How Regenerative Farming Can Help Combat the Climate Crisis | NowThis Earth

Just so happens that I have 2 chickens, and my little sister and I took an interest in farming xD

Farming is the greatest in the Omninfinity. Extinction is the worse because of all the hatred & greed poisoned & imprisoned us all but the reverse of the climate change is farming.

Here is how screwed up everything is within this fantasy world of finance and competition that we live in.

Onions are a staple in India, virtually every Indian savoury dish is made using onion, onions are big business, India exports nearly five billion pounds of Onions per year. Last year because of drought and monsoons there was an export ban made by the indian government, the price had gone from 25Rs to 70Rs, the global market price of onion soared due to India having this smaller than usual harvest. This meant that more farmers were exporting and placed a strain on the domestic market, the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi banned all exports, which sent the domestic price of onions down to 50Rs this decision that was met with anger from onion farmers and sent the price of onions in neighbouring Bangladesh soaring up to 700% of the price they were the year before, Nepal was also hit hard. The UK, my country, had a real problem with onions in the spring of 2019 because of poor weather conditions, the UK onion "industry" procured onions from New Zealand, Egypt and Chile, again sending the global price up which will undoubtedly have had an effect on Indian onion storage volumes. People can argue for equilibrium and checks and balances, but the facts remain-countries half way around the world are producing onions for consumption in countries themselves half way around the world with all the associated logistics emissions, onions for god's sake! I once picked pears in Western Australia for consumption in Marks and Spencers! In Europe, the onion is a year round crop, you can grow them through winter and you can store autumn harvested onions until spring and have perfect sweet food all year round, no problem, you never have problems with water shortages if you grow your own onions because there is always the dreaded back up of mains water if your rainwater stocks run out. In the mad globally connected world of riches however it is cheaper for handlers to import them from Chile and NZ than it is to store them in wearhouses in Europe through winter, money money money. I made a decision and decided to opt out of this madness myself, I used to grow a few onions but then realised I could become self sufficient (family of 5) in onions, I work as much as all those folks that say they haven't time, I have three kids, there is no excusing our rich decadent western arses for doing nothing to alleviate the pain we are causing around the world both to people and to the environment by ignoring facts. Rip up your lawns and grow onions people using the no dig technique, it is so easy, then you won't have to worry about transport, plastic, slave labour and all of the sh1 that goes with it. It isn't economically viable but it is rewarding and those extra hours spent working in a job supporting global industrial agriculture nonsense are better spent tending vegetables, and it isn't much, I think around ten hours a year tops to make us 100% self sufficient.

Ah. The same age old native techniques that once were condemned as primitive by European colonialism

Thank you for petroleum products. Without plastic you’re growing season would be cut. We need to balance our inner souls and our world. The problem is authoritarian countries like China that are polluting the planet.. they are ruining the soil the air in the water for all of us. Stop by in China until they care for the people in the planet

Where's the science behind these claims?

The other thing that needs to be kept in mind is the amount of food waste we create by overproducing. All that waste gets landfilled, and there it generates methane gas to be released into the atmosphere, while the rotting organic waste doesn't get returned to the earth. Understanding how we can make the practice of agriculture more efficient, less wasteful, and close the production loop will go a long way to restoring the soil and removing atmospheric carbon.
Also if there was a monetary incentive to rebuild ecosystems like wetlands, forests and natural grassland, that would greatly improve our quality of life, while preserving our precious biodiversity. There's very little land mass that is untouched or unexplored, and forests that used to separate urban cityscapes are now dwindling to boxed in strips of land that are degrading over time. It's not easy to push back against urban sprawl once it's started, especially when they're selling previous farmland to developers. Creative land use and conscientious civil planning should be mandatory for any urban/suburban settlement. Finding ways of including nature instead of pushing it away from our lives is how we can find a better balance, and it will help to make people far more happy and healthy!

Traditional hawaiian agriculture emphasises composting, I heard (imma guess all traditional agri composts too). Neat to see modern uptake of this, plus modification to account for winter season

YES! YES! YES!!! THIS!!! Regenerarive agriculture for the win, folks! Joel Salatin, Alan Savory, et al have been saying this forever. Let's do it, ppl!

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All fine and dandy, but could never produce enough to feed and fuel the entire world

The future is green. One way or another.

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!
WE CAN REVERSE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE!!??
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Great idea! But impossible to implement for 7,5 billion people in all areas of the world. But obviously great to implement as much as possible!

I don't think it takes hundreds of years of you use permaculture

Aquaponics would do better at reversing climate change. In a closed circuit system you can use like 50% less water and your only input is fish food.

Yes Yes Yes!!! This is very close to what I have been thinking about for awhile now, no giant corporate farms to ruin the soil, plus many many more small farms, with more people owning them. Able to make a good living, raise families, hire all the help that they need, which like you said gives people work that is also much needed. I know I don't have the complete answer but someone else does and it's very clear that the world cannot continue doing it the way that we are!!!

This is a great idea —- plus it’s labor intensive snd it needs lots of people for it to work — which is exactly what our economy needs right now. This could change so many lives! Plus gardening is a natural anti-depressant and is so rewarding. We need this!

This has been done by many developing countries.
Btw, vegan extremists might not agree with using livestock.

Te truly scary thing is how little top-soil we actually have and how fragile it is. I understand that right now we have about 5 acres of arable land per human on the planet. Imagine what it would be like if we lost half of that soil, while increasing the population?!

Wow I've been saying this for so long I tried to bring this idea to University of Illinois Champlain I tried to bring this idea to a lot of people I even wanted to do some Urban farming in the city of Chicago and all I get is it's a good idea but nobody really wants to support it I really would love to push this idea really on Congress and get people back active which is more healthier which is more better for the environment and it gives back jobs against back activities and me this is the way we should be doing things I really love what you guys are doing keep up the good work ManBeasts out peace. Kudos
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This video is incorrect in showing modern combines harvesting and stating they do not use cover crops or soil revitalization techniques such as no-till farming or mob grazing with animals.

Most farmers do use no-till farming and cover crops to revitalize their soil. Their fields may look like “monoculture,” but that does not mean that their farming methods are non revitalizing nor does it mean they don’t use cover crop mixes between cash crops.

Clearly, the person who wrote this has never experienced farming before.

(No shame in that, but if you haven’t lived it, it is easy to believe the internet myths.)

This is great! Old is best!

I mean that’s all good, but why do we use pesticides and machinery? To maximize crop yield and production output. If you remove these practices the demand for crops are still going to be the same, so with these new regenerative practices what is the likelihood that they would still be able to meet agricultural demand?

That’s that’s real question.

i started growing my own vegetables last summer, it was so much fun to go out there every day, it was very therapeutic, would totally recommend it! self-sustainability is so important for creating a clean future for a growing planet!

We have 2 large backyard gardens. One is buckwheat in the summer for our honeybees. The other is our vegetables and berries. We plant winter rye on them to winter over. Put our fallen leaves on them and throw our crushed eggshells on.
We are surrounded by fields that one man is leasing for miles. He could care less about the ground and sprays Round Up. Corn and soybeans only. Cover crop to him is a waste of money. He is living for the present and greed.
I really wish agriculture would wise up.

Does AOC know about this?

Greed from mega farms, politicians and chemical companies will stop this from becoming mainstream.

Regenerative Farming 🤔
You mean farming ? 😂

We must encourage people to go permaculture. It requires low labor and cost. If you do permaculture in your backyard, you will get fresh veggies and a source of income(organic veggies are pricey so high income).

Whats is their yield per acre ?

Love what you're doing, but there is always room for improvement. 1) the plastic mulch and plastic hoop houses are not eco-friendly and 2) when you bring in material from outside to use as mulch, compost, etc., You are still mining somewhere, maybe just not you're plot of land. Some mining of rock fertilizers is necessary and can be done sustainably. I have more detailed thoughts and experience, if anyone's interested, but based on historical interactions, most folks who make videos think they have it all figured out and don't REALLY want input.

Hi! Thank you for starting this channel. I love what you do and I would to share the world what I am doing to do regerative farming in the Philippines but nots important yet and so thank you for doing this!

Every time you make a video on this topic it becomes more and more clear how little research you do and how little you know about agriculture

This is a really cool idea. Gov needs to fund these innovations.

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Who is funding you?

Wintering chickens in the greenhouse- brilliant! I am going to try this.

I found grazing livestock put carbon into the ground and in some places reverses desertfication.

They don't even mention container gardening can be improved with mulching on top of the soil in the pot. This year I had baby tree frogs in my largest tree pot with my lemon tree, lemongrass and tumeric all growing in the same pot. It seems the mulch and extra plants improved the soil well enough that the tree frog mom thought it was a great place to put her eggs.

I’m not confident that my fellow humans will make the changes needed to prevent civilization collapse

Regenerative farming can only support 3-4 billion people
4 billion people now live at least one month per year with severe water shortages.
Yanks pump up fresh drinking water, poison it, pump it back underground to frack gas to burn for electricity, to charge their EV batteries... in a mega drought; and because of this Yanks cut emissions more switching to gas than Europe did switching to renewables, if you ignore all the leaky wells. 66% of people will live in water stressed areas by 2025. 50% of thermal and hydro electric power will be threatened with water stress, 40% of coal mines are water stressed and so are 30% of planned hydro dams

Out of 1.2 billion vehicles, under 6 million are electric
Electricity is 20% of energy, renewable electricity is 4%, solar & wind are 2% of energy
2% of energy is solar and wind + 4% of energy is renewable
Planetary heating went up 46% in 50 years from 0.47 watts/m² to 0.87 watts/m²
350 ppm CO2 will not stop planetary heating
We must stop burning 50% of fossil fuel in 10 years to stay below 1.5 C
Our attempts to not cross 1.5 C are ineffectual and will kill everything off, here's why

Battery and bio-energy extraction will destroy tribal water and wildlife
40% of insect species are at risk of extinction by 2050
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Greenhouse gases went up 45% in 30 years + 15% of energy will be renewalbe by 2040
Renewable energy cannot reduce heating in time to avoid 1.5 C
4% of energy is renewable + 4% of mammals are wild by weight
We kill trees 2X faster than we plant them
Trees grow faster and die younger in fires floods & droughts
It takes one ton of coal to make 12 solar panels
Most solar panels will become unrecyclable toxic waste by 2050 at 6 million tons / yr

Vaclav Smil says:
North Euro offshore wind turbines work 33% of the time
North Euro onshore turbines work 22% of the time
North Euro solar panels work 11% of the time
Over 60 yrs jets 68% more efficient and fly 60X more passengers

Green energy in Europe is open fraud
Europe burns 80% of the globe's wood pellets for renewable electricity
Europe burns 80% of its curbside recycled plastic & paper for recycled electricity
Europe burns 50% of its palm oil cargo in diesel engines for green bio-energy
Dams destroy 80% of river wildlife up and down the rivers
Europe's global carbon fund is rife with corruption

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Nice little segment, thanks!

All the people who say "climate change cannot be undone" should watch this and admit they told a dirty lie.

I live in Greece and last two winters its not raining like before:(

Farmers are the warriors of climate change.

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What is the point of always releasing 4x3 videos, what's wrong with widescreen?