Europe's Battle against the Deserts | Documentary

[@deniseg-hill1730]

This programme should be essential/compulsory viewing for all starting with schoolchildren. What kind of world are we leaving to the young.

[@fabiamoon2827]

I totally agree with you there.

[@FMHammyJ]

I shudder to think how my baby boomer generation has despoiled this planet......part of it is simply overpopulation, but most of it is consumerism, and greed. I feel we have let the future generations down.

[@davidcox3452]

many people become more selfish as they age

[@oaktharas]

@Chloe Lin what you mean by "cannot"... compulsory means "they either comply or get a F in that class." it's their choice, if they want to keep repeating that class until they comply

[@Liz-sc3np]

Those hillside Spanish homes are reminiscent of California. Putting up housing on the edge of the wilderness is one of the main reason California “wild” fires have become even more destructive. Watching this during possibly the hottest European summer ever on modern record (2018) makes the prognosis of this documentary even more grim.

[@josephsouth4214]

I went on package holidays to Spanish resorts in 1961 and 62, it was already doomed and as a teenager I went up into the hinterland behind and found a whole new world. When I saw those pensioners playing golf ( similar age to myself ) I thought how can you go through life and not realise just how much we've messed things up. Sunshine, sangria, and soil erosion.

[@varmapusapati2822]

In search for the beauty of deserts in Spain, I stumbled across this wonderful documentary, but only to realize otherwise. It is absolutely important to spread this information to a wider section of the community unaware of the situation before I see the now beautiful spain turn into a bare drought trodden land.

[@Tematrilia]

Thanks for sharing this doc, I wish it was shown in Spain to everybody, so people will open their eyes and wake up. If somehow I can help to translate the parts in English I will be very happy to do so.

[@innocentqwa4630]

I heard a talk about a professor who was studying and reversing desertification. What he found was that the problem was not that there where grazing animals, it was that the grazing animals where left on a piece of land until there was nothing left. What he found was the most beneficial was to get grazing animals to pass over land, trimming the vegetation and leaving manure to grow off of but to keep them moving like a herd. This way the plant life had a cycle of new nutrients, and regrowth.

[@alehaim]

This is a great video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2jTemp_jsZ9gqs

[@ReadyMindsetGo]

Sounds like Alan Savory

[@jrusselison]

For a lot of people business and trade is more important than human rights or life itself.

[@bullvinetheband7260]

ask yourself which is really more of value the food from your field or the motel that the tourist stay at.

[@Firstfruits288]

The value of food... although the greedy people would answer the motel that the tourists stay at. Because greedy people only care about dollar signs not food or Earth itself.

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

In the short term and less work is the motel which also benefits other businesses in the surrounding area. Long term and more important is the farm. When you combine greed and sloth you get fewer farms and more motels.

[@noway4517]

The motel is not really fewer work, just more money. There is tons of work to be done in hotels, first planning and building them, get investors, then all the cooking, washing dishes, cleaning rooms, building the software that is required to keep track of the bookings, calculate how high the prices need to be, how much food to buy, finding employees that need to be there 24 hours a day, finding solutions for tons of problems that the guests have, making the hotel unique from others, working together with other companies who plan trips and so on. People are not lazy, they do everything to get more money. Lazy people would not have destroyed the planet that efficiently.

[@bircruz555]

I do not think the problem is as simple as that. They know the difference. The bigger problem is that people have been sold into an unsustainable lifestyle, often driven by commerce. The long term solution is in curbing people's appetite for destructive lifestyle, sorry to say, but including mass tourism.

[@orgami100]

Whiskey Is for Drinking; Water Is for Fighting Over. Humorist Mark Twain is given credit for an incisively funny remark about this.

[@Gustav4]

The country of Spain needs to look into Holistic Management, you need to understand the 4 ecosystem processes and how you can improve those on large scale. Learning about this will give you great hope. Humans are depended on productive and functioning ecosystems!

[@farmerfreakeasy]

When I first started looking at Google Map back in 2011 it was obvious..... Spain is turning into desert. Take a look for yourselves and you will clearly see how accurate this documentary is. Thanks to everyone involved in these desertification documentaries; expertly crafted from start to finish. A real treat to watch.

[@aleksandralis9134]

I met Spanish girl (from Andaluzja) in 2007 and she said that her country is dessert and she was amazed by Irish green landscapes...

[@Nonpartisanmusic]

This was an eye opener. Thank you for uploading

[@shunnydunn]

Using water for entertainment over necessity is so selfish and it will be disastrous, people are already paying for for it in the mountain area's, Some humans are so greedy!

[@NeilBooth]

Ok but peaches aren't necessity either

[@heidiembrey4917]

Why aren't they mentioning that these are Permaculture systems they're using to regenerate these deserts? People need to know the word Permaculture, it's a valuable resource here. ..

[@minkoil00]

we must all put in the effort or else the next generation will suffer.

[@Liz-sc3np]

Fabian Brown Did you even watch the documentary? Iceland is applying basic Permaculture principles to reverse desertification on a national level.

[@gustavohopkins242]

@Fabian Brown not even true. Many many restoration practices are applying permaculture practices to bring back environments. Honestly it's all about building soil and that is done the same, no matter what the application or location is.

[@bircruz555]

That is not the focus or the objective, is it? Commerce, and the profit motive $$$$$, is what is at fault here.

[@margaretjohnson7484]

You don't have to call it permaculture if that prevents you searching for and implementing what works for your local conditions and challenges.

[@anashomestead5919]

The biggest new deserts are hidden from view by Concrete & Asphalt, buildings & roads, but there are no documentaries covering those loss of fertile lands.

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

Maybe there'll be some. Don't forget to subscribe!

[@died4us590]

Those dang golfers just can't live without them. In arizona, and other dessert state's in the US don't have enough water, but the guy with some money, and blam, you got a golf corse. People just don't. have a clue how they are helping create these issues. God bless all.

[@seawuff]

There should be a documentary like this done about restoring grasslands. Plant all the trees you want, you won’t see any ecological recovery like soil building, water storage or carbon sequestration until grasslands are restored. This series has been hard on domestic grazing animals and overgrazing is a huge part of the problem, but good grazing techniques and management will help solve the desertification issues and not require these over engineered, high input solutions. In Iceland they could protect their top soil and still graze sheep if they allowed for the recovery of plants and change grazing patterns. What governments and consumers should think about is the fact that farmers are payed only for their product at market price and they make decisions based on that alone, resulting in unsustainable land use. If farmers were payed not only for their produce, but also for tons of carbon sequestered, water retained and trees grown the whole industry could be revived economically and ecologically. Look up Allan Savory and Christine Jones to see how this is possible.

[@ciceroaraujo2552]

ecological education on schools should be compulsory

[@DidivsIvlianvs]

It already is. Your kids are socialists who will guarantee that all that economic growth stops and the people are too poor to damage or fix anything and leave it for places where socialism hasn't reached yet.

[@georgegraham2194]

It would be a start, for so many people their actions seem to have no consequences. People have to learn this isn't so.

[@darthvader5300]

Both of you are wrong! Ever heard of Professor John Todd's "Living Machines Principles"? Ever heard of close-loop water reuse industrial ecosystems developed during WW II in California by the Kaiser Vertically integrated iron and steel plant? The Kalundborg industrial ecosystem that recycles all wastes into useful products? And many countless others too numerous to list here AND ALL ARE PRODUCTS OF CAPITALISM AND CAPITALISTIC ENTREPRENEURS, not socialism-communism ALREADY BANNED IN RUSSIA.

[@jeffsartadventure3634]

Razvan J ,how about ending war profiteering and militarism instead of art. Art makes life worth living,it endures through time and defines civilizations. It is the apex of the human experience,to suggest it is unimportant is inhuman.

[@mstrdiver]

English grammar rules "on schools" should also be compulsory. // Sarc Off //

[@queenfubi]

I'm happy to see Iceland learning from past mistakes. I wonder about the seeds brought in from "outside" when the soil is too damaged. I'll have to read more about it.

[@LilBit-more]

We can all learn from Iceland because mother earth is on borrowed time. There are many countries with corrupt politicians who will destroy their own drinking water for greed. We all need to think carefully today how we affect the future of our children.

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

So true! We really need to get it together and change our way!

[@idunno4773]

I live in that area of spain and everything they say is right. The tourists don't care and neither does the government.

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

Thank you for sharing that insight! It´s really sad to see though....

[@nick8841]

Go team Iceland! My thoughts are with those in Spain fighting the good cause. I hope I can join them and help someday!

[@lizacarlsen7929]

Thank u for the educational, our environment. I think we shd. Educate people all over the world and awareness of our environment. We live in a beautiful planet, and we humans in this earth should respect our Mother Earth. Thank you for sharing.

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

Your very welcome! We really hope to educate about climate change, environmental problems and the way we destroy our planet with trash, plastic, pollution etc. Hope you like our channel and content! Don´t forget to subscribe :)

[@stevenzheng5459]

The biggest problem here is valuing money and GDP growth over soil health.

[@covercalls88]

So many golf courses in Spain is like building so many in Southern California. Also goes the number of big fires in Spain are so much like many we have in Southern California.

[@Hasse.Andersson]

could it be that the value of the land drops after a fire? and the land then is bought by "someone" that has nothing to do with it ???

[@MrMrsteve01]

People don't understand that rain starts from the group up not from the sky down. Just like your lawn in the morning that has dew that keeps it alive regardless of any rain. If you deplete all the vegetation it will dry out and you will get the frying pan effect.

[@osvaldocristo]

Sad... the truth can be sad... thanks for share this video.

[@AdrianCalgary]

Well done documentary

[@Kr4zYm0f0]

They're cutting down 20 year old peach trees who only produces peaches up untill the 12th year Out of desparation? Excellent documentairy?

[@orgami100]

Same as California central valley USA.. without the thousands of homeless. .

[@ppser818]

We're Doomed. I think I'll have a nice beverage …..

[@bootscooty]

Smoke a ciggie

[@Bobcat665]

Even in my native Canada - which has more lakes and rivers than all other nations on earth, combined - I'm under no illusions that we're immune to loss of land fertility as a result of misuse. I live in a valley that's classified as semi-desert despite the huge lake at the bottom of it but has a fast growing population. I worry about whether enough is being done to save water in the valleys/lowlands and reforest in the hills and mountains. And I have no idea what's going on in the great plains whatsoever. I hope people are paying attention out here.

[@hilarywade687]

Bobcat665 - take a look at www.regenerateland.com/

[@laurabunyard8562]

You need to do rotational grazing.

[@davidjohnzenocollins]

I agree, Laura Bunyard. Rotating from one snack to another is the way to go.

[@nowandaround312]

Wendy Regis The sheep fertilizer is useless if there are no plants left...

[@mikeharrington5593]

Thankfully, there is a modern trend towards aggressively addressing desertification and soil degradation exemplified by Joel Salatin (polyface farming) and Geoff Lawton (permaculture). Their agricultural education is based upon "regenerative agriculture" with animal "mob grazing" and is very effective in recovering desertification areas, stabilizing soil and improving water retention in soil. Food plants needs soil and water, and food is life.

[@emiltrees]

Golfing is the most destructive, greedy practice I have ever seen. Take all the Golf Courses and use them for food. But Greed won't let it.

[@Firstfruits288]

There are some sports we do not need. Golf is one of them.

[@KD-cg9iq]

Hello George, Human breeding is the most destructive, greedy practice I have ever seen. Take all the breeders and sterilise them. But Greed won't let it.....

[@Hasse.Andersson]

@Bluestarwarrior1 Absolutely, however the idea is rather abstract, who is to decide what sport we need or not? I for once has the idea that the whole football (European Football) thing is just an excuse for criminals to earn som real big money, and all the idiots investing their money into it' is ripped of, feeding the criminals and criminality. But there may also be sports that I consider to be "ok" (but not really, I don't like sports) that someone else find akward. What I can agree on though, is that: perhaps they do not need to travel to Spain to play golf... But do you know what? Those idiots, when the drought will hit the golf courses as well, will go back to their contries complaining of how desert like Spain has become, not thinking a minute that they where to blame in the first place, instead they will go to Turkey or somewhere to repeat the thing.

[@boro4316]

Do'nt worry the "sport" is on it's way out, most people can no longer afford it. I lived on a golf course and I assure you the young have no interest in it.

[@Hasse.Andersson]

@Ricky Roma Yea pretty stupid comment, from now on we all will adapt to your way of thinking or do you think that is stupid ? But you got a point, grass is better then ghettos or industrial complex... I would love to have more grass just as long as we do not "cultivate" it. Let it bee left alone, it did millions of years before we came and thought we could do it better. However, I would much rather let those grass fields become a thick and dence forest, a forest that protect the ground from the sun as much as possible... And animals thrives in forests too (but sadly not golfers).

[@Firstfruits288]

More people need to watch this documentary. For this documentary is an eye opener to the world around us and what we humans are doing to the planet. If we humans do not change there will be major problems to pay for down the road.

[@michellebeckstrom6110]

The statement by the peach farmer Pedro Garcia describing the small peach as unusa le is part of the problem. I realize rhat most people r used to larger peachs but despite its size it looked edible. For instance in the US roughly 1/3 of produce sold is thrown out and some of it just has minor surface blemishs and despite that is still edible.

[@beardup9101]

Good for Spain!! Greetings from your former colony Philippines!!!!!!

[@sputumtube]

(with regard to Spain) - this should have been titled "The True Cost Of Tourism".... I went to Gran Canaria about fifteen years ago and when traveling the coast I looked inland and saw a lunar landscape.....

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

Thank you for your comment! We will take it into consideration! Best regards, hc

[@lou-nc4rc]

Well, the Canary Islands are volcanic, so some of that is normal.

[@sputumtube]

@@lou-nc4rc Fair comment - I didn't think of that...Lol.. ;)

[@darthvader5300]

Building on protected lands? Are they crazy? Even in ancient times during the time of Ancient Sumeria to the time of Ancient Rome and Ancient Persia it has been a traditional practice to build OUTSIDE AND AROUND A LUSH GREEN COVERED AREA AND TO PUT BOUNDARY STONE SIGNS AROUND AND ON TOP OF HEAD WATERS. People learned to cultivate between the trees and learn how to carefully prune and coppice and pollard trees and shrubs and protect them from grazing animals and allow grazing to be rotated from one patch to the next patch. These ancient practices forced both man and his farmng activities to work with nature and improve nature as the agricultural wastes are used as organic fertilizers. But as time passes by people have such short memories and wanted a quick return within the shortest possible time and easiest means and whatever civilizations they have built around their very strict farming ways that has made both man and nature prosper and fluorish and expand are now endangered by the next generation that has no self-discipline. 1st generation: Great grandparents. Pioneers the science and techniques of regenerative-expansive farming. 2sd generation:Grandparents. Improves further the discoveries and makes it flourishing and expansive. 3rd generation: Parents. Maintains, records, and stabilizes and further enhance and spreads the knowledge. 4th generation: Children. Learns from the parents, grandparents, and great grandparents. Maintains and spreads. 5th generation: Grandchildren. Became spoiled from the fruits of the toil of past generations and squanders all. 6th generation: Great grandchildren. Starts suffering from the beginnings of an increasingly barren land. 7th generation: Great-great grandchildren. Under strict food-water rationing as land becomes increasingly sterile. 8th generation: Great-great-great grandchildren. Suffering from near starvation-thirst, abandons the land. Result: CIVILIZATIONAL COLLAPSE! Becaause of these ancient practices now rediscovered in 1900 up to the 1990s some areas are recovering in some parts of the modern world. But if laws and rangers are not enough then unedible self-protecting plants are planted that no grazing animals will touch them and are very weedy and spreads like a storm through flying seeds, runners, and rhizomes like adhatoda vassica which are unpalatable and unedible to grazing animals and almost impossible to eliminate once established in the headwaters' recharge zones on top of them. Trees are protected from goats by planting prickly pear around them. Often times the prickly pear's seeds are mixed with tree seeds and are planted together so that the trees are protected by dense interlocking prickly pear plants and by other cactus plants. Seawater Irrigation Of Tamarisk Tree books.google.com/books?id=EwboG0Xy8uwC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=seawater+irrigation+tamarisk+tree&source=bl&ots=r9rbQNR0XL&sig=w3krIliauPlzKGW3GnB36riggcY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP2qCc6rTbAhUTJnwKHfRXAfUQ6AEITzAI#v=onepage&q=seawater%20irrigation%20tamarisk%20tree&f=false Seawater Irrigation Of Tamarisk Tree

[@freespeech6999]

The Spanish farmer cutting down the trees should have used them as mulch around the remaining trees to help keep the moisture on the ground.

[@bircruz555]

Lack of knowledge of land stewardship is not where the problem is. Modern ways of land management are not at fault. Fight Capitalism. It is sucking the earth dry. Life is not all about commerce, luxury and raping the earth. It is selling you delusional ways of life.

[@darthvader5300]

Capitalism has two sides. A positive side and a negative side. One of the key principle of capitalism is that there should be a pressure and reward mechanism and system to force capitalism to manage and administer for the long term. Short term TEMPORARY gains must be replaced with Long term PERMANENT gains, hence the need for some self-policing and flexible regulatory policies. Such regulatory policies were destroyed by the new LIBERAL AND PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS IN THE EARLY 1970s. In the 1970s , a wave of young liberals. Bill Clinton among them, destroyed the populist Democratic Party they had inherited from the New Dealers of the 1930s. The contours of this ideological fight were complex, but the gist was: Before the 70s, the Democrats were suspicious of big business. They used anti-monopoly policies to fight oligarchy and financial manipulation. Creating competition in open markets, breaking up concentrations of private power, and protecting labor and farmer rights were understood as the essence of ensuring that our commercial society was democratic and protected from big money.

[@Craziejane69]

Cutting the trees is the reason. Plant trees and more trees.

[@doesntmatter5232]

*Ecosia is a tree planting browser*

[@mlola74]

I admire Iceland people. Here in Spain we have too many morons who don't care about the future. And politicians, the worst of them. But I think that sheep and other cattle are not to be blamed about desertification. It has been proved that they help against desertification, if you move them from place to place, allowing plants to grow while they receive nutrients from cattle's manure.

[@yahwehsonren]

In indonesia palm oil destroy our forest,sad

[@jennymisteqq695]

yahwehsonren The people who made this documentary did one on how palm oil is destroying (I forgot where, but it must be Indonesia). Have you seen it? At least it’s being publicized so more people are aware of the problem. Maybe people could stop buying palm oil from Indonesia.

[@ruchirlawate624]

Yes, I am not Indonesian but I feel terribly sad that such priceless rainforests in Amazon and SE Asia are being destroyed for oil palm monoculture and soybeans..😔😔

[@gustavohopkins242]

Y'all need to stop selling it and we need to stop buying it

[@ecoxocticeternal816]

I will not call that error, I call it carelessness.

[@uptoit100]

plus complacency

[@debe.1868]

plus GREED

[@crpth1]

Arabs haven´t been in Spain for centuries. What we see is the result of pure greed without any concern for anything or anybody. Kind of typical I should say. Both Eco´s (economy & ecology) can be sustainable and should always walk hand in hand. But a strong and enlighten government must steer properly. It´s kind of obvious this is a very poor example. Or at best an example of what not to do. Cheers :-)

[@Supertomiman]

Droughts don't result in barren land, it's the other way around. The barren land is what causes the droughts in the first place.

[@Hasse.Andersson]

I allways thought the trees caused the wind, as it only blewed when the trees where moving... Heard about Sahara? That was green about 60 000 years ago or so? Drought caused Sahara to become a desert (due to earths tilting and other stuff)

[@Itsnomitolennn]

So tell the people to Stop coming & ban the golf clubs!

[@mainerockflour3462]

Naomi Tolen, if they ban the golf clubs what will people hit their balls with?

[@vtcarols3148]

Odd how the desertification of Europe is happening at the same time as the influx of people who come from desert areas. Also odd that fires being lit deliberately which are burning down woodlands are happening at the same time. With the massive increase of population which is happening in Europe as a result of mass immigration, it is inevitable that the land will be unable to sustain them, And when the farming peoples disappear as the ethnic Europeans are cleansed from their lands then the ability to make the land productive will disappear too. What is happening in South Africa should give us an idea of what is in store for Europe.

[@kenbellchambers4577]

Compost making will improve these measures in many vital ways. Compost top dressings allow for water retention even in hardpan soils. Mulched top dressings are even better. If we move towards food bearing forests, we will eliminate excessive soil disturbance and unnecessary compaction by machinery, and nut crops can take the place of much of the grain farming. Amongst the food bearing trees, timber, medicinal, and habitat trees should also be planted. Compost making is not only good for producing humus, but methane, the cleanest and hottest carboniferous fuel, can also be produced from waste organic matter as a by-product of the compost making process. The methanisation process can be easily included in the reclamation operations to run essential mechanical aids, and prolonged low-grade heat from the composting process is perfect for driving methane digestors. The digestor effluent will have had a seven-fold increase in nitrogen, and both the heat, nitrogen and methane are simply by-products of the composting process. Fertility is the greatest tool in the armory of democracy, because ultimately all of our wealth, for instance all fossil fuels, originate from organic materials. Humus is fertility, and organically grown bio diverse forests are pure gold. Currently, forest and bush fires consume this material by the billions of tonnes per annum. This must be addressed.

[@LucaCarraro]

Truly amazing doc.

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

Thank you! We like to get feedback like this! :)

[@HepCatJack]

In Iceland, perhaps a partnership could be created between companies that get lawn mowing contracts in the cities and the farmers. The people mowing lawn, could collect the cut grass and convert the into biomass pellets using a mill and they could sell them to the farmers to feed the sheep. This would lower the pressure on the pastures.

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

We really appreciate our community on here! It´s always great that everyone share there insights and knowledge with us. Thank you Jacques Gauthier for that!

[@ringo1972star]

They should do the same in the south of Portugal(Alentejo) and in Spain(South). Take example in Iceland and China.

[@lincolnthinking]

ban golf courses

[@minkoil00]

Lincoln Fong I though your picture was a bare butt with a bug in it lol

[@runguardian6868]

yep

[@mcdaib]

Ummmmm. Ban non eco specific golf courses. Just a thought. Scottish you know..............

[@scottleft3672]

Make the earth a golf coarse....pipe water like we do oil.

[@J.Cameron.Stuart.Adams.]

Simply switch to synthetic turf like many do in the US. All pools should be salt water. The pool water should only be filtered sea water delivered via trucks. Those using more than a set amount of water should pay large fines. These fines can go towards the cost of the desalination facilities. Underground rain water tanks should be mandatory for all new construction. As with anything else, when prices are raised, people use less. Over time, reduced water use becomes normal rather than a sacrifice.

[@karih9592]

“You cannot imagine the value of a tree in the Greater Community”

[@equarg]

If you want to read an interesting book... Read "Collapse: How societies choose to fail or suceed" by Gerald Diamond. He also wrote the award winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel". Both will make you think........

[@TomasPböckerlyftningschack]

His name is Jarred Diamond, but I agree his books are worth reading.

[@Firstfruits288]

I put those books on my reading list of interesting books.

[@eddiemonica3587]

As long as the mission remains about the money there is no hope..... find a way to eat tne sand...

[@Hasse.Andersson]

no problem, ever heard of McDonalds?

[@beckyshock3099]

So, the ice is melting, seas are rising, and the water tables are dropping? What part of this don't make sense???

[@Adamus70]

It is possible to desalinate seawater without using fossile fuel, only with the power of the sun. This is called solar desalination and could help Spain. Contacts and questions welcome.

[@likklej8]

Deserts are lovely they might not have many plants but lots of life. India is a good example because it’s happened already there. In Iran there are man made underground water ways in some desert areas. People like roads and tower blocks high rise that no one can afford to live in.

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

Hi thank you very much for your comment. We would like to know how you know about the underground waterways?

[@likklej8]

hazards and catastrophes I visited Iran in 1972 travelling overland from the U.K. In Iran I traveled by bus,train and old style hitch hike.Travelling to Meshad on a train I saw some broken waterway culverts at one of the station shops en route,and asked an Iranian passenger what they were.peace love and stars

[@Rhouges81]

Of all the things I hate about the greedy Chinese, its their "Desert Conversion into Forest" practices is what making me like them. These people in northern China are true experts on it. Norway is doing it on Sahara too. We should be learning their techniques and instead keep planting trees.

[@taiterobinson793]

I actually am quite fond of deserts but. Europe hasn’t really gotten desertified but it will happen in time but as i say I’m quite fond of them

[@Kiyarose3999]

Spain NEEDS to do what is being done in Africa and China where both countries are reforesting deserts with the ‘Great Green Wall of Africa’ and the ‘Great Green Wall of China’ where progress has resulted in local jobs and local economy, while villagers say the air is cooler and some rivers are coming back where reforestation of the slopes of My Kilimanjaro has stabilised the water table.

[@unicornbunny6190]

Wow! Never knew Europe has deasert.

[@bryanlint9327]

We tend to only think of immediate profits not a life-time of saving the planet.

[@nepalsamaritan1214]

building fresh water river flowing dam can be one of the process to make vegetation land and reforestation for the land.

[@freedomfightertwo]

Great work from the people of Iceland! Thank you!

[@Elda.Handles]

The reason for humanities future struggle is not a lack of resources, but a lack of self-awareness in form of prudence and proper (planning) organization leading to a lack of resources.

[@kismrc]

And still a lot of places in spain still doesnt have drains. 2 days of rain and theres already floods specially on busy places. And it rarely rains 🤦‍♀️

[@umaryusuf537]

It’s funny how the tourists will go home and won’t even suffer from this but the locals will face the problems and the government will do nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Deowane]

Actually fruits can grow on deserted lands without irrigation. Native species do but the market doesn't want the native fruits so they weeded and timbered everything. Now it's deserted but can be regreened without irrigation trough mulching

[@Dr_Xyzt]

Those lava rock grids are fascinating. They remind me of peat bogs.

[@markyoung8613]

The main problem that got us into this mess is the IPCC reports DO NOT include feedback mechanisms .......... That's why the IPCC report was 90 years off base ......... The problem being scientists only do measurements ......... They do not measure A = B = C = D They only measure A ......... If B happens then they measure A and B without C & D ................ Three massive "Earth Altering" feedback mechanisms ......... 1/ The Arctic Sea Ice cools the Northern Hemisphere by 5'c pre year .......... When the Sea Ice goes the Northern Hemisphere will obey the Laws of Thermodynamics ..... It will warm until the heating source is removed or a cooling source is added ........ 2/ Amplified CH4 and CO2 release ......... When the earth warms permafrost melts ....... Circa 1tt of CH4 and CO2 per 1'c of warming ...... That is = to 3'c or 3.7w/m2 of extra warming per doubling of CO2 ..... 3/ Shallow Sea Shelf Warming ........ Arctic Sea Shelves contain more than 10,000,000,000,000 tons of CH4 ........ The ESAS (East Siberian Arctic Shelf) is 3,600,000km2 and at 60m sea depth ........ Each km2 x 1m depth contains 1,000,000 tons of CH4 .......... This will disassociate when the Arctic Sea gets to 4.2'c ........... The Warm Sea waters from the Gulf of Mexico are travelling north at 200km per year at 16-18'c ......... They are currently of the Coast of North East America 1,600 miles from the ESAS ......... 8 years away from the ESAS ........... These warm sea waters will encroach the Arctic Sea very shortly after Arctic Sea Ice disappears in Arctic summer time ......... Within 10 years! .......... 14 countries world wide are already suffering Severe Water Stress conditions ...... That is just the beginning and from just 1'4'c of warming .......... Two of these feedbacks 1 & 3 are very likely ...... (circa within 10 years) ......... No 2 is totally dependent on Anthropogenic warming and feed back warming ...... No 2 is actually the Guarantor of continued warming for the next 2000 - 10000 years ....... The Arctic will warm to 14'c in the summer before 2100 if we carry on business as usual .......... All Human Habitat will be gone between 0 - 50' latitude North and South ....... When politics controls science shit happens ......

[@Leokaiser]

How can you know all this but you don't know how to use punctuation?! Please, just use commas and periods instead of..... :D

[@jhorne18]

Good post of yours. Type in "methane craters" ... if you do not want to sleep tonight. It has been 37 deg. F. in the Siberian tundra. Then, if you really want to adrenalin, try: arctic-news.blogspot.com/2018/ . On 13 June 2018 it was 44 deg. F. over the North Pole! Also, try the You Tube channel "Climate State".

[@markyoung8613]

Cheers for that ………. It has got to the stage where Governments and Apolitical paid scientists are now blatantly not telling the full facts and are deliberately subduing critical information ……. The IPCC need to add a CRP 10 to their potential projections …..

[@Ganjaboy227]

Do the golf courses get water for free? Desaltet water costs around 0,30-0,6€/1000l. So when the golf course needs 1 mil/l per day, its only around 9000-18000€ water costs per month, If the gold club cant afford it, it must close.. If they use solar energy for water production is see no problem, thats simple free market logic.. or am I missing something?

[@cujoemblakka1041]

We're stewards of the lands, using our ingenuity we can regreen the land as well using solar panels farms, wind mills farms, and desalination plants, with less pressures on the natural sourses, while a program of regreening, and employing an antierrosion plan. We have the abilities to use knowledge and technologies to positively change of our environment. Water melts or is use and ends up in the oceans now we can take fresh water back from the oceans to run gravity hydro generators for power, farming, and potable use. This negative song while doing nothing is so crazy. Human life is about fixing problems, and terraforming or environments. You have no problems you can't fix, you have the resources.

[@atheistcable]

Excellent comment. Solar panels can be used to pump fresh water where it does rain, back up and into the dry interior which will bring back the forests. As you wrote: "We have the abilities to use knowledge and technologies to positively change of our environment." My suggestion, in view of your comment, is that you make a documentary showing how solar-energised pumps can transfer water long distances to create lakes inside today's deserts.

[@holeshothunter5544]

I really noticed the desertificatio of central and southern Spain when I rode thru in 1999, Jaen and the area all around it looked awfl in June

[@GF-ro9oc]

2019 End of life on Planet Earth !

[@tylermagmum5542]

Ahem....2020

[@kamalbeesla5733]

Without trees and water no one can survive

[@OldieBugger]

33:27 That's why I never buy any veggies grown in Spain, if I can help it. They look all right, but the taste is missing.

[@MrSuperBrite]

I do agree, they look good but taste is just missing.

[@LambentLark]

Iceland has the easiest solution of any of these countries. Although Spain would be equally logical. The government needs to step in and represent their entire population, instead of cowing to a segment. What they should tell the sheep farmers is, "You don't have the right to graze so many sheep you destroy the environment. This land can sustain, "X" amount of sheep when it is healthy but only "X%" for recovery. Each farmer has their own graze area if they over graze it, they dont get a different area, they go out of business. If you can't be a good steward to the land you loose your livelihood.

[@bremnersghost948]

wonder how soon we will see water pipelines from Ireland, UK and Scandinavia running down to the Med, lot of money to be made from our crappy weather

[@ericjohnson7234]

Crap weather, also it;s inevitable.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

finlands 187,888 lakes will not be pumped into water bottles for south europeans to consume. I rather suicide bomb the parliament like some sort of jihadist than allow those greedy bastards to further destroy our nature.

[@Hasse.Andersson]

Actually this summer (2018) has been extraordinary dry (and hot) in Scandinavia (Sweden) - so far!"

[@Crashed131963]

the environment is always the first causality of overpopulation. It's why Africa is such a mess and they are moving to Europe.

[@ShomiTheGreat]

Deforestation in Spain started with the Spanish naval dominance. Back then technology wasn't advanced enough to implement iron/ steel (pre-dreadnought era), so the only resource was wood. Along with naval dominance came advances in economy, with advances in economy came the population boom. All that used to draw wood as the main resource.

[@Cryptlord9999]

Instead of fertilizer and grass in Iceland, they should include a polyculture of grass and leguminous/nitrogen fixing plants, which will reduce the fertilizer need and be a renewable source of nitrogen for plants.

[@fritzstehr]

If I was a teacher of documentary making, THIS documentary would be on the curriculum. But I'm not, so the majority of documentary makers will continue to make their amateur documentaries.

[@TheFarmanimalfriend]

I hate sheep. John Muir called them, "hoofed locusts." They can destroy a sierra meadow that took ten thousand years to form in an afternoon. I will always hate them.

[@toepa11]

Sheep have always been here its mans control of sheep that causes erosion we never used to stay in one place that is mans choice not sheep all wild animals who eat grass move about there answer to the problem of overgrazing

[@maunster3414]

I too am in awe of the power of humanity's stupidity.

[@davidcox3452]

deforestation has brought down a lot of cultures

[@aminbe3079]

The advantage that Iceland have over other deserted nations is the fact they have plenty of rainfall

[@Crashed131963]

And no overpopulation.

[@OldieBugger]

It's not a "Climate Change". It's cutting down all the trees. The Iberian peninsula should be replanted with forests, once it is possible after some decades of returning the soil. And those forests should be taken care of. Same goes with Iceland, but they seem to know what to do and in which order.

[@Crashed131963]

Iceland does not have a overpopulation problem.

[@fanifani1464]

This is red alarming situation for Spain golf courses consume lot of water, water slides Use water excessively

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

We should be careful with water consumption

[@florichi]

I never understood this mass tourism. I rather drive down to the south of Italy and enjoy small towns in Reggio Calabria.

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

So true! And we would probably do our planet earth a favor if we all would´nt stomp over the same tourist attraction....

[@TrickyVickey]

Israel is building its 5th desalination plant. Apparently its a necessary thing.

[@petenielsen6683]

"There's a simple explanation for this. You're thick." -- an alien describing man's tendency to destroy himself

[@blefyplayswowable]

thicc

[@davidjohnzenocollins]

We are alone. No aliens.

[@Hasse.Andersson]

Are you sure? let us analyze. We start small, what lives on our planet is not alien. We have some moons on our solar system that "may" have alien life (like cells or so) How many stars is there in our galaxy? How many of them have planets? in the habitable zone? how many lightyears away are they? how many galaxies with stars with planets in the habitable zones are there? how many lightyears away? do we now how vast the universe is outside what we can observe? how many galaxies "may" be outside what we can see? So even if there is an "advanced" civilasation right now, that has reached the stoneage at this point, we could not detect them yet, for thousands or perhaps millions of years. Still alone? We were just lucky? maybe, but I guess not.

[@petenielsen6683]

Hasse Andersson , the alien I was quoting is The Doctor - Sol 3's favorite Timelord.

[@stevenrowlandson4258]

Plant trees.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

sadly not every country can be like russia, putin gave thousands of his own money to plant trees. as if our politicians would ever do that, one idiot is pulling major rent on land that childrens hospital was build on. she is making money out sick children and practically taking ashes from the fireplace.

[@Hasse.Andersson]

your kidding? Putin may have given money, but surely not his... Almost everyone agree that Putin is cheating to get power, thus in the long run he is stealing from the people. But never mind, that is just a stupid politician (or something) amongst many beside that, is Russia short on trees? I thought they had plenty of trees? where did they go?

[@Jackson-rf6rv]

Use Ecosia as your search engine and you'll plant trees for free

[@corporallee44]

@@Hasse.Andersson And you know that to be true --how?

[@Hasse.Andersson]

@Arnold Robert Lee Documentaries about Putin, his income and all the watches he has...

[@Deowane]

Let's make something about golf clubs. If golfers think they deserve hectares of open land to practice they should face reality and play on sand because without the magic water this sport isn't sustainable. Why aren't we using nature as a sustainable playground for tomorrow's sports, as parkour, tree climbing, green water sports without fuel, massive tree planting...?

[@ArthursHD]

How long can we underpay for our food?

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

True! How long can we live like that? What do you think?

[@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

golf courses shouldn't be banned - these should be charged extra surcharge/tax price for water which then should be used to build/fund a desal plant or compensate the farming industry's rates for desalination plant water pricing. An opportunity should not be banned - but exploited for a greater good-progressive thinking!

[@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578]

what is it called? the one about greenhouse 80% water? water G? please somebody explain better?

[@pamelahomeyer748]

Make them plant several Acres of trees all around any development and make them plant so many acres of trees many miles away from the development uphill

[@wolfy1987]

Here in the US we only barely saved the great plains region by planting extensive shelterbelts of Osage trees. It only took one major event for us to learn from our mistakes, and today contour plowing is common even in the most productive areas to prevent land erosion. But I have noticed a recent trend of some farmers removing hedgerows in certain areas. Hope thats not becoming popular, but you never know

[@ciceroaraujo2552]

pay to preserve nature is a way to fix the problem

[@2010invent]

YES LETS PAY MORE TAXES to fix the planet.

[@Hasse.Andersson]

NO! we tell the the rich to pay more TAX'es uhhhmmm wait sorry, the rich rules and destroys the planet, yea you right 2010, we pay more taxes to save our planet... f*** crap.