Very moving, scaring and eye-opening documentary. Reversing desertification should be a priority of every government in the world. If every country combats the deserts within its borders, then the whole world will conquer. To those who are already doing this, I take off my hat.

@hugodias2449

2 ай бұрын

The priority should be to reverse the stupidification of mankind 😅

Came here to watch the adds but the documentary kept getting in the way!

@susukumutajapan7194

3 жыл бұрын

Annoying ads? Easy! As you open the video, drag the cursor to the very end part of the video then click 'replay' ..say bye bye to ads 😘😘

@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205

Жыл бұрын

Well they did say it’s “extra long”. Must have meant the ads not the doc. 😂

@juarezderrick9647

Жыл бұрын

@@susukumutajapan7194 two years ago when you wrote that comment it worked but it doesn't anymore. I just pay the $10 a month and don't have any ads or commercials.

@mub3ady

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@desertrose7318

Жыл бұрын

@@susukumutajapan7194 does it work on Android phone ❤️?

Spain should save every drop of water by building ponds and digging trenches and mounds to stop water runoff. And planting trees and grasses to stop evaporation etc.

Respect to all the unsung heroes in this outstanding doc for their tireless efforts to arrest/reverse desertification.

@Crashed131963

3 жыл бұрын

The entire Sahara Desert was once green with lakes 7000 years ago. Are we to blame primative people that it turned to a desert a few thousand years ago?

@saulteanuts-vg8iu

Жыл бұрын

@@Crashed131963 You are braindead.

@saulteanuts-vg8iu

Жыл бұрын

@@Crashed131963 DON'T LOOK UP!!!

@saulteanuts-vg8iu

Жыл бұрын

@@Crashed131963 Life is being snuffed out by greed and overpopulation all around the world. You are a simpleton.

@saulteanuts-vg8iu

Жыл бұрын

@@Crashed131963 LOSER! SHAME!

Spain has plenty of sea-coast and sunlight. Put them together as *passive solar distillation* of sea-water. Then you only have to pump the distilled water inland (not cheap), and sell the resulting salt. Use the money from selling the salt to get the water to the farmers first.

@lesliefish4753

5 ай бұрын

This won't happen at a profit, but it will rescue the land and produce *some* money to offset the cost.

I could be wrong, but the largest desert is in Antartica. That is about to change!

I retract my previous comment. A fine and very relevant documentary.

Each nation as far as possible must grow its own food to feed its population instead of heavily depending upon borrowed food from elsewhere.

Sheep grazing needs to be managed so that there are paddocks that contain the sheep and so they can be moved daily for grazing and the plants can regenerate.

I know these topics are important, but these are also helping me sleep.

@Mystery13x

Жыл бұрын

Exactly how I ended up here 😂

The key is to supply the hotels with desalination water and save the runoff water for farming. Its what they have had to do here in Hawaii. The tourists don't even notice the extra few dollars.

@888Longball

9 ай бұрын

I didn't know that Hawaii desalinated. Interesting.

@floridaman4073

8 ай бұрын

@@888Longballthey have to, there are no major rivers and minimal reservoirs.

So the upper land was watered for decades/centuries by man made terraces to catch seasonal rain volumes in dry seasons. So historically there were dry seasons such as what they are seeing today but homosapiens compensated with terraces and proper water storage creating usable land.

Really excellent documentary. Very interesting & very informative.

Politicians in Europe especially in Spain should learn from this great documentary.

@desertrose7318

Жыл бұрын

They should look at western USA 😔 we are running out of water Scottsdale by Phoenix has you cannot live in a desert and have golf courses and manicured lawns. And water sucking "northern plants "

@dennissmeets4573

Жыл бұрын

They created the problem.....

@fireblade2681

8 ай бұрын

Europe has been destroyed as much as it can be by humans. America is ripe land fresh for destruction.

@amarahk6759

8 ай бұрын

What will they learn? They've probably got dollar signs infront of their eyes!

@user-cg3dt9ut9b

2 ай бұрын

and in POrtugal also, onde a imbecilidade não tem limites

I loved this documentary. Thank you very much .

They should visit China and see how they are re greening the deserts , it's amazing

@fernly2

3 ай бұрын

China has adopted the model of Alexander Hamilton to bring farmers through inventions to increase energy flux density per capita of workers as well as providing credit to support entrepreneurial ventures of farmers to a level of productivity heretofore unimagined. USA farmers on the other hand are being strangled into an outmoded feudal model which reduces quality and quantity of productivity.

Fighting the NATURES FIGHT BACK❤

Thank you for sharing this very informative documentary!

@gbh5912

Жыл бұрын

take a real, deeper look

The Far Majority of desertificaion has been happening naturally over the course of thousands of years. Poor Farming practices in some areas have excellerated the process. A Healthy Balance between Farming, Hunting, and Fishing...and Conservation is possible.

Kudos to Island...Spain should take a few lessons.

Imagine if we spent as much as we do on wars on recovering the damaged earth, I think we could conquer the climate problem without cessation of farming.

Great documentary! I really appreciate the English dubbing. Not depressing at all.

Impressiv and also frightening. Thanks for ubloading👍👍😎✌

@hazardsandcatastrophes

3 жыл бұрын

Hi thank you very much for your comment. We are totally happy that you like this documentary. Feel free to keep checking our channel and we have other exciting documentaries that you might like.

@7hilladelphia

2 жыл бұрын

@@hazardsandcatastrophes yup, I'm subbed because of this. Not even bothered by the ads

The Dimming is real. I recently moved away from the city to a much more rural area to live off grid. I use less than a gallon of water a day, this includes bathing and bathroom use. Im near a free flowing creek and boil what water i glean from the creek. Working on building a filtration system. Get out of urban areas. Hard times are coming.

@dylan-en5ch

10 ай бұрын

Another doomsday weirdo out in the woods alone. Sad.

@toni4729

6 ай бұрын

Supermarkets are people's downfall. Advertising everything but natural food.

It is heartbreaking see that catastrophe happening! Sad. Sadder because ignorance and pursuit for money at any cost are significant part of a such tragedy.

The use of composting toilets by humans can provide the humus needed for regeneration.

This is a top quality documentary, and thank you very much it was very informative.

Awesome documentrys ❤

A beautiful documentary tape, welcome to the desert of the Tuareg family 😊👌👋💯

More people need to follow Geoff Lawton's permiculure gardening .green the desert

Spain’s Water Situation : I hope that the fresh water for the water parks, swimming pools is recycled, instead of draining into the ocean. That water could be used for the badly needed irrigation where the crops are drying up.

Iceland should build more ponds and swales to stop water run off.

People in these changing landscapes can reverse the desertification process. First watch the film The Biggest Little Farm. Then implement their business model by reinvigorating the soil.

@toni4729

Жыл бұрын

First, we have to stop the people breeding. People are still breeding too much.

This very good documentary was made three years ago, be nice to get a update on how things are going, much can happen in three years…

@dp-kz5cs

6 ай бұрын

Lets go see shall we ?

@stiffish001

6 ай бұрын

@@dp-kz5cs 😂

I saw the greenhouses. Then I watched a documentary about how migrants labored in them and suffered. On the beaches, I saw how developers built high rise apartments and sold them. Then new apartments were built in front of those buildings where the tenants had bought for the view. Now I am watching this documentary. It is so sad.

Reforestation is essential to prevent further desertification in many areas but tourism has to end. Citizens can travel virtually to tour the glove.

It isn't that man is neglecting the environment. It's that man is doing the damage that's causing desertification. Sad as it is.

Excellent video. Thank you!

Eye opening for sure 🤔😳🥹

At about 1hr 24mins there is what can only be described as a rather large object in the upper right hand corner of your screen. It’s admitting light and is maneuvering too abruptly to be humanly possible. I hope someone else sees before it’s scrub out or something.

If people are not beleave that they are the Problem, they will change nothing

infomative

to be fair, some countries are also reclaiming desrt-- like china; and the usa sometimes does this but we don't have a lot of recently desertified land ourselves. It definitley can be reclaimed- as in the mideast , israel and i think it's jordan, are doing.. their deserts got bad thousands of years ago by human causes.

What about posts with plast mesh here and there to stop the wind gathering up speed an power then plant the trees and tough grasses in front of them.

My goodness very educational and great content, will watch again and learn.

@gbh5912

Жыл бұрын

How can you learn from misinformation?

@gamingtonight1526

Жыл бұрын

@@gbh5912 Stop trolling, and get a life!

@gbh5912

Жыл бұрын

@@gamingtonight1526 Trolling is an attack on someone who comments or posts about a specific subject and adds nothing about the subject, which is this case is load of fake information for weak minded people to absorb and ironically start to defend- So, how does that turd taste now that you know you are a troll? Grammer is your next faulter.

#Thanks

Forest fires are the wrong thing to do. As an Australian I see where fires are the biggest mistakes that have ever been made. It just makes the worst disasters even worse. You can only grow death from ashes.

Now Iceland is being overgrown with Alaskan Lupine. It fixes its own nitrogen. Its a love hate relationship. It recovers barren ground but takes over ground that has cover.

@annebell565

Жыл бұрын

there is a local lupine-like plant they can use (N-fixer) it is a pioneer plant, grasses, shrubs & then trees follow ... just fence off the bl&^%y sheep!

There is a proverb in sanatana sharma which says *** Eventhough there is No ONE MORSEL of Food, the hair locks are bedecked with jasmine flowers*** Here jasmine flowers= swimming pools and golf courses as entertainment which is called as decoration. Which camaflagues or hides poverty ie barren lands called as ONE single morsel.

I hope there is a Spanish narration for this highly important report!

@toni4729

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps the Spanish government should stop the migrants from coming in and taking over. They're coming in from all over Europe and enjoying the sunshine.

It was a long article but well-worth watching. Well done!

Cutting down the trees is not helping their problem.

@toni4729

Жыл бұрын

Quite right.

Amazing documentary

Yes, deserts are growing day by day... Sure, climate change, undeniable in my view. To say that deserts endanger people is if anything short sighted. What endangers people is a much broader list of environmental issues. People have survived successfully in desert environments for millennia

21:10 For Iceland, preventing mobility of fertile soil is key to success. Take terrace building, using crushed rock mixed with plastics, from garbage. Melt all thermoplast plastics together that melt at a relative low temperature, and use that to build terraces. Once it cools down, it will stay like forever and will need little or no maintainance for the next 100 years. Yay useful purpose for plastics. Now, with each terrace, take any rock sticking out above the terrace wall's level. Remove by either dynamite blowing, or electric jackhammer, dependant on amount. Crush the rocks that are the result into sand like grains, and spread evenly. Then get some black fertile dirt, mix in some more crushed rock, sand granularity, and fill till about 2/3 of the terrace heights, roughly 80 cm wall. Add on top black dirt, fertile sand, and plant weeds and other fast growing hard to kill bushes, and allow that to grow for 2 years, mowing and allowing to composting again. In the meantime, prepare another such a terrace. Once the two years of growth has been done, now the most of the terrace's filling will now completely be fertile, and usable for more fertility terracing. Use half of the soil from the first terrace, and mix in once again with crushed rock from the building leftovers from the second terrace. Use te mixtures after adding some fertilsers like sheep manure, leftover greens, hay, and whatnot mulch and compost. Allow for another 2 years for the soil to once again get fertility, after having planted weeds and other fast growing plants. Create a new terrace while you wait for the first two re-complete their fertility cycle. get the weeds from the topsoil of the 1st terrace, and mix that in with the new terrace and terrace no.2, again with leftover crushed rocks, sand granularity. Spread that over terrace 2 and 3. Burn the topsoil of terrace no.1 and turn that into 1/4 for tree growth, 1/4 for crop growth, and 1/2 for grass and small bushes, for replanting purposes. Now, wait for 2 years, while tending the 1st terrace, and allowing the 2nd and 3rd to fertilise. Build terrace no.4 and 5 also. Terrace 2 and 3 should get once again mixed with mulch, compost, manures, fertiliser etc, and once again mixed in with crushed rocks, sand granularity. Spread the result into 2,3,4 and 5. Grow weeds again into 2,3,4,5 for one year. Now terrace 2 can be used like terrace no.1. Do so. Terrace 3-5, mix again with soil created by crushed rock, sand granularity, add enough to get another for terrace 6 and 7, which should have been built by now. The ratio being higher, but the surface area greater, you can do the same thing, but only need one year weeds, fast growth plants. Take the top of 3 and 4 weeds and bushes, compost that for the newer terraces. Burn 3 and 4 till the weeds can make room for 1/2 trees, 1/2 food crops. The bushes and plants grown for cultivating on terrace 1 and 2 can be used for additional carbon capture, or replanted into soil that needs to keep it's soil in place, instead of being washed away. After these 8 cycles, you'll have 4 terraces being room for trees, en-situ crop growth, if temperature allows, and replantables, and by now 5 more for fertilisation expansion, repeatable for one terrace per year or exponentially available for fertility expansion. It takes time, and effort, but you can turn it into a better greener place. The only thing that takes a lot of work is the creation of the new terraces, but even that is not that much, since it only involves making a shape for the plastic/concrete to be fillied in with, and pouring the hot plastic/concrete nto the shape. You can call the mixture of plastic and pebbeled rocks plastite, a very durable building material that needs no hardening, but only cooling down, and will do so under ANY weather conditions.

@ZMacZ

3 жыл бұрын

Note for hotter climates, use plastics that melt at higher temperatures, ofc. Don't MAKE new plastics, collect from garbage, or better yet seperate garbages. Note that any plastics used in this way, do not require burning to diminish waste, and keep the carbon within in bound form. Don't mix in chemicals.or chemical wastes.

@ZMacZ

3 жыл бұрын

Note also that the same can be done in any other ergion where top soil fertilty movement causes non fertility of local soils, and can also be used for completely infertile lands. If there's a alot of rain, then allow for top-way draining, with only little at the bottom. If there's little rain, don't use bottom draining, only top-side draining, keeping the ground moist, from any nearby watersource. For extremely low precipitation, with no water sources nearby, use oceanic pipelining. The water can be desalinated, by using sunlight and a black plastic sheet cover, to get a high degree of evaporation, which can then be lead through an underground place, which is cooler than any surface temp, possibly even presurized with water vapor, forcing fast condensation, followed by subsequent depresurisation, refilling with water vapor and represuring with more water vapor, power provided by solar power. The amount of water you can get through this method may seem costly and hard to achieve, yet allowing a lot of land o go arid and infertile will cost a lot more. When planting trees for instance, you can keep more moisture in the soil by using a little more of the already present, like semi-transparant solar panels, meant for use in high temp areas. They collect like 50% of the UV light to convert to power for the water desalinisation process, and even much more than that, while still allowing plants to live underneath the panels. This may be a little more costly, but allows for both infrastructure based on electricity, as well as not needing seperated lands for power production, while also allowing for land to be made arable again. In some cases, exponential may be preffered, since some countries need fertility more than initial usage. Within 20-40 years almost any size of a country may then be created into a lush and green countryside, save the harshest of high altitude climates, or low sunlight ones.

@ZMacZ

3 жыл бұрын

Garbage plastics constructively used are a way better way than plastispheres, or just large scale dumping. (If they are made of leftover/garbage disposables, not newly created plastics for the purpose of building.)

@JasperKlijndijk

2 жыл бұрын

Walling in nature with walls works well, yet plastic I think is a bad idea

@ZMacZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@JasperKlijndijk Usually plastic in nature is bad. But in this case you'd want something that really does NOT degrade to avoid continuous upkeep. And the walls are not to prevent nature, but to prevent soil motion. the seeds from plants and plants themselves can still grow elsewhere, while the soil stays in one place. Much like chinese old style terrace rice growing.

Sadly, the poor and disenfranchised, will be the ones left to reap the horrors the wealthy ultimately caused. The rich can afford to uproot and live where water and food are plentiful. You can only run for so long, however.

There is no need for grazing too much sheep or sheep as a cattle for human consumption. This is like taking too much salt in our food. The same result has happened here also.

They travel around with their livestock and eat all green in desert areas, and move on, and then wonder why there is less green, as the desert expands.

Could you plant some fruit trees, like apple 🍎 , peaches 🍑, prune , papaya, apricots , oranges 🍊, etc.

Is there a connection between rain and plants ? Or is there something in the plants or green that causes rain to fall ? Yes, there is. Dry land is hot and it's uplift of heat sends the rain elsewhere.

@gbh5912

Жыл бұрын

@@woodforthetrees3496 Also, very significant and true!!

@liv-maritbakke1914

10 ай бұрын

and the rainforest, send out particles to tell the rain, it needs rain. because rain needs particles to make raindrops. according to another documentary about the rainforest.

@gbh5912

10 ай бұрын

@@liv-maritbakke1914 Reading,,,, hummm No wonder you're lost

@liv-maritbakke1914

10 ай бұрын

@@gbh5912 who is lost? investigate how rain is formed

@gbh5912

10 ай бұрын

@@liv-maritbakke1914 I'm a naturalist living in the mountains, lol Keep reading your books that city people write to make money off you, Good luck on repairing your mind

Humanity is going to burn for its greed and abandonment of its responsibility to maintain the garden.

You need to build Moses West AWG Industrial-size Water From Air machines!

I love desert!

@hazardsandcatastrophes

2 жыл бұрын

We love it too ;)

@gamingtonight1526

Жыл бұрын

@@hazardsandcatastrophes What a stupid comment and a stupid reply for this video!

Stop the rainwater to runaway, sea don't need more water, save the water immediately underground.

Where does this water go when its "consumed"? Even if I drink it. The path leads back to where it started. If I shower with it the path is shorter.

A highly researched document. If can aware a few part of world about ensuing climate and water crisis, editor will be obliged

Thorium nuclear powered desalination plants could provide the water needed by Spain's coastal cities.

Admiration for the people of the Gobi Desert,.....beautiful

The Spanish drought, with the peach trees for example... use sea water 🤦‍♂️🤣 seems so obvious to me.

An orange co.in Florida loaded 3 tons of orange peels only and when it was gone the ground was fertile like crazy!

Thank you for sharing!

This isn't a result of the drought it's the cause. They said it right with their own words. Peaches aren't grown without water that wasn't there, it was brought in. From where? Did that cause those areas to experience drought? Then after harvest did the peaches stay in Spain? Or exported? If exported, you just boxed up and sent a whole lot of water right out of the country. Because of the water cycle, the evaporation, rain, etc, isn't able to replenish the ground water. The more you conserve, the drier the soil becomes, and the top forms a crust and new rainfall just sheets off without being able to soak into the earth. Global trade is a horrible thing for the environment.

Permaculture can reclaim desert.

The next phase of human history i think may be called ;; The age of the scavenger

Não existe uma solução tecnologica ,o un milagre ,mas a unica solução e o reflorestamento!!! Se não agirmos logo terminaremos en un grande deserto!!!

Water amount on Earth has never changed due to human habitation, it gets relocated, stored but not 1-drop is lost

TY for your work. Can BRICS help Spain. They’ve offered to help West Virginia but the government refused😢

If i was that man id be digging ponds and stop the water running away with sands dams and planting trees an grasses etc

Mycelae: The fourth ingredient.

Exactly the same thing will happen to the Queensland coast as it grows and grows. Australia doesn't have the water to cope either and they get visitors from all over the world, many from Japan and China during the Summer. The Gold Coast used to be a small town that's turned into another high-rise city.

How can Spain be so dry when the rest of Europe isn't?

thank you for not making me read.... 5 star documentary

So सात्विक organic farming as per our vedic texts alone will save our world created by us from our repeated mistakes time and again. Here land can be made fertile through proper Sustainable systems in place.

Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Pretentious narrator: “homo sapiens are to blame”. Drought stricken Spaniard: “We need rain”.

Warning! Super negative for the first 40 min. Doom and gloom… for solutions skip ahead. After that, good videos

I love universe the stars for space in the world 🌍🌍🌍

If we put more C02 into the atmosphere it will help as it is plant food and will lower the stomata in the leaves and save water.

Eye-opener video. Thanks

Big company SHELL has a lot of very good seeds, but is not giving this to the poor to cultivate their land for food.

Plinio el Viejo decía; "Una ardilla podía atravesar lberia saltando de árbol en árbol ". Franco llevó a cabo una inigualable política de repoblación forestal y de regadío. De Gaule en Francia hizo exactamente lo mismo. En mi vida siempre he visto sequías repetidas,los periodos pueden abarcar cientos de años. Dicho proceso se ha acelerado para mí desde el año 1960, el inicio del periodo puede ser natural. Pero coincide totalmente con la profusión de ondas electromagnéticas,radio, TV,radar etc. La exageración llegó a partir del 2000 ahora ya llegó se hecho culpar al turismo de excesivo consumo de agua es totalmente falso

Thank you for the video clip

Those are some awfully nice clothes those conservationists and "farmers" are wearing while planting trees. The CCP truly loves "plants."

@gamingtonight1526

Жыл бұрын

OMG!

@gbh5912

Жыл бұрын

Love this, smart people don't crumble to false guilt- You speak powerful truth and can spot a con, thank you!

Poor Iceland. No trees. Awful.

I like desert improvement

So desertification caused by humans consuming to much water for tourism… Then proceeds to tell us because humans moved away they can’t maintain artificial means of water capture. The original problem was the cutting of forests hundreds of years ago.

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Iceland is a easy fix and not expensive

When people stop clearing land flushing water from laundry and showers down drain.composting tiolets and catching rain water in dams and tanks is need.even if its in a pot on a balcony every one needs to grow one tree

You're saying that in the days of Ghenkis Kahn, thousands of horsemen could hide there but now the dust is being blamed on overgrazing. So what were the hoses eating back then? Don't blame the animals. They also feed the soil, and they can't be accused of the damage people do, and they can't be blamed for the wind.