Congrats to the uploader of this video - you've just earned yourself a new subscriber. This is easily one of the most fascinating documentaries I've ever seen. The topic of desertification is still very misunderstood, I think. I had no idea how quickly deserts could expand due to bad farming techniques. It was only until I recently learned about this and the real causes of the American Dust Bowl in the 1930s, that I truly began to appreciate humanity's impact on the landscape at such a grand scale. Please keep uploading documentaries like this! They are absolutely essential for teaching the public about these urgent ecological problems that we're facing today.
Removing the humans and removing animals is the wrong way to go. Educating the humans so they can fix their behaviors is a much better option. Please search out videos about regenerative farming and regenerative ranching and you can learn about how to fix desertification with the Savory Institute and resolve global climat issues.
@Mrs Cabot not just greed. Human misunderstanding is the vast contributor to climate change, desertification, and the fall of civilizations. It doesn't have to be that way and even people with yards or potted plants can make a change by learning about regenerative principles. Look up about Allan Savory's Ted Talk.
I lived in the desert around Tucson, Arizona, and it is full of all kinds of cactus. It's against the law to kill or dig up any cactus because it's what keeps the soil in the ground. Maybe some of these places can try planting cactus to see if that would help.
These desert problem not caused by modern days, far before that. 10 years ago, Beijing would face sandy storm every spring, and these appearances were recorded since 1300s in Yuan dynasty and went through 700 years. But thanks for the Three North Forest Shelter Program, already planted more than 122 thousands km² forests since 1978. Sandy storm issue in Beijing is very rare now, but it remains a long long journey for that planting program in the far northwest places.
The Taklimakan Desert used to be a giant volcano. The interesting thing about its shape, is that we see it in the weather satellite images, all over the place. The most interesting places we see it, is over Hawaii, and Yellowstone. Also the New Madrid area.
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The great green wall initiative is awesome. I watch the video about the Loess plateau. Regenerating landscapes is the most realistic and self sustaining thing we can do now.
All of this colossal collaboration between the governments and the people to combat natures power of wind and sand is so important to save our mother EARTH, PLEASE PLANT TREES where ever to save our planet Earth.
Imagine major natural forests like the Amazon jungle turning into a desert due to deforestation exposing the soil. The Gobi, Sahara and Kalahari deserts were once lush green areas that were drained and today they are barren
The Taklamakan desert is not just a carbon sink from agricultural runoff but it is the source of dust particles for rainfall in the western U.S.A. see the article, The Dust Detective in High Country News. A similar grand cycle is with the Bodélé Depression in Chad that has its dust going to the Amazon.
22:39- “sunflower seeds, a traditional Chinese crop”- sunflowers, like maize, potatoes, and tomatoes, came from the americas, and sunflowers were first commercialized in Russia
Good Documentary! @49:56 They peg it for for the US Central Valley and Mid-West. The Ogallala Aquifer. The Dust Bowl came to an end, but after perfection of drilling techniques and cheap oil the Agriculture Industry went right back to the same farming practices. For all practical purposes these areas in the US are now the use of petroleum to turn land into to food and it is coming to an end very soon. It is over for humans in my opinion, and in short order ~ Most likely in this Century! Thanks for putting this together!
Piton Pete - The Ogallala Aquifer being empty will turn a huge part of US into a desert. What is really shocking is that it's a WELL KNOWN fact for decades. But nothing is being done about it. More shocking even if we consider that other aquifers are being depleted at outrageous rates and the action is the same, i.e. nothing. :-(
Several have mentioned 'use the sand for...', but you've got to understand, this 'ancient desert' has sand that cannot be used for construction purposes, and making glass from it (more than is already done) would put a MASSIVE burden on existing fuel supplies we have. When concrete is made (aggregate), the sand used in it must be 'rough', 'square'...have 'sharp faceted edges'. Sand in an old desert has rolled, tumbled, ground against itself for eons...to where it is polished. You cannot use 'rounded sand' for concrete production...and it is economically unfeasible to make 'glass containers' out in the middle of nowhere and have to ship them, possibly thousands of miles, to use them (for a one-use container). Environmentally, glass is GREAT as a container...but ecologically, you use a LOT MORE FUEL making glass, than you do making plastic...and you can make plastic on-site where it is needed...making it, believe-it-or-not, 'greener' to make locally from petroleum.
To most of these Tourists from the newly rich East Coast and from South Korea, the desert is a mere fair ground, another item to tick off on the list of sheik holiday destinations, another story to tell back at the Office. to tell back at the office... *The Camels remain nonchalantly unimpressed*
@@sundarkafle4773 The Chinese are repairing the damages they did in the past but Indians continue to make their shitholes bigger and deeper, putting the blame on the British.
@@ktkska8886 India and Nepal should cut off all the ties. none of the citizens should enter others territory. Too much animosity needs these to nations to cut off all the cords for good. cheers
I have never really followed these Stories about the deserts aso, but as someone who has been teaching pilot students about weather and the impact it has on Pilots wanting to make it a save fligt or landing, this video made me think about what the source there is that generates deserts. All what is said is right, beginning to plant what ever grows where you do it. What we learned becoming a pilot and learning about weatherconditions, is we know about the fact that hot air is climbing up because its lighter than cold air, and it pulls up air behind it , that is the birth of the wind. That means if we have hotter groundspots like dry sand or buildings or asphalt, this would heat up much faster than a football field or a forest, where there is a lot of Water is in the plants which cant't be heatet up that fast. If you fly a glider ths is what you want. But to prevent the big storms you do't want that, it is to find a way to cool hot aereas down so the temperture difference between two aereas is smaller. Not so many big storms would occur and we would have less deserts and more people find a save place to live and prosper. The solution you are mentioning ist growing plants to stop the wind, but they really do cool down the environment. which is good. If we would be able to find a way to cool down the places where the im pact of the sun (making it really hot ) ist strongest, winds would go slower and what Prof. Ries mentioned the size of the grain of the sand being transported would less big and less sand could be transported. (Ideal would be a real big white or silver tent which could reflect the sun rays.) I know this is not realistic but it shows the direction I'm aiming at.
If they had the funds would not solar panels arrayed over the dunes, and especially on top of them, provide energy to the community for all kinds of activity and cover the desert surface thus shading it from the heat as you suggest, cooling it down to reduce the wind cycle?.
Hans-Werner Alpermann - What you're mentioning is traditionally called "cover crop" or green mulch. Keeping the soil covered is the first rule of thumb of soil conservation. "Mother nature" does this by itself in the first opportunity. We tend to call/define it as weeds! ;-) Worth mention that in most farmers mentality, to this day, the concept of weeds is pretty much anything and everything that is not the "crop" itself. Once more as in so many cases Humans tend to try and "reinvent the wheel". It's done for millions of years and it works. We just have to be careful enough to don't spoil it. ;-) Experiments with covered soil/mulch demonstrate huge reduction of soil temperature. At the same time it's keeping the surrounding Biome alive and kicking for, another key word in conservationism, Biodiversity. In this video the botanist proudly mention about 167 different species in that particular place...Why? Biodiversity. ;-) Cheers
@@crpth1 That's so good that you mentioned that. It's true what you said about soil covered in wood chips, mulch, or straw: it's so important for preserving the soil moisture and slowing erosion to prevent the earth from converting into desert. I'm sure you must know about permaculture and polyculture farming and gardening techniques, yes? They're going to be very important for fixing the destruction of late 20th century style land misuse and mitigating future damage from climate change. I hope many people will learn from these examples and spread a culture of thinking deeply about the land use and ecology around them. Our ability to make it through the rest of this century in one piece depends upon this new ecologically-aware set of political priorities being agitated for and spread into general pop culture. Bless!
People will still use them in the UK to ‘clear’ land! Either you do weeks of back breaking work and probably only properly clear half (the other half will grow back) or you hire a couple of goats for a week! They will eat anything and everything! Once the jobs done they’re really tasty too lol oh I’m only joking - goats cheese will do just fine!
I have been to this area. It is amazing to see. The edge is distinct and you can see where it is covering villages and farms like a snowstorm with a border. I did see a lot of planting and it shows progress. I wonder what one would find under the deserts of the world.
I have a lot more respect for the Chinese people. I like how the people all seem to own up to the fact that its thier own fault, while finding solutions that better the entire planet instead of just ignoring it. Just imagine what we could do as a planet if we would just stop fighting each other and fight our joint problems. Way to go China keep it up.
You do realise that China creates over twice as much pollution than even the United States right? Don't take my word for it, do a Google search of your own.
No really? Never would have thought with that enormous population and basic infrastructure. Other countries haven't had the nice come up story like us and even we ruined our environment in many industrial areas. You want to buy cheap products, those are made In the slums of countries like China and India, this comes with enormous amounts of trash. Not only that but the west has been shipping its garbage to the east for a very long time now. Yes the Chinese government seems to not give a crap, that doesn't mean you should take away from what people are doing. When's the last time you heard of large numbers of Americans planting bushes and taking care of the land the best they can, for free and on a regular basis. Maybe you should pull your ignarant head out of your ass and look at the bigger picture. It's not about who is polluting more, it's about everybody doing what they can until we get the problem under control. And I think if YOU would do some research you would know that China had been receiving the rest of the worlds garbage, it now turns it away, and has started shutting down coal fired power plants.
paul greenwood - you are really ignorant blaming everything on Chinese for your own problems and for the world's problems. Ask the orange guy sitting in the white house to see if he believe in climate change.
Hang Hang (?) - I'm not blaming all of the Chinese people for my problems. I just don't think it's a balanced review without taking into account that China is by far the biggest polluter on the planet. Collecting some plastic and planting a few shrubs doesn't make up for the many thousands of tons of smoke that pours out of it's factories and power stations every year.
Truly, this is a great example of Garret Hardin's famous "Tragedy of the Commons". But one must admire the tough people of China who bravely soldier on, fighting against the desert!
Another video showed the process of creating straw checkerboards, workers would take shovels and push straw into rows, forming 1 meter square grids, thousands and thousands, which stabilized the soil. Then planting could be put in the grids and take hold.
I was watching a video that was discussing the trials that are going on with various vegetables, in terms of their salt tolerance. They are finding that several kinds of vegetables are more salt tolerant than others, and certain strains of those are even better. They said that potatoes were the most salt tolerant of all. Some vegetables are not bothered by even being flooded with salt water. It is likely they are breeding certain plants to be more salt tolerant, so we can use ocean water for irrigation.
Seawater greenhouses are another useful technology. They can desalinate 9x more water than they require to operate. We need to realign some of our industry to be technology like the humble egg. Easier to recycle; requiring much less intense energy use to transform materials into desired products; knowing how to trigger a cascade of downhill benefits. Dividing and keeping separate the biological and industrial ecosystems so that they don't contaminate each other.
A truly beautiful documentary full of Hope. I heard a disturbing report on the American green walls planted after the dust bowl recently. Turns out many Farmers are looking for more profits and are cutting the wind break trees down to return the land to row crops. They do this when crops fail for tember profits and they do it when crops do well for extra commodity profits.
@Harrison. 01 For grasslands it might actually be more beneficial to have a lot of livestock grazing in a very controlled manner, so that they can eat and trample old vegetation, defecate on the land, therefore fertilising it and making room for fresh vegetation to take it's place. (The way it was when huge wild herds roamed there)
I wish I could plant trees as easy as shown here in this video. All the stuff I have to do when planting a tree in the Southern California desert is a bit more of a choir than just digging a hole.
We don't own this Earth, we are merely guardians and caretakers, realising this is the only way there remains a future for all. Thank you China, Mongolia etc for showing us how, the work you do today benefits us all tomorrow. Even here in England things are changing, a day after rain and the soil is like dust again. Palm trees grow quite happily... Water, may be the cause of future wars. People fix problems when they unite, Governments create them. Excellent documentary, thank you.
Buying a plot of land over grazed and basically ruined. Having alot of the same problems land is eroding. Hope to green it that's why I'm buying it. We would like the land to hold water again like it used too. Any suggestions or videos anyone can post to help with this process?
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There were much more area of desert in North China before 20 years ago. And what happening now is that there are less and less because of industrialization and anti-farming policy. By the way you guys should do a video about republic of Mongolia and see how did they make more grassland become desert through mining. Perhaps also something about the desertification in South Asia.
They transfer oil over thousands of miles different countries and the same pipeline. Why can they not do so with water. Governments have the ability to do it what is stopping them
This is informative and well put together, but I can’t help but be distracted with the lack of cultural understanding revealed in the V/O writing with words like “peasants” and “poverty”. That lady had a ton of goats.
I mean I don’t like the CCP but I mean I Trump is some what like mao In The Great Leap Forward. Were terrible sweeping government programs are going to cause serious environmental problems down the line. I mean at least Chyna acknowledges climate on a governmental level.
1,000 years from now, people will do archeological digs and be delighted to find these old buried towns with plastic sandals and green beer bottles. They may wonder why the towns were abandoned; was it war, plague, weather?...
I thought we were running out of sand for concrete. Why not use existing sand to create walls with mesh uprights to not only control the flow of sand, but to slow the wind passing over it. Export the sand for concrete elsewhere. I see a pack of hungry solutions to this problem.
Planting trees help bring more living creatures and good for human habitation to survive. These area have snow in cold time. Trees will help keep more moisture which the land needs to fight the moving sand.
Dear sir I was there in tashkurgan and kashgar and Urumqi by road in 1990 from Pakistan I love to see that time video if you have then kindly send me link may you have always success
What's ironic is that much of the deserts of China was once fertile land, covered with trees, meadows, streams, ... a Garden of Eden. Chinese civilization originated there. But the land was exploited ; it lost its fertility. So people grazed animals on it, and the animals stripped the plant cover from the soil, allowing desertification to occur. In some parts of China, the grazing has been halted, the plant cover has been restored, and so the desert has returned to rolling hills covered with forests and lush meadows -- even streams and ponds.
Chinese civilization originated in what is now Henan, to the south and east of the dry lands shown in this documentary. Henan remains a fertile land that is home to 96 million people.
Let's ignore the FACT that the Sahara was green forest 15,000 years ago. It then turned into the desert we know today. Did the tribesmen then have secret power plants pumping out CO2? They had coal plants? Cars? You are a fool. The Earth will do what it wants, and that includes sending mile-thick glaciers onto North America and Europe.
Actually, animal's help to fertile land. They are just discovering that one of the main causes of desertification is the lack of animal's that kick up the dirt and soil that allow's rain to sink into the ground and grow plants and food.
The increased wind speeds of a warming atmosphere will make fighting desertification more and more difficult even if China discontinues grazing along the Gobi entirely. This documentary also clearly states that excessive water usage has played a significant role in the advance of the sand. Any way you slice it: a profound shift to sustainable agricultural and industrial practices is the only genuine solution to this problem.
Water vapour bearing winds obstructed by mountains can be baffled by carefully located wind turbines upwind, forcing them to rise higher and over the mountain!!!
That is so awesome! Amazing results if it continues and becomes a constant balance between the use of those natural resources, mainly water and timber, and the restoration of them. They needed to start these projects hundreds of years of ago, hopefully it is not to late and Africa should take heed to China's example and start working on the Sahara :) Cheers to REFORESTATION!
@david cox Have you seen the improved methodology pointed out by Allan Savory, the South African veterinarian who observed the migratory herds of Africa?
The grazing effect was proven false. It's modern herding. More sporadic grazing prevents desertification. This video is good but not current valid data
They need to plant buckthorn trees. They'll grow anywhere, are prolific as hell, and their tight gnarly growth will stop wind, sand, birds... anything moving. They're really a pest, but might be just the thing in this situation.
@ImNotMad ButUR True enough. If American farmers keep pumping out the Ogalala reservoir to grow corn to make gasoline, the old Dust Bowl region will return with a vengeance and be there permanently.
The ability of the Chinese leadership and people to carry out such projects is truly amazing. The USA is so divided it can't even build a simple border wall.
1:39 LOL, With shovels??!! It cannot be hard to make some sort of device that would ride over and clear t... Like a fkn snowplow? And some blowing air perheps
The nomads just have to get on with the program. Who the heck they think they are. They shouldn't be allowed to keep ruining one patch of land after another just because it's their life style. Desertification due to overgrazing is nothing new. Look at Egypt, it was once a agro-thriving civilization. Overgrazing did it in.
You can learn about something you never knew about in a documentary, unless you know anything about it, then you learn how lazy and incorrect narratives can be.
Congrats to the uploader of this video - you've just earned yourself a new subscriber. This is easily one of the most fascinating documentaries I've ever seen. The topic of desertification is still very misunderstood, I think. I had no idea how quickly deserts could expand due to bad farming techniques.
It was only until I recently learned about this and the real causes of the American Dust Bowl in the 1930s, that I truly began to appreciate humanity's impact on the landscape at such a grand scale.
Please keep uploading documentaries like this! They are absolutely essential for teaching the public about these urgent ecological problems that we're facing today.
Removing the humans and removing animals is the wrong way to go. Educating the humans so they can fix their behaviors is a much better option. Please search out videos about regenerative farming and regenerative ranching and you can learn about how to fix desertification with the Savory Institute and resolve global climat issues.
@Mrs Cabot not just greed. Human misunderstanding is the vast contributor to climate change, desertification, and the fall of civilizations. It doesn't have to be that way and even people with yards or potted plants can make a change by learning about regenerative principles. Look up about Allan Savory's Ted Talk.
Yes I agree that farmers are behind these problems.
Wonderful. Great desitions and very on time. Glad that there are people, entities, and even government who cares. Lots of success. from Costa Rica
I lived in the desert around Tucson, Arizona, and it is full of all kinds of cactus. It's against the law to kill or dig up any cactus because it's what keeps the soil in the ground. Maybe some of these places can try planting cactus to see if that would help.
It’s not illegal to dig up “any” kind of cactus. Just certain ones.
This video was very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent documentary, very educative and eye openers about the reality on this part of the world. Lot to learn and remember out of it.
Thank you so much!
These desert problem not caused by modern days, far before that. 10 years ago, Beijing would face sandy storm every spring, and these appearances were recorded since 1300s in Yuan dynasty and went through 700 years. But thanks for the Three North Forest Shelter Program, already planted more than 122 thousands km² forests since 1978. Sandy storm issue in Beijing is very rare now, but it remains a long long journey for that planting program in the far northwest places.
Fascinating doc...thanks for that.
35:45 what a view, a regular looking city street ending in mountains of sand.
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The Taklimakan Desert used to be a giant volcano. The interesting thing about its shape, is that we see it in the weather satellite images, all over the place. The most interesting places we see it, is over Hawaii, and Yellowstone. Also the New Madrid area.
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Dawn in the dunes shots.... damn i am so jealous, thats a candy store for a photographer
Thank you for your research about desertification, and thank you for a part 2!!👍
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The great green wall initiative is awesome. I watch the video about the Loess plateau. Regenerating landscapes is the most realistic and self sustaining thing we can do now.
What a beautiful documentary !! Is a mixed bag , Good news and bad news.
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All of this colossal collaboration between the governments and the people to combat natures power of wind and sand is so important to save our mother EARTH, PLEASE PLANT TREES where ever to save our planet Earth.
without natural predators of the grazing animals, those grazing animals destroy the land and make them into deserts
Imagine major natural forests like the Amazon jungle turning into a desert due to deforestation exposing the soil. The Gobi, Sahara and Kalahari deserts were once lush green areas that were drained and today they are barren
You are baren ? I'm so sorry
The Taklamakan desert is not just a carbon sink from agricultural runoff but it is the source of dust particles for rainfall in the western U.S.A. see the article, The Dust Detective in High Country News. A similar grand cycle is with the Bodélé Depression in Chad that has its dust going to the Amazon.
Dust feed sea plankton, good for nature
How many cities over the centuries have just disappeared? Completely buried 100's of meters under sand. Mindf###!
22:39- “sunflower seeds, a traditional Chinese crop”- sunflowers, like maize, potatoes, and tomatoes, came from the americas, and sunflowers were first commercialized in Russia
Good Documentary! @49:56 They peg it for for the US Central Valley and Mid-West. The Ogallala Aquifer. The Dust Bowl came to an end, but after perfection of drilling techniques and cheap oil the Agriculture Industry went right back to the same farming practices. For all practical purposes these areas in the US are now the use of petroleum to turn land into to food and it is coming to an end very soon.
It is over for humans in my opinion, and in short order ~ Most likely in this Century!
Thanks for putting this together!
Piton Pete - The Ogallala Aquifer being empty will turn a huge part of US into a desert. What is really shocking is that it's a WELL KNOWN fact for decades. But nothing is being done about it. More shocking even if we consider that other aquifers are being depleted at outrageous rates and the action is the same, i.e. nothing. :-(
It's a shame that scientists, engineers, and planners don't read the comments here. They'd find the answers to all our problems.
Several have mentioned 'use the sand for...', but you've got to understand, this 'ancient desert' has sand that cannot be used for construction purposes, and making glass from it (more than is already done) would put a MASSIVE burden on existing fuel supplies we have.
When concrete is made (aggregate), the sand used in it must be 'rough', 'square'...have 'sharp faceted edges'. Sand in an old desert has rolled, tumbled, ground against itself for eons...to where it is polished. You cannot use 'rounded sand' for concrete production...and it is economically unfeasible to make 'glass containers' out in the middle of nowhere and have to ship them, possibly thousands of miles, to use them (for a one-use container). Environmentally, glass is GREAT as a container...but ecologically, you use a LOT MORE FUEL making glass, than you do making plastic...and you can make plastic on-site where it is needed...making it, believe-it-or-not, 'greener' to make locally from petroleum.
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To most of these Tourists from the newly rich East Coast and from South Korea, the desert is a mere fair ground, another item to tick off on the list of sheik holiday destinations, another story to tell back at the Office.
to tell back at the office...
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@@sundarkafle4773 The Chinese are repairing the damages they did in the past but Indians continue to make their shitholes bigger and deeper, putting the blame on the British.
@@ktkska8886 India and Nepal should cut off all the ties. none of the citizens should enter others territory. Too much animosity needs these to nations to cut off all the cords for good. cheers
I have never really followed these Stories about the deserts aso, but as someone who has been teaching pilot students about weather and the impact it has on Pilots wanting to make it a save fligt or landing, this video made me think about what the source there is that generates deserts.
All what is said is right, beginning to plant what ever grows where you do it. What we learned becoming a pilot and learning about weatherconditions, is we know about the fact that hot air is climbing up because its lighter than cold air, and it pulls up air behind it , that is the birth of the wind.
That means if we have hotter groundspots like dry sand or buildings or asphalt, this would heat up much faster than a football field or a forest, where there is a lot of Water is in the plants which cant't be heatet up that fast. If you fly a glider ths is what you want.
But to prevent the big storms you do't want that, it is to find a way to cool hot aereas down so the temperture difference between two aereas is smaller. Not so many big storms would occur and we would have less deserts and more people find a save place to live and prosper. The solution you are mentioning ist growing plants to stop the wind, but they really do cool down the environment. which is good. If we would be able to find a way to cool down the places where the im pact of the sun (making it really hot ) ist strongest, winds would go slower and what Prof. Ries mentioned the size of the grain of the sand being transported would less big and less sand could be transported. (Ideal would be a real big white or silver tent which could reflect the sun rays.) I know this is not realistic but it shows the direction I'm aiming at.
They could plant a wild white flowering plants indigenous to that area maybe... trying to think outside the box....
If they had the funds would not solar panels arrayed over the dunes, and especially on top of them, provide energy to the community for all kinds of activity and cover the desert surface thus shading it from the heat as you suggest, cooling it down to reduce the wind cycle?.
Hans-Werner Alpermann - What you're mentioning is traditionally called "cover crop"
or green mulch. Keeping the soil covered is the first rule of thumb of soil conservation.
"Mother nature" does this by itself in the first opportunity. We tend to call/define it as weeds! ;-)
Worth mention that in most farmers mentality, to this day, the concept of weeds is pretty much anything and everything that is not the "crop" itself.
Once more as in so many cases Humans tend to try and "reinvent the wheel". It's done for millions of years and it works. We just have to be careful enough to don't spoil it. ;-)
Experiments with covered soil/mulch demonstrate huge reduction of soil temperature. At the same time it's keeping the surrounding Biome alive and kicking for, another key word in conservationism, Biodiversity.
In this video the botanist proudly mention about 167 different species in that particular place...Why? Biodiversity. ;-)
Cheers
@@crpth1 That's so good that you mentioned that. It's true what you said about soil covered in wood chips, mulch, or straw: it's so important for preserving the soil moisture and slowing erosion to prevent the earth from converting into desert. I'm sure you must know about permaculture and polyculture farming and gardening techniques, yes? They're going to be very important for fixing the destruction of late 20th century style land misuse and mitigating future damage from climate change.
I hope many people will learn from these examples and spread a culture of thinking deeply about the land use and ecology around them. Our ability to make it through the rest of this century in one piece depends upon this new ecologically-aware set of political priorities being agitated for and spread into general pop culture.
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Goats are extremely destructive for vegetation. They have been banned in some locales.
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People will still use them in the UK to ‘clear’ land! Either you do weeks of back breaking work and probably only properly clear half (the other half will grow back) or you hire a couple of goats for a week! They will eat anything and everything! Once the jobs done they’re really tasty too lol oh I’m only joking - goats cheese will do just fine!
Goats did over grazing and locals are advised to feed goats in barn instead.
Hundreds of years of herding goats is what made parts of the Middle east and Africa barely habitable.
I have been to this area. It is amazing to see. The edge is distinct and you can see where it is covering villages and farms like a snowstorm with a border. I did see a lot of planting and it shows progress. I wonder what one would find under the deserts of the world.
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I have a lot more respect for the Chinese people. I like how the people all seem to own up to the fact that its thier own fault, while finding solutions that better the entire planet instead of just ignoring it. Just imagine what we could do as a planet if we would just stop fighting each other and fight our joint problems. Way to go China keep it up.
You do realise that China creates over twice as much pollution than even the United States right? Don't take my word for it, do a Google search of your own.
No really? Never would have thought with that enormous population and basic infrastructure. Other countries haven't had the nice come up story like us and even we ruined our environment in many industrial areas. You want to buy cheap products, those are made In the slums of countries like China and India, this comes with enormous amounts of trash. Not only that but the west has been shipping its garbage to the east for a very long time now. Yes the Chinese government seems to not give a crap, that doesn't mean you should take away from what people are doing. When's the last time you heard of large numbers of Americans planting bushes and taking care of the land the best they can, for free and on a regular basis. Maybe you should pull your ignarant head out of your ass and look at the bigger picture. It's not about who is polluting more, it's about everybody doing what they can until we get the problem under control. And I think if YOU would do some research you would know that China had been receiving the rest of the worlds garbage, it now turns it away, and has started shutting down coal fired power plants.
ignarant.......;) ;)
paul greenwood - you are really ignorant blaming everything on Chinese for your own problems and for the world's problems. Ask the orange guy sitting in the white house to see if he believe in climate change.
Hang Hang (?) - I'm not blaming all of the Chinese people for my problems. I just don't think it's a balanced review without taking into account that China is by far the biggest polluter on the planet. Collecting some plastic and planting a few shrubs doesn't make up for the many thousands of tons of smoke that pours out of it's factories and power stations every year.
Thumbs up for the great documentary!
Thank you! Really appreciated!
Truly, this is a great example of Garret Hardin's famous "Tragedy of the Commons". But one must admire the tough people of China who bravely soldier on, fighting against the desert!
great documentary
@2:02 it cant. Simple answer yet humans don't wanna accept that as human beings WE CANNOT stop Mother Nature n all her powers 😎
Another video showed the process of creating straw checkerboards, workers would take shovels and push straw into rows, forming 1 meter square grids, thousands and thousands, which stabilized the soil. Then planting could be put in the grids and take hold.
very moving. i believe that this will be the key to fighting our future vegetation crisis world wide.
Nooo, watch Alan Savoy & how he's saving Africa
You can't get away from barking dogs no matter where on Earth you roam.
Aww a whole community working part-time making the the new green wall. Really cute. I almost want to move there.
Men and women working alongside one another, nice to see
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nice video
Thank You
All that sand for glass and we use plastic.
I think this is natures way of telling the chinese there is oil under that desert.
The smartest comment on here.
Brilliant comment - no oil needed though so thank you sand but no thanks.
I hate those glass shopping bags
very nicely covers the problem and solution. we can only hoping for best and contribute to the nature in any form.
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This is really interesting and provides a different view of chinese culture. Thank you. Well done.
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The curse came when man began to till the soil and leave it naked rather than to dress (cover) the soil and keep it.
Good documantry Chinese are very hard worker trees are life very very awesome video i like it back ground voice is 👌
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I was watching a video that was discussing the trials that are going on with various vegetables, in terms of their salt tolerance. They are finding that several kinds of vegetables are more salt tolerant than others, and certain strains of those are even better. They said that potatoes were the most salt tolerant of all. Some vegetables are not bothered by even being flooded with salt water. It is likely they are breeding certain plants to be more salt tolerant, so we can use ocean water for irrigation.
Wow! We didn´t know about that! Would be great to use them there then! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the community! Best regards, hc
Seawater greenhouses are another useful technology.
They can desalinate 9x more water than they require to operate.
We need to realign some of our industry to be technology like the humble egg.
Easier to recycle; requiring much less intense energy use to transform materials into desired products; knowing how to trigger a cascade of downhill benefits.
Dividing and keeping separate the biological and industrial ecosystems so that they don't contaminate each other.
Viktor Schauberger and Sepp Holzer already said how to reforestate deserts.
Very interesting.... whole new respect for the Chinese people..👍 thanks for sharing 🤙🤙🇺🇸🇺🇸
Those Chinese sold me a bad electric drill..so i hope the desert takes over the whole damn country!
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A truly beautiful documentary full of Hope. I heard a disturbing report on the American green walls planted after the dust bowl recently. Turns out many Farmers are looking for more profits and are cutting the wind break trees down to return the land to row crops. They do this when crops fail for tember profits and they do it when crops do well for extra commodity profits.
This is nature's way of saying "It is karma". If earth dies so do we.
Need to plant millions of trees, solar panels power stations. All that sun going to waste
Also, wind turbines could help slow down the sand
More solar panels cause more precipitation and more rain more grass for animal and land for farmers !
@@ArthursHD And kill any airborne life.
@Harrison. 01 For grasslands it might actually be more beneficial to have a lot of livestock grazing in a very controlled manner, so that they can eat and trample old vegetation, defecate on the land, therefore fertilising it and making room for fresh vegetation to take it's place. (The way it was when huge wild herds roamed there)
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At 7:09 the video shows flood irrigation. Drip irrigation, as pioneered by Israel, may increase efficiency.
I never heared that from BBC or CNN.Respect from GERMAN,well done,China.
جو محنت سے اپنے گھر کی تعامیر کرتے ہیں وہ لوگ اور اقوام قابل عزت، احترام اور محبت ہیں۔
Good planning nice.
The World should be watching and learning.....it must!
Documentary like this should be encouraged by giving prestigious award in order to make more of its kind....
I wish I could plant trees as easy as shown here in this video. All the stuff I have to do when planting a tree in the Southern California desert is a bit more of a choir than just digging a hole.
What do you have to do?
Most likely a huge number of those trees won't make it, but even if 1-2% of thousands planted survive and thrive, it'll help.
We don't own this Earth, we are merely guardians and caretakers, realising this is the only way there remains a future for all. Thank you China, Mongolia etc for showing us how, the work you do today benefits us all tomorrow.
Even here in England things are changing, a day after rain and the soil is like dust again. Palm trees grow quite happily... Water, may be the cause of future wars. People fix problems when they unite, Governments create them.
Excellent documentary, thank you.
Buying a plot of land over grazed and basically ruined. Having alot of the same problems land is eroding. Hope to green it that's why I'm buying it. We would like the land to hold water again like it used too. Any suggestions or videos anyone can post to help with this process?
There were much more area of desert in North China before 20 years ago. And what happening now is that there are less and less because of industrialization and anti-farming policy.
By the way you guys should do a video about republic of Mongolia and see how did they make more grassland become desert through mining. Perhaps also something about the desertification in South Asia.
They transfer oil over thousands of miles different countries and the same pipeline.
Why can they not do so with water.
Governments have the ability to do it what is stopping them
lots of places need water, but few want to give or sell it.
This is informative and well put together, but I can’t help but be distracted with the lack of cultural understanding revealed in the V/O writing with words like “peasants” and “poverty”. That lady had a ton of goats.
Much respect...... tree planting is a must!!!
Yes! Our environment needs better treatment and more planting! :)
"building the Great Green Wall" -- here you see some of the benefits of the command economy.
I mean I don’t like the CCP but I mean I Trump is some what like mao In The Great Leap Forward. Were terrible sweeping government programs are going to cause serious environmental problems down the line. I mean at least Chyna acknowledges climate on a governmental level.
Does anyone happen to know what variety of Acacia they are speaking about in 42:16?
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1,000 years from now, people will do archeological digs and be delighted to find these old buried towns with plastic sandals and green beer bottles. They may wonder why the towns were abandoned; was it war, plague, weather?...
I thought we were running out of sand for concrete. Why not use existing sand to create walls with mesh uprights to not only control the flow of sand, but to slow the wind passing over it. Export the sand for concrete elsewhere. I see a pack of hungry solutions to this problem.
So did you like this documentary in order learn something?
Planting trees help bring more living creatures and good for human habitation to survive. These area have snow in cold time. Trees will help keep more moisture which the land needs to fight the moving sand.
I respect the Chinese people. I wish someone could tell me why there is so much hatred in our world. We've all been through so much!
Because of resources
Maybe you should ask Xi and the communist government why they're intent on pushing the Chicom military out into the ocean.
so sad ,in the Caribbean we do get a lot of Sahara sand ,which we never had before .Kudous to the chinese for their great efforts
Dear sir I was there in tashkurgan and kashgar and Urumqi by road in 1990 from Pakistan I love to see that time video if you have then kindly send me link may you have always success
I think that may be a ufo at 34:08 on the right hand side of the screen.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Good eyes, WTH,was that?
@X X really it doesnt even look like anything else. Also UFO is ok just not the way people use it as intelligent aliens.
yoo wtf , could have been a meteor until it switched directions 1 second later 90 degrees linearly
35:19 What an iconic shot.
unbelievable😍
What's ironic is that much of the deserts of China was once fertile land, covered with trees, meadows, streams, ... a Garden of Eden. Chinese civilization originated there. But the land was exploited ; it lost its fertility. So people grazed animals on it, and the animals stripped the plant cover from the soil, allowing desertification to occur.
In some parts of China, the grazing has been halted, the plant cover has been restored, and so the desert has returned to rolling hills covered with forests and lush meadows -- even streams and ponds.
Chinese civilization originated in what is now Henan, to the south and east of the dry lands shown in this documentary. Henan remains a fertile land that is home to 96 million people.
Thank you for explaining that it is timber-cutting, over-farming, and over-grazing that is causing 95% of this desertification. NOT CO2.
Let's ignore the FACT that the Sahara was green forest 15,000 years ago. It then turned into the desert we know today. Did the tribesmen then have secret power plants pumping out CO2? They had coal plants? Cars? You are a fool. The Earth will do what it wants, and that includes sending mile-thick glaciers onto North America and Europe.
Actually, animal's help to fertile land. They are just discovering that one of the main causes of desertification is the lack of animal's that kick up the dirt and soil that allow's rain to sink into the ground and grow plants and food.
ruclips.net/video/vpTHi7O66pI/видео.html watch this. they are now proving the exact opposite
This is a chilling movie.
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If only there could be one new giant river running through the desert fed by Himalayan glaciers. It seems like such a hopeless situation.
I'm glad this video points out the true culprit of desertification (overgrazing) and doesnt blame it all on global warming.
The increased wind speeds of a warming atmosphere will make fighting desertification more and more difficult even if China discontinues grazing along the Gobi entirely. This documentary also clearly states that excessive water usage has played a significant role in the advance of the sand. Any way you slice it: a profound shift to sustainable agricultural and industrial practices is the only genuine solution to this problem.
Water vapour bearing winds obstructed by mountains can be baffled by carefully located wind turbines upwind, forcing them to rise higher and over the mountain!!!
June 2019. This viceo is out of date. China's forests have increased dramaticaly since 2010.
Documentation?
That is so awesome! Amazing results if it continues and becomes a constant balance between the use of those natural resources, mainly water and timber, and the restoration of them. They needed to start these projects hundreds of years of ago, hopefully it is not to late and Africa should take heed to China's example and start working on the Sahara :) Cheers to REFORESTATION!
4:53 the goats even ate the house literally 😆
great episode....thx....deforestation with animal grazing has brought down many a culture
Thank you David Cox for your feedback! We highly appreciate it! Best, hc
See the book “Collapse” by Jared Diamond on the fall of several civilizations.
Stephen Powzinger yes...a very good book....the fate of Easter Island was especially informative
@david cox
Have you seen the improved methodology pointed out by Allan Savory, the South African veterinarian who observed the migratory herds of Africa?
_"Deforestation with animal grazing has brought down many a culture"_
So has communism. Oh, wait...
might consider permaculture
i dont think desert tourism make more revenue than the silkroad when it was booming xD
@42:58 Alfalfa: A Spanish word of Arabic origin pronounced the same in either language including English.
The grazing effect was proven false. It's modern herding. More sporadic grazing prevents desertification.
This video is good but not current valid data
J L or just having the benefit of seeing into the future lol
Don't herds graze?
verb (used without object), grazed, graz·ing.
to feed on growing grass and pasturage, as do cattle, sheep, etc.'"
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Great! Thank you! We really appreciate our community. Best regards, hc
Why do they build a canal and not a pipeline? A lot of water will evaporate this way.
Good point.
I Pray for Your Trees and Water Way's , , Listen to Mr.Lee . He is Wise :) QC
They need to plant buckthorn trees. They'll grow anywhere, are prolific as hell, and their tight gnarly growth will stop wind, sand, birds... anything moving. They're really a pest, but might be just the thing in this situation.
@ImNotMad ButUR True enough. If American farmers keep pumping out the Ogalala reservoir to grow corn to make gasoline, the old Dust Bowl region will return with a vengeance and be there permanently.
The ability of the Chinese leadership and people to carry out such projects is truly amazing. The USA is so divided it can't even build a simple border wall.
1:39 LOL, With shovels??!! It cannot be hard to make some sort of device that would ride over and clear t... Like a fkn snowplow? And some blowing air perheps
The nomads just have to get on with the program. Who the heck they think they are. They shouldn't be allowed to keep ruining one patch of land after another just because it's their life style. Desertification due to overgrazing is nothing new. Look at Egypt, it was once a agro-thriving civilization. Overgrazing did it in.
2:42 "Inner Mongolia's Ordos plateau, 1500 km east of Beijing" - east? really? Sloppy script writing or research.
You can learn about something you never knew about in a documentary, unless you know anything about it, then you learn how lazy and incorrect narratives can be.
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