LOSING GROUND (2019) - Urban Sprawl Documentary (HD)

[@VoteLaborOut]

Thanks for sharing. One key point got me - the founders of the cities picked to the best land for agriculture to stay but as economy developed the most arable land are now being concreted over for housing and permanently reduced in area.

[@isidoreaerys8745]

Our Land use has been toxic from the very beginning. The founders farmed Tobacco by leveling old growth forests and allowing the Heavy Feeding Nicotiana plants to thrive for 2 to 3 years off the decaying roots. And once that fertility had been absorbed they would move to another forest having slaves perform the intensive labor of thinning the old growth

[@isidoreaerys8745]

Source: undaunted Courage. Merrywether Lewis and Thomas Jefferson biography

[@staresce]

I have recently learned about a way to fight that called conservation easements. It is a nice way for owners of agricultural land to keep their land and still financially benefit so they don't feel pressured to sell to developers. Once they put a conservation easement on their land it is permanent too.

[@chronomancer8772]

@@isidoreaerys8745 I was going to talk about how they just paved over the land that was inhabited by indigenous people but someone already beat me to it.

[@soupit32]

@@isidoreaerys8745 this is such a Low IQ take on the situation and adds absolutely nothing to the discussion. You're essentially boiling the problem down to that the Agricultural Revolution which spread across humanity tens of thousands of years ago, damages the environment. Or is your main problem, as another commentor made in reply to you, just with US farmland, due to the fact that it was previously inhabited by different peoples than today/inhabited forcefully? I mean at least make some point, more than implying the fact that growing food on land also negatively impacts growing food on land (as opposed to real topic at hand - urban/suburban sprawl negatively impacting growing food on land). Absolute clear example of virtue-signalling for the sake of it and derailment of the focus of conversation.

[@c.f.2360]

It's not only threatening agriculture. It's a threat to forests, meadows, and wetlands and animals. In other words, it's a threat to biodiversity.

[@johnroush1099]

@Andres Ruiz you gotta use it right or it just feels awkward.

[@bigd158]

@@johnroush1099 yea agreed

[@fuxan]

@Andres Ruiz hey I dont care for anyone who would impose upon another life but not all boomers are bad people and what is a bad person anyways? All I know is that the things that give me life and happiness are simple and being taken by those who dont know how to be happy with the simple things in nature.

[@fuxan]

Yes...we are part of nature and are destroying it.

[@javieraravena3972]

And it forces everyone To have a car

[@lmathews5608]

I'm 32, been studying and doing farming for over 13 years (dairy & crops), I never knew I loved farming this much until now. Hated it at some point during the harsh Wisconsin winters LOL but now I would give anything to preserve our precious gift - Land

[@kevinharrigan2727]

Florida is one of the worst places for urban sprawl, with so many people moving after Covid. Instead of medium density places, they’re building miles and miles of cookie cutter suburbs and it’s so sad to see.

[@faridjafari6356]

The man solution is to stop, slowdown and manage the sprawl by using land better and making cities denser to use less land for more people. Zoning laws in cities must change everywhere to allow this.

[@creatednordestroyed5339]

Need more effective population control

[@faridjafari6356]

@@creatednordestroyed5339 You mean people should kill their babies, so that some people could have a bigger house? :)

[@benlogicfactsshapiro]

The issue is zoning means nothing when a government just sells to the highest bidder.

[@staresce]

We must fight urban sprawl.

[@acommentator69]

Start by fighting immigration

[@ianhomerpura8937]

Suburban sprawl is much worse.

[@anhbinbaccuc8850]

The sad thing is downtown areas will die along with urban sprawls because people are scattered and no need to get together and make downtown alive and fun. It was disappointing to see downtown Los Angeles when I visited 2yrs ago.

[@californiamade5608]

But downtown LA is pretty live

[@anhbinbaccuc8850]

@@californiamade5608 Nope, you see people crowded infront of all the shopping center and shops, but those are mostly tourists. after hours around 6pm when the lights are lit the streets of downtown LA become very quiet. Even in mid afternoon 12-1pm or peak hours you can still find quiet corners and parking lots. There's no feeling of "hub" like downtown New York , Boston, Chicago, or Seattle etc ....There people from all directions coming in the city centers. In Los Angeles everyone disburses to all different directions but not concentrated in downtown. In other downtown cities you can walk endlessly in the big hub and rub shoulders with people, fighting the crowds on the sidewalks like that of Walk of Fame street in LA. Downtown LA however is relatively mild and spacious to walk on the sidewalks but you will reach from one end of downtown to the other fairly quickly.

[@lil_lyrix]

Dang, always thought Los Angeles never slept.

[@WarriorOfWriters]

The entitlement and expectations Americans have for their quarter acre, their patch of grass, has been choking both American farmland and American cities since the 30s. Restrictive city planning codes prevented mixed use, dense and high rise dwelling space and designed new cities around the automobile. A trend towards new-urban spaces over sprawl has been on the up since the 90s, but developers still eye off America's farm land and butcher it for their own selfish purposes.

[@nickwebb9937]

Yep my grandmas neighbors house was bought out by developers, the house sits on 16 acres and will be the entrance to another stupid neighborhood, they also bought the 300 acre old cattle farm behind it as well that will be where the neighborhood is. It’s sad really. of course my grandma hates it because her property backs up to it so she has to deal with it now which isn’t fair for her.

[@Brandi.Nicole]

If I have a chance I will hold this land and buy more until my passing. I will restore our lost native fields and habitats. I will educate future generations to have respect and love for our ecosystems. All the money in the world can’t buy the beauty, resources and sanctity nature provides. In time, through adverse events that happen more and more people will see the value.

[@danlc95]

@@Brandi.Nicole Same. I see re-ruralization happening via land remediation coming. This program will purchase the high density "sardine" subdivisions, extract anything that can recycled, and return the land back to It's pristine condition. I commend you for your intentions as well. We need more like you.

[@benlogicfactsshapiro]

The issue is people move into suburbs to get away from dense areas. Nobody wants to live like a sardine, but they also don’t have the money to buy 2 acres of land and live in the middle of nowhere. Suburbs are the compromise. Not to mention warehouses and apartments have just as much play in this. Warehouses require a ton of traffic lights and road traffic for slow semi-trucks and American apartments are often required to be large and spread out. It’s just time before all this land waste adds up.

[@JLC87420]

Some of the land taken away was some of the most beautiful land before it was changed.

[@creatednordestroyed5339]

That's so deep I think this alot

[@CamaroSS215]

The land I’m about to purchase will never be nothing but a farm believe that

[@JLC87420]

Junie Carter you must be buying up north where nobody really wants to go.

[@JLC87420]

brandon ladoeaux I live in Oklahoma and I’d much rather live in Wyoming or Montana.

[@1light4love]

All my best for you Junie.... God I pray you never have to leave it!🙏

[@iwishiwasamyduncan4797]

Junie Carter monoculture and agriculture farms are still not sustainable and harmful to the environment

[@danlc95]

I want to but the sardine subs in my area, and bulldoze them, along with the developers, and city officials that forced the development. Just wait. It's already done.

[@archieedwards3746]

I am doing a report on Urban sprawl for school and I will be using this as a source so I need to know where the information in this documentary comes from

[@denverlabrec]

I would rather die Poor and Humble, than to be “labeled” as being Happy and Successful.. “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” #EscapeTheBubble #SuburbanFaçade #KnowYourRoots #HonestyOverStatus #UnityOverDivision

[@justinpowell6762]

super insightful. as a society I think we need to step back and look at the implications of 'food for profit'--the fact that the profitability of our food producing farms is even a factor in whether or not we have food is a horrifying byproduct of capitalism; we have to be able to measure the value of things in other ways beyond capital.

[@fortheloveofmusic860]

American cities need to slim down and built denser. I'm from The Netherlands, if we built like the US does we'd be left with a country that's one large suburb. Now, although we've grown in population, we still have 70% of farmland and nature.

[@arenkai]

As a someone who never went to the US, I never knew this country didn't know how to properly build cities.

[@deanchapman1824]

The old cities are built correctly. The new cities grew up with the car.

[@1light4love]

it's happening all over denver metro and now out to Colorado springs..... the barn I spent the best years of my life in (in Monument) is a massive high school and housing community..... I dont even remember the last time I saw open land that wasn't a park.... 😔 why don't locals get a say??

[@johnroush1099]

Well, they do. It's just that many, many, many do not exercise that right.

[@fuxan]

Its happening...everywhere and people keep having kids like the sky has a magical being who will save them no matter how foolish they live. The finger always points away.

[@melelconquistador]

@@fuxan interestingly, birth rates are shrinking globally. However, the USA has a trajectory of keeping the population size consistent with immigration. I'm thinking that we will possibly level off at some point and for a while urban sprawl may slow down.

[@melelconquistador]

I agree there seems to be no end to the sprawl. The Springs is soon going to meet Monument in the north like the Denver metropolitan area has enveloped the surrounding cities. Aurora is expanding east like Castle Rock and in the north Parker is growing south to meet Castle Rock. You can see this by driving along Parker Road. All these suburbs being built, and while working in the QA of a real-estate company, I see that many homes are worth half million. It's profitable to land developers especially since they have strong control in the sale of new homes, this control mitigates the liabilities they are responsible for.

[@burgerman101]

@@melelconquistador They’re not shrinking fast enough.

[@communistpootisbirb]

This is happening in my home town rn. In 2005 there was one suburb and a few apartments and downtown, the rest was farmland or grassland. Now in 2021 Half that land is apartments, houses or a warehouse. My least favorite are the half house rentals. They’re expensive yet ugly and take up the most land, even worse than the warehouses. (Which at least create jobs). I wanna move out but I feel like unless I live in the desert urban sprawl will just find me again.

[@offbrand2161]

Same

[@angerymonk2977]

I'm glad I'm not the only one angered by this. In the 90's there was a lot of urban sprawl in my area, but it got horrendous in the early 2000's. People are so superficial and think their happiness lies in their own little piece of paradise. They build home after home after home and add to the problem they are trying to escape.

[@burgerman101]

The desert isn’t safe enough either. I hope the increasing temperatures scare the masses away from it. Our planet has an overpopulation problem. People should be restricted from having so many children.

[@jackfordon7735]

Welcome to liberal capitalism :/

[@danlc95]

@@jackfordon7735 - Boom.

[@debrabrown7444]

Very informative

[@TalwinderDhillonTravels]

This is one of the most wrongly focussed documentaries. They don’t really talk about why urban sprawl is bad and how it can be avoided. Talk about mixed use housing maybe? Zoning laws? better city planning? Public transit? Car dependance of America? None of that. Only sad cowboys

[@sharegreats2157]

A swell and gripping film about the disappearing American farm land. This is also true in Germany where I live with my land being much smaller than the US. The truth of this film applies certainly to many many other countries as well. Everyone wants to live in an own house. Everyone wants to have his own piece of land with a house on it. This can't be done everywhere. You know there are places where people live very narrowly together, e.g. Hongkong or other big cities without place to spread.

[@creatednordestroyed5339]

Hong Kong reached expansion thousands of years ago.

[@christianhill7471]

Right message wrong conclusion...that’s only the tip of the iceberg

[@billyforbes9474]

This was hard to watch. My family lost our farm in 2008. We got priced out by the rising taxes too. I’ll never forget leaving it for the last time and looking at the lilac bushes my ggg grandmother planted, and the stone wall they built. This bs is happening every day.

[@9esmash]

It's disappointing that an important topic was discussed here with quite a one-sided view. I guess if the cattle industry is paying for it it's not surprising. A few notes: there is no mention of housing density, which is the main driver for urban sprawl. Comparing the densities of cities around the world and in the US shows how much variation there is, and that there is opportunity to tweak zoning (for example on ADUs) and incentivize more dense housing. Along with that could have been a look at urban agriculture, with examples from around the country. Also, the assumption that we need to feed meat and/or beef to a growing population is silly, India's one billion people for example are largely vegetarian. In that vein, the film ought to have considered comparing different farming practices. How much land and water is needed to produce protein via beef versus protein via legumes, or chicken? The guy in DC talks all about the great soil quality surrounding cities in the US but doesn't mention that industrial ag and phosphate heavy practices are degrading soil faster than developers. There could have been a discussion about zero-till and organic practices, for example. Anyway, if the folks for preserving farmland truly wanted to address this crisis--which, agreed, is a crisis--I'm surprised they didn't spend anytime considering all of these other impacts and potential solutions. Again, we should be wary of things produced by industries eager to advance the status quo.

[@Storkmd1]

No mention of cleaning up blighted areas, always building more, taking more

[@zachhenrichs8438]

Eric lives in a Suburban Subdivision...... But I do agree that municipalities need to change zoning for more density areas. They should be building high rises condos instead of moving outward with single family homes. I also, do agree that there should be more urban farming (greenhouses, rooftop gardens, etc.). However, I greatly disagree that this is one sided funded by the cattle industry. Farming and Ranching is the largest protectors of the environment, they maintain open spaces for wildlife. They produce crops that feed others. They protect water sources. They maintain vegetation that are turning carbon into oxygen. Just because your vegan doesn't mean everyone else can't enjoy a nice steak dinner. And just because the Cattle industry is on the correct side of this argument doesn't mean they are wrong for not covering other topics.

[@charlescoe226]

Say no to sprawl and population density

[@1light4love]

Eric, you would appreciate the documentary 'TOMORROW: All Over The World, Solutions Already Exist' although it does not take a direct look at sprawling, outrightly, it covers everything you just mentioned, alongside much of what was portrayed here.... and more. (and it even comes in a good ol fashioned print version too.... with chapters filled full of things the documentary didnt have time or finances(?) to cover. .....We used it as a textbook for my Principles of Sustainability course... 🙏✨💞 Enjoy!

[@TheNinetySecond]

@@charlescoe226 Uhhhhh, so just no housing at all? Sprawl is the practice of eating up land at a ridiculous rate, and spacing everything out to the point that you can only go shopping by car. It's the blight of cookie cutter single-family homes in endless cul-de-sacs, drowning the world in sub-optimal housing for *The American Dream™.* It's rural, except for the benefit of nature, and it's urban, except for literally everything that makes urban living great. Dense populations on the other hand - well that's anything from Manhattan, to some picturesque little village in England. At its core is the idea that a human should be able to live on their own two legs, and get to school, work, the supermarket, the bar, the café, the ping pong club, the stadium, and the hardware store without being forced into a car. It's literally the only way humans have naturally formed societies, and it has been the same everywhere in the world through tens of thousands of years. Even in America, any city, town or village built before the car was built in a way that let you get to anything you needed by

[@selfmadecj7700]

What was the time where they named the citites ?

[@automaticsteam]

I would love the lyrics to the wonderful poem threaded through this video doc. It seems apropos, albeit unpleasant to think about, that there is a great deception in the idea that voracious sprawl land-consuming development is a 'Capitalist' idea. Keynesian isn't Capitalist - it's a counterfeit that runs on raw greed, enough that one sells their soul. Here is the doctrine of sprawl Americans sell out to: "9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country." ~ Plank 9, Communist Manifesto; Marx, Engels [We call it the Planning Reorganization Act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136.]

[@lil_lyrix]

This is very true for Metro Detroit, if you go on google earth it’s likely you will see a field, but once you go into street view there will suddenly be a neighborhood under construction. Also, I didn’t realize I am most likely gonna contribute to urban sprawl, since my goal is to live in one of those neighborhoods at one point.

[@danlc95]

It's terrible in Rochester Hills.

[@jackfordon7735]

I'm originally from the Metro Detroit area and I can confirm this is true. It takes like an hour to escape the sprawl heading out from downtown :/

[@tombell7670]

The American Government just permitted permission for Walmart to build a new site on a rare biodiversity site ??? Why????

[@braylivestock1081]

$$$

[@JLC87420]

You never leave your house or read a book so you?

[@purple09052005]

Well open borders and illegal immigration lets more people in, so need to cater for them.

[@TheNinetySecond]

Because Trump has made a point of crippling the EPA and favoring developers who refuse to build dense, livable cities.

[@burgerman101]

@@purple09052005 open borders and illegal immigration wouldn’t be a problem if people all over the planet stopped creating new people at the high rates they currently are. Overpopulation is the real issue we need to focus on. If the population stabilized and possibly even declined there wouldn’t be a need for new development and denser buildings. But no, everyone wants a mini version of themselves.

[@ujijin3099]

Re: CA I suspect that the ever-increasing tax burden may limit population growth and urban sprawl associated with it...though I hope those who do leave the state will not be the very agricultural entrepreneurs that feed the country and much of the world.

[@pedclarkemobile]

Middle class have low birth rate under said conditions. Migrants increase urban population plus contribute to population growth further by having more offspring than the natives.

[@deanchapman1824]

In the New York Metro area, Long Island sprawls on the southern part into 1/3 of Suffolk County. The North Shore doesn't sprawl, because it's hilly. Long Island is an...island, so it can only go but so much. Westchester, Rockland Counties in New York, and Connecticut do not sprawl. New Jersey sprawls up until the Watchung Mountains, where towns have views of the city. Al in all, the New York Metro doesn't sprawl like the sun belt cities.

[@nthperson]

Planning is important to provide the right balance of land uses. This needs to be accomplished with citizen participation and robust public education. That said, the one essential but almost everywhere ignored is the most efficient and equitable approaches to raising revenue to pay for public goods and services. Economic theory tells us that in theory all taxation of property improvements ought to be eliminated. Our buildings are depreciating assets. The imposition of an annual property tax on the depreciated value of a building equates to a sales tax imposed year after year after year. If this is rational, then communities ought to tax the depreciated value of all other forms of tangible assets (e.g., our automobiles, our computers, our telephones, our lawn mowers, our refrigerators, etc. etc. etc.). This is clearly irrational. A very different argument exists regarding the parcels of land on which our buildings are constructed. Land parcels are not a depreciating asset. Moreover, the value of a location has everything to do with the quality of public goods and services brought to the location and nothing to do with what the individual owner does or does not do to improve the location. The optimum public charge (or tax) to the owner is the potential annual rental value of the location as determined by market forces. By making the above change in how property is taxed, land in our cities would be brought to its highest, best use. Land prices would fall to levels that encourage the construction of residential, commercial and other buildings and discourages the hoarding of locations and speculation in land that causes development to sprawl outward in search of less costly locations. For more insight into the role of tax policy on the health of cities, search on: site value taxation, land value taxation, land value capture, or land value return

[@samr.england613]

Great documentary thank you. But throughout the film, the subdivision just east of Atlanta in Gwinnett county with the two tennis courts and the swimming pool and all the houses on unnecessarily winding streets, the narrator keeps saying people need a place to live, but no one needs to live in an isolated subdivision pod with such wide streets, huge front yards and huge backyards. Build traditionally, with narrow streets, parallel parking on grids, very small front yards, but reasonably larger and private backyards! Oh yeah, don't forget to put the garages around back, and front porches on the front of the houses actual front porches people can sit on.

[@jeffbarnes54]

What "forced them" to sell? The narrator says that the family was "forced to sell in 2004" Why? what happened that THEY had to sell?

[@AngusAssoc]

GREAT question Jeff. In fact, the middle section of the film attemps to answer that difficult question. At 19:03 the narrator askes that exact question. Take a look. Does that help answer the question?

[@johnduckett243]

High property/school taxes, lack of grain suppliers, equipment dealers, fertilizer plants, etc. It’s happening here in Upstate NY as well.

[@MacStrengthCo]

A multi million dollar pay check forced them to sell. All the farms I've seen sell because they can't say no to the money. Farming isn't easy and it get's harder each day as mega corps drive prices down.

[@Brandi.Nicole]

Markets - did you know the majority of crops in the US now are for fuel? Not food. It’s called ethanol corn 😎 Why? No money in food corn 🌽 They can’t survive. Fun fact from your Iowa homesteader Ps: ever wondered what your meat ate before it was processed? Or how it lived? These farmers featured are a rare breed. Farming right and honest. Not over carrying capacity for cattle and livestock. Just for perspective 1 acre is needed for one head of cattle.

[@gatorrrmusa6831]

Mega sprawlanta

[@stevejohnson4707]

What county did y’all he Lovins move to?

[@anthonymorales842]

Mr Lovin sorrow is our sorrow

[@kennylee8936]

Australians need to see this...we are doing better in investing in more density...but there is a minority that believe that urban sprawl is the answer or kin to the "Australian Dream" of owning your own detached home on a block of land...not realising that land is a finite resource and eventually will run out.

[@erichadkins4086]

The Swindling of America

[@automaticsteam]

This is great. Slow start, condense the beginning. Picks up 2nd half. The poem is most excellent.

[@AngusAssoc]

Thanks for the feedback Bill! Much appreciated!

[@travismccasland7627]

Yes starting school in Grapevine Tx it took the bus going about twenty five miles to get a full load 1st thur 12th . Now where I lived is called DFW international . The invasion from Wisconsin Michigan and the north , along with the west from California, and the south Americans its no longer Texas . Its a mess . I have no neighbor that was raised here . To meet someone raised here I go to the coffee shop and one of those was raised in Pennsylvania. Yes I certainly know about the invasion.

[@pittsburghpirate58]

Travis McCasland We be coming!! Actually same thing in Atlanta metro too.

[@johntudek]

Yet, 60-70 years ago, the northern Yankees were making the same complaint about the southerners invading their neighborhoods, because that was where the job were. LMAO.

[@funguschungus5975]

Why are american houses so boring, there's row after row of the same house designs for miles. I never really noticed this until i saw the Arial footage.

[@melelconquistador]

It is profitable to build something that is tried and tested for construction cost. They build a variety of different models each year and they avoid building the same models next to each other. Drive around a suburb and you will find few of the same model with a different color, door or texture.

[@rickboer7715]

Farmland in Ontario is disappearing at an alarming rate due to urbaniniion and to our detriment

[@SneekySecrets]

I cannot help every farmer but I can SUBSCRIBE to their channels, so KZbin pays them more everytime someone watches their videos. I can watch their videos so they may earn income for those efforts. It puts a meal on their table and that I can do!

[@angerymonk2977]

Why don't more people get pissed off about this? We might blame developers but I would argue that regular Americans who destroy the countryside buying these houses are just as much to blame.

[@theuglykwan]

The top should encourage mid-density towns to be built so they don't sprawl so much. Far more efficient use of land, less emissions.

[@beckysam3913]

Loosing farmland and injust treatment of farmers is a global problem, suicide rate is high, even in "first world" countries like in Europe. People want food and produces, high quality food around the year, but dont appreciate farmers.

[@ionflow1073]

I'd gladly give up 25 silicone valley billionaires and 25 politicians for one Farmer, 1 trucker, and 1 veteran.

[@sceddstuup8078]

you may as well just fix up detroit in this case. Thats housing another 200k people

[@lil_lyrix]

200k? That’s a low estimate, Detroit has Lost over half its population. It’s big enough to fit millions of people within its borders, not to mention its massive metro area (Housing 4.7M people at the moment), a place practically made of sub divisions.

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

Do you really want to live in Detroit?

[@lil_lyrix]

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se I do! 😃

[@CGI__]

Yes People need homes to live in. But nobody needs a whole house for one family. You can build blocks with 5 stocks. and apartments as big as those houses with higher density and urban qualities. And less infrastrucure costs for streets pipes etc. (ridicolous that you pay more tax for rich people with houses than for education etc. I guess you call it socialism lol) (I hope we will do it more urban in europe in the future, most planners want to. We just have to educate the politicians and people in this democracy, but the usa is so much worse. In europe especially germany it's quite well planned and urban is attractive. we just have to stop those one family houses and to change tax system and advancements) More effective infrastructure, less traffic, less energy loss for heating actually everything is better statistically. When the oil is gone the americans are completely fucked I guess. They should use the economical and FOSSIL RESSOURCES TO PREPARE but no ok.

[@TheNinetySecond]

Not only that, but living in a good, densely built city, town, even village, is by far superior to the joyless mire of suburbia. Who in their right minds would want to live in a place where their kids have to be chaperoned everywhere? Where your shopping is dictated by whichever billionaire deems your area worthy of monopolizing for the next 20 years? Where literally any activity beyond sitting on your ass and watching the TV requires you to get into a car and drive for 15+ minutes? Suburbia is a grotesque deviation from the way humanity has lived for as long as we have bonded together in big and small communities. Even nomadic hunter/gatherers knew not to setup camp 50 minutes of walking away from the fishing spot. The earliest towns were tightly knit clusters of houses with farmland radiating outwards, so that every single farmer could walk the length of their plot easily. The earliest cities were built close, with narrow streets connecting bustling, interconnected lives of artisans and craftsmen enjoying the food prepared by neighboring cooks, imported from their well known farmers. Humanity has always yearned for unity and cooperation, and has built its life to best realize those ideals. Right up until some dipshit thought we should all live in mass-manufactured houses far too big for our needs, and drive cars into the city, transforming what was once a practically utopic example of civilization into an alienated, polluted mess. The great suburban experiment has failed spectacularly. Anyone who believes otherwise is woefully misinformed.

[@CGI__]

@smily yes and completely dependent on oil.

[@andrewtucker1828]

The independence, stubernance and seclusion is finally back firing on the farmer/rancher. Helping and working together with those young and willing was key. Might be too late now for most rural folks especially now. Noone thought of the children in my opinion

[@retroradfilms]

Ha Ha, I love it.

[@pneumaticbear8881]

I will never sell, I will make it impossible for developers to destroy my home

[@britneyball9004]

HAHAHAHA GO HUNTLEY! I go to huntley 😂

[@ptknudson80]

This was a disappointing documentary. There was no mention of the urban growth boundaries Oregon has had for many decades. That has reduced sprawl considerably in Oregon. There was no mention of better land use planning or more compact development. There was no mention of climate change.

[@delprice3007]

We don't properly take care of the beauty in America

[@gta_all_motor_meetsgta5753]

Hi 6A or 6B

[@rhoadesfarms3900]

Let’s call it what it really is… urban canabalization.

[@JLC87420]

Also love the Roy Rodgers ending. And yes I’m a millennial and know about Roy and Gene music.

[@creatednordestroyed5339]

Farms were the first American developments, that was just the first step. We never respected this land.

[@jim5920]

Less land but productivity per acre has more than made up for it. Most of the farm land isn't growing food, it's growing feed which is an inefficient way to produce food. The population is increasing, this video offers no solution except more whining by ag producers who looked pretty well off in the video.

[@maxhallman1036]

Because small farmers aren't making any money and sell out because either they sell out and have dignity or go into debt and lose everything

[@jim5920]

@@maxhallman1036 Yes, family farms and family businesses for many decades are being crushed by corporations. That's American Capitalism.

[@liquidgal9867]

When you have open borders allowing millions into your country these people need somewhere to live. Govts continue to spend irrationally so they need more people to pay for their spending & golden hand shakes. People only think their food comes from the store not from a farm. Then you also have corporate farming which pushes regular farmers out of the market. Or people like Gates buying up land & building smart cities. People need to wake up to the fact without farmers, there is no food, without food, there is no life. Support your local farmèr the back bone of the country & rural communities.Thank you.

[@Andrea-lj4jg]

I don't understand why don't u guys build denser developments like little condos with 4-5 apartments instead of those all identical single family houses that take up a lot of spaces

[@michaelbranham5854]

Corporate housing development should be made illegal.

[@creatednordestroyed5339]

Technically, farmers were the first urban developments, no? The Indians lived differently.

[@denverlabrec]

Gwinnett suburbian here👋.. not too satisfied to be honest. Grew up naive in a bubble it seems. Ambition and division will be our downfall. Matthew 6:24-In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: “No man can serve two masters: for either he. will hate the one, and love the other; or else. he will hold to the one, and despise the other, Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

[@Storkmd1]

It would make sense to spell GWINNETT the correct way.

[@danlc95]

Stay tuned. Land Rualization is coming. Through the process of Land Remediation, high density subdivisions, condos, etc, etc will be bulldozed and returned to their natural pristine state. It's an idea whose time has come.

[@creatednordestroyed5339]

A conservationist could only dream for this day

[@oicfas4523]

Build higher density housing in cities and plow the inefficient and wasteful suburbia.

[@sparksmacoy]

Stop the madness

[@acommentator69]

Immigration

[@bulgingbattery2050]

Greed

[@alpaykasal2902]

I know what ruins arable land faster than sprawl or zoning, it's raising beef. Beef is the least sustainable food stock we have... and that's while water dwindles in many areas. Use land for sustainable foods. I'm a meat eater who has sworn off beef. Hey ranchers, evolve already, times have changed. I too am concerned about loss of farmland and the creation of ghost towns, but what a blatant propaganda film, not a documentary.

[@AngusAssoc]

Alpay. Thank you so much for sharing your perspective here. I’m sorry this film didn’t cover the topic fairly from your perspective. We realize that these topics are incredibly complex and that much could not be discussed in the time frame of this film. Above all we hope that anyone who watches it can connect with the very real human emotions on display from both the farmers and the other subjects in the film. We believe these genuine human emotions surrounding the issue are important to share with people on all sides of the topic. I hope you will consider those elements of the film as a worthwhile takeaway from the time you invested in watching it.

[@michaelhostetler5190]

How about we all starve. Some people think this food in the grocery stores will always just be there. Wait and see.....

[@adamjohnson5307]

That farm was started in the 1840s so we have an idea who was working that land. No sympathy from me. I’m sure he got PAID.

[@PFIRorganization]

Great video but WRONG! Sprawl is not inevitable as those interviewed would have you think of places like California. For many years the prime driver of population growth when we take into account births, deaths, inflows and outflows is IMMIGRATION! Across the country immigration (immigrants and children of immigrants) is responsible for 80% of population growth in the U.S. In California, I would not be shocked if it were 100%. And immigration is something we can do something about! As the makers of the video aptly stated, we don't have luxury of lowing anymore land as we need this land to feed us.

[@denverlabrec]

Polarization of Western Civilization is a big issue.. so much division.. very disheartening to see. Radical Left: (Atlanta) ~ Radical Right: (Gwinnett Suburbia). -within 30min of each other.

[@SolMuun]

Well...how are you people voting? If you voted for Trump then things are going to get worse. Stop voting right wing and things will improve.

[@dan-a-vee1484]

Well...... Voting left is bringing in more mass immigration and illegal immigration, which pushes people further and further out of there communities they grew up or planned on staying in.

[@maxhallman1036]

Doesn't matter which side you vote for politicians only care about their paycheck and will do anything to get it even if it includes destroying the country

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

Well considering we have only urbanized 3% of the land in this country I think it would take at least 50-100 times the current American population (320 million) all living in suburban homes to cover the US enough where we are gonna starve to death or it threatens food security. Currently we are at 1.7 births per woman so we are actually running out of people believe it or not, if we birth up to 2.0 a women then it should stabilize sometime in the future.

[@burgerman101]

We are not running out of people. Have you ever heard about immigration? Immigrants have higher birth rates than natives, so when they come here they make up for whatever deficit we have. The birth rates need to decrease worldwide until we reach a stable population of around 1 billion. Then we won’t need to urbanize anymore. We could probably even de-urbanize until the percentage is about 0.5-1%.

[@rkbelmont1138]

Overpopulation is the issue. If we were not so many we could all live on individual houses and not being piled in departments. Also stop speculation. No more accumumation of properties for rent and airbnb

[@kkingcombo12345]

Propaganda video. Bias af.

[@JLC87420]

kkingcombo12345 don’t see how it’s bias but ok gen z

[@foxacresfarm7595]

No it’s not I’m watching it happen near me only being 45 minutes from my states capital can see these stupid ass developments taking over our land

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

@@foxacresfarm7595 we only have 3% of the land in the US urbanized genius. We could double every road and house in the US and that would only be 6% of the land. I legit just did the math calculations a few mins ago and we haven’t made a fuckin dent on the land in the past 70 years when u see how many billions of acres are still left. Either way maybe your farms shouldn’t be 20-70 miles from the city if you don’t want it to turn into suburbia

[@nickwebb9937]

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se the farms were there before the city, it’s not their fault.

[@DucatiQueen]

Bullshit propaganda

[@axialpad99]

Propaganda against who?