A must-see video story on the Water Stories platform invites us to rethink our relationship with water cycles and the earth.

At a time when environmental news reports are constantly bringing prolonged droughts, flash floods, and record-breaking temperatures to our attention, the debate on climate change focuses almost exclusively on carbon dioxide emissions.

But are we really looking at the whole picture?

Inspired by a wonderful post from our very own Isa, we’re happy to share an interesting reflection and a documentary video that invite us to shift our perspective. As Zach Weiss —an expert in restoring water cycles and founder of Water Stories —points out, focusing solely on CO₂ risks causing us to lose sight of the most powerful factor regulating our planet’s temperature: water.

“Focusing solely on CO₂ has diverted attention from water’s power to mitigate climate change. More than two-thirds of the Earth’s heat dynamics are driven by water, which has a specific heat five times greater than that of carbondioxide and is present in our atmosphere at a magnitude greater than that of carbon dioxide.”

Restoring the soil’s ability to retain water, regenerating small local water cycles, and counteracting the drying out of landscapes not only helps prevent hydrogeological disasters but also directly affects the microclimate and the global heat balance.

To learn more about this approach—which is perfectly in line with the principles of permaculture and small-scale farming that we experience every day on the farms in the WWOOF network—we invite you to watch the documentary video “Hope in a World of Crisis”.

This is a powerful and empathetic story that shows how, through targeted Water Cycle Restoration efforts, it is still possible to restore life and abundance where today you see only degradation and drought.

You can turn on Italian subtitles directly in the player.