Avadhesh sinha

it's really a good video and i think every citizen of each country should think over and put their efforts to make the ecosystem more clean and safe.

It's sad that humanity's last hope for a secure diverse food source lies within Africa and that the corporate tentacles are about to wipe them away for ever. Hopefully the elders can talk some sense into those people. What surprises me is that everyone wants to be like America and somehow they fell comfortable falling into the death spiral we have gotten ourselves into. I'm new to this project and hopefully I can tell enough people about it to make a difference.

Lovely video....hope people take inputs from this video and apply it in their own country!

This was FABULOUS! Coming from a fundamentalist and missionary background, the concerns voiced in this video about missionary and religious organizations, SO important. How shall we begin discussions, here in America to help those willing to open their minds, but presently supporting World Vision and the likes, to change their approach?

Thanks to Sue Cosentini of Ithaca for alerting me to this project - the more ways we can connect with one another across what have previously been defined as 'boundaries' the better! a future of justice, equity and abundance for everyone depends on it -

There are so many good and wonderful people on this beautiful planet, if only we would just ignore the mainstream media. Which only feeds us negative energy and fills our minds with fear, doubt, and anger. Then, would we be able to listen, to our inner feelings and the yerning we all have for happiness, harmony, and a sense of inner and outer peace.

When we decide to STOP listening to outside sources and look within, we will be aware of the fact that we are
ALL ONE ony then, will we be able to come together and find solutions, to all the problems we have created.

We must come together for the love of this planet, the love for our children and the love for one another, in order to give all future generations the right to exist in harmony. The alarm clock has been "ringing" for quite some time now. It's time to wake up. My love to all.

If you wish, visit me at............www.thehumancry.blogspot.com.

@Emmanual & Orland. Thank you. 1000 Suns was my top three pick at the global oneness screenings. Hoping the emphasis on love and openess to other points of view will collect a large enough community to effect the Gates Foundation and Agri Business.

@ Claire Felong & Pete
It's not about "Christians believe in God's presence in every object of nature." It's about the bible's belief that god gave dominion over the earth to man. This has been interpreted by many Christians to mean that they can do as they like (for their own gain, or that their opinion is the only one that matters) with the rest of creation. However, they were also told to be stewards of the land, which I believe means being judicious and fair. Only Christians themselves can resolve the conflict arising from these two notions.

You may wish to look at how Christians and Interfaith people are addressing environmental questions and their faith/belief system at http://www.earthministry.org/

Re: "This whole idea of Christians imposing their religion on others is ridiculous grandstanding by individuals who are offended by religions that reject moral relativity."

Pete, you obviously are not a student of history. In the United States (and Canada) the Christian boarding schools existed until the late 1970's. These were supported by congressional bill "The 100 year Solution to the Indian Problem". After spending too much money on extermination, the Congress decided it was less expensive to take the children away from their families and replace their belief systems. They modeled this after what had been done to the Irish and Africans. Carlisle's explanation was "to remove the red man and leave the man" (forcible assimilation). Congress specifically set this up as a Christian only program. Knowing that Christian factions fight among themselves, they assigned specific tribes (legally sovereign nations if you read the US constitution) to specific Christian factions. Humiliation, beatings and sexual abuse were the norm in these schools. In Phil Lucas’ documentary “Healing the Hurts” a modern Anglican minister stands in for these past Christian administrators during one exercise. Visibly shaken he stated “We were only trying to help”. And that’s it. One person’s version of the ‘correct way’ over another based on the premise of doing good.

While the US Constitution has a basis of freedom of religion, First Nation peoples were not given this Freedom of Religion until 1978 by executive order of President Jimmy Carter. Before that First Nation people were jailed for singing their songs, gathering or conducting ceremony. (The Wounded Knee Massacre resulted from fear over the gathering for the "Dance in A Circle" ceremony brought by Wovoka, who preached a message of universal love.)

Re: this Christian effort in Africa, you may wish to read "Of Water and the Spirit" by Malidoma Patrice Some (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malidoma_Patrice_Some), who was kidnapped at the age of four by Jesuit missionaries. Even after that his perspective is:
“It has to do with being able to face up to differences and still survive. Realizing that, in fact, even where we think there's only differences, there might be similarity.”

Pete, I understand you will have grief recognizing and incorporating the devastation some Christians have wrongfully perpetrated on others. I wish you well as you resolve this with the positive messages of your belief system.

a great video , and if you search the permaculture models about population density , we can live in harmony with nature to a level of about 4 people per acre , the Saraha Desert if properly designed to catch the average rain fal of this arid ( the majority of it is arid at almost 8 inches of rain fal per year and almost 2.3 billion acres ) could house the entire world population with room to spare leaving the rest of the planet for all our Tao fellow beings . ... we have been fed to much confusing information . Dis info . , it is not about forcing the farmier to feed the city folk , instead re-sgri the city forl in to be responsible for thier own food supply thru permaculture and harmony with themselves and thier goals in living .

what is REAL happiness? is it the next pruchase of production goods or interacting with family freinds and the world

The IMF and US AID have been throwing billions of dollars annually toward the assembly line industrial agriculture model in Ethopia and elsewhere to no avail. People are still starving.
It is time to support local nature based organic agricultural models region by region. Population is not the issue, Land access and sustainable water harvesting systems, community skill based ecological literacy programs plus community based disaster preparedness planning that move us toward solutions that are regionally and culturally based have proven to be more successful.

Thanks for such an informative video!

@Paul Jackson...if Agra is backed by Monsanto, it is a negative outcome for the natural environment because of lab made seeds (who ever thought any one sane would want to eat something made in a lab!?!)

Lab made seeds, as the Biodiversity expert was saying is unreliable, as if there's an off season, that whole field of crops will not be able to be harvested.

Check out THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO an eye opening documentary series on YOUTUBE.

It's phenomenal to learn from.

This was a beautiful movie, and I am so happy to see that somewhere in Africa indigenous people are thriving off of their solid, and honorable relationship with the land!

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