Can A Desert Be Reclaimed For Human Habitation?

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @thecivilizingelement
    @thecivilizingelement 5 лет назад +137

    The African Nations have already started with the Sahara Desert. The Great Green Wall on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert is a forest that that was started in 2007 by ,11 African Nations. The Green Wall measures 9 miles wide, and almost 5,000 miles long. In Senegal alone, over 11 million trees have been planted.

    • @thecivilizingelement
      @thecivilizingelement 5 лет назад +23

      @ParangLima They're building a Green Wall at the edge of the Sahara Desert. Most trees do not need watering every day. There's rainfall at the edge of the Sahara.

    • @ulerkadut8582
      @ulerkadut8582 5 лет назад +12

      great effort. we mankind should help each other to overcome challenge given by nature.
      hope later there will be more breakthrough either from china part or from africa part.

    • @bystander1255
      @bystander1255 5 лет назад +2

      bravo!

    • @zainulzainul1880
      @zainulzainul1880 5 лет назад +2

      Wow ! Keep at it !

    • @fishymonstur
      @fishymonstur 5 лет назад +14

      ​@John Zyp I'm pretty sure they got that whole process figured out already.. after all, it's been in process since 2007 and is successful thus far.
      Also, there is rain, and there is vegetation at the edge of the desert.. they plant more among the existing vegetation to thicken the greenery so it becomes more able to withstand whatever wind and sand blows over.

  • @2008mustapa
    @2008mustapa 6 лет назад +101

    Please search more on google on the latest news on stopping desertification in China. It works beautifully. The size is bigger then reported here. They have planted rice paddy, fruits and etc.

    • @panglimahitam8001
      @panglimahitam8001 5 лет назад

      ParangLima ruclips.net/video/PGJ7M7sZITA/видео.html

    • @quanscott1979
      @quanscott1979 5 лет назад +1

      @ParangLima yes

    • @ulerkadut8582
      @ulerkadut8582 5 лет назад +3

      @ParangLima not fully solved. just have some breakthrough.

    • @nrr9960
      @nrr9960 4 года назад

      They said u say no body now's how much cost how much area they did

    • @jimmielin1141
      @jimmielin1141 4 года назад

      They have planted a total area of Montana of trees

  • @brooksanderson2599
    @brooksanderson2599 5 лет назад +343

    Give credit were it is due. These Chinese are doing instead of talking. Congratulations!

    • @johnnyllooddte3415
      @johnnyllooddte3415 5 лет назад

      ahahah 10 acres

    • @brooksanderson2599
      @brooksanderson2599 5 лет назад +18

      @@johnnyllooddte3415 At 9:56 the announcer states that the "greening" of the Park Kubuchi took half a billion dollars (equivalent), 30 years, and it covers 6 thousand square kilometers. Respects from Mexico!

    • @Batman-to7qc
      @Batman-to7qc 5 лет назад

      Chinas dictator destroyed the countryside and caused the climate disaster
      The real fix is freedom

    • @brooksanderson2599
      @brooksanderson2599 5 лет назад +14

      @@Batman-to7qc I, too, appreciate freedom but, in the case of climate change, "free" countries like the USA, Canada, and England have, to date, contributed more to AGW, and climate change, than China. China, India, Brazil and other "developing" countries are certainly catching up and China proudces more, on an annual basis than even the USA. In any case, it is a bit too late. The melting of Arctic tundra and sea floor methane clathrates, appears to be unstoppable and unaccounted for, by the IPCC. Like Cronos, we have eaten our children's future.

    • @Batman-to7qc
      @Batman-to7qc 5 лет назад +1

      Free countries are cleaner, safer and healthier
      Oppressors like the Chinese Communist Party cause drought, poverty, climate migration, lower life expectancy, desertification and food insecurity

  • @kiwi007
    @kiwi007 5 лет назад +20

    Thank goodness there are people that truly care, that want to make a difference.

  • @ingeleonora-denouden6222
    @ingeleonora-denouden6222 5 лет назад +39

    Imagine: all Gobi desert reclaimed, not as a desert with artificial villages, but as a green landscape with forests and horticulture (Permaculture, like Geoff Lawton did near the Dead Sea) . It's possible

    • @vamvra5498
      @vamvra5498 5 лет назад +4

      I think it will happen, with the help of robots. And yes Geoff Lawton's work is a very inspiring.

    • @olenagirich1884
      @olenagirich1884 5 лет назад +5

      I am looking into this right now. Studying this. I want to start a startup in this effort.

    • @ProtoMarcus
      @ProtoMarcus 5 лет назад +1

      I know this comment is now 4 months old, but where would you suggest I should look if I wish to read and know more about Geoff Lawton?

    • @johnjohnmactal6538
      @johnjohnmactal6538 5 лет назад

      .

    • @selfsufficientnic7112
      @selfsufficientnic7112 5 лет назад +2

      You will find lots of information about Geoff Lawton right here on RUclips. His mentor was Bill Mollison. Look up Permaculture, and Greening the Desert. Fabulous and inspiring!

  • @kavenong3496
    @kavenong3496 6 лет назад +239

    first, is not NGO
    Is support by the government of china, which started the project from year 1980+

    • @healingenergy7489
      @healingenergy7489 6 лет назад +6

      王耀赐 Chinese steal all their innovations from other countries . But i do believe they made their own way of helping the desert

    • @kavenong3496
      @kavenong3496 6 лет назад +75

      Healing Energy do more research, before you comment

    • @onlymelodic109
      @onlymelodic109 6 лет назад +18

      Of course, no NGO would have five hundred million dollars for investment 9:44

    • @krymz1
      @krymz1 6 лет назад +42

      "steal all their innovations"
      do you even know how humanity progresses? it's by not keeping knowledge to ourselves.

    • @nikitakhliestov3578
      @nikitakhliestov3578 6 лет назад

      And that's really good. Maybe, you know how it's possible to read more about them?

  • @bobjackson4720
    @bobjackson4720 6 лет назад +56

    Some dreamers think we can turn Mars into a liveable place, in reality we can't even stabilise Earths deserts. The dynamic Chinese are better at it than most.

    • @jensjansson1993
      @jensjansson1993 4 года назад

      If you watched the video you can find out that the Chinese Communist Goverment came and demolished their village where they had been farmers, doing their best to live of the land, and now they have to take other jobs where they get money to buy food instead of caring for the land. Good thing Westerners have started giving the Chinese people technology so they can attempt to rebuild all the forrests the Chinese Communist Goverment have chopped down without replacing the trees!

    • @bobjackson4720
      @bobjackson4720 4 года назад

      @@jensjansson1993 My comment referred to so called experts thinking they can terraform Mars (when they can't even repair the Earth). I am aware that the Chinese government frequently relocates people against their wishes. It's a communist thing, Russia, Cuba all did that, and worse. Nonetheless they do achieve things that most western nations just talk about.

    • @jensjansson1993
      @jensjansson1993 4 года назад

      @@bobjackson4720 uhh? My country have for over 70 years been trying to get china to stop cutting down all their trees, offering them wisdom and technology on how to harvest forrests in a sustainable way. They most likely are the last suitable people for such a task, even Africa got more wisdom on how to terraform the land. Can you explain on how you think the Chinese are more dynamic then most for such a thing?

    • @bruceli9094
      @bruceli9094 3 года назад

      @@bobjackson4720 Western nations have achieved everything that China only dreamt about. Landing on the moon, for example.
      All modern technologies were invented by the west.

    • @bobjackson4720
      @bobjackson4720 3 года назад

      @@bruceli9094 I don't doubt that but the Chinese system for all it's faults is very good at the big projects, maybe like America was fifty years ago.

  • @eljanrimsa5843
    @eljanrimsa5843 6 лет назад +47

    The technology can help, but the hard part is to have pioneer communities which are willing to endure hardship over generations. If this is not done continuously small piece of land by small piece of land, the desert wins.

    • @chipwalter4490
      @chipwalter4490 5 лет назад

      yeah, like in Las Vegas. Actually DESALINATION TECHNOLOGY is the only big secret to greening the worlds deserts. Big pipelines full of water from the ocean to the deserts...DONE DEAL.

    • @minus21334
      @minus21334 5 лет назад +1

      @@chipwalter4490 ur gov prefer to spent 1 trillions on military complex industry

    • @justinokraski3796
      @justinokraski3796 4 года назад

      @@chipwalter4490 watcha gonna do with all that brine? The key to fixing deserts is to improve the soil quality and plant coverage so rain/water can accumulate in the ground

  • @ocilassolrac14
    @ocilassolrac14 5 лет назад +128

    I hope the Saudis are paying attention, they have so much money and have done so little to transform the desert.

    • @billykwok2414
      @billykwok2414 5 лет назад +13

      Saudis are praying five time one day for 72 cows after death. They are busy with that and no time for the desert.

    • @zainulzainul1880
      @zainulzainul1880 5 лет назад +11

      @@billykwok2414 No need for that insult , you idiotic swine . There are others who pray five times a day who are not like them .

    • @no.1spectator39
      @no.1spectator39 5 лет назад +8

      @@billykwok2414 don't talk to these barbaric beheaders.. they only know how to harm others

    • @sokosokolowski2823
      @sokosokolowski2823 5 лет назад +1

      @@Setetoto React and proof them wrong without reacting you're alienating yourselfs from "khaffirs" as you say which I'm pretty sure is an insult ...

    • @Setetoto
      @Setetoto 4 года назад

      SOKÓŁ Sokolowski it sometimes is but not always. As per proofing otherwise, If you’re this uneducated on a certain topic , it’s a waste of time

  • @zihengzhu4936
    @zihengzhu4936 6 лет назад +70

    Man. I am ready to try that delicious strawberry.....

  • @garyz2407
    @garyz2407 6 лет назад +12

    just look at the smile on their face, most beautiful smile I've ever seen

  • @Ddq888
    @Ddq888 6 лет назад +67

    with today's technology and manpower, yes. absolutely.

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      @newsviewstoday5689 4 года назад +1

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  • @Surv1ve_Thrive
    @Surv1ve_Thrive 6 лет назад +98

    Egypt reclaimed some very dry land to grow potatos. Is close to the Nile though. But is still quite a project. Helmand in Afghanistan was made fertile by hydro engineering projects by western countries, it was unfortunately used to grow opium.

    • @hp2084
      @hp2084 6 лет назад +8

      Opium is used in lot of painkillers.

    • @mikatteba225
      @mikatteba225 6 лет назад +2

      +Hiren Patel and heroin...

    • @mariocassina90
      @mariocassina90 5 лет назад

      Still a crop

    • @eraproductions9923
      @eraproductions9923 5 лет назад

      your missing the point the fact is that it was used to grow something if you can grow opium you could grow other than drugs the same can be applied else where in all desert

    • @eraproductions9923
      @eraproductions9923 5 лет назад

      plant the garden

  • @votadona9472
    @votadona9472 6 лет назад +93

    The town's name is Meow Meow..... So cute >.

  • @geoh7777
    @geoh7777 5 лет назад +3

    Decades ago I met a man in East Helena, Montana who owned a small company that was providing services, applying his technology to reclaiming sandy desert land. His methods included adding a carefully-determined fraction of bentonite clay to the sand (which was of course added in with other soil amendments). Bentonite is well-know for its water absorptive properties, so it "holds on" to water, making the water available to plants over time, instead of letting the water quickly evaporate away like the desert sand does.
    He described one project that he did in Saudi Arabia.

    • @gagarinone
      @gagarinone 5 лет назад

      Seems to be the same "methodology" used here, "How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change" ruclips.net/video/vpTHi7O66pI/видео.html

  • @kashmir_revolt
    @kashmir_revolt 5 лет назад +9

    Hat's off for u guys!!! U people r doing a great job,keep it going n growing 👍

  • @kirkjohnson9353
    @kirkjohnson9353 5 лет назад +17

    And in contrast to the expansion of the desert is the covering of the most fertile lands with buildings and pavement. Man kind will pay dearly for this foolishness.

  • @neviscameron4526
    @neviscameron4526 6 лет назад +6

    Energetic people are good for the environment. Congratulations, you are doing what needs to be done

  • @gggreggg
    @gggreggg 5 лет назад +30

    uncontrolled goats and sheep are important culprits in desertifaction..

    • @MW-gh1mo
      @MW-gh1mo 5 лет назад +9

      Too many in too small an area for too long of time, sure. But they are valuable fertilizers of the soil. Like anything else, they have to be utilized correctly.

    • @MrVodkapowered
      @MrVodkapowered 5 лет назад +1

      I can help with that, I'll just eat them all 😂

    • @Lypno
      @Lypno 5 лет назад +2

      Holistic management is the way to go with cattle

  • @andtam008
    @andtam008 6 лет назад +10

    It's always a back and forth battle. But we need to fight on. 15% of land is too much.

  • @JulesAnthonyLaCroixPhotoArt
    @JulesAnthonyLaCroixPhotoArt 6 лет назад +6

    #WorksHardPrayers #WorksKnowledgeUnderstanding #UnderstandingWATERmoney #PrayersGobiDesertTrees #DrillingWATERpumpsUnderstanding #KnowledgePoorRichCommonSense "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - Lao Tzu" .... Thanks on Journey Pictures on story Mr. Li Hong Jun. This great Mr. Han Meifei awesome Project; all People Staff are working hard! From Talkings, Workings, Writes, Cameras, Technologies, Young Peoples have helping #WaterDirtAir #BillionsPeopleFood ..Have a Great Day!

  • @apostoloforrestgump4975
    @apostoloforrestgump4975 5 лет назад +6

    We need Chinese scientist to go to sahara and make it green again so in Europe we would not have any more too hot air coming from the sahara in summer

  • @jambrenn7843
    @jambrenn7843 5 лет назад

    Thank you Journeyman for another eye opening video.Congratulations to the efforts in reclaiming the desert here and the Aral sea.

  • @beth-rg8bm
    @beth-rg8bm 6 лет назад +21

    You cut down too many trees and you have no top soil...no topsoil...you have desert!

  • @tomkelly8827
    @tomkelly8827 4 года назад +1

    Deserts look like power plants to me. Great for solar and wind power. Solar panels can also provide shade to the ground below and perhaps plants would grow in the cooler, more moist soil under the panels. Wind can of course blow freely without the trees getting in the way. Then with all that power, pumps can be run with excess power to provide some irrigation for crops... Desertification is a massive issue and I am so glad to see the people working hard to solve it in China. The rest of the world can learn a lot from the Chinese in this regard

  • @fintancollins6948
    @fintancollins6948 5 лет назад +7

    I wish the world would spend more on projects like this than pumping billions into research on climate change. Money that would be far more beneficial I in the long term. .

  • @johnmckinley8447
    @johnmckinley8447 5 лет назад +8

    When they set their collective minds to achieving something there is little that the Chinese cannot do.

  • @MichaelOliver-ry7fj
    @MichaelOliver-ry7fj 6 лет назад

    What an incredible story!!

  • @gcb4763
    @gcb4763 6 лет назад +4

    It depends on rainfall. If there is rain there is the possibility of life, without rain, it's too difficult. A small amount of rain can be used to grow trees and the future could be better. Seawater may one day be used for agriculture with desalination, but desalination would need to be without fossil fuels for it to be viable. This is possible at present, but economical.

    • @leonardpearlman4017
      @leonardpearlman4017 6 лет назад +2

      This is a big scale, it's like "terraforming". How about a big power plant on the coast, giant pumps pump the water inland, some vast salt water aqueduct. The water evaporates and makes more humidity, and also you can harvest the salt and brine products, and have a little industry just from that. That greenhouse complex was pretty huge and fancy, clearly this is important and they're willing to think big. OK, seawater canal goes for miles inland, and some of it is covered, so you have MILES of linear solar desalination plant, and the trickle of water goes to irrigate the area close TO the desalination stuff, presently you have grass and trees going on for miles, a linear forest. Those little plastic micro-irrigation pipes branch out from that, so now the canal and the irrigators are like the veins in a leaf, and the reclamation area gets wider, and tapers off into the plain arid desert.... Seems like it could keep a lot of people busy, and who wouldn't want desert strawberries? Some desert potatoes, I can see how it might work out. Imagine reclaiming millions of square miles of sand and making it back into villages and farms!

    • @ysteinfjr7529
      @ysteinfjr7529 5 лет назад +1

      Rainfall also depends on vegetation. Forest and vegetation attract rain and also keeps water in the soil, to a certain extent at least.

  • @lasentinal
    @lasentinal 6 лет назад +5

    As a mathematics teacher, it makes my ears ring when incorrect terminology is used. 1000 kilometers squared is 1000000 square kilometers or in words, one million square kilometers. I am certain that you meant to say 'growing by 1000 square kilometers each year'. There is a difference between what we say and how we write it. For example when we write $5, we say five dollars, not dollars five.

  • @leroyreynolds7366
    @leroyreynolds7366 6 лет назад

    Wow this is inspirational! Keep the goodness flowing...

  • @mbabcock111
    @mbabcock111 5 лет назад

    Awesome! Keep up the great work!

  • @billk2689
    @billk2689 5 лет назад

    I hope you accomplish your goals and keep up the good work👍

  • @arja2317
    @arja2317 6 лет назад +3

    Potatoes and strawberries both do really good in sandy soil. That guy with the lab didn't really invent them as much as plant them there. If they can be grown without irrigation of some sort then he may be onto something but the entire portion of Idaho where potatoes are famously grown is an inland desert/steppe land with a similar climate to this. There is a stigma against potatoes in China as a poor person food and the government has been trying to get people to eat them because they know they have a lot of land that could produce the most food per acre with potatoes but they just really aren't a part of too much of their daily diet or cooking.

    • @crpth1
      @crpth1 5 лет назад +1

      That´s quite true. Every bit of this world has some kind of stigma regarding different types of food. Potatoes where never a "Chinese" thing, but slowly its getting there. Same for Yogurt and a few other things.
      It´s kind of funny how some things are regarded in different spots.
      Americans have a huge "Asian carp" problem, but "traditionally" don´t eat it.
      In my country we even import snails! Because we can´t produce enough for internal consumption. Squid or Octopus are expensive due to high demand. On the other hand crawfish (fresh water) is an invading species which traditionally we don´t eat. :-)
      In the North of Europe I was charged "peanuts" for some fantastic "squids" because they don´t eat it. It was going to the garbage anyway. Well the second time I bought them, it wasn´t "peanuts" anymore. They start charging seriously. Damn it. LOL :-)
      In Nigeria I was offered fruit "RATS" and Monitor Lizard , both are considered a delicacy...
      This is a really colorful world. :-)
      Cheers

    • @angienatoyn
      @angienatoyn 5 лет назад

      Quit fascinating that strawberries could grow in such harsh conditions. I always thought that it took a delicate environment for them to grow.

    • @xavierbergeron789
      @xavierbergeron789 5 лет назад

      True but Gobi is still way dryer and more hostile desert

  • @86upsmaya
    @86upsmaya 6 лет назад +16

    Meanwhile in Sri Lanka people are clearing out forest reserves just to build houses

    • @LifeOdysseyMotivation
      @LifeOdysseyMotivation 5 лет назад

      damn!

    • @aniksamiurrahman6365
      @aniksamiurrahman6365 5 лет назад +2

      Sad! But Sri Lanka shud follow Israel, Japan or Singapore as a role model for development. They are hard working and educated people. They shudn't follow mindless and greedy developments adopted by Bangladesh, Pakistan or India.

    • @tomkelly8827
      @tomkelly8827 4 года назад

      It turns out that it takes a whole lot of resources to rebuild after a war. I do not blame them for their actions. It is tragic to see a forest get decimated for sure but I am sure that once peace and stability come back, the people will once again turn their attention to protecting their environment

  • @IIVVBlues
    @IIVVBlues 6 лет назад +11

    "Can A Desert Be Reclaimed For Human Habitation?" Ever been to Utah? The San Joaquin Valley of California? Israel? With enough determination humans could probably farm Antarctica if they wanted to. The quality and efficiency of the farms maybe wouldn't be great, but it could be done and has been done in may places.

    • @mihirm3632
      @mihirm3632 6 лет назад +9

      The examples you showed are huge energy intensive assaults on nature, they are not sustainable and will wither away once the oil is gone. One should try to increase the biodiversity and build up soil with permaculture methods, not use heavy intensive cultivation.

    • @ABC-ABC1234
      @ABC-ABC1234 5 лет назад

      LOL israel?! They have been leaching all the water from the underground aquifers to the point of exhausted dried up barren places. "we can make the desert green again". Yeah by leaching water of the sea of galilea... Not only that, but the fact that the trajectory of the wall runs "conveniently" along the biggest wells just so people from Poland can water their lawns during the summer while discriminating and leaving land barren for those who families have lived there for generations.

    • @justinokraski3796
      @justinokraski3796 4 года назад

      @@ABC-ABC1234 well at some point in the past, water was able to accumulate in that region which is why those aquifers exist in the first place. Water in the soil leads to water in the air which leads to increased rainfall. The main thing to restoration is to plant a diverse array of native plants

    • @ABC-ABC1234
      @ABC-ABC1234 4 года назад +1

      @@justinokraski3796 I don't think you realize how this works here, they are draining water at a super fast rate!! It's a no gain game, it's depleting faster than it can replenish. And we can already see it happening in the Westbank, places that used to be lush and green are now completely barren, due to overusage of wells. Not only that, but that racist apartheid in government in ISISrael has deliberately set the trajectory of the wall in such a manner that it depletes all water resources for the Palestinians.

  • @greyline1012
    @greyline1012 5 лет назад

    Fascinating video. Thank you.

  • @patrikmiskovic791
    @patrikmiskovic791 6 лет назад +1

    great work

  • @duanenavarre7234
    @duanenavarre7234 5 лет назад +2

    Evaporation is one of the main issues, 100% sealed greenhouses would help with that.
    Compressed air as a way to store power also condenses water from the air.
    An atmospheric condensation tower could use cold coils to pull moisture from the
    air and store in cisterns under the greenhouses. Could use windpower and solar thermal
    in conjuction with einstein's fridge design for the power.

    • @LifeOdysseyMotivation
      @LifeOdysseyMotivation 5 лет назад

      *Are there people, companies, or organizations that are using the ideas and methods you mentioned? Because it sounds a brilliant idea?*

    • @duanenavarre7234
      @duanenavarre7234 5 лет назад

      @@LifeOdysseyMotivation The Einstein fridge is the propane fridge in most RV's, any heat source will make it work and it has no moving parts.
      compressed air power storage is done by anyone who uses air tools, though larger scale would require using a cave or dry oil wells perhaps.
      the atmospheric condenser idea is for sale online but uses electric power, doing via the einstein fridge cooling method would let it
      be off grid and just needs heat. The thermoelectric effect can take heat and make electricity thou as well.

    • @justinokraski3796
      @justinokraski3796 4 года назад

      compressed air requires a vacuum which in turn requires a large amount of energy. Still, I suppose I hadn't considered it for energy storage

  • @trevormann8221
    @trevormann8221 4 года назад

    Great job

  • @moonlightmelodrama
    @moonlightmelodrama 5 лет назад +10

    3:20 "...artificial village"? All villages are made by man. And are, therefore, artificial.

    • @KryssLaBryn
      @KryssLaBryn 5 лет назад +2

      Yes; but it's a planned one, rather than one that has grown up naturally there.

    • @chalkvlogs5754
      @chalkvlogs5754 4 года назад

      Use your brain

  • @stephenscott517
    @stephenscott517 5 лет назад

    There is hope, well done to you all from Canada bc

  • @normanpendergraft5092
    @normanpendergraft5092 4 года назад

    all good efforts. We also have a plentiful supply of water. City sewer outflow is wasted water. We can quite easily clean it to nearly drinking quality and use it as irrigation for dry areas. We can afford the cleaning and piping. The benefits of doing this would be immediate and the future generation will thank us a million times over.

  • @peterkobor5470
    @peterkobor5470 6 лет назад +2

    Chinese people are smart. 500 Million for that project ! Probably a very good investment . Very interesting .

  • @josephnarvaez9507
    @josephnarvaez9507 4 года назад

    At 0:37 you can see a ver beautiful message

  • @richwu4759
    @richwu4759 5 лет назад

    gotta pay respect to these people, they are really doing something for human being.

  • @bystander1255
    @bystander1255 5 лет назад

    Who knows what the sign made out of sticks on dune in the last scene mean? Great job, Bravo!!

  • @downbntout
    @downbntout 5 лет назад +1

    Q: Why not just cover the desert with solar panels?
    A: Some could be but the population needs homes and food. Every leaf actually is a solar panel. Roots tie down dunes best

  • @CorModo
    @CorModo 6 лет назад +2

    Amazing people.

  • @93VIDEO
    @93VIDEO 5 лет назад +1

    e réalisais soudain que la pluie ne tombe pas des cieux ; elle provient du sol. La formation des déserts n'est pas due à l'absence de pluie ; mais plutôt, la pluie cesse de tomber parce que la végétation a disparu (Masanobu Fukuoka) ........ Je pense que planter des arbres feuillus fait tomber la pluie et change le climat.
    L’équipe de Lenton et Hamilton (Institut de Zoologie d’Oxford) a montré que tous les arbres, sauf l’eucalyptus et les résineux, font tomber la pluie par l’émission de microbes synthétisant du diméthyl sulfide qui accroît la coalescence des gouttes d’eau des nuages.

  • @yuchuanbo9064
    @yuchuanbo9064 5 лет назад +2

    I wonder how they translate the language of local residents. As a Chinese, even though I’m able to understand some of their accent, I just cannot understand the whole sentence.

  • @lovestudykid
    @lovestudykid 4 года назад

    You should do more research for the video: smog and sand storm are two separate issues. Smog comes from pollution while sand storm comes from desert. Sand storm has been largely quenched for most areas of China. Smog is controlled in major cities like Beijing but still rampant in most of northern China.

  • @ceh4702
    @ceh4702 5 лет назад

    they chopped down the trees for many generations. Start this greening process not on the leading edge but on the opposite side to reclaim the edge of the desert that is blowing away. Grasses with long roots help to retain water and slow it down and keep it from washing away while farm animals can help to enrich the soil with their waste. Catching rain water from roofs can also be useful.

  • @elainejones8636
    @elainejones8636 4 года назад

    8:24 Finally we get to the reforestation part!

  • @pleiadesdragon1391
    @pleiadesdragon1391 5 лет назад

    Good job ......

  • @davidefarina3590
    @davidefarina3590 5 лет назад

    Good job!

  • @danielchadwick8513
    @danielchadwick8513 5 лет назад +3

    Send all compost to the desert from everywhere that you can .
    Mixing sand minerals and compost
    will eventually create fertile soil to create more plants .
    In fact if deserts swapped half of their mineral sand
    with fertile soil from other areas in the world
    both parties would gain tremendously .
    Balance is what is needed between both sides .
    Minerals in the sand and fertile soil .
    Half each ~ Job done .
    As well as improving water supplies massively via Lakes and internal Seas
    and filtering salt water through sand and various rock for clean water .

    • @spencerwilton5831
      @spencerwilton5831 5 лет назад +3

      You can't physically import the volumes required, the desert is bigger than many countries and would require billions of tons of compost. Compost deposited on dry sand would simply blow away anyway.
      As for filleting sea water- you cannot remove salt by filtering, only through energy hungry desalination. You then have the problem of super salty brine to dispose of, which causes issues if dumped back in the ocean.

    • @danielchadwick8513
      @danielchadwick8513 5 лет назад +1

      Spencer Wilton To simply mix soil with sand
      is possible to do it all at once is impossible
      but to do it over a long time is possible .
      We have as long as this planet shall live .
      Mixed in the right quantities is possible .
      We could easily bury salt centrally inland
      which would disperse the salt
      slowly and naturally
      which wouldn’t cause a problem .
      Finding solutions
      is more important
      than creating problems .

    • @hongpeng757
      @hongpeng757 5 лет назад

      @@danielchadwick8513 make compost you need water as it has to be wet. Water is what they don't have.

    • @danielchadwick8513
      @danielchadwick8513 5 лет назад

      Hong Peng
      What is wrong with solar powered
      pumps and pipes
      to create man / woman made
      rivers , lakes .
      ‘A solution is what solves the problem’ ;
      not another problem .

    • @hongpeng757
      @hongpeng757 5 лет назад

      @@danielchadwick8513 If you check out the map of China, you will find out that the northwest part of China has almost no river go through it. That why China is working on transporting water from south to north for decades now. Lack of water and hard to get out for that part of China are two of the reasons why 96% of Chinese are living on 40% of land, mainly at southeast area of China. That's also why China is focusing on infrastructure still now. From one of this year's episodes of The Grand Tour, they said that China is building 6 thousand miles of motorway per year for the past 8 years or so.

  • @amaree9732
    @amaree9732 4 года назад

    I admire these Gobi Desert dweller's dry sense of humor.

  • @ajinkyabadiger2738
    @ajinkyabadiger2738 4 года назад

    Good work, Plant more trees live simple life

  • @ceh4702
    @ceh4702 5 лет назад

    A water catchment system and some roofs to catch the water can help green houses grow plants.

  • @WadcaWymiaru
    @WadcaWymiaru 5 лет назад +1

    The story about Yellow Dragon challenging Red Dragon!
    XD

  • @michaellawson6533
    @michaellawson6533 5 лет назад +4

    Deforestation , overgrazing and mans lack of respect for the fragile ecosystem are the main contributors to the present conditions . There should be NO livestock there at all if there is to be any chance of the desert recuperating.

  • @djgenius626
    @djgenius626 5 лет назад +6

    The Chinese are smart people

    • @edgarscirulis1129
      @edgarscirulis1129 5 лет назад

      Dj Genius Would I be self-racist to say that I think Asians are smarter than Caucasians in general? :D

    • @Yummy_69
      @Yummy_69 5 лет назад

      Edgars Cirulis because Asia has long history and wars are common throughout history. Resources are scarce and People/Tribes who are dumb are eliminated through wars, and they didn’t pass on their low IQ genes. So yeah, natural selection at its finest.

  • @syedmaricar9946
    @syedmaricar9946 5 лет назад

    Embrace the difficulty to achieve mighty success..uplift all who suffering povertywhich is not theircrime.

  • @downbntout
    @downbntout 5 лет назад

    They have come up with a carbohydrate polymer that stabilizes the sand and feeds the first forms of soil life to start the soil biodiversity

  • @aniksamiurrahman6365
    @aniksamiurrahman6365 5 лет назад +6

    The great Green Wall of China!

  • @VarongTangkitphithakphon
    @VarongTangkitphithakphon 6 лет назад +6

    I was like crying when I saw this video.

    • @florisr9
      @florisr9 6 лет назад +2

      That's because documentaries make everything unnecessarily emotional with their camera shots and music

  • @aminemarzak3990
    @aminemarzak3990 5 лет назад +1

    i hope to Watch this in big sahara in north of africa

  • @chabouyamoreno5258
    @chabouyamoreno5258 5 лет назад

    Beautiful beautiful brothers

  • @pedrocenteio6228
    @pedrocenteio6228 6 лет назад

    great job.

  • @corrinetsang1478
    @corrinetsang1478 6 лет назад +1

    The Western Water Diversion Plan.Water from the Dadu River(70 KM) to the Yellow River will irrigate Inner Mongolia.What is needed is water from Russia flooded Altai Region and the Yannesie River into the Urumqi Canal.into Tarim River.

  • @shaktisingh21
    @shaktisingh21 5 лет назад +1

    I watched many series about the greening deserts in China and else where... Some videos say desert is increasing every year, and some videos say greeing the desert is increasing every year by 1000 kilometre
    How to figure out who is correct....

    • @justinokraski3796
      @justinokraski3796 4 года назад

      without human intervention the deserts would continue to grow. However, in recent decades we've figured out how to green the desert. The rate of greening is increasing, despite an overall increase in desert size

  • @joetrueblood7663
    @joetrueblood7663 6 лет назад

    America had this problem one, read the dust bowl from the 20s and 30's and we started planting trees, it worked.

    • @crpth1
      @crpth1 5 лет назад

      Joe Trueblood
      - Indeed it worked and now are getting closer and closer to become fire wood!!! :-(
      Quite sad we don´t seem to learn the damn lesson once and for all. :-(
      www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-03/trees-helped-save-americas-farms-during-dust-bowl-are-now-under-threat
      Some 700 years ago a Portuguese King decided to plant trees to hold the sand and control erosion. Those pine forests still exist today and people still profit from it and the soil is still protected. ;-)

  • @KuKulzA28
    @KuKulzA28 5 лет назад

    0:36 the subtitles/CC says BUMBACLOT :D XD hahahaa I'm dying...

  • @vilasosc
    @vilasosc 6 лет назад +2

    Rather than rehabitation should consider for forests

  • @bellelafe546
    @bellelafe546 6 лет назад

    Awesome!

  • @marthafakker
    @marthafakker 5 лет назад +5

    China; a land of contradictions; the greatest polluter in the world yet the biggest investor in climate with the newest, greenest technologies.... I guess it is not easy as government to ensure the wealth of so many people. Anyway, good luck to the Chinese!

    • @cainiaowu
      @cainiaowu 5 лет назад +5

      Most part of the contradictions come out of the powerful western propaganda machine, they have been always trying to spin any story into a china bashing one.

    • @marthafakker
      @marthafakker 5 лет назад

      @@cainiaowu Not saying you're wrong about the media however you cannot deny their pollution too, right? I am thinking mainly about the rare earth production and lack of environmental regulations.... That being said, I just love how innovative the Chinese are!

    • @cainiaowu
      @cainiaowu 5 лет назад +4

      Environmental regulations have been improved a lot since Xi got power, tons of small/medium shady factories got closed down in recent years, things are getting a little better now.The gonvernment know the problem and is working on it, so everything is not as simple as it looks.

    • @cainiaowu
      @cainiaowu 5 лет назад

      And of course the spin doctors are trying to spin that closing factory as China economy collasping ones, they can always find an angle to attack the CCP.

    • @marthafakker
      @marthafakker 5 лет назад

      @@cainiaowu Awesome! Did not know that :)

  • @TalinFrenzy
    @TalinFrenzy 5 лет назад

    Yes Los Vegas.

  • @islandsunset
    @islandsunset 5 лет назад

    I have appreciated China's efforts in greening the desert for a long time now but o have a question. How do the shifting sand surpport the trees on top of it? It's not a solid ground. Do strong winds make the trees fall?

    • @justinokraski3796
      @justinokraski3796 4 года назад

      sand's surprisingly heavy. Sure, the wind can move some of the sand, but not all of it at once. The roots dig down deep enough that it's holding onto enough sand. Additionally the leaf litter helps stabilize the soil so it will be less likely to blow away

  • @qudratullahsael7726
    @qudratullahsael7726 5 лет назад

    Thanks to
    Journeyman Pictures & your whole team ! Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: (cultivation/agriculture causes raining, so do it). Thanks to Chinese for implementation. your dream may make the desert of Gobi green as well as north African the Sahara desert even my country Afghanistan. Maamur Qazafi was implementing the same project in Libya, bu unfortunately Western dirty politics killed our leader.

  • @Ahmad_Safi
    @Ahmad_Safi 6 лет назад +1

    it's not hard or impossible Arab countries are planting crops all the time
    if you open google earth you will be able to see the largest desert farm north of Saudi Arabia south-east from the Jordanian border

  • @bhblueberry
    @bhblueberry 6 лет назад

    Bravo!

  • @rajsingh-bv3mx
    @rajsingh-bv3mx 5 лет назад +1

    I like it

  • @amaree9732
    @amaree9732 4 года назад

    I have to hand it to these hardy desert dwellers. Their survival takes true grit. I wouldn't have enough sand.

  • @scottleft3672
    @scottleft3672 5 лет назад

    Rivers dump TONNES of water, every second.

  • @micahcarruth7485
    @micahcarruth7485 5 лет назад +1

    Can someone tell me the name of the organization mentioned in the video who is growing food and trees in the desert? I tried finding information but failed. Any info is appreciated on who these people are!

  • @Law19157
    @Law19157 6 лет назад

    You can place plants on the sides of buildings in cities where you can't plant trees. It has the same effect as trees

  • @alanblanes2876
    @alanblanes2876 5 лет назад +2

    This is further evidence that China is one of the serious countries in responding to the IPCC.

    • @emridatla3886
      @emridatla3886 5 лет назад

      The pollution in Beijing says otherwise.
      How much energy do you think China uses just to create those Islands in the South China Sea just to exert their dominance in the region (and presumably use to stage a military invasion of Taiwan or other Countries from)?

    • @nevermore4280
      @nevermore4280 5 лет назад +1

      @@emridatla3886 1. Pollution in Beijing does not say otherwise and you are living in western propaganda. During the past two decades sulfur dioxide concentrations dropped by 93.3% and PM2.5 dropped by 35% in Beijing, none other city in this world has ever accomplished this.
      2. Taiwan is a province of China, this fact is admitted by UN and every western country.
      3. US navy just roll their way into South China Sea so it's completely appropriate to enhance our defense. Thanks to US, I would say.

  • @bvegannow1936
    @bvegannow1936 6 лет назад +2

    Plant food forests, quit animal agriculture. Vegan diet is more efficent and better for the enviornment. Dont let livestock eat and trample on plants.
    Everyone should be allowed to have an acre of free tax free fertile land to grow a food forest and live on.

    • @emridatla3886
      @emridatla3886 5 лет назад

      It's literally more humane to cause the extinction of the human race than it is to feed vegan cheese to people, ewww.
      For one thing, I hear the CIA uses vegan food in interrogations to crack the toughest interrogatees.

    • @evleer
      @evleer 5 лет назад

      Your statement is so wrong! Please watch the TED talk of Allan Savory on this subject. Planned grazing with livestock can actually help reverse desertification. I think they the sheep herd you see at ruclips.net/video/cl0OYNgjqqY/видео.htmlm25s is an example of that practice.

  • @jacquelinebtoccigailhelena5184
    @jacquelinebtoccigailhelena5184 6 лет назад

    Yes!

  • @jlo8372
    @jlo8372 5 лет назад

    I think this has a wrong title.. Human habitation of deserts has always been possible.. it doesn't really needed to be greened or fully reclaimed with vegitation, and etc. Afterall humans will only build roads, houses and other buildings and cut most of the trees planted to accomodate developments. A testament that human habitation of desert is possible, is Dubai and most ME nations that build cities on it, among others. Correct me if I'm wrong..🤔
    And if the purpose of this is for people to live in it, make it a city and eventually cut trees and there'll be more human developments than trees, then this is not really something to praise about 100% or IN THE LONG RUN. If it is intended to make a man-made forrest and not really exploit it then the whole humanity has something to be really grateful.
    On the other hand, kudos for making a nice INITIAL steps..

  • @ocytocine96
    @ocytocine96 5 лет назад

    "Bumbaclart you little pussyole" 😂😂😂 just put the english subtitles at 0:35

  • @TheElvin313
    @TheElvin313 4 года назад

    #savetheworld #savetheair #ecofriend #theworldisours

  • @clavo3352
    @clavo3352 6 лет назад

    China should contract with India to buy all the hemp burlap India can produce. Then China should sell acres of burlap to put up sand screen barriers. The Govt. will pay citizens for putting up 2 and 3 dimensional barriers to the sand and sun, making a calculation to allow each square meter to make 100% profit over two years plus a four year lease over the land protected by the barrier that the citizen put up. Instead of villages just put up large universities with dormitories. Do not use the very wasteful american house and yard design; save that design for citizen investors who go into business of making sand barriers. Facilitate citizens by making and selling cheap replaceable sand vehicles made of recycled plastic found in the oceans.

  • @MyKharli
    @MyKharli 6 лет назад +12

    sheep and goats are the worst ,closely followed by cattle for screwing up marginal land

    • @wildmanofhk
      @wildmanofhk 6 лет назад +4

      It is the nomadic tribes that are from central Asia and Mongolians that breed goats, cows and horses and eats up the grass and makes the land barren. Mongolians are the worse as they depleted central Asia, burned cities and forests.

    • @deezynar
      @deezynar 6 лет назад +2

      If food is brought in for them, they help build soil by treading their dung into the ground.

    • @jadepenn7407
      @jadepenn7407 6 лет назад +4

      Not quite. They can actually heal deserts if used correctly because they fertilise the ground. See holistic management and what they are doing in Africa.

    • @ZhangLee.
      @ZhangLee. 6 лет назад

      Water & Sky pig was the best

    • @-whackd
      @-whackd 5 лет назад

      It is the way the animals are herded and managed, not the animals themselves. Properly managed sheep can be used to fight desertification.

  • @concerncitizen8988
    @concerncitizen8988 5 лет назад

    If we can develop a system to make the arid desert plantable or arable to sustain agriculture where lust green plants and trees thrives, then world food hunger is a thing of the past. People in the deserts of Asia, Africa, South America and Middle East should practice and develop a method to stop and counter desertification in order to make the desert productive and can sustain habitation for future generation.

  • @Automedon2
    @Automedon2 6 лет назад +10

    Does anyone call it Peking anymore?

    • @mrnarason
      @mrnarason 6 лет назад

      apparently the british

    • @nathanlewis42
      @nathanlewis42 6 лет назад +2

      Victor P. No the British call it Beijing. I live in London.

    • @niall5821
      @niall5821 6 лет назад

      I do

    • @jamesbaker1392
      @jamesbaker1392 6 лет назад

      It's like westerners calling "Japan" Japan. They pronounce it "Nippon" or "nihon". Idk how they just let that go for hundreds of years to the point that everyone calls it Japan now

    • @onlineo2263
      @onlineo2263 6 лет назад

      No even us Brits call it Beijing.

  • @tombristowe846
    @tombristowe846 4 года назад

    I million kilometres squared? I don't think so. And at the 25sec point it grows by "a thousand kilometres squared" each year ? Surely not. Do you by any chance mean a thousand square kilometres? Not the same thing.

  • @佐藤貴紀-j3u
    @佐藤貴紀-j3u 8 месяцев назад

    全世界の砂漠化が進んでいる国や地域にトラクターとショベルカーと散水車を導入して植林活動を行うだけでなく、ショベルカーで水源を掘り起こして大きな水場と川、井戸と水路を作らなくてはならない‼️
    政府よ、行動に移して下さい‼️

  • @GREENLALI
    @GREENLALI 6 лет назад

    It's not a benefit to the government to make it better to grow plants, instead they rather have people over populated and crowded in the city