Can Native American Hopi Teach Us How to Survive Colorado River Drought? 

Hope for what? He doesn't have to feed 50 million people

That looked about an acre of land, half spaced, with about a third of the rows missing out, corn in September almost at harvest. I’m surprised they used it for n film without the context of it being unfeasible at scale. The blue corn he had, perhaps he can still make profit by selling at a premium direct to customer at a specialty market, provided his land stays cheap, but the feed corn or even amount of sweet corn needed for national consumption is mind boggling.

@@ericmuschlitz7619 Amount for national consumption can be cut in half because 40% of all food imported or grown in America is thrown away as waste.

​@@ericmuschlitz7619 You just need to think outside the industrialised American box you've been raised in :) Australia raises around 5 million cattle on land that looks like that every year, that's a LOT of meat & a lot of export $$$$$! The farms those cattle are on are as big as Israel, half of them don't even have fences, cause the cattle could never reach the edges. They use planes to round them up twice a year for care & to select the ones to go to market, stick them on road trains (that's a semi truck with 3 trailers on it) for the 36 hour drive to civilisation & the rest are turned loose again to walk between those spaced out plants (native plants taht are drought/desert adapted). The farmers maintain water points at regular intervals throughout the farm & the cows have to find them & find food or die. They therefore need to factor that into their system too, calves that will become their future breeders need to remain with their mothers for long enough to learn how to survive in that lifestyle & breeds with strong mothering instincts must be selected to accommodate this In terms of the corn for human consumption (as opposed to feed corn, which obviously should be replaced by native grasses), there's no reason why designs couldn't be developed & machines made to optimise efficiency of harvest with least number of passes & fuel needed. Sure, it would take FAR more land to grow the same amount of corn as regular fields grow, but if you want to grow corn for humans as opposed to the cows that can self-harvest & do the walking themselves, then you just need to make the appropriate machines for it & use appropriate amounts of land for the required yield. If the choice is spaced our corn over large areas of desert that is currently not being used for anything, or cutting down forests so as to be able to grow in the cookie cutter way you're used to, which is truly a better option huh?

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That is ridiculous. Destroying our country for money those suffering through these droughts won't see.

Or growing food for the world in the driest region in north America

They also are buying the land for the water rights which i believe is 17 dollars an acre. I grew up in my family dairy business and we use to ship hay in containers to Saude Arabia. However the wised up and now do there own farming

Agreed.

I've seen and read about this. Sadly probably 98% of Americans don't even know this shit goes on. China has also bought up a lot of our land as well. So have rich billionaires! Man we are so uneducated on sooo many things. We've also got asshole corporations stealing our water all over the place. Nestle is evil, seriously don't support their company and subsidiaries. Also companies who purposely grow water thirsty crops--- almonds! And the big corporations that are constantly drilling deeper and deeper wells into our ground water table. That should be *HIGHLY* regulated. ....it's so depressing, lol. I wish I could remember some of the documentaries I've seen on the water wars that go on right here on America, but I can't remember them. I'm pretty sure several were from either the discovery channel or maybe national geographic channel on tv several years ago when they did either a week or month long segment about water, water wars, droughts, etc etc in America as well as around the world. I'll have to see if I can input the right words into the Google machine (lol!) and manage to find out what they were called. *sigh*

But he does poop and pee in it

Corporations don't live in the areas they exploit.

No , he drinks ours. And calling Chinese people frogs is.... frogist.

@@alexzabala2154 "Don't shit where you eat." First rule we learned living in caves.

Maybe China should take note of that proverb then instead of draining all the underground water in their deserts in order to make pretty ponds above ground cause they look pretty (while Mongolians thousand year old wells run dry because of it!)

And so it goes with the Papago

Speaking of taking water. CAP takes out more and more water. This isn't offset by the water taken out of the Great Basin by the Central Utah Project. Reservoirs like Flaming Gorge, Powell, Mead accelerate evaporation and recharge of aquifers.

@@oldhardrock2542 the solution for farmers is cloud seeding drop enough seeds on the clouds n the southwest and California to make it rain twice a week problem solved

@@robinsss And if there are no clouds? Cloud seeding was tried in the 60's. It was stopped. Why? Climate changes. That's what it does. Adapt or die. Why did the Anasazi, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, O'Ohodom peopkes apparently suddenly appear, flourish and disappear? Could have been climate change events that brought them north as the rainfall and temperatures permitted their civilizations to grow and prosper? Perhaps during the Medieval Warming Period that permitted farming in Greenland. Then the Little Ice Age came and "coincidentally", these people generally migrated elsewhere. The Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Laguna, Acoma, Papago and others who remained adapted and survived in spite of being invaded and, in some cases, nearly wiped out by foreign disease, restrictions their way of life.

@@oldhardrock2542 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' And if there are no clouds? ''''''''''''''''''''' has there ever been an entire week in California where there were no clouds? i doubt it '''''''''''Cloud seeding was tried in the 60's. It was stopped. Why?''''''''''''' i don't know why they stopped but 8 states have started using it again here's an article www.scientificamerican.com/article/eight-states-are-seeding-clouds-to-overcome-megadrought/ '''''Climate changes. That's what it does. Adapt or die.'''''''''''''''''' cloud seeding is adapting to climate change and producing a solution

There are native grasses available that use a lot less water. Some don't even need mowing if you're ready for a 4 inch lawn which sort of "waves". Only problem is, big problem, most of our existing grasses will grow faster and "strangle" these better, slower growing grasses. See "Prairie Nursery" for their great garden catalog.

Well there's always fake grass. They use it for football fields so why not golf courses? Parks could use animals to "mow" lawns. I think they'd use less water.

My grass gets its water from the sky or not at all.

@@bmojo7118 Mine, too! Including the Dandelions. 😁

@Stinky Piece of Cheese So a different situation in a different place is a lie- U sir are quite the jakass.

interesting, thanks for sharing :) So that's where the global cattle water use numbers come from as opposed to them being American specific numbers

IF you charge the farmer for water, they will go out of business and no one will grow your crops for you. Farming is one of the few businesses that the producer does not decide the price of his produce. What would happen is that a large corporation would buy up all the land as the farmers lost it, and would then decide what the prices would be, driving up the cost of food.

Grateful for data

3 days without water and you are history. The Southwest is our wake up call.

Yeah too bad they left out the fact that not eating meat would be an exponential help with regards to the manner.

They demand conformity so obey you will!

@Ivan Schlotzky Time. And 4 days without water and food equals a good fast. Time is the most valuable resource, then Air, then water. IMO.

It will be worth more the oil. I'm a obsessive climatologist with out a degree and I have a mountain of evidence that the planet could be propelling its self into another possible extinction due to mankind's stupidity and greed. The Arctic and antarctic are ground zero for climate change and the future billion of humans that will die due to starvation, water scarcity and civil conflict and mass migrations into northern latitudes.

We did try to adapt, when Trump passed the USMCA trade agreement. Unfortunately, most democrats voted No, and tried to stop the passage of the agreement

@@jlang7705 trump doesn’t even believe in climate change

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@@nicoleonlysometimes824 He believes it’s not fully under our control, and even with our efforts it would have to be global. Since places like India with their brown air aren’t on board it’s not going to make much of a difference to shut down some coal mining plants, etc. This is partly natural anyway - as magnetic north drifts ice caps melt. Can’t do anything about that. Just waste less and use less.

@@dianac2498 all of that shift has been happening before we were here and it will continue when we are gone.

They are barely here in the first place.

Ohh come on. He had a wheel barrow full of crops in an area rather than 50 wheel barrows if it was watered. The old way works when you have few people to feed and land isn't a problem.

@@UberAlphaSirus This is what I was thinking. This dude probably has organic fruit cakes buying his stuff for 10x what someone would get from a commercial field. Something outside of normal market forces allows this guy to thrive, not his farming techniques.

@@UberAlphaSirus On the whole I agree, but there are still lessons. Find crops that suit the land, find techniques that use water you have in a smart way. Market forces are just starting to promote conventional farmers to look into these factors. Educated consumers (as a result of videos/news like this) can also drive demand for less water intensive crops.

the unsustainable farms are growing livestook feed for an over-productive meat industry. reducing beef production would help many people. daily steaks are not worth straining the water supply.

Up here in Canada is the same thing. The southern parts of the parries, Alberta, Sask, Manitoba have had the worst drought in 50 years. Never rains and hardly snows now. Moving north wont help..... We gotta move continents!

@@Bigazzham Yeah, the dry places are getting dryer. Fortunately, with climate change, some places are actually getting wetter, we're planning to move there.

@@MrArtist7777 Very true.

global warming isn't kind. human beings and how we treat earth is partly to blame. Big companies that abuse the resources are to blame

I noticed too. I live in Colorado City Az.

America has zero capacity for collective action.

Gollum controllers hate unity,spirituality,,unless its their inverted perverted dark spirituality,

I’d like to think this is a pendulum action and we’re going to swing back in a collective bitch slap to the corporate elites.

My thought exactly.

@@allgoo1990 I don't think he got that I was talking about his side...

Green, drought tolerant plants are MUCH better for the environment than a gravel "lawn". Stones absorb and then reflect back the heat.

Fun fact about morning glory, their seeds contain a chemical similar in structure to LSD. If you eat 100 or more morning glory seeds you'll trip. see r/LSA for details if you're interested.

We spray to kill it in the Midwest. It’s a weed and a nuisance

@@veramae4098 Lawns will get more water than humans drink at this rate. Grass lawns are utter nonsense.

And I bet your neighbor loves it as well when it takes over his yard. Maybe you should plant baboon and boysenberry as well.

Clover is our friend.

@@two-sense YES ! Food for bees - NO BESS - NO FOOD.

Sure -- if a cover crop can be found that will thrive on less than 10 inches of water per year and can be planted without labor or equipment.

@@warreneckels4945 A crop that can be planted without labour or equipment? Are you some kind of mad scientist?

cover crops need water too. Duh!

Thankfully I have a newer water efficient toilet but I also know some people don't like them because they say it doesn't provide enough water flow for a proper flush, especially when they take a crap. So they end up flushing twice. I say, ok? How often you take a crap? Twice daily or something? So yeah, rarely you have to flush twice. Big deal. Think about all the times you didn't need the extra water though... But it's about convenience and that's more important to them than conserving water, which is selfish and sad. We also have a newer washing machine which adds water and goes to a detect water level cycle to ensure it's not using excessive amounts. The salesman complained that the government was getting in the way and telling us how much water we can use and not letting us set it manually. I thought to myself....yeah? As long as it uses enough water to wash the clothes who cares about manually setting it? It works great, I love it, and it saves water. I've also come to find out the modern dish washers typically use less water now than hand washing dishes. I neither have the space or funds for one so I got a kitchen faucet with auto on/off functionality. I wave my hand at it while washing dishes and it turns on and off. I don't know why more people don't have one of those at least in their kitchen. It wasn't that much more expensive for that. And why more people don't have solar water heaters in states that get lots of sun. Oh well.. Plenty of things to improve the situation and we're going at a snails pace.

I put a brick in the toilet tank when Cali was having a water shortage decades ago and the toilet worked fine.

Nuke California and start over! It’s a shithole that needs to go!! 🤷🏼🍺🍺

Wash, but you need not waste more water with a rinse, fill the sink with water for dishes, syphon it into a bucket for the plants, leave a bucket in the shower and use that, too. I love my water, I don't waste it.

Usually there is a way to adjust the float arm so it turns off the water valve sooner, thus less water will be in the tank.

You can turn your regular toilet into a 2 stage water saving toilet by replacing the old flapper (which probably should be changed anyway) with a flapper with a float on the chain. You simply raise or lower the float on the chain to suit your toilets design. Lowering the float increases the volume of the flush. Raising it decreases the volume of the flush. To get the maximum volume of flush you simply hold the toilet handle down for a few seconds until the tank empties out into the bowl.

@@dag_of_the_west5416 Lowering the float on the fill valve decreases the overall potential volume of the flush. Same with putting some object int the tank. Get a flapper with a float on it. That why if you need a high volume flush you simply hold the handle down until the entire tank empties into the bowl. If you simply press and release the toilet handle it gives a relatively small flush.

Just adjust the water level by lowering the float you don't have to put anything in your toilet

@@casper130rocks not all toilets have an adjustable float. Mine is hard plastic that won't bend.

Like abu Dubai?

Guess what ? In the early 1920s Arizona was not so much a desert. It had lots of water flowing across the state like most other sw states. The Sierra was packed with mountain snow. Anthropogenic climate change started with the start of the industrial revolution in 1760. Every year co2 levels increase little by little and due to the baby boom generation in the 50s and 60s co2 levels excelerated. The global population is now 7.9 billion people. Every man woman and child in the most advanced countries contribute to co2 meteoric rise. Co2 is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere.90% of the latent heat energy is reassured into the world's oceans. Heat waves around countries in the mid latitudes it killing off huge coral reefs known as bleaching events. As tge Arctic continues to warm up at twice the global rate the tempature difference between the Arctic and mid latitudes is shrinking. That is contributing to the jet stream to loose its shape and speed casing big storms around the world to move more slowly or stalling casing droughts and hurricanes to move more slowly inland. Hurricane Harvey was one example. It moved inland at 5 mph resulting up to 50 inches to accumulate. In some years climate change is slowing the firmstion of pacific storms. Pacific ocean storms mix up the top layer of tge ocean with lower colder stratification layers to keep the surface of the pacific ocean cool. Summer of 2016 was a stunning summer with no rain for 6 months in the pacific north west. As Arctic ocean continues to loose its ice is is slowing many decadal overturning circulation. The Atlantic decades overturning circulation is one if the well known DOC. Its known at earths air conditioning system. It helps to regulates the tempature of the northern hemisphere. Without it countries in southern latitudes would cook with heat waves between 130-150 degrees.

is it any better than cutting down forests on the east coast for cities and farms?

@@thetechnicanwithaheart1682 right its hard for people to imagine what it looked like 50, 100, 300 years ago. The planet is changing so rapidly and what we see now is so so wrong.

@@colecampagna6302 There are more trees on The East Coast now than in the 1940's. Back then the cities and towns were surrounded by Truck Farms. That "Trucked" Their produce to the cities. Not to mention better Forrest practices. We don't clear cut any more.

The Amazon rainforest would’ve been great to start with but it’s pretty much all gone now

I live on a farm. I think it would be really great if you would buy a some land and start working on your ideas.

Yeah, regenerative farming, permaculture for land management using swales for places that get rain. And we could build that pipeline, only build it to convey water from areas that get flooded to areas that are hit by drought and aridification and call it Cornerstone. if the Romans could manage water, we should be able to also.

@@scottowensbyable therea are many people around the world that have made this already. They have suceess, with no product to sell, with no fancy equipment, hat don't have to rely on chemical products or any product of companies and yet they save a lot of money. Most of this have been made in Asutralia.

@@codniggh1139 no product to sell? That's not my idea of success.

You must drink the water of life

Hope the new dune movie actually comes out lol

I just started reading Dune last night! I think I'll remember this when I come across the Fremen.. Whoever they are..

@@JoeBob79569 enjoy , its a fantastic book

Except without the murderous tendencies. Lol.

That's a good question that I'd love if the video had gone further into. But honestly, I've heard of enough cases where the farmer doesn't really try to understand the new system and doesn't get a permit because they can't prove they'd operate it correctly, or that the solution actually works in their situation (instead of being even more wasteful).

@@tubebrocoli People making decision behind a table in air condition offices where they are protected from any fall out from bad choices they make. People making policy about farming and they never grew up on a farm or worked on one. " Well, we can't grant you a permit cause we don't have a commission office in dealing with such said permits. "

its called make money should be saving and putting back in.

Fucking stupid that you need a permit to make changes on the land that you yourself legally own. It goes to show that in reality you don’t own anything.

Money.

2.5 million people had to migrate to greener fields that’s a large migration of people over water inside the USA Imagine if that happens today....

@@happygolucky1100 spose you get Trump to build "a big beautiful wall" to keep em in.

@@liamhackett513 He already did

@@liamhackett513 hopefully they perish along the way!

@@brosefmcman8264 no. Hopefully it's people like you who go etc....

So sad when we can fix it. Other desert countries are fixing their problems but not us.

which proves are leaders are self serving greedy idiots

@@msdramamusic because the us is to lazy or doesn't care about climate change and what it means for the rest of the world.

Nobody will listen. We get what we deserve.

Its a function of several elements. Drought severe dryness of the urban wildlife interface , humidity of 30% , winds over 30 kmh "winds carry firebrand and also flatten entire housing districts. Many areas of the desert sw are in a level 4 extreme drought. Future drinking water from lake mead is at risk of going dry. It feeds 60 million Americans and is running at 37% height. Massive migrating Americans have been occurring and will migrate Northern latitudes

@@EvenFive A pretty HARSH statement there mate! Lots of people, at least in the Scientific community are listening. The problem, however, is NOBODY has ALL the correct answers yet; and also the politicians won't release the necessary funding to handle the current water shortage problems. Is anybody still talking about Large Scale Sea Water Desalinization plants anymore? Those were and still are long overdue and probably still would not have solved all the issues, but at least it would have helped if they would have been started many years ago. 👍

@@paulferrante5192 And where will the massive amounts of energy to run them come from? Hydroelectric power outputs are down all over the west due to low water levels. Or are you thinking fossil fuels?

Yet another ignorant farmer video stuck in their old wasteful ways. They will all be replaced with controlled vertical farms. Good riddance.

The problem isn't necessarily growing food in the desert as much as growing the wrong food. Alfalfa is a terrible choice, but as you can see the Hopi have special breeds of crops like blue corn that can grow in the otherwise inhospitable climate. Plus, all that alfalfa goes to feeding livestock, what a waste of water!

Agree, that shift at the end doesn't make any sense after what is explained in the beginning of the video. And the supposed dilemma of "abandoning farmers" is just absurd to me, I mean, unless we grow our own food ourselves we literally depend on farmers to produce it so there's no way we can afford to "abandon" them.

That shift at the end to what individuals can do was just unnecessary. But, for that farmer, those fallow fields used to be able to grow crops. So it’s not a case of originally farming it a bad location. It’s that the viability of location has changed. And you can’t just pack up and move out of there. So her only real option is to find new ways to work with those fields.

@@conribarnes1373 or.... Maybe just give her the damn permits for that system that uses less water..

It's bad statistics to criticize factory farms for the percentage of water that they consume without considering the percentage of food that those factory farms produce. Remember the concept of economy of scale.

If Monsanto finds out he kept his own seeds, they'll come and confiscate.

His farm was dead af and laughable. Imagine trying to feed more than 20 people with those dumb farming practices. It turns out watering your plants increases yield.

@@Black_CoreyNFin sure, it increases yield right up to the point where you have no water to irrigate with and then you lose the lot. Don't be so closed minded, the Hopi technique may not translate into a simple direct answer for other farmer's problems but it does provide ideas and hints in the right direction. There will be a sweet spot between yield and drought tolerance, yield alone is not the most important factor, imagine being able to sell a nice high quality crop for a premium during a drought.

You are so rite . Food companies have been looking into the . Watch Canada i herd they are doing this very smart

Yet another ignorant farmer video stuck in their old wasteful ways. They will all be replaced with controlled vertical farms. Good riddance.

I knew there were people with practical common sense. But the alarmists don't see enterprise, technology and innovation as a "good" thing...

@@loafandjug321 stop making sense. You are not supposed to go against the alarmist grain...

Indoor??????? There's 2.6 billion hectares of crops on the planet, do you have ANY idea of how much indoor space that means?????? Why don't you do the calculations on how big the buildings need to be for even 1% of the current crops moving indoors! That's 26 million hectares of buildings, 2.6 million hectares if you build them 10 stories high. That's 2.6 million football stadium sized buildings you will need for just 1% of the current crop area! Please do some basic research, don't just spout off talking points you've heard but don't understand! There's nothing efficient in the maintenance of football stadium sized buildings you fill with moisture & mould, not to mention lighting & ventilation costs & waste disposal! Set up a hydroponics pod in your apartment if you want to learn the truth!

People today are too disconnected from nature and where their resources come from. If they were more connected I imagine there would be more conservation and less destruction.

In the 60s there was less than 3 billion people on earth. now it is almost 8 billion. Something will have to give.

Native Americans never over populated either

Thank you for repeating another Urban myth

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Modern humans are far less intelligent than ancient people

We did have a adequate water supply but because of climate change that isn't the case anymore

@@monkaround7830 Too much ecological interference which has sped up the rate of climate change, which happens naturally on it's own but not at the rate we've seen. We have not been good stewards of the planet.

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@@billiamc1969 Prove it

Maybe the government should just buy these people out. The South East is covered with commercial forests because the government paid people to stop growing corn and start growing trees. It has kept lumber dirt cheap for the last few decades. The recent skyrocketing prices are due to the sawmill bottleneck.

@@drmodestoesq ? Take the richest farmland in the world out of production? Why?

@@writereducator Oh...sorry I should have been more specific. I was saying that where you are...natural productive farmland that has no competition for water...because it falls out of the sky...is the place that crops should be grown. So I agree with you. The government...and the taxpayer should reconsider heavily subsidizing the growing cotton and rice in the desert lands of the south west. And broadening up the conversation...the government should be working in the long term to agricultural policies that require the least amount of taxpayer subsidy.

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There are plastic bags you can fill with water to put in your toilet tank and hang from the side. They hold about 1/2 gallon.

@@cuttwice3905 Just take a old 2 liter pop bottle (or other pop bottles) and fill them with water and place them in the tank.

I never understand that advice, why not just adjust your float level? Even the ancient toilets I grew up with had that option and all the toilets in our 1980 house already have a low flush and long flush option by using a simple adjustable floating foam piece attached to the chain for the flapper. We replaced one of our toilet insides with a dual flush retrofit kit, and that is more convenient because you don't have to hold it down for long flushes - but you don't have to spend any money at all on a ziplock or brick if you just adjust your float instead.

@@Sprchkn My toilet doesn’t have any adjustable parts, and I live in an apartment so I can’t change any of the parts in it. So for people like me the best advice is to get a brick/bag/etc to put in it.

@@conribarnes1373 Good to know, I didn't realize such toilets existed. The most rudimentary ones I've seen you could still thread the float further in or out on the rod, or if that didn't get you where it needed to be you just bent the rod to get the desired reservoir level.

80 percent of replacement fill valves and many on new models are the Fluidmaster design. It is a black and grey tower shaped dingus on the left side of the tank. There is a threaded rod attached to the float. By rotating it you can adjust the amount of water it lets into the tank before shutting off. But I recommend getting a flapper with float on it so you can change your toilet to having 2 potential volumes of flush. Simply hold the handle down for a few seconds to empty the entire tank into the bowl.

Georgia is hardly cold .

Help farmers help us. Say by moving out of flood irrigation and water gazzling crops. I mean, its 2020, where has she been for the last 50 years?!

If they actually want to be part of the solution, yeah. But if you go by the votes and party affinities in rural regions... it really seems they'd rather side with climate change denialists than actually be part of building a solution.

The inclusion of the native American was thought-provoking, but it didn't add much, concretely. There was no analysis of whether the techniques that he used could be scaled up in terms of land and labor. Sure, his techniques are more water-efficient, but if they take five times as much effort to harvest and use ten times the land, then it's probably not a viable solution.

I do wish regenerative agriculture would get more attention, but tbf, shifting toward Native American practices would be somewhat regenerative. A big part of it is choosing the right things to grow for your area. It's really ridiculous to try to grow a water heavy crop in a flippin desert.

My grand mother grew up on a farm during the US Great Depression in the same county I'm living in right now. A flu went through and killed over half the pigs and chickens, and the rest were put down. Then the cattle had a white puss ozzing out of their nose, cows had to be put down. Talk about laying down a burning trench row with wood, tossing/ dragging the dead on it, cover in dirt and burnt like making charcoal. They had to kill off half their horses, mules, and donkeys for meat that winter, then something else when through killing the remaining horses. Worst part was, something like .. pneumonia when through one winter killed 40% of the counties' population. From the Official start of the Great Depression to the start of WW II only 15% of the original population remained that had lived there since the county was founded. Further history studies pointed out the Irish Potato Famine was cause they only had around three types of potatoes unlike rest of Europe was growing. When a massive flock of birds carrying different types of flu virus drop their waste on farm fields killed off entire crops in the field. Europe had a wider range of potatoes so they didn't get hit at famine levels of hunger. Average big city person, " So .. crows eat corn, what's your point?" Farmer, ... In cold sweats when seeing flocks the size of small clouds moving over head. I grew up .. just .. outside off city limits in a rural next to a golf coarse and corn fields. Waking up in the morning and seeing acres of open land cover by Canadian geese is a sight to behold. Then again waking up in your front yard surround by a few thousand is something too. Packs of coyotes would group up on my grandparents land just to grab a few geese when they could twice a year. You have no .. ideal .. what the front yard and golf coarse .. smelt .. like, when all though geese took off. They .. lighten .. their load, on take off and plaster everything around under them. Have a good night, and G*D bless.

@@krispalermo8133 My grandparents and parents went through that and then people think that food comes from the grocery store gez.

@@krispalermo8133 Irish potato famine was caused by blight, not avian influenza (how could that even infect a plant). Your point about the low diversity of the potatoes is absolutely right though; the Scots were the same in the isles (Harris, Skye, etc). Dependence on just a few key crops is always a bad idea, especially if there's low genetic diversity in that crop.

I disagree, this channel was something special, but now it's just another generic PBS channel :^(

Hopi farm at 5:45 was amazing, I had no idea that was possible. Imagine what he could do with just a little water.

Then consider how many small families there are in 25 acres of a city. Let's send them each out into the desert to toil in the 100°+ blazing sun. Huge factory farms, intensive fertilization and use of pesticides is all so we can sustain insane population density. That woman said 7 acre feet of water to grow _alfalfa_ .... Thousands of acres get flooded _seven feet deep_ (total) in the middle of the desert to grow feed, per season. (and that's her one farm!) Do you eat alfalfa? Does alfalfa occur in the desert normally?

More than half the UK is still on the rateable value system, not metered. But I agree, metered and sensible water usage is a good idea.

I have unsubscribed from all the PBS channels that not only speedtalk, but edit out all the natural spaces between sentences. What the hell is the point in that? They give me anxiety attacks.

Yet another ignorant farmer video stuck in their old wasteful ways. They will all be replaced with controlled vertical farms. Good riddance.

Which is why, in a modern world of abundance and technology, the natives don't need to be shackled with subsistence living any more.

Im sorry but how on earth would "the Feds" NOT ALLOW a state to grow? Like what, the federal government is just going to say "Nope you're growing too fast we can't allow that - better force people migrating to turn around" like the federal government has that authority. This isn't a fascist country, people can move and do business wherever they please, and if a state grows and becomes wealthy, it's because people chose to live and work there. What an asinine statement.

@@tjs200 You missed the part of the US Constitution where the Feds can moderate interstate issues and country border issues. For example, CA does not have enough water to support it's agriculture so it gets it from out of state. This is more troubling because they keep allowing growth in naturally occurring fire prone areas. CA also can't support it economics without low income migrant/trans-border workers. CA has grown too big for it's boots. It's just greed at this point.

@@coffeehawk Back in the late 1970's & early 80's PBS/Nova science report warning about .. Tree Rings .. showing people mass settle California during a .. wet period .. and we will be looking at a on coming drought are begining in the mid 1990's and it will get really bad near 2030's. ... but it was laugh off. They built up .. mega ..city locations with out insuring the building of the need water infrastructure to support the locations. Seen a program where junior high school students figure out what the gas cost to bull dozz build an earth work dam to create a reservoir to supply 15x the current population. It cost .. too .. much, and children should leave the thinking to the college trained adults. No it was too .. cheap .. and Quick .. and the politicians couldn't skim from it.

​@@coffeehawkalmost all of California's water that is used for agriculture comes from within the state - via snowmelt from the sierra nevada mountains, or from aquifers. Water that is diverted from the Colorado river mostly goes to the urban areas in southern California, not the central valley (and even in the south a significant chunk also comes from the Los Angeles aqueduct, which diverts water from northern California). Furthermore, implying the federal government has the power to restrict California from purchasing water from its neighbors is a ridiculously liberal interpretation of the interstate commerce clause, and any actual attempt by the federal government to do so would most certainly be shot down in court. Also, it's not like California just 'opens the door' for illegal immigrants. the border is the domain of the federal govt and border patrol, customs, etc are all federal employees so if people get through, it's not like it's California's fault. And if migrant workers are not caught and deported - that's a failing of the federal government, becuase that is explicitly their job. Lastly, the claim the "California's economy cannot be sustained without migrant workers" is unsubstantiated, it may or may not be true. but you don't actually know.

@@krispalermo8133 True, but it's an older issue than that. It's as old as any valley by the sea surrounded by mountains where the jet stream and El Nino's can move across, above, or below it. The politicians get their power from taxes, and taxes come from people and jobs/companies not in agriculture, thus putting more pressure on agriculture. All empires expand to the point of collapse.

They are growing our crops and they get too much water

All the water in the colorado river is drained off before it reaches mexico

What positive change, specifically? What actions? Why not let the free market shift farming to areas with enough water?

They were doing the other way around, farmers lobby for all sorts of things for profit, and grow almond for export $ that uses so much water.

@@PeterLawton that may happen after they suck all the ground water out first than they will move. that is a bad decision. gtound water is not meant to be sucked out of the ground at the amount humans are taking it. what will happen wene it runs out is the qestion i would ask you.

@@supersaiyaman11589 Why ask me? I only asked Ramon to justify spending my tax dollars, and I am open to actions that have been well thought out. But Ramon called for spending without saying specifically what actions would justify it. So far, it looks like a knee-jerk call for government spending of a portion of my paycheck.

then what was it like when it was higher temps 1000 years ago than it is now?

and yet so many people are still not grasping what they said in addition to this, about how that water is lost from the immediate water chain. The comments are full of people saying they should plant cover crops & forests & the evaporation from them will make the rain come

You said it perfectly. This video did NOTHING to bring awareness of what needs to happen to address our warming climate and what are the main contributors.

Meat will get more expensive. It will happen

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USE SILVER IODIDE TO MAKE RAINS .BY SPRAYING SILVER IODIDE IS ATMOSPHERE WE CAN MAKE ARTIFICIAL RAINS......

It means the atmosphere can hold more water and thus two things happen: 1) there's inherently less water available for use by animals and plants. 2) the total water content in the basin changes as some of that water leaves the area each year and not as much comes back in. the first one is the immediate drought, the second one is the gradual and permanent aridification of the basin

@@tubebrocoli And look at the subsidence we get when the aquifer is pumped dry.... You're absolutely right. A warmer climate supports more water in the atmosphere. And that moisture isn't going to drop out until the air becomes too cold to support it. Perhaps thousands of miles away. Lack of rain and especially snow pack are exactly why we have drought. Humans being selfish doesn't create drought, but compounds the problem of resource scarcity.

Meanwhile, here where I live, I literally do the complete opposite of what this young lady advocates. My location, in a rainforest region of the northwest, will never be affected by the same enduring problems faced in a desert geography.

They were ignorant! are you a intj? I am I watched the climate series of vidios from all gore. It never clicked what he was talking about was the next mass extinction of earth. In the last 750 million years three of the last five mass extinction were due to excessive levels of co2 emissions over heating the planet and forcing life into the arctic while the rest of Earth Cooked!

A per calorie comparison would also be appropriate.

Yea, this is a difficult one and I really welcome the discussion because the intent is certainly not to manipulate! Comparing ounce to ounce also feels misleading because nuts are almost as consumptive as beef by weight but no one really eats them in the same volume. Either way, thanks for your thoughts, I think healthy discussion of the facts is what it'll take to figure out how to use the resources we have in the best way we can.

@@LimeyLassen Yes, and/or looking at the protein, vitamins, and calories needed for a healthy diet? Certainly more work to be done here.

@@ElementalWildfire Next time possibly consider including multiple graphs and/or better explaining your reasoning and acknowledge the deficiencies of the metric you're using - I thought the same thing as Bearfighter, I thought it was a bit misleading as well.

@@ElementalWildfire Also, the use of "ounces" vs "# of eggs" vs "cups of COOKED lentils" (Also, why cooked? Doesn't that use up water as well?) vs "grams" vs "slices" --- the units in this chart are all over the place...

I feel need to google serial killer farmers

@@joyaustin6581 All serial killers are farmers, they harvest human lives :)

i am a farmer and nope we all are not.

@@joyaustin6581 I googled it. It spell corrected me to "cereal" farmers.

Xeriscaping isn't just rocks and shrubs. Depending on where you live there are a lot of options. We recently moved to Denver and I've been pleasantly surprised by the wide range of plants and landscaping options that fall into xeriscaping out here. (We have an HOA too, so i feel your pain)

You might be able to get away with it by making your yard a "wildlife reserve". One of the biohack chats on the thought emporium (I think it was in one of these? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jrXvuJx7a9Y.html or ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z52mEdVCV88.html ) talked about that idea. Anyway in theory that should work for bylaw legal bullshit and it might even work on HOA related bullshit. A quick google search found these sources which might also be of interest if you decide to try doing this: www.hgtv.com/outdoors/gardens/animals-and-wildlife/how-to-create-a-certified-wildlife-habitat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_Wildlife_Habitat www.nwf.org/garden-for-wildlife/certify

climate change...lol...you are so funny....but you dont tell the truth....look at your planets....are they going thru climate change as well?

In the desert southwest pools and golf courses use too much precious water. Just look at satellite photos of residential development in California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico and you will see plenty of water. Hundreds of years ago the people of Chaco canyon disappeared leaving behind evidence of severe drought including evidence of cannibalism.

vegan are the biggest waste of space!

@@roggcast5077 83% of farmland is used for animal agriculture, but it only provides 18% of calories. Such a waste that pathetic animal killers are destroying our environment.

That’s communism

That's the biggest user of water.

It needs to be publicly enjoyed more places for it to be financially viable for more farmers to raise it. If there's no demand it's kind of a waste. But this does bring up an interesting point to research. Thanks.

@@KainusGulch i found that i enjoy most "wild" plants that were once/still used by the first peoples of better tasting and quality

I think they're fun to try, but I've never gotten accustomed to regular consumption of yucca or the different gourds and squashes, and most other people I know treat those native foods like novelties to have once a year at some celebration, if even that frequent.

@@KainusGulch if the situation doesn't change eventually the drought tolerant crops will be all that's left for us. Better to get used to it incrementally instead of suddenly.

Or even Peruvian apple cactus

Fall of the Maya empire in Mexico, Global cold snap, due to Solar mimi, volcano erupting, or space rock impact, the global temp drop due to more dust in the air. Result less sun light hitting and heating the ocean water for evaporation equaling to less rain water leading to drought, famine, weaker health and disease set in killing hundreds of thousands. And .. they are .. worried .. about warmer temperatures.

All scientists have to collect evidence and test their ideas before drawing definitive conclusions, even if it seems obvious based on their current understanding of the world. If you don't like the scientific method, you can always head back to 1400's europe when we concluded that baths caused cholera and lobotomies were a cure for all mental illnesses...

@paul lennon You can get a whooosh of hot air outta conservatives head with 1 bullet

My thoughts exactly 😂

We've been doing the same thing for years, didn't you see recently The Rittenhouse story?

It's because the greediest people raise to the top in our society, just like pond scum. Since how much you can make is all that matters only the most unethical of the greedy get to the very top. Just look at apple with their slave revolt recently. Nobody cares because slavery is applauded as being very effective at getting as much personal wealth as possible. They don't care about anything but having an extra 0 at the end of their bank account and they will do anything they can get away with to do it. As long as unethical greed is the most valued trait in society we will continue on our path of naturally selecting our species for extinction.

I think more like the last 20 years were the best opportunity !

The state law in Colorado has changed to allow 2 rain barrels now with a maximum capacity of 110 gallons. The water must be used at the property where it is collected.