Stone Age to Now. A walk tracing the erosion of our sense of place in nature & access to the land скачать в хорошем качестве

Stone Age to Now. A walk tracing the erosion of our sense of place in nature & access to the land

0:00 Neolithic to Bronze Age - Wild and Free! 1:58 Iron Age - Celtic farming village and things have changed 5:26 The middle ages - Now the landscape is all owned by someone 9:48 The Modern World - Have we ever been so disconnected? This video formed the second half of a previous one. It takes the form of a circular walk that rather fortuitously lends itself to a story! Starting high on the Wessex Ridgeway, a 5000 year or more old track that was in use in the late Neolithic and Bronze age periods. Here the scene is set of a land without "ownership". A wild land where those experiencing it lived their lives very differently to us. Very conscious of their part in nature and the vulnerabilities of being alive. As the track is followed it leads to an Iron Age farming settlement, complete with a surviving dew pond. Here the scene is different. Much of the land has been deforested and converted to agricultural use. People "own it". There are many benefits to the change ofc. But our relationship with the planet we walk on has changed. The individual's 'birthright' to walk free as an animal on a planet has gone. As you follow the hill on down past the settlement you enter an ancient pasture woodland and the middle ages. By this period someone claimed ownership to pretty much every acre. Benefits continued to accrue for those living at the time but again, what was given up that bit more? Our ancient woodlands are in a terrible state, it's a shame that now with us having so much knowledge and so much available to us, these old woods are in a state of such dereliction. This would have been a thriving landscape at the time and the managed wood would (lol) have been maintained in a state of sustainable and productive health. Pollarding, coppicing, maintaining long cycle standards density and encouraging the selected 'waivers' to eventually replace them, running animals through to fertilise and root out invasive species. The short term cycle encouraging the maximum possible variety of flora and fauna in. What's not to like? Finally as you fall into the valley below the wood you hit a modern road. From there the talk moves on toward the present day. Reference to the hounding of ethnic travellers, the new age travellers, the right to roam movement and how it opposes the likes of Darwall on Dartmoor. Long live Crockern! With everything being owned our access to our world, connection with it and ultimately our sense of who we are, has changed. To the point where arguably we have become a threat to ourselves and even worse, all life existing on this wonderful planet. We experience such seemingly great benefits from it, the practicalities of life are certainly much less work for most. We can send captured moments to each other across spacetime in video form! But somehow, there's this knowing. This yearning in us. This bit missing. Many of us can sense it can't we. Disconnection from the whole is disconnection from ourselves. To this expression of consciousness this is a conversation we might well be wise to have a bit more of....we stand at a time where the transumanist dream is at the dawn of becoming reality. Does humanity survive that? what would it mean for this planet? strip mine it in order to build a big enough spaceship for your physical form to be carried to a new star whilst you play Tetris in your head for a few millennia? If you're able to and feel like it you can support the channel, Alf and I here: www.buymeacoffee.com/Hometrek #vlog #nomad #nature