Back then, people weren't stupid. Meadows were needed for cattle. But adding apple trees to it gave an added benefit. Not only does the cattle like to lie down in the shade in summer, apples can also be harvested in autumn. At that time it was not about making a lot of profit from just one thing, but about getting food from many sources. Today these meadows are protected because there are surprisingly old trees. Often species that no longer exist today.
Yes, Andrew, we should at least aspire to shop more locally. It's not possible for everything unless we really give up on a lot of modern tech but for food it's preferable.
@@mg4361 hat vor und Nachteile. Relativ gutes W-LAN (man hört ja horrorstorys vom Land Internet), gute Verkehrsanbindungen, man braucht keine Zigaretten es kommen auch so genug Schadstoffe in die Lunge
For a great many people who have the opportunity and the will to live a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle, this would probably also be a happier lifestyle.
The best of both worlds I'd say. There are traditions that are absolutely worth being kept alive and developed on, even from a modern or scientific point of view, like the meadow orchards. Not everthing was better in former times, though, when the dentist was called blacksmith. And I wouldn't want to miss most of the modern developments as well. Globalisation isn't a bad thing per se, it is just how we handle it, fill it with life and are aware which are the bad excresecences from it. I will always get my apples regional, but why sould I refrain from having an avocado now and then or enjoy chocolate and coffee? Those who want to chastice themselves in their ideologies, feel free.
Hello German Folk, I am an Aussie, and we have a very famous (in Aust/NZ - it started in New Zealand) Horticultural Company which supplies most of the vege seeds and seedlings for home gardeners (but you always buy your Roses from Brunnings) and it has for more than 100 years provided the "Yates Garden Guide" for home gardeners. My Mum had a copy of an early edition from the (??)1920's or 1930's(??) which had a whole chapter on crop rotation for veges in the home garden. I bought my copy in the 1970's and was most disappointed to find that the chapter on crop rotation stated that one no longer needed to rotate crops as modern gardeners should just fertilise their soil using all the modern soil chemicals to produce better crop outcomes. So, I had to go home and photocopy the chapter from my mother's early edition (you might be able to imagine just how 'pithed off' I was with that new edition of the Yates Gardening Guide). When a new edition came out in the (??)mid-1980's(??) I bought my new copy, and was very pleased to find out that Yates had re-included the crop-rotation chapter in their book, stating that it was healthier for your garden, and the environment, to not use filthy ugly chemicals and fertilising agents (my words, not theirs, exactly). Anyhow, if you are interested, there is an entry in the Australian version of Wikipaedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_(company) (it was a redirect when I searched for the Yates Garden Guide) and there are links in the article to: Yates (Au): www.yates.com.au/ and Yates (NZ): www.yates.co.nz/ and the reference cited is a nice history (very concise) of the Yates Company: www.yates.co.nz/about-us/history/ (But sorry no big mentions of the various editions of Yates Gardening Guide.) You buy it in bookshops, and both the Aussie and the Kiwi websites don't appear to sell the book (in-as-far-as I can tell). I dunno if folk will find this interesting, but it is nice from my point of view, that all folk around the world appear to be going back to using olde-style methods of good farming practises! (I grew up on a farm, and my Dad was absolutely opposed to chopping down any living trees, and we had about four or five big paddocks which were covered in gum trees (but luckily for us, previous generations had cleared the five or six paddocks we use to grow our crops, which we rotate, and then, lay fallow for three to five years in the cycle). The un-cleared paddocks are used for cattle-grazing. Fortunatlely our farm is in a region of Aussieland which is in the thin green bit near the coastal zones, not the harsh, arid "Outback" which is a bit loike a desert, which comprises the largest zones of the Country.(My home area is colloquially known as being "Out in the Sticks" - ie has thick tree-cover, but nuffink loike your German Forests, at all! We call it "thick" but you would say it is "sparse") (Also, we say we have "Mountains" but you would call them "hills"... chuckle, giggle?) (Reason for edit: unintended typo.
I think it would be a great idea to return to this lifestyle. It just seems way better to me because it’s more reliable, you know what you get and where it’s from (unlike some McDonalds mystery meat) and it’s probably more ecofriendly
Meat, vegetables, fruits are easily obtainable where I live. I like that. Unknown meat from halfway around the world is not as interesting, nor as tasty as the local ones. And you can get to know them before as well, that's only polite. Exotic fruit is harder to get to know, and they don't taste as nice when they travel. The local veg and fruit are tasty, and the local meat is lovely too! You do need a large freezer though... And it's worth it!
Definitely a desirable thing. But in places like the US where I live corporate farming is starting to get a strangle hold on everything. And they won't go back. It is a beautiful thing to see though I used to work in apples before and it just brings back good memories. Thank you
(I am living in the Betuwe, THE apple producing part of Holland and am flabbergasted to see New Zealand apples in the supermarket with competative pricing)
with Scaling it up, you probably mean to spread it out in area, and not in size. bc market size is the reason we got mega companies now, that basically do everything. i personally like smaller markets, although I also like / need suppliers for special goods, like bigger shoe sizes. those dont usually come in local markets.
Stammtisch is more or less like a "chatting table" (meeting?) although being literally "trunk table" and that's the word we use here where I live in Brazil to describe a "Treffen für Freunde der deutschen Sprache" or something along these lines. So "Cider Meetings" would fit nicely, in my humble opinion. Cheers!
I am kind of getting a déjà vu here, but it might be worth talking about in a future video, or maybe a youtube short: The Warntag 2022 is set to take place on September 8th, and again, just like in 2020, all available warning methods like sirens, warning apps etc. are due to be tested. But, this year there'll be something new. Germany is in the process of implementing Cell Broadcast warning messages in response to the devastating Ahrtal flood. The same system that is already used in a number of other countries around the world, and now Germany's following suit. The system is planned to enter regular operation in early 2023, but it is scheduled to be tested on a big scale for the first time on December 8th.
I really like the Streuobstwiesen, and enjoy hiking through them. I do think overall it's a better way of farming, and hope they don't fall by the wayside.
I've been to Lohr am Main several times. (my mom lives in Marktheidenfeld) and it is said that the Dwarfs from the Snow White story were not actually dwarfs, but just shorter than average people because they had to work in small areas like mines... which in my mind makes the whole story a little more credible... but who knows.
@@lonestarr1490 well there's dwarfism and then there are people who are just short... I'll admit that I don't know the chances of 7 dwarves being in the same household at the same time... but considering the amount of mines vs. the amount of dwarfs at any given time in history, it would seem highly unlikely, unless this particular mine was paying unusually well... as usual I could be wrong... or then again it might just be a fairy tale.
@@HansKoschei I doubt that, in the middle ages, people had a concept of dwarfism. Most people probably never even saw a person with dwarfism, given that such children more often than not didn't get to live that long (partly due to insufficient healthcare, partly due to superstition). Btw, there are theories that the myths about dwarves stem from Italian miners that crossed the Alps in search of valuable minerals. In ye olden days, miners actually tended to be quite short, for the tunnelling techniques weren't that sophisticated yet. Thus, you had to be short in order to fit into a mine.
The thing is that even industrial meat production or monoculture plantations have their benefits for the environment. Like, if you attempted to produce as much food instead with Streuobstwiesen, free pasturing cows etc. that would take up way more space that had to be claimed from nature.
It's true they take up more space, but the environmentally damaging aspect is the monocultures themselves. This is the main contributing factor in the collapse of insect populations, for example.
Considering the fact that the strawberries you get in the winter from God-only-knows-where DON'T TASTE LIKE ANYTHING anyway, we absolutely SHOULD return to "(mostly) locally sourced stuff". I think it's fine if tropical specialties are not overly abundant, and I really do not need out of season vegetables, especially from places that are colder than my place. (No, srsly, why the hell does Austria get tomatoes and green salads from the Netherlands of all places, we can (and do) just grow that stuff in our own glasshouses if needed)
Desirable? Maybe. Possible? I doubt it. That works quite well for small rural areas, the city lifestyle is completely different. Still, nothing stops people from cities to hit a rural market here and there, but times have changed and corporations took over most supply chains. Convenience ended up winning. Still, I quite like visiting those more local markets once in a while.
Eating meat leads to a responsibility for large CO₂ pollution. Ruminants in particular have extremely high CO₂ emissions: the equivalent of 13.3 kilos of CO₂ are released per kilo of beef. For comparison: The same amount of apples produces 0.5 kilos of CO₂ (numbers taken from Greenpeace).
You have to be a little careful with those figures. One of the reasons for high emissions is that factory farming methods typically use feed that makes cattle more flatulant. Cattle fed properly emit far fewer greenhouse gases. Also, a kilo of meat has more nutrients than a kilo of fruit and vegetables, so comparing weight for weight is slightly misleading. Also, cattle produce a natural fertilizer which reduces the need for artificially produced fertilizers, and the use of manure in agriculture is known to help with carbon sequestration. There's also the observation that the figures quoted are for beef, which is by far the meat with the biggest carbon footprint. I do think we need to drastically reduce our consumption of meat for a variety of reasons; but I see the problem as being caused not by the eating of meat per se, and more the overproduction and overconsumption of meat leading to environmentally destructive practices like forest clearing and factory farming in the name of profit. In any case the calculations involved are a lot more complex than is usually portrayed.
A couple of years ago the German Tv-Show „extra3“ made a little report about the Snow white-Statue in Lohr, which looks more like Medusa than Snow White. ruclips.net/video/Ibkg5E-0Pz4/видео.html
to answer the question in the video, yes i do indeed think this to be possible um die frage aus dem video zu beantworten, ja ich glaub schon das daß möglich ist
@@rewboss pfff... piss easy: log table. But what's a crackerbarrel? ps: apple wine log table. English for runaways! XD pps: err... actually a srs question now -> Do you get "English for runaways" or is that just funny to Germans? You know, stuff like stone eagle or to be heavy on wire or give not so on? Yes nay, is clear? Or do you only understand railway station? =P
@@rewboss I'd say "regulars table" as it is the (usually reserved) table for the regulars - those which meet there on a regular base to drink, chat, play (card-)games or just have a good time.
@@rewboss oh, sorry! That was no fromsight! Now we sit quite beautiful in the ink. But your English for runaways is not from bad parents - I would even so far walk it one-wall-free to name! 🤗🤣
maybe but withought the global economy a local drought turns into a local famine. but with trade the great equaliser a local drought turns into a global price blip. my local area doesn't have the climite for coffee bean cultivation but my cup of joe is always available. but in places where coffee beans grow well there arent enough coffee drinkers to drink all of it, thus the capability would go unutilised. thus by trade places suted can specialise doing spific things better, everyone can drink coffee because a few places have specialised in it, and can use that medium of exchange money to buy things they didn't specialise in. so everybody can get everything all of the time, win win. if we blow all the bridges and sink all the ships ground all the planes that's the end of life as we know it.
The retrograde notion of it is problematic. Sure, pick your time in Europe. Set the parameters at horse and cart, or earlier. What then do we say about, America, Australia, New Zealand? Should the south-eastern part of Australia just chuck out its relationship with the entire continent of Australia, change its food supply and prohibit any foods sold outside of its temperate region from being moved within the same Land(! Yes, that's German) to another part in the same Land(!)? Hmm... Can I have some new ideas please? Europe has been responsible for far too many global problems. How about you tell me something that is actually new. I do like the show. I am however, very tired of European solutions to everything that is bad of their own creation.
You ask a quintessential german question: "wo kämen wir hin, wenn das alle machen?" / "where will it get us if everyone does that?" :) Well nowhere, because mass production and global markets tend to have business advantages and probably will have for some time. Going back to locally produced food would certainly be hard/probably unsustainable even for Germany alone. Although europeans can be quite obnoxious in exporting "good" ideas, I wouldn't outright dismiss european solutions to european problems.
I love how much I as a German learn about Germany, on a English-speaking RUclips Channel ;D
Not only Germany, I also learn German grammar and some new words :)
This channel is amazing
Back then, people weren't stupid. Meadows were needed for cattle. But adding apple trees to it gave an added benefit. Not only does the cattle like to lie down in the shade in summer, apples can also be harvested in autumn. At that time it was not about making a lot of profit from just one thing, but about getting food from many sources.
Today these meadows are protected because there are surprisingly old trees.
Often species that no longer exist today.
Als Deutscher lerne ich hier viel über mein Land, dafür Danke! Aber ich liebe am meisten den wunderbaren englichen Humor des Channels.
Yes, Andrew, we should at least aspire to shop more locally. It's not possible for everything unless we really give up on a lot of modern tech but for food it's preferable.
Andrew, ich liebe Deine Videos. Insbesondere, weil sie mir etwas vom Landleben zeigen. Ich wohne im Ruhrgebiet.
Same
mein Beileid :(
@@mg4361 hat vor und Nachteile. Relativ gutes W-LAN (man hört ja horrorstorys vom Land Internet), gute Verkehrsanbindungen, man braucht keine Zigaretten es kommen auch so genug Schadstoffe in die Lunge
@@za1du "gute Verkehrsanbindung" ...laughs in Ruhrbahn
@@EppelheimTV Meine Stadt hagt zumindesgt gute verkehrsanbindungen
Sometimes it needs disturbance of the regular forest that normally would grow to increase biodiversity. Like meadows or meadow orchards.
I last visited Germany in 1978, but I really enjoy your site!
For a great many people who have the opportunity and the will to live a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle, this would probably also be a happier lifestyle.
The best of both worlds I'd say. There are traditions that are absolutely worth being kept alive and developed on, even from a modern or scientific point of view, like the meadow orchards. Not everthing was better in former times, though, when the dentist was called blacksmith. And I wouldn't want to miss most of the modern developments as well. Globalisation isn't a bad thing per se, it is just how we handle it, fill it with life and are aware which are the bad excresecences from it. I will always get my apples regional, but why sould I refrain from having an avocado now and then or enjoy chocolate and coffee? Those who want to chastice themselves in their ideologies, feel free.
Barely enough words to let shine through you understood this is not a simple question and thus does not have an easy answer...
Me watching this after the day I bought my first Akku-Rasenmäher... will put it to the test later today.
Without the Äppler.
Funny thing, yesterday we started the ferment of the apples from our own „Streuobstwiese". Let's see how it turns out!
Hello German Folk, I am an Aussie, and we have a very famous (in Aust/NZ - it started in New Zealand) Horticultural Company which supplies most of the vege seeds and seedlings for home gardeners (but you always buy your Roses from Brunnings) and it has for more than 100 years provided the "Yates Garden Guide" for home gardeners. My Mum had a copy of an early edition from the (??)1920's or 1930's(??) which had a whole chapter on crop rotation for veges in the home garden. I bought my copy in the 1970's and was most disappointed to find that the chapter on crop rotation stated that one no longer needed to rotate crops as modern gardeners should just fertilise their soil using all the modern soil chemicals to produce better crop outcomes. So, I had to go home and photocopy the chapter from my mother's early edition (you might be able to imagine just how 'pithed off' I was with that new edition of the Yates Gardening Guide). When a new edition came out in the (??)mid-1980's(??) I bought my new copy, and was very pleased to find out that Yates had re-included the crop-rotation chapter in their book, stating that it was healthier for your garden, and the environment, to not use filthy ugly chemicals and fertilising agents (my words, not theirs, exactly). Anyhow, if you are interested, there is an entry in the Australian version of Wikipaedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_(company)
(it was a redirect when I searched for the Yates Garden Guide) and there are links in the article to:
Yates (Au):
www.yates.com.au/
and Yates (NZ):
www.yates.co.nz/
and the reference cited is a nice history (very concise) of the Yates Company:
www.yates.co.nz/about-us/history/
(But sorry no big mentions of the various editions of Yates Gardening Guide.)
You buy it in bookshops, and both the Aussie and the Kiwi websites don't appear to sell the book (in-as-far-as I can tell).
I dunno if folk will find this interesting, but it is nice from my point of view, that all folk around the world appear to be going back to using olde-style methods of good farming practises! (I grew up on a farm, and my Dad was absolutely opposed to chopping down any living trees, and we had about four or five big paddocks which were covered in gum trees (but luckily for us, previous generations had cleared the five or six paddocks we use to grow our crops, which we rotate, and then, lay fallow for three to five years in the cycle). The un-cleared paddocks are used for cattle-grazing. Fortunatlely our farm is in a region of Aussieland which is in the thin green bit near the coastal zones, not the harsh, arid "Outback" which is a bit loike a desert, which comprises the largest zones of the Country.(My home area is colloquially known as being "Out in the Sticks" - ie has thick tree-cover, but nuffink loike your German Forests, at all! We call it "thick" but you would say it is "sparse") (Also, we say we have "Mountains" but you would call them "hills"... chuckle, giggle?)
(Reason for edit: unintended typo.
A wonderful idea, scale it up!
I think it would be a great idea to return to this lifestyle. It just seems way better to me because it’s more reliable, you know what you get and where it’s from (unlike some McDonalds mystery meat) and it’s probably more ecofriendly
I mean, for apples and such, yes. This won't be possible for many manufactured goods, especially electronics.
Meat, vegetables, fruits are easily obtainable where I live. I like that. Unknown meat from halfway around the world is not as interesting, nor as tasty as the local ones. And you can get to know them before as well, that's only polite. Exotic fruit is harder to get to know, and they don't taste as nice when they travel. The local veg and fruit are tasty, and the local meat is lovely too! You do need a large freezer though... And it's worth it!
Definitely a desirable thing. But in places like the US where I live corporate farming is starting to get a strangle hold on everything. And they won't go back. It is a beautiful thing to see though I used to work in apples before and it just brings back good memories. Thank you
(I am living in the Betuwe, THE apple producing part of Holland and am flabbergasted to see New Zealand apples in the supermarket with competative pricing)
with Scaling it up, you probably mean to spread it out in area, and not in size. bc market size is the reason we got mega companies now, that basically do everything. i personally like smaller markets, although I also like / need suppliers for special goods, like bigger shoe sizes. those dont usually come in local markets.
I would love to see the finales of the mowing races, after the 12 rounds to qualify :)
Short answer to the very last question…: YES! 👍
Quite an incider challenge!
Stammtisch is more or less like a "chatting table" (meeting?) although being literally "trunk table" and that's the word we use here where I live in Brazil to describe a "Treffen für Freunde der deutschen Sprache" or something along these lines.
So "Cider Meetings" would fit nicely, in my humble opinion.
Cheers!
Will you participate in the mower race next year? \m/
Most important question!🙂👍
YES!
I assume it will be necessary to return to such a mpre communal lifestyle soon and it might even feel amazing.
I am kind of getting a déjà vu here, but it might be worth talking about in a future video, or maybe a youtube short: The Warntag 2022 is set to take place on September 8th, and again, just like in 2020, all available warning methods like sirens, warning apps etc. are due to be tested.
But, this year there'll be something new. Germany is in the process of implementing Cell Broadcast warning messages in response to the devastating Ahrtal flood. The same system that is already used in a number of other countries around the world, and now Germany's following suit. The system is planned to enter regular operation in early 2023, but it is scheduled to be tested on a big scale for the first time on December 8th.
i ate a fresh and ripe apple from the tree and omg that was delicious
I really like the Streuobstwiesen, and enjoy hiking through them. I do think overall it's a better way of farming, and hope they don't fall by the wayside.
I've been to Lohr am Main several times. (my mom lives in Marktheidenfeld) and it is said that the Dwarfs from the Snow White story were not actually dwarfs, but just shorter than average people because they had to work in small areas like mines... which in my mind makes the whole story a little more credible... but who knows.
And what would dwarves be if not shorter than average people?
@@lonestarr1490 well there's dwarfism and then there are people who are just short... I'll admit that I don't know the chances of 7 dwarves being in the same household at the same time... but considering the amount of mines vs. the amount of dwarfs at any given time in history, it would seem highly unlikely, unless this particular mine was paying unusually well... as usual I could be wrong... or then again it might just be a fairy tale.
@@HansKoschei I doubt that, in the middle ages, people had a concept of dwarfism. Most people probably never even saw a person with dwarfism, given that such children more often than not didn't get to live that long (partly due to insufficient healthcare, partly due to superstition).
Btw, there are theories that the myths about dwarves stem from Italian miners that crossed the Alps in search of valuable minerals. In ye olden days, miners actually tended to be quite short, for the tunnelling techniques weren't that sophisticated yet. Thus, you had to be short in order to fit into a mine.
@@lonestarr1490 and they all could have been children also
I think certain things in our lives need to be simplified.
The good things in life don't usually scale up well. Scaling up usually ruins them.
The thing is that even industrial meat production or monoculture plantations have their benefits for the environment. Like, if you attempted to produce as much food instead with Streuobstwiesen, free pasturing cows etc. that would take up way more space that had to be claimed from nature.
It's true they take up more space, but the environmentally damaging aspect is the monocultures themselves. This is the main contributing factor in the collapse of insect populations, for example.
Hi. Hast du eine Aufnahme von der Schnewittchenfigur vor der Stadthalle gemacht? Das ist der eigentliche Star der Show.
Considering the fact that the strawberries you get in the winter from God-only-knows-where DON'T TASTE LIKE ANYTHING anyway, we absolutely SHOULD return to "(mostly) locally sourced stuff". I think it's fine if tropical specialties are not overly abundant, and I really do not need out of season vegetables, especially from places that are colder than my place. (No, srsly, why the hell does Austria get tomatoes and green salads from the Netherlands of all places, we can (and do) just grow that stuff in our own glasshouses if needed)
Simpler and more sustainable? Huh, perhaps. Sounds like a good way to live.
No.
Desirable? Maybe. Possible? I doubt it. That works quite well for small rural areas, the city lifestyle is completely different. Still, nothing stops people from cities to hit a rural market here and there, but times have changed and corporations took over most supply chains. Convenience ended up winning. Still, I quite like visiting those more local markets once in a while.
Eating meat leads to a responsibility for large CO₂ pollution.
Ruminants in particular have extremely high CO₂ emissions: the equivalent of 13.3 kilos of CO₂ are released per kilo of beef. For comparison: The same amount of apples produces 0.5 kilos of CO₂ (numbers taken from Greenpeace).
You have to be a little careful with those figures. One of the reasons for high emissions is that factory farming methods typically use feed that makes cattle more flatulant. Cattle fed properly emit far fewer greenhouse gases. Also, a kilo of meat has more nutrients than a kilo of fruit and vegetables, so comparing weight for weight is slightly misleading. Also, cattle produce a natural fertilizer which reduces the need for artificially produced fertilizers, and the use of manure in agriculture is known to help with carbon sequestration. There's also the observation that the figures quoted are for beef, which is by far the meat with the biggest carbon footprint.
I do think we need to drastically reduce our consumption of meat for a variety of reasons; but I see the problem as being caused not by the eating of meat per se, and more the overproduction and overconsumption of meat leading to environmentally destructive practices like forest clearing and factory farming in the name of profit.
In any case the calculations involved are a lot more complex than is usually portrayed.
Hi Andrew!
"The krauts got so dense" translates perfectly to "die deutschen waren so dicht, ...". 😆
Greetings from Lübeck,
Marcus
I think he said Crowds but this is much funnier 🤣
Yes.
No Discussion neeed. Simply put...
I guess Snow White was at home being pleasured by the 7 dwarfs
I would be in favor of that.
A couple of years ago the German Tv-Show „extra3“ made a little report about the Snow white-Statue in Lohr, which looks more like Medusa than Snow White. ruclips.net/video/Ibkg5E-0Pz4/видео.html
Ebbelwoi = Hard Cider :D
to answer the question in the video, yes i do indeed think this to be possible
um die frage aus dem video zu beantworten, ja ich glaub schon das daß möglich ist
Äppelwoi - apple whine ... not that hard to translate?
That's the easy part. Now translate "Stammtisch".
@@rewboss pfff... piss easy: log table. But what's a crackerbarrel?
ps: apple wine log table. English for runaways! XD
pps: err... actually a srs question now -> Do you get "English for runaways" or is that just funny to Germans? You know, stuff like stone eagle or to be heavy on wire or give not so on? Yes nay, is clear? Or do you only understand railway station? =P
@@vertexrikers Thunderweather! My picture shield is in the bucket.
@@rewboss I'd say "regulars table" as it is the (usually reserved) table for the regulars - those which meet there on a regular base to drink, chat, play (card-)games or just have a good time.
@@rewboss oh, sorry! That was no fromsight! Now we sit quite beautiful in the ink. But your English for runaways is not from bad parents - I would even so far walk it one-wall-free to name! 🤗🤣
How to get someone to mow your grass for free
maybe but withought the global economy a local drought turns into a local famine. but with trade the great equaliser a local drought turns into a global price blip. my local area doesn't have the climite for coffee bean cultivation but my cup of joe is always available. but in places where coffee beans grow well there arent enough coffee drinkers to drink all of it, thus the capability would go unutilised. thus by trade places suted can specialise doing spific things better, everyone can drink coffee because a few places have specialised in it, and can use that medium of exchange money to buy things they didn't specialise in. so everybody can get everything all of the time, win win. if we blow all the bridges and sink all the ships ground all the planes that's the end of life as we know it.
"Biodiversity" - 21st century-speak. Good, good man! Now he just has to be "sustainable" in his attitude.
We definitely should, but to do that population growth must stop.
Nope. We love our modern conveniences too much.
The retrograde notion of it is problematic. Sure, pick your time in Europe. Set the parameters at horse and cart, or earlier. What then do we say about, America, Australia, New Zealand? Should the south-eastern part of Australia just chuck out its relationship with the entire continent of Australia, change its food supply and prohibit any foods sold outside of its temperate region from being moved within the same Land(! Yes, that's German) to another part in the same Land(!)? Hmm... Can I have some new ideas please? Europe has been responsible for far too many global problems. How about you tell me something that is actually new. I do like the show. I am however, very tired of European solutions to everything that is bad of their own creation.
You ask a quintessential german question: "wo kämen wir hin, wenn das alle machen?" / "where will it get us if everyone does that?" :)
Well nowhere, because mass production and global markets tend to have business advantages and probably will have for some time. Going back to locally produced food would certainly be hard/probably unsustainable even for Germany alone.
Although europeans can be quite obnoxious in exporting "good" ideas, I wouldn't outright dismiss european solutions to european problems.