Water Crisis: A Global Problem That's Getting Worse | Planet A
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- In this episode of ‘Planet A’, Professor Deborah McGregor explains why human systems like the commodification of water are at the root of the current crisis, how climate change will intensify water scarcity and why we need to change our relationship with water to avoid a bigger, looming crisis.
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You’ll never see a video like this in trending people aren’t going to know how serious something actually is until it effects their livelihood.
Right wingers will always sow enough doubt to delay any progress until it's too late.
It's literally trending. This is a mainstream narrative, has been for a long time.
@@bjorn8463 no it’s not
And the large company owners and politicians will never care until it effects themselves or their loved ones.
@@AriASMR7 So we haven't been discussing climate change on MSM for the last 30 years? You sure you live on earth
It's always funny hearing that we can still reverse things. We all know nothing will happen until things are irreversible. Until the rich and powerful turn the tap and all they see is murky water, or nothing.
and when that happens you can be sure billions have already died.
The greenhouse effect is alrdy set in place (since years now) we can only slow it down.
For capitalist this it's not a problem, but an Opportunity for New Business and Markets. The Water will be the new luxury item, and they will sell it.
And that won't happen until it happens to every last poor person.
Yup basically & by then it'll be way too late tbh
The saddest thought knowing, is that useless human greed has contributed to this, and it is depressing to know that those who can truly make change, seem to only make change when it will affect them.
The sad thing is, it’s currently affecting them and they don’t care because it doesn’t have an direct impact on their current lives. It’s a terrible situation for our future species 😓😓
Planned consumerism and capitalism, where increased production at all costs is encouraged.
It's not all humans just these greedy fucking governments and corporations we need to topple this government and form a new one.
@Chishio Chishio Also I'd like to think as a veteran myself that our military wouldn't kill their own, but who knows!
The only one that waste the most water is car wash
Boycott nestle products, support water rights orgs, and plant mangrove trees (Eden Reforestation does this for example). Small actions make big impact.
Yes! Can't stress this enough.. Nestlé is a cancer to our world, and NEEDS to be boycott. Here's a good list, listing their brands; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestl%C3%A9_brands
Thats useless. Look at all the golf courses. Like bro use artificial grass please
@@rauljrlara9994 nah, just don’t have golf courses
I've boycotted Nazi nestle for 14 years. Everyone needs to put the earth before their nazi overlords
problem is much deeper and much broader than just water, a bunch of other resources at stake too. Eventually other companies will start doing these things, this is a systemic problem
Its always about "we" & "us" but its mostly the big companies who are responsible for their actions.
You forgot the government as well.
@@mthunder15 they are one and the same.
We buy from those corporations. It comes back to us.
Actually, this is far from the case.. It's all about supply and demand. Don't support the companies that that couldn't care less about the earth (companies that destroy rain forest for palm oil, for example), and they won't have the resources to keep their shitty practices up..
Oh don't worry. Trump gave all these elites tax breaks. They don't care about u or the planet. All they care is their greedyness to get rich
Is there really any hope left? I feel like an environmental collapse is inevitable
lol
The hope is what we fight for
It will be economical first.. imagine no hydro or grocery stores for months. We are so disconnected with nature, most people wouldn't know what to do..
Gardening and amassing an armory wont clean rivers and lakes.
Voting for lawmakers that want to make laws to punish companies that pollute water and that emit industrial quantities of greenhouse gases is the solution
I sure hope so!! Man kind is an infection that needs to be eradicated.
Im from Cape Town, South Africa... I've /We've experienced this first hand... People fought over water.. Coz our dams almost ran dry... Yes a coastal City's dams almost ran dry... THIS IS VERY SERIOUS... WE HAD TO REUSE every drop we could..
It seems like sooner or later, everything will come crashing down on our species.
This is the content I love to see from vice!
True ....
Why? its not painting a very realistic picture, there really isn't a situation where we can keep the environment how it is unless we dispose of everything from cars to cell phones and microwaves.
This situation is so sad and scary
@CAGOULE ligma
So when the cart is stuck in the mud, will you cry about it like a little snowflake? PUT YOUR SHOULDER TO THE WHEEL. Green Energy or Bust! (electric cars are just one of many things we could be doing differently)
This is terrifying. 15 years. I remember 15 years ago. That time flew by. Our sweet easy lives are going to change rapidly
You'll either survive to watch or die trying to make it.
I remember 15 years ago I was in school learning the Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. Time has proven his theories to be incorrect, and I was indoctrinated to believe all this
I do. Yes. I do Remember 15 years ago. It was a cold December. It is today. What do you remember? Please share.
Plus pretty much everyone you love will likely die in the series of worldwide conflicts literally at our doorstep.
Yes, it is so terrible how humans impacted the biosphere of Earth that rely on resources like water.
Love is the answer.
@@carlostorres1844 Love for Earth is the answer.
@@alphaapple1375 Or perhaps a virus is the answer....
@@Jafmanz I don’t mean to be rude, but I want to be more conscious about the environment.
Your profile picture looks kinda Muslim like , to me , and there's nothing wrong with that, is that what it's supposed to be ?
Your actual name itself is also kinda catchy haha.
I just can’t help but to look at my kids and shed a few tears watching things like these.
You having kids is the reason we're in this mess. Just thank yourself.
@@xcalabur18 You must have a sea of trauma and hurt in your heart. God bless you and your family.
@@emkingz93 I mean hes got a point overpopulation isn't good people r having kids from selfish reasons and its impacting our environment I'm not disrespecting ur family but try to understand what he said I'm sure he doesn't have kids due to his reasons and that comment
Let's all have no more than 2 kids and get along.
@@emkingz93 we need 2 billion people to vanish.
I live in Garowe Somalia and the situation is scary there is no rain here. Underground water might disappear. The small dams and watertanks we have are not getting any rain.
Then you do not have a problem at all. Where do Saudi Arabia get its water from? Israel? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Saudi_Arabia
@@arnehofoss9109 Did you even read that article?!
Today about 50% of Saudi drinking water comes from desalination, 40% from the pumping of non-renewable groundwater and only 10% from surface water in the mountainous southwest of the country.
Desalination is extremely energy-intensive (hence indirectly polluting, Saudi electricity production isn't green), and the 40% groundwater pumping isn't sustainable.
@@arnehofoss9109 Israel has the technology to stop water droughts in Somalia.
Why do I do this to myself, I could be watching a kitten video right now....
Yeah you could be watching something amazing instead of an old boomer who claims to be native walking around telling you how her relationship with nature means everyone else is screwed.
If only the world's governments could come together and actually care
@HunterBidensCrackPipe yeah not really
@HunterBidensCrackPipe yeah thats all quantifiably false but keep living in your delusions. also all that "progress" is the difference between jumping from a 30 story building to a 15 story building... youre dead either way
@HunterBidensCrackPipe uh oh sounds like someone's been watching too much pragerU. Mommy should really take your computer away buddy
NO! Whenever governments get involved, things get even more effed up.
@HunterBidensCrackPipe ??? Mind sharing an example of what you're claiming.
From what I understand, Milton Friedman is the biggest villain here when he 'decreed' that companies must only be responsible to their shareholders and not (as was the case) to the community too. In other words, companies must do all in their power to return a profit to shareholders 'no matter what'. We have the power to change this.
Capitalists have killed this planet. Their wealth ain’t trickle down to the working class of the world, yet their pollution sure does.
@@JohnnyYK Some of the wealthy kleptocrats believe that technology will save us, they don't realize they are betting on something that has not and may not be invented yet.
Tankie
I live in what is probably among the top ten cities in terms of tap water quality in the entire world. It's very noticeable how significant the difference is just by traveling to pretty much anywhere. Yet, it comes from Mälaren, flowing to the Baltic sea. There is talk about that flow switching direction with more sea level rise. Then our situation would quickly get much worse.
My hometown gets its domestic supply without filter and without pumps. It requires no treatment only sand filtration to remove particles. Here in Syracuse NY, we get our water from one of the Finger Lakes: Skaneateles Lake. It's fairly well protected but still in danger from large farms and especially from lawn fartilizart . It's ironic bc we are also home to what was once called (erroneously) the most polluted lake in the US: Onondaga lake. It was polllutrd from heavy industry - which has all left now. The main polluter spent $500 million on cleaning it up and it went okay. A half ass job is better than nothing but we should've spent $2 billion and done it properly.
EDIT okay wow. I wrote my comment before I watched the whole video. I have not yet watched entire vid but I see it's now talking about Onondaga lake haha. And Syracuse. Huh
Your lucky then water here very expense
Plus weather 50 degrees celsius
hopefully advances in desalination of salt water will be made.
The older generations excessive greed has destroyed the planet. This won't be a overnight fix.
You realize the phone you probably made this comment on, and definitely own, did more damage to the environment than the last like 4 generations of your family did.
My point is that if excessive greed and decadence are the problem we should be looking inward, as modern technology is far more harmful than everything our parents or grandparents used daily. I mean do you think the process of harvesting lithium is a "green" endeavor?
It is incredible how people around me don't care about this at all... and its ALL happening in front of their eyes...
The scarcity of water is evident across the globe; we all are aware of it but still not paying attention to the imminent danger.
Because when the problem isn’t there right in front of our face, we pretend it doesn’t exist. Truly a rotten and disgusting creatures we are. We’ll pay for everything that we’ve done dearly and all of them who are responsible better be prepared for it.
Up until a few days ago, I didn't know VICE was owned by National Geographic. For me, that explains the quality of this channel.
@Scott Alexander probably not. NatGeo is awesome
VICE isn't owned by national geographic? 😂😂😂
@@SyrupSplash and isnt Nat Geo owned by disney?
It’s owned by …
Shane Smith (20%)
The Walt Disney Company (16%)[7]
A&E Networks (20%)
TPG Capital (44%)
Soros Fund Management (10%)
James Murdoch (minority stake)
@@Sovnarkom ah thanks
Rural agricultural Oklahoma and Texas are well on their way to becoming outright expansive deserts if we don't stop what we're doing here. My mom grew up in Oklahoma, it's always been dry but wasn't this bad when she was younger in her memory. There's earthquakes and sinkholes here from the oil fields now too, those never happened when she was a kid, but are becoming a regular feature of the state in some parts. It's absolutely horrifying because the few parts of Oklahoma that still hold rich wildlife and flora are drying too, and I worry for the animals on the reserves, especially the Bison and the Elk near my home. The lakes are all filthy, none of the tourists have respect, and there's no agency for indigenous restoration of control in regards to water sources or wilderness. All the while the water service prices rise and rise as water quality decreases. North America was stolen in the first place, and the balance needs to be restored with the #landback movement.
We have to empower indigenous peoples in protecting their homes and the Earth, empower them in our governments, and dismantle the capitalist system that seeks to reap the Earth of everything until it's too late. We can't put a giant made up game of Monopoly over the vitality of the Earth itself. Water is life. The Choctaw nation stood with the Irish, and as an Irish American I respect and uphold the solidarity between the culture of my relatives who survived famine and were assisted by the Choctaw, who were struggling themselves. As a human being I want to see us continue to advance, because I see our potential and our beauty beyond the terrible things some are capable of.
We are meant to Be on this Earth, not to consume it. Humanity is better than greed, altruism and compassion are how we evolved to advance, believe it or not with all the cruelty we can display, our inate nature is that of co-operation and co-habitation. We can fix this, we just have to get to work weeding out those infected with greedy intent who are too proud to admit the truth of the peril we approach. We need to heal the wounds and protect the Earth, and reverse the effects of colonialism with legislation that repairs the rights of marginalized and impoverished populations, particularly BIPOC.
Natural law is the only one that matters.
If you can take it, it's yours.
It's so sad that you are halfway there but still blinded by your programming.
Texas , nuff said
Unfortunately humanity is leading itself to a course where an abundant resource like water will turn into a precious commodity like gold.
Killing billions
The earth doesn't belong to us we be long to the earth . 🌎
5000 acres here of cotton peanuts and produce.
It’s quit raining guys. When I was a child we always had trouble getting crops out because of rain. It rained all year.
Now it only drizzles two times a year 30 years later.
The earth’s orbit is causing some climate change… but I do believe we are starting to fk it all up as humans.
I live at the start of the trail of tears in Ga.
We all have to do our part.
We are using ponds for instance but it’s not that easy for everyone. We need a plan because farms suck up tons of water.
Rain has nutrients.
Less rain+less nutrients= worthless dirt.
No food real quick.
The essential answer is WATER IS LIFE!
I haven’t littered in so long. I use to throw my cigarettes butts everywhere. Sometimes I just water native plants doing droughts. Having fish and insects changed my whole view.
Still smoke?
This. Keeping an aquarium opened my eyes to how easy it is to ruin water quality. Life lives in a VERY narrow window of parameters.
@@zyxo1848 I do I want to stop cigs and weed so bad but it’s hard asf man.
@@ChrisCurryTheGoatOnGod i can imagine. Has to be something really powerful that makes you want to stop I’d say
I stick my butts in my back pocket because the people and the earth shouldn't have to deal with my nasty habit. The other day I had pulled up at a light next to this chick and she just flick her butt out the window like it was cool. Funny thing is I noticed her before the red light and was contemplating trying to talk to her then I seen that and got really turned off
This was a great video, but I wish it gave us resources of small solutions we can begin to help the issue
We are finally waking up to how we need, desperately need to change how we treat our planet... But it's so late now, those who knew earlier were not listened to. We might be too late... I hope not, because I doubt Mars will ever be half as beautiful as earth is now, even if we did become established there fast enough.
If that is even going to happen it will be generations away , no planet like earth
Even if humanity can reach and thrive on other planets, that 0.001% of the population leaving doesn't make much of a difference regarding the mess made of a closed system like earth. Whatever pretty stories space exploration makes, well over 99.9% will be left behind on planet earth. So fix it because it is highly likely to be you and your children/family that remains here dealing with the mess.
Mars is already past the worst case scenario. The surface has deadly radiation and the soil is poisonous.
Mars will take centuries to become like earth
@@warriorgeneral2735 centuries to undo a few billion years of work?
More people should homestead..(Gardens, chickens, goats,) if half the world's population was even slightly more self reliant, it would most likely drastically reduce the carbon footprint as a whole..thats just my 2 cents..
Nah, consumer and luxury industries would still polute and exploit the world.
They want to live in dense cities where they can go for brunch with their metropolitan friends.
Lots of places don't have land and apartment for one and you have lots that are actually good farmers but government controls it and even bails out certain farmers but leaves others out and global trade is farming also
Economy at scale is actually more efficient than everyone doing it themselves. It has to be done without pollution though.
A phrase that will be heard frequently from now on is The Third Pole. This refers to all of the water locked up in the mountainous areas of the planet Of all the great rivers in Asia, twelve of them originate from the Tibetan plateau. China has built hydroelectric dams on each one. This means they will have the option of controlling the flow to every one of these rivers. Some of the countries downstream are strongly considering constructing dams in their countries, Laos has had to shelve proposals to dam the Mekong, after pressure from Vietnam.
The meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet is changing the flow of the Gulf Stream in the northern Atlantic from its usual course. This is resulting in colder temperatures in Europe, at the same time glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate in the region. The first glacier in Austria has disappeared, and others are shrinking too.
The depletion of aquafers is accelerating, the replenishment of which is not possible as the water has to seep through to earth, which takes place over millennia.
Some underground aquifers can not be replenished because the land subsides filling the cavities that used to be filled with water. This also will cause more surface water flooding in areas, because the land literally can not allow the water to soak in.
I love the apalachicola area so much, a very overlooked part of Florida with a lot of wild life and forest. Super beautiful. Gotta keep it that way!
The crazy part is seeing my own County in this video. I even know Tony haha he is a great guy and owns a racetrack in San Joaquin.
The commodization of water needs to be banned, by class. Moreover, private groups of any kind should not be able to control water. It is, after oxygen, the most important ingredient for all life.
Can't we just filter water and Desalinate water from the seas? This seems like bs to me, makes me wonder why or if they invoking fear in people or if they are actualy right. But for my understanding we have the Technology to filter water so Idk
@@YouMeAtSix0123 desalination is expensive, and harms the environment even more. Better safe than sorry
@@cameosix7077 yeah but still doable. This guys making it seems like this Is dooms day
@@YouMeAtSix0123 if you don't know its doomsday you aren't informed. I worked years for Pepsico, they pull water out of lakes all over the world, bottle and sell it to us for profits, yet if you live in the town where that water is pulled, you get nothing for it, and have no say in it. Its very corporate here, and always has been.
I'm surprised we don't have to pay for oxygen tbh
Just 2 minutes in and wow the music and sound design is fantastic! Respect.
Sounds like the perfect time to look for solutions.
Just remember guys. We do have solutions for this. As for drinking water, just distill the water from the oceans and drink it. Problem is most countries do not have the resources, money, infrastructure, or care enough to set this up. And distilling water is not easy.
Unfortunately, distillation is very energy intensive and expensive.
Yeah ok let's be unsustainable and drink all the water from the rivers and lakes, and then let's suck the ocean dry. How about we stop breeding like rabbits. Our population growth is completely unsustainable and the key reason we are seeing the collapse of wildlife. And do you know how detrimental desalination is to ocean life? The left over brine destroys ecosystems.
Jist distill the water 4Head
I blame a lot of fracking.
@@Jackson-rf6rv I agree with you but we need desalination to support the population and to replenish the water we've taken from drought striken regions. The salt brine can be dried on land and used for several land based operations.
"We're the ones that actually have to change" - except that no one is ever willing to change, you make a logical suggestion and they reject it and go into cognitive dissonance.
Plant more and more plants, save trees, recharge ground level water by rain harvesting system or by else and grow crops which takes less water is the only solution to save the whole world by this water crisis
That's what I was thinking.
I still can't believe that in 2021 there still are not ways to easily convert mass amounts of ocean water to drinkable water. Also we can't even shift water from rainy sections to dry sections. But we can do so for oil!
It's called reverse osmosis. It's incredibly energy intensive.
@@piyh3962 Interesting concept. Thanks you gave me like 10 hours worth of youtube content for when I can't sleep.
We haven't been forced to....yet. I fear that a bio-feedback loop will stabilize the natural carrying capacity for humans.
Doing this is both trivially easy, and carries an *astronomical* energy and emissions cost
@@piyh3962 can also use large solar stills
I literally had to chug a bottle of water while watching this
I'm about to kamikaze .
Love this video! Is there a place the sources are listed? I would like to read and learn more!
This is superb and vitally important -- fundamentals. I hope VICE can continue to cover this biggest issue for everyone on the planet.
Vice is now insolvent and bankrupt sadly
It's really sad what we did to the Sahara all those years ago.It was once so lush and green and now desert.
There is hope... I know that the Norwegian company "Desert Control" are starting to work there... Share their page and let us start making earth green again... - No I don't have shares in the company ;)
I didn't do that lmao
I was born & raised in Basra, Iraq, far as I can remember in the city of zubair we never had a running water , back in the 80s, people in the south used to say that the government did it on purpose, during saddam Hussain era,To oppress the sect of Shia where the majority of his opposition،That was his way of making the Shia suffer،To give in to the previous tyrannical regime
Where I live in south africa we have water restrictions, our dam levels combined are at 12%
HappySad to see my home city of Garowe. I was there in 2016 and it was the saddest thing seeing giant camels dried up, unable to even stand. Great ancient people have always survived the worse and we will win.
Ancient people didn't had polluted environments like us
@@robbenvanpersie1562 True.
They survived the depletion of our species. But the resources needed to survive were there...
They might not very soon....
Farming needs to adapt. Indoor vertical farming is the future. Using soil and traditional land is old school and antiquated.
the polluting of water ways is so heavily under reported and under appreciated its disgusting
Too damn many people. Bill Gates is correct about that.
In areas that deal with drought year after year, the problem is not too little water, it is too many people.
If we all consumed like the west the whole world would be needed for farming
Too much people take fresh water for granted ; let the tap running while they brush their teeth, flush away a mere pee with almost a gallon of perfectly good drinking water. It's maybe time that some should experience just a day without not just water but fluids, because all the fluids we drink daily are connected to the water supply. 💧
Beautifully made video 👏
This will be the the true cause of extinction for humanity.
We will destroy ourselves with war long before the planet has a chance to do us in.
Extinction from global warming is unlikely. It has always been a struggle to thrive on this Earth; merely surviving is not very hard at all for human monsters.
Extinction isn't threatened by this. Population collapse maybe, but not extinction.
The world needs to help people move from dry areas to places that have abundant water.
Becsude there's no money for them to pay for it over there all these companies care about is profit they'd tax air if they could
This issue is one of the most important issues for every single person on this planet.
I wish more people could see this video. It would open up a lot of eyes. Even though some of us have been saying this for years
I love the last 2 videos I just watched from Vice. Always touching on the pressing matters. Good reporting guys
First one must understands precession of the planet. 5000 years ago the Sarah desert was jungle like surroundings with the largest fresh water lake in the world. No humans pumping co2 back then but somehow it turned to desert. This cycle will continue with or without humans doing anything. Russia just broke a cold record from a 100 years ago. I live in CA, we are about to get 5-6 feet of snow in Lake Tahoe, it’s typical in the 40 years I’ve lived in the area.
Fashion industry is wasting more water😏
We have to end the comodification of water.
Won't happen
Hell no. There is nothing free.
The fact that we get free documentaries on CZcams by VICE News is truly a gift 👍
Restoring Arctic Ice: Connect pipe segments that are 20 feet in diameter and 30 feet long together to have them extend to 30 feet of the ocean floor. Each having its own floatation to make it neutrally buoyant. A pump at the top would only have to pump out the top 4 feet of the ocean water before the capillary effect would start bringing up the colder water from the ocean floor. Position one thousand of these pipes along the edge of the ice sheet to have colder water contacting the ice sheet and slowing the summer melting. The winter would expand the ice sheet, slower melt in the summer would have the sheet expand more every year.
The Grow-Live Tower: A cylindrical structure that has a central support column, periphery support columns around its circumference, and suspension cables/chains connecting the two to support the floor levels. The lower 20 levels are where the people live in all electric luxury accommodations, the upper 60 levels are greenhouse levels that provide the food the people need. The Power Multiplier Devices travel up and down the outside of the periphery columns to provide continuous energy. Less that 500,000 of these tower/generators would house the entire population of the United States. If the world embraced them it would mean the end of world hunger, homelessness. Global disease would drop 85% due to improved living conditions. Water conservation would increase 10,000%, mankind's footprint would decrease by 60%. Plus much more.
The open sourced, gravity driven, continuous motion, free energy generator known as the Power Multiplier Device:
Power Multiplier Device, last resize (I hope)-overunity.com
Functions as follows:
Small motor draws energy from the battery to turn a large bicycle-type wheel clockwise, turning the drive sprocket clockwise also because both share the same axle. This has the drive sprocket climb the chain, taking the whole assembly with its 2,000 pounds of weights. Three things now happen:
1) The motor takes the assembly to the top of the chain with its 400 pound pull, taking 1 hour to do so, requiring the energy amount from the battery. Energy Expended going up. EE/up= 1 hour pull of 400 pounds from the battery.
2) As the assembly is climbing the chain, it's heavy weight (2,000 lbs.) is still hanging/pulling on the chain, pulling the chain down which turns the transmission/generator, producing a full charge of energy going back into the battery. Energy generated going up, EG/Up = 1 hour of a 2,000 pound pull by the heavy mechanism.
3) When the assembly reaches the top the small motor shuts off and the assembly's weight slowly begins to descend, pulling the chain down with it. Since it climbed the chain faster than it pulled the chain down, its descent will take longer than 1 hour for its energy generated down charge into the battery. EG/Down = 1+ hour of a 2,000 pound pull charging into the battery.
EE/Up 1 hour of a 400 pound pull < EG/UP (1 hour of a 2,000 pound pull charge into the battery) + EG/Down (1+ hours of the 2,000 pound pull charge into the battery) = FE, EE/UP < (EG/UP + EG/Down) = FE.
With a heavier weight:
1) The motor takes the assembly to the top of the chain, taking 3 minutes to do so, requiring the energy amount from the battery that is represented by the expression 1N. Energy expended going up. EE/up=1N.
2) As the assembly is climbing the chain, it's heavy weight is still hanging/pulling on the chain, pulling the chain down which turns the transmission/generator, producing a full charge of energy going back into the battery. Energy generated going up, EG/up=.4N.
3) When the assembly reaches the top, the small motor shuts off and the assembly's weight slowly begins to descend, pulling the chain down with it. This descent takes 10 times longer than the ascent due to the heavy weight of the assembly, and the low gearing of the transmission, it 'creeps' down.
In 3 minutes going up, .4N was charged back into the battery. In 6 minutes going down .8N will be charged into the battery, replacing all of the energy the small motor expended. The remaining 24 minutes of the descent will charge 3.2N into the battery, Energy generated going down, EG/down=3.2N energy not needed for the mechanism's operation, free energy.
EE/up < (EG/up + EG/down) = FE, or, 1N < (.4N + 4N) = 3.4N FE
Connecting another PMD having more weight to the lower sprocket of the first will produce more energy. The chain goes around the lower sprocket of the first one, and up around the bicycle type of the second, so the lower sprocket of the first one is acting like the small motor does to turn the first one’s bicycle type wheel. A swing arm is place between the two wheels to play out more chain as the second PMD’s bicycle type wheel ascends. Then a third PMD connected to the second….
This will decentralize the grid using home generation modules, end fossil fuel energy plants, end nuclear, solar, wind, ocean energy generation plants. It will also allow for cars that recharge themselves as they travel down the road with modified PMDs.
I am from somalia, we are facing frequent droughts, most of our population live in rural areas herding camals, sheep , goats and cattle almost every year we face droughts and water scarcity is becaming part of our life.
The part where the Indian woman drips the Genges River water into her mouth and then they show all that raw sewage draining into the river is pretty surreal.
Too many mouths to feed end of story, yes I know this means myself and loved ones too also, it is what it is. But we just can't sustain 7 billion people without depleting every single resource on earth slowly but surely. Unless we can make ourselves a multiplanetary species which is not happening for a long time, i see it happening eventually, but it could also not happen in time for our own destruction.
You know we make enough food to fees 10 billion people but we throw out 35% of that. The problem isn't the population it's exploitation of the 3rd world. Western countries consume so much it becomes unsustainable. Thinking it's overpopulation is what governments and corporations want. They want us to fight each other and not work together to change the way our world is set up. Long story short is we have the solutions for these issues but because it isn't profitable companies and governments don't want to change it until they have to deal with it.
Exactly.
Funny how we control the populations of other species on the planet except our own, hell, even this whole pandemic is to control the population of another living organism to our benefit.
The fact is a planet of 7 billion humans is not sustainable, and it has nothing to do with agendas and conspiracies, a planet is finite.
George Carlin said it best; this whole push to "save the planet" isn't really about the planet, but about saving our own skins.
I did my master's thesis on constructed wetlands in rural China. One technology, that has been used to some extent in the US and a few other places is called WRSIS, and it could be quite promising. Basically you take agricultural runoff, recycle it through a constructed wetland, and reuse it for irrigation. For now, it's probably too expensive and too complex to use on a large scale, but I think in the future it could be one of several techniques which could help slow down the global water crisis, while maintaining food security.
We should take serious steps to save our nature and atmosphere before it's too late.
Amazing news. The stuff the mainstream doesn't want you to hear!
Is there no way to collect the water from melting glaciers/ice caps and transport it to places that need it?
It's definitively easier and cheaper to drink de-salted sea water
Ye I said something along them lines it's called irrigation how water is transported
More likely it will be water irrigated from flooded areas to blighted areas. Canada has experienced a lot of flooding, for example. That water could perhaps go to California, for example. Or something like that.
@@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate I'm pretty sure it would require more energy to transport all that water rather than using this same energy to separate salt from sea water. As we speak, no country on Earth is importing water from other countries, while many arid countries use desalination techniques
@@PG-3462 Very true. I guess I was just thinking of how much trouble those flooded areas will be. That excess water will have to go somewhere.
F L I N T still needs clean water. It's 2021! Celebrities treated this like a fad... It's not. H E L P us!
If we all drink one litter of water per day, that’s 9.3 billion littered of water a day, before car washes, dishes, our animals(pets) and the garden.
If "We" thought that the War for Oil ( a Want) was bad, just wait until "We" WAR for Water ( a Need)....
Mad Max lets gooooo
@@ricardoga The Guzzoline....
@@ricardoga Snowpiercer
"THERE IS NO PLANET B" -King Giz
I've never wanted to help, hate, feel shame, and feel embarrassed about how people made it to today; being how they are. We need ways to just move to another location for sustaining the produce we really need. But smile and be happy everyone.
This is very insightful. Thank you
I hate to see what my daughter ends up having to go thru in her lifetime. I really hope my plan to be self reliant works out for whenever our government completely fails us ....
good luck with that.. they are spaying the air with aluminum and chemicals, the only things that will survive is genetically modified.. All food and life will be patented
Could we build a bunch of salt desalination plants and use the ocean and then we won't have to worry about the ocean rising?
we must change mindsets in regards to what crops we grow. almonds, rice, corn, cotton are all examples of crops that require relatively large amou ts of water to grow. be it small farms in central America or large corporate operations in the U.S.A we absolutely must put water availability before profits. yes 'dry land' crops aren't as big of money makers in the short term but with ever increasing reliance on diminishing ground water supplies, we either adapt and think of long term viability or turn large swaths of land into infertile desert areas. change won't be easy but the alternative is an unimaginably horrible scenario that will impact everyone, everywhere. once aquifers are drained it's too late. southwest Kansas for example which grows thousands of acres of feed corn. corn used to feed thousands of cattle in local feedlots are all running on borrowed time. locals there which is where i still have cousins, estimate all the wells will be dry in the next 20 to 30 years at most. those wells are also the sole source of drinking water for residents. again without action the dominoes will begin to fall and i for one am not hopeful that the necessary changes will be made in time before we cross the Rubicon with no going back.
It is ridiculous the way we farm in deserts - utterly foolish. We are watering deserts to our detriment. Farm where there is water! Also, golf courses are utter wastes of water.
Serious question not being a smart ass I understand nuclear waste is a serious problem... but wouldn't in the energy sector if it stops the greenhouse gas emissions drastically why not put more nuclear energy plants the technology has to be better from what it was durning the Chernobyl meltdown and better now then Fukushima even though that was a natural disaster related!
Nuclear is a much better option for the future. Regardless of the very small dangers and the very large pollution. We HAVE to have energy. All forms of nuclear are valid options to ASSIST green options.
If a company runs a nuclear power station on an island prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, yet fails to make the nuclear power station resilient against earthquakes and tsunamis; I believe its fair to blame the company running the nuclear power station.
Companies can't even deal with normal issues (Lack of funding, natural disasters, corruption) imagine corporations dealing with nuclear power. We would have Soo many Meltdowns
@@outdoorinwithzach that's exactly what I'm thinking! If a country like iran can successfully operate a nuclear power plant, then I'm sure other crazy countries can also!
@@gregorysamaniego36 read his last sentence
So even how much humans will be educated with hundred degrees and knowledge, it will keep doing the same irresponsible and pathetic traditional acts. I feel ashamed not I'd contributed to the acts but can't do anything towards it.
Great show. Great narration.
incredibly important reporting and really what Vice is best at
mad max fury road here we cooome
Ugh. I haven't heard any intelligent argument/solution from this 'professor' of water. I wanna know exactly what we can/should do as individuals to help the situation other than vague words like 'respecting' the nature. I feel Vice lost a valuable chance to educate viewers with productive solutions.
Nothing you can do as an individual. It's a systemic issue from capitalism. It's all from just a small number of companies.
What I like to do is reuse water and change my relationship to it. Instead of pouring out excess water leftover in my glass or water bottle, I use it to water house plants or potted herbs outside, or even small trees. You can also use water from cooking pasta or beans as a dilute plant food, or use water from cleaning/skinning game animals as a blood fertilizer for plants as well. It takes very little to dip your toes into loving the natural world, but once you start off small the love for creation grows naturally. :)
Talked about this 9 years ago....VERY SCARY
It's scary to think that only 1% of the world's water is actually drinkable.
Greed , ego and all such things stopping us ... otherwise we would have defeated all odds
I heard water will soon be traded in the New York stock exchange. Sweet!
A glass of whiskey with Vice video.. Perfect combo!!
totally reminds me what Erin Brockovich was saying right? expecially the Flint area
Goddamn family legacy of upholding the farmland is more important than Earth, nice...
Bazos and Elon going to be looking at us poor people from Mars like oh we!!
Very good documentary.
10 Years drought in Somalia, just imagine being there when we hit 3 degrees and the world wide avarage drought is 10 months instead of the 2 month avarage now.
@@jakobjama4612 Good to hear!
2500 gallons of water to produce one bushel of corn is a lie. Doesn’t take near that much.
Must be some big ass bushels lmao
We are really fucking this up...
Capitalism
@@danielkjm crony capitalism
So you’re running out of water and your solution is to deplete the ground water? Lmao
I am crying 😭 for what we all have done that take us to this end