 Hi, I'm Iranian and this is a series of videos. I'm calling permaculture essentials. I'm going to start with Why do we need permaculture? Hopefully that's already obvious to you and perhaps it's why you're here Modern support systems supply lines that deliver our food and energy and water and so on have become increasingly complex and Primarily a driven by fossil fuels and so this has made us actually increasingly vulnerable permaculture emerged in the 1970s in response to the oil crisis at the time and The effect it was happening at having on everything that we do and that we need and because our lives are driven Primarily by meeting our needs We don't always think about the consequences of our actions in the long term We're not very good at that and the way our society is evolved. We've become increasingly dependent on Things coming from the outside very few of us have stocks of electricity for instance in a house or water Most of us perhaps a water butt in the garden, but that's about it Supermarkets these days operate on a just-in-time system, which means as things go through the checkout They're automatically ordered from the warehouse to be replaced in the store So supermarkets don't have much storage space anymore at least not in the store and that means that when things go wrong things can run out and Most of us don't have food in our gardens anymore So this has made us all very vulnerable and we're starting to see the consequences of that with rising prices Inflation energy costs going up food costs going up and this is why we need something to help us at this time To create more resilience in our lives and make us less vulnerable And this is where permaculture comes in with the increasing problems in our world We need something to support us to help us get out of this situation We need something that will help us to design a better world So what exactly is permaculture? Well, that's coming next