In this powerful video, Dr. Lyla June challenges the idea that humans are a burden to the Earth and argues that we actually belong here and can be a critical piece of the ecological puzzle. Drawing from indigenous land management techniques, the speaker explains how native people have been active agents in shaping the land for thousands of years, becoming a keystone species and refining keystone cultures over time. Rather than trying to control the Earth, indigenous people have tapped into and aligned themselves with the forces of nature, creating non-human centric systems and intentionally expanding habitats. Dr. Lyla June makes the case that if we applied these strategies today, we could transform dead systems to living ones and protect and augment life on a holistic regional scale. When we become allies with the Earth, we can live within her processes and become a part of her system as we were born to be.
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0:00 - What If I Told You That We Belong Here?
1:04 - The Environmental Impact Of The Pandemic
1:59 - Aligning With The Forces Of Nature
2:54 - Intentional Habitat Expansion
4:02 - Create Nonhuman-Centric Systems
6:14 - Healing Our History
7:08 - Becoming Earth's Ally
Transcript:
What if I told you that we belong here? What if I told you that the Earth needs us? What if I told you I've seen my people turn deserts into gardens.
For tens of thousands of years, native people of this land constructed beautiful gardens all around them. We were active agents in shaping the land to produce prolific abundance. We expanded and designed grasslands and forests for the benefit of all life. We became what the world calls a keystone species, or a species upon which entire ecosystems depend. And our cultures became keystone cultures, refined over time.
Now, much was made about the positive environmental effect of the pandemic. As more people stayed home, pollution levels dropped, animals began to reclaim habitat, and the logical leap that many observers seemed to make was that the Earth would be better off without humans. I reject that leap. The Earth may be better off without certain systems we have created. But we are not those systems. We don't have to be at least. What if these human hands and mines could be such a great gift to the earth that they sparked new life wherever people and purpose met?
I'd like to share important indigenous land management techniques in hopes that they might inform and inspire us today. The first is to tap into and align ourselves with the forces of nature. Why try to control the earth when you can work with her? In southwest deserts, native farmers have leveraged the pre existing topography of the land. They placed their fields at the base of watersheds to catch every drop of the monsoon rains and the nutrients that flow down with them carried down from upland soils. This alluvial farming technique requires no outside fertilizers or irrigation because all of this comes with the rain.
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