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I would want ted to make an video on world population problem and do some research and come up with numbers and solutions for developing countries . Also I grew thinking this alot ... Like what if only 2 billion people lived on earth and stuff. It's an idea I don't really see people talking about and having concerns .. I would like you to uptake something from here ..
there were moments when the music felt like a water clock ticking, I was picturing in my mind a hourglass that drips water droplets instead of a sand stream, ticking an anxious countdown. it was counting the time we got left on this green planet, and that's gonna run out eventually if we don't stop wasting our precious fresh water
Thank you so much for your lovely comments about the music I did. Feeling lucky and very happy to work with Kozmonot Animation Studio and TED-Ed again.
@@animegirl7364 Thank you but unfortunately there is no video with just the music. Although it is my composition, I did it on demand just for this video so they come together as a package. Sorry...
But will you guys expand on how industries like the golfing and other sport industries spend tons of gallons of drinking water on lawns. How reservoir are being used in Nevada for Golf Courses rather than sustaining the public. Agriculture is part of our lives, while wasteful leisures arent, especially if those leisures are at the expense of peoples literal survival. I adore these videos about saving the earth, but this deflects from greater issues. You are masters of non-partisan debates and conversations and can really do address outliers that effect so much more of our lives, that are right under our noses.
@@chieuleyang6768 you ever been to a golf course? Its real grass bro and grass needs hella water if its gonna be green year round. Especially in a desert like Nevada
This is basically where all the water in Dubai comes from, distilled seawater. The process is expensive, has an environmental impact and uses a lot of energy.
This video is very well done. One note to make is humans, while some do things that are very reckless to our environment, there are others who are doing amazing good for our planet. Humans are smart and we will find ways to go around these crisis’ that our predecessors left us with. That’s why it’s so important to educate ourselves and our children. As well as support new ideas and companies who are trying to produce cleaner, more efficient energy and farming techniques. It may be a little scary to look at the future, but with each generation we are becoming more informed of our footprint on the earth. And with each little decision we make to help the environment the more our youth will see that and grow up to hopefully make the big changes for our planet. Just wanted to give a little positivity to those who might be discouraged.
Positivity is definitely needed. But the biggest issue in regard to this, is the speed in which we develop these new solutions, and the reforming of the existing ones. Economic growth is still the highest priority to lawmakers and industries, due to globalized capitalism. If we don't change this priority, globally, it will result in the demise of civilization as we know it.
Bramble you can still be positive but be grounded in reality. I’m not saying to just shut your eyes and pretend everything will work out. But just to look for and support people who are trying to do good. Or if you find yourself able to make a change, make that change! You don’t need be a pessimist to get change and be more in tuned with reality. In fact you will rarely see a positive change if you’re looking at everything negatively. Just my two sense. ❤️
sad sad thing is that US government is not believing in climate change, and pollution continues to increase global warming which is melting glaciers and flooding planet and making little islands disappear , now 8 metres of glaciers ice has melted it keeps melting , i want to stop it WE want to stop it but if we don’t like Stephen Hawking said that in 600 years our planet earth will be burning hot if we don’t do anything to stop it , it makes me sad , im only 12 year old that is trying to change something.......
Please discuss the importance of reducing water pollution as well. It's not just a question of how much freshwater is available but the quality and health of the freshwater source/supply. Thank you!
@@Spacemonkeymojo Yeah I know. I was equally as shocked. I saw many commercials on tv telling us not to waste water and turning the tap off while brushing, and i thought the same thing "What kind of idiotic moron brushes their teeth with the tap on?"
I’m actually incredibly shocked by this. Not only the amount of water we go through daily but also the urgency to reduce it. Ithink I’ll start taking shorter showers now...
Start by reducing meat consumption, more specifically red meat. Not saying to give up meat entirely, but try to replace one normal meal with a vegan meal each week. Raising live stock requires large amounts of water. Not saying agriculture doesn’t use large amounts of water either, but you have to factor in the amount of water need to grow feed for live stock too.
Wait, red meat? Isn't the meat which requires much more water than any vegetable? 80% of the agricultural water goes on feeding the livestock and growing plants for them...
Yes, I'm disappointed with the end of this video. A big reason animal products require so much water is because crops have to be grown to feed the livestock, when we could just be eating the crops ourselves. I don't know why ted would mention shelled nuts first and meat second.
@@Lucas43434 The creators probably thought people would disregard veganism for a sustainable future. Even if veganism is the best way to reduce our environmental footprint, Ted-ed understands the hate/backlash it would receive. That and they also might be biased so they can continue eating their meat because most plant based foods are significantly way more sustainable than any meat ever grown.
Sadly, suggest to someone [especially Americans] to stop eating meat and they immediately shut down or become incensed. I'm not from a professional psychology background (I only have an interest), but it seems to me to be a response of the discontinuity of presenting someone with an idea that makes sense but they simply do not want to accept: The bad feelings come from their Cognitive Bias - the ego being unable to consolidate these two competing ideas. I actually think very sly, subdued attempts like this video might be the best way to get to people.
I suggest that people buy buckets and fill them up with water and use those to take a bath instead of a long shower. That's what we do here in the Philippines, it saves so much more water!
I've always been amazed at how beautiful clean clear water comes right out of the ground here in California. The rice farming industry here in Northern California uses a massive amount of water that evaporates on a massive scale.
The corrections of various types required for atleast 50 years or till the underground water table is risen good. Use alternate good quality temporary materials. Ban on all concrete constructions like multistorey, Underground tunneling for metro projects. Use of crops requiring least water i.e ban on rice plantations till safe. The world has to control on their taste buds till the right time. Harvest water drop by drop by placing winter fog nets. Harvest rain water by everybody. Dig out water storage tanks. It's now or never.
We can use the process distillation to separate salt from water and use the water that we distilled for drinking purpose and agricultural use , We can use fog catchers And Solar powered water filtration
Haven't we already found ways to purify salt water (desalination) for consumption and cultivation? I thought people have been doing it for decades now.
Once water desalination plants become cheaper to build it will make water an infinite resource to use. We just need to figure out how to lower the cost.
And how to not polute the ocean with the brine that come from desalinated water. Besides, it's not a perfect technology because still it could harm the humans and the animals.
So proud of the fact that Ted-ed has the guts to explain that the main issue is by far, actually animal agriculture, which is an issue most organizations like Greenpeace aren't adressing. For anyone wanting to make a difference, I urge you to read "Cowspiracy".
Hi, amazing video, but I have a couple of questions: I'd had liked to know the stats separately of agriculture and cattle raising, especially since you said going vegetarian reduces 1/3 of the water consumption, does that means cattle raising consumes the other 2/3. also, a great part of the agriculture products are destined to cattle raising itself, does the 1/3 agriculture water includes the products destined to them? or which is the proportion destined for human consumption in correlation to the cattle raising. thanks in advance if you get to read and answer this comment !!
You mentioned that the majority of our eater is used for agriculture, but neglected to mention that the VAST MAJORITY of that water goes to ANIMAL AGRICULTURE. Adopting a vegan diet is the most sustainable lifestyle choice. ❤❤🌱🌎
Sidhu Saab ❤️.... Naam padh k aagya notification ch... Proud PS - Sidhu sir, please study how much water every year we give to paddy in PUNJAB only and if we replace paddy with other crop how much water we can save.!
This is going to be a long one. At first I thought freshwater shortage shouldn't exist because water doesn't vanish after we use it. But I realized that once we consume freshwater, it turns into sewage, which needs sewage treatment plants to be acceptable enough to return to the environment. While the treated water is technically freshwater, it can't be used because people wouldn't be comfortable with it. This freshwater gets mixed into rivers and ends up in the oceans, turning into saltwater. The only way for it to turn back into freshwater is through the water cycle, which we can't control and stays pretty much unchanged, or via desalination plants, which are extremely costly. So the reason we're having or will be having a water shortage is because we've found a very easy way to turn freshwater into saltwater but not the reverse. In other words, our freshwater consumption is increasing (because of increasing population and industrialization) but its supply is constant, or decreasing even, as glaciers and polar ice melt. This seems problematic but it can be easily fixed by increasing our freshwater supply. Even recycling sewage water would be a permanent solution because as our consumption increases, the amount of recycled water increases as well. It's a self-sustaining system. Or perhaps we'll find some other way to do it.
But we are already taking the water out of the river, and than put the cleaned water in the river. It's not like we magically lose water somewhere when it hits the sea
@GearsW You are correct but we always pump in water from the upstream of a river where it is the purest and then pump out the treated water to the downstream of it, where it is rarely reused. We could totally reuse that water but there would probably be huge public backlash over it. And while we don't lose the total water when it hits the sea, we do lose quite a bit of freshwater. Once it hits the sea, it mixes with the saltwater there and becomes saltwater itself, which is so costly to turn back into freshwater that it's much cheaper to just pump more water from our original river upstream. Hence our only source of freshwater is the river upstream. And the river does not have an infinite supply of water. We cannot pump more water of out it than flows through it, otherwise it will dry up. Hence the problem.
One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible. The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions
@@knosis It's like Marvel's "Thanos killed 50% of living beings" thing. If 50% of life was really dead, including 50% of the vital bacteria in our bodies, who knows what would happen.
@@alexp.7637 Mass starvation and drought are not my type either. I'm just saying we'd save 99% of the water we use in agriculture by switching to insect, plus we'd have a better nutrition. The only barrier separating us from an insect-based diet is immaturity.
Well all you need to do is like the island i live on, we pump water out of the ocean,purify it and then re-add some important minerals since the water would be so clean
We need to start eating more bugs. The biggest thing we can do is cut down on large livestock ranching (cows, pigs and sheep) They are disastrous for the environment, greenhouse gas creation, obesity epidemic, global poverty and the water shortage. If we were to replace even half of our consumption of these animals with other sources (insects for example) the world would be so much better off. The University of Wageningen has published a really cool report on this.
@@your-regina Average, maybe. Or maybe the ideal image. But I know enough people who have more than that and I live in a country in the West. There are people who get more children because of their religion as well, like Catholics did a generation before. I'm not sure if they are still encouraged to get more though, but I do see people with 3 or more regularly.
Actually, eventually we will be stuck at somewhere around 11billion, where some sort of "balance" will happen, where the number of newborns is going to be equal to the number of deaths (on average) thus creating equilibrium.
Years ago, we got plenty of water to drink and for everyday use. Nowadays, we have to pay for it either buying bottled water or paying to water distributors. Clear water is also wasted by people in so many ways listing all of it would make this comment section like a thesis.
I'm under 18 and I felt that 1 way to save more water was to reduce the rate of *Global Warming* ,to reduce the rate of *climate change* so that the temperature will not rise.The rising of temperature results in more usage of water(drinking&stuff),hence waste more water. So in order to reduce the rate of *Global Warming* ,us people can plant more plants,reduce the usage of cars,use more bicycle instead and limit the amount of water used by afluence,those afluence keeps wasting resources. Many people might think that its their business,but their action affects all of us.
Planet may or may not loose water but we are running out of clean water. There are thousands of reason for this. Pharmaceuticals/ chemical dumping has has made ground water posionous, arsenic posioning being found in North-east India. Industrial waste to river made river almost unusable and ultimately dried at many places.
Agriculture would use up an EXTREMELY smaller amount of water if we cut down on meat consumption. This is not a vegan point of view, but an environmental one. We feed the animals we eat more plant food than we ourselves consume. The production of livestock meant for meat is responsible for a ridiculously big amount of water spending. If we all reduced out meat consumption, we would do wonders for out water reservoirs.
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Feed crops gatorade
I would want ted to make an video on world population problem and do some research and come up with numbers and solutions for developing countries .
Also I grew thinking this alot ... Like what if only 2 billion people lived on earth and stuff. It's an idea I don't really see people talking about and having concerns .. I would like you to uptake something from here ..
I gave an Idea. Stop the meat industry
@@jacobandrews2663 thats not necessary if we have lower population and I am vegetarian myself and I think this is way to future
Why do you need be under 18? Just curious (also I just turned 18 this year😔)
The ANIMATION
The IDEA
The CYCLES
JUST Pure BEAUTY!
lol
U got heart
Kozmonot animation studio
And with a powerful message too
🎉🎉🎉
The music is exceptionally pleasant and how fitting.
there were moments when the music felt like a water clock ticking, I was picturing in my mind a hourglass that drips water droplets instead of a sand stream, ticking an anxious countdown. it was counting the time we got left on this green planet, and that's gonna run out eventually if we don't stop wasting our precious fresh water
Being hearted by TED-Ed is the greatest honour for me.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments about the music I did. Feeling lucky and very happy to work with Kozmonot Animation Studio and TED-Ed again.
Deniz Doğançay Is there any video with just this music piece? It’s so beautiful to listen to!
@@animegirl7364 Thank you but unfortunately there is no video with just the music. Although it is my composition, I did it on demand just for this video so they come together as a package. Sorry...
This is better than most “save water” advertisements because it tells you why there’s a problem not just what to do
i drink water
becuz i need to drink
@been guy I NEED TO DRINK
Excellent animation....👌👌
Hi
Lacks outlines...
But will you guys expand on how industries like the golfing and other sport industries spend tons of gallons of drinking water on lawns. How reservoir are being used in Nevada for Golf Courses rather than sustaining the public. Agriculture is part of our lives, while wasteful leisures arent, especially if those leisures are at the expense of peoples literal survival.
I adore these videos about saving the earth, but this deflects from greater issues. You are masters of non-partisan debates and conversations and can really do address outliers that effect so much more of our lives, that are right under our noses.
Dan Eul Kim i don’t think that really consumes nearly as much water becus it’s only a one time process
@@chieuleyang6768 you ever been to a golf course? Its real grass bro and grass needs hella water if its gonna be green year round. Especially in a desert like Nevada
Dan Eul Kim oh
I thought the grass in Golf courses was fake becus the grass in my school field is fake
Sorry
@@chieuleyang6768 No worries, its really messed up how many acres of just pure grass are upkept, its insane!
Two buckets of water makes an infinite water source
Lol us minecrafters. Other people would be confused.
😂😂😂
it is one a cauldron
D4R00D who would of thought we are ahead of everyone else?
I say no.
r/wooosh: *Hello there*
Water doesn't grow on trees after all
wet
It doesn't "grow" but water does come out of trees
It grows out of trees ;)
@@mrmaimott7844 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The joke.^^^ You.
You Might be wondering First Why Desert Has no Trees maybe Tress can't Grow water but tress can grow Life.. Animals and even human itself.
Can you make a video on:
*Why we cannot make seawater usable?Why we aren't doing research on making it usable?*
If you agree then like please 🙏🙏
Somanshu Kumar we can turn seawater into clean drinking water, it’s just extremely expensive right now. I think eventually the cost will lower
It is consumable after various processes, quite expensive wastes energy, in a way. Something that would currently out-sustain the benefits!
We CAN
Ever heard of desalination plants and NEWater?
Countries in the Middle East are already doing it so
This is basically where all the water in Dubai comes from, distilled seawater. The process is expensive, has an environmental impact and uses a lot of energy.
This video is very well done.
One note to make is humans, while some do things that are very reckless to our environment, there are others who are doing amazing good for our planet. Humans are smart and we will find ways to go around these crisis’ that our predecessors left us with. That’s why it’s so important to educate ourselves and our children. As well as support new ideas and companies who are trying to produce cleaner, more efficient energy and farming techniques.
It may be a little scary to look at the future, but with each generation we are becoming more informed of our footprint on the earth. And with each little decision we make to help the environment the more our youth will see that and grow up to hopefully make the big changes for our planet.
Just wanted to give a little positivity to those who might be discouraged.
life is not a movie. Sometimes the good dont always win. Keep thinking positive but also don't forget reality.
Positivity is definitely needed. But the biggest issue in regard to this, is the speed in which we develop these new solutions, and the reforming of the existing ones. Economic growth is still the highest priority to lawmakers and industries, due to globalized capitalism. If we don't change this priority, globally, it will result in the demise of civilization as we know it.
Bramble you can still be positive but be grounded in reality. I’m not saying to just shut your eyes and pretend everything will work out. But just to look for and support people who are trying to do good. Or if you find yourself able to make a change, make that change! You don’t need be a pessimist to get change and be more in tuned with reality. In fact you will rarely see a positive change if you’re looking at everything negatively. Just my two sense. ❤️
sad sad thing is that US government is not believing in climate change, and pollution continues to increase global warming which is melting glaciers and flooding planet and making little islands disappear , now 8 metres of glaciers ice has melted it keeps melting , i want to stop it WE want to stop it but if we don’t like Stephen Hawking said that in 600 years our planet earth will be burning hot if we don’t do anything to stop it , it makes me sad , im only 12 year old that is trying to change something.......
Finally, a real, living person who doesn't look at a dystopian future.
*These are some **_clean_** animations!*
*That’s some clean water right there*
yes
Please discuss the importance of reducing water pollution as well. It's not just a question of how much freshwater is available but the quality and health of the freshwater source/supply. Thank you!
We can't, as long as we turn the Tap off while brushing.
Unfortunately this is a crazy little amount... It does help though!
What kind of idiotic moron brushes their teeth with the tap on?
#firstworldproblems
@@Spacemonkeymojo Yeah I know. I was equally as shocked. I saw many commercials on tv telling us not to waste water and turning the tap off while brushing, and i thought the same thing "What kind of idiotic moron brushes their teeth with the tap on?"
Mujahid Syed great minds think alike!
I’m actually incredibly shocked by this. Not only the amount of water we go through daily but also the urgency to reduce it.
Ithink I’ll start taking shorter showers now...
Start by reducing meat consumption, more specifically red meat. Not saying to give up meat entirely, but try to replace one normal meal with a vegan meal each week. Raising live stock requires large amounts of water. Not saying agriculture doesn’t use large amounts of water either, but you have to factor in the amount of water need to grow feed for live stock too.
Reduce meat consumption. That'll make a bigger impact that cutting down on your showers.
Or you could use buckets for bathing.
@beginnerparkour7296there are a lot of other food that give protein
Instead of using water to make ramen,just eat the block of ramen uncooked
Lol that would just be extremely unhealthy 😂
Despicable Penguin instant ramen/noodles is already deep fried. Us indonesian eat it everytime uncooked if were lazy
Isnt that just the main diet of a college student
just eat dry foods
Wait, red meat? Isn't the meat which requires much more water than any vegetable? 80% of the agricultural water goes on feeding the livestock and growing plants for them...
Yes, I'm disappointed with the end of this video. A big reason animal products require so much water is because crops have to be grown to feed the livestock, when we could just be eating the crops ourselves. I don't know why ted would mention shelled nuts first and meat second.
@@Lucas43434 The creators probably thought people would disregard veganism for a sustainable future. Even if veganism is the best way to reduce our environmental footprint, Ted-ed understands the hate/backlash it would receive. That and they also might be biased so they can continue eating their meat because most plant based foods are significantly way more sustainable than any meat ever grown.
Yes livestock products have water footprints much greater than those of crops and their derivatives. In the scale of 10 times more (as average)
I mean, I will eat less meat but I will never stop eating it. Unless you can provide me with a replacement that tastes exactly the same
Sadly, suggest to someone [especially Americans] to stop eating meat and they immediately shut down or become incensed. I'm not from a professional psychology background (I only have an interest), but it seems to me to be a response of the discontinuity of presenting someone with an idea that makes sense but they simply do not want to accept: The bad feelings come from their Cognitive Bias - the ego being unable to consolidate these two competing ideas.
I actually think very sly, subdued attempts like this video might be the best way to get to people.
Thanos do your thing
rising raisings LMFAO
*CORONAVIRUS* *ENTERED* *THE* *CHAT*
Millions are about to start not living
**_Snaps fingers._**
not nearly enough to undo the damage done but it's a start
I suggest that people buy buckets and fill them up with water and use those to take a bath instead of a long shower. That's what we do here in the Philippines, it saves so much more water!
*africa wants to know your location*
I'm from India
That's mean
Its a joke
Send location
@@subscribetomyyoutubechanne1543 the joke went over your head
I've always been amazed at how beautiful clean clear water comes right out of the ground here in California. The rice farming industry here in Northern California uses a massive amount of water that evaporates on a massive scale.
The corrections of various types required for atleast 50 years or till the underground water table is risen good.
Use alternate good quality temporary materials.
Ban on all concrete constructions like multistorey, Underground tunneling for metro projects.
Use of crops requiring least water i.e ban on rice plantations till safe.
The world has to control on their taste buds till the right time.
Harvest water drop by drop by placing winter fog nets.
Harvest rain water by everybody. Dig out water storage tanks. It's now or never.
That’s a question which’s answer scares me. A lot.
We can use the process distillation to separate salt from water and use the water that we distilled for drinking purpose and agricultural use , We can use fog catchers And Solar powered water filtration
Great idea
But most probably it's very very difficult and expensive
So beastly draining the ocean causing more problems
To much energy
Very expensive
Haven't we already found ways to purify salt water (desalination) for consumption and cultivation?
I thought people have been doing it for decades now.
There is, but I heard that the amount of energy necessary is really high and that it is therefore not that sustainable...
@@franzliszt7965 unsustainable and expensive.
*_Water_** these amazing animations?!*
One can only hope, and persevere.
Overpopulation is a serious issue indeed
Most people aren't having children
earth can support 11 billion people we are not overpopulated
Overpopulation is only occurred in poor countries especially in africa
I think a real life battle royale will solve the problem... sadly...
Thats why im not gonna married.
Is it just me, when i watch ted-ed videos like this weekly i feel like i'm gaining knowledge/ becoming smarter...
Once water desalination plants become cheaper to build it will make water an infinite resource to use. We just need to figure out how to lower the cost.
But still water in oceans should be drinkable so that no one get thirsty
When people in power decide to prioritize for other needs, rather than selfish monetary gains. As creatures, it will not happen.
And how to not polute the ocean with the brine that come from desalinated water. Besides, it's not a perfect technology because still it could harm the humans and the animals.
@@daianad377 is there a perfect technology on the planet?
@al-Haifawi the cost passed on to the consumer is small
like 6 dollars a month added to the regular water bill
So proud of the fact that Ted-ed has the guts to explain that the main issue is by far, actually animal agriculture, which is an issue most organizations like Greenpeace aren't adressing. For anyone wanting to make a difference, I urge you to read "Cowspiracy".
Why are you running?
We 4:59 can use pipes all around the world so it can reach all the countries and for free because it is for the Earth
Hi, amazing video, but I have a couple of questions: I'd had liked to know the stats separately of agriculture and cattle raising, especially since you said going vegetarian reduces 1/3 of the water consumption, does that means cattle raising consumes the other 2/3. also, a great part of the agriculture products are destined to cattle raising itself, does the 1/3 agriculture water includes the products destined to them? or which is the proportion destined for human consumption in correlation to the cattle raising. thanks in advance if you get to read and answer this comment !!
Yes we are.
You mentioned that the majority of our eater is used for agriculture, but neglected to mention that the VAST MAJORITY of that water goes to ANIMAL AGRICULTURE. Adopting a vegan diet is the most sustainable lifestyle choice. ❤❤🌱🌎
I would like for us to build a ton of special water stations that convert salty ocean water into drinking water.
*_Ocean Man take me by the hand to the land if you understand..._*
WEEEEEN!
Thank God.
Sidhu Saab ❤️.... Naam padh k aagya notification ch... Proud
PS - Sidhu sir, please study how much water every year we give to paddy in PUNJAB only and if we replace paddy with other crop how much water we can save.!
Ted ed is great ,educational and not boring AWESOME
Bottled water is a joke. Nobody should pay for drinking water, ever.
Then how about air in a bottle ?
lmao wdym they arent gonna give it to you for free.
@@ralone8314
Is this a Lorax reference
Nobody should pay for good home too, ever. Also food. Also clothes. Also medicine
Your argument is as strong as mine lol
Soo true .but that's what everyone r doin. 4 money
What a creative way of showing this 👏👏👏👏
This is going to be a long one. At first I thought freshwater shortage shouldn't exist because water doesn't vanish after we use it. But I realized that once we consume freshwater, it turns into sewage, which needs sewage treatment plants to be acceptable enough to return to the environment. While the treated water is technically freshwater, it can't be used because people wouldn't be comfortable with it. This freshwater gets mixed into rivers and ends up in the oceans, turning into saltwater. The only way for it to turn back into freshwater is through the water cycle, which we can't control and stays pretty much unchanged, or via desalination plants, which are extremely costly. So the reason we're having or will be having a water shortage is because we've found a very easy way to turn freshwater into saltwater but not the reverse. In other words, our freshwater consumption is increasing (because of increasing population and industrialization) but its supply is constant, or decreasing even, as glaciers and polar ice melt. This seems problematic but it can be easily fixed by increasing our freshwater supply. Even recycling sewage water would be a permanent solution because as our consumption increases, the amount of recycled water increases as well. It's a self-sustaining system. Or perhaps we'll find some other way to do it.
But we are already taking the water out of the river, and than put the cleaned water in the river. It's not like we magically lose water somewhere when it hits the sea
@GearsW You are correct but we always pump in water from the upstream of a river where it is the purest and then pump out the treated water to the downstream of it, where it is rarely reused. We could totally reuse that water but there would probably be huge public backlash over it. And while we don't lose the total water when it hits the sea, we do lose quite a bit of freshwater. Once it hits the sea, it mixes with the saltwater there and becomes saltwater itself, which is so costly to turn back into freshwater that it's much cheaper to just pump more water from our original river upstream. Hence our only source of freshwater is the river upstream. And the river does not have an infinite supply of water. We cannot pump more water of out it than flows through it, otherwise it will dry up. Hence the problem.
@@feynstein1004 we pump out of rivers up and downstream of rivers. We use the river as another step for water treatment
@GearsW We do? I wasn't aware of that. Well, if we do recycle then it's even better.
before even thinking about if your post makes sense, I saw "self sustaining system". There is no such thing.
One better irrigation technic is to put a hose and make small holes so none of the water vaporizes
Not according to nestle
The animation and editing and design of this channel deserve a reward.
We need Thanos, he knows what to do.
Totally agree. But maybe this time wipe out all humans.
Indian.....proud...great work
Drink alcohol instead. It comes straight from the Gods
You think alcohol doesn't use water?
Thank for video and all subteam
idea, catch clouds in a net and juice them for their clean water
A great video with a greater narration and brilliant animations
I feel thirsty while watching this video😂😂
Thanks ted.
Love from India.
Aasim Assassin ew, tseries
people in other countries: *thirsty*
Me: *Sips a cup of water*
One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible.
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution.
Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions
1:19 "That leaves less than 1% for sustaining *all* life on earth."
Yeah, that's right, folks. There's no life in the ocean.
And this is not the only BS of the video! Should talk about population control and veganism.
Lol. My automatic brain thought he meant "human life," rather than all life haha.
Earth also refers to soil. So that statement is still literally correct.
@@knosis It's like Marvel's "Thanos killed 50% of living beings" thing. If 50% of life was really dead, including 50% of the vital bacteria in our bodies, who knows what would happen.
They obviously meant human life.
Really love the animation on this one. Superb Job!
I think technology will make it so we never run out of clean water.
Reverse osmosis exists
but it takes time, and time doesn't wait.
@@Zex-4729 We've already run out, were working on overtime.
Yes ... Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Cold fusion can, too right?
I like this issue .
This issue talk to the whole of world people that water is very important to humans
Thanks for your knowledge
And here i am take a batg with warm water up to 30 minutes each day with shower everyday. Man i feel so guity. Cant resist it
What about eating insects?
Nah dude. Insect are not my type.
@@alexp.7637 Mass starvation and drought are not my type either. I'm just saying we'd save 99% of the water we use in agriculture by switching to insect, plus we'd have a better nutrition. The only barrier separating us from an insect-based diet is immaturity.
@@TheGoblinoid why don't we eat insects?
it's not enough blood squirtin out of em
Well all you need to do is like the island i live on, we pump water out of the ocean,purify it and then re-add some important minerals since the water would be so clean
Wow, I didn't know agriculture was so expensive (in terms of water)
Wow I didn’t know your skin could be so orange
Very good explaining
Imagine if this was 60 fps
The animation transition is, erm, fluid.
1.5x speed thank me later
Cody's Lab did a great video explaining aquifers and why they are a finite resource
We need to start eating more bugs.
The biggest thing we can do is cut down on large livestock ranching (cows, pigs and sheep)
They are disastrous for the environment, greenhouse gas creation, obesity epidemic, global poverty and the water shortage.
If we were to replace even half of our consumption of these animals with other sources (insects for example) the world would be so much better off. The University of Wageningen has published a really cool report on this.
It’s a good proposition but there’ll probably be more people that would prefer eating meats.
Just stop eating animals. Simples.
Noah Aubrey Linus Sorensen no
I agree that we should eat less meat.
Slimy… yet satisfying.
important topic.
I think that if people would get 2 children max, that would help a lot too.
*Africa disagrees*
Isn't that like the average in most countries?
@@your-regina Average, maybe. Or maybe the ideal image. But I know enough people who have more than that and I live in a country in the West. There are people who get more children because of their religion as well, like Catholics did a generation before. I'm not sure if they are still encouraged to get more though, but I do see people with 3 or more regularly.
Actually, eventually we will be stuck at somewhere around
11billion, where some sort of "balance" will happen, where the number of newborns is going to be equal to the number of deaths (on average) thus creating equilibrium.
Excellent video, can we have a TED-Ed about salt water desalination ?
No, we're running out of gravity.
what?
We are running out of existential questions.
If the whole population of China jumps at the same time, everyone in the whole world would all float into space
@@jerichozorua999 nope, America would be too heavy.
*When the pfp matches the comment*
I drink around 5 liters a day and this made me guilty of my drinking water habits.
@Bonv G if you dont drink ENOUGH. 5 liters of just water (water not contained in food r smthn) is prob too much
The real question is are we running out of gravity
Years ago, we got plenty of water to drink and for everyday use. Nowadays, we have to pay for it either buying bottled water or paying to water distributors.
Clear water is also wasted by people in so many ways listing all of it would make this comment section like a thesis.
Someone tell Slazo
I was searching for this comment
I'm under 18 and I felt that 1 way to save more water was to reduce the rate of *Global Warming* ,to reduce the rate of *climate change* so that the temperature will not rise.The rising of temperature results in more usage of water(drinking&stuff),hence waste more water.
So in order to reduce the rate of *Global Warming* ,us people can plant more plants,reduce the usage of cars,use more bicycle instead and limit the amount of water used by afluence,those afluence keeps wasting resources. Many people might think that its their business,but their action affects all of us.
Like if you’re from NF
Planet may or may not loose water but we are running out of clean water. There are thousands of reason for this. Pharmaceuticals/ chemical dumping has has made ground water posionous, arsenic posioning being found in North-east India. Industrial waste to river made river almost unusable and ultimately dried at many places.
Let's go eat bugs.
Uncultured Swine ok
The animation. Wow😮
Ok so maybe we should stop drinking water
The Animation is Awesome.....
I have a global solution
But I'll need a gauntlet and 6 infinity stones
(I'm joking about going full Thanos...)
Agriculture would use up an EXTREMELY smaller amount of water if we cut down on meat consumption. This is not a vegan point of view, but an environmental one. We feed the animals we eat more plant food than we ourselves consume. The production of livestock meant for meat is responsible for a ridiculously big amount of water spending. If we all reduced out meat consumption, we would do wonders for out water reservoirs.
Water means life literally.
Not literally
water is a synonym for life ?
@@kingplunger6033 what do u even know what a synonym is ???
@@kingplunger6033 @RockyCliffs used tranfered ephithet...not synonym
Have a good water, my friend. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and pass life.
thank u
The oceans are full of water duh
This is exactly what the UAE was thinking.
did you pay attention? maybe you evolved to drink sea water
@@LouLou-to2mi You are so beautiful❤😭😍
I hope this is a joke or I will lose my faith in humanity
Go ahead, drink the salty ocean water. Does it taste good? Fulfill your thirst buds? 🤦♀️
Thats mean we should take a step to control on population
and
water harvesting
As a meat eater, I think going full vegetarian or even vegan is the way for the future.
I endorse your decision, so my barbecue will be cheaper
More vegans=more farms=more water consumption and deforestation=mass killing of species. Ever thought about that?
Well, say goodbye to your wife
*_Brilliant_*_ animations!_
No water no life
No girlfriend peaceful life
KHUSHLIM ISSA no girlfriend = lonely life
Amazing animation like usual
No Water?
*No Problem. Drink SPRITE CRANBERRY ;P*
Aditya Waghmare it’s manufacture requires water
@@realnoahsimpson
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The answer is clear
The beautiful animation...
We need Thanos ☺️
Save water, save life...