20/01/2022
🌱To whoever needs to hear this...🌱
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If you are anything like me, in some darker moments you might have wondered whether the planet would not be better off without us humans 🌎 ecosystems would recover, biodiversity would increase and everything would be fine 🌱🕊. That’s what I sometimes believed.. until i came across this article from my new course at SLU yesterday 🌞 Science actually agrees, since 1992, that wilderness untouched by humans being a treasure for biodiversity- is a myth ! ❗️”...because human activities were instrumental for changing and increasing the biodiversity by shaping different habitats” 🌸🍃 though preindustrial methods like agroforestry; silvopasture, shifting cultivation’s with slash and burn, infield-outland systems in combination with livestock, transhumance, coppicing, - in all different kinds of locally adapted shapes and forms 🍃 all those concepts were dismissed in the industrial revolution as artificial fertilizers and fossil fuel machinery were introduced 💨what can be solutions ? 🌟 conditions and population size today implies the need for food security, but the yield of harvests of agroforestry concepts for example are significantly higher then those of monoculture cropping system. 🌳what we need MORE PEOPLE IN AGRICULTURE ❗️❗️is advanced ‘clean’ technology, to support those Labour intensive product systems, the preservation of indigenous knowledge and of course fair food prices to make it attractive to give perspective to all of us young people wanting to engage in this agrarian revolution ✊! Joint forces of science & technology, politics and the people 🤝.
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The message of this post is: in my interpretation, humans are not the disease by nature, WE ARE GARDENERS❤️ 🌱 supposed to shape landscape in a way to create different microclimates to support and preserve biodiversity 🌸🐞🐢. We simply have to find smart solutions and make use of ancient knowledge that has proven itself over thousands of years and combine it with technological innovations we have accomplished & once and for all make it attractive for people to join back agriculture 👩🏼🌾👩🏽🌾🧑🏼🌾👨🏾🌾 ❤️
