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@TheGnafse

4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video as always Shirvan. Where did you hear about this project? I'm interested in reading more about it.

@mennit4959

4 жыл бұрын

CaspianReport you are lame and depressed go get some friends finally

@lqla4837

4 жыл бұрын

Next thing you know... this video was brought to you by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

@NLJeffEU

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a fun project. Not even that hard to do tho👍 and your pronunciation of " afsluitdijk" was on point 😂👍

@mfaizsyahmi

4 жыл бұрын

❌ Why you should not endorse products you don't know about and kowtow to their narrative: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iYp4s6eolZnAh7w.html

There is never been a problem the Dutch didn’t think they couldn’t solve with a dam lol

@ezzyth8824

4 жыл бұрын

Invasion by the germans? DAM huge asteroid about to hit the Netherlands? DAM alien invasion? DAMMMM

@SykeMed

4 жыл бұрын

And if all else fails... blow up the damn dams and call it a day.

@Mach1Greeble

4 жыл бұрын

It's worked so far.

@tardvandecluntproductions1278

4 жыл бұрын

@@ezzyth8824 We would have stopped that German invasion if it wasn't for those darn flying machines!

@sven518-7

4 жыл бұрын

Damn, that's right

We're gonna build a wall... And make the Sea pay for it

@pickledpigknuckles6945

3 жыл бұрын

Whats Trump got to do with this LoL maybe he will gain Land for another resort and golf course LoL

@durim187

3 жыл бұрын

Good one

3 жыл бұрын

@@pickledpigknuckles6945 It's a reference to when a Dutch comedian made a video poking fun at all the trumpisms and his retarded idea of 'American first and fuck the whole world'. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nGGs2susZ8uqf6g.html

@Lucsu25

3 жыл бұрын

we dont like the mexican wather

@michaelnice93

3 жыл бұрын

No they are going to make tax payers pay for it.

Netherlands: We want to build a giant sea wall England: Where do we fit in? Netherlands: You are the wall

@glynnwright1699

3 жыл бұрын

England: Here are several hundred thermonuclear weapons that will demolish your wall.

@Thorocious

3 жыл бұрын

The whole of the UK isn't just England you know... missed out Wales and Scotland on that land mass...

@Microtherion

3 жыл бұрын

@@Thorocious The guy's called Glynn. I think he *might* know where Wales is, no? :)

@Thorocious

3 жыл бұрын

@@Microtherion I was referring to the other guy, but okay.

@Microtherion

3 жыл бұрын

@@Thorocious Lol. Like 90 per cent of stuff people say online, I don't suppose it matters anyway. Take it easy...

If there was a war the dam would be such an easy and devastating target

@bryancouillard2016

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't even need to be a war. Something like that is doomed to fail at some point. The ensuing tidal wave flood would cause more damage in hours than slow sea rise would in decades.

@Praecantetia

3 жыл бұрын

@@bryancouillard2016 By that logic the netherlands would already not exist.

@cousinleigh1470

3 жыл бұрын

That could destroy the hole Europe and Asia tho

@Apple-tq3ve

3 жыл бұрын

1. a war with who? 2. even if the dam would eventually fail, by the time it would fail the problem would have already been fixed 3. Adapting? did you go to school? adapting occured over thousands if not millions of years, sea levels will rise too fast to "adapt" to them 4. moving from the rising sea water is no solution, it will displace millions and hurt the economie more than you can imagine

@Praecantetia

3 жыл бұрын

@@Apple-tq3ve option B, the most likely give the world's governments: government leaves people to die or make the choice to move for themselves.

Ocean: Its over Netherlands Netherlands: You didnt see my final form yet

@404killer

4 жыл бұрын

cringe

@Zarrov

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, its rather: Ocean: I have the higher ground Netherlands: you underestimate my powers later: Netherlands: What about rising CO2 levels? Climate: It appears that in your industrial rage to build the dam you increased greenhouse gasses emissions accelearating the catastrophe. Netherlands: NOOOOO!

@TheMrvande

4 жыл бұрын

I laughed harder then I should have at this.

@StoneCoolds

4 жыл бұрын

Netherlands: im only using 1% of my power level

@mumbairay

4 жыл бұрын

@@Zarrov this is clown. Sea level is falling in the Baltic due to glacier rebound

Eu: how will be stop the sea rise!? Netherlands: we should take the Atlantic Ocean...AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!

@jimcarlson6157

4 жыл бұрын

push it over the edge!!

@kamalismy

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimcarlson6157 yup......

@DanksterPaws

4 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in the rest of the world: 🌊

@Bruintjebeer6

4 жыл бұрын

That is what we always do and did. Push the sea somewhere else to gain land or stay dry. A lot off major rivers end in the Netherlands. So we get all the flood water from other countries. Still those countries get flooded but our feet stay dry thanks to the government and our amazing engineers. It is our way off life.

@runs_through_the_forest

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bruintjebeer6 payed with taxes from stoners like me living just at the border lol.. but serious this plan is so wrong, killing the noordzee would be number 1 in selfish neoliberalism, we move inland or kill all life in this sea? it's proposal shows the lack of contact with reality, those planning this should smoke some every now and then, take mushrooms and make contact with nature..

"Budget of between 270bn and 550bn Dollars." That's almost as much as Ireland's new children's hospital! (so far)

@herneyse11

2 жыл бұрын

how much it cost?

The amount of physical material needed just to build that would strain almost every other construction project in the world.

@mnomadvfx

3 жыл бұрын

It would take vastly less to build a giant sea wall to specifically protect the Netherlands instead. It would probably be easier to build a huge freeze ray and fire it at the antarctic to start building up the glaciers again. Considering that the ice melts every year keeping it solid for even just a few weeks longer would be a massive boon to the wildlife already struggling (polar bears and penguins) and keep the white ice reflecting sunlight a little longer. Not well known is that a very large amount of greenhouse gases are actually trapped in ice, and their melting is actually speeding up global warming in a continuous destructive cycle that only melts more ice. So reversing this process could trap a lot of GH gases back in ice for a while.

@TristanPopken

3 жыл бұрын

​@@mnomadvfx The main reason melted poles increase the temperature even more is because of the albedo effect. Btw, it is impossible to cool down the poles. For things to cool down you need to transfer heat. You cant just take away heat. And where are you going to store those billions of joules of energy in heat? If you move it to the equator it will slowly spread around the world again. You would need to shoot it into space. This would take so much more money than just taking away greenhouse gasses and let earth cool down itself over time, which is still possible if countries act quick. Also the north pole is pretty much doomed already so even if humans wanted, it would be impossible to save wildlife there. And it is correct that it would be less work just to safe the Netherlands. But, what about a lot of other coastal cities in France, England, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia. It is true however that it would hit the economie and ecology with the canal locks and fresh waters.

@mathijs8537

3 жыл бұрын

@@TristanPopken yeah, and the ice was melting without the help of humans. We are just out of an ice time so it would be weird if it wasnt melting.

@bigtone7824

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry this is just an internet video something like this will never happen

@faabzeeland

2 жыл бұрын

No, look at A chart of the North Sea. Bitch is shallow

1. Build the dams 2. Pump out the sea 3. RAISE DOGGERLAND!

@testserver2054

4 жыл бұрын

Travis Atwood then terrorist attacked and millions drown

@RogerValor

4 жыл бұрын

it would seriously make brexit look foolish if britain stops being an island. i mean foolishER.

@LorRosengartsky

4 жыл бұрын

Roger Valor I mean. Coming to visit Britain on foot? Sure, no problem, we just pulled our 10000 years back ancestors’ trick, hi, hello there

@akithyren

4 жыл бұрын

I think this would be super interesting - it reminds me of the science fiction books like 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson - you can find similar megaprojects described there in detail - not this one though - would be great to read a sci Fi story about this.

@akithyren

4 жыл бұрын

And perhaps somewhere in a small region in this Doggerland you could make something like a "Pleistocene Park"(more like a reserve actually) with living mammoths and other megafauna

Europe: What can we do about rising sea levels? Netherlands: Build a dam! The North Sea: Well, I'll be damned!

@Polomac100

4 жыл бұрын

*dammed

@dannycollier1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Polomac100 Search up the meaning of 'damned' and you will be able to get the joke.

@xsniperwolf9457

4 жыл бұрын

Danny Boy terrible joke

@doctercali5234

4 жыл бұрын

Danny Boy funny

@mechellekingman7833

4 жыл бұрын

The problem is the sea levels our not rising according to sat data

As a marine biologist from Norway I can tell you that this will most likely never happen. So many species of animals would go extinct for the sake of some of the countries that are leading in climate change. Migrating fish on ocean currents would go extinct, and local sea life is depended on this nutrient influx, it will completely destroy the local environment, affecting weather patterns and could cause extreme draughts making the land next to completely uninhabitable for people or animals. I mean I am a big fan of Caspian report and I love your geopolitical breakdowns, but when it comes to ecology and environment there are some things that you completely overlook. Understandable though, we live on a planet that completely overlooks ecology and environment.

@caezar55

2 жыл бұрын

There would be ways around that. For example they could build channels for marine life to able to move through. The North Sea would remain salt water, so the idea this project would change the climate is absurd.

@058thegodfatherlwd

2 жыл бұрын

@@caezar55 lol, clearly you have no perspective on ocean currents, are you familiar with Norwegian fjords? Narrow points in those fjords already change the salinity of the water and nutrient influx, as well as species diversity, and that are only small masses of water. These channels need to be absolutely massive and placed at the right places for your proposal to work considering the huge bodies of water it contains, and then you are basically guessing that the Atlantic mackerel, bluefin tuna and other fish and large marine mammal species are going to adapt their migration patterns. Sounds like a massive ecological disaster.

@whatacruelchoice

2 жыл бұрын

Yup there is no way this would be done, the downsides are enormous, north western europe is densely populated only because of access to sea, without that sea there is no reason for people to be there. Protect coastal populations by destroying the logic of their existence? this is futile. Even the most reasonable version of this, a dam from dover to calais which leaves southern england and northern france (which are relatively high do not need protection from sea level rise) with a functional population still requires that insanely long dam across scotland to norway and I honestly dont believe that a dam can built that will endure the north sea storm surges we will see in the later half of this century.

@EliHaNavi

2 жыл бұрын

[sarc on] Yes, yes: because animals are so much > than people. Typical W Euro degenerate thinking.

@EliHaNavi

2 жыл бұрын

@@whatacruelchoice Nope. The important thing is access to waterway. Turning the North and Baltic seas into humongous freshwater lakes does not change ability for the maritime Euro nations to trade with each other. The only thing that will get affected is access to the Atlantic. But this can be ameliorated by the use of locks.

Everyone's laughing at them now, but no one's gonna be laughing when they colonize all of the sea

@MrWeedWacky

3 жыл бұрын

the environmental disaster this will cause will be the end of mankind. there are thousands of species of fish that travel to and from the kattegat... the dams would kill that... this would destroy fishing in the north sea, Skagerrak and Baltic sea... food for 10's of millions of people.... it is the most moronic plan ever.

@Praecantetia

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrWeedWacky I probpose a fish gate

@MrWeedWacky

3 жыл бұрын

@@Praecantetia the size of a blue whale?

@Praecantetia

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrWeedWacky yes. If we can get a ship elevator the size of the evergiven then we can make a cate for fish and whales.

@frankrichter4480

3 жыл бұрын

What that Dutch boys and stick his finger in

Europe: "What should we do?" Dutch: "Dam it!"

@doctercali5234

4 жыл бұрын

funny

@akakak17

4 жыл бұрын

God dam what a good joke

Ah, the eternal Dutch War of Aggression against the Sea.

@SMiki55

4 жыл бұрын

Doggerland shall be avenged

@darkfoxxbunyip

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, the sea started it! It's self defence!

@remlok5556

4 жыл бұрын

The sea had it coming

@MrBigCookieCrumble

4 жыл бұрын

*G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

@rubino7736

4 жыл бұрын

nice

Neptune: I rule here The dutch: hold my shitty Heineken sponsored dam

@stephenmeier4658

2 жыл бұрын

Heineken is not shitty

@derpboy8904

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenmeier4658 im dutch and i think it is

@JR-mh8vn

Ай бұрын

@@stephenmeier4658 we Dutch call it piss beer cause it makes you pee a lot

This has the same energy of "the oceans are warming? just throw some ice into it" solution.

Dutch: I have a great idea. Marine life in the Atlantic Ocean: WTF

@mattnorris7124

4 жыл бұрын

Americans coming to land on French beaches: WTF

@jasonbrynn5633

4 жыл бұрын

nice, laugh hard

The world: This project would lead to complete and utter damnation The Dutch: what’s so wrong with being a dam nation?

@veerk3494

4 жыл бұрын

damn ation

@sarahhaugh7922

4 жыл бұрын

...not if you're a civil engineer!

The Dutch: *Sees open body of water* The Dutch: “Not on my watch”

First step, dam the North sea. Second step, drain it and turn it into a parking lot.

"Make Doggerland great again!"

@obiden3322

3 жыл бұрын

I just made that comment - didn't copy you - I even spelt it differently

@jacobedward2401

3 жыл бұрын

I was going to say "Make Doggerland Dry Again"

@newporg6887

3 жыл бұрын

Thats exactly what i ws gonna comment about.

@mnomadvfx

3 жыл бұрын

You would have to drain billions of liters of water from the North Sea and English channel just to see part of it get dry.

@debbiehenri345

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm, yes, with every potential for bringing back the mosquito and malaria into the region (malaria used to be a problem in both the Somerset flats and Norfolk regions of the UK, so there's every reason to believe it ran rife throughout the swampy wetlands of former Doggerland). That'll make for a nice summer vacation spot.

Afsluitdijk: *exists* Netherlands: this isn't even my final form

@Qatrebew

4 жыл бұрын

i seriously thought this was just gibberish mashing on keyboard but it actually is a *language*

@AnotherPanther

4 жыл бұрын

@@Qatrebew hey all the other languages took the normal sounding words! you can't blame us for being stuck with this smh

@blockomainia2

4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was having a stroke reading it but then I remembered it’s just dutch.

@zitzak2794

4 жыл бұрын

Hey don’t forget *arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekeringsmaatschappij*

@julianpichardo5045

4 жыл бұрын

At lest it ain’t welsh

would probably have a butterfly effect on wildlife and fuck everything up

@christopherrowley7506

3 жыл бұрын

yeah climate change is enough, we don't need to treat the whole baltic sea like a petri dish. It would no doubt have horrific consequences for the health of the ocean and everything that lives in it. I say let the humans move. They made it hot, they can move.

@javik1929

3 жыл бұрын

building a huge ass concrete wall and sticking it into the ocean is no comparison to a random butterfly flapping its wings, butterfly effect would be you peeing into the ocean having a comparable effect, and its nonsense

I think something like this was proposed across the strait of Gibraltar before ww2 but it was concluded that it would take more than all of the concrete in the entire world to complete

@nickl5658

3 жыл бұрын

In 1935.... yes... but we now make a lot more concrete.

Britain: leaves EU Netherlands: *Builds dam around UK*

@ravinhobo

4 жыл бұрын

YA GOT A LOISANCE FOR THAT DAM

@carsandstuff365

4 жыл бұрын

Like the powers at be will let happen 😂

@PassiveFIRE

4 жыл бұрын

puts a massive twist on the claims to have access to British waters.

@noahisaac9049

4 жыл бұрын

Yep.. and Afro am immigrants build it lol

@Dave-hu5hr

4 жыл бұрын

Britain: Phones 617 Squadron.

The EU: The sea is rising, what can we do? Netherlands: *STARTS WATERBENDING*

@octavianvonspitzbergen8561

3 жыл бұрын

EU: God! DAM IT

@AberdeenLoon1903

3 жыл бұрын

Dammed if u do dammed if u don't!

@eriihf

Жыл бұрын

E.u are nothing but liers

@TheShumoby

9 ай бұрын

Just dammed move out of Netherlands

Can you imagine the impact when this dam failed?

If we start messing with tides and currents we could coures more harm than good as they are all interlinked in some way.

@tvdsje

3 жыл бұрын

Mess with currents and tides like the Netherlands has already done since the 12th century lol? There are good arguments against it but vague fears are not it

@l1verpool1000

3 жыл бұрын

@@tvdsje yes on a small scale not with an entire sea etc

@Hozay1234

3 жыл бұрын

I think the reasons for the proposal does need to be addressed, got any ideas since you believe this one might cause harm. There are thousands if not millions living in areas that will be threatened by the rising sea levels

@l1verpool1000

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hozay1234 not without more data no but one thing is not to build homes on a flood plain or where flooding is likely to occur thats just common sense.

@Hozay1234

3 жыл бұрын

@@l1verpool1000 Common sense and Humans don't get along in my experience of life. I agree, but that isn't going to help the millions people who are in these places through no fault of their own for various reasons, and there is a good chance that a lot of those people would have a hard if not impossible time being relocated, should they all just die? Very likely that the sea levels will rise no matter what happens, so we do need ideas on how to tackle such massive issues.

The dutch are just playing minecraft at this point

@mastertrams

4 жыл бұрын

Oh how Europe could N.E.E.D. the Dutch minecrafting skills.

@David-km2ie

4 жыл бұрын

We have an old history playing minecraft

@rudolfkraffzick642

4 жыл бұрын

Anyway. But the problem of the warm gulf stream blocked from the English Channel and the North Sea is kept out completely.

@erikarneberg11

4 жыл бұрын

New game: Damcraft

Sea: *exists* Netherlands: “It’s free real estate”

@SomewhereAbove

3 жыл бұрын

Actually it's very much the other way around when you realize how much the Netherlands gets flooded

@johnzuijdveld9585

3 жыл бұрын

NthSeaExit!

@johnzuijdveld9585

3 жыл бұрын

For Gods' sake! don't tell the Chinese that, they'll claim all the oceans!

@fabioartoscassone9305

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnzuijdveld9585 i know the love of Dutchmen for pressing ( Total Football), but u are a bit obsessed, right?

@hunterashwill5766

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't exactly say free, they pay for a lot for it.

"how do we stop climate change" "Lets change the climate ourselves instead!" *facepalm*

@MaggotDiggo1

3 жыл бұрын

If only we were that powerful.

@alamunez

3 жыл бұрын

We’re already changing the climate ourselves, so trying to fix it ourselves wouldn’t be such a crazy idea.

@MrWeedWacky

3 жыл бұрын

@@alamunez like this would be moronic. there are species of whale and fish that migrate into the North Sea and Baltic sea to spawn... This would kill them off, also completely destroying the fishery of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Estonia, Germany. leaving them with a lot less food... This is literally the worst idea man has ever had!

@alamunez

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrWeedWacky I’m not saying this is the best idea, or even a feasible one. I’m just pointing out that we’re already changing the climate ourselves, because your comment seemed to suggest we weren’t already doing that.

@annerigby4400

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrWeedWacky have you heard about the depletion of the oceans? what makes you think man will still be fishing in thirty years time? or that there will still be whale and fish migrating anywhere? This idea might actually save marine fauna by making people more aware of how necessary it actually is. By trying to solve one problem (water rising), perhaps other problems (ocean depletion) will be addressed too. That's often how things work out. Personally, I think land loss and people migration is worse than shipping and fishing problems. It's time to stop thinking about everything in terms of money and start thinking in terms of planet (we only have the one) and people. The idea of such a huge dam hopefully will get people in power to re-think and re-prioritise some stuff...

Discussion is ongoing to irrigate the saraha desert with sea water if I remember correctly. Growing algae that absorb carbon in a place like the sahara would be viable.

@DieFlabbergast

2 жыл бұрын

Breaking news! Dutch engineers hatch plan to pump extra unwanted water from the North Sea to the Sahara. The affluence of incohol is suspected.

I love how its the dutch. They are so sick of water that they just want to get it as far away from their nation as possible

@denisneubert8013

4 жыл бұрын

It's water. If dutch people gonna stop it with a giant wall, other countries of the world going to be flooded even more. Water has to go somewhere else, right? Mostly it's gonna hit poor countries even more. Also Italy, US, so many places in Asia going to be affected by it. Again, just ignorant way of thinking. There are view places in dessert regions like sahara or in Australia that are below the sea-level. To flood these will be benefitial for everyone and more efficient.

@fryreviews693

4 жыл бұрын

Johny Okinawa. Im so confused on what me joking about the dutch hating water has to do with this

@denisneubert8013

4 жыл бұрын

@@fryreviews693 True, I didn't get the joke first. After reading second time, kinda funny yes. They are tall enough. I just would never support this stupid project. People actually getting payed for stupid ideas like this...

@baskoller5506

3 жыл бұрын

I (Dutch) love water. We just happen to live mostly below sea level. And I have no gills to speak off. Yet.

@stefan-ox8qs

3 жыл бұрын

@@denisneubert8013worst off all, its from tax money :(

They could pump out the whole sea and reclaim doggerland.

@masc6287

4 жыл бұрын

Lets just wait for the next Ice age in a 100 thousand years to reduce sea levels

@martinmanifold2241

4 жыл бұрын

The dutch is doggerland central ...

@tubaboytom

4 жыл бұрын

Kinda arrogant. Pumping out all that water not only takes more time and money but also displaces the water. With such a mass of water being pumped out it'd do more harm globally.

@andrewmillar8153

4 жыл бұрын

@Jon Bjornssen 🤭

@arposkraft3616

4 жыл бұрын

exacataly

One big simple trouble about reclaiming or damming sea on a large scale is the harder you try to drive sea away, the less space you leave seawater with, the higher sea level will come to be. After all, the volume of sea water is constant, the height of sea water will have to rise, if it is given a smaller area to take up.

No mention of the interrupted gulf stream... Wouldn't blocking warm water from the Caribbean be disastrous for the temperate climate of western Europe?

North Sea: I'll be damned if the Dutch go thru with this project

@davidhimmelsbach557

3 жыл бұрын

View Doggerland, BBC, somewhere here on KZread.. The Dutch are proposing to return to the conditions of 10,000 years before the present.

@mrmatthewshun

3 жыл бұрын

Dammed*

@Luka_H

3 жыл бұрын

We will make it the North Lake😂😂

@theobolt250

3 жыл бұрын

No, not damned, dammed 😄

@Mitaka.Kotsuka

Жыл бұрын

the north sea... and all the countries sharing coastline with the baltic...

What did the fish say when it hit the wall? Damn.

@luiz_second

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAAHHAHA no way

@nuggetella

3 жыл бұрын

🍺😂💨

@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

killer!

@davidquezada50

3 жыл бұрын

That's what happens when you go in head first

@nuggetella

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidquezada50 🍺😂💨

I wonder how Russia would feel getting boxed into the Baltic...

Perhaps the best solution would be to have the northern dam running between northern Denmark and northern England. This would avoid the deep Norwegian Trench and the countries around the northern part of the North Sea are less vulnerable to rising sea levels compared to the southern part.

@caezar55

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly right, the sea levels are only around 25m deep along parts of that route. Would also solve the problem of Russian subs not being able to get out of Baltic Sea.

Netherlands : yes, no more flooding here. Venice : dam.

@ramiromunoz1161

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@AlMcpherson79

4 жыл бұрын

Netherlands: How did you know?

@robanderson2501

4 жыл бұрын

Well then

@mxxmauuhan3597

3 жыл бұрын

Can we simply dump the sea water in space ? It will save the earth from flooding.

North Sea: Exists Nederland: *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

@koekiebad5690

4 жыл бұрын

Mr BigCookie damm right

@johnvanderjagt2463

4 жыл бұрын

Mr BigCookie I N G E P O L D E R D

These plans were already prposed by dr ir Johan van Veen before 1940. He warned and delivered the Delta works 3 days before the flooding of 1953 that killed 1800 people. He was renowned for his futuristic plans around the world, but neglected in his own country. This North Sea plan was also adviced by him.

Britain: leaves EU to keep its fishing deposits to itself EU: Builds a megaproject which ultimately kills all the fish Britain: Visible Fustration

The UK- Finally Brexit! Netherlands- How about you literally become part of Europe?

@Historyfan476AD

4 жыл бұрын

UK- Dam Busters.

@sausagejockyGaming

4 жыл бұрын

Defenstrator they would need uk permission consdiering we own the channel and it would fuck the uk, that water has to go somewhere

@ahamedihamiyun5927

4 жыл бұрын

@@sausagejockyGaming send the water to Landon

@Historyfan476AD

4 жыл бұрын

@@ahamedihamiyun5927 Nah, send it to Istanbul. the other side of Europe/Asia minor.

@Historyfan476AD

4 жыл бұрын

@Konceited Kai could easily close it, or collapse it.

"... one of the largest civil engineering projects in the world" -- how about "far and away the largest civil engineering project in the world"?

@Danquebec01

4 жыл бұрын

Yea I’m left wondering what is the largest civil engineering project if this one wouldn’t be?

@armand9404

4 жыл бұрын

@@Danquebec01 it's fairly obvious actually

@stb357

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought about how the mega damns in China compare, but do those even come close to the scale of this project?

@kolikari3813

4 жыл бұрын

stb357 damn

@Danquebec01

4 жыл бұрын

@@stb357 Are you referring to the Three Gorges Dam? I don’t consider it as coming close.

Never going to happen, the material required for this type of project would mean putting all other construction projects on hold for decades. The Dam would need to be over 60ft above sea level for a 100 year storm, and probably would not be finished before sea levels rise anyway. And not to forget building this in winter in the North Sea would probably be impossible.

The UK government would rather people moved inland than fund a penny to fight a losing battle with the sea

@32shumble

3 жыл бұрын

You think losing battles should be fought?

The world: Huge Plan!!! Takes years! The Netherlands: We need more coffee! And 30 minutes.....

The Netherlands: We're gonna build a wall and the fishes will pay for it

@Post-Occident

4 жыл бұрын

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@George83_Thomas

4 жыл бұрын

Kojo Tutu agreed

@bigsnugga

4 жыл бұрын

and we’ll succeed like trump is doing right now.

@patrickscholten222

4 жыл бұрын

scheldedam can also the fish let free to swim, duch are smart you know

@Ohne_Silikone

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, as the salinity of the water changes, the fish will pay.

There would be parts of the unfinished dam that the sea would pound for 20 years before the whole thing is complete. They would immediately have to go back and start repairing sections of it. It would be a never-ending project. There would probably need to be some lighting on it as well, so a ship lost in a storm doesn't go crashing into it. I do think the solution to the shipping lanes could be canals dug through the UK, France, and Norway similar to the Suez canal. That would also keep the North Sea from losing saltwater. It wouldn't help the effect on tides or sea life though.

I'm more worried about how something like this would effect marine life. We've already overfished the seas and killed 80% of birds/insect populations.

@tinkertailor7385

3 жыл бұрын

Dude you need to stop reading depressive Greenpeace propaganda. We haven't killed 80% of birds and insects and fishing is not over fished it's over regulated. Did you really think 80 percent of all birds and insects have been destroyed?....There are tens of billions of birds and trillions of insects.

@Scampcam

3 жыл бұрын

@Raven Moon isn't the issue it'll gradually become fresh water, not sea water over time?

@Saved-by-Grace

3 жыл бұрын

@@tinkertailor7385 Ok but how many species have we as humans endangered or made extinct? Way too many my dude.

@lennard939

2 жыл бұрын

Well whats 20% more?

I first thought they would drain it and reclaim doggerland

@DaDunge

4 жыл бұрын

Probably a better idea really, because the enclosure would become a slowly evaporating pool of Brine otherwise.

@FatUberUddersOfChaos

4 жыл бұрын

Would be amazing for archeology!

@TheJeremyKentBGross

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah can you imagine the population fills up the area, and natural disasters or terrorism breaches the dam and kills 1 billion people whose homes are now 200m under water?

@failedtoloadpleasetryagain1862

4 жыл бұрын

@@DaDunge i think all the rivers flowing into the northern sea would make overflow more of a risk then it evaporating draining the sea would also be catastrophic for the fishing industry and for shipping routes

@DaDunge

4 жыл бұрын

@@failedtoloadpleasetryagain1862 The last part is something you'd get with the dammed "lake" too. All the fish in the lake would die, and the locks in the dams would no where near be able to handle the amount of traffic needed to keep the coastal ports alive.

The Dutch are once again looking to escalate their ongoing war against the sea

@jh5kl

4 жыл бұрын

😆

@peterdevalk7929

4 жыл бұрын

And again,...with success. Mark my words!

@hansgerlsma2672

4 жыл бұрын

The sea drew first blood, not us!

@jonasjaagur9635

3 жыл бұрын

SEAA!!! Raaaarrrgghhh!!!

Wouldn’t somebody just blow it up? I feel like leaving that out as a potential danger is foolish.

I would love to be a part of that scheme. Terrific project. To put the ports on the dams would work.

Even if the Netherlands sinks, they’ll just built underwater cities

@seancrawford3061

4 жыл бұрын

Probably cheaper

@terraindomitus3758

4 жыл бұрын

So just like rapture just without the crazy adam adict splicers, child experimented little sisters, diving suit wearing big daddy's and big sisters.

@Airborne675

4 жыл бұрын

That Will Never Happend

@jackreynolds9720

4 жыл бұрын

@@terraindomitus3758 Have you tried walking around Amsterdam city centre at night you may be surprised.

@terraindomitus3758

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackreynolds9720 no i haven't but my comment is just refrencing bioshock.

England Pro : Probably double in size, Salt buissness Cons : Germany can now reach british mainland.

@GWRProductions-kg9pt

4 жыл бұрын

invasion wise impossible

@mazemue

4 жыл бұрын

I might have misunderstood. But I don't think that the idea is to drain the Nordic and Baltic Sea completely. That would probably be worse than the rising sea level... Just keep their sea levels from rising the same way the Atlantic's will do.

@CancerGaming56

4 жыл бұрын

"The British campaign to remain surrounded by sea" A.K.A. WWII insurance policy.

@hex2307

4 жыл бұрын

Dambusters 2

@Alistplay

4 жыл бұрын

@@CancerGaming56 😂😂😂

Even the title to this vid made me piss myself laughing. . . "A large body of water? *Sexual Dutch noises*. . . Can we. . . Can we dam it? You MUST let us dam it. . . Oh god we must dam it!"

I keep thinking back to "Superman Returns" when Lex Luthor builds a continent by throwing that crystal into the sea.

The Dutch : lol u guys in survival.. *just use world edit*

@fionadavies18

4 жыл бұрын

//set stone

Dutch: Close it! Europe: Why? Dutch: _You wouldn't get it_

@vanlao6367

4 жыл бұрын

Whatever the Dutch were smoking to make this project, i want some of that

@cryptow3s270

4 жыл бұрын

Haha this is realy fake🤣

If there was a long undefended concrete wall holding back an additional 2m of sea level from flooding Western European coastlines, cue a single Russian submarine and a volley of torpedoes.

@bleedblue9657

2 жыл бұрын

100%

@joestevenson5568

2 жыл бұрын

This dam would also be protecting St Petersburg... Russias only western port.

@MrARock001

2 жыл бұрын

@@joestevenson5568 true. Though for significantly less money, and much faster, Russia could build it's own wall only protecting St. Petersburg. Not seriously saying any of this would happen, just pointing out how a wall would become another vulnerable piece of infrastructure that might be used in the international chess-game.

What Britain sees in the netherlands: Beautiful countryside and historic global friends and allies What the dutch sees in Britain: ya this would make a good wall to protect us from the sea

*Dutch dam effectively cutting off St. Petersburg* NATO: Here’s a billion dollars

@_loss_

4 жыл бұрын

Petersburg is already cut off by Kattegatt.

@lexethonor294

4 жыл бұрын

NATO is not anti-russia. But we must protect against russian aggression.

@HarrySmith-hr2iv

4 жыл бұрын

@@lexethonor294 You mean there is no USA aggression?

@lexethonor294

4 жыл бұрын

​@@HarrySmith-hr2iv USA didn.t invade europe and installed dictatorships.

@generalsecrecy7917

4 жыл бұрын

We did install democracies though

Imagine lowering the sea level of the north sea by 1 meter and then one dam breaks and the resulting tsunami destoys not only the costalregion but probably will penetrate deep in the land aswell lol. Btw 1 meter lowering would be equal to 570.000.000.000.000 Liter of Water. Imagine that much water returning in the northsea all at once lol

@zigmeisterful

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, this idea is fucking dumb.

@oliverbutterfield9844

3 жыл бұрын

That wouldn’t be a tsunami. It’s 1m high, and comparable to tidal ranges seen across the North Sea. I’m not saying it isn’t a dumb idea, but a hole in the dam where one side is 1m higher than the other will not be as immediately devastating as you imagine. It will take a long time for enough water to flow through to increase the height. Certainly no massive waves.

@mauricebenink

3 жыл бұрын

You know when you go get a glass of water does your house instantly flood becuase that water is connected to a huge basin of water which is trying to escape ?

@LemonsRage

3 жыл бұрын

@@oliverbutterfield9844 Even if the dam doesn't break the ecological and climate consequences should not to be underestimate lol. cutting of such a hughe water mass from the global see will probably harm migrating sea creatures. Also what would happen with the warming effect the flowing water has? As I understand it the gulfstream is warming up europe in the winter so we don't have -40°C in the winter. What would happen to that? What about ships? Who has the legal force to collect taxes from ships passing over the dams, how would they do that?

@atomiclemon77

3 жыл бұрын

This was my first thought as well. If it works (excluding all of the environmental and economical problems) the damage caused by that much water would be staggering. I am not sure how much I would trust that dam.

The first problem is getting governments to agree on if this should go ahead and who pays. But as Cern has demonstrated countries can work together.

This sounds like an ecological nightmare to be honest.

@coenvdb6032

3 жыл бұрын

Especially for us humans living in the netherlands.

@ZardexM

3 жыл бұрын

It's ecological only in the sense of how it effects ecology. The reasons have nothing to do with climate however. The sea is rising because the land is sinking. It has been sinking for thousands of years, with no human CO2 emissions. Doggerland did not sink because of CO2.

@coenvdb6032

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZardexM You should go back to school. Lemme break it down, more CO2 in atmosphere --> more greenhouse gasses in air --> more warmth gets trapped --> temperature rises --> water expands --> sealevels rise. Climate change does make a difference...

@ZardexM

3 жыл бұрын

@@coenvdb6032 Funny how your climate change makes the sea-level go down on the coast of Finland and rise on the coast of England while the geological process of tilting earth suddenly no longer applies.

@ZardexM

3 жыл бұрын

@@coenvdb6032 And before you blame civilized humanity and fossil fuels for CO2, believing any climate accord can solve anything, if you believe co2 is causing climate change, ask africans to stop breeding and eliminate the world of termite nests... both would reduce production of CO2 more then ending fossil fuel consumption.

nobody: The Dutch: I N G E P O L D E R D

@cdemr

4 жыл бұрын

I read this with the *thickest* Dutch accent I could even think of

@Dawizard1985

4 жыл бұрын

Goed bezugg 👍🏻

@roel3377

4 жыл бұрын

Zeg makker

@AskTorin

4 жыл бұрын

Spannend!!

@maik8922

4 жыл бұрын

Lekker bezig

As a distinguished professor in Astrological Geology from Timbuktu University, this would alter the spin of the earth so bad that it would rotate counterclockwise!

I really can't tell if this proposal is supposed to be serious. It sounds to me like something out of a 1960s or 1970s science fiction novel.

@3DPeter

3 жыл бұрын

the distance between england and scandanavia is about 500km. The ocean is about 100m deep there, so when we would built a dam there, then we would also put a highway on it and a railroad, so let's say 100 meters wide on top and 20m above the ocean level. Then that would take about 12 billion tons of sand, and that's about 12 times the amount of what it took to built The Palm Jumeirah. So it's possible to built a dam, specialy when there are alot of countries that are involved in it, so money can't be the problem.

@naturerelaxingsounds2167

3 жыл бұрын

@@3DPeter it will never happen get over it

Ocean: *I shall rise* Dutch: We dont do that here

@jezusbloodie

4 жыл бұрын

me, a dutchie: wellllllll *hits blunt*

@greengreen110

4 жыл бұрын

And then the duch said: there shall be land, and thus the netherlands rose from the seas

@luis_zuniga

4 жыл бұрын

Sapt Sagn the Dutch: you shall not pass!

@elvolvasky69

4 жыл бұрын

Jajaja the best comment

so much for the UK trying to achieve its splendid isolation. now you’ll have these lovely tulip fanatics walking to Dover

@rusu989

4 жыл бұрын

biking* to dover

@joeribaars5481

4 жыл бұрын

shit, they figured our plan to keep England in the EU by making it landlocked into Europe.

@rusu989

4 жыл бұрын

@@joeribaars5481 I say, would either of you chaps fancy a swim in the baltic pond ?

@joeribaars5481

4 жыл бұрын

I like swimming, but maybe wait till the water is warmer.

@jonathanwilson8951

4 жыл бұрын

Independence, not isolation.

Dutch: Mega Dam Me: Sea Fortress?

I read the title and I thought, are they fuckin high? And then I was like, oh yeah, Dutch.

Ah yes, It has to be the Dutch Wanna build wall? Ask a Dutch Wanna build a sea wall? Ask a Dutch Wanna build a space wall? Ask a Dutch Yes, it has to be Dutch

@piotrd.4850

4 жыл бұрын

Contract the Dutch to build Dyson Sphere :D or Ringworld

@leonardoschiavelli6478

4 жыл бұрын

If Trump hired Dutch workers, the US-Mexico border wall would be complete in less than a year, lol

@telebubba5527

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonardoschiavelli6478 It's not an option. Period!

@jonasjaagur9635

3 жыл бұрын

Trump should have asked us to build the Mexican wall:p

@stephenderry9488

3 жыл бұрын

Wanna wear comfortable shoes? Don't ask a Dutch.

Its gonna be a beautiful dam, and belgium will pay for it!

@malahammer

4 жыл бұрын

Ah go on......let the Mexicans pay. They are paying for absolutely everything.

@ChPonsard

4 жыл бұрын

Here's a lol from Belgium :p

@davidparfitt9009

4 жыл бұрын

123Dunebuggy and so they should

@lieberfreialsgleich

4 жыл бұрын

Usually, Germany pays for everything.

@BKrol-dr4gi

4 жыл бұрын

France surrenders to the sea anyway so why not start the dam in south netherlands or as some people call it belgium

Hello Caspian Report, how can we contact you about right to use your images ? Thank you very much.

That would be the final nail in the coffin for surfing in the Netherlands and Belgium

England: We want Brexit! EU: Sure no problem..... Netherlands: Um...by the way.... just one more thing....

@jhrusa8125

4 жыл бұрын

One more thing the United States won't let the Netherlands do.

@TheRingoism

4 жыл бұрын

Funny but like the EU has the funds to pay for this and they'd want the UK to pay for most of it...

@Eddyspeeder

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRingoism Trump just called, he said the Mexicans will pay for this wall too

@antonioklaic4839

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRingoism Germany is richer than UK and France is equivalent, add the other members in aswell. Plus UK companies are moving to the EU. EU isn't the one who is going to have funding problems.

@chickenborn7697

4 жыл бұрын

"Sure, no problem" is not exactly how I would describe the past few years in regards to EU response to Brexit. But okay xD

The Dutch and German scientists need to lay off the cocaine.

4 жыл бұрын

The Dutch need to lay off the weed.

@roadrage9191

4 жыл бұрын

Nah the drugs are just for the tourists, we don't need drugs to be crazy.

4 жыл бұрын

Zachary Durocher, also americans.

@leroy8295

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@livfastcole5058

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed way to much Boss LMFAO

Why not drill a big hole to the centre of the earth and drain the seas that way?

@kitrichardson2165

3 жыл бұрын

or just build a pump that pumps water out of the North Sea faster than it can flow into it from the ocean

The netherlands: the sea level is rising Everyone:god damn it The netherlands: great idea

Did he just say the estimate for construction is 20 years? It took 16 years to build a 10 km subway line in Amsterdam.

@larsebbers5214

4 жыл бұрын

however they also just needed about six years for the afsluitdijk which is 32 km long and that was from 1927 to 1933 so now we have far better equipment.

@XDbored1

4 жыл бұрын

@@larsebbers5214 sure better equipment but worse management tighter budgets more corruption and no one works any day there is a single drop of rain and it takes 3 guys to watch one guy while 4 others guys are grabbing lunch and 6 six other guys are stuffing around in a office doing paperwork just to do one construction job nothing gets done that fast anymore

@poltem1

4 жыл бұрын

Coincidentally this dam is not being build in Amsterdam

@XDbored1

4 жыл бұрын

@@jodypelupessy2142 but you only win by default is the problem its slow everywhere

@roy_hks

4 жыл бұрын

XDbored1 We literally replace entire overpasses in a day. Nothing in the Netherlands is slow when it comes to infrastructure aside from Groningen Ringweg ):

~$200 billion is not very expensive when you consider projects like the joint strike fighter.

@RedKrossSquad

4 жыл бұрын

Or the GDP of the countries involved. It's be a good amount, but doing it in stages would stagger the costs rather noticeably.

@lukeday87

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately once the dam is built they arent able to sell it

@stevshaboba7476

4 жыл бұрын

You're kidding yourself if you think this would only cost 200 billion

@Defaultname0000

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao, £200bn wouldn't get it even a 10th completed.

@saltylad2107

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevshaboba7476 The ISS cost $150 billion (2010 USD). Thats around $177 billion today. So govts have shelled out loads of money in the past. Yeah the whole dam project will almost certainly overrun 200 billion, but the point is it's not completely unfeasible when compared to the cost of not doing it.

Let's be real, this is a "too little, too late", knee-jerk reaction to something that cannot be stopped.

A giant fresh water lake would mean freshwater fish and crayfish.

Dutch engineers: I have a plan. But, I need money and time.

@jeroenmeijer1062

4 жыл бұрын

@kev warriner if they build it at the narrow point at Dover, lots of communities in the English Channel wouldn’t be protected. The ports will all be maintained because you can just put sluices/locks in the dams. And you can pump the water out of the artificial sea. Believe me, the technology is already there and there are a lot of practical examples of it being used in the world already.

@PyrusFlameborn

4 жыл бұрын

@Kev Warriner we have done the exact same with the Ijselmeer. It used to be the Zuiderzee (a salty sea) but now it's a freshwater lake. It's the largest levee in the world and it has a one-way flow, meaning that the river water that empties into the Ijselmeer can continue into the North Sea but the seawater cannot enter the Ijselmeer. We did this in the 1930s and it was never done before. We wanted to do it in the 1600s already but technology wasn't deemed advanced enough. We also have extensive experience with sleucegates and am sure that in whatever scenario would actually convince enough people to do this we will manage to scale-up sleucegates to oceanic cargoships sizes.

@conorkieran8196

4 жыл бұрын

I'm the only one who gets your reference haha "We need another Dam Arthur" The Dutch can only grow mangos with this new Dam👌

@jansen7640

3 жыл бұрын

And a whole lot of CO2 to construct it lol. And also. I live in the netherlands and I have never heard of this plan. It's definitely fake or a big joke

@nicholasburns7970

3 жыл бұрын

@Kev Warriner I built from Land's End. The Bay of Biscay ports, Ireland and Britain's Atlantic coast would benefit.

Eu: “eh fuck Ireland”

@justinallen2408

4 жыл бұрын

BUTTT they gotta fork over some dough

@dreadpiraterobertsii4420

4 жыл бұрын

Mwaniki Mwaniki Latvia and Ukraine must be jealous

@dreadpiraterobertsii4420

4 жыл бұрын

justin allen “0.1 of gdp generates by countries it will affect” Ireland isn’t bothered by this

@Josho922

4 жыл бұрын

hahahahhahah i was just thinking that !!

@conorbyrne7474

4 жыл бұрын

@Mwaniki Mwaniki Your comment makes no sense.

Would the water be warmer or colder when I go to the beach in Norfolk?

Kevin costner in movie waterworld: finaly we found dry land! The dutch: Welcome to Holland!

You can bet the UK would be like, "over my dead body".

@definitelydaniel69420

4 жыл бұрын

Unless Scotland and northern Ireland leave the UK and join the EU

@redberries8039

4 жыл бұрын

@@definitelydaniel69420 Cornwall

@TheREALMcChimp

4 жыл бұрын

@Henrique There's no way Britain would completely cut off its major ports from the rest of the world just for brownie points with the EU. It's not going to happen.

@tomsmith8006

4 жыл бұрын

Dannyh53 Except they literally can’t? Nor do they want to... idiotic comment

@Aronia55

4 жыл бұрын

Why not, because the English won't allow it?

greta thunberg: stop climate change! netherlands and germany: We're gonna build a wall, it's gonna be a big beautiful wall.

@Rayhuntter

4 жыл бұрын

😂 same thought almost. Why do something about nefarious international trade agreements that cause poverty and migration when you can just build a wall? Why do something about rising sea levels as a result of anthropogenic global warming when you can build a wall? Are our species doomed?

@ricardobrands9736

4 жыл бұрын

And we gonna make the British pay for it shttttt

@robertcrusader5019

4 жыл бұрын

How DARE you!!!

@kdkd693

4 жыл бұрын

And it will be ‘orange’, as the Dutch like that

@jansen7640

3 жыл бұрын

I live in the netherlands. I have never heard of this before. It sounds like a fake story to me.

Very reminiscent of Germany's Atlantropa project lol

North Sea Empire is making a comeback I see.

Portugal: Are you threatening me, Master Trader? Netherlands: The Sea will decide your fate. Portugal: *I AM THE SEA* Netherlands: -dams the North Sea* Not. Yet.

@grayfox6930

4 жыл бұрын

Highly underrated comment, bravo.

@JJR_wwii

4 жыл бұрын

*Dutch build the dam: we have the highground

@iguana6746

4 жыл бұрын

until portugals deal for their sea concessions in the atlantic islands comes through and they are in control of a huge part of the atlantic and the entrance to the mediterranean. maybe start building artificial islands in hte new territory that start to form communities around the new resource gathering zones from the ocean

@Joel33736

4 жыл бұрын

@@iguana6746 Shhhiu... Portugal will do that but it is a secret... :D We will make artificial islands all over the atlantic and after a bridge connecting all of them, then we can cross the atlantic until New York... Thats the idea hahah :D

@peterdevalk7929

4 жыл бұрын

@@Joel33736 Only possible with EU & Dutch money,

When I first read the title I thought "What kind of Madman would even conceive such a thing.?" Then I saw Dutch and realized this is normal

@ryanedwards805

4 жыл бұрын

This

This would be the most amazing man made thing on earth if this ever happened

What if, instead of building, you were digging?