How would we decide the boundaries? In this video, we explore who drew the first lines on a map and said “Everything within them is ours”. And why rearranging the world's borders according to nature could help us solve many of the problems we're facing today.

This is Origin Story, an optimistic show about the future on humans on Earth. We explore what ideas, inventions, or even traditions could help us build a better future for all.

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Chapters:
00:00 What the hell is this line?
1:11 What’s coming
1:54 Who were we before borders?
2:46 The first border in the world
3:58 The US map, explained
6:54 The Rise of a Revolutionary Movement
7:48 Let’s rearrange the borders in The US
8:51 First Layer
9:26 Second Layer
9:55 Third Layer
10:02 Fourth Layer
10:11 The new boundaries: Cascadia!
11:15 Emergencies with arbitrary nation states
11:42 What about self-governing bioregions?
13:15 The caveat for the US and Canada
13:49 Visual Evidence of the mess
15:36 Hope for the future
17:17 Why these are revolutionary maps
18:06 Thoughts on my new nationality

Correction: on a previous version of this video, we made a mistake in data visualisation. I've cut the comparison out so there's no confusion. The narrative of the story is still valid.


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Further reading and watching:
Explore the map of bioregions I show in 17:30: https://www.oneearth.org/navigator/
More about the Yurok Tribe and the Salmon Kill:    • Freeing the Klamath River  
How the Yurok Tribe is reclaiming the Klamath River    • American West(s): How the Yurok Tribe...  
The origin story of bioregionalism: https://deptofbioregion.org/bioregion...
About indigenous mapping https://deptofbioregion.org/bioregion...
Cascadia mapping https://cascadia-institute.org/

Special thanks to:
Jonn Elledge, authour of 'The History of the World in 47 borders'
Brandon Letsinger, Director of Regenerate Cascadia
Isabel Carlisle, Director of Bioregional Learning Centre

About:
Hey! It's me, Claudia Ayuso. I’m the one producing and writing these stories for you –and for me too, really. These are the stories that I’ve so desperately needed my whole life.

Each episode of Origin Story takes on a big dilemma or problem of today, investigates how we got there and helps us imagine a future in which humans are part of the solution. My goal with this show is to provide a general model for the ways we might improve and transform our modern industrial society. And to honour the sophistication of our ancestors.
https://claudiaayuso.com