I believe Singapore as a country don't agree with what you said here. The way you said it is just plain irresponsible! I am sure not everyone in Singapore is like you. Just because other countries are doing the same doesn't mean it is right to do. And you need to do some fact check on reclamation. It is not 'No Problem' !!!. There are rules you need to follow even though is within your territorial sea!
Pls understand that in order to reclaim land, we need tons n tons of sand which we do not have. We are surrounded by water and that's why we are known as an Island.
@@robgoh9392 Well nowadays that isn't a huge problem, there are plenty of materials on the International market which can be used to build artificial islands. The costs are significant, but considering the price of land in Singapore, the return for investment is huge in this case.
Singapore is the world's biggest importer of sand because she had already ran out of domestic supply due to its small size but she is not the world's largest user of sand in reclaiming lands. Singapore is not even in the top 5. Other countries are reclaiming lands using their own sand but the environmental impact is the same whether you import it or not. Look, China had already reclaimed around 13,000 square kilometers while Singapore had reclaimed much less than 200 square kilometers! Netherlands, South Korea, Japan had already reclaimed a lot too. Bahrain is also a small country like Singapore (just bigger by few square kilometers) and had already reclaimed much more than Singapore and people are not making so much noises in the same level they do to Singapore. Maybe, Singapore is very progressive and working good in many categories that's why she gets more notices from the international media as compared to other countries.
Lol first of all you dont know that bahrain has tons of water space to expand and secondly china has tons of manpower to get 13000 sq kilometers pretty much the same for the other countries mentioned except bahrain tho bahrain is more into decorative style land reclaim
Singapore actually moves the corals to a different place before starting the land reclamation. Some of the corals might have been lost due to climate change
P.S: We relocate the underwater flora and fauna to Pulau Semakau, which used to be a landfill island into a new bio reserve. Quite a huge collection there, but I agree more should be done to protect that.
@@edwardlee5412Singapore Chinese hate China Chinese for immigrating into their country and steal jobs and are usually richer. Also Singapore is more aligned to the west we literally have a US Navy warship parked here at all times. If you visit Singapore you would understand but you wouldn't leave america😂 cause mah freedom
@@youtubecopy9524yes but we are more tied to the west. We are a former British colony and English is everywhere. We have a US Navy ship parked here at all times which rotates once a month. And we are in a defence partnership with USA, UK, Australia and NZ.
Stamford Raffles didn’t transform Singapore that we know today, it was Lee Kuan Yew who did. But I’m not surprised foreigners who talk about Singapore’s history often makes inaccurate and false statements.
I'm sorry, but your statement itself is an inacurrate and false statement. Yes, Lee Kuan Yew played a huge role in transforming Singapore, but, just as with any other country and nation, Singapore's current state was a culmination of several people's efforts, hard work and decisions, regardless of if they were good or bad decisions. Although your point is partially accurate, please don't be so blunt and respect the effort Versed has put in to make this video, even though he is a "foreigner" in your eyes! Thank you.
@@skillissueeeee he is the key leader of transforming Singapore to what it is today. That is the fact. People around him and his successors built upon his vision and his policies to continue to run Singapore today as a successful and efficient well-oiled machine. No need to be sorry, since you are wrong and providing an inaccurate and false statement. I never seen anyone so desperate to defend a foreigner for saying something categorically untrue. As if you're in love with British colonialism and want to celebrate Stamford Raffles. So pitiful.
@@Pajeetpoopram I'm not sure if you haven't noticed, but my reply doesn't deny that Lee Kuan Yew was the "key leader of transforming Singapore to what it is today". But I feel that your attitude regarding this subject matter is extremely rude. You're just outright calling Versed a "foreigner", and associating him with British colonialism, which is just really uncivilised, just because his views don't agree with your subjective opinion. You seem to understand a lot about Singapore's history, and I respect you for that. But there is something else I respect more, and that is basic decency. Thank you, and I hope you can pity someone more deserving, sire.
@@skillissueeeee im not sure if you haven’t noticed but I called you the one being the one in love with British colonialism and did not link it with Versed. You behave like some ang moh’s little pet somehow getting offended about my comment of his categorically incorrect statement. Though im not surprised that Versed wants to credit Singapore’s growth to a colonial master - his own kind rather than a Singaporean. You seem to have a misconception of what is civilised or not, calling him a foreigner is simply factual and its simply common for an outsider to get facts about Singapore wrong, nothing ‘extremely rude’ about that. No need to be so triggered and whining here, get your checked in IMH, on the contrary it will make yourself more civilised and less of a rude whiny CB kia.
@kepala kentang They willing to sell, we willing to pay. Do you think we can ever threaten these countries? The rulers are simply greedy and useless. The money they earn could have been use on the people and economy, but did any of them do anything.
Correct. And there were also soils from Singapore that were used, like those excavation materials taken out of the construction sites and those removed by the Tunnel Boring Machines. Those sands purchased by Singapore from the Philippines were those sand spewed out by the Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruptions. There were no environmental damages that were done here. In fact, Singapore helped us removed those lahar sands that had clogged our rivers and other tributaries because for so many years, the lahar sands has been cascading down the rivers everytime there is a strong rain (typhoons).
This channel is one of the geopoltical essay channels you sub to and watch then suddenly they have like 800k subscribers. The content here is more than good enough to compete with the big dogs that do this style of videos. Keep it up!
Unfortunately, these kinds of channels always get bombarded with sponsored videos advertising shady companies once they blow up, which always causes me to unsub from their channels since I am fiercely against ads in any form
@@pegamationproductions6062 why are you against such ads? people need to make a living. just skip ahead a minute into the video and wala, it's like it doesn't even exist.
Great video, Mr Versed. Reclamation is environmentally destructive, but Singapore's development agencies have recognised this and are attempting to reduce its environmental impact through environmental studies and habitat relocation where possible. Sovereign rights have become a point of contention with Malaysia, with cases brought to the international court alleging that Singapore's land reclamation works disrupted the livelihoods of Malaysian fishermen across the Johor strait. I think a greater long-term challenge for Singapore , apart from the sovereign issues you mentioned, is that Singapore's reclamation works are getting close to the limits of the continental shelf she sits on, where sea levels are relatively lower. Reclaiming beyond the continental shelf, where waters are much deeper, is extremely challenging and practically infeasible.
Based on how they now go reclaim Changi, pls lah. What environment. That being said, reclaim reclaim lor, better to reclaim now than wait for more environmental group to make noise.
@@MrBoliao98 😂Mr Boliao, thanks for your comment, I get your sentiment but I really thought you'd be "boliao" enough to research how what I've said about our attempts to conserve biodiversity are wrong in the context of Changi! As I mentioned , reclamation is environmentally destructive, but our agencies have been trying to reduce its impacts through certain industry-leading methods. Let's face it, it's between a rock and a hard place - (mitigated) biodiversity loss, or existential threats to our land and our way of life, whether that be in the form of sea rise, soaring land prices or a shortage of development opportunities. Both options are losing ones, but I think you'd agree with me which side is the softer rock.
@@dylantay3302 can talk all we like about our attempt. These are feeble compared to just taking so much volume in the sea just like that. But in the end, I also don't care, we do need the land. Just stop shitting yourself and smoking everyone like we conserving anything. We destroy means destroy, nothing more to say.
The amount of time and effort taken to research and work on this video is mental! You deserve way more subscribers than you currently have. I've hit the big red button!
"Singapore" and "conquer" cannot be used together. We are not warmongers. Japanese, Britons, and Americans are warmongers. They can be associated with conquest.
Thumbnail is incorrect. Certain reclaimed areas like Tuas are shown as red while non reclaimed islands like pulau ubin and most of pulau tekong is shown in green
@Hamidi Saidi i really feel there should be seperate platforms for educational/informative content (News, Analyses, etc.) and entertainment (Mr. Beast, Dude Perfect, Vloggers, etc.). They both are important yet very different types of content on RUclips that require equitable attention.
Ok, all jokes aside from my previous comment, I do not like the idea of empoldering. A few problems. Firstly, its a flood in the making. If it rains too hard in singapore, and our canals are full, all the water will flow into this area. Secondly, a breach in the sea wall will be incredibly devastating. A way to mitigate this would be multiple walls within the empoldered land, kind of like how a ship has bulkheads with water tight doors. Thirdly, sea water will be able to get into the land, and since the land is below the sea level, water that gets collected here will likely be salty. This could make the water relatively undrinkable and require more advanced techniques to purify. We rely on our reservoirs as one way to get clean water, so land that cannot be used in this way is a bit of a negative. However, as a singaporean, I can confirm that we are in quite desperate need for land. So I could get behind the idea of empolderment (or whatever its called). But I think we are gonna need to be real careful in the implementation. We cant just build a wall and expect that to solve all problems and not create new ones (looking at the trump wall)
Brother you go look at the actual amount of land using empoldering. This one is do for show. We reclaiming the land off Lorong Halus, off Changi Airport and the Southern part of Tekong, all solid fill.
@@MrBoliao98 The current poldering is not for show. It's tipping the toe into the water. I see more danger from a terrorist attack or a war situation, than anything else. So much space in the Netherlands is polder land, it works great.
Lol Biden is rebuilding the wall due to migration problems anyway. So maybe a wall is necessary in that case. But yes, empolderment needs more than a wall.
If Singapore 🇸🇬 can buy land, we will. Lee Kuan Yew once tried to buy Batam from Indonesia 🇮🇩 for 100 years but failed. Singapore is just too small, a little red dot to others. Just imagine if we can have 2 times or more the present size of Singapore 🇸🇬.
Really??Doesnt batam related more to malaysia bcs used belong to johor sultanate?people there speak malay languange..we give singapore for free you want more malay land??Population in sg fullfilled by immigrant its stupid if indonesia or malaysia want to give up more territories even from historical chinese not related to that land.
@@NotLikeWhatYouThink yes batam bintan and singapore used to be part of the johor riau lingga sultanate. Let alone batam, even singapore is on loan for 100years. Thats why their HDB housing is just for 99years. After that either Johore sultanate take back or Malaysia. Either one
My uncle in Batam, Indonesia, has a friend who sold a literal hill to Singapore for land reclamation. The empty land left behind is shit for anything but he is rich now.
Great video, generally balanced except for @5:35 ; re: Singapore "taken so much of this resource" and the implied "destroying of some of these countries" - these countries chose to tear up their islands/etc so that they can make convert what they consider less useful resources for $$$ and would sell to any other country, not just Singapore
@@zzy341 We don't give a shit about America if that's what you are referring to. US may be a western country, but it doesn't represent the entire western hemisphere of the earth.
@@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735 Dumb comment. MRT systems for many developed cities have already stopped years ago. When the system covers much of the land, then the building stops.
I see I'm being recommended this video because I'm a Singaporean AND National Day is on 9th Aug Welp time to learn history again with cool graphics and animations👍 5:22 The sand reserve can be seen from my house, the place is located at Seletar North Link
I guess there's some mis-information here, 1) 8:22 well how can Sg be encroaching the shipping lane or territorial limits of msia and indonesia, when they are only reclaiming land within their territorial lane and rights? have you seen other countries reclaiming land way bigger than Sg? 2) it's true that land reclaim destroys coral reefs etc, but every countries reclaim land, so is not a one country problem is a world problem
The reason why Singapore's population is getting overcrowded is because of the excessive import of foreigners. Pretty sure theres more foreigners than their own Singaporean countrymen in that country
Pre war there was less than 1m people. So most of the country has been in Singapore for 3 generations or less. It’s a land of immigrants, that share the same ideals and cultural understanding. I wouldn’t say it is excessive since cities like shanghai and Seoul have grown much faster than Singapore. It all depends on how well the city planners manage it
@@Justyn_Lim_ idk man but thats just sad. Some foreign intake is sometimes necessary i agree. But from the looks of it your country has more foreign than local citizens in your own population
at 7:18 the 1300 map is wrong... Flanders (as the first btw) and Brabant also used Polders to gain land on the sea, so in 1300 the Belgian coastline would also have been more inland in today's standards...
You omitted the same 'Enche Yusoff' printed currency note from BCCS, Minister of Finance(MoF)...and finally Monetary Authority of Singapore(MAS)...from the Finance Ministers Goh Keng Swee & Tan Siew Sin
@@tankman20064 not really. maybe that according Singaporean history text book, but the fact is Malays were the first settlers in the island long before the British came. It was part of Johor-Riau Empire before the British came and brought all those Chinese and Indian immigrants, same like in Malaya and Borneo.
I heard that singapore will use their landfill ashes for reclamation project on tuas port. Which is great to see how their deal with ashes from semakau island on that project. But the bad things is their marine life will be affected
Just curious, why not buy large chunk of land from Malaysia or Indonesia? Building/reclaiming new land is energy intensive. The only Issue I see is transport for people staying away from mainland.
@@chrischow9085 why he/she needs to be orang asli? Melayu itself came orang those orang Asli. the civilization of the MALAY land was built by the Malays, not Orang Asli. You must be from insecure race that needs to bring Malay down alongside you to be recognised as immigrant. We aren't. Sorry to tell you this. But you ARE. Deal with it. Your are the peculiar race of this region. You just aren't us. IMMIGRANT.
As Indonesian, Jakarta has started to build sea barrier like Netherlands did, but the time is running out since Jakarta is the fastest sinking city in the world. I think Jakarta should also doing what Singapore did. We have some sea area that suitable for sand mining, and we can do sea conservations after the mining project is done. Plus banning ground water pump of course, at the same time inviting investors to build some giant water depots and installations to replace ground water pump.
@@weldon29 Jakarta is complicated to explain: 1. Jakarta city (formerly known as Batavia) was build and developed from blue print by the Dutch. And world know, Dutch is the worst if we talk about developing city, that's why Netherland is also below sea level now. So, Jakarta have developing mistakes since hundreds years ago. 2. Political changes that makes Indonesia was lead by Suharto (the most corrupt regime) for 32 years, then lead by SBY (the family of corrupt regime also) for 10 years. SBY's son, his in law, and most of his former subordinates was/were in jailed because of bribery and corruptions cases). Then now we have Joko Widodo who took all those burdens from those previous prick leaders. Joko Widodo did impressive works in infrastructures, economy, investments, health, educations, technology, international collaborations etc. But there's still millions of homeworks heritaged by the previous incapable leaders. 3. Current political situations in Jakarta that makes Jakarta is now governed by radical Islamist rider Anies Baswedan, which is he also the political opponent of our president Joko Widodo. Indonesian/Jakarta need to get rid this Anies Baswedan first. We gonna kick him.
@@weldon29 if you talk today, you absolutely wrong. If today Indonesian government incompetent, Indonesian couldn't significantly increased the infrastructures, couldn't be the strongest economy power in South East Asia. The fact Indonesia currently is the strongest economy power in SEA. The only country in SEA who included into G20 countries. The top 1 trading partners of G7 countries. Even IMF, World Bank, OEDC (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), PwC, The Economist, and other reputable research organizations estimated that Indonesian will be one of world economy superpower within this near decades. They never mention Singapore, Brunei, or even the corrupt and lame country like Malaysia.
@@agus_medan Talking cock ehh..that what always Indonesians know. Boasting about being G20. Of course, look at your land and population and natural resources you have which you should achieve even more if your previous governments not corrupted. Indonesia need to work a lot more to eradicate level of poverty and wealth distribution between its people and provinces. Stay humble and keep working. That's they way!
@@nikhassan7713 Of course I will happy to talk cocky when a less IQ Malaysian-Chinese came here and tried to put his underestimating comment. He don't deserve to receive any humble attitude. I will do the same thing to you too, if you try to underestimating us. Don't try to teach us anything you even don't know about.
Instead of reclamation with its hazards to the environment why not acquire land from another country by cash purchase? That way they will have a distant territory for trade/exports and they could assist another nation that may be in dire need of the influx of cash. Just a thought.
Singapore seems like a great country. Definitely will visit in December, first saw Singapore from this video ruclips.net/video/NkrhOUV3p1E/видео.html , It was placed at the top spot, was impressed, this is the 4th video about Singapore that I've been watching. Hope during summer(USA) it is warm there. winters suck.
Had a relative who bought a house on Beach Road, and it was named so because it was beside the beach and he wanted a seaside house. A few years later, he got mad, he commented "where is the beach?"
The time will come the chinese will have a taste of what Malay military might is like. Even Japanese, british, portuguese,dutch having hard time wanna fight the Malays but the chinese dream big. Only ethnic riots in KL and SG back in 60s chinese get beaten up so badly whats more with war?
There is a limit on how far singapore could reclaimed their land. And if singapore trying to grab indonesian water by using their shoreline as the reason, well, good luck because indonesia won't just sit there and watch
6:16 you show a beautiul coral reef...then go on to imply that Singapore is destroying coral reefs. Really? You wanna be honest with us regarding where Singapore is dumping sand? Also, land isnt reclaimed in one night. The "biodiversity" simply moves. What now? Youre gonna talk about the real estate legal rights of fish?
As they expand, doesnt tht harm the eco system, i heard the crabs there were harmed, but prob more oso cause of rushing water (small space for water to run so water faster kinda prevents them from staying there) We used to use local crab for chilli crab but now cnnt, now we import crab
Nah, there’s still local crabs. But the fact that mud crabs are all found in the estuaries and swamps, alongside riverbanks, the government have banned taking any form of wildlife from rivers and swamps, hence, the need for import.
At @5:37 "They've taken so much of this resource, that... it's destroying some of these countries." Explain how this is Singapore's fault. I assume that Singapore would have to buy the sand from, for example, Indonesia. Does Singapore specify, "hey, I like the sand on THAT island Sell me the sand from THAT SPECIFIC Island. And yeah, I don't care if you take so much sand that that island disappears. Or 24 other islands." How is it Singapore's responsibility to ensure that Indonesia (or any other seller of sand) does not destroy their country in providing sand to Singapore? Singapore wants sand and is willing to pay for it. Indonesia (for example) sees uninhabited islands with lots of sand that is just sitting there, and decides to sell some to Singapore. And a little more. And more. And then before you know it, the island is practically gone. Who is responsible? The video seems to suggest that it is Singapore's fault. Did Singapore DEMAND Indonesia (or other sand-selling countries) destroy uninhabited islands to sell sand to Singapore? And since it is Indonesia, this is the same country that is clearing forests in order to convert the land to palm oil plantation, and land is cleared by burning the forest. @6:47 "When Raffles arrived in 1819, the land was 13% mangrove swamp. Today, only 0.5% remains." And if Singapore were blessed with an abundance of space, and land, and shoreline, we might well have preserved the mangrove swamp. But as this video acknowledges, Singapore is hard-pressed for space, and swamps are not usable for residences, for airports, for factories, or for offices. It is all very well and good to lament the loss of natural habitats like Mangrove Swamps when one does not need to consider the needs of people trying to live and make a living. But hard decisions have to be made, and the harsh reality is that Singapore and her population needed the space. But let's say in an idealistic world, with an idealistic and nature-loving government in power, Singapore preserves the mangrove swamps for biodiversity (excluding humans from this biodiversity in the mangrove swamp which is not habitable as is by humans). And we find we need to reclaim land. So we buy sand from out neighbours. Who destroyed their countries to provide Singapore with sand. And when they come over to see how Singapore is, they find that we have preserved our mangrove swamps, while reclaiming land with the sand from our neighbours. Would we see a critical video about how Singapore preserves her own nature, at the cost of her neighbour's natural resources?
so what if 24 sand islands around Indonesia vanished? These are just islands with no inhabitants. At least they could be converted into income for the nation.
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Singapore is reclaiming land only within its territorial sea. No problem, many countries are also doing that.
What if they running out of territorial sea?
I believe Singapore as a country don't agree with what you said here. The way you said it is just plain irresponsible! I am sure not everyone in Singapore is like you. Just because other countries are doing the same doesn't mean it is right to do. And you need to do some fact check on reclamation. It is not 'No Problem' !!!. There are rules you need to follow even though is within your territorial sea!
Pls understand that in order to reclaim land, we need tons n tons of sand which we do not have. We are surrounded by water and that's why we are known as an Island.
@@KinSC your opinion is noted. But it is wrong.
@@robgoh9392 Well nowadays that isn't a huge problem, there are plenty of materials on the International market which can be used to build artificial islands. The costs are significant, but considering the price of land in Singapore, the return for investment is huge in this case.
Singapore is the world's biggest importer of sand because she had already ran out of domestic supply due to its small size but she is not the world's largest user of sand in reclaiming lands. Singapore is not even in the top 5. Other countries are reclaiming lands using their own sand but the environmental impact is the same whether you import it or not. Look, China had already reclaimed around 13,000 square kilometers while Singapore had reclaimed much less than 200 square kilometers! Netherlands, South Korea, Japan had already reclaimed a lot too. Bahrain is also a small country like Singapore (just bigger by few square kilometers) and had already reclaimed much more than Singapore and people are not making so much noises in the same level they do to Singapore.
Maybe, Singapore is very progressive and working good in many categories that's why she gets more notices from the international media as compared to other countries.
Lol first of all you dont know that bahrain has tons of water space to expand and secondly china has tons of manpower to get 13000 sq kilometers pretty much the same for the other countries mentioned except bahrain tho bahrain is more into decorative style land reclaim
i thought they steal the sand from Johor?
They are just Jealous. Period.
@@syamsul6063
How to steal? You have too much shixt inside your head
Are u Singaporean that's why u denied the truth
Singapore actually moves the corals to a different place before starting the land reclamation. Some of the corals might have been lost due to climate change
P.S: We relocate the underwater flora and fauna to Pulau Semakau, which used to be a landfill island into a new bio reserve. Quite a huge collection there, but I agree more should be done to protect that.
Keep up the Good Work,like China,,.....😂🙏🐅🐅🐅
@@edwardlee5412 infact most of them are Chinese
@@edwardlee5412you are a ignorant and ill informed fellow seems like you haven't leave America before and aren't aware of how the world's like
@@edwardlee5412Singapore Chinese hate China Chinese for immigrating into their country and steal jobs and are usually richer.
Also Singapore is more aligned to the west we literally have a US Navy warship parked here at all times.
If you visit Singapore you would understand but you wouldn't leave america😂 cause mah freedom
@@youtubecopy9524yes but we are more tied to the west.
We are a former British colony and English is everywhere.
We have a US Navy ship parked here at all times which rotates once a month.
And we are in a defence partnership with USA, UK, Australia and NZ.
Stamford Raffles didn’t transform Singapore that we know today, it was Lee Kuan Yew who did. But I’m not surprised foreigners who talk about Singapore’s history often makes inaccurate and false statements.
I'm sorry, but your statement itself is an inacurrate and false statement. Yes, Lee Kuan Yew played a huge role in transforming Singapore, but, just as with any other country and nation, Singapore's current state was a culmination of several people's efforts, hard work and decisions, regardless of if they were good or bad decisions.
Although your point is partially accurate, please don't be so blunt and respect the effort Versed has put in to make this video, even though he is a "foreigner" in your eyes! Thank you.
@@skillissueeeee he is the key leader of transforming Singapore to what it is today. That is the fact. People around him and his successors built upon his vision and his policies to continue to run Singapore today as a successful and efficient well-oiled machine. No need to be sorry, since you are wrong and providing an inaccurate and false statement. I never seen anyone so desperate to defend a foreigner for saying something categorically untrue. As if you're in love with British colonialism and want to celebrate Stamford Raffles. So pitiful.
@@Pajeetpoopram I'm not sure if you haven't noticed, but my reply doesn't deny that Lee Kuan Yew was the "key leader of transforming Singapore to what it is today". But I feel that your attitude regarding this subject matter is extremely rude. You're just outright calling Versed a "foreigner", and associating him with British colonialism, which is just really uncivilised, just because his views don't agree with your subjective opinion. You seem to understand a lot about Singapore's history, and I respect you for that. But there is something else I respect more, and that is basic decency. Thank you, and I hope you can pity someone more deserving, sire.
@@skillissueeeee im not sure if you haven’t noticed but I called you the one being the one in love with British colonialism and did not link it with Versed. You behave like some ang moh’s little pet somehow getting offended about my comment of his categorically incorrect statement. Though im not surprised that Versed wants to credit Singapore’s growth to a colonial master - his own kind rather than a Singaporean. You seem to have a misconception of what is civilised or not, calling him a foreigner is simply factual and its simply common for an outsider to get facts about Singapore wrong, nothing ‘extremely rude’ about that. No need to be so triggered and whining here, get your checked in IMH, on the contrary it will make yourself more civilised and less of a rude whiny CB kia.
@@Pajeetpoopram you sound like a crazy lee worshipper
It was not taken. They sold and we paid.
@kepala kentang They willing to sell, we willing to pay. Do you think we can ever threaten these countries? The rulers are simply greedy and useless. The money they earn could have been use on the people and economy, but did any of them do anything.
Correct. And there were also soils from Singapore that were used, like those excavation materials taken out of the construction sites and those removed by the Tunnel Boring Machines.
Those sands purchased by Singapore from the Philippines were those sand spewed out by the Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruptions. There were no environmental damages that were done here. In fact, Singapore helped us removed those lahar sands that had clogged our rivers and other tributaries because for so many years, the lahar sands has been cascading down the rivers everytime there is a strong rain (typhoons).
@Tranquil Water If we can, i wish we can buy more LAND !!!
@BlackBannerz The point is, they did sell. It was not taken unfairly.
This channel is one of the geopoltical essay channels you sub to and watch then suddenly they have like 800k subscribers. The content here is more than good enough to compete with the big dogs that do this style of videos. Keep it up!
True
The title should not use the word “conquer” it should use “CREATE”
Unfortunately, these kinds of channels always get bombarded with sponsored videos advertising shady companies once they blow up, which always causes me to unsub from their channels since I am fiercely against ads in any form
@@pegamationproductions6062 why are you against such ads? people need to make a living. just skip ahead a minute into the video and wala, it's like it doesn't even exist.
Great video, Mr Versed. Reclamation is environmentally destructive, but Singapore's development agencies have recognised this and are attempting to reduce its environmental impact through environmental studies and habitat relocation where possible. Sovereign rights have become a point of contention with Malaysia, with cases brought to the international court alleging that Singapore's land reclamation works disrupted the livelihoods of Malaysian fishermen across the Johor strait.
I think a greater long-term challenge for Singapore , apart from the sovereign issues you mentioned, is that Singapore's reclamation works are getting close to the limits of the continental shelf she sits on, where sea levels are relatively lower. Reclaiming beyond the continental shelf, where waters are much deeper, is extremely challenging and practically infeasible.
Based on how they now go reclaim Changi, pls lah. What environment. That being said, reclaim reclaim lor, better to reclaim now than wait for more environmental group to make noise.
@@MrBoliao98 😂Mr Boliao, thanks for your comment, I get your sentiment but I really thought you'd be "boliao" enough to research how what I've said about our attempts to conserve biodiversity are wrong in the context of Changi!
As I mentioned , reclamation is environmentally destructive, but our agencies have been trying to reduce its impacts through certain industry-leading methods.
Let's face it, it's between a rock and a hard place - (mitigated) biodiversity loss, or existential threats to our land and our way of life, whether that be in the form of sea rise, soaring land prices or a shortage of development opportunities.
Both options are losing ones, but I think you'd agree with me which side is the softer rock.
@@dylantay3302 can talk all we like about our attempt. These are feeble compared to just taking so much volume in the sea just like that. But in the end, I also don't care, we do need the land. Just stop shitting yourself and smoking everyone like we conserving anything. We destroy means destroy, nothing more to say.
The long-term solution is to become part of a Greater China rather than geographically expanding through land reclamation.
@@utubegeronimo7628 ???????
The amount of time and effort taken to research and work on this video is mental! You deserve way more subscribers than you currently have. I've hit the big red button!
Keep it up and you will soon be recognized by the community. Great videos btw
"Singapore" and "conquer" cannot be used together. We are not warmongers. Japanese, Britons, and Americans are warmongers. They can be associated with conquest.
singapore is conquering the sea
Figure of speech sia
unless they attack johor. they will get the extra land.
@@syamsul6063 let's take johor!!! Raaaaaaa!!! Nah....i would rather johor belong to Malaysia. Cheaper shopping and food.
@@laughingsamurai4213 maybe focus more on not sinking first
The Dutch will be so jealous about this achievement, adding +25% land over a few decades.
25 percent of 5 dollars is not a lot. Likewise, Netherlands is thousands of times larger than Singapore. Not comparable.
@@purplerabbit638 But Singapore doesn’t care about the environment to claim land
@cosmic ୨୧ Still has to subject to EU laws to reclaim land.
Dutch are incompetent compare to Singaporean
Elegant and informative video essay! I’m a resident of SG and I love gaining new insights into where I live.
How is this channel so small??? The vid is great!
quite good alredy leh
Thumbnail is incorrect. Certain reclaimed areas like Tuas are shown as red while non reclaimed islands like pulau ubin and most of pulau tekong is shown in green
Majulah 🙏SINGAPURA 🇸🇬💞
singapore wants to be big, geography has never existed just as an artificial island..😂
@@akari3354 so?
I'm proud of living in this rich island
@@akari3354 if i didn't live in this island i would have lived in china or Japan.
Great content quality man, you will surely have a surge in subscribers soon. You're content quality supercedes your sub count.
@Hamidi Saidi i really feel there should be seperate platforms for educational/informative content (News, Analyses, etc.) and entertainment (Mr. Beast, Dude Perfect, Vloggers, etc.).
They both are important yet very different types of content on RUclips that require equitable attention.
Ok, all jokes aside from my previous comment, I do not like the idea of empoldering. A few problems. Firstly, its a flood in the making. If it rains too hard in singapore, and our canals are full, all the water will flow into this area. Secondly, a breach in the sea wall will be incredibly devastating. A way to mitigate this would be multiple walls within the empoldered land, kind of like how a ship has bulkheads with water tight doors. Thirdly, sea water will be able to get into the land, and since the land is below the sea level, water that gets collected here will likely be salty. This could make the water relatively undrinkable and require more advanced techniques to purify. We rely on our reservoirs as one way to get clean water, so land that cannot be used in this way is a bit of a negative.
However, as a singaporean, I can confirm that we are in quite desperate need for land. So I could get behind the idea of empolderment (or whatever its called). But I think we are gonna need to be real careful in the implementation. We cant just build a wall and expect that to solve all problems and not create new ones (looking at the trump wall)
It's worked pretty well in the Netherlands
Probably offer to buy land from its neighbours like Malaysia or Indonesia.
Brother you go look at the actual amount of land using empoldering. This one is do for show. We reclaiming the land off Lorong Halus, off Changi Airport and the Southern part of Tekong, all solid fill.
@@MrBoliao98 The current poldering is not for show. It's tipping the toe into the water.
I see more danger from a terrorist attack or a war situation, than anything else. So much space in the Netherlands is polder land, it works great.
Lol Biden is rebuilding the wall due to migration problems anyway. So maybe a wall is necessary in that case.
But yes, empolderment needs more than a wall.
If Singapore 🇸🇬 can buy land, we will. Lee Kuan Yew once tried to buy Batam from Indonesia 🇮🇩 for 100 years but failed. Singapore is just too small, a little red dot to others. Just imagine if we can have 2 times or more the present size of Singapore 🇸🇬.
Really??Doesnt batam related more to malaysia bcs used belong to johor sultanate?people there speak malay languange..we give singapore for free you want more malay land??Population in sg fullfilled by immigrant its stupid if indonesia or malaysia want to give up more territories even from historical chinese not related to that land.
Lols, Lee Kwan Yew only ruled from 1959 - 1990. How's that a 100 years?
@@NotLikeWhatYouThink yes batam bintan and singapore used to be part of the johor riau lingga sultanate. Let alone batam, even singapore is on loan for 100years. Thats why their HDB housing is just for 99years. After that either Johore sultanate take back or Malaysia. Either one
@@NotLikeWhatYouThink why does people keep calling us a Chinese land when we are not like are you serious?
We have many races in Singapore
@@salbenrosli707 How are you this clueless? A politician can make policies that outlives his tenure.
All thanks to LKY's contributions that led to success of Singapore
HELP
Undid his good work when he chose his son.
@@bedokboy75 it's a dynasty. Of course he has to pick his son
@@bedokboy75 No, it was PM Go Chok Tong who replaced Mr. LKY as PM for 14 years before his son was chosen by the proper process as PM.
@@kuyaocstriviaeverything9860 u gotta be kidding if you believe that rubbish. Omg
Bro this is the kind of quality I would expect from a channel with 2M subs
Lies again? Nashville Dallas Sexist Racist
this is a well researched and crafted video essay. kudos!
Please include metric measurements, at least put them on the screen when you talk about the imperial version.
My uncle in Batam, Indonesia, has a friend who sold a literal hill to Singapore for land reclamation. The empty land left behind is shit for anything but he is rich now.
Your uncle is rich but our islands are gone gradually...
Great video, generally balanced except for @5:35 ; re: Singapore "taken so much of this resource" and the implied "destroying of some of these countries" - these countries chose to tear up their islands/etc so that they can make convert what they consider less useful resources for $$$ and would sell to any other country, not just Singapore
Western countries like to point fingers at Singapore and says it’s our fault though. Maybe we can just take over the land instead of destroying it?
@@zzy341 which country?
Even if we don’t buy their sand these countries also sell their sand to other people
@@zzy341 We don't give a shit about America if that's what you are referring to. US may be a western country, but it doesn't represent the entire western hemisphere of the earth.
@@zzy341 Western nations went through defeating fascists among us and know to recognize another. Singapore did not have this experience.
Did they just credit raffles for all the developments.. 🤨
😂🤪👍
No? Where did u get that from?
@@redhidinghood9337 Might be mistaken but view 0:55 - 1.05
SG has to dump the soil digged up when tunnelling for the MRT lines. SG will continue to grow in land size until SG stops adding new MRT lines.
So basically never stopping?
@@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735
Dumb comment. MRT systems for many developed cities have already stopped years ago.
When the system covers much of the land, then the building stops.
Awesome vid. Excellent work 👍! Majullah Singapura!
I see I'm being recommended this video because I'm a Singaporean AND National Day is on 9th Aug
Welp time to learn history again with cool graphics and animations👍
5:22 The sand reserve can be seen from my house, the place is located at Seletar North Link
The video clearly states that that is at Bedok, and can be seen when you travel on Bartley Viaduct towards Tampines
Its off bedok reservoir.
oh, I didnt know, apparently here also got a reserve😅
@@SShiJie I don't think the one at Seletar area is a reserve, probably used for construction. The one at Bedok has been there for more than decades.
I guess there's some mis-information here,
1) 8:22 well how can Sg be encroaching the shipping lane or territorial limits of msia and indonesia, when they are only reclaiming land within their territorial lane and rights? have you seen other countries reclaiming land way bigger than Sg?
2) it's true that land reclaim destroys coral reefs etc, but every countries reclaim land, so is not a one country problem is a world problem
Where soil country is used to make Singapore sea coast larger?
Yes Peaceful method to increase land space! Majulah Singapura!
This channel is really informative and simply
I subbed 😁
Philippines government will never export sands to Singapore. Sand is not for sale here but china has a potential to export since it was a big country.
The reason why Singapore's population is getting overcrowded is because of the excessive import of foreigners. Pretty sure theres more foreigners than their own Singaporean countrymen in that country
That's the kind of nativism talk that is tearing America apart, and allow trump to get elected. You don't want that shit in Singapore.
Pre war there was less than 1m people. So most of the country has been in Singapore for 3 generations or less. It’s a land of immigrants, that share the same ideals and cultural understanding. I wouldn’t say it is excessive since cities like shanghai and Seoul have grown much faster than Singapore. It all depends on how well the city planners manage it
@@gelinrefira trump improved the US lol
Singapore is a city of immigrants. Always has been. Accepting immigrants to live with us is how our country was built.
@@Justyn_Lim_ idk man but thats just sad. Some foreign intake is sometimes necessary i agree. But from the looks of it your country has more foreign than local citizens in your own population
WTF ONLY 5K SUBS!! YOU DESERVE A MILLION!!!
Great video! Gained a sub for this very insightful and detailed video.
Majulah Singapura!
This is incredible quality! Hope you get noticed more.
Such a Valuable Information. Thanks
at 7:18 the 1300 map is wrong... Flanders (as the first btw) and Brabant also used Polders to gain land on the sea, so in 1300 the Belgian coastline would also have been more inland in today's standards...
5:26 I passed by that place on my way home every time.
Thank You a lot of information
Can we use desert sand for land reclaim ?
No. Desert sand is too smooth, you need rough sand from marine beds / beaches since they have friction and will not collapse once weight is added.
Underrated channel
you have informed me of the antics of my own country, thank you
You omitted the same 'Enche Yusoff' printed currency note from BCCS, Minister of Finance(MoF)...and finally Monetary Authority of Singapore(MAS)...from the Finance Ministers Goh Keng Swee & Tan Siew Sin
Stamford raffles didn’t discovered it.sang nila Utama discovered it and the first name of Singapore was Temasek than Singapura
That one pass by only
@@tankman20064 not really. maybe that according Singaporean history text book, but the fact is Malays were the first settlers in the island long before the British came. It was part of Johor-Riau Empire before the British came and brought all those Chinese and Indian immigrants, same like in Malaya and Borneo.
@@nikhassan7713 after bumi bumi right. Then same same rupiah and ringgit
@@tankman20064 no idea what you talking about
Opah dia pass by only.
In the 90s there was a TV show who's title was based on SG's land size (at the time). Now its title is obsolete 😂
little red dot?
@@Mr1234tan1234 647 km2
I heard that singapore will use their landfill ashes for reclamation project on tuas port. Which is great to see how their deal with ashes from semakau island on that project. But the bad things is their marine life will be affected
good job, nice video
Excellent presentation! Well done!
Dude...sand from Bangladesh also ends up in Singapore as well..
If you can make some videos about Malaya or Malaysia, that would be great as well!
U cina malaysia or singapore?
". . . land, because they're not making anymore of it."
Singapore: "Hold my beer."
How come using Penang as example 4:14?
One thing is the 720 sq km map of singapore there's a part that looks like the swastika... or is it just me??
That's tuas port
Yeah it does lmao
@@lelouchvibritannia8810 no that's Pasir Panjang Terminal
Absolutely fabulous. So detailed, mate.
try being the size of nyc not the state but the city u gotta do what u gotta do to survive. we do it in our own territory. i don't see the problem.
Singapore is reclaiming land in its own seas. Which means lesser sea, more land. Not violating other countries' territorial rights
Just curious, why not buy large chunk of land from Malaysia or Indonesia? Building/reclaiming new land is energy intensive. The only Issue I see is transport for people staying away from mainland.
We have disputes with the smallest of island why would they sell lands to us?
Why we need to sell land to immigrant?
@@NotLikeWhatYouThink so you must be an orang asli?
@@chrischow9085 why he/she needs to be orang asli? Melayu itself came orang those orang Asli. the civilization of the MALAY land was built by the Malays, not Orang Asli. You must be from insecure race that needs to bring Malay down alongside you to be recognised as immigrant. We aren't. Sorry to tell you this. But you ARE. Deal with it. Your are the peculiar race of this region. You just aren't us. IMMIGRANT.
Watching this while on reclaimed land :D
0:18 YO whats that port shape😳
Singaporean Reich
Netherlands: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be Legendary!
Learnt more about the environmental impact of land reclamation.
There is a nearby Indonesian island actually as big as Singapore, maybe best for them to buy this island of Indonesia, just a thought.
Kenek was my descent from padang sumaterabarat indonesia
As Indonesian, Jakarta has started to build sea barrier like Netherlands did, but the time is running out since Jakarta is the fastest sinking city in the world.
I think Jakarta should also doing what Singapore did. We have some sea area that suitable for sand mining, and we can do sea conservations after the mining project is done.
Plus banning ground water pump of course, at the same time inviting investors to build some giant water depots and installations to replace ground water pump.
Too bad the Indonesian government is too incompetent to do any of that
@@weldon29 Jakarta is complicated to explain:
1. Jakarta city (formerly known as Batavia) was build and developed from blue print by the Dutch. And world know, Dutch is the worst if we talk about developing city, that's why Netherland is also below sea level now. So, Jakarta have developing mistakes since hundreds years ago.
2. Political changes that makes Indonesia was lead by Suharto (the most corrupt regime) for 32 years, then lead by SBY (the family of corrupt regime also) for 10 years. SBY's son, his in law, and most of his former subordinates was/were in jailed because of bribery and corruptions cases). Then now we have Joko Widodo who took all those burdens from those previous prick leaders. Joko Widodo did impressive works in infrastructures, economy, investments, health, educations, technology, international collaborations etc. But there's still millions of homeworks heritaged by the previous incapable leaders.
3. Current political situations in Jakarta that makes Jakarta is now governed by radical Islamist rider Anies Baswedan, which is he also the political opponent of our president Joko Widodo. Indonesian/Jakarta need to get rid this Anies Baswedan first. We gonna kick him.
@@weldon29 if you talk today, you absolutely wrong. If today Indonesian government incompetent, Indonesian couldn't significantly increased the infrastructures, couldn't be the strongest economy power in South East Asia.
The fact Indonesia currently is the strongest economy power in SEA. The only country in SEA who included into G20 countries. The top 1 trading partners of G7 countries.
Even IMF, World Bank, OEDC (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), PwC, The Economist, and other reputable research organizations estimated that Indonesian will be one of world economy superpower within this near decades. They never mention Singapore, Brunei, or even the corrupt and lame country like Malaysia.
@@agus_medan Talking cock ehh..that what always Indonesians know. Boasting about being G20. Of course, look at your land and population and natural resources you have which you should achieve even more if your previous governments not corrupted. Indonesia need to work a lot more to eradicate level of poverty and wealth distribution between its people and provinces. Stay humble and keep working. That's they way!
@@nikhassan7713 Of course I will happy to talk cocky when a less IQ Malaysian-Chinese came here and tried to put his underestimating comment. He don't deserve to receive any humble attitude.
I will do the same thing to you too, if you try to underestimating us. Don't try to teach us anything you even don't know about.
Environmental issues? Where is the soil from?
You deserve WAY more subscribers
Very interesting.
Raffles didn't do much... it was Willain Farquar who made some changes. But Lee Kuan Yew is the man who spaed modern Singapore
what is a yeer ?
Instead of reclamation with its hazards to the environment why not acquire land from another country by cash purchase? That way they will have a distant territory for trade/exports and they could assist another nation that may be in dire need of the influx of cash. Just a thought.
God help those who help themselve,.,,..💟🙏🐅🐅🐅
No matter reclaimation of land increase to the max , spore is still short of natural resources , is a very dry land.
This channel is so underated
Singapore seems like a great country. Definitely will visit in December, first saw Singapore from this video ruclips.net/video/NkrhOUV3p1E/видео.html , It was placed at the top spot, was impressed, this is the 4th video about Singapore that I've been watching. Hope during summer(USA) it is warm there. winters suck.
Wait till you try our hot, humid, and at times really wet weather...
There is no snow at all
Only cold when its like raining heavily
I visited in december also
Bro how does this have so little views. ITS SO GOODDD
Please make a video for Hong Kong 🙏 🙂
Technically not ‘conquering’ if it’s in your territorial waters ahahahah.
But really good job with the research and clean smooth audio
where's my fellow Singaporean at
Had a relative who bought a house on Beach Road, and it was named so because it was beside the beach and he wanted a seaside house. A few years later, he got mad, he commented "where is the beach?"
Your relative must have died decades ago.
Malay people fighting and sacrificing they life for independent from Japan and British.
Chinese: Hey can we get Singapore as our own?
Wtf hurt you so bad to make such a barbed joke? It's not even historically accurate, let alone factually accurate
Lol they not even fighting British for independent ur not India lmao
The time will come the chinese will have a taste of what Malay military might is like. Even Japanese, british, portuguese,dutch having hard time wanna fight the Malays but the chinese dream big. Only ethnic riots in KL and SG back in 60s chinese get beaten up so badly whats more with war?
This sinks some of the small islands in Indonesia
why not build larger buildings - higher wider deeper.. layers are more effective than spreading out.
U got enough space and money for the buildings to be bigger or not
Then it will become like Hong Kong with apartments the size of my bathroom
There is a limit on how far singapore could reclaimed their land. And if singapore trying to grab indonesian water by using their shoreline as the reason, well, good luck because indonesia won't just sit there and watch
*Singapore land reaching Indonesia sea territory*
Singapore: *Looks north at Johor* ☺
Malaysia: 😳
Hahaha in ur dream la cina
@@cj-fx2kj We could've done that if we wanted to. Cry about it, poop man.. I mean brown man.
Just do it
Singapore is just the best country to live in
6:16 you show a beautiul coral reef...then go on to imply that Singapore is destroying coral reefs.
Really? You wanna be honest with us regarding where Singapore is dumping sand?
Also, land isnt reclaimed in one night. The "biodiversity" simply moves.
What now? Youre gonna talk about the real estate legal rights of fish?
Correct what... that what wp said in the parliment... only u ib dog say is bullshit...
Sahara Desert has a lot of sand
it has to be wet
Yes but they don't need the real sand in the desert , it has to be sand of like the ones in beach sadly 😞
As they expand, doesnt tht harm the eco system, i heard the crabs there were harmed, but prob more oso cause of rushing water (small space for water to run so water faster kinda prevents them from staying there) We used to use local crab for chilli crab but now cnnt, now we import crab
Import crab or have more land... That's a tough one...
Go to Woodlands and Sentosa Beach.. lots of flower crabs.
Nah, there’s still local crabs. But the fact that mud crabs are all found in the estuaries and swamps, alongside riverbanks, the government have banned taking any form of wildlife from rivers and swamps, hence, the need for import.
As a Singaporean, i feel bad being one after watching this
Burma? Thailand, China soil?
At @5:37 "They've taken so much of this resource, that... it's destroying some of these countries." Explain how this is Singapore's fault. I assume that Singapore would have to buy the sand from, for example, Indonesia. Does Singapore specify, "hey, I like the sand on THAT island Sell me the sand from THAT SPECIFIC Island. And yeah, I don't care if you take so much sand that that island disappears. Or 24 other islands." How is it Singapore's responsibility to ensure that Indonesia (or any other seller of sand) does not destroy their country in providing sand to Singapore? Singapore wants sand and is willing to pay for it. Indonesia (for example) sees uninhabited islands with lots of sand that is just sitting there, and decides to sell some to Singapore. And a little more. And more. And then before you know it, the island is practically gone. Who is responsible? The video seems to suggest that it is Singapore's fault. Did Singapore DEMAND Indonesia (or other sand-selling countries) destroy uninhabited islands to sell sand to Singapore? And since it is Indonesia, this is the same country that is clearing forests in order to convert the land to palm oil plantation, and land is cleared by burning the forest.
@6:47 "When Raffles arrived in 1819, the land was 13% mangrove swamp. Today, only 0.5% remains." And if Singapore were blessed with an abundance of space, and land, and shoreline, we might well have preserved the mangrove swamp. But as this video acknowledges, Singapore is hard-pressed for space, and swamps are not usable for residences, for airports, for factories, or for offices. It is all very well and good to lament the loss of natural habitats like Mangrove Swamps when one does not need to consider the needs of people trying to live and make a living. But hard decisions have to be made, and the harsh reality is that Singapore and her population needed the space.
But let's say in an idealistic world, with an idealistic and nature-loving government in power, Singapore preserves the mangrove swamps for biodiversity (excluding humans from this biodiversity in the mangrove swamp which is not habitable as is by humans). And we find we need to reclaim land. So we buy sand from out neighbours. Who destroyed their countries to provide Singapore with sand. And when they come over to see how Singapore is, they find that we have preserved our mangrove swamps, while reclaiming land with the sand from our neighbours. Would we see a critical video about how Singapore preserves her own nature, at the cost of her neighbour's natural resources?
so what if 24 sand islands around Indonesia vanished? These are just islands with no inhabitants. At least they could be converted into income for the nation.
The amount of sand in the Middle East is staggering, the world is not running out of sand
Not the right kind of sand.
people in the comments just arguing about what singapore did is right or wrong instead of just enjoying the vid e
My grandmother Lijah binti kenek married..datuk md. yatim born.. My mother rosna md.yatim
How about SINGAPORE BUY A LAND (Provide) IN MALAYSIA Close to Singapore.
Malaysia is huge & have alots land left
I highly doubt they will sell. Land is your sovereign territory; selling it away is a stain on one's national pride.
You think Malaysia wants to sell? They gave you that piece of island for a reason, for you to rot there.