China is Sinking: Why 45% of Urban Cities are in Danger

[@homemadesoviet]

Since china wants to claim the entirety of the south china sea, I think its fair if the sea will claim china

[@nellesor25]

@@homemadesoviet Together as one.

[@dennisweidner288]

Poetic

[@brianrydant2296]

When you buy your cities from temu

[@ThePunisher-si8ex]

Lets talk bout yo mama son

[@islao4616]

@@brianrydant2296 real, they got the shein workers ancestors working on that dirt and it is expired 💀

[@krispykream7044]

😂😂😂wtf

[@jacques_phroste]

🤣😂😅

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

U get Texas California Baltimore

[@Cristinel007]

The quality of the ground is made in China

[@jemanshrestha8176]

@@Cristinel007 your coastal city is also sinking

[@PYSCHO_PAT]

​@@jemanshrestha8176 Calm down ming sing

[@elchinas]

@@PYSCHO_PAT Racist much?

[@PYSCHO_PAT]

@@elchinas actually no not at all it’s called I’m not a snowflake. I can laugh instead of playing the victim/ poor me card. Move on that songs getting played out.

[@peterhowes336]

😂

[@journeymanX]

China: we want the philippine sea Nature: ask and you'll receive

[@haiwasup3875]

😂

[@krispykream7044]

But we have sea in the house😂😂😂

[@诗酒趁年华-f6c]

中国南海

[@anonUK]

​@user-my2bc8cs4d Formerly known as Southern China.

[@maganojr]

50 cents army not allowed in youtube

[@blackbelt2000]

There was a infamous incident in chyna when a sinkhole swallowed a bus and instead of rescuing the passengers they tried to fill the hole with the passengers still in the bus in the hole! That's crazy.

[@Alcastar607]

Typical ccp

[@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine]

@@Alcastar607 Not quite typical. They usually like to film themselves doing a "daring" rescue. It's far from efficient or really that useful but filling the hole with people still in it isn't really their usual M.O.

[@dennisweidner288]

China has been saying it should be exempt from climate rules because it is a developing country. It is interesting to see that China is more affected by global warming than Western countries.

[@china1013]

Ummm... the U.S. was exempt during its industrial revolution and car making years. U.S. only talks about concern but not really concerned because it's not a manufacturing country anymore. So gtfoh.

[@joeybulford5266]

A lot of the problems China is facing, it created for itself.

[@Orakio]

@@china1013 Everyone was exempt back then

[@patsysadowski1546]

@@china1013you point is mute because back then we didn’t conceive the problem. Germany is a manufacturing country and has good eco credentials. Calling China developing at this stage is ridiculous. Besides whatever you think, science says it will hit China harder/Sooner.

[@siomaiwrapper5229]

China: ...is flooding Mother Nature: here, have 2 typhoons!

[@Noreb]

i assumed this had something to do with the massive flooding affecting huge areas of land across china..

[@SWATDRUMMUH]

If the same were happening in Russia, everyone talking about it would be jailed for spreading "misinformation"!

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

No surprise

[@Micfri300]

China is a lot more autocratic than Russia will ever be.

[@clsanchez77]

Oh, you built on coastal land and your land is sinking below sea level….tell me more.

[@os2958]

yes happening everywhere...people get ready be wise

[@thesjkexperience]

Make sure your second car is a boat. 😮

[@meskonyolsen6657]

Three Gorges Dam : (releases Flood gates)

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Source ?

[@meskonyolsen6657]

@@JonySmith-bb4gx c observer c insights

[@dennisestradda9746]

@@JonySmith-bb4gxchyna censorship

[@elektronischerliebhaber]

With the warning for people 12 hours AFTER they opened them to the fullest

[@timothywild6538]

Remember what Mao said... "First we must control nature".

[@dannydaw59]

It's a 2 way street. Dams stop flooding and provide electricity but make city living more practical and drives up ground water use.

[@Marbeary]

Nature: Hold by Climate Change.

[@tritium1998]

​@@dannydaw59 Cities in drier and poorer places still exist despite your 2 way street.

[@themurmeli88]

Pretty rich coming from a blob that couldn't even control his own diet, while his people were starving to death by the millions.

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

Now this is scary. Rising sea levels are a thing, but this is even worse.

[@RyneLanders]

The thumbnail looks like the Levolution events in Battlefield 4's China maps. Who knew they were so accurate?

[@jinsooimsi2-yj4lu]

중국, 동남아시아 강수량 비교 요약 (2023년) - 미얀마: 약 2,000mm - 태국: 약 1,400mm - 2,400mm - 라오스: 약 1,648.7mm - 베트남: 약 1,500mm - 3,000mm - 중국: 약 500mm - 2,000mm - 캄보디아: 약 1,500mm - 3,000mm 같은국가라도 지역에 따라 평균치가 다릅니다. 중국북부 평균은 500mm 남부는 2,000mm 입니다. 중국보다 동남아시아의 강수량이 훨씬 많음에도 불구하고 홍수는 중국에 훨씬 많이 발생하는 이유는 배수시설이 안되어 있기 때문입니다. 천재가 아닌 인재입니다. 중국은 치수를 가장 못하는 나라입니다.

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

The optimism at the end is nice. But given the corruption...

[@_Caedwyn]

i believe this is same as what happened to JAKARTA but in larger scale ? meaning , its simply the weight of so many people + skyscrapers + pumping water out from water reserves underneath. this is happening in my tiny city with only the water extraction. i live in middle east. there are always potholes happening

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

You’d think China would divert some of the money going into its future war preparations towards combating this issue. Otherwise the nation’s biggest advantage (its ludicrous population compared to almost the entire rest of the world) is going to be its downfall practically overnight. Edit: I appear to have kickstarted an information war in the comments section in regards to West Taiwan.

[@Jiff321]

The Chinese scientists are a lot smarter than the "paid by commission" scientists the west uses lol.

[@ancova1183]

The problem with using building subsidies to correct this issue is that China already puts a huge amount into its land development and infrastructure programs. Enough that it's created a real estate bubble they are actively seeking to deflate. They did this by removing some of the stimulus in the market, but it triggered a property crisis in 2024. To illustrate the problem, China tends to build tall--where you get highrises overlooking farmland--because of how local Chinese governments have used land sales and its associated land values to rezone agricultural land into high-rise residential to help pay for government expenses. This leads to problems like property speculation and over-leveraging that caused the Evergrande scandal and China's current property crisis. Problems like the collapse of Evergrande stop China from diverting money into real estate because of how it is intertwined with local government finances and real estate values, makes it difficult for the CCP to intervene with the real estate market without triggering a bank run or further exacerbating the property crisis.

[@sheepmasterrace]

Are you kidding me? They already are. China spends 1.5 percent of GDP on millitary, while the USA SPENDS 3X THAT PERCENTAGE!!

[@UTTPCHICKENNUGGET]

That's why the US is the best no body can Make us pay it back we can print unlimited money ​@@sheepmasterrace

[@slugma1054]

​@@sheepmasterraceUS military industrial complex brings jobs, and 90% of the money doesn't leave the economy, because of the fact that US weapons have demand. Who buys Chinese weapons and ammunition?

[@glenjohnson9302]

The areas around Phoenix Arizona dropped 6 inches and more because of ground water depletion. In fact, fishers are still opening up in the state.

[@ddoppster]

True, and?........What about Greenland, to pick another unrelated locale? And it's 'fissures', as it sounds/reads like you're talking about trout farms, with that spelling

[@zombiemanjosh]

Not to be that guy, but it's "fissures". I can't imagine there's many fishers in AZ, especially in areas with depleted water.

[@thespector2685]

@zombiemanjosh we have the grand canyon here in Arizona, yeah fissures do open up a lot here. The road between Payson and Phoenix has had points where chunks just collapse. The town of strawberry's ground water has been contaminated from bad pipes and the rest of our state has been selling our ground water roo much. Phoenix no longer allows water hauling to homes on the outskirts from lack of water. It's bad here :(

[@zombiemanjosh]

@@thespector2685 I was talking about "fissures" in the ground vs "fishers". I know AZ is dry, as someone from the east coast I'm under the impression the whole area is a desert with the exception of a few literal oases and places water is brought. I can empathize, but not sympathize, where I am has the extreme in the opposite direction. I'm in the swamp between a lake and the ocean. From one drowning to another dying of thirst: I'd share if I could.

[@diversejoe617]

Them abandoned towns and cities in China looking good rn just saying....

[@allemagneproducer]

they look good from the far, have u ever been trying to actually live in one of these, diversejoe?

[@SuikodenGR]

They won't have no choice but to move there one day

[@diversejoe617]

@@SuikodenGR Exactly, plus they've been in good shape and haven't collapsed at all

[@diversejoe617]

@@allemagneproducer It may not be everyone's cup of tea but it's still sum.

[@fireball75677]

good point

[@nicholasj5798]

It would be great if the Chinese government would use this opportunity to learn and adapt. Their ancient history was a culture that was in harmony with nature and the water. They could show the world how to live better with the Earth.

[@neumorin]

Corruption, over development, and tofu dregs probably don’t help

[@zhubajie6940]

Very similar geology and growth issues in Orlando, Florida. Water conservation and grey water injection to the aquifer are mitigation strategies. Have seen this in Xi'an, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Beijing, and Changchun, especially in building cracking and even window cracking.

[@danr1920]

If pumping out water is a major factor, that means they are taking out more water than goes back in. Future water shortages?

[@tritium1998]

Whatever history, news, and future predictions about the country you make up.

[@ladyeowyn42]

Very large areas are flooded right now my dude

[@currencymovers]

Gives new meaning to the movie "Water World"

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Source ? Proof ?

[@douglassun8456]

And yet, urbanists have been telling us it's a good thing to concentrate people in dense urban centers instead of spreading them out in suburbs. Another point, however: While the Chinese have managed their ground water poorly and subsidence is a big problem, it is also true that Chinese construction is often poor in quality ('tofu-dreg') because of substandard materials and practices. Also, the government is responsible for urban overdevelopment because leasing land parcels to developers is such a huge source of revenue, and because they have used construction activity to goose GDP growth, regardless of whether that construction is necessary.

[@straightwhitemale5753]

Oh well.

[@islao4616]

Fr tho, like that's bad and I feel bad abt the ppl involved but what can anyone do abt it 💀

[@nataliiateteruk585]

A normal city weight in metal, glass, betong and other heavy stuffs many MEGATONS. Of course the cities slide and slowly sinking eroding.

[@SelflessHero]

I wonder if West Taiwan can do anything about it.

[@tom4ivo]

Water conservation is also important. I don't know if China uses low volume showers and toilets, but it has helped in the US. Also helping has been converting open irrigation ditches to piped irrigation. In the area where I live, this conversion allowed the local irrigation district to increase the amount of water it could supply by 30%.

[@killswitch7341]

America watching this rubbing their hands like birdman

[@kielsnyder6408]

I think we care more than others think...

[@Lobotomies4sal3]

Underrated comment

[@freddiecruzz2786]

Underrated comment for sure😂😂… “BIRDMAN”

[@SerendipityChild]

New York is sinking

[@GeoffreyWare]

It doesn't look like china's gonna sink in our lifetime...

[@lukedornon7799]

Wait, how can China have an urban population of 1.43 billion with a 65% urbanization rate? The total population of China is not over 2 billion...

[@Mikewells90]

Awesome video

[@Trent_Playz]

@@JSFGuy😂

[@OrdinaryDoommarine]

@@JSFGuy fr tho

[@thesjkexperience]

The USA, except at the active margin in Oregon and Washington, the costal areas are also sinking. Any Geology 101 book will explain sea level rise vs fresh water and subsidence. Florida’s karst geology will be on the news as sink holes happen more frequently.

[@OLDMANTEA]

Imagine all the sewers backing up, since that system is largely underground and dependent on gravity.

[@dosidicusgigas1376]

Yeah i dont think the problem here is climate change. Cities & towns are built and subsidized by the CCP for as cheap as possible. The government contracting companies are notorious for not surveying the planned construction site, for using extremely cheap and inadequate materials, as well as horrible construction practices. That combined with the fact that regulations arent enforced, it leads to horrible infrastructure, man made disasters, and collapsing cities that wind up being worthless, leaving the millions who bought homes and lost everything before they were even finished construction.

[@lukedornon7799]

Isn't this problem occurring in lots of other countries too? All the weight from urban development inevitably causes some amount of land subsidence; it's only noticeable with extremely rapid urban building and only a real problem for flood-prone areas.

[@RichardRichiuso]

Check your numbers. They don't have 1.4 billion way lower.

[@dennisweidner288]

The ways suggested to mitigate subsidence are expensive, especially desalinization are expensive-- reduces Chuna's advantages as the world's workshop. Not what the CCP wants to hear.

[@lialok2674]

This could happen anywhere in the world not just China, let that sink in..🙁

[@sanguinedelight6464]

Nice Pun!

[@NarwahlGaming]

Boo-urns!

[@briangiles-phillips3345]

It is happening in the Maldives already.

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

Could happen, and does. But China is worst.

[@User-tn2cm]

ha ha very funny

[@LeePrice-r9u]

Ground water extraction is the most likely culprit. It's a major reason Venice has such an issue with flooding. Lot's of ground water was pumped out in the 1950s 60s and the cities sinking accelerated.

[@martinivers489]

Isn't every city an "urban" city?

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

_Oh no! West Taiwan is sinking into the ocean!_ …Anyway, what’s some more good news going around?

[@paulcowlishaw]

Vladimir Putin is dead.

[@BloodAsp]

Habitual Line Crosser?

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

@@BloodAsp The one and only

[@stevenkidd6761]

😂

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

​@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire😂😂😂 USA is located west of Taiwan soooooooo😂

[@takaradope]

It also has to do with the poor regulations that construction and land surveying has in China

[@emersonshiff8132]

If corruption will help solve the problem, rest assured the problem will be solved.

[@ryanwilliams4223]

Replace the water back once extracted ?

[@BeckyWilliamson-l7n]

Why haven’t I heard about this? This is terrifying!

[@Quackmire1]

They had it coming

[@GeoffreyWare]

Oh my gosh my heart just breaks for poor china

[@madden8021]

The entire world is heading the same route too due to us humans destroying the entire Earth.

[@SizakeleComfortMtshweni]

Okay this is rather stressful :(

[@leo-um3pj]

also thanks to the bgm

[@randallbesch2424]

Do you live there or is it happening where you live?

[@SizakeleComfortMtshweni]

@@randallbesch2424 non of the two but it's just concerning. I'm from South Africa

[@Bigbadredg14nt]

I also wonder how much the insane amount of dams Mao built affect the subsidence.

[@dmi6101]

America, China, it seems that no society has internalized conservation of mass and energy.

[@stevenkidd6761]

They'll have their own New Orleans x10!!!

[@davidmarlow3624]

Defamation - Deformation pronunciation makes a difference ffs

[@andrewcrowder4958]

What is an “urban” city? Is there any other type of city? Do you know what a dictionary is and how to use it?

[@virendrashekhawat7197]

What a paradox.sinking but innovating breath taking tech

[@ryanferrier9964]

The title says urban cities. Will there be a part 2 for rural cities?

[@dyeyser]

AYAN MABUTI NGA SA INYO!

[@cacaf8989]

polution, mining for gold, underground water? the dragons are not happy

[@MediaLieDetector]

Sinking relative to what? What is the error of measurement for the devices used for this analysis?

[@wayneigoe6722]

Isn't Italy having this problem too? Like especially in Venice?

[@micaeloliveira2727]

Completely different 😊 Venice was built over the water 💦 a construction method totally different.

[@Vareon-r1h]

The end of the video sounds like you try to convince someone to invest in your venture.

[@wicho617]

THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!!!!!!!!!

[@kenneybis1097]

If you visit 165 buildings per year every single day it would take 10,000 years to visit all 600 million. Mind boggling.

[@RelentlessHomesteading]

No one will be around in 2120...

[@allemagneproducer]

No one

[@CensoredComment-os8py]

we've been around for THOUSANDS of years. We'll still be here.

[@Bruce-ez6zd]

Odds are people will still be around. How many is the question

[@tarikmehmedika2754]

They are being punished for what they do in east Turkestan.

[@UniquelyCritical]

Same issue in Florida. The people will adapt. It'll be fine.

[@rapidjakel447]

Mother nature: " hits Philippines with powerful tupoons " Filipino: that all you got Mother nature: " hits china with 1 powerful typoon with another one on its way " China: we are dying help all we want is Philippines sea we dont meant it this way !!!

[@Kaydin_Godlien-thies]

Mother nature bout to send us to the backrooms

[@CleoHarperReturns]

I've been wondering why China has been buying up seriously cheap Detroit properties since the early 2000s, and just sitting on it. Now, I need to know.

[@PaulGuy]

That's more likely a way for Chinese citizens to put their wealth beyond the grasp of the Chinese government.

[@dannydaw59]

Where did you get that info because a Google search doesn't reveal that. It's entities that have very little to do with China.

[@tritium1998]

So it's the more successful economy despite your trustmebros saying the opposite.

[@CleoHarperReturns]

@@tritium1998 Um...no -- I said I need to know. Meaning, I want more information than I have. I don't trust anyone. Especially not "my" trustmebros.

[@dennisweidner288]

If China reduces ground water extraction, where it will get the water it needs to replace it?

[@chriskastner1938]

The world is crumbling beneath our feet.

[@kamote_korps]

They want the whole sea, let them have it.

[@srkr4042]

So sinkholes

[@SymGenie]

This is happening everywhere. Buildings settle. Cities settle. The bjgger the buildings, the more likely the settling. Calling it sinking makes it sound like it's tied to climate change, but it's not. Its physics. The only place this doesn't happen is inland or im areas that are ontop of bedrock. Everywhere else with sedimentary soil infused with high water tables suffer this. It's literally every single coastal city in the world.

[@M335h1]

Upside will this cause a rise in cars that can also function as boats like nixon had?! THAT would be so cool! But seriosly i feel bad for them 😢

[@choycejoyce4699]

0:49 “scientific journal of science” 😂

[@amogorkon]

"We are sinking, we are sinking!" - "What are you (th)sinking about?"

[@robbieshand6139]

I remember that advert 😆

[@kojay18]

Mother Nature strike back

[@cjhaedaten8711]

Nice

[@cjhaedaten8711]

I mean, Oh no......

[@CensoredComment-os8py]

This is REALLY messed up!!

[@Sabloshia]

Well they asked for water (sea) they have it now😂😂 (West Philippine Sea)

[@larrybanta8858]

Wow that's crazy and scary

[@valalmirol2159]

WPS and Phil Rise is now inside tsekwa country 😅😅😅

[@golf7078]

The problem with using Texas as a unit of measurement is that it grows to exceed all comparisons. Nothing is bigger than Texas.

[@zackbrown2775]

@@golf7078 I had a friend who was from Texas and always said Texas was number one and ienjoyed reminding him it's the second biggest state behind my home state lol

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

Oooh sorry, but no. In terms of square miles, Texas is smaller than Alaska.

[@golf7078]

@@carlfromtheoc1788 Found another one I won't go to for a sense of humor...

[@straighttoyou]

Would septic systems work? Instead of the normal waste water they dump into a stream, we do that in the US. And have the same problems, because we are lazy and don't want to service septic tanks

[@juanjorge751]

China starts sinking, japan: I don’t feel so well

[@mikeharrington5593]

The same combination persists in Florida ??

[@victorogbowu2627]

Let's go another Chinese video

[@tracyakker5650]

So, if the seas/ oceans are rising then why are so many developers building very expensive condos and houses on ocean fronts... Everywhere! Maybe, just maybe there's far too many people living and working in the same place?

[@Bobobobobobo81963]

MADE IN CHINA.

[@caddycheon]

Look they got new water territory

[@chrisschaeffer9661]

But their Construction is so Fast. Except they Fall Down even Faster.

[@zombiemanjosh]

What's causing it? If I had to venture a guess: karma.

[@KenBladehart]

Remember Mr Beast build ground water pump in Africa? Get ready to write that report

[@lesliestandifer]

They have no storm water drainage this is what happens

[@sohyankeat2031]

Paris underwater😢

[@frynp4n]

Hello!

[@thatguyjoe4348]

Tofu dreg construction above ground, Tofu dreg construction below ground.