How Africa Plans To Stop The Sahara From Spreading
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2022
- How Africa Plans To Stop The Sahara From Spreading
The Sahara Desert is large and beautiful, but it's also one of the worst places for civilization to thrive, due to all the arid land and heat. Problems have started to arise though, especially because it's been spreading - kind of. Luckily, African countries have a plan. But what is it, and will it work?
Sources:
docs.google.com/document/d/1X...
Quick notice: The two images of Lake Chad should've been switched around. Small accident, but an accident nonetheless. Apologies everyone
Lol thought I was going insane
Desertification is a natural process
Earth is in an interglacial period with our star in a period of low solar irradiance
None of these man made climate change claims, predictions and tipping points have been proven, not one
Sand is free draining and does not hold water very well
Mankind does not control nature
embarrassing tbh.
@@bmeht oh, you expect everyone to be perfect?
@@dominickskinner407 This is a glaring, immediately-obvious mistake that one cursory review would have caught. As a viewer, careless mistakes like this cause me to question the author's credibility and how well the topics were researched.
I think they mixed up the labels when they showed Lake Chad, as it shows 2007 Lake Chad is clearly larger than 1972 Lake Chad in the video.
You are correct.
I wish the photos were like that but it’s not.
@@Maxzes_ what u mean?is it worse or better
It's getting worse. It's drying up
It's getting worse.
So I'm from Tunisia, a country who's already seeing mass migration from the Sahel to the North. Not sure how we can help build this wall given our current economical circumstances, we can only help with agriculture expertise as we've been quite successful at our own desert. This video shows an interesting fact, Ethiopia and Eritrea have restored a lot already, so why not allocate a timeframe, experts, manpower country by country? That seems to be the only way to speed things up and make each country accountable for the given resources.
2 ideas: like oil and gas can be moved thousands of kilometers in pipes, maybe sea water can be too. And another idea is to create forests of cement pillars with honeycomb base, to create shade, limit sand movement and encourage plants/trees to grow
@@KuopassaTv love your thinking. This really needs a pan-African approach. Where knowledge, expertise, resources and people are shared across the board.
I am from Holland but I too will boycott Tunesië goods. Like my people are doing in Morocco. No more dades and productions.
@@abdelelman197 sure go ahead like anyone gives a f*** lol 😂
@@thedstorm8922 ok
The fundamental problem is that the rivers drain southward 7:24 (except the nile), canals are needed to redirect water inland draining towards the mediterranean. I also don't see why the revegetated area needs to be wall shaped, they should start with the areas that are most practical and then work into the desert from there. This will not necessarily produce a wall shape but maybe patches of vegetation.
you see, i agree with you, its dosnt make sense to make a huge wall, but what project sounds better from a marketing point of view "we are going make patches of forest to fight climate change" or "we are going to me the BIGGEST WALL OF TREE to fight climate change", now you see which projects sounds better for a politician
The wall shape is to stop blowing sand, stopping sand from blowing away is the first step in any desert control scheme, we saw this in the American dust-bowl.
@@kennethferland5579 assuming we could stop the dust with a line of trees shouldn't the wall dissect the desert (north south) rather than run parallel to it (east west)? Principally isn't the issue a lack of moisture rather than one of soil erosion?
@@10babiscar overgrazing and misuse causing soil erosion causing further drought and dust. In that order.
The shape is more-or-less defined by the extent of the desert and land which has not yet degraded yet but is vulnerable to degrade to desert, so it's a kind of protecting wall, to prevent the desert from growing further south. At least that is my understanding of the project. Moreover, the area is defined by the people that are still living there and struggle to farm, and those people are the ones doing the treeplanting.
One could think of other ways of proceeding this, if the goal is to turn as much desert land into green areas with forests, but that would probably cost more money, and would give less benefit.
With projects like this in the works it seems like terraforming will become the next very profitable business in the future. Countries will invest billions to make sure their land remains safe from the effects of climate change, desertification, etc.
Man caught on camera stealing 10-year-old's ...
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I guess. so instead of building infrastructure for billions, it's growing trees and vegetation, for billions. good business for botanists.
How do they make money though?
@@sriharshacv7760 countries or businesses working on projects like this will pay them
By definition we can't terraform on Earth, because all parts of the Earth are already Earth-like. Deserts are just as much a part of Earth as any other landform, we prefer fertile grass and trees because they are better for our comfort and survival but that dosn't make a desert 'un-eartly'.
C'est triste de voir que la terre s'assèche et se transforme en désert. Je viens de Dakar au Sénégal et j'espère voir un changement pour empêcher le Sahara de se propager.
Are we going to ignore the influence of the geographical position of the Sahara and the lack of mountains which were supposed to collect water from the clouds?
Okay
Desalination of sea water could be a solution. If artificial lakes are made using this desalinated sea water all across the Saharan region I believe it might trigger rain and moderate the temperature, although this is just an opinion
@@mdanikshihab7950 That wouldn't work unless you dug a channel all the way from the sea to the middle of the sahara desert. I don't think we have means to desalinate water to such a scale, so what you would have would be extremely salty water in the middle of the desert, which luckily could increase the humidity of the region, decrease the average temperature and increase rainfall.
@@nbgoodiscore1303Then how about using atmospheric water generator that condenses water vapour to drinking water?
Ethiopia, the one with the greater share of the project, has an annual project for the past 4 years, where between 2 billion and 4 billion saplings are planted in the rainy season(june-september). Well, it surely is a big change here, because we see a lot of afforestated land looming
Good job, Ethiopia! Greetings from Russia.
Yessir🙌🏾 I remember hearing about Abiy's project for this but I didn't know why it was useful other than maybe possible scenery and more supplies lol
@@eugeneproff5404 soon from Ukraine 😂😂😂😂
@@zbychulatara You're so delusional, that it's even funny.))
Do you have pictures and a map, or an URL where this kind of info can be viewed?
this is the kind of thing that the UN should involve itself in to help with. They could finally actually do something... ANYTHING....
I always forget the UN depicts itself like America in zombie movies, nuclear war movies, and diesese outbreak and of the world averted movies but it always ends up its maximum as regulating squabbles between already relatively civil countries and disrebuting donuts
The UN isn't really useless it keeps the peace between countries like Russia and the U.S and keeps small countries with huge projection aims like Iraq keeping aims at their own land, but where us Americans have a history of doing to much the UN has a history of doing to little.
Us doing to much ended up being proven positive if not perfect, and I suspect the UN doing to little probably isn't pure negative either
It’ll take a collective effort, but planting native trees to the region will help. Also it would be a good idea to plant them sparsely and gradually increase the amount of trees. Start planting in the area where storms typically originate.
could and should start with cactus also should use moss a small front lawns worth of most can produce the same amount of oxygen as a 272 mature trees it has a shallow root system very shallow and very good at retaining water
its important to plant natives because they consume less water and are more drought,pest etc resistant
Did you reverse the images of lake chad in 1972 and 2007. The one in 2007 looks bigger so unless I am dumb I think you accidentally switched them up.
Yes, huge mistake. Thanks for finding it, that's my bad
@@Versedyoutube Don't worry the video is great! I'm a huge fan of your channel keep up the good work!!!🙂
lol i also backed up the video on that one. I thought he had 2 different levels of zoom
Great new channel 😁👍. Keep it up
I Really hope one of the next generations will see Africa Green as a Broccoli 🥦 one day 🙏🏽
O hristiyan işareti bu müslüman dua işareti 🤲
My country is green so I don't care
@Law Traf must be green slime, but don't really care
@@lawtraf8008 no one cares about your little country nor your egocentrism apart of course from your little being.
Nope, Sahara is important. Remove the Sahara making it green will remove the fertile sand dust that cross world until Americas to fertilize Jungles like the Amazon
Wtf, I initially thought that you had 6M subscribers then I realized that you only have 6K subscribers which is shocking considering your amazing work....thank you for your amazing videos, you really inspired me to create content to educate the people of my country Somalia.
This has to be some Mandela effect. I swear it was in the millions too. Well, time to get it there.
My father's side is from there.
@@arcticchain5264 Awesome, you are Somali.... It's a great pleasure to see you
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Somalia already has its own desert, much of Somalia is uninhabitable other than maybe Jubaland which is very fertile land
I'm impressed and I subscribe to this channel. Keep bringing innovative and informative contents. All the very best 👌
Thank you for your initiative
This channel is an new information show? Worth subbing. Could I use the video as an school project? Cuz we're talking about climate change and how to stop it. We also tells how other countries do it. Really good video.
Libya was going to build that giant irrigation river from an underground aquifer, vegetation could have been spread easily from there. But we know how that went.
Yup, they built the “Great man made river” under Gaddafi and then Gaddafi got airstriked.
The African was very happy to kill Ghadaffi, because they don,t want to remain slaves to outsiders , they never want to fix there own problems .
i dont understand. what are you trying to say?
@@drigocrews I'm not trying to say anything. I succeeded in saying it.
@@drigocrews I know that a lot of peoppe lack windom and understanding.
Why people disliking the video? It's informative. Isn't it?
because the china bit is pure disinformation. They dried up and destroyed more fertilie land than they "greened". Keep in mind that they needed to take the water from somewhere - so they pulled a nestle on there own farmers.
I see no dislikes at all
@@cunnyfuuka3259 Bro.. CZcams turned of dislikes.. But you can see it with an extension.
@@TheAstroG I know it was a joke.
Actually when the Sahara expands into Sub-Saharan Africa, it ceaces to be Sub-Saharan anymore.
Thank you for that pointless semantic reference
@@nc3826lol every comment that starts with actually
Super Interesting Project~! Hope to see Positive Results!!
Population growth around finite resources like water will always result in that resources becoming scarce, especially when it’s adjacent to a desert…it’s like US southwest, climate change has had little effect, population growth and water use is the major issue…
So, what are you proposing? Decrease African population?
@@eugeneproff5404 No? I’m not working for the fourth reich….they either learn about condoms or they get to watch many people starve to death…maybe you like to see people suffer but it’s not my thing…
@@eugeneproff5404 never gonna happen
Very informative video, kudos!!!👏👏👏
Your content quality is Awesome 👍, i just subscribed your channel, and please provide English Subtitles in your Videos because auto generated subtitles are not much works accurately.
Love From India❤️
great project. it needs lots of volunteers from everywhere so it needs promotion and awareness.
I wonder if we introduce plants that naturally help with desertification (even if it would be an invasive species) such as what's being done in Iceland, would it help the overall situation?
Great idea ?
Really interesting, thanks!
Nice video!
Im more amazed by the fact they actually talked & did something together
As always the poorest are the more active that f sad
Dude! nice graphics, nicely detailed and short- yet entretaining as it should. subscribed!
7.8k subs damn I’m here early before u big
1972 and 2007 hading to be the other way around to fit with it's pics, great job you've done however keep it going bro 💪
This should be a global effort, utilising our greatest minds
But Africa becoming less hospitable and prosperous is beneficial to Europe
@@kingmisssile9730 Europe wouldn't benefit if there was a mass migration towards their continent.
@@kingmisssile9730 not for the ordinary citizen.
Is ironic that people need money to plant trees
"Money doesn't grow on trees! Hmm, but maybe..."
Dude i am from India Loved ur video's and
Channel 🔥❤️
Imagine how messed up one country would be relying on the government to handle this kind of project, now imagine the scale of failure involving multiple governments
What? It’s literally a wall of trees that go through multiple countries, of course multiple governments have to get involved
Not correct! Sahara is shrinking now when it's in a wetter weather cycle, after going through a dry.
Soil resturation is the way to go for greening the desert. And grassing animals is essential for that.There are many methods. Holistic soil management from the Savory institute, fog net, droplet watering, growing in pits, water management, growing edible cactus, desalination, nano clay, salt tolerant plants to name some. Knowledge is the solution.
Ok this is very interesting information and the "great green wall" is a good project and I am glad every country is also helping Africa
The argument about your mistake is distracting me more than the mistake itself and I forgot to pause, but to give you a chance in the future to prove my brain atm wrong; I will now subscribe
I'm from Egypt and this is quite promising, totally supporting this plans but I'm not sure if we're even going to be able to do it in the upcoming years due to inflation rates, wars and global warming.
Egypt's climate really baffles me. A tropical city in the middle of a giant burning desert..... that sometimes even SNOWS
@@gambigambigambi Wait what?????I didn't know that Egypt's sometimes snow.
Why not add some solar farms and farms with it to make this not just a green wall but an area of commerce and energy with it? The entire planet needs this. China already has the technology to do this and has been doing it.
That would simply be impossible. The animated solar panels project would simply not be viable ,but solar cooking methods are viable. By providing cheap alternative cooking methods more wood and biomaterial would be available to create basic mulch which would give shade to the ground while nourishing it.
But UN does not want people to prosper there ,they want them to suffer and die while they come after and claim the land.
Why is it impossible?
@@guidosillaste4297 how would more wood be available if there were more solar cooking methods??
@@MrGorgefla the optimal place for solar farms is in the Sahara Desert, not where the green wall should be planted
@@nc3826 That is true and, the green wall will need roads, water and energy. It is more sustainable to build these resources along side each other in the long run. We are just finding out that many shade crops work very well under the shade of the panels.
Northern China has dire desertification problem too due to bad farming practice.
China is the one place on Earth where desertification is being reversed
I just knew before I started watching the video that somewhere in there had to be a white saviour complex on the matter nothing good that been done in Africa has ever been credited to the hard working people of the continent.
Correct me if im wrong but
Cant we use an invasive plant like what they do in norway?
native species are adapted to the local environment.... using invasive species is a crapshoot...
@@nc3826thing is an invasive specie is bound to better, that’s what makes them an invasive species
define 'better'
(clue, the problem with oversimplified generalizations, is they generally miss the salient point)
definition of an, 'invasive species' is an introduced species that harms its new environment. Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage.
have fun thinking that's 'better'..... SMH...
Nestlea had water bottling in the area propably others as well. Nothing easyer then stealing water from people who cant defend themselfs.
the region i live in suffering from floods and raining while countries who really need it dont get this.
MrBeast: no one can beat me in team seas !
Africa land: lmao
Team seas doesn’t do shit
"The Sahara isn't actually spreading." "We will be referring to it as spreading for the purposes of this video." Right.
Exactly
thank you for that irrelevant semantic reference
Good video, keep going
The root cause seems be the lack of water, not trees. Am I missing something or someone tries to wash money with a useless project ?
supposedly, trees atract rain, and retain water, also thay can provide in other ways
They should start using the sand for building material, like mix it with cement or use it to make glass or something
You cannot use dersert sand for building material.
Unfortunately that wouldn’t work the sand in the sahara doesnt work in cement there’s something in it i think
i love the green wall idea! put people to work and lets go !
The continent can't even feed itself. How
do you expect it to be an engineering
giant.
generalizing... 😉
American moment
I love these projects, aliens are impressed, but not with other dumb things we do.
What’s up Broski 🦋
I was thinking that they should try to create a river across the Sahara insane idea.
One thing I am curious about is its a grand idea, BUT!! for it to succeed the planned area in question needs to have the human populations agricultural activities under control in the various countries concerned. I think that is an impossible task.
Since a CZcams expert thinks it's impossible let's not try
have the Chinese any technology to assist, with this...I am amazed that an area, with so much money has not done something, about this, sooner...
Make a river or canal from the ocean into sahara and it will solve the flood problem from global warming but also help sahara residents grow crops and have water
That's what I was thinking
“They got money for wars but cant feed the poor” - Tupac Shakur
"Living structure made of trees" also called forest
Only way to kill the sahara would be to build extremely big canals from the sea/ocean into the sahara to fill some areas with low elevation to change the inland climate.
Who would pay for it
@@OK-ws7ti And I think the heat would evaporate the water. It actually rains in Death Valley, Calif. but it is so hot that the rain evaporates before it hits the ground.
What u say would take decade to build olso these countries can't pay it
If the earth really tilted it's not going to do a thing planting that wall those trees will just die the water is slowly running somewhere else even underground the earth changing is something that always happens one way maybe that might help is to dig a deep channel from sea to sea.
0:41 whats a poth
they can ask china for help. china is already growing its influence in africa, and china has a lot of experience in reforestation.
That “great green wall” was actually a tremendous failure. Due to over 80% of the trees planted being a type of indigenous Chinese poplar the “great green wall” was not ecologically diverse enough to withstand an insect borne tree killing disease. Had the Chinese actually built a proper ecosystem instead of treating nature like factory line processes it may have worked but as it is china has a poor enviromental record in regards to ecosystem restoration
Like think instead of a forest it was like a treefarm.
@@OK-ws7ti lol that wasn’t a failure. First of all, it’s totally fine to fail and learn from the mistakes. Even for science, it’s common for experiments to fail. As long as China keeps pushing forward, it will succeed. On the other hand, doing nothing will lead you nowhere.
And the reforestation efforts in China are not failures. Do some proper research.
China had a massively wasteful "should have seen that coming" learning curve in reforestation.
@@ScionStorm1 but China is on the forefront of reforestation efforts. who else can you learn from? or perhaps, you prefer to wait until the very end? did you miss the recent climate change news?
Divert the water of Congo and it's tributaries to Chad lake.Revive the old river channels which connected Lake Chad to Mediterranean Sea..You can green Sahara and Sahel regions..
Your telling me lake chad had a connection river to the Mediterranean sea?
@@Tony-Di-Mateo yes..Millions year ago Lake Chad was so hugh that it had river channel which connected to Mediterranean..Sahara and Sahel were green then..ancient aquatic fossils were found on the dead river bed of Sahara..
Just hope they plant the right kind of trees so it dont fail. Really hope it dose and can be a example of what we as humans can do if we work together.
It's also spreading towards north and scientists are claiming that in around 2100 the desert will take over Sicily, Sardinia and south of Spain
Unbelievable !, most times Africans never do anything to make sure that in the future they will servive, in most cases they look to the former colonial masters to fix there problems, good move Africa keep up the good job.
When it is time for the rest of the world to have problems for themselves which is coming very soon. The rest of the world will be less sympathetic to African, Africa will starve and be in ruined and no one would care.
True
Well first of all africans dont even have a modern techology to be able to stop it somehow lol
@@TrashFilter Africans don,t need modern technology ,the process is quite easy, this know how have been turning back the desert for a long long time.
because all the money we make goes to them..
As a westerner, did it pain you when you weren't able to hear negative things about what China is doing with the Gobi desert?
Glad to see Lake Chad is replenishing! No I’m kidding, I know the labels were mixed up. It’s a tragedy. You should look at the Aral Sea, and that one you can entirely blame on Man
Straight distance from Senegal to Djibouti is 6167 kilometers (3832 miles).
Good video, but youre repeating yourself alot in the middle part of the video with the statement that not much is being done.
Grow hemp like an Australian scientist said.the fine root system will act like a mat & keep the sand there,slowly turn it into soil,plant other plants eventually,pipe desal water out.
who is going pay for it? you? because they're governemnt won't
@@drigocrews oh well it looks like we're doomed.
Given the history of corruption when it comes to donated monies I can understand the hesitation. Is there some oversight by independent watchers? Having expressed that concern this is a wonderful idea
what if you use lupin flower for the green wall
I REALLY thought there might be some actual news about this project or other new ideas to intensify the project. But instead this video shows same thing we've been able to see in countless videos for years now. Would've been great adding knowledge and not just repeating it.
still might as well like the video as it adds publicity.
the more people covering this the better.
Yeah, consider that the world doesn't revolve around you, and some others are hearing about this for the first time. Plastic was popularized in the 50's - 70's, and their detrimental effects have been widely known for longer than a decade. Yet, is it useless to continuously speak of it's harmful impacts on the planet? No. Get your head out of your own ass.
It’s for views of course.
Would love to see this vision succeed!!!
If they build a desalination plant they could began to pump large amounts of water into the desert. That would probably slow or maby even eventually reverse the desert all together.
Problems like funding actually reaching a project.
Humanity forces world to change 10000 times faster than in a Jurassic era
3:30 I mean did you really expect them too lol, it’s really no surprise. I would love to see this grand idea come to life but reality is, it’s probably never going to happen, growing up between these 20 years I’ve noticed so many great ideas and inventions that would revolutionize the world only to be never heard of again. To the point I’ve been censored by this, like it sounds cool and great but I’ll forget about it an hour later and I’m pretty sure, so will the world
I'd call it a conspiracy theory, but it seems a lot of nice sounding ideas have been used to simply make political families rich. To be completely honest, I would think this entire endeavor would have to start with an aqueduct long before planting random trees everywhere.
I think you forgot the fact that the tropics are making that area of Africa so green…
Thank you white man for showing us how to plant the right trees and take care of them...we cant do it without you!
ALL THESE VIDEO ESSAYS LOOK THE SAME
all these videos are bullshit and lies
I love the Sahara, served 7 years there from mid 70s to early 80s
Hmmm informative 🤔🤔🌳
Would running ocean water far enough over sand filter out the salt? If so they could punch a "river" in from the ocean...(someone answer me please I am curious and don't know enough about that area of science lol)
Because salt dissolves so easily into water, it forms strong bonds with other atoms and the only way to fully separate the water is through evaporation.
It's not a terrible idea if you were to run the ocean water 100 miles north of the Sahel, directly through the Sahara. Evaporation would do a lot more than planting trees with no water.
Depending on Europe hasn't worked for us, We must look East. China actually cares
ahahahah, hahahahahaha dude thats a good one. they dont even care for their own population. dont depend on anyone for food and water, thats your responsiblity.
Spot on!
they care about their investments profit
Are you perpetual children? When will you grow up and depend on yourself?
@@downs9724 when you folks stop looting our resources
As a Moroccan I can’t believe that people still think our country isn’t one with the Western Sahara
ikr
It's not, accept it. Long live Polisario
@@lawtraf8008 I won’t accept it also it was ours and got taken by the Spain and it was ours and will be always ours and ur the one who should accept it
Africa will never change.... Its the same before Colonial era and still today... Nothing change... Dont worry for Funds... We Rich countries will do the donations... But where the funds are going...???
@0:26 land area of USA and China combined or each??
I remember when i was a kid and they learned us the same thing. The desert sahara was growing. And they showed us on maps where it was expanding. The lecture stopped the instant one student asked ,what about the other side of sahara, where it was clearly shrinking. Point is desert and weather behave like rivers. It will expand and change geo area. And the climate will move from place to place when time gets involved.
"The Sahara isn't /spreading/ the area around it is just become deserts along with it"
"I'm not disliking your video I'm just redistributing the like ratio"
It is an important distinction though. The sahara spreading on its own would imply there's some direct effect it's having on its surrounding areas, ultimately drying them out. The video showed clearly that it's human made, namely bad farmimg practises, that dry out the somewhat fertile land around the desert.
When and how can we stop it
Should just put cattle there. It'll help make the ground more fertile, if we keep planting stuff or growing a bunch of crops that's a good way to turn soil into sand.
They just talked about over grazing. Cattle are worth a lot so they'll definitely be stolen many times, they're also very expensive to maintain.
People who live in Chad: "this looks like a good place to raise a family of 12"
yeah thats the problem, if you live in a desert dont have too many kids, if they starve thats your fault.
wow you guys really don’t understand anything huh? please read some books
@@karigrandii please explain how we're wrong. I'll wait.
@@herewasbob7650 yeah, i never understood why poor people have many kids if they cant feed them
@@BlackoutGootraxian they need that hit of dopamine from intercourse and they dont know or care about protection
The West has been supporting Africa for many years. If Africa does not deal with the issue they face consequences… With bad times presently in the West, Africans will need to take personal responsibility, and get their act together!
The west was stealin and still stealing Africa
Really, dude!? You conveniently forget about one of the biggest reasons they are in this quandary is colonialism that severely looted the continent and left it poor. It went on for centuries. Duh
We're actually starting to be outpaced by the Chinese and Russians, and when we withdrew after Africa was able to handle the apartheid on its own Russia sent in The Wagners to send them back into exploitable turmoil.
Unless we redistribute everything with a fair and favorable enough deal allowing Africa to take the final steps to become a 1st world country, all were doing is enough to keep it stable but not enough for it to lay down the grounds
Africa just doesn't have the ability to unify and be expected to handle a project that big. Not while there's so many warring tribes and colliders like ISIS/Russia and even sometimes us when we botch things it would be stupid to think there needs to be consequences for its failure while we're the super powers with the ability
lmfao
me trying to find a link to donate:*confuse unga bonga*
0:49 Shrunk? It's larger. Have they mixed up the years?