Climate Change Hits Southern Mexico Hard; Farmers Develop New Ways of Coping

1. Ancestral knowledge is what caused their problem. Human agriculture has destroyed soils of great civilizations the world over, leading to the demise of those civilizations. Regeneration of the soil is the only long term solution, and done right, it not only pays for itself, but it restores the environment while feeding people the most nutritious food.

   THE GREEN ANSWER — far cheaper, far more effective, and solves far more world problems — see Allan Savory's TED talk here (22 mins): https://youtu.be/vpTHi7O66pI . Allan Savory's techniques have been applied in America very successfully with a few changes. Here are 2 very successful American ranching and farming operations:
   1) Will Harris' "White Oak Pastures" in GA, 15 minute video "One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts": https://youtu.be/UoQWLK8-CYE
   2) Gabe Brown's "Brown's Ranch" in ND, 65 minute video is here: https://youtu.be/ZTpYG0rAhBQ or the more in depth with Q&A interspersed (2.5 hrs): https://youtu.be/8NeFjqBnzWc

   Soil regeneration takes the pressure off of green energy, rapidly sequesters CO2 into living soils, creates soils that act like rain sponges, and reverses the 10 thousand year agricultural degradation of planet Earth by humans!

   Ex-vegan Mariah Campbell of Perma-Earth has an excellent common sense video (18 mins): https://youtu.be/J5ebI97xSzY

2. This report is fine for a brief word about the situation these Mexicans are living with, but it would be very good to do (and provide) a more thorough report. Maybe some can be found on the Web, so I'll give this a try. I just tried searching YouTube using Yukuyoko and farming for search terms, resulting with only with one link, which is for this TRNN video; but, changing Yukuyoko for or to Mixteca produces some additional results that might be valid enough.

3. God grant the land and the people relief.

4. Water protectors and forest protectors. An eight year has done more than many adults.

5. “Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”
   ― Bill Mollison

6. Better description of the desertification in Mixteca:
   “The region known as La Mixteca northeast of the City of Oaxaca looks like a desert, though in the past it was covered with forest. The desolate landscape and desertification process are the result of generations of bad land-use practices. The causes that converted forests into wastelands are many and complex. Some say the tradition of overexploiting natural resources extends back to the days of the Aztecs, who demanded heavy tribute from the local Mixtec population. During the centuries of Spanish colonization, the construction of massive missions required large amounts of lumber, and goats were introduced into an already degraded landscape. The region became a corridor for driving goats to market, and excessive grazing prevented the recovery of forests that were logged for railroad ties, cleared for agriculture expansion, or (mainly oaks) cut for firewood and charcoal – the primary fuel in the region’s rural communities to this day.

   Centuries of degradation were exacerbated during the second half of the Twentieth Century by the Mexican government’s agrarian policy and Green Revolution technology. Government policies offered credit only to cultivate monoculture cash crops, driving the ancient and ecologically sustainable milpa system into virtual extinction. Monocultures exhausted the soil and exposed it to erosion. The Green Revolution brought chemical fertilizers, which boosted crop yields, but the benefits were short-lived. Soil erosion and degradation continued, compelling farmers to use ever-increasing amounts of fertilizers. Depleted soils and high fertilizer costs forced farmers to abandon their fields, extending their agriculture into newly clear-cut lands. Deforestation and erosion accelerated, and today the region suffers one of the highest rates of erosion on the planet. It is one of the poorest regions in Mexico, unable to produce enough to feed itself, and has one of the nation’s highest rates of emigration.”

   Excellent report here:
   http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/our-stories/indepth/mexico-oaxaca-community-reforestation-mixteca-region.html

7. It is now a climate crisis.

8. The new Mexican presiden Amlo was in the southern states just recently promoting a new plan to re forest the southern lands with new trees, also promoting planting coffee, cocoa, citrus trees and many other with financial incentives to promote growth and stability. Lets see how it goes, this part of the country always rains and there is plenty of water everywhere.

9. WE. ARE. MELTING.

   Yours truly: a Yucateco.

10. No, it is not climate change. Buckets of rain isn't going to hold the moisture on the hills and your destroyed lands, vacant of vegetation. It will be washed down the hills. Do terrace type farming on the hills. That land has to be rested and nurtured and protected for 4-6 years, depending on condition of your ecosystem. Allow natural, native grasses, plants, shrubs and trees to take growth. And don't cut the trees down or let the livestock feed on it. The natural cycle of new growth and composting of old growth will restore nutrients to the soil. The new growth will hold the rain water and allow it to seep down to replenish your groundwater and aquifers. Eventually the ponds, creeks will evolve. Don't ask the deteriated land to produce a couple crops a year. You will be back in the same mess. Your ancesters would tell you to protect mother earth and it will feed you. You will soon have an oasis!

11. Growing trees for firewood 0:48 ? Wait just 20 years and then you can cook breakfast. Cutting trees for firewood was probably what created a problem in the first place.

12. Moral of the story if you don't squish every last penny out of a land you can farm it healthy for generations to come. I love it 🙂

13. It's called Permaculture and it can save the planet!

14. The "third world" will have a much better chance of surviving than the mechanized industrial world.

15. Climate change does not exist. Why do you keep lying?

16. This is all about Geo Engineering. The planes spraying, the land based operations scattered all throughout the US and ships in the ocean belching out chemicals while following the ocean currents which affect the atmospheric rivers. The weather is controlled, storms are crafted and steered. If you look up google earth, you can find the land based operations by looking for circles which are huge vats that contribute to the engineering. For more understanding of what they are doing, watch Mike Morales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kZJFJuqNcg

17. That's a strange story about southern Mexico, concerning climate change, since the place is on fire, right now as I type this, and it's not 1 fire, it's hundreds, spreading through central America….Seems like that might have been more pertinent climate change story……But I agree that town looks like our collective future…..

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