etc etc". In other words, look for Geoff Lawton's work. He's amazing. No offence to John. It was still another great video of Geoff Lawton's work.
+Barry Jordan Geoff Lawton has greened the desert, but it takes Willie Smits to restore a rainforest. Don't underestimate what any of those major permaculturists have to offer.
Actually, the Chinese loess plateau project was done by the Chinese scientists, thru the collection of millennium knowledge passed down. John Liu did a good job document all this. Including, but not shown here, his old record, about international experts' discussion at that time doubting how long it would take even if it was possible.
+Barry Jordan Liu's work is about spreading the word about this model, which is exactly what he's doing. He's not pretending to be leading nor implementing any of these projects, he's just gathering, documenting and compiling the information created by others into a usable format, then distributing it to the right people in order to help make things happen. This is very valuable work too, don't underestimate it.
+crazy808ish fact is it has taken the efforts of many great men and women to develop an awareness that there is a HUGE problem in the world, and it belongs to ALL of us. Look at Elaine Inghams work, and Paul Stammets. They have done amazing research in fungus and biology in soil and all these great minds are basically all in the same page. This is a situation that require great sweeping huge paradigm shifts on earth to change people's subconscious awareness. But thanks be to God the Creator of all things that He is showing us that the problem IS the solution. We can do this if we find unity and be of one mind, repent of the wrongs we have done and ask Yeshua, Prince of Peace to restore all things.
Dear Torquer3: The Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) is a participatory project and we are right now grappling with how to continue to grow and give everything away. We have been very fortunate to be able to work on environmental education for almost 20 years thanks to grants and donations. We started simply by taking environmental films to China but have now been drawn into all parts of the world. We need wisdom, creativity, skills, funding, and joyous purposeful colleagues.
***** Can you fact check this info?? 90% seems highly unlikely and possibly your definition of a mental disorder is that part that needs questioning..if true prison seems the wrong way to be dealing with such cases by and large.
I don't know if it's 90%, but, knowing someone who is about to graduate with a master's degree on social work, I can tell you that prisons are by far the most common institution ("solution" if you can call it that) for dealing with mental illness in the United States. It's horrible. Currently, most prisons have specific rules for therapists, such as (I kid you not) "Don't talk with the inmate about their trauma." Working through trauma is the foundation of therapy, and the vast majority of psych hospital patients have had some sort of trauma (usually in childhood). On a personal level, my family and I have had our lives completely changed for the better because of therapy, working through and coming to terms with each of our traumas. We are all in recovery from various mental illnesses, such as addiction, suicidal depression, and generalized anxiety disorder. We must, must, must create programs and change prison systems so that the mentally ill are given the tools for a happy life, just like for the physically ill. There is no cure, but there is treatment that is getting better every day. I'm sorry for the long comment. I am very passionate about these things, and it pains my heart to see so many people suffering unnecessarily. P.S. There is a book called "First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery", which is just what it sounds like. The ones written by people in recovery from schizophrenia, in particular, show that even with frightening diagnoses, there is hope, and one can be very happy even with these diseases. Thank you for your time.
Thanks, I am replying because this is not OFF topic. All disease begins in the gut , fact. This includes mental or behavioural or learning disorders from which many people in jail suffer. HEaling the Earth, growing food organically , making fermented pro biotic food can help all people recover . Round Up is the root cause of epidemics of autism ( and Oppositional defiance disorder is on the spectrum) , cancer, auto immune diseases ( 200 of them) Kids with asthma, excema, diabetes. Addictive substance sugar ( cane) is sprayed with Round Up just before harvest as is wheat, potatoes, lentils. Big long term effect on our children
This is by far one of the most innovative and engaging ideas to emerge in our time, so much can be attributed to this idea. I will endeavor to promote it on my website.
John, THANK YOU for your work. I so enjoy my work with beekeeping. The pollinators are often overlooked too. Without them - diversity decreases and this steepens the fall to collapse. Bless you for your hard work and tireless effort to bring about ecological recovery.
What a fabulous job on this documentary John! The key is to educate...and perhaps each small little village needs to have a member educated and pass on the knowledge. It is the ignorance of people which cause them to farm and carry on in a damaging way. Good luck to you.
Mount Hymettus in Athens, Greece has been transformed by the people in 10 years, via volunteering tree planting, from a barron dessert rocky landscape to a functional ecosystem. It would be truly fascinating to see what impact this has had on the surround people. Top soil is returning and meadows can be seen during Autumn and Spring.
Amazing video, this is our aim in life too, to show that healing of our farmland can be done, going back to nature by moving forward is the only way, our intensive mass farming ways have depleted this earth and its beauty, we are dedicated to show how we can all create a haven for wildlife, heal the planet whilst make a living from the land. It's the only way. Well done John, great video, everyone should see this. The Backyard Vegan
CHeers for Liu at 22:00 for saying we cannot sustain consumerist culture while adding a billio people every 12 years. It's great that he is spreading the word.
Dear John, First of all. Thank you! Your inspire me and many and will inspire many more too action. Your documentary is awakening too say the least. Your efforts are needed and I will do my best to help you in anyway I can. From a father I say this. "Thank you for leading the way too a wonderful future for our children". I will contact Anna immediately and take action. So looking forward too helping you in building a green and healthy future for our shared planet. Peace and Love Terence
This is brilliant! THANK YOU! I have had smile and admiration in my heart-soul seeing BEAUTIFUL green grass, flowers and other vegetation beautifully restored itself.
Your videos are inspirational. Keep up the amazing work that you do. More Governments / Countries need to take notice now, and educate / mobilize their own people's to save our planet. You and others have proven that it is not rocket science, and momentum at last seems to be gaining pace
Wow, I'm honored by your response, John! Thank you so much for what you do and for doing it in such an effective way. I remember Allan Savory being mentioned in a TIME article dated a few years back, I'll have to look into his work more. That being said, it is true that overgrazing has led to much devastation. And I do agree that the context of the situation/environment (what some refer to as "agroecology") is key, with principles being the same but best practices adapted accordingly.
thats true Raymond,however also in the same breath if the zion's weren't so far up everyone's butt with their fake money and its fake debts,people would actually feel a lot more productive and secure in themselves and i do believe that population would find its equilibrium .I look at Canada here because that is the country of choice right now and i see a vast land mass rich in resources of all kinds, a population that is minimal in comparison to the rest of the planet you would think that with this vastness of land and resources we would be as say Norway with services for population such as good health care and education etc instead we have the most highest taxed populace in the world ,i have seen more and more street people ,a health care system that really is a joke and geared for those that have and under the corporate yoke of doing procedures that in most cases just require and education in diet but that never get discussed with the corporate lackies called doctors because they want you as future business so they keep you ignorant, stupid and coming back for more of their medical Pharma shit .If i'm not making sense here its because i have to go to work here PDQ but i'm sure you get my drift .Basically Raymond the Zionist parasites are running the show here and the dumb stupid other folks don't get the picture and for most when you talk about things that matter they actually defend their oppressors WTF as i said dumb de dumb dumb.
Dear All: Thank you to the many people who have given me an honorary doctorate but actually I have not completed my PhD so it is better to just call me John. Thanks and best regards, John D. Liu
May GOD bless you and maintain your work, so that we may eat the fruits of it. I would like to donate to this cause, is there some way I can do so and also I think you need to do a new doc and revisit these projects and I hope many more to come...V
P.S. you ask the word potentially, in the land of milk and honey. Like the joke, would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars, kid trying to understand the difference between realistically and potentially... Dad asks the kid to ask his mom and brother and sister, and give him the results...Buddy comes back to dad, and says, potentially we are millionaires...yet realistically we are living with 2 whores and a gay...Maybe a politically incorrect joke, yet we are prostitutes when it comes to the environment, and if this would be the focus, not LGBT, petroleum or electric cars, who thiungs might start to change. Not bullshite green policies asking congress billions for shite,, yet real grass roots getting down in the dirt solutions by all people. How selfish we have become that we are now complicit in our own extinction, if we dont get real. NOT WOKE just WAKE the F up....V
Hello John, loved the documentary, my daughter has a degree in environmental earth science, I sent her a link to the video. We need more educational avenues for our communities on keeping green spaces green all across the United States, Thank you for sharing knowledge. Peace out!
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You are a planet doctor. 💚
By far one of my top favorite documentary about the planet ever
He is doing great work. His method should be more widely known and used.
I'm really into land healing since a couple of years now. Working on my own permaculture garden too. I have seen the documentary and all it's offshoots many times and i keep watching them when i feel hopeless. Every single time i see the image morph from that eroded desolate area to this lush green landscape tears roll down my face of pure gratitude. Thank you to all the people who work on these kinds of things. You are the real heroes in this world. Never stop, you are too important.
A great example of ARRIVING at solutions instead of superimposing solutions that work in other regions and areas on to sites and areas that need restored. Thanks for your work John. I share this documentary every teaching opportunity that I get. It turns "doom and gloom" into hope for us and the masses to see. Peace.
This is a documentary from our channel.
You can watch it with subtitles in English, French and Spanish here: ruclips.net/video/IDgDWbQtlKI/видео.html
The second part of this documentary, "Regreening the planet", is available here: ruclips.net/video/OC_Y1ZTZXQ4/видео.html
This was an incredible documentary. I hope that the work continues to improve the land through permaculture.
thank you Geoff Lawton and John Liu, many are naysayers, but you have helped more people than oppose you. We are headed in the wrong direction, we know that because things keep getting worse, your work provides hope for millions. Respect.
This documentary gives me hope.... things are bleak but there are actually possibilities, it's not the end! Awesome.
This guy deserves the Noble Prize
this makes me want to buy a few acres in the desert and start planting!
Go to it Bro
me too
Chris Rush Dudley I’m with you!!!
I'm in to work with you when you are
I enjoy seeing projects like this come to fruition. I applaud John D. Liu for working with governments in order to bring these solutions to a wider audience and to help advise them on transforming their environment as well as their economy. The one thing I have an issue with in his videos is that in regards to ruminants, he seems to only have negative references. Yes, in a restoration situation you need to keep the animals off of it for a 2-5 years depending on your circumstances and state of degradation, but then you must bring ruminants back in, especially in an area such as the wide open spaces where it's historically been savanna. These ruminants (whether it's goats, sheep, llamas, cows, etc) need to then be on a rotational grazing schedule. This will prevent a recurrence of the problems we're trying to fix in the first place.
Ruminants "prune" the grasses which encourages further growth. Their urine and feces falls on the ground. Birds eat the bugs in the feces and the ruminants churn the soil which helps to break up the feces and incorporate it all into the soil where the organisms there can continue to break it all down to usable nutrients.
The prairies in the US were/are one of the most successful ecosystems for soil building that we know of. African savannas are very similar. Wide grasslands dotted with trees and covered by huge masses of grazing and migrating animals. Without the buffalo, the prairie cannot sustain itself. So to for the African plains with buffalo and deer and giraffes. Grass root systems can go 10+ feet below the surface. The photosynthetic process continues as the plant is regularly pruned or eaten and then grows again. When the top is pruned, the roots die back accordingly. Those roots are then decomposed into new soil.
Just a simple change of taking out your Kentucky Bluegrass lawn and putting in buffalo grass helps as the buffalo grass roots can go down several feet. While I don't have buffalo grass, I force my current lawn to send down longer roots. I kept extending the length of time between watering until I now do ONE deep watering a month on my lawn and it's still mostly green in the 4th year of drought. I also keep it mowed to about 3.5 inches which helps conserve water as well. If I owned the house, there would be less lawn and what lawn I have would ideally be made up of various deep rooted prairie grasses and perennials.
In a semi-forested system with large animals, the animals knock off lower branches which helps prevent many destructive fungi and diseases from gaining a foothold and keeping the system healthy. These downed branches are then broken down by fungi and other organisms into more soil.
All of this leads to healthier soils which then can filter the water down through the system underground from the tops of the mountains to the valleys and lowlands instead of allowing it to run off as sediment. This system also recharges the aquifers with clean water and helps to regenerate springs and streams across the landscape.
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This is a smart man, we can all do our part, thats the great thing. I have an area near enough to me that i can plant on and restore my native species, and i am currently doing it and its one of my main life goals to increase the biodiversity in my country by planting on wasteground and unused fields, i have Trees, Plants and Wildflowers to bring back Bee populations and Butterflies, and by doing this i will create something for not only myself but for other people to look at and enjoy for years to come. We can all do it, we need a new 1960s but a more sensible one.
Yes, but the cities are filled with drug addicts who could care less about gardens or working in any way.
@@SipLeila So?, nobodys asking junkies to build gardens are they?. Just focus on your aim in life and try not to get distracted from that, stay on course.
@@irishelk3 Yes, junkies are being asked to work - where on earth do you live?
What a wonderful documentary John, thank you 🙏 for spending your time and efforts on this fragile planet that we call home.
Outstanding stuff! I'm stunned and my eyes have been opened! Who'd-a-thought you could get places like Jordan and Ethiopia to look like New Zealand? Truly astonishing how the earth can heal itself when left alone. And the river re-generating itself left me absolutely gobsmacked! God bless your fine work sir, and may your message be spread far and wide!
This is so beautiful and heartening it made me cry. Thank you John for raising awareness and showing us deserts turning into Gardens of Eden.
Thank you and I bow to the divine within you.
John D. Liu I love you. You are one of the wise people that brings knoledge that helps to heal to our ill behaviour. Thank you so much for bringing this profound wisdom and the practise of it to the world!
Thank you, Dr. Liu, for this documentary, really magical to see the loess transformed into a verdant valley. Thanks to Geoff Lawton for showing the world that it is possible to restore our planet. Indeed, more people should go "in the service of saving earht". Thank you so much for being that!!!
We are so fortunate to have such wonderful souls as John Liu, Dr. Suzuki and the ancient knowledge of people still practicing their simple and sustainable agricultural methods.
Who could hate this? I love the whole idea of restoring ecosystems. Here in Florida there is a project called CERP, which is to restore the balance of natural water filtration of the Everglades and Big Cypress by connecting those areas back with the original source - Lake Okeechobee and other central lakes and rivers. This will help filter Floridas' water supply the old fashion way, while restoring all plant and wildlife. I'm doing my part by planting and supporting native Floridian plants, including flowering plants that support the local butterfly and bird population. I'm so happy to read the comment section and seeing many other people are doing the same in their areas. ^_^
I was just going to point out the same thing, Yusiley! How could folks thumbs-down this documentary!?! This is a genius and obvious method he's embarking on. Like, THIS is how our ecosystem works. Although- of course, we're entitled to freedom of speech/opinion, there's no other way around this! This is simply HOW the earth works! Lol Smh What an inspiration John, Geoff, the Professor and the Princess of Jordan are! I'm in SC. I need to go research how I can do my part, with my husband and I living and renting a condo. Any collaboration ideas would be great. My husband and I are also creating a conscious website to present this kind of material to our friends and family. I had no idea that this was being done in these barren regions! All you see in the news and commercials is hopelessness of these regions and not the action that's obviously being taken place on a HUGE scale.
*this is HOW the earth functions!*
Nina Diaz
I wish to thumbs up your comment many times over. That is such a wonderful response. I too want to do my part to help out. We're all connected... what effects you and others in one way or another effects me. This is why I help out people and other species whenever I can. I start off locally by planting plant species that are native to the area and go from there (to restore local areas), including buying locally to restore economy, volunteering locally to restore hope in ones own communities, etc. Thank you for your response.
All Is Self! I love and have great compassion for all. Synchronicity, consciousness and becoming awakened is taking place as we speak.
Mr. Liu,
Thank you for you contribution to society and to the planet.
I pray that for your remaining time on earth that your further able to
continue to rebuilding of natural lands that have been degraded by us.
Best video ive watched on youtube.
It is really heart warming to see there are solutions to the destruction mankind has created on this planet.
Ive started my own backyard organic garden few years ago as a hobby but now I really think I should do this in a bigger scale to feed my family and neighbors.
And get my neighbors to get into this wonderful ideah of eating organically grown food and help the invironment in the process.
Now, isnt it time to get rid of monsanto and stop what its doing to our eco system and hurting farmers around the globe?
But first, we need a better government to do the right thing.
Well, first thing first. I gotta go water my babies. ;)
Jhon Liu: YOU good sir are a modern day hero ... every country should have a person like you...
The Royal family of Jordan is a blessing to the entire region. God Bless them!
Amen! This is exactly how monarchs should act - protecting ecosystems that allow us all to exist.
How can people dislike this.....its mother nature! Way way way more intelligent than all the humans combined.Respect folks.
This video is so important! Please share on all your social media sites.
You people don't only restore nature, but also my faith in mankind. Thanks for both!
This film provides an interesting and valuable complement to the ideas presented by Alan Savory in his TED talk.
We should approach this material with caution. Liu combines two messages in this film, what to do, and how to do it.
1. The question of what to do is clearly addressed. I don't think resting the land works in all areas, Alan Savory's work has demonstrated this. But it is also clear that not all land is well suited to livestock.
So a measure of intelligence will be needed to decide the appropriate system to employ in an area, that meets the needs of the environment and the locals.
2. The idea of large scale change is a troubling one. Despite what many people think, the planet is being destroyed on the small scale, not a large scale. People look at the mass deforestation, mining and oil industries. They see the huge wealth they use to take over countries and build huge industrial plants.
What they don't see is the billions of people handing over a few dollars every day to these corporations. Destroying the planet is an expensive business. We the people are funding the corporations that are doing it.
The first thing people need to do is to track where their money is going and what it is supporting and stop funding things that are destructive. Then begin to actually grow some food. Even if it is in a plant pot. Watching videos and reading books cannot teach you what you learn from actually growing your own salad.
Teaching this to children is of immense value.
I agree. Almost everyone has enough space for a small garden. Your one little garden may not make much of a difference, but if every backyard in North America had one, that's a huge amount of agricultural space that is not requiring the use of lands that currently remain wild.
Jeremy McKinley
Joel Salatin goes further when he points out that there is more land in N America given over to recreational animals, and lawns than there is under cultivation.
Add to that if every home kept 2 chickens and fed them on kitchen scraps, they could out produce the egg industry and produce eggs of superior quality.
Finally half the human edible food grown on earth is never eaten by humans. It is wasted, fed to animals or composted.
Add to that the huge numbers of plant species that are wild and edible, but people don't eat and there is no shortage of food at all.
Last autumn I picked 3 months supply of blackberries. I could have got a lot more but I thought I should leave some for others as they were growing wild.
They just rotted on the bush, so this year I will get a year's supply and freeze them. They are lovely in smoothies and taste better than the domesticated varieties.
this Alan Savory killed 40K elephant, do not get how we can take this guy as an example. Its a very bad assumption to compare the effect of wild life and living stock on the nature.
ben ur
Why do you think this is a bad idea?
Wildlife is very adaptable and will occupy the niches left by livestock.
Ding beetles bury the manure that they leave. Flies lay eggs in it, and birds feed on the larvae. Insects stirred up by movement are food for birds.
As the water is retained new plants grow and with it the echo system.
We know this because this happens all around the world on farms.
ben ur
Mr. Savory says this was the worst mistake of his life and he deeply grieves over a mistaken decision. We are all human and human beings make mistakes. Identifying that error and working to rectify a mistake is what counts. Savory's observations and work since has been valuable.
Mr.Liu, you have the oppertunity to nurture land regions and keep the world from aging away, crumbling in desolation. Way better than crime directed especially from ignorance and stupidity created from terror and war. I pray God lead and protect the functional earth we deserve and not the manmade problems of the mother earth, love, father time. heya heya wonkantonka, spirit of god, you'll be amazed!
If the Sahel zone get regreened again, people there will get a better life. And it will also stop the migration to Europe and local conflicts! I hope all politicians all over the World will see this video! And they should start to think in an ecological way rather then always talking about economics. If the local environement get restored, the local economy will improve autamatically.
Thank you. Yes it can be done. Contact us for cooperation wordwide. Marco Russ visionaere2016@gmail.com facebook.com/GreenMission20122050GreeningTheDesertsOfTheWorld/
+darthvader5300 Afford to shutdown? I don't think you mean looking after the workers. Return of investment and initial investments?
2 things.
Let go of material worth, monetary wealth, value your life in other ways, a richness of diversity is worth far more than a positive bulging bank balance...really.
And #EcocideLaw - do not invest in Planet destroying activities in the first place. Restitution demands all such damaging industries are shut down forthwith, any assets stripped and used, to help to repair the damage already caused, and frankly the workers currently employed, retrained in 'saving the world', in averting the looming crisis point.
CEO are obliged by laws currently, to maximise shareholder returns. Without which investments wouldn't take place. I say good. Go get a better job. Implement a law which first and foremost demands a duty of care for our collective ecology, before any right to profit, and we may just start to make the shift-change necessary to start to tackle growing climate chaos around the world. Where will people put their cash now? Into real and viable sustainable proposals which currently cannot get a foothold.
By definition the word sustainable seem to imply not for profit, certainly, without profits to cream off, so it has to start somewhere or we remain on this hell-bent road to destruction, unsustainable - means eventually, and in not long now relatively, game over. Kaput.
I don't see anyone has a choice, its do it right or die.
Alexander Nijman dcff
John Liu.
We are still "alive"
It has been a journey! I remember you telling me "it is a life journey'
Thank you so much
Why doesn't John Liu get a nobel peace prize instead of a monsanto exec?
Because money is our God.
why doesn't he share it with the Permaculture people who actually did the design and hire the people and everything else. He's a photographer. That's cool. but he didn't do any of the work. Just saying
@@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut I'm a Permaculture volunteer and I'm not rich in even the slightest! But I do get what you're saying, I think. Any way that any one of us can try to teach others is beyond valuable.
@@MuhammadAhmed-qh7ut You have nothing to apologize for. I thank you for the feedback to support those around us who are trying to do good and share it. Care for the earth. Care for the people (even the furry and feathered wee ones) and share. Caring is half the battle. One good place to start learning is some of the basic core principles. This young man put it to song so it's easy to remember. Write any time you have a question. ruclips.net/video/DBgYfkuydaI/видео.html
ha. i wrote this comment before google took over the accounts. i recently took a trip from maine back home to the midwest. I went from lush old growth forests to the midwest that really is a desert of corn and soy beans. We need these designs to revitalize the midwest and frankly, all agricultural communities that have poor land management. Which is all of them. California is too dry, the midwest is too wet and too dry. (I live in WI around where the 2018 floods were) I've mentioned this documentary to someone in agriculture on NPR years ago. He laughed at me and said something like "ya, and we would have to get people eating stuff like quinoa"
Which really, it's pretty much come to that. America just needs to eat their vegetables and use locally made products. (the midwests' notorious crop is corn from which most is used for feeding livestock (think fast food) and ethanol.
Dear John. You showed the impossible became possible. Lots of thanks!!!
what a better way to appreciate and show love to our planet we live on!
i love my planet! we all love the planet we live on!
there is enough room on this planet and means to support all of the population!
we can stop abusing our planet! instead of being busy how to stop abusing the environment! we can add and give to the environment! lets support the abundance of air we have! lets clean it and make it tastier! we are willing to live in lush places full trees and forests! i see a future for sophisticated cities were greenery integrate and dominate the environment! building skyscrapers were trees are so incorporated that the design makes it to be green on the out side! and even on the 101th floor there are trees outside the window!
+Coocoo Recoo
I too see your vision, but in most designs to date the wildlife has been left out - we need the full diversity of nature, for things to work effectively, not just the oxygen. Consider this and it will go far = )
We just found permaculture and now you and so relieved. I'd really given up hope and I've found it again. This represents the kind of authentic life so many of us are searching for, that we want our world to be about. I will spread it far and wide! Thank you.
Really great video! We will make sure we do our part when we buy our piece of land :) and hope to help others learn to live a sustainable life so the world can slowly restore ecological function.
Got a great affordable block of land for you in QLD Australia. 140 acres for $185,000. Thats the price of one acre in Western Australia.
un reportage plus que remarquable qui mériterait d'ếtre diffusé en classes. So much hope raised here! if in many aspects of sciences, several revolutions occur, enlarging our point of view and showing us how ignorant we are, and how humble shall we be, our relation to food, soil, earth, productivity or what we do with our time down here need to know such a change.
thanks for your work
Interesting... Basically, the key is to give the land a rest from the destructive practices of over grazing and industrial farming, and allow the indigenous vegetation to grow again so there's a cover to retain rain and protect the soil from erosion and the harmful effects of the sun. Soil structure improves, microbial activity in the soil increases, supporting plant life; and in the process, more carbon is sequestered, and the hydrology cycle is restored as well-- water is retained and released in a steady supply downstream. Ultimately, this improves the lives of everyday people, as the land can support them again.
What about deserts that have been untouched...yet are still deserts. The great basin, for example.
Val Cronin It doesn't rain in the deserts and bringing fresh water there would have most of it evaporated and soaked up by the dehydrated land.
Those deserts are natural unlike the lands humans break.
Val Cronin Well some of it depends on climate as Randomjack stated . . . But you can actually green even a desert in an arid climate if you know what to plant, when, and how much. The more plants you grow, the more moisture it will draw in. Even the shitty desert brush can pull in moisture, and in fact a lot of desert brush is nitrogen fixing so it can create fertile soil. The deserts we had before human impact actually were greening themselves, albeit very slowly, through natural selection (and we as humans can manipulate and use that to make it happen faster, which is what permaculture is all about). . . . . However, you also have to realize having desert ecosystems in some areas isn't necessarily a bad thing. You need a diversity of ecosystems for a healthy planet and deserts are a part of that. You just don't want all desert and no green, which is where we're headed right now unfortunately.
essentially yes, but if we wait for nature to do it in her own time it will take longer, Geoff alludes to intelligent design, this is where we, as assistants to the system 'nudge' it with the species we plant, order/location we plant them in and physical factors such as earthworks and water management, designed to serve the system as a whole, not just the human element. The key, as in demonstrated in China, is to assist the local people to do it for their own benefit rather than preaching yet another gospel to them.
1MinuteWithDC what if all the deserts were made to be green...green even faster then they would have been working on their own? Like what would happen if the world were a jungle and the grocery store was your bike path?
As an Env.Sci. major from the days when convincing ppl of the damage to the planet might have made a difference (they laughed at us), I love this man. He is my #1 hero. Thanks Jon and good luck.
you know when guys like this talk about crisis situations and 'humanity wont be suppressed, they wont go gently into that good night', you know you should pay heed because these guys are integrated with nature as a lifestyle and they are removed from societal trends so you cant say they're paranoid either. its with good reason.
+darthvader5300 Utter nonsense - go plant strawberries. (everywhere..)
But but but how are we supposed to whine about being doomed?
darthvader5300
yep ways to excuse that humanity needs the industry for profit armaments...
Superb! Everybody in this world should watch this. Especially those who burnt their crops and land thinking they are gaining value (but in fact they are becoming poorer by burning) by doing so.
People need to understand this is cool.
Waaaaay cooler than having lots of money. Kids need to be taught this and not watch shitty TV
Joe Hayman word
Wow the connection of the restoration of the land and the restoration of the community is very spiritual and a clear truth
I have spent many years studying and working in ecology, agriculture and design. I live in the United States. In my experience it has been very difficult to convince people of the value of functional ecosystems. I have practical experience doing this, research to back it and have made compelling stories and arguments for this. I have presented this to city planners, town councils, farmers, businesses and landscape architects. Most organizations don't see the economic value and won't partake. It boggles my mind. I hope as a population we embrace these ideas. For my heart, for the earth and my career.
Dear Luc07ry: It is certainly baffling that Ecological Function is not yet in the collective consciousness of all of humanity.
My experience over several decades suggests to me that biodiversity loss could be explained as "Original Sin" because human beings really did emerge in paradise. But by reducing biodiversity we began to lower biomass and the accumulation or organic matter and this altered photosynthesis (lowering carbon sequestration and oxygen release), nutrient release and nutrient recycling (reducing natural soil fertility) and massively disrupted infiltration and retention of rainfall (which naturally regulates hydrology, weather and climate) and paradise was lost.
Now is the time when we collectively have the knowledge and the responsibility to shift societal intention to a new Ecological Age in which everyone is aware that ecological function is necessary.
Watch Allan Savory's TED Talk. Rotational grazing will save the soil and the planet.
It boggles my mind too, and is obviously a major forefront to take on. For instance, 38:55 Isn't the derivative more valuable than the source because of the work that was put into managing the source and deriving the derivative (producing the product)? Also, how can he continue on to say that the functional ecological system has no monetary value? Can one not purchase degraded land, rehabilitate it, and turn it over for a profit? Wouldn't that go to show that ecological function does have monetary value? What could we do to help increase that value, well, not increase that value, but help others see the value that's there?
Its called greed and satanism my friend!
Noah Body I always called it greed and ignorance. The greed already insinuates the Satanism.
Geoff Lawton you and Roger Payne Janine Benyus and Jane Goodall have been my heroes for year. Now I get to add the brilliant visionary John Liu! I feel blessed the planet and the world are lucky to have you. As Geoff once said, We are the Weeds!'
this is epic im doing this my self but tiny im going to go mad now and plant plant plant
GAIA needs us all guys
goodluck bro!
the seventh apprentice
Im with you!
phoenix rises We need people like you. But especially i need people like you. I want to built a community of people so we can live in harmony with nature and each other. Just tell if you are interested
Gaia Project go on fb add food abundance program ;) then we will talk
Thank you John for all your hard work and creative storytelling. We're big supporters and advocates for rebuilding our land and balancing the climate and have added this to our playlists.
"Almost miraculously, a clear, flowing stream has emerged where once there was a muddy trickle." * looks at stream * Sold. If you can create a year-round source of clean water where there wasn't before, then I am sold.
Absolutely brilliant! Everyone on earth should view this documentary.
Allan Savory's TED talk was much more on point and effective: rotational grazing will save the planet. What's missing for me in this documentary are two critical points of info. What was the area like BEFORE it was damaged? What is the history of HOW it got damaged? It's good to know alternatives to restoring an area. We need to also know how it happened so we can keep it from happening again. And again.
I re-watched the first 10 minutes and I still have the same questions. There are many assumptions here and an ignorance of anything other than recent history. Humans are hunter gatherers and that lifestyle has been stopped. THAT is what has damaged the land. The solution is not to fence off and exclude humans and livestock but to teach them rotational grazing -- to mimic the hunter-gatherer effects on the land. Have you seen Allan Savory's talk? It offers real solutions for real life. Responsible farming will save the earth.
Sally Oh
Yes I love these strategies for 'regreening the desert' but it is often thought that humans are the problems, when some of the most biodiverse and ecologically healthy regions of the world have historically been USED by humans - rotational grazing but also replanting useful species and having a hand in the genetic selection (where variety has been valued and encouraged) - We should be looking for ways to coexist with nature, not fence it off!
Colten Jackson
Absolutely agree 100%!!!
It's also important to raise species of animals that DON'T overgraze or destroy the environment. Here in North America, the American bison produces a leaner, more nutritious, and tastier meat on a tenth of the grass of domestic cattle and produce quality leather as well. Yet "we" still stick to beef. You can raise ten alpacas on one acre of good forage (for meat, leather, and great quality wool), yet "we still raise goats and sheep that overgraze and require ten times the acreage. Geese can be raised on forage instead of grains that are required by ducks and chickens, and still provide quality eggs, meat, and down.
Alan Savory?. Is it that guy who killed 40,000 elephant??
5 years later and this is STILL so relevant...in fact, more relevant. So true, Humans NEED to be educated and poverty is a vicious cycle. thank you Sir for this amazing difference you are making and thank you too, to all those that are being proactive.
great Tegenlicht makes this in English!! And there are more like him standing up. See also Willie Smits TED talk on his work on Borneo.
The world needs you and your Mr. Liu, you are an inspiration to us all, I thank you
Everyone who understand TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS theory knows that the lack of property rights is the reason of environment degradation. If the land has no owner (it's owned by government who has no incentives to take care of it), even restored, will eventually degrade.
It's not a poor people who should be blamed for land degradation but the governments which made them poor and deprived of land ownership.
Thank you. This is what is missing from this video. You might enjoy Allan Savory's TED talk. Brilliant.
Sally Oh
Thank you. I'll see it for sure.
We have recently made a film called "The Promise of the Commons". You might want to take a look at that.
www.yousendit.com/download/ZUczTkFsUnI1R09wSHNUQw
Thank you John. Very interesting.
Commons discussed in the film are not classical examples of commons I was referring to. In fact they are privately owned pieces of land. Commons here are actually owned by locals who made an agreement on how it's going to be used and by whom. They were left alone by government, and are able to manage this land as if it was their property: they can discriminate others from using it.
Institution of private property is not responsible for farmers being overtaken by corporations. It's the government, corrupted bureaucrats agreed (have been bribed) for that.
Situation without private property or partial existence results in pathological situations like shown in the film. Solution are strong property rights (could be in form of commonly shared property) and government respecting and protecting it - fundamentals of andy healthy society.
Kind regards.
***** You've just nailed it.
World's environmental problems would not exist in that scale if utopians didn't try to help.
Ah - this feels right, what you say - "rotational grazing." Managing our resources with the broader view, not the narrow one centered only on self & getting ahead. Time to be stepping more into our true union as one people, one planet.
I am so grateful both for your work & for your great sharing of it with us, here - helping to give us the vision. Thus it enters the collective awareness, there to do its great work. Source bless & protect you & your work in every way, sir.
Namaste
~♥~
I love how the princess talks about how the ignorance of shepherds causes land degradation. Well that's part of it, but so is poverty, and the fact that this is their entire livelihood. Everyone needs food and a roof over their heads, which means that the land will always have to be a source of food. Our food requirements need not hurt the planet. And although I agree with Liu when he says that "we" demand too many manufactured goods, the truth is that impoverished farmers don't; they're trying to survive. We need to adopt permaculture techniques all over this planet, but it also involves a shift in our diets. We can no longer use animals as grass-or-grain-to-meat conversion machines, because ultimately everything suffers.
E Centimetres I agree. If people ate less meat (or no meat or dairy like me), a lot of ecological problems would be solved. However, I think we need to create everywhere waterscapes, that would change the hydrological balance quickest. In this area, the most outstanding specialist is: Sepp Holzer, a mountain farmer from Austria and inventor.
E Centimetres If they didn't ignore the change in the environment it wouldn't have happened. But blaming them is too simple (and I think most people understand this to be a complicated matter).
But that's where knowledge comes in.
I totally agree with you.. These people need to live and have food security. Blaming them for making sure they have something to feed their children is basically blaming them for being alive. These people simply don't ahve the necessary information and/or resources to instantly change.
We have to stop blaiming people for their wrongs, because most of them are doing what they precieve as the best they can. Educating them and healing the land is a precoess and won't happen overnight but over the course of years. We have to precieve those who are going in the wrong direction as possible allies not the enemy and we should treat them that way.
Eleanor, I was agreeing till you said "We can no longer use animals as grass-or-grain-to-meat conversion machines". Animals such as ourselves ARE vegetation conversion machines. Grazers convert grass to meat, milk, manure, urine, saliva and all these get converted back to soil to feed a new ger=neration of carbon sinking plants. Lest get eco literate ! The land needs animals, albeit properly managed.
The people in dry regions should be shoot to death with their heard of livestock!
But BEFORE someone fuck about "mercy" i tell you: this is Africa! You CAN not help anyone, someone must die, of other want to live!
Like this stupid farmer "trees do not make the food" when after he ate fruit!
I want sew his head for that! Planting let's say banana should be solution.
Africa was the "granary" of the world. Now not because there is too much people. Kill the people to restore the balance.
Thank you John Liu for sharing this with everyone.
This documentary is great but missing valuable and necessary information. The overwhelming majority of people do not understand basic principles of ecosystem restoration, like carbon sequestration. It would have been great if this documentary elaborated a bit more about the principals if improving carbon sequestration and water retention in arid climates.
Knowledge is power.
Something that really strikes my interest is how we humans tend to deal with our own excrement.
We destroy valuable nutrients and biomass in the form of raw sewage. We believe that storing human excrement in a stagnant anaerobic environment is somehow sustainable practice.
I think there is a stigma associated with humanure composting, but before the advent of indoor plumbing, many early cultures pioneered the process of turning human waste into a nearly limitless supply of fertile soil.
The process is somewhat labor intensive and involves a careful attention to detail, but if done properly, humanure composting poses zero risk for pathogens and human health.
Some of the most fertile soil on Earth, the amazonian 'Terra Preta' soils were built this way. Composting human manure with organic materials amended with biochar, created a humus rich soil several feet deep. Soil that became immune to drought and erosion, and supports a plethora of abundant life.
Living on the high plains of the western US, I can still see the evidence of the great dust bowl of the 1930s. I wonder if I can begin to restore some of the neighboring land by planting native trees and shrubs. But I'm not quite sure how to deal with the low humidity and calcareous soils native to my area. I've concluded that I'll need to bring in a few truck loads of organic matter, like compost, and go from there. The pH of my soil tested at around 8.0 and I need to bring that down by a few orders of magnitude. Reducing the pH should make nutrients in the soil available to plants, nutrients that were previously "locked out" by the excessive calcium carbonate, or 'lime' alkalinity.
I have a hot compost pile a meter square, consisting of horse manure, straw, hay, and wood shavings. I'm hoping to use this to fill some raised beds in the spring... but I need about hundred times more than that. You can never get enough organic sequestered carbon (compost).
I'll need to airlayer some native trees from my area and plant them on my 10acre lot.
It's pretty much barren aside from some grass and the sweetclover biennials that have taken over. I was thinking about starting my trees in a gully or trench that seems to generally hold more moisture than the rest of my lot.
Anyway, if you know a thing or two about growing trees above 6,000 ft. elevation, feel free to share them :)
I am determined to get some fruit trees out here...
He "discovered" Permaculture. Look into that. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them.
Try a simple manure pile, humanize, horse, cow...anything, along with straw and layer,after layer, straw, newsprint, dead animals, leaves, hardware, carry on, and nauseum,spread evenly(ish) as it matures, repeat constantly. Add worm(earthworms, fishworms, as many as you can find, allow them to migrate in, multiply and migrate out, as they will, never discourage them!
Hi Synthia, did you get anywhere with restoring some of your neighbouring land? I'm not sure if you're aware, but John's Ecosystems Restoration Camps are doing an online Ecosystem Restoration Design course: ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/ecosystem-restoration-design-online-course/
This video encourages me. I am working on a private project in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is known for droughts. But I am sure, we can give back live for nature.
Thanks for the video!
Greetings from Ethiopia
Thomas
Hey Green Gold I like your channel
He's naive about people who don't work and that they deserve food.
Thank you John D. Liu for your great contribution to helping humanity understand Mother Earth a little better.
Kindly let me know how i can get in touch with John D Liu we need him in Kenya kindly help
+Agwanda Charles If you search him online you can find he has a website where you can contact him, leave messages etc. I think it was mentioned at the end of the vid.
johndliu@icloud.com
This is real education we need this in all the schools
I saw message that Liu should be recognized with a Nobel and that “his” system should be spread.
Hello, why you think he deserves it and that’s “his” method and not the Chinese government that leads by example please?
All he did was publicizing what Chinese govt did for the last thirty some years, while taking the blame of air pollution and smock! IS THAT FAIR please?
PS: China also succeeded in turning arid desert into cultivatable land too FYI.
Thank you, John. This gave me so much hope and joy.
GOD is great, what your doing is what GOD has told us to do long ago :)
and you are a moron .....its humans that will save the planet not a DOG ops got it backwards
I cast you out of this person satan in the name of the Jesus Christ get out and never return!!!
Noah Body
idiot
It is obvious you have no education what so ever.
Well i believe the Word of GOD/ Jesus before i believe a man that can be corrupted by evil, sorry dude u lose!!
Thanks John, I could watch this video 2 million times a day. Thanks so much for taking part in the lead to replenish the destroyed earth. If we had all these vital information 100 yrs ago we will not be in this mess we are now in terms of global warming and other related problems. Keep up the good work and I shall be following you on the net.
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Im so glad i got into green mountain college, now its really time to change what is wrong! I love sustainability this documentary made me so happy, thank you! Humanity is one!!!!
Look at this and do your back yard ;-)
I think it is very important for every human on the planet to understand this concept !
I spend a LOT of time in our local waterway and I saw a lot of die off not for lack of water and not all due to parasites but a pink stain rises up inner cores and 12 inch and bigger trees just snap off at ground level I don't even need a saw just push them over but I clear cut all dead trees piled branches for habitat to hide in removed dead fall and in the aprox.mile it has fully covered the soil thus trapping moisture but my actual realization was the beavers actual intent and their eco building value they don't want the water they want what it transports and nurtures to grow the plants it consumes and parasitically all the rest of the animals are drawn back to the water and possible food sources that it creates and one asshole one gun and two shells kills that whole eco system if they ate it or skinned it ok but nope they just kill it to kill it then cry cause skeeters are mauling them mice are running ass wild in their homes and their wells are near dry gone and it is directly related to the loss of key stone plants and animals that supported the base thus sustaining the system
Dear John Liu, thank you for sharing your insights and efforts with the world.
I hope that we, as a species, will come to understand the importance of this (forgotten?) knowledge, before we deplete Earth with our greed.
Awareness could grow exponentionally like plants, if the message is spread like seeds, into a diverse social community like soil, and attention is given like water and daylight.
My blessings to you, friend of Earth...
Great video. But the whole video looks to make John D. Liu out to be the master mind behind this revolution. It's Geoff Lawton (who appeared in the video) who is the real master of permaculture. So, it should read, "if you would like to follow Geoff's work, etc etc". In other words, look for Geoff Lawton's work. He's amazing. No offence to John. It was still another great video of Geoff Lawton's work.
+Barry Jordan Geoff Lawton has greened the desert, but it takes Willie Smits to restore a rainforest. Don't underestimate what any of those major permaculturists have to offer.
+crazy808ish Oh, no underestimation here at all. I'm on board.
Actually, the Chinese loess plateau project was done by the Chinese scientists, thru the collection of millennium knowledge passed down. John Liu did a good job document all this. Including, but not shown here, his old record, about international experts' discussion at that time doubting how long it would take even if it was possible.
+Barry Jordan Liu's work is about spreading the word about this model, which is exactly what he's doing. He's not pretending to be leading nor implementing any of these projects, he's just gathering, documenting and compiling the information created by others into a usable format, then distributing it to the right people in order to help make things happen. This is very valuable work too, don't underestimate it.
+crazy808ish fact is it has taken the efforts of many great men and women to develop an awareness that there is a HUGE problem in the world, and it belongs to ALL of us. Look at Elaine Inghams work, and Paul Stammets. They have done amazing research in fungus and biology in soil and all these great minds are basically all in the same page. This is a situation that require great sweeping huge paradigm shifts on earth to change people's subconscious awareness. But thanks be to God the Creator of all things that He is showing us that the problem IS the solution. We can do this if we find unity and be of one mind, repent of the wrongs we have done and ask Yeshua, Prince of Peace to restore all things.
Dear Torquer3: The Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) is a participatory project and we are right now grappling with how to continue to grow and give everything away. We have been very fortunate to be able to work on environmental education for almost 20 years thanks to grants and donations. We started simply by taking environmental films to China but have now been drawn into all parts of the world. We need wisdom, creativity, skills, funding, and joyous purposeful colleagues.
This is what we should have prisoners working on for their daily lodging and food.
+David Egesdal Err...and you.
15% prisoners are psychopaths. Over 90% prisoners have a mental disorder. I think it goes beyond paying your dues to 'society'.
***** Can you fact check this info?? 90% seems highly unlikely and possibly your definition of a mental disorder is that part that needs questioning..if true prison seems the wrong way to be dealing with such cases by and large.
I don't know if it's 90%, but, knowing someone who is about to graduate with a master's degree on social work, I can tell you that prisons are by far the most common institution ("solution" if you can call it that) for dealing with mental illness in the United States. It's horrible.
Currently, most prisons have specific rules for therapists, such as (I kid you not) "Don't talk with the inmate about their trauma." Working through trauma is the foundation of therapy, and the vast majority of psych hospital patients have had some sort of trauma (usually in childhood).
On a personal level, my family and I have had our lives completely changed for the better because of therapy, working through and coming to terms with each of our traumas. We are all in recovery from various mental illnesses, such as addiction, suicidal depression, and generalized anxiety disorder.
We must, must, must create programs and change prison systems so that the mentally ill are given the tools for a happy life, just like for the physically ill. There is no cure, but there is treatment that is getting better every day.
I'm sorry for the long comment. I am very passionate about these things, and it pains my heart to see so many people suffering unnecessarily.
P.S. There is a book called "First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery", which is just what it sounds like. The ones written by people in recovery from schizophrenia, in particular, show that even with frightening diagnoses, there is hope, and one can be very happy even with these diseases.
Thank you for your time.
Thanks, I am replying because this is not OFF topic. All disease begins in the gut , fact. This includes mental or behavioural or learning disorders from which many people in jail suffer. HEaling the Earth, growing food organically , making fermented pro biotic food can help all people recover . Round Up is the root cause of epidemics of autism ( and Oppositional defiance disorder is on the spectrum) , cancer, auto immune diseases ( 200 of them) Kids with asthma, excema, diabetes. Addictive substance sugar ( cane) is sprayed with Round Up just before harvest as is wheat, potatoes, lentils. Big long term effect on our children
This is by far one of the most innovative and engaging ideas to emerge in our time, so much can be attributed to this idea. I will endeavor to promote it on my website.
This video is very encouraging considering the recovery is as short as 6yrs. This should be everyone's obligation
we need so many people like John to educate the whole world =]
John, THANK YOU for your work. I so enjoy my work with beekeeping. The pollinators are often overlooked too. Without them - diversity decreases and this steepens the fall to collapse.
Bless you for your hard work and tireless effort to bring about ecological recovery.
What a fabulous job on this documentary John! The key is to educate...and perhaps each small little village needs to have a member educated and pass on the knowledge. It is the ignorance of people which cause them to farm and carry on in a damaging way. Good luck to you.
For someone who started as a simple photographer, John Liu is a very intelligent man
I love Chinese even more now. Good Job John. You are an asset for earth.
Mount Hymettus in Athens, Greece has been transformed by the people in 10 years, via volunteering tree planting, from a barron dessert rocky landscape to a functional ecosystem. It would be truly fascinating to see what impact this has had on the surround people. Top soil is returning and meadows can be seen during Autumn and Spring.
Amazing video, this is our aim in life too, to show that healing of our farmland can be done, going back to nature by moving forward is the only way, our intensive mass farming ways have depleted this earth and its beauty, we are dedicated to show how we can all create a haven for wildlife, heal the planet whilst make a living from the land. It's the only way. Well done John, great video, everyone should see this. The Backyard Vegan
This is great Documentary .
CHeers for Liu at 22:00 for saying we cannot sustain consumerist culture while adding a billio people every 12 years. It's great that he is spreading the word.
Dear John,
First of all. Thank you!
Your inspire me and many and will inspire many more too action. Your documentary is awakening too say the least. Your efforts are needed and I will do my best to help you in anyway I can. From a father I say this. "Thank you for leading the way too a wonderful future for our children".
I will contact Anna immediately and take action. So looking forward too helping you in building a green and healthy future for our shared planet.
Peace and Love
Terence
brilliant film - have just shared with a friend. Keep up the great work John and let's regreen the world!
Zoe this is John Liu. Thank you for your kind words. We have no employees only colleagues. Be well and happy. John D. Liu
This is life changing information take it and use it for the betterment of mankind.
This is brilliant! THANK YOU! I have had smile and admiration in my heart-soul seeing BEAUTIFUL green grass, flowers and other vegetation beautifully restored itself.
What a wonderful goal, an epic goal....re-greening a desert. Something truly worthwhile to spend your life on.
Your videos are inspirational. Keep up the amazing work that you do. More Governments / Countries need to take notice now, and educate / mobilize their own people's to save our planet. You and others have proven that it is not rocket science, and momentum at last seems to be gaining pace
Wise men go for restoration. Thumbs up Mr. Liu.
Wow, I'm honored by your response, John! Thank you so much for what you do and for doing it in such an effective way. I remember Allan Savory being mentioned in a TIME article dated a few years back, I'll have to look into his work more. That being said, it is true that overgrazing has led to much devastation. And I do agree that the context of the situation/environment (what some refer to as "agroecology") is key, with principles being the same but best practices adapted accordingly.
Brilliant film thank you for posting and thanks to people like John Liu
thats true Raymond,however also in the same breath if the zion's weren't so far up everyone's butt with their fake money and its fake debts,people would actually feel a lot more productive and secure in themselves and i do believe that population would find its equilibrium .I look at Canada here because that is the country of choice right now and i see a vast land mass rich in resources of all kinds, a population that is minimal in comparison to the rest of the planet you would think that with this vastness of land and resources we would be as say Norway with services for population such as good health care and education etc instead we have the most highest taxed populace in the world ,i have seen more and more street people ,a health care system that really is a joke and geared for those that have and under the corporate yoke of doing procedures that in most cases just require and education in diet but that never get discussed with the corporate lackies called doctors because they want you as future business so they keep you ignorant, stupid and coming back for more of their medical Pharma shit .If i'm not making sense here its because i have to go to work here PDQ but i'm sure you get my drift .Basically Raymond the Zionist parasites are running the show here and the dumb stupid other folks don't get the picture and for most when you talk about things that matter they actually defend their oppressors WTF as i said dumb de dumb dumb.
Felix Bloxham Sounded like you were talking about Australia. I cant add to that really.
I applaud John D. Liu -Thank you
Thank you John. Your inspiration is much needed in my world.