Climate change in the Netherlands - Pioneering coastal management | DW Documentary
The Netherlands is a frontrunner in innovative coastal management. After all, around a third of the country is below sea level. As the Dutch set about modernizing their dykes, they hope that a marsh grass will help stem the rising tides.
In the Netherlands, climate change is far more than an abstract future danger. With sea levels rising, coastlines are set to be hit more frequently by floods in the future. Scientists at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research are looking for new ways of protecting their country's dykes and seawalls. They discovered that common cordgrass can slow down incoming waves and soften their impact. The next challenge was how to plant the grass in mudflats without it being repeatedly washed away by the tides. Their solution: a lattice structure made of potato starch. In addition to coastal protection, however, the Netherlands also has researchers looking at the potential for using seaweed to benefit the climate as a food source or a plastic substitute. Elsewhere, a floating farm in Rotterdam produces dairy products while boasting a drastically lower carbon footprint. And Amsterdam is now home to neighborhoods comprising floating homes. On the coastal management and climate protection fronts, the Netherlands has expertise that is in growing global demand.
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Great & informative documentary 👍. Dutch are experts at coastal management.The world really needs Dutch expertise during this time of climate change and rising sea levels.
@DWDocumentary
Жыл бұрын
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The Dutch are really clever when it comes to agriculture. I know they play a big part in Essex county in Canada and the greenhouse industry.
To be fair grass has always played a vital role in keeping the sand dunes together to keep the sea out. That's why the intire coast is a protected area and at most points you're not allowed on the grass. Same with house boats in the Netherlands, they've been around for ever. They used to be for poor people and where unregistered, nowadays they're really popular and ridiculously expensive.
@adlozi
9 ай бұрын
I've heard that there is always a humidity problem, living close to the water or above it. As much as I like the floating houses solution to climate change, it seems to be unhealthy long term and could cause arthritis.
Meanwhile, in Italy everyone's praying for rain to avoid severe drought🌧
@gregbors8364
Жыл бұрын
That sucks for them, but why post it here? Completely unrelated to the video
@davidanalyst671
Жыл бұрын
its almost as if global warming is a media accepted lie
@Honkey666
Жыл бұрын
Not in Venice...
@italianlifestyle7911
Жыл бұрын
@@Honkey666 Venice canals start to run dry as low tide and lack of rain hit...
@italianlifestyle7911
Жыл бұрын
@@davidanalyst671 and everyone was afraid that Venice would sink..
That's great. At least one country has started to implement measures to minimise the effects of rising sea level
@erinna8298
Жыл бұрын
We started fighting the sea long, long before climate change or rising sea levels became a thing, a large part of the Netherlands is below sea level, and sea levels just make it worse. Check out our history of building 'terpen' for example.
Great docu but I laughed out loud when the graphic of the Netherlands showed Yerseke on the place of Amsterdam, Yerseke is on the middle island in the south west.
@NadinaRama
Жыл бұрын
Haha, yup, Sealand is now near Amsterdam 😅
@IamNothing82
Жыл бұрын
Haha 😂
lovely! thanks DW
Very interesting,even though I'm already very aware what the Dutch are up to when it comes to fighting the effects of a changing climate; for I'm Dutch myself and keep a keen eye on them living in New Zealand. And what I like about the Dutch is the fact they are practical and know you can't fight a changing climate but instead you have to adapt to it's consequences. I especially like the idea of floating cities,and think they need floating or natural barriers around them to lessen the effects of storm tides. Here in Auckland/New Zealand our mangroves are getting bigger and more widespread by the decade. This is in the many inlets of the sea we have;in the more secluded areas so to speak... I wonder if the Dutch would put their mind to trial mangroves in the Netherlands for storm protection of their future floating cities? And yeah!...Bangladesh could use the floating cities surrounded by mangroves too...
This is a very interesting documentary particularly that it tackles potential solutions to climate change. Keep it up DW Documentary!
Een hele interessante documentaire! Wel triest om te vernemen dat sommige onderzoekers lastiggevallen worden met hatemails. Bizar! Ik waardeer het werk van de onderzoekers van het NIOZ.
@DWDocumentary
Жыл бұрын
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Trapping the sediment and growing with the sea level - that's a very interesting idea, I hope it will work.
God bless Europe ❤,, God bless all over the world,,
Id imagine the floating village at the end, also experiances cooler temperatures in the summer, as it has less heat absorbing materials surrounding the area...like concreate, or asphalt.
Way too many ads ruin an excellent production.
comments being muted / hidden, predictably
DW documentaries are always brilliant... Just watch it @1.5x speed
@lucbos7516
Жыл бұрын
The Netherlands and Europe are of no importance whatsoever for the climate and temperature on earth Green and sustainability are lies deceit and ignorance How often do climate clubs such as the IPCC and the UN and NASA still have to be exposed Fraud corruption favoritism deception and deceit Independent climate scientists flush the toilet on with that shit
@1:14, maybe DW should study a bit more on the map of the Netherlands. Yerseke is about half a country distance from that point
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. If you put rising sea levels in a cup it becomes the cup. Water can flow or crash. Be water my friend - Bro Lee
@andysdroning
Жыл бұрын
Bruce Lee?
Excellent documentary as always DW, much appreciated.
@DWDocumentary
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the compliment, Tony. We are glad you liked the documentary 😊
Our dutch english is so funny hahahah
the genuene hero's of the netherlands. my eternal thanks to you!
There is nothing new with seaweed farming. It has been there at least since the 16th century (Korea / Japan). FAO reported that world production in 2019 was over 35 million tonnes.
22:24 dream house ever✨
“Global sea levels are rising as a result of human-caused global warming, with recent rates being unprecedented over the past 2,500+ years.” The sea level has risen over 20 centimeters since 1900 and 9.67 centimeters since 1993. Source: NASA, November 2022
@renatosureal
Жыл бұрын
Pls, explain ... 🤔🤔how come sea levels rise when frozen water melts as liquid water occupies LESS VOLUME than ice ?
@renatosureal
Жыл бұрын
@@murielb9946 it is not a question, it is a statement
@shiroineko13
Жыл бұрын
@@renatosureal You answered your own quetion. Ice is less dense than water, thus it floats above the water surface. When ice melts, it occupies its original volume in the sea and no longer the volume that it displaces (air). Elementary school kids understand this better than you am afraid.
@renatosureal
Жыл бұрын
@@shiroineko13 no, it is not that. water is the only substance that EXPANDS when frozen thus occupying more space/volume.
Isn't that carageenan stuff u always see now in, like, Gustafson's farms strawberry milk or whatever made from seaweed?
Brilliant. . . 👍👍
Dolphins have a highly advanced spoken language. I love them as family.
Interesting, but do they calculate the increase in wave hight when a wave moves into the shallows? That would seem an increased risk to the dike itself.
@benoitmetail8727
Жыл бұрын
they only gives informations that fit the narrative. Just like any other mainstream medias...
The map and pin you showed for Yerseke is completely wrong, Yerseke is in Zeeland, not Amsterdam, quite a drive to the south.
If you're serious about climate change, the most important thing is not to give up, not to give up, not to run away, and to keep believing.
@libor_z
Жыл бұрын
lmao
@justinyermaw2986
Жыл бұрын
Can you tell me the carbon footprint to mine and produce every single material that is used to build Tesla vehicles . Can you tell me the viability of breaking down depleted solar panels and how much those individual parts are worth. It costs more money to break down a solar panel than what you would get back in individual components. It's smoke and mirrors by our governments. I'd also point out their push for bio energy plants. A building not an actual green plant. Those energy plants burn trees and wood to produce energy. This means cutting down thousands of trees to burn. When those wood materials are wet they use ground down vehicle tyres so the fires burn hot enough. Don't take my word there are reports and even documentaries on here showing their reports. It is nothing less than criminal what our governments are doing. My last note is. Many people can purchase a car that is used and not as expensive as a new vehicle. By making everyone that can purchase a new electrical car the rest that can not will have their vehicles running on fuel taken away and disposed of. The aim is to force poorer people onto money making public transport. If you are poor you can walk or get on public transport. Lies, fascism, dictatorship and criminal governments working for the rich is the only agenda
@Bob-yl9pm
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a religion!
@napleswolverine7189
Жыл бұрын
If you believe a lie it doesn’t make it the truth and if you wanna believe a lie that’s all you’re gonna get 🤤
@gregbors8364
Жыл бұрын
@ian x Big Oil says it’s all good 👍👍👍
Audio and lipsynchronisation is out of sync. I have a huge delay like 6 seconds. The subject is very interesting but now hard to see and follow. Hopefully a proper version will be uploaded.
@therealdutchidiot
Жыл бұрын
It's without issues for me.
@markvanderknoop131
Жыл бұрын
0 delay here.
I skimmed through, but nowhere did I see any numbers showing how much the sea level has risen. I wonder why?
@hosnimubarak8869
Жыл бұрын
A new satellite was launched by scientists and engineers thirty years ago to examine how the waters rise and decrease over time, a job that was previously only possible from the coast. On August 10, 1992, TOPEX/Poseidon launched into orbit and began a 30-year record of ocean surface height all across the globe. The findings have verified what scientists had previously seen from the shorelines: the seas are rising, and the rate is accelerating. Researchers have found that global mean sea level has risen 10.1 centimeters (3.98 inches) since 1992. Over the past 140 years, satellites and tide gauges together show that global sea level has risen 21 to 24 centimeters (8 to 9 inches).
@johnnyblue4799
Жыл бұрын
@Elvis Attacking the person w/o actually addressing the issue really shows who the really stupid between the two of us is. Hint: not me.
@gregbors8364
Жыл бұрын
The sea level is rising independently of the information presented in this documentary
@peterchui1964
Жыл бұрын
@@johnnyblue4799 the documentary is not about proving the fact that sea levels are rising. If there’s a documentary on ‘The effect of mosquitoes on humans’, it’s like asking them “Hey why didn’t they prove the existence of mosquitoes?”
@johnnyblue4799
Жыл бұрын
@@hosnimubarak8869 Measured where? The trend is not the same everywhere and I quote: "The global average sea-level trend is so minuscule that in many locations it is greatly exceeded by local vertical land motion. Places with high rates of vertical land motion, like New Orleans (sinking) and Stockholm (rising), have sea-level trends which are very different from the global average." I smell some "doctoring" and "cherry-picking" of the data... Btw, gauges are not reliable since they can't account for local land movement.
20-30 year horizon? Love the optimism.
Some parts video and audio are horribly out of sync.
So how much has the sea level risen over the last 25 years?
Quite informative! Interesting about the cows 🐄 , the new housing /living patterns; seaweed has always served many purposes for many years. Thanks for video 👍🏾
@terryhoath1983
Жыл бұрын
"Interesting about the cows" ...... Yes ! ...... animal cruelty, admittedly, quite mild here .... but the deprivation is extreme ..... When was the last time that those poor cows jumped and skipped for joy as they were let out onto Spring pasture ? When did they last graze on sweet wild flowers ? Man cannot live by bread alone. Cows should not be required to live by cattle cake and supermarket waste alone. Nice though it may be, the plastic back-scratcher in this dystopian "facility" is not enough. Factory farming, not at its' worst, but totally unacceptable nonetheless.
Keep up the good work guys.Humanity is now truly in a war with climate change and everything we do now will determine our future.
@thedave7760
7 ай бұрын
The sea has risen about 14 mm in the last 50 years. OMG we're all doomed.
Glad Bangladesh was mentioned. 63% of the population lives in rural areas. The main seaports, Chottogram and Khulna, are also at risk. Many thousands of people of the coastal area have had to move from ancestral land to the capital. Salinisation of land, erosion and the threat of storm surges cause displacement. The countries responsible for the sea level rise should pay for a Netherlands-style sea defence system.
Very interesting journalism. Thanks for sharing this.
Wait, when did we move Yerseke from the south-west of The Netherlands ( in the province of Zeeland) to Amsterdam (North-Holland)? 😅
Crazy how I just finished a literature review on sea level rise and I get this in my recs😭
@DraxTheDestroyer
Жыл бұрын
I know your pain 😑
I love the Dutchlish language.
@definitlynotbenlente7671
Жыл бұрын
Gaaf toch
Yerseke is wrong located on the map in the beginning of this video. It's located in the province of Zeeland in the south-west! Now it looks that Yerseke is located were Amsterdam is!
Seaweed as a food just has an image problem and needs to be renamed according to what type of sea plant it is. Kind of like how soybeans were rebranded as edamame and cow branded as beef.
An interesting documentary. However.. 1:08 That is not the location of Yerseke! The town is in the province Zeeland, not in North Holland. The dot and arrow point more to the city Haarlem, to the west of Amsterdam. The distance in between is approx. 107 km (67 mi), as the crow flies. Just saying.. It's like saying Frankfurt is in North Rhine-Westphalia! Placing Madrid in Catalonia. Pointing to Milan when talking about Rome. But otherwise, as said, interesting. I subscribed just now after having seen earlier good DW-documentaries already. I hope I'll see more. From now on I'll be notified quicker. Bye.
They did not even mention the oxydation of peat, causing the Netherlands' western part to sink by one centimeter a year.
@exeuropean
Жыл бұрын
Hopefully Amsterdam and other western cities disappear in the waves with all its inhabitants. They hate the other citizens of the country and their way of life.
@yellfire
Жыл бұрын
Oh yes, I recall the black peat controversy in the netherlands. It was all over the news.😉
@destickert1307
Жыл бұрын
because it does not fit their narrative of pushing the climate bs agenda
Do seaweeds absorb heavy metals that enter seas from industries?
@ehombane
Жыл бұрын
I am not more worried than heavy metals in regular food. What I am worried is the chemicals to process all that seaweed. I am already poisoned by chemicals used to process soy. I became vegetarian three decades ago to preserve my health. And soy is a big part of my diet. But I just found that soy isolates are poisonous. It seems that they boil the soy in acids, and then cancel the acids some other stuff more dangerous, the one used to make soap. Caustic something. My liver managed to cope with it all these years, but now is failing. And I did not knew it till I saw some similar documentary.
@sweetblueman
Жыл бұрын
@@ehombane sorry to hear.. heavy metals enter body largely from cereals and vegetable than meat and fruits one research article says.
@definitlynotbenlente7671
Жыл бұрын
Depend on what type of seaweed you are growing and how bad the polution from heavyy industry is Even if you can not eat them there are other uses for seaweed
Interesting, informative & lovely documentary video shared by an excellent( DW) documentary channel... shows how scientists use plant biology methods & practical Algei science for reducing carbon dioxide rate & fighting sea levels for facing climate changes, dislikes phenomena. (maybe mango 🥭 plants root beside court grass helps Bangladesh 🇧🇩 peoples )...
@johnkooy5327
Жыл бұрын
--------mango plants or mangroves?
any affordable homes in the floating neighbourhood?
Sea weed for soils! Great idea!
I live by a tidal river and I'm very proud to say that I am part fish
@Marrigje758
Жыл бұрын
Me too Dan. I found a web between my toes one day. I thought I was turning into a frog, but it proved to be athlete's foot. Still I'm not giving up hope.
@johnkooy5327
Жыл бұрын
Being a fish and drinking like a fish are 2 different things Dan!
Bangladesh, one of the most vulnerable country to climate change. Sea level is rising, saline water enter the land as a consequences food security fall in risk. Dhalchar like other island is diminishing day by day with tidal erosion. Scientist should do something for us.
@renatosureal
Жыл бұрын
Explain ... how come sea levels rise when frozen water melts as liquid water occupies LESS VOLUME than ice ?
@TheTim44
Жыл бұрын
@@renatosureal 1: Read up on Archimede's principle. 2: A lot of ice that is melting is land ice, the melting of that ice is causing the sea level rise. Ice that is floating in the water already doesnt cause sea level rise, so you are partially correct. 3: Even without the melting ice, the oceans also thermally expand as the earth is heating up. As you might already now, things expand when temperatures rises. This also goes for water in the oceans.
@renatosureal
Жыл бұрын
@@TheTim44 FROZEN WATER (= ICE) VOLUME is GREATER than LIQUID WATER for god sake ! When ICE MELTS, it OCCUPIES LESS/LESS/LESS volume than before. On another note ... ground ice evaporates when melted, infiltrates, etc ... only a % goes to "bodies of water" loke oceans and rivers. What the % of GROUND ICE compared to OCEANS ??? A. minimum !!!!! Does not even tickle.
@markvanderknoop131
Жыл бұрын
@@renatosureal that ice wasn't floating on water. It comes mostly from land.
@markvanderknoop131
Жыл бұрын
Wageningen University has a huge selection of salt soil vegetables.
I'm sorry for the world, the animals, the trees, the insects. The Problem Is Greed💙💜💚
@HistoryHussar
Жыл бұрын
Without that greed, we would still live in caves. And no, that wouldn't be better for the environment either.
@Kolesha
Жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHussar Facts.
@Seven-ld9zv
Жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHussar You're saying "we would still be living in caves" as if it's less resourceful and less of a skill from the comfortable Netflix-based lives that most of us are living right now. Also perhaps you could explain to me how living in caves is "not better for the environment" than the billions of greenhouse-emitting houses we've built mostly for the rich (sometimes for very small families or even single individuals) all suited to house even our CO2-vomitting vehicles while we run to our local supermarkets every time we get an itch to buy dead animal body parts produced by mass animal agriculture which has been proven to be the largest contributor to climate change of all.
@HistoryHussar
Жыл бұрын
@@Seven-ld9zv Everything you listed here fits the ideology, as if you were reading from a textbook. If you think living in caves is better for the environment, go ahead, enjoy - but don't preach to others while enjoying the same level of comfort. This is just empty virtue signaling, do not pretend for a second that you care about the environment, you just want to feel better about yourself. And that's fine, it's very human, it has been the go-to option for millions of people, for thousands of years. It's just a bit boring and shallow.
@gregbors8364
Жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHussar “Without that greed, we’d still be living in caves.” Oh, so it was *greed* that was the instigator for building shelters and farming for the first time. Interesting take. I always assumed that it was a communal human effort to improve our living conditions.
That gigantic seaweed blob in the Atlantic Ocean is alarming.
@johnkooy5327
Жыл бұрын
present for America?...........with love from the devil
@JusticeAlways
Жыл бұрын
@@johnkooy5327 🔥 😳🔥 >😉
Maybe seaweed can be used to feed our Cows? that way reducing the need of wheat crops for feed
Combine seaweed, cord grass and mangrove trees.
@verycool6022
Жыл бұрын
Mangroves don’t grow in the Netherlands unfortunately
@Wefkebidenberg
Жыл бұрын
Seagras we need more seagras
NEDERLAND 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Maybe something like a reinforced coastal line city makes sense for the Netherlands. If not for residential purposes, then for indoor farms and things like cattle farming as is done nice and efficiently on the floating platform, but why not have it as part of such a bulwark? Or both.
@erinna8298
Жыл бұрын
Our coast line is just way too long to cover it all, the amount of resources and the cost would be prohibitive.
@joeblack4436
Жыл бұрын
@@erinna8298 Yeah. It would definitely not be a small thing.
@erinna8298
Жыл бұрын
@@joeblack4436 also most of the northern coast is a nature reserve and building anything there would be extremely destructive to the eco system ;)
@joeblack4436
Жыл бұрын
@@erinna8298 Realistically speaking - The status of the land as a nature reserve is less of a consideration IF it also faces danger from sea level rise. Unless the intent is to eventually make it a marine nature reserve once flooded. Which would be fine, the world needs those too. But I can assure you the species of plants and animals being protected there will not survive being even partially flooded by the ocean. I hope you get what I'm trying to say.
@erinna8298
Жыл бұрын
@@joeblack4436 yes, it is a massive tidal mud plane inhabited by sea lions etc etc, its a marine reserve already
The dutch are crazy smart
I can't be the only one disliking the floating home segment, only for the reason that it suggests that there could be a future where everyone should live on floating homes. But coastal area are the most expensive ones all over the world, and I bet it's not cheap as well. Most people nowadays can barely afford simple housing. So this feels really out of place, it's not a solution really for anything.
@filegrabber1
Жыл бұрын
We need to accept too that there will be a point when dikes and levees won't be enough. Floating cities may become a thing.
@wowJhil
Жыл бұрын
@@filegrabber1 Doesn't sound realistic at all for most countries and cities.
@ytjos222
9 ай бұрын
@wowJhil Innovative projects always are very costly because you have to be very creative, technical and persevering, but you learn a lot and how to commodotise and market this. Fast forward, putting the lessons learned into cheap solutions.... and a floating city will be a fact, even for you.
@wowJhil
9 ай бұрын
@@ytjos222 Even with sea rises it's not like all places will be under water. And where we already have built you cannot just replace existing buildings with floating ones. That is why this feels gimmicky in the sense that it doesn't actually address the real challenges.
Do House Boats make you seasick ?.
@tslee8236
Жыл бұрын
No, only landsick. 😅
@11:12 that is a terrible translation of what was really said. He said this is bad for our business, not bad for our product. It probably is bad for their product, but the guy was clearly speaking about his business and not the product.
Pretty 😢 the 🐄 have to live in a small area like that
@vgortiz
Жыл бұрын
The cows have a space for walking and grazing near the farm ✌🏻
The Dutch: always impressive, omnipotent with cutting-edge solutions for a rapidly endangered human habitat. So inspiring and working with diligence against a race of the clock and other human nations that are utterly ill-equipped to do anything. 🟧♾️🟧
@anydaynow01
Жыл бұрын
Agreed, I think it will be the Dutch who will also throw in the towel and just start building vast high tech floating cities and farms, as well as furthering the creation of artificial islands.
@erinna8298
Жыл бұрын
Our culture is not to bad, but we also have a crippling stupid generation of politicians more interested in staying in power at any cost whatsoever, slowly eroding all benefits we used to have.
@starcrib
Жыл бұрын
@Erinna 🟥 its the same generation that has infected the entire western world- the later boomers- darkly enhanced people, rage grievance hysterics, born in the 1960's a poisonous generation of crushing diabolical everything. Not all but many. 🟥
@pazeerahmed9167
10 ай бұрын
People like me who are learning and working on environmental problems like sea level rise and seawater intrusion mainly due to climate change have many things we can learn from the Dutch scholars. Thank you, DW for this amazing and informative documentary.
@TheRtm68
9 ай бұрын
@@pazeerahmed9167and what causes climat changing to you????
We need more sea level rise to make climate change great again.
@jijio000
Жыл бұрын
Good joke
@jedadruled984
Жыл бұрын
@@jijio000 Indeed, the climate change religion is a joke.
We live on floating continental shelves that are soaked in water. Too much water? Turn H2O to H and O2!?
Displaying and knowing pollution and environmental issues cant be solved.we have to sacrifise our greeds .we have to limit ourselves in everything either willingly or strict enforcements by system.personel Freedom are only for progressing and not distructions. Whole universe has everyone share never few
Does the sea rise in one ☝️ place … and NOT another? Or would be like adding water to a pot on only one side!!!
No rises in Sydney harbour! Is your land sinking?
Does anyone actually know how much sea as risen in the last hundred years' it must be difficult when you're measuring in mm and it's always moving.
Sea levels aren't rising though are they?
I smoke seaweed and I'm Dutch.
Does this has anything to do with all the seaweed showing up in Florida? Cause she said all the seaweed disappeared 😅
It always will be different then predicted… Worse or better…. different…
Rising sea level??Just 7 mm in the last 20 Years!Not very frighting..
Simple fix: don't build in low level coastal areas. Only an average rate of 3mm a year. Even at 10mm per year it is only 1 meter a century, easy for humans to out build.
@jeanpierreviergever1417
Жыл бұрын
You do realise that 18 million people live in the Netherlands. They need protection.
More River s following water in the more Sea growing water there will stop seas are dry
See weed bacon sounds interesting.
Explain ... how come sea levels rise when frozen water melts [e.g. from polar caps, glaciers, etc ] as liquid water occupies LESS VOLUME than ice ?
@NorboHitman
Жыл бұрын
So now imagine that all the ice that is above the water comes down; that ice wasn't taking up volume in the existing waters.
@renatosureal
Жыл бұрын
@@NorboHitman sure... ALL the ice that is above ground: no evaporation, no infiltration, etc... no loss, nothing - everything goes to the ocean 🤦♂️🤦♂️ [I just wonder % wise how much would 'go' compared to ocean volume 🤔🙄]
@NorboHitman
Жыл бұрын
@@renatosureal Why wouldn't ice above the surface melt and contribute to the sea level? Precipitation comes down? I'm not sure I understand your point.
@renatosureal
Жыл бұрын
@@NorboHitman 4th grade science class...
@NorboHitman
Жыл бұрын
@@renatosureal yes go on? Dying to hear this!
thought the guy with the white hair was Jeremy Wade.
Don’t the Japanese eat seaweed raw instead of extracting proteins with enzymes? Love the documentary. The Dutch have their work cut out for them because of rising sea levels. Without taking measures possibly 60% of the country risks being swallowed back up by the sea, a future old poems already predicted. I wonder if the Dutch succeed because if they do a lot of coastal areas would profit from this knowledge and these inventions. The Dutch have battled the Sea for centuries and our proud to ‘live with water’. Very interesting to see how they will get a grip on this next level threat to their entire existence. If anyone can find answers on how to deal with climate change issues, my money is on the Dutch to figure things out 👍🏻
For about 1000 years ago, the sealevel was 2 meters higher. So nothing new.
You places Yrseke in the absolute wrong part of the country! It is the the south-west of the province of Zeeland.
I bet its not just potato starch, but plastic made of potato starch, which means it was even more expensive/co2 heavy to make.
@erinna8298
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Plastics are polymers linking molecules in long chains, usually from oil, wich is plant material squished. So in a way there might be potatoes in there yes. But for the rest I don't understand how you make this connection. The potato starch was not pumped out of km's deep wells, transported for many km's to a refinery, heated to be distilled and refined, transported many km's again to a factory doing god knows what to it, transported again for many km's before finally being used. So no.
@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372
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@@erinna8298 Exactly, it wasn't just pumped out. Potatoes had to be planted, sprayed, fertilized, maybe even watered, then harvested transported and finally starch could be extracted from them. Then you could start your chemical processes, heating, refining, distilling, and whatever they do to change sugar into plastic. And all those processes starting from planting use fossil fuel.
If you are aware of the overshoot, the most important thing you can do is to act wisely and focus your efforts and resources to living of the grid. As monoculture farming collapses, humanity in its current form is done and a very good argument can be made that most people today aren't worth saving. Write them off.
This is not entirely the truth. Almost all sea dikes still had WW2 defense works in it. From pillboxes artillery emplacements to concrete,stone or wooden foxholes or even trenches. Those caused a lot of dike breakthroughs.
Fun fact .1500 years ago the Netherlands was buried under two miles of ice
@jeroenwubbels7824
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200.000 years ish
I want to listen to music I turn on a sound track. But the background music DW is playing in the documentaries is anoying and totally unecessary.
The Dutch have always right.because this country is build from reclaimed land an still exist .An become very rich.
Sure the people of Bangladesh have been living on water for centuries.
Honestly sea level rise will probably be several meters. Enjoy the cities of today while you can
In 2016 a scientific study was published in Nature by 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries that analysed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14% increase in the earth's green vegetation over the past 30 years. The study attributed 70% of this increase to the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This is equivalent to adding a new continent of green vegetation twice the size of the mainland United States.
@scottekoontz
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Yeppers. Plus CO2 is a greenhouse gas and there are (and will continue to be) winners and losers in the changes that are occurring. Science for the win!* * except you seem to be denying the warming part
@IndependenceCityMotoring
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@@scottekoontz I didn't deny anything. Just pointing out little known facts about climate change, for the climate doomsday cultists.
@scottekoontz
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@@IndependenceCityMotoring OMG CULTISTS!!! I call them scientists, but you can run back to Heartland to feel better. But but... CULTISTS!
@gregbors8364
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“See? Global warming is a *good* thing.” That’s the new spin from vested interests, yes (now that the vast majority of people have accepted that AGW is real)
@archmilan
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This is a well known study, but there are problems associated with it. A lot of the greening is longer growing periods of agriculture, which can yes lead to a co2 sink, but also add additional problems with nitrogen deposition. Additionally the oceans form a major co2 sink as seaweed and other greens thrive, but that could lead to oceans becoming more acidic, that could have potential catastrophic effects too. That's just to denote the messy and complicated nature of climate with so many moving parts.
Seaweed has been on the menu for countless years in South Asia, and so are insects. Food scraps fed to farm animals, and floating houses have been around too. Cow dung has been used for fuel and fertilizer and mangrove trees protect the coasts. Global population control is what's needed and fast track the Nuclear Fusion technology already then we might all live happily ever after.
The Maldives, a very good measure of real world sea level rise without direct human intervention like the Netherlands, has seen a average of 1.4mm of sea level rise per year since they started measuring in 1954, meaning the sea level has risen by 9.6cm in 69 years, and the sea level would rise about 14cm in a hundred years from now....... Clearly far below the end of the world sea level rise we hear about in the news. Also, new ocean front housing developments are being built daily across the globe, being funded by global financial institutions, and insured by global financial institutions...... These guys REALLY DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE, and would never fund projects that would disappear before they get their money paid back. Let us not forget the very large quantity of politicians, media people, celebrities who tell us to pay more taxes to fight sea level rise who own, and continue to purchase the best ocean front property the world have to offer....... If they REALLY BELIEVED IN SEA LEVEL RISE they would not buy those beach front mansions.
@lucbos7516
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The Netherlands and Europe are of no importance whatsoever for the climate and temperature on earth Green and sustainability are lies deceit and ignorance How often do climate clubs such as the IPCC and the UN and NASA still have to be exposed Fraud corruption favoritism deception and deceit Independent climate scientists flush the toilet on with that shit
@nunofoo8620
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"meaning the sea level has risen by 9.6cm in 69 years, and the sea level would rise about 14cm in a hundred years from now....... Clearly far below the end of the world sea level rise we hear about in the news." Meaning you can't account for an increase in sea level increase. You just don't understand the concept. "Also, new ocean front housing developments are being built daily across the globe, being funded by global financial institutions, and insured by global financial institutions...... These guys REALLY DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE, and would never fund projects that would disappear before they get their money paid back" Oh you sweet summer child.. The mortgage crisis of 2008 was not that long ago. To claim lenders are never incompetent is reaching pathetic levels of ignorance. "Let us not forget the very large quantity of politicians, media people, celebrities who tell us to pay more taxes to fight sea level rise who own, and continue to purchase the best ocean front property the world have to offer....... If they REALLY BELIEVED IN SEA LEVEL RISE they would not buy those beach front mansions." They are rich. They can buy a new one. Plus they can do something you can't: Check IPCC SLR projections an buy the house higher than that. If the house floods in 100 years they will be quite dead by then. People die of old age you know?
@mve6182
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@@nunofoo8620 Show me the increase in sea level rising please....
@highs_and_lows4665
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Exactly. An increase in the rate of sea level rise has been predicted for a long time in the Netherlands too but sea level rise has been pretty constant for the past 150 years.
@atropatene3596
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Whenever they build any type of housing, they make sure they make their money back immediately. There's no long term planning, holy shit how naive can you be? "the people who want to make a shitload of money off the people will save the people!"
9:25 "and the urine yeah we process it actually and then we make clean water of it" Next 'brilliant' idea. Wouldn't it be fare less expensive to use it as fertilizer straight away?
@therealdutchidiot
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The issue with that is chemistry. When urine based fertilizers mix with manure based fertlizers you get to the cause of the Dutch crisis surrounding farming.
@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372
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@@therealdutchidiot Processing it to clean water is surely more environment friendly XD
@therealdutchidiot
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@@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372 As long as it doesn't use any power (and it doesn't) it's clean enough.
@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372
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@@therealdutchidiot sure it doesn't use any power
@therealdutchidiot
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@@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372 It's a chemical process, so yes.
Coastel management is not at all about climate change! Rising sea levels are as old as the Netherlands...
It's not a fight , it's a walk in the park, inches a century, ridiculous
Funny that in the NL, everything is in Amsterdam according to the rest of the world. Even Yerseke 🤣🤣 (witch is actually in Zeeland but ok).
Where is all this water coming from to raise the sea level a meter this means that two meters of water would have to be stored over all the land mass, it is just scare mongering .
There is no sea rise.. we just changed our measurment techniques