Louise Mabulo grew up on seemingly strange farming tips from her parents and grandparents — like planting crops during a full moon or burying a rock beneath them. Now a farmer and climate activist herself, she sees how these practical nuggets of wisdom actually have scientific merit. Learn how she’s merging traditional knowledge with modern science to help farmers (and the world) adapt to a changing climate.
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@AbbyNon
May 6, 2024 at 2:38 pm
Nuclear energy is the solution to climate catastrophe.
It is a pity that Green party made so much damage to the environment by going after nuclear power ….. 🙁
@AbbyNon
May 6, 2024 at 2:41 pm
“Putting more carbon into soil than we take from it” ….. ?
Do you really think that carbon is coming “from the soil” …… ?
@MrLoobu
May 6, 2024 at 2:51 pm
Carbon is sequestered in everything that grows from the ground. Which we kill for all kinds of reasons. Even if it’s not burned, they no longer scrub carbon from the atmosphere when dead.
@kinglewisjtl24
May 6, 2024 at 3:12 pm
Please research carbon capture banks- it is big business today and many with land get tax rebates for the amount of carbon sequestered vs developing land in a way that would release and increase the amount of carbon
@jonmccroskey927
May 6, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Plants pull CO2 out of the air kick out new oxygen and keep the carbon. Part of what they do with that carbon is exchange it with mycelium (fungi root systems basically) for nutrients. The mycelium is great at creating “nodes” and deposits of carbon that stay in the ground for many many years, or until disturbed. The term Agro-Forestry is farming with this concept at the forefront, among many other concepts of importance. 🌲
@AbbyNon
May 6, 2024 at 4:59 pm
@@jonmccroskey927 OMG …. you do realize that the volume of trees above the ground is much larger than the volume of the fungi, right …. ?
@MrLoobu
May 6, 2024 at 6:34 pm
@@AbbyNon It’s probably close to equal, besides the point, and no, obviously nobody knows that.
@user-bh2pl3jp9x
May 6, 2024 at 2:41 pm
Her gramda said deeply things
@AbbyNon
May 6, 2024 at 2:45 pm
Grandma and Grandpa peer review …. ?
Crazy stories have resurfaced …… indeed ……
@americron912
May 6, 2024 at 2:59 pm
clickbait title. Nothing significant said. My grandparents worked in fossil fuel industry.
@kinglewisjtl24
May 6, 2024 at 3:08 pm
Go back farther before the fossil fuel industry
@kinglewisjtl24
May 6, 2024 at 3:10 pm
Im grateful to see how this message that resonates with me could push others away- perhaps you have no ancestral heritage that worked with the land, maybe your line came from a portal or maybe underneath the ground?
@kinglewisjtl24
May 6, 2024 at 3:14 pm
I see many comments that this message doesn’t resonate with. I challenge you, before you leave a quick comment about your grandparents working in the fossil fuel industry- to look back to your ancestral heritage that lived in communion with the land, and discover wisdom in traditions there.
@ChelseaSierraK.
May 6, 2024 at 3:19 pm
The climate has nothing to do with people, it would still be the same way if we weren’t here.
@TRUMP_WQN
May 6, 2024 at 3:21 pm
Just stopped by to say what’s up to all you clowns 🤡
@professorh8398
May 6, 2024 at 3:30 pm
Interesting. Glad I watched!
@barryamorris
May 6, 2024 at 3:38 pm
Let’s be clear here. The earth needs CO2 to survive. Without it all life on earth would die out. Therefore there is no climate crisis. Any increase in CO2 is beneficial to the planet, not detrimental. There is no climate crisis!
@barryamorris
May 6, 2024 at 3:38 pm
Let’s be clear here. The earth needs CO2 to survive. Without it all life on earth would die out. Any increase in CO2 is beneficial to the planet, not detrimental. There is no climate crisis!
@MrMarcol29
May 6, 2024 at 3:45 pm
The problem with the climate is climate cultists spreading fear & lies
@jonmccroskey927
May 6, 2024 at 3:45 pm
Do you need employees?!? I would love to guide agro-forestry!
@charleswilson9480
May 6, 2024 at 3:55 pm
Climate change … here’s the truth …! Get you a KJV Bible and go to 2 corinthians 4:3-4 .. if you still don’t understand ask a pastor or a preacher …
@americron912
May 6, 2024 at 4:00 pm
People of Youtube, the answer is to reduce our consumption significantly and not serve the rich. The Amish are doing a very good job at this
@armondmeilleur7563
May 6, 2024 at 5:55 pm
Amish don’t pay taxes!
@LucaLuca-cn1bgh
May 6, 2024 at 4:07 pm
What type of channel?
@sugarcoat4
May 6, 2024 at 4:25 pm
great speaker
@KingsMom831
May 6, 2024 at 4:32 pm
Love this!
@tracesmith4966
May 6, 2024 at 4:46 pm
Placing rocks before the soil gets added…makes so much sense…crap…sold my home so can only pass on that gem of wusdome.
@redchild1690
May 6, 2024 at 4:51 pm
The answer is putting your faith in Jesus Christ, because He alone can save you from destruction.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
John 3:16-18
@AbbyNon
May 6, 2024 at 4:53 pm
Oh … so it is true TED ?
You are anti-nuclear right?
@L3eh123
May 6, 2024 at 5:20 pm
WOW.. 7 minutes and absolutely nothing of value said, but still the seals clap at the end..
@BrandonAbernathy
May 6, 2024 at 6:00 pm
It’s about time to unsubscribe if you can’t offer actual logic and content.
@kiaer.s
May 6, 2024 at 6:25 pm
BRB gotta call grandma
@manoelgomes9319
May 6, 2024 at 6:32 pm
Great discuss, I am from Brazil, at my country we are suffer with climate crisis, in state of Rio grande do Sul, many people Lost of all, many cities under the water, many people Dead. Please help the people the state of Rio grande do Sul in Brazil, lack food, drugs, water for drink and all. thank you.
@goodday5570
May 6, 2024 at 6:52 pm
Milankovic Cycle….Look it up and get back to me.
@Virtual-realityISold
May 6, 2024 at 10:43 pm
Let me guess, it’s trying to convince me and charging me for it?
@dr.praveenpj7187
May 7, 2024 at 2:35 am
Stop implementing the globalists agenda, through co2 global warming propaganda, hear the voice of true scientists telling about solar outburst and magnetic polarity reversal, then u may find the way…
@evad7933
May 7, 2024 at 4:01 am
Is there a climate crisis?
@qgrh
May 7, 2024 at 7:41 am
Can we have the scientific sources to support the fact that the “old customs from her ancesters” are actually more than a placebo effect or confirmation bias? Or should we just believe her?
@rosangapachuau7841
May 7, 2024 at 9:16 am
If Humans really want to save this earth, the only solution is to lower our standard of living. Funny thing about us humans is that most of us wanted a luxurious life. But this luxurious life of our is the main cause of all this pollution and climate change.
@user-ux4ff7tv6i
May 8, 2024 at 11:39 pm
For 100%
@joestocker7639
May 7, 2024 at 9:20 am
just another goof making things up.
@kylekazlaw9105
May 7, 2024 at 12:06 pm
Doubling down on the climate cult hysteria… Cute but false narrative.. Climate change is a religion, and less of a science.
@daviddavids2884
May 8, 2024 at 11:58 am
bla-bla-bla global climate change is not driven by human-caused air pollution. it is driven by Natural factors, that are cyclic/periodic in nature.
said another way, the global climate would be changing Now, even if humans had never been around.
corollary: there is NOTHING that humans can do to alter the factors that Actually drive global climate change. see the ongoing decline in the strength of earth’s magnetosphere.
@erickborling1302
May 11, 2024 at 1:37 am
Ancient wisdom from yesterday will do just fine. No need to reinvient the wheel of common sense. USE LESS fossil fuels, PERIOD.