Battle against the Deserts | | Extra Long Documentary

Deserts now cover more than a third of the Earth's surface, affecting over 2.6 billion people in 110 countries. This program delves into the global issue of desertification, with a focus on Asia and Europe. Discover how desertification is altering the delicate balance of our planet and the consequences it has on agriculture, ecosystems, and human populations.
Part 1:
Did you know that China, despite being known for its vast landscapes, is actually home to one of the world's largest deserts? With a staggering third of its land area covered in useless sand, China faces significant challenges in ensuring food security for its population. Join us in this eye-opening documentary as we explore the impact of desertification on China's arable lands and the measures being taken to combat it.
Part 2:
Discover the hidden deserts of Europe in this captivating documentary. Contrary to outdated beliefs found in school textbooks, countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece have experienced severe desertification, prompting their participation in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD). Join us as we delve into the environmental challenges faced by these EU nations and their battle against the encroaching desert.
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[@duncanmaina7491]

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

[@hugodias2449]

The priority should be to reverse the stupidification of mankind 😅

[@benbronson-oo1mx]

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

[@sadimasson8734]

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

[@harishrv]

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

[@ChristopherBowly]

Really excellent documentary. Very interesting & very informative.

[@lesliefish4753]

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

[@lesliefish4753]

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

[@littlespinycactus]

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

[@Crashed131963]

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

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

@@Crashed131963 You are braindead.

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

@@Crashed131963 DON'T LOOK UP!!!

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

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

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

@@Crashed131963 LOSER! SHAME!

[@PeterMilanovski]

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

[@susukumutajapan7194]

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

[@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205]

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

[@juarezderrick9647]

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

[@mub3ady]

😂😂😂

[@desertrose7318]

@@susukumutajapan7194 does it work on Android phone ❤️?

[@carlduplessis31]

I loved this documentary. Thank you very much .

[@joankirby1944]

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

[@immoosiesmom]

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

[@kendallkahl8725]

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

[@888Longball]

I didn't know that Hawaii desalinated. Interesting.

[@floridaman4073]

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

[@cruisepaige]

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

[@Mystery13x]

Exactly how I ended up here 😂

[@user-ii1di7fy7c]

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

[@stephendezouzsa]

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

[@fernly2]

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

[@davidsullivan8236]

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

[@johngreen4147]

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

[@desertrose7318]

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

[@dennissmeets4573]

They created the problem.....

[@fireblade2681]

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

[@amarahk6759]

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

[@user-cg3dt9ut9b]

and in POrtugal also, onde a imbecilidade não tem limites

[@PurpleSixBeats]

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

[@cristopherordonio8802]

Fighting the NATURES FIGHT BACK❤

[@sammychannel960]

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

[@SecondTake123]

Thank you for sharing this very informative documentary!

[@gbh5912]

take a real, deeper look

[@osvaldocristo]

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

[@VaxtorT]

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

[@secretgeheim1243]

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

[@LarryLaird-if6sc]

This will happen across the world if we don't seriously change our ways. It's not too late for humanity but the people who elect our leaders need to send a message that we need change to help our environment for the better 😊😊

[@winnepeterson6570]

Excellent video. Thank you!

[@ddz1375]

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

[@dylan-en5ch]

Another doomsday weirdo out in the woods alone. Sad.

[@toni4729]

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

[@TheFitnessPapadaOonmeangpia]

#Thanks

[@zuzannazmud9043]

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

[@hvmlovecomayforever]

infomative

[@nazuddin6346]

Awesome documentrys ❤

[@louisebarnes1181]

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

[@mazer4112]

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

[@toni4729]

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

[@Ineedanewbrainwashagent1.]

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

[@toni4729]

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

[@garyjohnson1466]

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

[@dp-kz5cs]

Lets go see shall we ?

[@stiffish001]

@@dp-kz5cs 😂

[@joankirby1944]

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

[@carollever4662]

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

[@blusoull6968]

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

[@shirleyrice7093]

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

[@jorgwestermann434]

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

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

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

[@7hilladelphia]

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

[@khaledaouameur7116]

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

[@mars-cs4uk]

Eye-opener video. Thanks

[@heather-vs9qe]

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

[@gbh5912]

How can you learn from misinformation?

[@gamingtonight1526]

@@gbh5912 Stop trolling, and get a life!

[@gbh5912]

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

[@mpha_nita1991]

Amazing documentary

[@delzworld2007]

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

[@toni4729]

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

[@theCosmicQueen]

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

[@sabineblume5341]

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

[@feltongailey8987]

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

[@cacogenicist]

Build many thousands of stone circles with walls a meter high or so, 4 or 5 meters in diameter, just stacking up rocks. Plant inside these circles. Soil will build up faster in the rings, and the rock wall will protect rhe soil from being blown away.

[@kendallkahl8725]

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

[@annebell565]

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

[@rosariotapia639]

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

[@1eagleeyez]

I love desert!

[@hazardsandcatastrophes]

We love it too ;)

[@gamingtonight1526]

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

[@harishrv]

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

[@mikerockwood4475]

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

[@gbh5912]

@@woodforthetrees3496 Also, very significant and true!!

[@liv-maritbakke1914]

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

[@gbh5912]

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

[@liv-maritbakke1914]

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

[@gbh5912]

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

[@elsonantoniodasilva3352]

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

[@marypatten9655]

Cutting down the trees is not helping their problem.

[@toni4729]

Quite right.

[@ZMacZ]

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

[@ZMacZ]

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

[@ZMacZ]

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

[@ZMacZ]

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

[@JasperKlijndijk]

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

[@ZMacZ]

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

[@harishrv]

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

[@JJ-JOHNSON]

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

[@shawn2789]

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

[@LillyMelody01]

Eye opening for sure 🤔😳🥹

[@rineric3214]

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

[@SteffiReitsch]

Poor Iceland. No trees. Awful.

[@j.b.4340]

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

[@GODSpet]

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

[@johnwhitehurst474]

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

[@themuse11]

Permaculture can reclaim desert.

[@toni4729]

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

[@sfca1849]

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

[@alyxiastarling7990]

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

[@chucknewman7076]

Thank you for sharing!

[@harishrv]

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

[@peterjohnstaples]

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

[@koosvanpetten5567]

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

[@radboo4384]

Let's go Benidorm (while wi can) 🆘️

[@michalkozakowski1]

Thats why we have to stop ecopropagande.

[@sharnie528]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@joankirby1944]

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

[@plastruk]

I will agree. World population needs to be cut in half or more

[@TechnologyPrincess]

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

[@toni4729]

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

[@chepkiruilangat9725]

I like desert improvement

[@mbarker1958]

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

[@thesurvivalist.]

permaculture!

[@phil20_20]

Nuclear Desalination 🤗

[@nickburton9549]

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

[@fernly2]

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

[@perrobuck1]

It is a case of the grasshopper and the ant. We're all grasshoppers. Most of us.

[@desertrose7318]

Also watch the movie documentary called "kiss the ground"

[@benbronson-oo1mx]

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

[@BobJones-dq9mx]

Well produced documentary!

[@kimshin8383]

Iceland is a easy fix and not expensive

[@sergiotorres3756]

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

[@badal1001]

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

[@alexvalentine8724]

today the world is 20 percent greener in the last 30 years.

[@user-ii1di7fy7c]

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

[@janakasanjaya6926]

Thank you for the video clip

[@joankirby1944]

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

[@gamingtonight1526]

Human stupidity will lead to the end of humanity in just a couple of decades

[@toni4729]

There isn't enough water for the human race yet, we continue to breed like bloody rabbits. When are people going to stop?