Geoff Lawton explains the consequential destructive effects of using chemical fertilizer on crops. [ Indonesian Subtitles Available ] Geoff Lawton menjabarkan efek destruktif akibat pemakaian pupuk kimia pada tanaman.
If you had have told me this is the content I CHOOSE to watch only 4 years after dropping out of high school on my own accord I would have laughed at you now you'd ask me the best place to put a swale and i'll go get the mattock and A-frame...
It amazes me - that with all the colossal failures of industrialized agriculture in the 20th century - that people are still repeating the same mistakes (and compounding them) in the 21st century. Too little organic matter - too many synthetic fertilizers - mono-cultures that lack biological diversity - slash and burn farming practices... but the absolute worst of all these things... drum roll please... *human sewage* ! This one thing has the potential to change everything. If the world stopped using modern sewage treatment systems and dry composted their waste instead- we would create enough organic matter to terraform the worlds deserts and actually change global climate patterns. We can terraform deserts into lush rainforests. The most fertile soil on Earth was created in this way - the "terra preta" soil of the Amazon. Today it is mined and sold to local farmers in places like Brazil - who pay a hefty price for their ancestors compost... meanwhile, they adopt our modern sewage treatment and building codes. Isn't that ironic? We humans have found a way to remove ourselves from nature almost entirely - while we excavate the feces of our ancestors for commercial profit. We embalm our dead with toxic fluids so they can go on display for a few days... and then poison the Earth when they're finally buried. The whole thing is an analogy of our self-destructive, disconnected behavior. If we continue down this path - then the Earth has already exceeded its maximum population density. But if we challenge our own deeply held prejudices and cultural customs - we can easily support a human population in excess of ~25 billion people without any problems. "Overpopulation" is merely a product of our inability to coexist symbiotically with nature... it is entirely a human construct. And remember this: "every parasite was once a failed symbiont." -Mother Nature
This lesson should be a must for all , especially students to ensure that all of us appreciate the damage done to our environment and help overturn for a sustainable future for all living and non-living things
What kind of non living things were you thinking about? It also a matter of survival and having the privilege to feel abundance at some point in our life
Apparently he was always a great teacher. It relates formidably what I see in my country, Argentina. Spoiler, the use of herbicides increases exponentially
This is a very imprtant and excellent wrap-up what pretty much all of the industrialized agriculture is doing! I Dunno when was that but I guess it's good 20+ years old...and its still practiced like that despite gigantic consequences. Thanks to the uploader and Mr. Lawton! I Wish there would be the whole lecture!
Seems like the modern farming method is planned out by Monsanto. Buy their fertilizer and eventually you buy their insecticides, fungicide and herbicide.
i think this applies to so many other things, from our own physical and mental health and modern society. using artificial means to try and improve natural systems to feed our fears and greed.
In I Am Legend, the first scene is of a recorded news interview. A scientist is being interviewed on the “cure for cancer” and how a modification to the rabies virus was used to do it. One could almost do a similar scene with this video. We thought we had conquered plants, “synthetic fertilizer” they called it, well, it wasn’t short after 2027 that the first fungi infections began to spread into directly into edible crops. By 2030, worldwide food supply came to a halt. By 2031, 90% of the population had turned into empty husks seeking brrrrrraaaaaaaiiinnnssss🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟♂️🤣🤣
