The Ancient Order of Bali
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Agriculture was practiced in more southern lands, where the yields are higher. Corn comes from the south of North America, and potatoes, from north of South America. I think nobody had a delusion, even back in 1500s, that these were wild plants.
So unfortunately the switch from biannual harvests to triannual harvests using factory-borne fertilizers and deep water usage was necessary.
(I was taught this in a fertilizer factory visit near Surabaya a few years back, so my information might be highly biased. But demographics data is there and ... It is what it is.)
The Subak system demonstrates the Vedic way [0] of life in which the divinity (pure consciousness) is seen in everything – mountains, lakes, rivers, plants, animals – in all species. Temples and regional deities bind together and nourishes the whole ecosystem, preserving the environment and wildlife.
Unfortunately, as evident in the article, blindfolded by the supremacy of material science, the modern society has mostly destroyed this ecosystem without understanding its benefits, and it now wants to prevent climate catastrophe by carbon credits and other commercially driven policies rather than learning the natural and inclusive (spiritual) ways of the olden times.