Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

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Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh is FREE to watch. Please consider supporting our work by making a donation to the filmmakers, Local Futures here: www.localfutures.org/get-invo.... Or you can rent or buy our film via Vimeo on Demand here: vimeo.com/ondemand/138431 or order the DVD via our online shop here: www.localfutures.org/store/An....
* 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
Find out more about the book 'Ancient Futures' by Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of Local Futures: www.localfutures.org/publicat...
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Пікірлер: 51

@garry8390 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Jamesyoga753 2 ай бұрын

I love my motherland 💙

@ferozshukchik 3 ай бұрын

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

@saaraafaard Жыл бұрын

@ 55:55 The distinction between cleverness and wisdom is so beautifully expressed.

@ChrisOgunlowo 4 ай бұрын

Well-articulated.

@ChrisOgunlowo 4 ай бұрын

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.

@library5178 4 ай бұрын

Thank u.....

@arianrahman4840 2 жыл бұрын

"...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)

@ajeyklg 5 ай бұрын

❤ very thought ful, technically and aesthetically satisfying . Ideologically in spiring

@tsewang_chuskit9040 7 ай бұрын

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

@ingeleonora-denouden6222 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this wisdom!

@aaliya6650 Ай бұрын

So beautiful ❤️

@IUWEUS 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and very informative video... Thank you so much 🙏😇🌹

@KamathAmoolya 2 ай бұрын

❤

@4HeimatLiebe Жыл бұрын

Money is NOT everything. True Richness lies in Nature and Independent Life and 🙏 Sustainment. 💖

@vidark.6301 3 ай бұрын

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.

@JoseMejia-ke1ez 2 жыл бұрын

Que absurdo , la ausencia de subtitulos para tan excelente video !!!!!!

@katnip198 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful people. Happy People. Is progress a good thing????? You are rich is you process wisdom.

@SLefd 2 жыл бұрын

pleaase put English subtitles?

@sss-cl8ws 3 ай бұрын

Today ajang sonam wangchuk's wisdom is saving ladakh 🌱

@erfahrungderwelt 8 ай бұрын

A wonderful video. I would offer to create German subtitles for this video if you're interested (for free of course).

@wangial Жыл бұрын

Hardly anything is left in Leh now which is Ladakhi. Such a sad story unfolding in front of you.

@Naturevsnurture86 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@nosiruridwan9074 2 ай бұрын

Can someone summarize this video 🙏🏻

@MohdIbrahim-ri9he 3 ай бұрын

We have lost the glorious past

@arsalan3869 2 жыл бұрын

you have more clips???

@suheda2124 Жыл бұрын

Türkçe altyazı gelebilir mi artık aaaaaa

@liamtaylor4955 2 жыл бұрын

Fossil fuels and their fraudulent increases to carrying capacity. Sad.

@Tonywozere99 Жыл бұрын

Ever a history of aristocratic feudalism here?

@library5178 4 ай бұрын

Yess......

@kirianajackson7845 3 жыл бұрын

With the intrusion of an outside language and methodology causes a cultural loss of a nation.

@vipanpuri5073 Жыл бұрын

Leave the leh valley alone

@Naturevsnurture86 2 жыл бұрын

West is not best

@sthembisongcamu9201 2 жыл бұрын

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

@lelz0394 2 жыл бұрын

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 21 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.