@@Orikix Nah. The North sea and the Baltic sea are very small compared to the rest of the world's open seas and oceans. It won't be more than a few centimetres.
@@Bananaman-hk6qw don't talk shit in English if you can't make any sense with it. Sim city is made to be fun, not for Dutch people to feel culturally superior to Americans.
@@zaobyraymond5811 It's actually less convenient. There's a lot of narrow area to traverse that can be controlled by NATO nations, and a lot of what Russia exports is natural resources produced closer to the northern ports (with more northern resources made accessible by climate change), so Russia would actually prefer to use those northern ports. Particularly now that it won't be exporting to Europe for quite a while after the war it started since your post. Note that it ALREADY has northern ports. What climate change will do before NEED is needed is make them open year-round. We're already seeing shipping routes through the arctic open year-round.
@@mcj2219 'we even occupied England!' Lmao, are you serious? You mean that time the English parliament invited the Dutch King to take the throne because they didn't want Catholic James and the Dutch faced zero opposition? It's like me inviting you into my house and you howling that you have beaten me and taken my home lmao.
7:24 also one of the biggest reasons britain and germany went at each other in world war 1 was over the german fleet wanting out from north germany to the open ocean also germany and russia and several other countries would lose all their ports crippling trade, london would be landlocked crippling trade, and all trade for the other nations would have to come from england and france which would eventually cause a war.
Not necessarily, the area doesn't need to be completely drained, if they lowered it a bit a lot of doggerland would show itself, but there would still be a lot of water to allow trade, Germany would not be land locked, they can let access easily to German ports.
@@dodgechance4564 Or we sponsor a propaganda campaign for Scottish independence and have them join the EU again , they would way more likely to cooperate
@@beu9245 Or go two better than that: Reunite Ireland Scotland becomes independant and joins the EU Build the dam from France to Ireland, Ireland to Scotland, then the original plans as outlined. Would spectacularly piss off the Brexiteers but as someone who would have voted remain (3 months too young) it would be hilarious to see them lose their minds
@@Dredgion They won the war, you can't dispute that. It weakened them yes. Also the British maintained a global empire larger than any other nation until the 60s. Yes WW2 weakened them and caused them to shrink. Arguably they were the largest colonial empire to the end since other empires shrunk with them.
The European part of Russia also has Murmansk, an ice-free port with direct access to the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Besides, if the sea level rises, the Arctic will melt and Russia won't even have to use icebreakers there during winter.
*Fact: German engineers had a similar plan during the 1920s to block off the Mediterranean sea for more fertile land for Europe* This was known as "The Atlantropa Project"
@@TheKirbydude1234 A huge part of Russia already touches the Pacific, it's just too far from the population centers for railway to be economical. So they could just use the same Northern aquatic routes as those that would go West. Murmansk or Arkhangelsk could be the new trade hub of the future instead of St Petersburg. Or they could widen rivers and dig canals to connect St Petersburg through Lakes Ladoga, Onega, and Vygozero to the White Sea. Right now, the Arctic is too inclement to be very reliable, but this video is talking about if the ice melts.
@@bearcubdaycare If the Ukrainian estimate for how many they destroyed is accurate, Russia still has roughly 90% of its tanks. That said, most of those were in storage at the beginning of the war. Given the reports of Soviet-era tanks being used, I'm guessing a lot of those tanks aren't exactly modern. But while Russia might be running down its best conventional military equipment, the reason Putin feels bold enough to burn down his own house while standing in it is because the nuclear threat means nobody will invade Russia. The only thing that will make Russia cease to exist will be a civil war, which hasn't yet shown signs of forming. Some want Putin ousted, but they just want Russia to continue under less warmongering leadership.
And since when are public projects on the budget? The figures will easily triple, not to mention that the UK will create whatever hell is needed for the EU to finance the construction of the dams on the west coast with Ireland.
Thats what i thought as well. And it was a good mention in the video that the cost is 0.1 of the GDP of the countries effected. money shouldnt be an object when it comes to something that important. (also we wouldnt have to worry about this if we just cared about the environment more and gross wealth less)
@@Nillowo So even if it goes 10 times over budget it is still 1% of annual gdp of the affected countries, I would say it is very very much worth it comparing to letting large part of your country to be under water. And spreading the cost across say 10 years the burden to the economy isn’t really big to be honest.
@Deutschland Is cool I made that statement in perspective to euros. As the video notes, that is less than 00.1% of the GDP of the countries within the dam. Not to mention staggered out over decade(s) of construction.
My question is by building this damn and pumping the water out, where you gonna put all that excess water? Also why not just use that idea for the host country? A dam around one country or coastline is a lot cheaper and I would imagine more structurally sound than building in the middle of an ocean or sea where hurricanes could have the potential to destroy the dam. Just some food for thought. And I’d love to debate this topic.
As someone who just randomly stumbled upon these videos and this channel while watching the Infographics show, it's crazy how entertaining alot of these videos are and how much random stuff you learn about. It's really cool and anyone who wouldn't find any of this entertaining and interesting, is a liar.
I wonder what this would do to the flow of the oceans. The Netherlands and England have a very typical climate because of those currents, very different than say Russia at the same parallel. If the water becomes fresh, like in our 'sea', you'll also get the trillion mosquitos that go along with it ;)
not much I presume, the big current to worry about is the gulf stream the other side of ireland. The whole reason this is being discussed is to stop the rising sea levels.
@@maribelescalante4448 since the Catholic god you refer to originates from the middle east and the Netherlands used to be inhabited by Germanic and Celtic tribes like the rest of central and western Europe, we (the Dutch) are created by Wodan/Odin(basically same god, different name). But the Dutch formed the Netherlands. I mean, we literally pulled an entire province out of the sea
@@k1ngsp1t24 most of the EU never really cared that much about Brexit. It was the UK that had problems deciding wtf they wanted to do. took them a while to decide.
From the Shetlands to Norway it is much deeper like 1000-2000 Meter. It isnt possible. At the Doggerbank it is like 30-50 meters. So you want to pump 30-50meters outside the North See? I think that is also not possible...
@@economicsinaction Their are already plans on building an airport on the sea... Oh and that isnt bullshit the government is busy with it and are trying to get it done Other countries dont know our plan but we just dry up land a few kilometers every few years so we dont claim the entire north sea in 1 go but eventually we will be able to build our dam
The Dutch: Listen, if you're not going to take care of this properly, we're going to do this OUR way. Britain: Umm... And how wou- The Dutch: DAMS! Dams everywhere! The entire North Sea, dammed! No more sea, ONLY DAMS!
you get a dam, and you get a dam. you all get dams. dam the whole world. make everything one big polder. make everything in to farm land for our potatoes.
@@Wanderer628 you do know that they would drown there own people doing so. halve of London would be beneath the waves.
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No more seas Only polders. All to he colonized by the Dutch A new dutch empire the size of doggerland. Fertile with good coty planning We shall deliver our final aolution to the sea
The Netherlands might as well set engineers onto the task of developing a way to heighten their existing land surface by inserting layers of rock and/or sand on a depth of a few meters underneath the existing fertile top layer of soil! In ancient times the Dutch in several regions would erect enormous, man-made hills to build their houses on (and the churches that every village built, no matter how small the size of the village or how small the number of people living there)!
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This is insane. One dam failure would lead to so much devastation. This isn’t a downstream town, these are major countries with trillions of dollars of infrastructure on these coasts, and millions of people. Also, this isn’t a lake overrunning a dam, its the OCEAN.
It's not a damn like you would imagine, more like a big long island. Lots and lots of big rocks, sand, dirt on the outside and an inner thick concrete wall on the inside. You only need to maintain corrosion and erosion
Given that it would cripple the British Maritime Trade I do not see them doing that any time soon... or letting it pass into their territorial waters....
@@alganhar1 Due to the zillion different interest I doubt they ever come to an agreement, but if ever came to it; of course there would places where sea traffic could pass through.
Yeah the port of Rotterdam is the biggest in Europe, and it's probably one of the biggest ways of income in the Netherlands. Removing ALL the water in the north sea would mean a big slap in the face to the dutch economy. So they'll probably leave rivers or even a part of the sea, if they were gonna do this that is.
Global International Trade would collapse and in order to not make that happen, they must construct a canal through the Baltic Sea which will cut Sweden & Norway and that way Russia would trade and also they have to make another dam in Denmark as well
@@tryfuqz5064 it would need to go to France to England to Ireland them the top it would go from faroe Island to Scotland then another to Norway from faroe island and would have to open & close
6:19 that’s a very horrible idea. Millions upon millions of people would have to rely on the strength of the dam in order to stop it from flooding. Horrible idea.
@@Daan03 you say tolerated, but the goverment funds weed farms so coffeeshops have high quality and safe weed plus demoralizing illegal weed farmers. we got weed so we wont do other drugs that are more harmful, yet we dont do as much drugs as in quite some other countries (per person)
@@ianstrijker9576 Yeah but still, shops can't even legally BUY their stash. There's no farms allocated or even regulated by the goverment. In the books, It just appears out thin air
The Mediterranean sea was just a series of lakes during the last Ice Age. Global warming has been going on for 15,000 years....it ain't going to stop because of some windmills.
That happened 6 million years ago due to plate tectonics. The whole region became a saline desert that couldn't support life. Take the Aral Sea disaster on steroids
if this ever gets built the amount of damage to sea life will be tremendous, and that will cause a rise in sea levels in other countries not near the dam as the water has to go somewhere
Of course not, displaced EU citizens will have 1st pick of the new lands. Of course this would require the EU and the UK to play nice, but this far into the future, the Brits might have come to their senses and rejoined.
Next century: the insane plan to build dams around both the Arctics because their melting ice is what's causing this whole thing. Then, next century: the insane plan to stop global warming so the ice doesn't melt in the first place.
Dat is inderdaad fantastisch om te horen. Sowieso, een vreemdeling die het heeft over Nederland is iets wat leuk is om te zien en luisteren voor een of andere rede.
I think that large damns may be useful in reclaiming land. But then on this scale I think it would be largely problematic. The Netherlands technically might as well just expand their coast.
The Russian "issues" with the NEED locking in its Baltic fleets needs to be considered against the background of the simple reason to construct these dams in the first place - rising SEA LEVELS! Which would be caused by the melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets. This would simultaneously free up many northern Russian locations and ports from what is otherwise a seasonal locking-in by sea ice! So the Baltic and Arctic regions would effectively balance out, plus northern sea routes would vastly increase Russian maritime trade options.
Russia also has access to Arctic ocean. If sea levels rise, it will become more useful for new trade routes and those nuclear submarines to irritate the rest of the world.
7:45: If the events leading up to the NEED being justified were to happen, Russia's entire northern passage would also be open, and their naval fleets would still have significant ocean access.
But if the climate warms THAT much then all of Russia's arctic ports would be available for them to use. They wouldn't need the north sea at that point?
It would be an option, but would require a significant infrastructure improvement. Their Arctic ports are very undeveloped right now and a considerable distance from the main population centres,
Hi, it's me, Rain! I honestly have to say that being an amarican kid who loves the uk more then anything, I whould honestly be all game for trying to crazily dam the entire north sea and finally connect the uk to the rest of the eu once and for all! Just imagine what I chould do if they reveled all this land below the north sea that's been lost for so many years! It whould be freaking awesome! So, if they do eventually decide to go through with this plan in the future, if I just wait a bit more longer, soon I chould just walk to England! Wow! Just imagine, what if.... rain.
My greatest question about this is: Since the nordic countries and all the other countries withing this dam right now mostly have oceanic climates due to the hot water from the gulf stream, wouldn't this dam basically stop the the gulf stream and create continental climates/polar climates withing this dam? Wouldn't this result in other huge infastructure problems?
One thing to consider: In the event of war the Netherlands and other countries who would have built on the newly gained land would be extremely vulnerable if someone came and blew up this dam.
Dutch dams aren't like the Hoover dam or something. They're made of dirt, sand, stone and some concrete. They're effectively hills in the water. Blowing it up is a task more equivalent to strip mining than a car bomb.
@@Crick1952 you aren’t building a levee across open ocean. 1 nuke will have that entire area under water. An attack wouldn’t target a single dam either so you would have water coming in from all sides.
Anyone else openly laugh at the 500bn euro estimate being the 'high side' of the project? If even ONE LEG of that series a dams costs 500bn, it will be the most efficient government building project in a long time. These would need to be epic engineering projects. Each leg will cost multiple trillions. Geoengineering would be the cheaper solution.
Shame it would get colder and drier if something like this were built..... Currents branching off from the Gulf Stream and entering the North Sea from the North are VERY significant in keeping the climate of North Western Europe warmer and wetter than it should be. You shut those currents off and you will create a colder, drier climate. So not ONLY are you willing to completely cripple North Western European Maritime Trade, which still accounts for a very significant portion of Danish Trade I may point out, not only would you like to see the utter destruction of two ecosystems in their entirety (the North and Baltic Sea) for land that would likely not be useable for decades at least and centuries in more realistic terms, but you want much colder, drier conditions as well..... Nice job....
@@alganhar1 With rising temperatures that might be a welcome consequence. That being said, a project of this magnitude will undoubtedly create unforeseen consequences in northwest Europe and probably other places too. In the Netherlands it took about 5 years after the dams were closed to make the polders fertile for farming. So if land would be reclaimed from the North Sea it wouldn’t take decades to become useable. It would take decades to construct all the dams.
@@Whoami691 Waters you share with with Europe. As a half-brit, half-dutchie, I'd like to see this work out cooperatively. That said, Russian interests can suck it.
Spanish: we tried to invade Britain by sea. French: we tried to starve Britain with economics. Germans: we tried to invade Britain by air. Dutch: I think we have a idea.
The Netherlands: We went on the Medway broke the chain put all ships in Chatham on fire and stole the biggest ship of Britain Done by the one and only de Ruyter
Tsar Vladimir the Great: I guess we'll just have to use Constantinople then. Everyone else: Wait, that's illegal. Vladimir Putin: It would be a shame if someone were to drop a nuke on your shiny new dam.
@@kjj26k Well they already take cruise ships through arctic waters in canada, Give it enough time and eventually they'll have a trading port on the east coast.
@@rayelgatubelo as an dutch I'd like to to say that this video is fake and he made something up that even i almost believed. And pls just say the Southern sea instead of zouderzee. He probably didn't knew that Google translate existed
@@yvonneyvonne1778 I think it's clear that this is an idea that's very fringe, doesn't have a snowball's chance of happening in real life, and was probably conceived by engineers spending too much time at the coffee shops of Amsterdam.
🇬🇧: You won't get us Brussels ! RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULE THE- NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! 🇳🇱 : dam drainer go brrrrr gekoloniseerd 🇩🇪: ANSCHLUSS TIME 🇬🇧🇳🇱: Oh shit
No, not with the European Union and United Nations around. The war for doggerland, the death of Britain as we know it, is going to be in the most British way imaginable: writing strongly worded letters to Parliament and making sure France can't have nice things. Really tho, it'll be carved up at a conference like Africa.
actually wait, you know the saying "3rd time is the charm"? well germany lost twice and is now making a bigger army, and if this radical idea is going to happen.... well everybody is going to eat wienerschnitzels for a while.
Uh, you're a bit uninformed. And of course the reason our military budget is so large is because of our idiotic promise to defend dozens of nations thousands of miles from our shores. You don't want to stop that, do you? You're not an "isolationist", are you!!??
@@tonydean6684 USA is a fucking superpower, country as big as Europe, such large and powerful country needs a powerful army to secure its zone of influence, otherwise other superpowers will come in and take your zone of influence to achieve world domination, just bcs we have peace now doesn't mean you should disarm ur country, we have peace only because power of usa and china is balanced, china is a communist country, i can guarantee you they spend ridiculous amount of money on army... There is even a saying: "if you want peace, prepare for war"
"We have this rising sea level problem..."
"Damn."
"Great idea!"
Underrated comment 😂😂
Haahahaahh🤣
Lol 🤣
But, if they are lowing the sea level inside the dam, then the other world seas will grow with at least a half meter🤔
@@Orikix
Nah. The North sea and the Baltic sea are very small compared to the rest of the world's open seas and oceans. It won't be more than a few centimetres.
The netherlands are basically just playing simcity on the hardest difficulty
@@Bananaman-hk6qw lol
@@Bananaman-hk6qw don't talk shit in English if you can't make any sense with it.
Sim city is made to be fun, not for Dutch people to feel culturally superior to Americans.
@@Bananaman-hk6qw hooi 👋🏾
Cyrus Cooney wait what do you mean?
@@G00N3YC4NGJUST A JOKE BRO JEEZ DON'T BE SO IGNORANT
If most of the arctic has melted, wouldn't Russia have more access to the ocean in the north?
Yeeeeup.
Yeah but they mostly use their southern ports because it’s convenient and they can use them all year around
Its about the principle
@@zaobyraymond5811 no if the actic melts then they can also use northern ports all year
@@zaobyraymond5811 It's actually less convenient. There's a lot of narrow area to traverse that can be controlled by NATO nations, and a lot of what Russia exports is natural resources produced closer to the northern ports (with more northern resources made accessible by climate change), so Russia would actually prefer to use those northern ports. Particularly now that it won't be exporting to Europe for quite a while after the war it started since your post. Note that it ALREADY has northern ports. What climate change will do before NEED is needed is make them open year-round. We're already seeing shipping routes through the arctic open year-round.
water: *exists*
dutch: "So we thought about building a dam around here..."
Nah, those budgets are never only in cash. And if some of those would suddnely try to cash in it would create some form of inflation.
Nah. It's 500 billion £ in cash @majormononoke8958
Everyone in the Netherlands is tall because all the short ones drown
HAAHAHAHAH never thought about that
LMAOOO
This only occurred to me today!
facts.
the fact that this has 420 likes is so relevant to Netherlands tho 😂
The dutch be like: Well Britannia can't rule the waves if there aren't any.
WE DID! (in the 16th century)
Big brain time
We did defeat the English (and French), we even occupied England!
@@mcj2219 'we even occupied England!'
Lmao, are you serious? You mean that time the English parliament invited the Dutch King to take the throne because they didn't want Catholic James and the Dutch faced zero opposition?
It's like me inviting you into my house and you howling that you have beaten me and taken my home lmao.
@@mcj2219 “occupied England” lmao literally zero occupation occurred during the Glorious Revolution, do you even know what “occupied” means?
As a Dutch person it’s honestly such an experience to live in a country that’s planning to erase the ocean
Sailors during a storm: "damn the North sea"
Dutch sailors in a storm: "dam the North sea)
"Hey Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today"
@VengefulSith h m m m m m
@VengefulSith Ferb is phineas' slave obviously.🙄🙄🙄
@VengefulSith he's just a good brother/friend everyone likes
“hey let’s dam one of the most important trade routes in europe 😃”
People from all europe would be able to drive to the UK
“Sir the sea levels are rising rapidly”
“Remove the sea then”
“But”
“Did I stutter”
Underrated
"Do you see the ocean Sergeant?"
"Yes Sir"
"I don't want to"
Wha ha! Nice one! :) 😂
Wouldn't this raise sea levels even more
@Chris Jok they would put the water from the sea into the ocean that would rise sea levels i think
This is Dutch's most outlandish plan so far, doesn't seem like getting to Tahiti would be too hard now in comparison
7:24 also one of the biggest reasons britain and germany went at each other in world war 1 was over the german fleet wanting out from north germany to the open ocean also germany and russia and several other countries would lose all their ports crippling trade, london would be landlocked crippling trade, and all trade for the other nations would have to come from england and france which would eventually cause a war.
Not necessarily, the area doesn't need to be completely drained, if they lowered it a bit a lot of doggerland would show itself, but there would still be a lot of water to allow trade, Germany would not be land locked, they can let access easily to German ports.
United Kingdom: we are a island nation
the Dutch:not on my watch
they wouldn't be able to construct it without the cooperation of the UK, considering both major points of the dam are connected to the UK.
@@dodgechance4564 Or we sponsor a propaganda campaign for Scottish independence and have them join the EU again , they would way more likely to cooperate
@@dodgechance4564 we can build one around the UK. and only connect it with the west coast Ierland (from both sides)
@@beu9245 Or go two better than that:
Reunite Ireland
Scotland becomes independant and joins the EU
Build the dam from France to Ireland, Ireland to Scotland, then the original plans as outlined.
Would spectacularly piss off the Brexiteers but as someone who would have voted remain (3 months too young) it would be hilarious to see them lose their minds
@@thelonesculler True
"After the Dam is built and UK is connected to Europe"
German: UK isn't winning this time
The UK is already connected to Europe through the Channel tunnel.
@@TheLiamster r/woosh
@@TheLiamster Channel tunnel is a bottleneck, so easily defensible.
@@TheLiamster Can't wait to join the all out trench warfare with tanks inside there
@@Dredgion They won the war, you can't dispute that. It weakened them yes. Also the British maintained a global empire larger than any other nation until the 60s. Yes WW2 weakened them and caused them to shrink. Arguably they were the largest colonial empire to the end since other empires shrunk with them.
Netherlands 2 decades later : "The insane dutch plan to dam the pacific"
The European part of Russia also has Murmansk, an ice-free port with direct access to the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Besides, if the sea level rises, the Arctic will melt and Russia won't even have to use icebreakers there during winter.
Ducth: Trying to dam the entire north sea
Poland, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium: You what.
You forgot the biggest obstacle of russia, you can sail your submarines through a wall
No but they can change the places of the naval bases lets say to northern coastline.
@@panimalos5720 Its mostly covered in thick ice sheets, which would make it hard to travel through
@@user-ej6cf9eq2u yeah but if its gone in the future because of global warming. Im not seeing the problem.
@@panimalos5720 But it will take at least 15+ years or so
*Taps forehead*
You don't need to worry about rising sea levels when there is no sea to worry about
ah yes no sea
Big fan Justin. Come to China one day!
Bro!
*Fact: German engineers had a similar plan during the 1920s to block off the Mediterranean sea for more fertile land for Europe*
This was known as "The Atlantropa Project"
I sea you
The Dutch: We want to build a dam to stop us all from perishing.
The British: Did you forget we were an island!
Not anymore SUCKAAA
What island?
oh wait nvm i need to get used to the UK not being an island here.
"This historical body of water known as the zoiderzee"
North Sea: exists
The Dutch: and I took that personally
😐
Nice.
.eciN
Its the other way around
:l
*Britain is no longer an island because of the dams*
Germany: My time has come
AUF DER HEIDE BLUTE ENLKEINES BLUMELINE
@@unclesam5230 Und Das Heißt... ERIKA
A N S C H L U S S T I M E
@@hanorisera2779 you mean Engschluss?
*Russia: not so fast big boy*
One important note: by the time this dam would be constructed, Russia would have year round access to the seas via the northern routes.
Sadly.
and the pacific ocean...?
@@TheKirbydude1234 A huge part of Russia already touches the Pacific, it's just too far from the population centers for railway to be economical. So they could just use the same Northern aquatic routes as those that would go West. Murmansk or Arkhangelsk could be the new trade hub of the future instead of St Petersburg. Or they could widen rivers and dig canals to connect St Petersburg through Lakes Ladoga, Onega, and Vygozero to the White Sea.
Right now, the Arctic is too inclement to be very reliable, but this video is talking about if the ice melts.
damn, i just said the same thing in the comments. but 10 months later lol
By the time this dam would be built, Russia might not exist. Thousands of tanks lost; how many do they have left?
@@bearcubdaycare If the Ukrainian estimate for how many they destroyed is accurate, Russia still has roughly 90% of its tanks. That said, most of those were in storage at the beginning of the war. Given the reports of Soviet-era tanks being used, I'm guessing a lot of those tanks aren't exactly modern.
But while Russia might be running down its best conventional military equipment, the reason Putin feels bold enough to burn down his own house while standing in it is because the nuclear threat means nobody will invade Russia. The only thing that will make Russia cease to exist will be a civil war, which hasn't yet shown signs of forming. Some want Putin ousted, but they just want Russia to continue under less warmongering leadership.
Just use sponges and then dry them in a furnace to reuse them.
fucking genius
Nobel Prize for this dude.
Who are you ? Why are you so wise in the ways of science?
"The price is"
Me: oh this is going to hurt.
"500 billion"
Oh thats not bad actually.
And since when are public projects on the budget? The figures will easily triple, not to mention that the UK will create whatever hell is needed for the EU to finance the construction of the dams on the west coast with Ireland.
Thats what i thought as well. And it was a good mention in the video that the cost is 0.1 of the GDP of the countries effected. money shouldnt be an object when it comes to something that important. (also we wouldnt have to worry about this if we just cared about the environment more and gross wealth less)
@@Nillowo So even if it goes 10 times over budget it is still 1% of annual gdp of the affected countries, I would say it is very very much worth it comparing to letting large part of your country to be under water. And spreading the cost across say 10 years the burden to the economy isn’t really big to be honest.
@Deutschland Is cool I made that statement in perspective to euros. As the video notes, that is less than 00.1% of the GDP of the countries within the dam. Not to mention staggered out over decade(s) of construction.
@@stephen_l1474 uhh, no I’m agreeing with this idea lol
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
wait no
*I N G E P O L D E R D*
Zeg makker
@@Crick1952 Kokosnoten zijn geen specerijen
@@WoutWilmaers zijn Belgen specerijen?
@@jme7298 precies jij snapt het, ik snap ook niet waarom de belgen hun land als ware in tweeën hebben gedeeld
Niemand weet wat hier besproken wordt lol
My question is by building this damn and pumping the water out, where you gonna put all that excess water? Also why not just use that idea for the host country? A dam around one country or coastline is a lot cheaper and I would imagine more structurally sound than building in the middle of an ocean or sea where hurricanes could have the potential to destroy the dam. Just some food for thought. And I’d love to debate this topic.
Any body of water: *exists*
The Dutch: *It’s free real estate*
If this was Florida, people would just shoot the ocean
Or shoot it up with meth
😂👍
eDiT tHaNkS fOR aLl tHE LiKes
@@madmanszalinski sounds like what they do in Amsterdam
@@timj. Meth isnt even legal in Amsterdam 🙄
Dutch: transforming the North Sea into land.
British: "wait, that's illegal".
It's free real estate!
To them everything is illegal.
You need a loicense for that dam m8
British:
Is for me? 👉👈
But, but, we cannot change the shipping forecast! Its traditional!
As someone who just randomly stumbled upon these videos and this channel while watching the Infographics show, it's crazy how entertaining alot of these videos are and how much random stuff you learn about. It's really cool and anyone who wouldn't find any of this entertaining and interesting, is a liar.
I wonder what this would do to the flow of the oceans. The Netherlands and England have a very typical climate because of those currents, very different than say Russia at the same parallel. If the water becomes fresh, like in our 'sea', you'll also get the trillion mosquitos that go along with it ;)
not much I presume, the big current to worry about is the gulf stream the other side of ireland. The whole reason this is being discussed is to stop the rising sea levels.
"God created the Earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands."
Damn you read my mind, just about comment that 😉
I do not think so
@@maribelescalante4448 You don’t get it, do you?
The Dutch where made bye god
@@maribelescalante4448 since the Catholic god you refer to originates from the middle east and the Netherlands used to be inhabited by Germanic and Celtic tribes like the rest of central and western Europe, we (the Dutch) are created by Wodan/Odin(basically same god, different name). But the Dutch formed the Netherlands. I mean, we literally pulled an entire province out of the sea
UK: So yeah, we're gonna do a Brexit.
Netherlands: Nah, you're gonna join Europe one way or the other.
Me as a brit - LEAVE ME ALONE
EU - NEVER!!!!!
I know this is a joke, a good one at that, but I still feel I have to reiterate: We are not leaving Europe. We are leaving the European Union.
@@oscarredfearn3492 i also have to reiterate: you are NOT leaving, you’ve already left.
@@psq6214 oops yeah you’re right, too used to Brexit taking forever
@@k1ngsp1t24 most of the EU never really cared that much about Brexit. It was the UK that had problems deciding wtf they wanted to do. took them a while to decide.
From the Shetlands to Norway it is much deeper like 1000-2000 Meter. It isnt possible. At the Doggerbank it is like 30-50 meters. So you want to pump 30-50meters outside the North See? I think that is also not possible...
Plus the amount of material needed the build this dam, let alone to drain this all.
Dutch people are way underrated. The most intelligent people in the world
germany no doubt
@@pettersaethre Dutch and Germans
Every Country: Omg,our cities are going to sink!
Netherlands: So anyways I started damming.
Dutch are already living in 3020
If the Dutch keep this up by end of the century they'll will have more land than Germany
@@economicsinaction they will probably get angry and invade again
@@economicsinaction Their are already plans on building an airport on the sea... Oh and that isnt bullshit the government is busy with it and are trying to get it done
Other countries dont know our plan but we just dry up land a few kilometers every few years so we dont claim the entire north sea in 1 go but eventually we will be able to build our dam
@@rekenen3233 The superpowers will continue to underfund important things to serve their short term lives and self interests.
The Dutch: Listen, if you're not going to take care of this properly, we're going to do this OUR way.
Britain: Umm... And how wou-
The Dutch: DAMS! Dams everywhere! The entire North Sea, dammed! No more sea, ONLY DAMS!
Dam that's a lot of dams
you get a dam, and you get a dam. you all get dams. dam the whole world. make everything one big polder.
make everything in to farm land for our potatoes.
British cruise missile: Let me introduce myself to these nice damns.
@@Wanderer628 you do know that they would drown there own people doing so. halve of London would be beneath the waves.
No more seas
Only polders. All to he colonized by the Dutch
A new dutch empire the size of doggerland. Fertile with good coty planning
We shall deliver our final aolution to the sea
The Netherlands might as well set engineers onto the task of developing a way to heighten their existing land surface by inserting layers of rock and/or sand on a depth of a few meters underneath the existing fertile top layer of soil! In ancient times the Dutch in several regions would erect enormous, man-made hills to build their houses on (and the churches that every village built, no matter how small the size of the village or how small the number of people living there)!
500 billions seems like a hopeful estimate on how much sea dam the logistics for a project like this would be insanity
The Netherlands claim more ocean.
We are not surprised.
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Yep
Hippiti hopittit ocean is now my property(I know this is not spelled right don't hang me)
@@Asim-xy4qf
*grabs noose*
@@Asim-xy4qf *grabs pp*
"The insane Dutch plan"
Arthur Morgan : "Not again."
But just where is our money?!
:(
The plan: relocate the Netherlands to Tahiti
HOW MANY PLANS MUST WE HAVE DUTCH
That genuinely gave me a good laugh.
NEED causally putting a dam through the orkney islands and relocating 25,000 innocent people
United Kingdom looks like an introverted kid from class
Uk: *Becomes Connected to Europe*
Germans: *it's too late 70 years too late*
The Germans to the Dutch who thought of the entire idea: *Gottverdammt, why did you come up with this plan far too late?!*
@Jaep Struiksma lmao 😂😂😂
Churchill : We will fight them in the Doggerlands ....
Napoléon : *it's too late 250 years too late*
Farage, oh shit.
The Netherlands is basically playing Cities: Skylines on the hardest difficulty
@@jto541 not really tho, I just thought of this comment while I was watching the video and was playing cities: skylines at the same time
@@jto541 "sTOlEn" bruh it's a youtube comment with a reference to a really popular game series, just shut up
@@Orbixas ong that's on fax on no cap on my mama😤😤😤😡😡😡🙏🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯
@@Starless.exists good way of saying "I agree with you"..😂😂
@@Starless.exists 😂😂😂 All the 'on mys'
This is insane. One dam failure would lead to so much devastation. This isn’t a downstream town, these are major countries with trillions of dollars of infrastructure on these coasts, and millions of people. Also, this isn’t a lake overrunning a dam, its the OCEAN.
It's not a damn like you would imagine, more like a big long island. Lots and lots of big rocks, sand, dirt on the outside and an inner thick concrete wall on the inside. You only need to maintain corrosion and erosion
our dams are high quality, dont underestimate them
The damn would be more like a long mountain blocking out the ocean
Insane doesn't even begin to describe the thumbnail I just saw.
''we need to build a wall''
''we will let the brits and french pay for it''
Given that it would cripple the British Maritime Trade I do not see them doing that any time soon... or letting it pass into their territorial waters....
@@alganhar1
Due to the zillion different interest I doubt they ever come to an agreement, but if ever came to it; of course there would places where sea traffic could pass through.
I mean.. preferably yes.
Yeah the port of Rotterdam is the biggest in Europe, and it's probably one of the biggest ways of income in the Netherlands. Removing ALL the water in the north sea would mean a big slap in the face to the dutch economy. So they'll probably leave rivers or even a part of the sea, if they were gonna do this that is.
@@alganhar1 wait till our king grabs your queen by the pony, discussion solved.
"Nowhere would end up getting slammed as hard as the Netherlands"
Maldives: Am I a joke to you?
I instantly said Bangladesh
Kiribati will fall first before Bangladesh.
Maldives population: 391 000
Netherlands population: 17 000 000
Tuvalu silently reading these comments....
@Tanki Wolf All that tells me is the Dutch are overpopulated lol /s
From Norway, we ain't gonna build a danm Dam for you folks.
Neither would the UK tbh
Everyone gangster, until reallifelore comes up with bridges
I already imagine in 60 years :
Us : When I was young, Great Britain was an island, you know
Our grand children : No way !
The UK will never agree to this.
@@LLLLLLLLLucas UK? Bordering with France? Never would happen lol
@@cl0p38 exactly the French hate the British. They don't do a good job with the boarder now imagine if there were no sea lol
Global International Trade would collapse and in order to not make that happen, they must construct a canal through the Baltic Sea which will cut Sweden & Norway and that way Russia would trade and also they have to make another dam in Denmark as well
@@tryfuqz5064 it would need to go to France to England to Ireland them the top it would go from faroe Island to Scotland then another to Norway from faroe island and would have to open & close
And Ireland is just left to sink outside.
trust me if they dammed ireland as well the saltwater would just be replaced with whiskey and other hard liquor
Who cares about Ireland? It’s just UK that we care about
Ireland could probably survive a 10m rise in sea levels just fine, never mind a 2m by end of century prediction.
Xlr8t 🙄northern Ireland is part of the UK
@@caezar55 Most of the country. Cork City would be devastated.
Ocean: this isn't even my final form!
6:19 that’s a very horrible idea. Millions upon millions of people would have to rely on the strength of the dam in order to stop it from flooding. Horrible idea.
You do know that people already do that there are 17 million people in the Netherlands so I don’t *sea* the problem here
the ocean is trying to get *higher* than the netherlands.
dutch people: *hold my legal weed joints*
Weed is not legal though, it’s just tolerated in some areas. And there are rules about how much you can have :))
@@Daan03 you say tolerated, but the goverment funds weed farms so coffeeshops have high quality and safe weed plus demoralizing illegal weed farmers. we got weed so we wont do other drugs that are more harmful, yet we dont do as much drugs as in quite some other countries (per person)
@@ianstrijker9576 Yeah but still, shops can't even legally BUY their stash. There's no farms allocated or even regulated by the goverment.
In the books, It just appears out thin air
@@Steff_kjns there are farm funded by the government in the netherlands that supply weed and you can evem grow it yourself
@@ianstrijker9576 not true
You're not from here are you
Hitler: Let's drain the mediterranean sea.
Netherlands: Hold my beer.
@@jme7298 hold my *dam blueprints*
That wasn't Hitler's idea
@@disclaimer6872 Well, wasnt his idea but he tought about it too.
The Mediterranean sea was just a series of lakes during the last Ice Age.
Global warming has been going on for 15,000 years....it ain't going to stop because of some windmills.
That happened 6 million years ago due to plate tectonics. The whole region became a saline desert that couldn't support life. Take the Aral Sea disaster on steroids
if this ever gets built the amount of damage to sea life will be tremendous, and that will cause a rise in sea levels in other countries not near the dam as the water has to go somewhere
I just want the world to look the same in 100 years as it does now
Ireland in this Scenario: Guess we’ll drown
Yes
@@Noviomagus024 I hope that was a joke
Of course not, displaced EU citizens will have 1st pick of the new lands. Of course this would require the EU and the UK to play nice, but this far into the future, the Brits might have come to their senses and rejoined.
@@fordhouse8b Too late; we’d have already built potato-skin arks and gone to South Brazil by the time Britain managed to agree a deal with anyone!
@@fordhouse8b not happening
The next century: The insane plan to dam the whole Atlantic ocean.
Nestlé will probably suck up the whole thing and sell it to you in bottles.
RTGame vibes here
No the Insain plan to dam the pacific
Let me introduce you to the concept of "star lifting". No really. Google it.
Next century: the insane plan to build dams around both the Arctics because their melting ice is what's causing this whole thing.
Then, next century: the insane plan to stop global warming so the ice doesn't melt in the first place.
God may have made the land but the Dutch made the Netherlands
6:27 or the british could take it 😂🤣
As a Dutch guy, hearing him say things like Zuiderzee is so funny
same and especially since it isn’t called that anymore
Hahaha i am Dutch and live in the new land made out of the zuiderzee
De zojderzieee 😂
I'm belgian but the Dutch part and i know what you mean, zoiderzee😂
Dat is inderdaad fantastisch om te horen. Sowieso, een vreemdeling die het heeft over Nederland is iets wat leuk is om te zien en luisteren voor een of andere rede.
poseidon : i am the king of the seas
the netherlands : hold my tulips
Neatherlands: Get away from me you pagan
Ocean: **exists**
The Dutch: “I said we land today”
@@pixelfencer LOL
Hahaha i like that "hold my tulip"
Poseidon: I am the God of the Seas
The Netherlands: Hold my rake!
Poseidon: Shit! I am stuck with that thing forever!
I think that large damns may be useful in reclaiming land. But then on this scale I think it would be largely problematic. The Netherlands technically might as well just expand their coast.
2016: let’s build a wall!
2020: let’s build a dam!
"Nowhere will it affect more than Netherlands"
*cries in maldives*
Normie
Because u cant build a "deltawerk" its more dangerous
@@Perririri people use the term normie in 2020 still?
True but let’s be honest here the Netherlands is a tat more important than the Maldives.
Brexiteers: We’ve finally left Europe!
Remainers: Hold my Dam.
Remainers: *we are Europe now*
We in europe but now more land area for immigration. Win win situation. Also we can get oil more easily. But killed all the fish.
@@georgesimpson1406 bUt WhAt AbOuT oUr SoVeReIgNtY?
Sweet revenge
God damn. They didnt leave Europe. They left the European Union, two different things
Britain to their settlers after the dam re-instates undersea land: “fucken go go go”
Atlantropa: *Dams the Mediterranean Sea*
Netherlands: "Hold my beer"
Knowing how to swim is a compulsory requirement to live in the netherlands.
Really
@@chongus3092 most schools even have mandatory swimming lessons
kinda true
Yup
Guess I must have moved to the fake Netherlands
The Russian "issues" with the NEED locking in its Baltic fleets needs to be considered against the background of the simple reason to construct these dams in the first place - rising SEA LEVELS! Which would be caused by the melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets. This would simultaneously free up many northern Russian locations and ports from what is otherwise a seasonal locking-in by sea ice! So the Baltic and Arctic regions would effectively balance out, plus northern sea routes would vastly increase Russian maritime trade options.
Hmm true true
They also annexed Crimea which gives them another sea port
@John 건 Benton I i I guess
Russia also has access to Arctic ocean. If sea levels rise, it will become more useful for new trade routes and those nuclear submarines to irritate the rest of the world.
And more fertile land is available in Russia yeah they’ll do better while everyone else is fuck all hail Russian our new empire gg America
7:45: If the events leading up to the NEED being justified were to happen, Russia's entire northern passage would also be open, and their naval fleets would still have significant ocean access.
"Wait Netherlands are vulnerable because of water? "
*Always has been...*
TL;DW: "Dammed if you do, damned if you don't."
underrated comment
But if the climate warms THAT much then all of Russia's arctic ports would be available for them to use. They wouldn't need the north sea at that point?
The North Sea is still important for them. Saint Petersburg is the cultural capital and second most important city.
I was thinking the same, plus the Black Sea would certainly offer more possibilities.
True. Murmansk would become a nice place to live.
@@User31129 Somewhere up there will be, but much of the Kola Peninsula will be under water.
It would be an option, but would require a significant infrastructure improvement. Their Arctic ports are very undeveloped right now and a considerable distance from the main population centres,
Hi, it's me, Rain! I honestly have to say that being an amarican kid who loves the uk more then anything, I whould honestly be all game for trying to crazily dam the entire north sea and finally connect the uk to the rest of the eu once and for all! Just imagine what I chould do if they reveled all this land below the north sea that's been lost for so many years! It whould be freaking awesome! So, if they do eventually decide to go through with this plan in the future, if I just wait a bit more longer, soon I chould just walk to England! Wow! Just imagine, what if.... rain.
My greatest question about this is:
Since the nordic countries and all the other countries withing this dam right now mostly have oceanic climates due to the hot water from the gulf stream, wouldn't this dam basically stop the the gulf stream and create continental climates/polar climates withing this dam? Wouldn't this result in other huge infastructure problems?
if we NEED it, the Golf Stream might have already gone away
the gulf stream is the other side or ireland in the atlantic. this is a small section by comparison way out of it's way.
Nothing humans can do will impact the climate, other than burning carbon. Don't overestimate human impact on the Earth. We're tiny.
Dutch: We need to build a dam.
Us: Where?
Dutch: Yes.
Trump will help with fixing a wall to form a dam
@Houssain Al ahmafi the gulf stream actually comes from mexico
when europe get tired of shipping immigrants
@Houssain Al ahmafi not russian, can’t relate
@Houssain Al ahmafi some people will never get the internet culture
One thing to consider: In the event of war the Netherlands and other countries who would have built on the newly gained land would be extremely vulnerable if someone came and blew up this dam.
Not really I mean in a war a bomb on a city that would kill millions is worse
Not even a war per se. A dam like that would be a prime target for extremists and religious terrorists.
Shhhh dude! Don't Let Britain know!
Dutch dams aren't like the Hoover dam or something. They're made of dirt, sand, stone and some concrete.
They're effectively hills in the water.
Blowing it up is a task more equivalent to strip mining than a car bomb.
@@Crick1952 you aren’t building a levee across open ocean. 1 nuke will have that entire area under water. An attack wouldn’t target a single dam either so you would have water coming in from all sides.
sneaky reference there 8:26
Anyone else openly laugh at the 500bn euro estimate being the 'high side' of the project? If even ONE LEG of that series a dams costs 500bn, it will be the most efficient government building project in a long time. These would need to be epic engineering projects. Each leg will cost multiple trillions.
Geoengineering would be the cheaper solution.
As a Dane I personally love the idea of using England as one giant storm barrier.
Shame it would get colder and drier if something like this were built..... Currents branching off from the Gulf Stream and entering the North Sea from the North are VERY significant in keeping the climate of North Western Europe warmer and wetter than it should be. You shut those currents off and you will create a colder, drier climate. So not ONLY are you willing to completely cripple North Western European Maritime Trade, which still accounts for a very significant portion of Danish Trade I may point out, not only would you like to see the utter destruction of two ecosystems in their entirety (the North and Baltic Sea) for land that would likely not be useable for decades at least and centuries in more realistic terms, but you want much colder, drier conditions as well.....
Nice job....
@@alganhar1 don't worry they will find a way around it
@@alganhar1 With rising temperatures that might be a welcome consequence. That being said, a project of this magnitude will undoubtedly create unforeseen consequences in northwest Europe and probably other places too.
In the Netherlands it took about 5 years after the dams were closed to make the polders fertile for farming. So if land would be reclaimed from the North Sea it wouldn’t take decades to become useable. It would take decades to construct all the dams.
As a brit, I love the Idea of being in control of Europes economy through our waters :)
@@Whoami691 Waters you share with with Europe. As a half-brit, half-dutchie, I'd like to see this work out cooperatively.
That said, Russian interests can suck it.
Spanish: we tried to invade Britain by sea.
French: we tried to starve Britain with economics.
Germans: we tried to invade Britain by air.
Dutch: I think we have a idea.
@Fussbudget the Ninth Scotland might do it
I mean, we've already handed Britain its ass a few times over, so it wouldn't be the first time we do it.
The Dutch actually already invaded Britain in 1688
@@Raadpensionaris And we won another war in 1674!
The Netherlands: We went on the Medway broke the chain put all ships in Chatham on fire and stole the biggest ship of Britain
Done by the one and only de Ruyter
"Mister the sea levels are rising"
"dry out the north sea"
"but"
"THAT WASNT A QUESTION"
“the zoierzee” as a dutch person, oh god.
the EU: "Russia, we've blocked your Kaliningrad & Petrograd ports!"
Russia: "Archangel it is!"
Insert Vladivostok
@@zedriclouis87
That one freezes in winter.
Tsar Vladimir the Great: I guess we'll just have to use Constantinople then.
Everyone else: Wait, that's illegal.
Vladimir Putin: It would be a shame if someone were to drop a nuke on your shiny new dam.
@@kjj26k Well they already take cruise ships through arctic waters in canada, Give it enough time and eventually they'll have a trading port on the east coast.
@@kjj26k not for much longer now
The Dutch people had the most insane ideas.
First, a mountain
Second, a gigantic dam
They just couldn't stop after that doggone Zuiderzee!
@@rayelgatubelo as an dutch I'd like to to say that this video is fake and he made something up that even i almost believed. And pls just say the Southern sea instead of zouderzee. He probably didn't knew that Google translate existed
@@yvonneyvonne1778 I think it's clear that this is an idea that's very fringe, doesn't have a snowball's chance of happening in real life, and was probably conceived by engineers spending too much time at the coffee shops of Amsterdam.
But they are also capable of completing such a project, dreaming up big ideas thinking of the future
its not a mountain its a hill xd
An alternative plan would be to dig a very big hole somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
🇬🇧: You won't get us Brussels ! RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULE THE- NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
🇳🇱 : dam drainer go brrrrr gekoloniseerd
🇩🇪: ANSCHLUSS TIME
🇬🇧🇳🇱: Oh shit
So, WW3 will be over who owns what parts of Doggerland, got it.
Lol. Greater Essex. Lol just coz the name
WWIII - The Dogging War
No, not with the European Union and United Nations around. The war for doggerland, the death of Britain as we know it, is going to be in the most British way imaginable: writing strongly worded letters to Parliament and making sure France can't have nice things.
Really tho, it'll be carved up at a conference like Africa.
@@floatingf8783 the joke just flew over your head
actually wait, you know the saying "3rd time is the charm"? well germany lost twice and is now making a bigger army, and if this radical idea is going to happen.... well everybody is going to eat wienerschnitzels for a while.
The Netherlands:
*"What is we take our problems, and PUSH it somewhere else?"*
Two comments on one video. Nice
Wait a minute! Did you just rob a comment?
Ok
lol
how do i block someone on youtube
"i have a plan" - Dutch
The ocean: Exists
The Dutch: Wij gaan het Koloniseren op een manier of een andere
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Gekoloniseerd
Lol
Bruh wtf happened to your channel
Hup nederland
As an Indonesian everytime I see this type of comment a flashback happens before my eyes
I was expecting an astronomical cost to this project, not half of what the US spends on its military in just one year...
That is an astronomical cost.
Uh, you're a bit uninformed. And of course the reason our military budget is so large is because of our idiotic promise to defend dozens of nations thousands of miles from our shores. You don't want to stop that, do you? You're not an "isolationist", are you!!??
@@tonydean6684 who are you replying to?
@@tonydean6684 USA is a fucking superpower, country as big as Europe, such large and powerful country needs a powerful army to secure its zone of influence, otherwise other superpowers will come in and take your zone of influence to achieve world domination, just bcs we have peace now doesn't mean you should disarm ur country, we have peace only because power of usa and china is balanced, china is a communist country, i can guarantee you they spend ridiculous amount of money on army... There is even a saying: "if you want peace, prepare for war"
@@tonydean6684 the us hasnt been an isolationist country since the civil war tf are u on
Dutch have been eyeing Atalantropa plans bit too much 😅
4:48 It was cute hearing RealLifeLore pronounce 'Sotra' as a Norwegian myself.