FIRST EARTH (2/12) - Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

[AnnNoire]

That dawadawa cement sounds interesting.



[RafaKBLudo]

Hey, I like this second part. I'll check the rest now.

[epicnchrist]

I need to edit the first part of the movie to "1500's - 1800's: The African ancestor's of Black American's are traded for cheap trinket's as if they were nothing by their own people." I am not racist but I can't stand the all the guilt pouring one way. They sold themselves. They sold their own daughter's into prostitution, their own mother's and son's. I can't stand someone trying to get pity through guilt.

[MrSchpankme]

Thank you.

[levar1979]

Oh please Mr. Narrator! It's your kind that's continually perpetuating stereotypes, by opposing the life-saving chemical DDT, that could eradicate Malaria from Sub-Saharan Africa! It's your kind that are protesting Ethiopia's dam projects that are going to provide millions of it's people with electricity in the coming years. Give me a break. People are beginning to see you for who you really are.

[levar1979]

Environmentalists believe that humans are a cancer on earth, a scourge, creatures that have no natural predators (except each other and diseases). Therefore, we have, to quote an Eco-Imperialist, David M. Graber, "quit the contract and become a cancer" to the earth, through urbanization and unimpeded consumption of energy. So, basically we don't deserve to live on the earth. This is one reason Ecos believe in population control. But something tells me it goes much deeper than that.

[levar1979]

It's becoming clearer everyday that environmentalists want you to believe that Africans are happy living without electicity and living in a "traditional" or "indigenous" (poor) way of life reminiscent of the middle ages. If they are no different from "us" as the narrator suggests, then they would appreciate modernity as much as we do. Eco-wackos are just trying to convince everyone that energy consumption and urbanization are evil, so they can keep Third World countries poor.

[ewerbo]

so cool

love ianto

[hablerz]

This is amazing , if only the Romans and the Greeks had learned of this superior building material.

[loubayou]

You and Yourn want us to go back to this sort of life. WE have grown as a NATION. I personally do not ever want to go back to this sort of life. WE HAVE DONE IT. WERE PAST THIS. I do not want to say they need it. They just haven't found the technology. PERIOD. When they do, do you think they will stay in these same HUTS? Just a question? I think that they want what every AMERICAN wants and have. A good home, family, work, education, and a shot of life. Not the elitist lifestyle. REAL LIFE.

[loubayou]

Until WE contradiction? WTF? Are you kidding? DON'T do it if you Don't want a better LIFE. FORCE them to go to work to do things they don't want to do? Once again, WTF? It is a generalization as spoken to in this BS documentary. You realize that our own ancestors not very long ago, were behaving the same sorts of way? Contradiction? When were Americans FORCED into doing things they didn't want to do? FORCE US to go to work to do things they don't want to do? Independence: March 6, 1957!

[loubayou]

First off, the African ancestors of Black Americans were not Kidnapped and forced onto slave ships. They were SOLD, by other blacks. Get some education on the subject. GEESH.

[Minus42Zero]

Media a collar and your personal items are the chain that hold you down yet all people can think of mainly Americans need so much clothes and items to feel better about ourselves so we can say look what I have HAHAHA its all mine. If we had less and worked together this world would be such a better place. We don't need 40 shirts and 30 shorts and 20 pairs of shoes. We desire too much and it owns us and controls us but we are to blind to see its a form of control. OPEN YOUR MIND AND YOUR HEART!!!

[loubayou]

@Minus42Zero What right do you have to tell me or anyone else what we should, or should not own? I think that you forgot or never learned about the CONSTITUTION of the United States of America. That is why we are and forever will be the greatest nation on GOD'S green EARTH. You go live in the woods, eat bugs, have one shirt, one pair of shorts, and no shoes. You will cry out to the government to HELP ME. I CAN'T do it on my own. Get a life without taking me or any other down your CRAZY hole!!!!

[Minus42Zero]

@loubayou I'm not telling you to go live in the woods, I said open your mind. And no i will not beg the government for help like so many do, we can survive without them, I want to be debt free so no help is fine by me. Yes I did pay attention in class and if you did too you would know that our life style is just a control device. I wrote what was on my mind. And for preaching freedom you sure are telling me to shut the my mouth and my ideas. Free speech is open for use or did you forget that?

[Minus42Zero]

We as Americans we need to use less and be smarter and maybe work a little harder to get what we want. I think hand washing clothes is one thing we need to go back to, and start using renewable resources. There is many ways to live a happier life with less stuff. Everybody does not need their own car and 1000's of clothes, make due with less and your life will be a whole lot less stressful.

[amisja]

Wow amazing! There's thatched roofs in UK that last a very long time. The water that stays in the straw protects from fire and acts as an insulator. They also look so much prettier.

[hablerz]

@amisja Thatched roofs cost like 20 grand and they need replacing every 5 years or so.

They were good in the 14th century perhaps but i prefer tiles.

[annabelle7123]

ppl are trying to develop 'ecological cement' as an alternative... but think nothing is better than natural mud and wood... what was used in the past in asia and africa for thousands of yrs

[EvolFighter]

hard to sell mud and wood to people that live in and around mud and wood.

[Mikdeelo]

Oh, to not have to ever use cement, gypsum board or dimentional lumber again!

I'll no doubt be stoned for this, though, I would roof with 'modified rubber', as it WILL outlast 10 lifetimes. If one built a roof like a swimming pool, filled it with water and floated a ship in it, it will not leak.

[eicebleu]

That thatch roof being 15 years old surprises me... Standard asphalt roofs here in the states last about half that long. Can't beat a metal roof though.

[blastergas]

Oh good, There was so much griping and human bashing in the first part I almost didn't watch the second. I'm glad I gave part 2 a chance though. (I hate it when people Bitch without offering an alternative course of action.) With a little modification, mud construction could work even in parts of America. Thanks, I'll be sure to watch the rest.

[Pangolinx1]

@blastergas Here in the Western U.S. we have adobe, cob and rammed earth construction which are all earth building methods. The adobe missions of the Spanish in California are older than the United States and most are still standing after several earthquakes.

Earth houses can be clean, quiet and more comfortable than many stick built houses because they are less drafty in winter and cooler in summer.

[notsure2013]

Americans are unhappy chesseburger eaters.

[loubayou]

@notsure2013 What country do you LIVE in? Maybe if you had it as well as we have it in AMERICA you would not be an ass. Oh well, If you do not have a CONSTITUTION like ours. The freedom then you will never know how LIFE will or should be lived. It's not about CHEESE Burgers either. IT'S CHEESE, not (CHESSEBURGER). That could be a problem with your types. NO EDUCATION. Wow, America have brought SO much to the world and you say chesseburger eaters. What a loser you must be to your family.

[anwiyayoukhanna]

@notsure2013 speak for yourself i'm incredibly happy and so are the people i interact with... what world do you live in

[epicnchrist]

@notsure2013 Animals taste good.

[theproducegarden]

good video!

[odin422]

SHARED!!!!!!

[fionaazreal]

Great!