my name is julien breton is like
my name does not say i was born i
volcano inhabitants and there I you
introduces the first mexes and is
here it is open air 1 these are two
Ant species endemic to new
Caledonia I was lucky enough to be able to
study ants for many
years and something that has me
fascinated in ants
like many of you I imagine
it’s self-organization among
ants there is no leader
and yet everything where they
are with information she
has in their environment
immediate
they act well and suddenly the
collective advance well also after
a few years I got a PhD
in community ecology on the
about invasive ants
these ants there in the areas where they
have been introduced see their
population explode and they have a
very important impact on the
biodiversity
there I present you the crazy ant
young native of india the terrible
electric ants a monster of a
millimeter and a half but for you it
is a very violent sting that makes
that in areas where she is all the
world not in new caledonia the
invasive ants that are
considered one of the threats
more important to our
biodiversity convinced of
protect this biodiversity
my first instinct was to
combat
have I been involved in extensive
eradication programs or with
helicopters one hangs them from
poisoned baits on forests
however looking good but giving some
years of observation dozens of
thousands of points collected through
all the countries
I realized that these ants do not
are present they are truly
invasive only in areas
disturbed or degraded by man and
that we know how to do in the zones we
throw waste environments that
destroyed to go take the
resources of the environments that are burned
with the fires that this photo I
lis taken yesterday in my commune in païta
or in one day
1600 hectares of vegetation have
faded away
and the craziest thing is that it’s in the
environments where we produce our own
food that laws biodiversity
a single plant species almost
at the most animals I started to
ask the question is what really
ants merit that fight is that
we radiate when the ants
invasive we were really going to do
something positive for the
biodiversity of our island when
I was small I imagine and the future
like that with a lot of technologies
and that all this technology year
we reduce ourselves to help us
in our development
however when we look at the
resource consumption is
realizes that we are soon a peak
resources have failed at the level
energy and also the others
resources and in new caledonia we
know that we will have to make a choice
between exploiting these resources
or protecting our environment
many signs show that
now our civilization and at its
close a collapse
it’s been seen in the past and that
may still check and what
risk of happening it’s not going to star trek
it’s more likely to be mad max and he
in this case there it will be the
stronger who are going to fight for
have the resources and I ‘ll do it
surely not part so I wanted
of change
move on something else
more resilient to nature at
departure after having fought against
ants
I fought against those responsible
finally what I considered
responsible
the big multinationals the media
some politicians and at
course of meetings where I met
other activists I was to me
even I realized a lot of these
struggling people and he wanted this
those responsible who impose on them
rules to change them in their
life and some have been waiting since
thirty years that ramos leaders
rules I do not really like waiting
so I started acting for myself
even
and decided to resume the
responsibility to answer my questions
needs and my needs
what are they the same as the
most animals the first is
to have water and food
the second a habitat that suits us
and 3rd of strong social relations
we are social animals without its
social relations have withered
so with the family we decided to buy
a piece of land in the forest and
go back to a little more life
autonomous
only I do not come from the middle
agricultural ok I studied
of ecology so I thought it
was going to be enough
and when we ended up in this
forest our first reflex it was
to cut off all the trees stir the
Earth
we put seeds we watered
first year we had some great
result
the second a little less and the third
nothing at all we had managed to
flinguer the floors are in state in
full forest and the grace of the internet
thanks to all the exchanges
that those who test in the world
exchanger on youtube including with
movies and well we discovered the
permaculture
the concept of permaculture is the
leitmotif of permaculture
he is to take inspiration from nature then
we said in our fields
another agricultural world why also
do not take inspiration from nature this
that indeed it would be necessary when one
look she does not need humans for
to work it does not need to be
pink she does not need fertilizer she
do not need to take care of these
seeds and everything works and even in
city just look at land
who are abandoned fallow
in a few months the vegetation is going
come back on your own so why
do not pick up those things
when we make a field and is above
all these images before after that have me
motivated in a few months we can arrive
to something very productive at
small scale or much larger
scale also in nature
at the base are the plants that
will create the first bricks of
life through photosynthesis
they will capture the light energy
knows the back and began to create
the first bricks of life that go
then feed the whole system
that’s what we did in our
gardens all so-called
usually green waste up
if we put them on the ground, it’s mostly
allow to cover the ground and cover
the soil is very very important
a bare one is like a house that
does not have a leer roof by far this has
looks very good but can not be there
live
the sun ray greer is all in
and then if it’s rain all will be
to drown we cover the soils is
extremely important in addition to the fact
to cover will bring back a lot of
mushrooms and other insects that
are going to do their job of
decomposition and create humus
as in the forests a layer
humus on the soil surface
the humus we see everywhere in the
forests we never see it in our
fields here’s the field that’s the
ours could see that there is no
earth that is bare everything is covered
a great diversity of plants too
there I present you all my
colleagues from the smallest to the
bigger and in a lot of things
even in organic fields we are going
consider animals in two big
categories on one side we will see the
auxiliaries who will help us
we want to have and on the other side
the pests the pests what one does not
never want to see there but if we look
well in the forests these pests these
harmful
in fact it’s the decomposers it’s
what they will help with the selection
natural what will remove all the
plants that are weak and that are going
make sure that the big cycle the
nature works alone if we
remove the system no longer works
and as our goal is to create
of food the most way
natural that is we all use
these animals especially the pests
as auxiliaries to the selection
natural
now it’s them our biggest
helps to select plants and
more adapted to our environment
another thing that I learned during
all these years is that before when
I put a plant in the ground I
thought they were going to be able to
go out alone he was going to find
resources to where he
was and he was going to be able to get
get by but what science
modern and agro agroecology
also shows us that the organism
it is not the plant that is planted in
the nature the organism is the forest in
whole and each plant
it’s just an organ of it all
each will come to serve something
we if we take away the heart
the heart if he is not nourished not
also no vitamins alone
can not live and that’s exactly what
happening in our system
agricultural when we put an isolated tree on
is destined to become the rose and one is
forced to put fertilizer on we are
obliged to take care of him because
does he is disconnected from others in
the great forests of europe
it has been shown that at the time of
autumn when the fires they will lose
all their sheets
they are weakened and that moment there and
these are the conifers via the roots
and the networks of mushrooms that will
feed them
to help them pass this period
difficult and in the spring when the
girls come back to life when they remake
all their leaves
they will go make conifers any
the food that was given to the
start and that’s very very
important
here are the mushrooms just the but
the mycelium that makes all the
connections between all these plants and
mycelium is in the layer
of humus hence the importance of having this
humus layer everything going on surface
often think that it goes from under
but in fact there is a large amount of
things happening on the surface
this is singing with my colleague
since a few months we put wood
cool on the ground for precisely favors
favor all and mycelium elec
interconnection between all
plants to laugh we say we bump
with telecom hideouts installs a
optical fiber between all our plants
who will do that by themselves they
will be able to exchange the
water food and especially of
information and yes plants 5
exchange exchange information
between them, especially if there are any
attacked by art
we will say the pest for you
understand well then he goes
transmit the information to all
others and others will be able to get
prepare all that was also a
opportunity to discover a lot of
vegetables that I did not know
as a European but who are
present throughout the Pacific since
thousands of years and all these plants
the expected precisely selected
by our friends the pests so they
are very suitable for our place
because a big problem in
caledonia it’s our belly it will remain
in Europe
often it is, we eat
European vegetables and we are not
switched to all these plants there and
yet these plants they have a lot
more here I present you the show
kanak a form of edible hibiscus
and this show kanak the oms says it’s the
first vegetable that should be given to
young babies yeah but it’s not nothing
anyway I think we can
trust
like a few years have started to
produce a little bit more than this
that we consume we are said good
well we will go to the markets for
present a little bit all these
vegetables or consumers to have a
exchange and then start living a
little of all that the first time
went to the market with all our
vegetables we left with everything
because people they did not know
too much he does not want to eat that
so what we said to ourselves was
will transform we started doing
Flours with different tarot
with yams with amber fashion and
in the markets we have what we present
apart from salt and oil everything comes from
our field even the packing as you
can see it is in leaves of
banana trees and that’s great with that
is that we multiplied by 4 or even 8
the value of these vegetables ie
we were starting to have a system
economic that works is very
important another economic system
it’s the lost farm permaculture she
hellouin bill in France maybe
some of you already have some
heard about
the inra has just shown that out of 1000
square meters with this guy
agriculture
a market gardener can have an income that
is equivalent or even superior to this
that we can have with our system
agricultural
another example of abundance and at
brazil in a place where there are the
exactly the same conditions
environmental when caledonia at
ground level at the climate level m
scotch to develop there 25 years ago a
system called Saint Tropez
it’s agroecology where he called
the saint tropez and in this system there
can produce up to 60 tons per
hectare and per year without any input
of elements from the outside this is at
to say that the whole system is going to
create food for all the
system works and that’s very
very important in New Caledonia
administrative services are done
a study of ten she was
shown here for dream that how to say
have stable production at the level
agricultural
it was necessary to double the dose
fertilizer is a sign that our soils
are really in the end and that if we
do not act quickly we will have big
big problem
we’ll do all the politics
to go to autonomy
food if we need a fertilizer
who comes from outside it is only used to
nothing really needs to be developed
systems that happens to work in
internally and that’s a very
important and I assure you that once
that we have incorporated these few principles
everyone can start tomorrow
at natural production
once the full belly one can
think about housing
again we took our
responsibilities and we have been ahead of
little bit all the rules to
the time and decided to make our
house ourselves with materials
environmentally friendly recyclable for the most part
wood of the earth and stone
this house she completely
autonomous bioclimatic electricity
she does not need air conditioners and for
turn it on entirely we use only
200 watts only that was what we
had in one piece when
I was very small we also recover
the other rain a system of
phytopurification and dry toilets
like that we integrate all our
system in the cycle also like one
lives in a relatively isolated place
thanks to social networks one can
organize workshops very quickly
to which we invite people we do not
not know that we see the sweat on
social networks people respond
come and that allows us both
to experiment with exchanges and for
people who often come that their
allows to not put in the
change because we often do not dare
do not do that at home though
someone we want to test them when
even so it’s a super system
it allows us to keep links
because
I do not have any more work where I leave the
Monday to Friday and as I have you
says if I stay alone in my body
autonomous I do not see the interest so this
kind of very very important workshop
permaculture
we can say that it is common sense we have
put this christmas this word permaculture but
otherwise it’s common sense a common sense
is in connection with the major balances
of nature not with the rules
administrative it can be
also permaculture like a flower
whose first petal is that of the belly
it is agroecology that we come from
see but this change as I say
the go the leitmotif of permaculture
it’s inspired by nature it can
apply to various things in our
life as the habitat we saw it also the
internet tools and technologies has been
very very important to us for
retrieve information useful for
able to advance
but technology can be as
this and this leaf is a mulberry
wild that grow everywhere one can
replace all the badges by this
sheet tomorrow is the technology
also culture and education in living
all this now we are actors
of the culture
and as we have some time I was able to
put a little more to the music at 6e
for education we took over the
responsibility to educate our children
as I was trotting in a
stressful system can say that my
health is better
and also we got closer to the
nature and all these plants
medicinal finance and economy
often we do not think about it when we leave
in the alternative systems and
yet money is a form
very very important energy she
is even primordial if we do not have enough
we can not get out of the system we’re going
to be glued he will always bring us back
you have to go beyond it
surfing
you have to go over there, it’s the same
you have to make enough money to
go over and then that money there a
once we have a system a little
abundant we start again in the
redistribution that’s exactly what
happens in the wild with water or
other things
all share
and finally live all this is doing
to live the heritage in true one is
in and communities because we
creates a lot of links across
especially the workshops we presence
in the markets created a species
small network through which we
exchange a lot of information a
network where we exchange a lot
information it reminds a little bit
what I told you about the
plants with mushrooms and that
it is a network of
mushrooms that organized itself
in a box and that’s another
network you know well
it’s internet
and when we put these two networks side by side
by the side we see that they are very
similar are the same rules
other organizations like at the
ants who will do all this and who
allow to circulate
useful information when asked
now is Julian what are you
do in life I have trouble to myself
define because often we will
define with employment when we occupy
and me and in fact you do it all
I am a farmer teacher
citizen electrician builder
active herbalist and all that gives it
more meaning to my life and that’s what
allows me to be re now I
thank you
[Applause]
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