Why America is desperately claiming new land

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  • Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024

Комментарии • 57

  • @OBFYT
    @OBFYT  День назад +41

    Correction:
    At 2:58 we put a map of Boston and not San Fransisco.

    • @dancoroian1
      @dancoroian1 День назад +3

      Also, the graphic at 0:46 calls a clamshell (I presume...) a "cumshell" -- but considering how unlikely of a typo that would be, I'm half inclined to think it was an intentional Easter egg on their part! 😝

    • @jessj8313
      @jessj8313 День назад

      Standard OBF.

    • @wilcohermens3492
      @wilcohermens3492 17 часов назад

      And Flevoland is bigger than you thought, in your map you're only highlighting the southern part of Flevoland

  • @hybbfr727
    @hybbfr727 День назад +43

    the netherlands: look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power

  • @potato733
    @potato733 День назад +102

    Land "conquer" is a term reserved only for the Dutch

    • @mehmeh1234
      @mehmeh1234 День назад +4

      Yes I agree. But the frisians also deserve to use that term.

    • @Kerguelen.Mapping
      @Kerguelen.Mapping День назад +3

      @@mehmeh1234Macau literally has 2/3rds of their land reclaimed

    • @Trickaz94
      @Trickaz94 День назад

      ​@@Kerguelen.Mappingso

    • @Kerguelen.Mapping
      @Kerguelen.Mapping День назад +1

      @@Trickaz94 land conquer could also be used for macau imo

    • @Trickaz94
      @Trickaz94 День назад +1

      @@mehmeh1234 Frisian are Dutch (in this instance at least)

  • @viewer-of-content
    @viewer-of-content День назад +6

    Coastal Marshland and Mangroves are often destroyed by storms or wave errosion, and require a seawall to be built for protection before replanting native species in their young sapling forms.

  • @markmuller7962
    @markmuller7962 День назад +46

    Aren't marshlands a very important biodiversity environment to protect?

    • @TheMotlias
      @TheMotlias День назад +16

      Yes they are, very important for food webs and can protect areas from flooding

    • @rynieryarom4277
      @rynieryarom4277 День назад +1

      Yes. But a biodiverse marsh/forest/mangrove does not make money for the capitalist industrial complex. A standing tree is "worthless"

    • @viewer-of-content
      @viewer-of-content День назад +3

      Much of land reclaimation is actually to reclaim wetlands that have been destroyed. It's not worded that well in the video, but land reclaimation in the USA often involves building dams and planting mangroves behind the protected damns. So you dump and fill a sea wall after a hurricane before replanting and replacing hurricane destroyed mangroves.

  • @communistpoultry
    @communistpoultry День назад +28

    Love this video love from Independent Country of Taiwan 🇹🇼

    • @bambyayt
      @bambyayt День назад

      No you are a province of China stop listening to your american lapdpgs

    • @katjerouac
      @katjerouac День назад

      😂

  • @seasong7655
    @seasong7655 День назад +21

    Crazy how Netherlands has them beat by a LOT

    • @SzymonPmc
      @SzymonPmc День назад +5

      not really, america is empty af meanwhile the dutch barely fit in their own country lol

    • @bluelonden
      @bluelonden День назад +2

      @@SzymonPmc not really, only the interior of the usa is empty, the coastal areas are really densely populated

    • @Trickaz94
      @Trickaz94 День назад

      ​@@SzymonPmcmurica is a backwards dump

    • @Trickaz94
      @Trickaz94 День назад

      ​@@SzymonPmcamurica is a backwards dump

    • @Trickaz94
      @Trickaz94 День назад +1

      ​@@SzymonPmcmurica would be nowhere without the Netherlands

  • @maxR7275
    @maxR7275 День назад +6

    2:58 Talking about San Francisco while showing a map of Boston?

    • @kryscat5481
      @kryscat5481 День назад

      I was going to comment on it but you beat me to it.

  • @Blaqjaqshellaq
    @Blaqjaqshellaq 19 часов назад +1

    I've seen a proposal to extend Manhattan southward into NYC harbor through artificial land. (Spirit of New Amsterdam!) Some environmentalists don't like it, but it could change the city. I envision this extension being planned so that skyscrapers would be limited to a central belt at the furthest distance from the harbor; residential buildings with half a dozen floors would be closer to it; and closest of all they'd build a zone of parks and wetlands!

  • @kinexkid
    @kinexkid День назад +9

    Excuse my ignorance, but why is the grab bucket at 0:42 called a cumshell?

    • @dancoroian1
      @dancoroian1 День назад +6

      My thoughts exactly! After a bit of investigation, I'm almost positive it's meant to be "clamshell" -- and considering that seems like an exceedingly difficult/unlikely typo to make (on a standard QWERTY layout, in any case) and not something that can be explained by auto-correct, I'm inclined to conclude:
      Easter egg(?)

  • @emitsienim
    @emitsienim День назад

    very interesting video, glad you covered this

  • @danlowe8684
    @danlowe8684 5 часов назад +1

    A chart showing number of coastal flood days for 1999 vs. 2023 means nothing, scientifically speaking, without the other 150 years of data included. Also, coastal regions are affected by subsidence more than by sea level. And everyone is a 'conqueror', until they aren't. Much like the Dutch found out in 1953. The flood control systems installed along the lower Mississippi River in response to the 1927 flood are much the same as the Dutch have installed and equally successful. There are levees, diversion structures, pumps, etc. in both systems. But this also leaves New Orleans and the delta area with very little deposition of sediment to build up the sinking areas, which makes storm surges much worse than they would normally be. Also, San Francisco and Manhattan were not 'reclaimed' - they were simply filled in with garbage. Check the manmade islands in Dubai, Japan's airport, and China's sinking manmade islands and it will become apparent that this is a bad practice. And most beaches along the US coasts are either manmade or have been made much larger than they naturally were. Beach nourishing in these regions has been going on since the 1930s.

  • @BuildNewTowns
    @BuildNewTowns День назад

    Lets build some cool new towns

  • @pyeitme508
    @pyeitme508 День назад +2

    Hmm US conquers lands

  • @Snoweagle0
    @Snoweagle0 День назад

    they made France V2

  • @OOCR96
    @OOCR96 День назад

    How dare you call Flevoland Holland on your thumbnail

  • @Olifantenstaart
    @Olifantenstaart День назад

    By hiring the Dutch.

  • @leepreston9637
    @leepreston9637 23 часа назад +1

    The sea levels are not rising.

  • @ATLAS.3DIT
    @ATLAS.3DIT День назад +3

    As a representative of the comments reading association, I humbly urge everyone to keep their comments short and straight to the point for easy reading.
    The more humurous comments will receive the most acknowledgement.

    • @dancoroian1
      @dancoroian1 День назад

      @@ATLAS.3DIT this man is an imposter!

    • @mythyx8381
      @mythyx8381 День назад

      too long not reading all that

  • @Rodero2443
    @Rodero2443 День назад +1

    LAST time when i was this early, the fire nation didn't attack,the west fold still stood,the trees of valanor still shone, heck even the Excutor wasn't built.

    • @Fr3nchFlag
      @Fr3nchFlag День назад

      Just like then, your virginity is still intact.

  • @DKS007
    @DKS007 День назад +2

    What's the point of this video ?

  • @ScotchBonnetHand_
    @ScotchBonnetHand_ День назад

    why can't we stuff abandoned mines with landfill trash?

    • @krisskross9994
      @krisskross9994 8 часов назад

      chemicals from the rubbish would leach into the to the soil becsuse of the heat or any rainfall water which would cause the soils above to become more toxic and harmful for plants and ecosystems above

  • @tentimes.8537
    @tentimes.8537 День назад +2

    first? cool

  • @Trickaz94
    @Trickaz94 День назад +1

    The Americans would be nowhere if it weren't for us dutch

  • @Trickaz94
    @Trickaz94 День назад

    The Americans would be nowhere if it weren't for us dutch