Video: Local solution to global problems
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
An extremely useful film by the author of the legendary "Beautiful Green".
He talks about the relationship between global troubles - the impoverishment of farmers, the development of industry and a change in ideology in dealing with agriculture (treating living land as an enemy that must be defeated), about the dependence of modern industrial agriculture on the oil industry, about the fact that there are alternative solutions on getting out of this addiction, and that now is the time to start implementing them.
The video highlights how local initiatives around the world can counter the soulless machine that is destroying local culture and traditional agriculture. The film features shots from France, India, Morocco, Ukraine, Brazil and other countries.
From the film, we understand the following:
Due to the introduction of a large amount of chemicals, the land is devastated, living organisms die in it, which ensure its fertility, and the plants feed on almost only these artificial chemicals. The land cultivated in this way is less and less adapted to growing plants every year, and gradually the once fertile land turns into a desert.
Consumption of products grown with the help of pesticides, herbicides, hormonal supplements does more harm than good to the body, so our health is getting worse every year: “Soon we will say not bon appetite, but let it carry you” - says one of the heroes of the film …
Deep plowing of the earth is very harmful, since solid large blocks of stuck together earth are formed that do not allow air to pass through, do not retain moisture. Such land requires more watering.
The peasants are driven off the land to expand their farms; they have neither work nor housing. In this way, we are transforming the people who yesterday provided their livelihood by growing their own food into a virtually marginalized group of beggars. There are already 600 million such artificial beggars all over the world, according to the authors of the film.
Another problem revealed in the film is the scanty amount of research on organic farming, research that would show the harm to the environment due to barbaric farming methods. The state controlled by corporations does not encourage or donate money for such research. Researchers have to overcome stigma and find money themselves.
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