The Great Work of Our Time by John D Liu

John D Liu shows what is possible for Earth restoration on a massive scale, delivering a message hope and inspiration.
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We are experiencing the end of an era as a new era in human civilization is beginning. It is a time of great risk but also a time of great potential.
We now know that it is possible to restore large-scale damaged ecosystems. It is possible to sequester carbon and re-regulate the hydrological system. It is possible to restore natural fertility and to remove toxicity from contaminated soils and water.
We are required to do this so that future generations will live in peace and abundance. For humanity to further evolve it is necessary to transition from a society dedicated to consumption to a society dedicated to ecological function.
Although sometimes obscured by the collapse of the old order this heralds a time of full employment, equality, purpose and fulfillment.
This is THE GREAT WORK OF OUR TIME and we are called to understand and participate in it.
This presentation was recorded live at PV2 in March 2015.
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[@kariukikiragu]

This hippie cameraman is just wonderful. It takes people like him to show the way and simplify it in very gentle language, just like the earth.

[@emmavik-fredriksson640]

Amazing! I was so tired today, felt no hope for humanity, there is so much shit and then I saw this and it gave me hope! I have seen his documentaries before, but it was great hearing him speak. Thank you.

[@atinychihuahuallc413]

Some of the best documentary material. His work is philosophical!

[@gloriacorrea8927]

OH HOW I LOVE PERMACULTURE!!!!! This is the way for a healthy future! Thank you, this is wonderful! I would love to partake in traveling and helping any people with the design part!

[@gavinmatthews5618]

Thanks !

[@nova-kane]

Thanks Diego

[@ReedIngalls]

So inspiring to see, especially about Jordan. I invite you to learn about the ecological revolution in northern Syrian region named Rojava as well

[@m.j.debruin3041]

Knowlidge is very powerfull

[@ameeraljadie1282]

❤❤❤❤

[@kouniao]

Please share

[@jhonPriego-dp5fd]

688###much love for mangolia lots of deer cows aquafier need a rive looking nice even on a small space one indian got it going on

[@SherrickDuncan]

Great video as usual Diego. Can we get way more in depth interview type content on Connor Crickmore and Neversink Farm?

[@DiegoFooter]

Via video, probably not. Via podcast yes. Looking to line something up over the next couple weeks. Send me an email if there is stuff you are really curious about.

[@gavinmatthews5618]

I concur more please! can we get some links to there projects ect if there are any?

[@DiegoFooter]

There are links in the description.

[@rochrich1223]

He makes a strong case that the ecological function of the land and seas has been grossly undervalued, but to declare that trade is bad and war is inherent to capitalism will only slow implementing the valuable parts of his insight. There are many ways to look at the tragedy of the commons and many ways to reduce the damage. We shouldn't drive off allies by requiring adoption of his communal beliefs before making necessary changes.

[@johndliu2284]

I would note that the "Tragedy of the Commons" is based on an assumption that indigenous people without land ownership allowed lands to be degraded. This is not historically accurate. In fact it was imperialism, genocide, slavery and materialism that eliminated the mega-fauna causing mass biodiversity loss, that deforested and desertified large areas of the planet. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3vIYmyApKdrrpo

[@xyzsame4081]

war is inherent to agriculture. Feudalism / slavery predates the ecnonomic system of Capitalism, (that emerged with industrial mass production) and there was plenty of war before Capitalism. 10,000 years ago farming made a surplus of food possible. It started in regions that could be very fertile IF humans banded together to build large irrigation systems. That was the birth of larger settlements and civilizations. The surplus lead to higher birth rates, and those lead to conflict over land. btw the body size of humans dropped then. Farming was good for the spezies but not for the individuals. With the surplus of food (made often with forced labor) the groups could afford to have a group of men in their prime that did not produce any food nor did they hunt. Their job was ONLY ! a) to keep the local peasants down the surplus that the many created with a lot of work went to the small group at the top. If we include those that were at least well of, maybe 20 - 30 % of the population. and b) to fight any intruders that woud be attracted by the stores or wanted control over that land, wanted to kidnap people for slavery or take of the land to get access to land, water or irrigation system or c) that standing army of warrios could go on raids and to steal from others or to come back with prisoners of wars = slaves or to blackmail the neighbouring tribes to pay tributes (or else they would be attacked). The form of religon changed as well, it was the means to form cohesion and to keep peasants revolts etc. down - typicially the ruling class were the children of gods, so of course they had the right to rule. Organized religion became instrumental to support the status quo (it still has that task). In a group of hunter / gatherers you cannot have slavery and indentured servitude. Not at a large scale that would have any economic impact. All adults (that are tribe members with the full rights of mebers, too) must contributue, and it must be voluntary and willingly. Children are valuable (Native Americans sometimes stole children and tried to integrate them into the tribe - which worked in some cases, even tough the children were old enough to "know" that the tribe that had adopted them, also had killed their parents and families. Kind of Stockholm syndrome, the children went in survival mode and suppressed that knowledge even if they were kidnapped at age 8 or 10 (in theory old enough to remember). But the group members do not produce so much surplus that it would make sense to have forced labor. And they could not afford to start a lot of conflict it messed with their ability to feed themselves. If a group of men went after the mammonth - that was dangerous work and they needed to cooperate well and have each other's back. You do not get that with servitude / slavery or a bullying, dictatorial leadership. Humans evolved in hunter / gatherer societies it shaped our social instincts (but they only work will in small groups where we know each other. But then they work very well. They have to, it is a survival of the species issue). Humans are territorial (in most cases, the Inuit are not, or not very much), but they are also egalitarian by evolutionary design.

[@xyzsame4081]

He is right that Capitalism is a major obstacle (in my view it is a threat to our high tech civilization). The organizing principle in capitalism is GREED. The highest profit at the lowest costs. Externalizing costs is part of the package and so is exploitatation. Domestically, and also internationally.

[@xyzsame4081]

I suggest to check out highly decorated marine Smedley Butler's quote: _I was a gangster for capitalism._ The U.S. oligarchs have been using the strong U.S. military to wage war and inflict regime change on other nations so they could exploit them. There was a lively debate about U.S. imperialism around 1900 and Mark Twain engaged in it (and was on the right side). Before that many other nations did it (under feudalism or later Capitalism, who was as militant, exploitative - also towards natural resources as before. The U.S. form of chattel slavery was an economic model to make the cash crops grown for the benefit of rich landowners possible. the deep contempt had to be nutured to be able to have that extremely cheap forced labor. The plantation owners would have gladly kidnappped the poor from their own countries or from other European nations (prisoners of war) but that was not feasible. So they pulled off an industrial style of kidnapping from Africa and later selling humans. It was strongly inspired by co-existing Capitalism - slavs were also financed like manufacturing machines, and in the 1850s and 1860s many had highly leveraged loans. It is a feudal economic system, so strictly speaking not Capitalism - but it had a strong Capitalistic vibe for instance in the scale and also the leveraged way to finance it (with bank loans). The U.S. military was ALSO used against the U.S. population. The 1930s March for the WW1 bonuses for veterans was crushed with help of the military. The coal barons got the help of the government to air bomb !! the miners in ? 1926. Blair Mountain battle. BATTLE. Rest assured that the miners were not in it to make trouble, they were desperate and the coal barons had broken the camel's back with murdering a mayor that sided with the miners. I am not hyperbolic when I say that Capitalism is organized around the principle of greed, inequaltiy and exploitation (like the economic systems before, dating back approx. 10,000 years when agriculture emerged). ONLY in the time after WW2 a lot of the surplus was shared with most of the population and that ONLY applied in the developed nations. That needed a bitter labor struggle for 150 years, 2 world wars and the very specific set of circumstances after WW2. But the oligarch bid their time and hit back when the first major economic crises hit after WW2 - because of oil price spikes in the 1970s. Neoliberalism (in the 1980s in the UK and US, it hit central Europe in the late 1990s and has done less damage there) has reversed a lot of gains made in 3 - 4 decades after WW2. The only good time labor had in Capitalism, turns our the ruling class, the oligarchs had not become wiser, they just could not help to share - in the first world nations - for a short period of time. but they were as exploitative as ever in the developing countries (colluding with the local despots and crushing the population if it organized to get democracy).

[@xyzsame4081]

Capitalism is not about serving the customers well, or to be innovative, .... . That _can_ be necessary to make a profit, especially smaller companies can't help it, but large companies that have little competition or succed in taking over natural monopolies or are able to capture regulators and the political process - invariably screw customers, workers and the environment. And they invariably make a good effort to rig the game and take over in politics, etc. If profits can be made by exploitation and speculation or rent extraction or getting subsidies & bailouts from colluding politiicans - all the better, innovating is a lot of hassle, and it is RISKIE than speculating at a large scale. The speculators have been bailed out in the past. In 2009 (and later with QE) and again in March 2020 when the "markets" got 1.2 trillion (TRILLION) USD in from of QE. Before anyone - even big biz - got a handout. A few small companies might be the ethically acting examples that are the exception to the rule. But the system is shaped, changed and dominated by the BIG players and they behave like psychopaths / exploiters. And in the case of finance like compulsive gamblers. I challenge you to name me large, multinatinal companies that did not / do not severely ! misbehave. O.K. Costco might be decent. Or Ben And Jerry's. Microsoft ? Apple ? Anti trust, violating privacy, colluding with government to censor outliers that are NOT crazy (twitter, facebook google) and often stealing ideas from others (Microsoft and Apple). Microsoft is one of the better giants but still they were eager to undermine the "free market" whenever they could. Their track record on the environment and worker abuse is not terrible - compared with other large companies (some exploitation of contract workers and no attempt to improve mining in third worlds countries, or electricity production in the U.S. - which ties into computer use and production) Nor did they or the manufacturers of PCs / electronics speak out against outsourcing to Aisa. Chip shortages anyone ? Suicide nets at Foxconn the supplier for Apple ?

[@nathanwood33]

Ive got an idea. But im disabled and my abilities are limited.

[@daiiahi3403]

This presentation makes too much sense. Some countries have started to revitalize themselves, their eco systems.....However...you need to teach this to the businessman. Those who really don't care about anything but a return on investment as quickly as possible an as much as possible. They don't care about what comes after they die.

[@stevenbury3980]

LIU ! It's LIU not "Loo"

[@jhonPriego-dp5fd]

Look at chins on a flower pot lemons on a pot oranges trees apple pawpaws its amazing a pot gets green with leafs its cool fukosima been knowing that maybe bananas trees on a pot

[@LKemp-lr1ky]

OK! Wasn't going to wade in--because I adore what John Liu does. However, the "emerge in Paradise" and then the rest of the religious meandering got to me. Restoration of degraded lands and that educational process is Mr. Liu's area, he should stay away from what he does not know. I say this with the deepest respect!!

[@jhonPriego-dp5fd]

33###even himalayas got cows what else sheep chicken farms high maintance my two cents

[@thatamerican3187]

The Tiananmen Tragedy> wow just wow.. lol

[@jhonPriego-dp5fd]

444###if one person got it going on a space how are u expecting rain ur not doing ecology im a year behind at least ecoly fun look at chins on a piece a wood greeney grows i made it far cows and chickens natural

[@sfdogman1969]

Thanks!