Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
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* Length 60 minutes
* Produced by John Page, 1993. Associate producers: Chris Breemen, Helena Norberg & Hodge & Eric Walton
* Narrated by John Page
* Based on the book Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helena Norberg-Hodge. Read more here: www.localfutures.org/publicat...
Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land high in the Western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than a thousand years, it has been home to a thriving culture. Traditions of frugality and cooperation, with an intimitate and location-specific knowledge of the environment, enabled the Ladakhis not only to survive but to prosper. Then came 'development'. Now in Leh, the capital, one finds pollution and divisiveness, inflation and unemployment, intolerance and greed. Centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat of modernization.
Ancient Futures is much more than a film about Ladakh. The breakdown of Ladakh's culture and environment forces us to re-examine what we really mean by 'progress' - not only in the 'developing' parts of the world, but in the industrialized world as well. The story of Ladakh teaches us about the root causes of environmental, social and psychological problems, and provides valuable guidelines for our own future. Watch the trailer here: • Ancient Futures: Learn... .
ENDORSEMENTS:
"An extraordinary film.......compelling viewing."
- Times Educational Supplement
"A truly unique and eye-opening film"
- Edward Goldsmith, founder of The Ecologist
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This video should be seen by all in the West.
@trevorrostek5995
3 жыл бұрын
I show it every year to my grade 12 anthro/psych/soc class and we spend much time discussing it. Love this film.
@Maya-gq3hm
3 жыл бұрын
@@trevorrostek5995 Awesome!
@Naturevsnurture86
2 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@ajeyklg
5 ай бұрын
Even eye opening for us Easterns
@ 55:55 The distinction between cleverness and wisdom is so beautifully expressed.
@ChrisOgunlowo
4 ай бұрын
Well-articulated.
"...creating specialized workers who are ignorant of the rest of the knowledge base" makes so much sense now on why my work environment and the people are so toxic (Computer Science)
Stepping back into the past through this documentary felt like a heartfelt journey. A gentle reminder of the timeless beauty and changes in our beloved Ladakh.
@user-iy9rq3ku1i
2 ай бұрын
Ok l
I love my motherland 💙
Beautiful and very informative video... Thank you so much 🙏😇🌹
Thank you for this wisdom!
A fascinating documentary. I came here from a mention by Dr Iain MigilChrist in an interview in which he mentioned Helena Norberg-Hodge. I'm glad I followed by curiosity.
Thank u.....
❤ very thought ful, technically and aesthetically satisfying . Ideologically in spiring
Ladakh isn't the same now 😢. Modernization has been changing ladakh n it's nature day by day. Government of india is not providing the 6th schedule title to ladakh which ladakh has been demanding from decades to protect its nature. As from the abolition of article 370 of Jammu and Kashmir, people from different places can buy land in ladakh which can cause more destruction
So beautiful ❤️
Money is NOT everything. True Richness lies in Nature and Independent Life and 🙏 Sustainment. 💖
Que absurdo , la ausencia de subtitulos para tan excelente video !!!!!!
Beautiful people. Happy People. Is progress a good thing????? You are rich is you process wisdom.
A wonderful video. I would offer to create German subtitles for this video if you're interested (for free of course).
❤
If you read this comment - please share this film on your social media. We are in this together, and the more that see this, the easier it will be to change as society. Also you should see the classic BBC-documentary "Century of the Self", which explains how we have all been manipulated to accept the western ideals. A must-watch for any truth-seeker.
Today ajang sonam wangchuk's wisdom is saving ladakh 🌱
pleaase put English subtitles?
Hardly anything is left in Leh now which is Ladakhi. Such a sad story unfolding in front of you.
We have lost the glorious past
you have more clips???
Can someone summarize this video 🙏🏻
Türkçe altyazı gelebilir mi artık aaaaaa
Sad what is going on. Wish we left tech out and lived as we should have. Modernization has caused so many problems. Violence and crime stems from all this.
@littlemoth4956
Жыл бұрын
Violence and crime stems from technology? You sure about that bud?
Fossil fuels and their fraudulent increases to carrying capacity. Sad.
Ever a history of aristocratic feudalism here?
@library5178
4 ай бұрын
Yess......
With the intrusion of an outside language and methodology causes a cultural loss of a nation.
Leave the leh valley alone
West is not best
We are a failed species
@michaelnevsky7622
Жыл бұрын
whatcha gonna do about it
@SLefd
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelnevsky7622 Seeing it is accepting it. Nothing to do.
@michaelnevsky7622
Жыл бұрын
@@SLefd L
The comments are so annoying. Nobody's forcing them to demand hospitals so their kids don't have a short life expectancy. You're all sitting in your miserable cozy homes saying this
@SLefd
24 күн бұрын
Wherever people don't have access to modern medicine and aren't even aware of the existence of it, they cope with it all OK. An uncomfortable, harsh life, individually often short - and of course we personally wouldn't want to live like that now. We haven't learned how to. But you see with your own eyes that those people were doing good, were happy and relaxed. And nature doesn't care about our wishes and whims. When it's time for humans to be thrown back to harsher conditions like Ladakh again, that's what will happen. People in Ladakh understood that challenging nature more than absolutely necessary, was dangerous. Until they too finally got lured away from that wisdom, as we can see in this superb little movie.