Dead zones: how chemical pollution is suffocating the sea
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Parts of the ocean are being starved of oxygen by chemical pollution from land. These so-called “dead zones” not only decimate marine life, but are contributing to climate change. Film supported by Back to Blue econ.st/3qw1yW2
00:00 - How “dead zones” threaten the ocean
00:52 - Why was there “sea snot” in Turkey?
03:20 - What causes low oxygen in the ocean?
05:50 - How nutrients pollute the ocean
06:37 - Why farming is one of the main polluters
08:46 - The bizarre harm to marine life
10:24 - How “dead zones” contribute to climate change
12:07 - How regenerative farming can reduce pollution
16:00 - Nutrient pollution must be tackled urgently
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The example of this farmer shows that every single one of us can make a difference. Don't wait for rules and regulations coming from "above".
Thank you for this documentary!
True, but without regulations it is - sadly - a drop in the ocean. And it hurts him competitively. Rules and regulation is badly needed.
Animal agriculture strikes again, if we all stopped unnecessarily consuming animals.... pass it on
Everything we do, even if it seems only affects the land, affects everything in earth. We need to change our ways, especially agriculture.
too late lad
Welcome to the end my friends.
i dont care about the planet anymore. this is greedy peoples planet now
its sad all the repliers have given up.I understand. I really do. there is a solution tho. You
We got to this place over time and we'll get out of it over time. Big shoutout to Minnesota for identifying the problem and cool people like that farmer for making the changes necessary for all of our sakes.
What about the corporations who dump their waste into the lakes, rivers, wind oceans? Why doesn’t anyone cover that?
Because they've spent so much money to make sure they shift the blame onto us. When you ask those kind of people what can be done to fix the world, they'll just say "depopulation"
The farmer in this video is a hero. There is hope.
This is a really eye opening documentary. Hopefully all the stakeholders understand the problem and act from their side.
Stakeholders:😂
They absolutely won't unless they are forced to.
They probably do understand - the question is: Do they care?
You’ll be lucky.
Stakeholders: It's an hoax to damage the illegitimate fortunes I've harvested so far.
Thank you, Economist, for bringing the worries about our planet to the mainstream. Let's hope it's in time.
You're not very smart if you have any hope, there's about a billion gallons of oil in sunken world war 2 ships corroding away along with millions of barrels of chemical weapons, nuclear waste, discarded munitions, lost shipping containers and the run off from industrial factories and farm/city runoff such as your car's brake dust.
I was the first to address this over 25 years ago in a series of lawsuits. Both industry and government spent many millions of dollars defending the pollution. It's the number one cause of global warming and new the beginning of the oceans food chain.
Got data on this?, I believe I can help you win by solving the pollution problem.
@@shivamjha5995 I have many thousands of documents, studies, reports, and expert testimony.
Who would have thought pumping raw sewage into water would end badly.
Sigh.
The mortality associated with dead zones permeates more than the obvious. here in the northeast USA we have hundreds of micro dead zones. These dead zone areas suppress the invertebrate populations thus causing a mortality ripple that is very difficult to quantify
In small spots like the one in Turkey, there is a method that can help and that's the release of "nanobubbles" in the area.
It does work. Japan used it and successfully cleaned the bay of Tokyo.
Is there a video or something you can link. This is really interesting.
@@thegrumpypanda1016
Yes; please check the following links:
watch?v=r4rJKypLijA&t=2s
watch?v=R2FJgygtu9w
@@drpk6514 um send the links again they arent working.
Very important and effective documentary... But, please give some spotlight to the poorer countries as well. Not just America or Europe.
Many people are working hard under difficult financial, social, and political circumstances and they need this kind of encouragement too.
When you write "Europe", you're referring to Turkey 🇹🇷, right?
@@mark1h2023 lol
This is a very valid point. For example, are the automated farming technologies shown really applicable to poorer regions? If not, are there other scalable solutions available for these regions?
Shame on you Economist for not calling out the massive corporations responsible for most of this.
It's the _Economist_ after all.
You will need a week long video to point out every single source of industrial pollution.
With a few drops missing in the glass, I'm sure you'll call it empty...
Instead of thanking them for this insightful information, you needed to complain. So glad I'm not you.
"massive corporations" are responding to your demand for the goods they produce. The blame lies within you and everyone else. You should also blame governments for their lack of regulation and slap-on-the-wrist penalties for regulations that are in place .. and violated
Well researched video, showing clearly how complexly everything is interrelated. Very useful.
Our oceans are so important to the health of the global ecosystem. Thank you for bringing attention to how chemical pollution can harm them.
whats even more horrifying? this is only the beginning to the end
For the rest, the farmer is a perfect example of how one should conduct itself and think about the future. Well done, leadership at it's finest.
i want to be a marine biologist when I grow up so I can help fix this
Go little rockstar! The world needs more angels like you!
you'll need to more of a marine biologist, if you want to fix this
Hope U wont make it this year, so the world ll be plunged into more devastating conditions.
@@gredem4799 huh?
Be someone that saves the whole planet to become a real hero of humanity that may crumble completely if nothing changes quicker enough. Huge change will bring giant benefits
Humans seem to be very afraid of preventing things.
And humans are guilty 100%
Thank you so much for not doing "pre written" subtitles, because they are entirely broken on YT. Auto generated is PERFECT every time. Thanks.
Awesome film, thank you for your hard work!
I’m sure the oil spill in 2010 was horrific for the gulf
it is still leaking, because there are 3* leaks....
I really enjoyed the documentary. Keep it up. 😊
I never really knew what our oceans are going through due to the persistent negligence of Humanity. It's really an eye opener.
Cheers to Kate. Cheers to The Economist.
environmentalist not economist. because thats what they are really doing.
and humanity is not the problem, its the greedy corporations and companies that are negligent not farmers. fake media like this video is absolute junk.
@@echelonrank3927 you didn't even watch the video, nitro-head
@@KratomFlavoredAdidas no couldnt watch after about 80% in. they went from slime to climate in like 10min. did they say they were joking in the last minute? i missed that.
@@echelonrank3927 the slime is an algal bloom and algae feeds off carbon dioxide
@@echelonrank3927 If customer knows that the corporates are the main culprits, then stop buying their goods and servies. As simple as that. Humans are in general IGNORANT.
Thank you for this documentary, timely warming for all of us.
Deeply supports the initiative!!!!!
Here in Australia only 1 in every 200 people is a farmer, the average age of a farmer here is 58. I spent Christmas with a 58 yr old farmer who's family crops 10,000 acres of land synthetically. Every single member of his family has a major health issue. After decades saying that synthetic farming is the only way, he has relented. Farming here, and I suspect in much of the world is ready for a generational shift. Instead of being at war with Nature we can make Nature our Ally- and a powerful Ally it is.
Thank you so much for this vastly informative masterpiece....
One of the most thought-provoking videos I've ever seen, one that every man, woman and child should watch.
Great to finally see someone reporting this topic
excellent video well done this is why i'm subscribed
Amazing video The Economist! I finished my 2000 words mid-term essay thanks to the video.
Had to sarcastically laugh when a farmer said it was their responsibility to protect the environment. I was at an EPA meeting years ago in Ohio and all the continued “studies” kept to be continuing. One environmentalist stated the cause of the pollution of Lake Erie was known from the farmer pollution. A farmer came up to us and said, “sue me”, then walked away laughing, knowing it wouldn’t happen.
Everyone is greedy or thinks their current way of doing things is just too important to change.
i mean we also directly benefit from the pollution of the environment by agro in terms of cheaper food and wider availability. Farming isnt exactly the most profitable thing as well.
At least this farmer wants to take responsibility
So one farmer says he wants to protect the environment yet you met one who doesn't care therefore they are all bad? You child are a mor on.
By the way, I'm a Canadian farmer on the Canadian side of Erie. I guess that makes me the enemy right? Enjoy starvation, you deserve it.
I am a environmental science student and this video is very alarming this kind of awareness video should be recommended to every one on earth 🌍🙏🏻
This was very interesting and very informative!!
Nice doc
What he was describing was, regenerative agriculture. And it is peer reviewed proven that it works, it's a carboin sink, it improves the water cycle, as he demonstrated and it combats soil erosion, increases soil biodiversity and increases plant nutrient density. And it has reversed desertification too. Africa are really loving it too and even the big food corps from McDonald's to Danon, to Cargill and Kellogs are doing it and many more. I could tell by the way he does his temporary grazing practices too, that's what he's doing. Then he will move them again and again and by the time he gets back to square one, it's regrown and ready for grazing. It's a very sustainable system that can accommodate any scale and it involves livestock and plants in a holistic system that works. Science more than proves it does.
Get rid of chemical pollution of water and one might just reverse global warming, too.
There is little hope
Just ending chemical pollution will do so little in stopping climate change. Everything we did wrong needs to end in order for change to start and if humans are ready to sacrifice Soo much just to protect the land Each bad every person lives On everyday then it's up to them to acr
In Brazil there is a law that states that every spring, river, and lake should have a buffer of at least 30 meters of native vegetation around. This helps to prevent pollution from nutrients and chemicals
EXCELLENT
Great stuff Kate : )
Happy to see a bunch of mainstream channels on youtube going over these problems. Just yesterday i was watching a video about how 90% of all large fish have been killed in last 70 years and how 90% of all coral reefs will die if global warming gets to 1.5°c and its at 1.1° now with 30% of coral dead including 50% of great coral reef. Its just sad to see but it's great to be finally getting the attention it needed showing the effects that the world is facing right now and how it wasn't like this 50-100 years ago. Unlike in the 70s when global warming was just more of a phrase and people and politicians thought it would just be a little warmer outside or it was unimportant or fake.
Hi, do you mind sharing this video? I do find it very interesting!
Great very informative video, thanks. Perhaps as a practical start is to reduce the concentration of the drugs/fertilisers use. Who set the standard? The sellers? The magic gosling id to remain total organic natural farming the meets the needs of an equitable Earth society.
Great video.
And here i was thinking the apocalyptic pollution of plastic was the biggest problem in the ocean. So we are actually talking about an actual dead ocean. Lifeless sea of sludge and snot. All life is doomed. Artificial Superintelligence, SAVE US!
We already know what an artificial superintelligence would say: if humans can't survive without destroying the environment they depend on, there needs to be fewer humans.
@@hurrdurrmurrgurr you can imagine what a Superintelligent being will think? Are you that smart?
@@PresidentialWinner Hmm... yes.
More documentaries like this!
Nice video.
Great video 100%
We really are all doomed. The amount of damage we have done to this planet in the last 100 years is unprecedented and the extremely worrying thing is that there are no signs of it getting better… it will all end in tears..
@HunterBidensCrackPipe I am always the optimist but did you watch the video? Just this single problem alone seems to be implying impending doom for all marine life in the long run. And sure we can change eventually. But what hope do we have of changing the entire world's farming industry permanently, including every major country.
@HunterBidensCrackPipe You know i always wondered about that. Why do conservatives call themselves that when they do not conserve nature? It's not my opinion it's a very obvious policy question and that's how it is. It's demonstrably false to say conservatives conserve the environment. What you conserve is a whole another thing. I am actually very sympathetic to your cause but on the question of environment the right has been very wrong.
"who are you or anyone to tell people how they should live their lives?"
Well that's the whole point of i don't know, society? We have this system where we come together, create society where we make up rules together that govern how we should live. You don't get to choose every rule, just like i don't. We make those rules up together. This inadvertently will create tension and it will mean that people will get to tell you how to live just like you get to tell how other people have to live. That's society.
Very informative video. We must work togather to face climate change
Since that algae that grows like crazy in the ocean has large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus, I think this algae can be recollected and used as fertilizer and at the same time the ocean would be eventually cleaned…?
Yeah in turkey this phenomenon happened recently on sea of marmaris but I think it reduced a lot
Nice sharing my friend👌
Smart farming at work☝️and much more to be done in the future
The problem is everyone thinks it’s not their action isn’t the issue. As consumers we hold the power to change and we need to push for rightful use of resources. We also need to have some sense and ethics in the way we live our lives
IDGAF that your family has done farming this way for generations, and it is difficult to let go, the time to gently push farmers to do that right thing is over, make these adjustments mandatory, needs to happen globally, governments can subsidize the cost and training that is needed for the switch.
I have little to no interest in bringing children into this life and to a dying planet. What a horrible thing to do to them.
You are the first intelligent guy I met.
Happy New Year!!. This clip is a great opening for 2022. 👍
SAD TIMES , FOR THE SEA. WHAT SHOULD. BE. BEAUTIFUL HAS. TURNED INTO. A. A NIGHTMARE FOR MARINE. LIFE
That Dead Zones map was charted in 2008 and I doubt there's a newer version of it. So now is 2022 , hopefully the Dead Zones area are not bigger than before .
12:35 is a remarkable man
kate has a very nice voice, and we want more of it :)
Great and very important work. Perhaps not as provocative currently but we need to cut off the source.
What about the large dead zones caused by livestock farming and livestock also causing greenhouse gases?
Pollution is a crime against humanity.
It's a crime against life on earth
Why is it surprising to people that the oceans are ruined? Didn't this happen when we started making villages and cities? The houses you live on used to be homes for animals and birds and jungles and wildlife. Now they're gone. Your house is a "dead zone" literally.
Not quite, you see there is a clear difference between taking what you need, and taking as much as you possibly can at any cost.
I'd like to be able to share this
go Kate! go The Economist!
Wetlands on streams mouth can significantly reduce contaminants before they reach the ocean
That’s so sad :(
Actually the biggest issue in the US is corn. Corn requires vast quantities of nitrogen, so farmers use animal waste and fertiliser to grow it. Because most corn is grown in the catchment of the big river's all that nitrate gets washed into the gulf. Remove the subsidies of corn and farmers will grow less nitrogen needing crops. However in most people minds is phosphate that is the problem, however as someone who been doing successful water bodies management for over 30 years it is clear that the nitrogen is the culprit. Problem now in Europe is corn is grown for bio gas production and similar problems appear. Solutions: first remove subsidies for corn. Second place large scale venturi aerators in the large rivers and gulf, try to get oxygen into the water to around 8mg/L, that will start to kick start the natural recovery. 3th there are enzyme based products that can assist and speed up the process.
Corn is the next in line with the tobacco industries as far as being driven by very poor economic policies. It has become an addiction to the consumer and the agriculture sector. It has intensive nutrient requirements and also, a high energy input requirement thus negating most of the benefits for using it as a fuel replacement ( partial ). Mix in genomics and now the crop requires high cost inputs such as fertilizers and herbicides. You now have the perfect storm when crop failures occur, huge bailouts are necessary. The whole mess supported by the US taxpayer in a very veiled support system of Farm Bills.
It is easily mechanized and so has become the sweetheart crop for farmers.
Only forward thinking farmers but hopefully, more will realize the cost and risk averse benefits to the Regenerative Agriculture Movement.
90 % of agricultural research is funded by Big AGRI. Much more university and college agriculture education needs to come from independent research in Universities, similar to the Miner Institute, before this Big Wheel can be turned.
I don't understand why the disturbance in marine food chain due to over fishing and destruction of reefs is not even cited once in the whole video. That's the actual cause of low oxygen levels.
Because it isn't? The video clearly explains how the chemical pollution increases the growth of algae and bacteria that in turn consume the oxygen. Fish and reefs (coral) are creatures that breath oxygen as air dissolved in the water (not the oxygen in the water molecules). If anything, killing fish and destroying reefs would increase the amount of available oxygen. Dead water zones coincide with the places where the heaviest waste and fertilizer polluted water are located, and not the fisheries in international waters.
Please provide scholarly references about overfishing and reef destruction as the cause of low levels of oxygen in seawater.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher please watch this documentary named seapiracy. You'll understand what I mean.
At 3:11 , the turkish fisherman starts implicitly blaming someone, possibly a politician but the captions decided to go their own way.
I can hardly watch this video.. but surely something can be done
Not just chemicals. But having to consume shellfish that filters our waters. And other sea organism like sea Cucumbers that eats up the sand that is filled with carbon dioxide and poops out sand that's filled with oxygen for the living sea creatures.
there are so may problems that are caused by pollution yet these corporations still dont find ways to limit pollution
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...
Learn from the dutch farmers they are very carefull with chemicals and in using fertilizer
so why not filter the fertalizer at the dams on the mississippi and resell it?
At what point do we accept that we've already pushed past tipping points with absolutely no sign of stopping. The family minivan has driven over the edge of a cliff and nobody has accepted this. Maniac boomers. We've had 50 years to avoid the cliff, we're far too far over the edge children.
Waters purification system helpful for earth
@The Economist : I remember you from a few years back. ;) xo
Could we add artificial waterfalls, or pond aerators above deadzones to restore oxygen to them ?
Great and effective way they use in Minnesota
I wonder if we'll eventually invent a way to take carbon and add oxygen to the oceans mechanically as to increase fish stocks in dead zones and to indirectly improve our environment.
Alge will reak havoc
"Doing" things is the reason we got her in the first place. The solution for our survival as species is to start to not "do" things anymore. Sharply reducing consumption would finally entail all the neccessary changes the world would need to recover.
@@lawxx6 I said mechanically, that would mean no organisms including alge
@@frankilling4573 You're not wrong but I don't subscribe to the "degrowth" model of solving our issues.
Nobody will be happier if they are forced to do, use, feel, eat, move and many other verbs "less".
So what are some solutions?
We are done for,, we most continue increasing our population but by doing so we are damaging the life support systems that sustain us.
Excellent film.
You need to investigate the fertilizer plant near Tampa that dumped fertilizer in a sink hole and it drained into the bay
No mention of Monsanto?
the US Patented 1991 Welsbach Stratospheric Seeding Program causes tons of metals etc, to descend down into lands, crops, livestock, and WATERS, OCEANS, SEAS.
Why u guys changing some subtitles?
Vertical farming is coming to make a great contribution to this issue.
Meanwhile, I will stick with my plant based diet that is known to be one of the best thing an individual can do for the environment
Or you can stop being lazy and hunt, gather and grow your own food..relying on stores for food is still contributing to the problem bub..
@@yendysmarsh I am not an animal abuser. Hunting is a very selfish proposal. It is not a viable solution for the world.
No thanks.
We are in a world of trouble. I am terrified to think about what awaits the next generations.
So growing corn to make ethanol to mix into gasolines could be a contributing factor?
I think family owned farms can be convinced, but what about the big agroindustries? They might be the main contributors here.
Woah
Bro i learnt this in foundation, now im 24. how come this problem isnt solved yet??
What if we reduced the calories we eat from 4000 to 2000? Wont that reduce polution by half?
endocrine disrupting chemicals help with the global trans movement
This video is not giving raw sewage the credit it needs for this issue. This is made to be a smal issue but in reality the biggest reason is dumping raw sewage in rivers that flow into the seas. As a scientist in chemistry this feel like this is misrepresentation of the main cause. The more likely solution is that we stop dumping poo in rivers and reduce nitrogen intensive farming practices. It should be named organic waste because algae don’t bloom on toxic chemical waste. But they do bloom on organic waste with high nitrogen and phosphorus levels.
why cant they use it to fertilize deserts