Finding a secluded spot in a wood near a fish filled lake is fine if you're the only family doing so. This isn't an option for everyone on a large scale because space is limited and fresh water lakes aren't on every corner. If everyone started living this way competition for land and food sources would lead to conflict, which would lead to tribalism, power struggles and authoritarion leaderships. We must use the systems that we have in place now, to work together on a global scale by reducing such environmentally damaging consumption.

This is great - but please remember that the profit motive of private compnies causes (I dont know the exact figure) most emissions. It is down to governement control and legistlation to prevent these profiteers wrecking our planet. Let's remove blame from the individual and shift it to large companies. A good example of how to legislate against these companies would be, in the UK, to nationalise the energy companies such that they can be properly and democratically controlled and the profit motive is removed.

Lol so someone travels 68 km just to deliver their supermarket food?? Lol

Thinking that this is the only great way to be sustainable is ignorant. These people don't have renewable energy nor rain collectors to make their life easier. There are also many more other technologies to live in the modern world and still help the environment. These people are just living how they want. You don't necessarily have to follow their exact situation, but take in mind their sincerity.

Awesome... just a shame everybody's living in mega-cities so this is completely irrelevant, eh? ...showing people a fantasy lifestyle

they are living off, i guess, a few hundred hectares of land with an enormous lake with fishing and hunting opportunities and there is no one sharing it - this is just not viable or even possible for most people...they have a car and buy foods, etc that they cant source from nature so without jobs, i suppose they are living off social benefits. This story is not about sustainability!!

Brave people and I wish them well. But this is no solution to anything. If millions of people followed their example the fragile environments in these wilderness areas would be degraded. The spin on this story is just about the silliest I have heard as a way to save the Earth by wrecking its remaining wild and semi-wild places. One family, even a few families can remind us of the beauty of pristine nature. And fortunately, there are few such brave souls. Fortunate too that the world's population will level off at about 11 billion and become about 80% urban. Because urbanization is the way to spare the environment, that and lots of cheap energy.

Really simple and practical living philosophy, we need to respect our nature to save it for the next generations..

But how can they treat their waste? They will eliminate it to the lake then, won't they?

Consume less is solution to natural sustainable in industries and city lifestyles. First Please BBC apply those instructions to your company because your company has abilities to give a example to the world.

As much as i love the life style, its not possible for everyone to live like that. Elk would go extinct within a couple years.

This is how life should be...to reconnect with nature...

Companies just want to make money whatever the cost .look at plastic.they knew it wasent good for the environment.

Yes sir! I agree with u. Most people think money can make them happy yes temporarily because u think it that way, but eventually earth is round, like a wheel it rotates. When it go down will u still be happy without it

Short answer is yes but it'll never happen.People are way too selfish as a whole to think us instead of we.

I do wholeheartedly agree that slowing down is in general a good tip for most people living in highly populated urban centers, and that it'd be great if people would spread over more and whatnot.... But I imagine even he and his family can see the paradox of what he's talking about. It is similar to what we often see in communes and other alternate lifestyles of people and groups in modern societies. See, you cannot get that car, the refuse of produce, and several other stuff shown in the video like the boat, the clothing, the kitchen utensils, the thermometer, the fencing and whole ton of other stuff without the logic of mass production, and of modern society in general. Not as cheaply and not as conveniently. And of course, people living in those conditions will always run to cities with proper hospitals when the worst happens. Even if your lifestyle is mostly composed of the refuse of modern society, like getting the produce markets are throwing away, or building your home from industrial trash, and stuff like that - it is still fundamentally dependant on the very type of living that you are trying to escape from. A modern industrial logic that depends on high ammounts of people to be functional, and a high degree of technology, research and processes around optimization, mass production, industrial processes and infrastructure. So yeah, a sustainable lifestyle is possible for few people who are willing to go for it. But it doesn't scale, because it is only possible as long as the modern industrial logic is there to back it up. Families like these, communes, and again, all these people going for alternative lifestyles with sustainability in mind gotta acknowledge that to some degree, they are not going against the trend - they are just a subset of it. The way they are currently living is only possible because most people are not willing to go for it. This isn't a revelation, and it isn't sustainable by itself. Sure, more people can go without crap like social networks, smartphone addiction, constant internet connection, the overflow of information that is often quite shitty, among several other modern trappings. But it is simply impossible for the majority of people to adopt a lifestyle like that. Just imagine a ton of families trying to live off of the fishes on that same lake, as an example. Imagine tons and tons of families around them going for the same thing. While it's just a few, sure, it might work. But say you have a dozen families trying to go for the same lake for fishing, the same market for produce that others won't buy, the same area for planting stuff... etc etc. It all breakes down. It doesn't scale. The only reason why we can get to the current level of feeding enough people is due to industrial efficiency logic. Our race would basically be finished if the 7.6 billion people living in it tried going back to basically living off the land like that. People may see modern agriculture, farms, and whatnot as evil, but it's thanks to the modernization of those that we have enough to feed this huge ammount of people in the planet. And yes, I know tons of people are starving in several regions of the world to this day, but it's not because of lack of food, it's because of lack of infrastructure.

This isn't the solution. The solution is to change industry, energy, and consumerism to be more clean. Companies and governments can build and do things in a clean way with way less emission but they are not spending money on this technology because they don't like to spend money. Its selfish and shortsighted, and there's no reason the average person should have the burden of trying to affect climate change by living more sustainably. Instead, the average person should be fighting government and corporations to do something. We can live the same lifestyle as we do today, if we all force those with power to do something.

No toilet, no toilet paper and no running water for shower? I bet they stink

So simple and different lifestyle according to thier satisfaction 👌👌

Will showing a solution that many people will say won’t make them happy a good solution? It depends...

Awesome to see a family try this. It's a good start, the Earth can support 11 billion people. In fact livestock uses most of our water. First we grow wheat to feed the cows and then also water the cows on top of it. So switch to electric cars and planes then eat mostly veggies and we are good to go. Maybe we could grow meat in a lab or something. We need cities like the garden city concept so that people don't get separated from nature.

5 to 8 ice ages the earth had already. All living things must adapt to survive.

Excellent

I believe he's the one pushing his family into this deprave lifestyle,(istening to the wife points of view) yet I do agreed that having too much isn't ok. but all he saying I do it in town and am very close to the nature and will not pressured others to live my lifestyle.

It's good to live in harmony with nature, but his wife's voice is so worrisome and troubled!

I think these people have it figured out, but with 8 billion people on earth there is not enough nature to retreat to for everyone. I would love to see aan item like this with a family in a big city, who have reduced their footprint significantly.

Yeah, nice. While the factories keep making tools you can use, producing food so your friend can use his car and drive you the food they throw away, medicines so you can take your children to the hospital in a city should they get sick (not to speak of an educational system for them)... It's nice to enjoy the benefits of civilization (from "civitas", city) while feeling you are not contributing to that mess. But you still depend on it. Less, but you still do. This is not the solution, but it has many lessons we can learn.

Wow Nice.💕

Thats a no from me. You do you tho

Love it ❤ I wish I have the same life.

Of course it is that's like saying is exercising the key to loosing weight

this will only work for small groups of people, not the giant populations of modern nations and cities. Efficient technology is there solution not this. plus many people can not life like that, plus this guy still relies on modern society for stuff as well.

A.Every one to there own .

bbc don't throw waste here or build your office

Let's start with the directors of the BBC

what a life

No

Yes it does!!!

Solve problem by not doing it? Really? So the best way to solve all people-made problems is not to live... :D

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after having a few kids ... after aggravating the problem ... giving advice on healthy life . ... .. And this you call sustainable

THE WORLD IS BUILDING 1600 YES 1600 NEW COAL FIRED POWER STATIONS IN THE WORLD AS WE SPEAK AND MANY ARE IN CHINA AS PER THE JANUARY 2019 REPORT FROM THE RESEARCH ORGANISATION "URGEWALD" IN GERMANY !!!!!!! THE WORLD NEEDS BASE POWER NOT WINDMILLS AND SOLAR PANELS - RESEARCH HAS NOW ESTABLISHED THAT THE SO CALLED "GLOBAL WARMING" AND " CLIMATE CHANGE" ARE THE BIGGEST HOAX IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY AND SOME PEOPLE STILL BELIEF THE GARBAGE THE ILLUMINATI LIKE GEORGE SOROS AND OTHER INVENTED - HA-HA AND HA AGAIN!

OH YES PLEASE .

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How can small countries make any difference when you have huge countries not giving a fk. Get onto the likes of russia , china, brazil etc then maybe the little guys will make a difference. Until that happens there will be no change

Millions of people in India are living like this, nothing new u r doing, western countries are more responsible for climate change, u people consume more electricity,, gas petrol ⛽, all other resources as compare to average Indian families in India,

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