How the Dutch Beat the Ocean | Why Amsterdam Has Canals
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- It's the Dutch V. The Ocean. The Dutch Are Winning.
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While in Amsterdam I read this book called "The Dutch and their Delta" which helped me gather lot of the info for this video. Also huge thanks for Emiel Dijkman who sent me some amazing dutch language resources for this video!
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I should have known that making a caveat that I'd be using Holland interchangeably with Netherland for the purpose of simplicity would unleash a barrage of corrections 😂😂😂
I'm sorry man, we're just proud of our country. It's as if we'd call The United States just California. Get it? :)
great video, keep up the good work
@@winniewillem More like calling America the United States, where America is The Netherlands and the USA is Holland
@@jinjunliu2401 No cuz holland is 2 provinces in The Netherlands.
California (as an example) is a state within the United States
@@winniewillem So called Americans love to appropriate names and simplifying. Like they call the United States of America just America (some Europeans are also guilty of this). It's like if The Netherlands called itself Europe, selfishly disregarding all other countries. From Canada to Argentina it is all America, divided into three regions yes, but all one continent.
World : "sea level is rising and we are going to sink."
Dutch: "we ?"
The Dutch : yee sucks to be you .. houdoeeee!
Jakarta should learn from the Dutch
@@dividedtime8529 they don't like copying their colonizer
@@erwinrommel8042 well either they suck it up and save thousands or lose their capital
@@dividedtime8529 u right
It's like a lost episode of Borders, except the border is not between countries but with the ocean.
We made a wall and let the North Sea pay for it.
@@kykale nope... we betalen er allemaal aan mee. Land opspuiten is niet Co2 neutraal
@@jmfernandezsandra kan wel CO2 neutraal, terug de oude windmolens bouwen ;-)
zou veel touristen naar buiten amsterdam zelf kunnen trekken ook
:-)
@@jmfernandezsandra je weet dat het een grap is toch
@@jorisveltmaat nee/ja/nee
I'm Dutch and it is often easy to take these things for granted, but when you think back to hurricane Katrina and the issue that Coastal Bangladesh faces every year during monsoon season and then consider how many people live below sealevel in the netherlands, it is quite amazing and humbling to see that this can be the norm.
Hi Rik. I'm from Bangladesh and unfortunately what you said is true. Every year we are either facing flood or hurricane. Thankfully we have Sunderbans which saved us from some deadly hurricanes. Unfortunately, the glaciers in Antractica is melting and seems like we are destined for doom. Nonetheless, what the Netherlands have done is truly mind boggling.
@@kamrulhossainshuvo654 the Dutch solution for Bangladesh will save the nation from getting 20% (20 or more?) of its landmass submerged and free it from the dependence on the good graces of India or China.
Cant be done in most places in the world.
@@kylealexander7024 true. Bangladesh's coastal south is much different from the Netherlands and it would take some miracles to save that part from submerging.
@@kamrulhossainshuvo654 it could be done but it requires a lot of infrastructure to be built
"The Dutch, Holland and The Netherlands are all the same thing."
Comments: 'Ah, shit, here we go again.'
The Dutch is the folk of the Netherlands
The Netherlands is country itself
Holland are two provinces Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland (translated respectively north holland and south holland) together.
@@issers haha very true
Hillariously, the national Netherlands tourism website is holland.com. Even the DUTCH perpetuate "Holland" = Netherlands! You can't make this stuff up! No wonder people get it confused.
@@issers To be fair, it's in general the people outside of the two Hollands that get upset at the Netherlands being called Holland. It's the same as calling the United States Dakota, or Carolina.
Most people that don't have cheese for brains understand that people calling The Netherlands Holland is not meant as an insult though and that those people just don't know better.
@@conjared2803 ther are not two provinces ther are 12 provinces I know it because I am Dutch ther are two provinces Noord (North) Holland and Zuid (South) Holland are Holland And the most Southern island of the province of Zeeland (Sealand) is also holland 9 out of 10 tourist say Holland because the are the importend provinces
I love how the Dutch looked at the ocean and just said, "Let's make that land."
I believe it started with Terpen (plural of Terp), which are houses on hills, in case the land floods. It was kinda annoying for the farmers to get the animals onto the Terp every time it started to storm, so they build walls around their land so that the water wouldn't flood the land. And if you can do it with land that only temporarily floods... why not with land that's permanently flooded?
Also building walls between Terpen makes for a path to reach your neighbours when they might be in need during a flood.
@@dubbelnetolk @dubbelnetolk well it already happened earlier in polders in northern Holland. Lely's plans are more the top of the poldering history, the greatest achievement so to say. I live in the Haarlemmermeer (before flevoland the biggest polder IIRC) which was finished poldering around the time Lely was born. That was poldered in due to the fact several bigger cities (most important Haarlem) was threatened with flooding.
As the Dutch call all they can see from the country sea and not ocean, they never looked at an ocean and said 'let's make that land', ocean is beyond Ireland, beyond Scotland, beyond a lot of sea and so on, not between parts of the Netherlands.
The Dutch beat the Ocean ???? What Ocean ?
The Sea, its > the Northsea
@@aheroyaheroyalproductions7631 at the end of the day it’s connected to the ocean
What you didn't notice is that until late '70 Holland was a car-oriented country and the cars were everywhere. It was an intentional and relatively recent policy to reorient towards bikes. In other words: if the rainy Netherland could do it, many other countries can also.
Meh, the streets became more for bikes, idk if more people started riding bikes, but now you almost have to be able to bike everywhere.
Bullshit, bicycle culture started in late 19th century without any policies + most people in the Netherlands couldn't afford a car before '70, the number of cars did take off during and after '70 and because of that more and more policies are being made to stimulate people to use a bike instead of a car. You also shouldn't forget bikes are so efficient here because our country is so darn flat and also very densely populated.
What a nonsense, cars was only for high class. I am know I am 82.
@@waso778 If you're 82, you should remember Stop de Kindermoord and how they successfully took cars out of cities.
@@TMTFT You're only partially correct. The Netherlands saw huge declines in bike usage post WWII. The trend only reversed in the 70s because of Stop de Kindermoord successfully stopping the implementation of car infrastructure and starting the implementation of bicycle infrastructure.
I hear this line frequently, but what about Maastrict? This is the most hilly city in the Netherlands and it follows the national regulations on bicycle infrastructure, plenty of people cycle there. Sure, it's not as pleasant, but lack of cycling infrastructure is the main reason people don't cycle when they could.
This was very impressive, so impressive that I will forgive all of the unflattering slow motion shots of me looking either stressed and/or confused. It's fine. I'm fine. WE'RE FINE.
You looked great
You look beautiful Iz.
Personality and family perspective are what make this an awesome divergence from the Vox format. You and Johnny are quirky, and it's refreshing to see real people on social media. You are still super cool.
you guys are adorable and I was happy to see that johnny wasn't all alone in the middle of a new country like he usually appears to be lol
Just wondering why this zamazing couple is missing from the yestheory's documentary team 😵
I'm not lying when I say I would watch the 2 hour extension of this episode.
Yes, this is the comment I was looking for. Make the 2 hour version of wherever you go. We will all watch and appreciate it.
Yeah, I've watched 50mins engineering documentaries in just 25mins and I can even watch 2hr vid in 2 sittings!!
I also thought that. I would have loved a 2 hour video 😍
Amen
Yea the shots are amazing and content is interesting
J Harris: The Ocean is losing
Ocean: Our brothers from the glacialers will be joining us soon
Such an underrated comment
make it sound like the moon walkers are coming from the north.
The secret is that the Dutch actually tax the ocean so that the water pays for the maintenance
We don't tax shit overhere, so that's why we're a tax haven
@@HedendaagseHippies we hebben een van de hoogste taxatie percentages 31,6%.
@@jhinthevirtuoso4886 Niet voor bedrijven.
We do not have an ocean. We have 2 seas.
Yeeeeas
Sometimes I need videos like these to remind me how crazy all of this actually is. But here's me, being 31 years old and been living in Almere (which is the largest city in Flevoland) since I was a baby. It's something we don't really think about a lot. At least I don't, since it is so normal for me. But I'm in my bed now on the top floor of my home and I'm still below sealevel.. it's crazy. It's also something to be proud of as a dutchmen
It is cool
just wait for climate change. rip
Great Story, But you knoww Im Safe in Drenthe. At least i hope
And you should be proud, it’s amazing
This really hit me when I was reading about the Siege of Leiden (I live in Leiden): The rebel Dutch fleet broke the siege by sailing across inundated polderland to Leiden, roughly where the city of Zoetermeer is today. In other words: a fleet of warships once sailed where there's huge apartment buildings today. It's crazy.
I have to add - yes, the flat land certainly helps the cycling culture, but it’s mostly because the Dutch are incredible at building safe, efficient cycling infrastructure all across the country! They’ve realized that using bikes and public transit as the main modes to get around cities is not only much more efficient, but better for the environment! (And also really fun)
I think it's mostly because it's all built grounds; villages and towns with very little nature. Which means everything is close to each other; you can go to any store nearby without needing a car. The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries.
@@paddotk the overall idea is still viable in every country acorss the world tho. For longer distances, get a car and drive on roads that go around a city (or in massive cities you could have multiple ringways), for things in the city you can use public transport, and for stuff that is a bit closer by you use a bike or walk. This would be applicable from Groningen, Netherlands to Los Angeles, USA IF the leaders actually want to and don't get sold out by car lobbies 24/7
Do not get in the way of one of those bikes...they will run into you. Same with the Trams.
Dont say this to Not Just Bikes he will kill you for this because it doesnt have anything to do with it ;p
@@Steve-o2n8l Yes!Dont walk on the bike lanes!!They have RED color.Trams are to avoid by any one..
The Dutch to New York: "You know, you could have had it this good, but you chose England."
hahaha
but still funny new york has a lots of names that still remember of the dutch, suburbs like harlem (haarlem), brooklyn (breukelen), flushing (vlissingen) wall street is build on the dutch citywall of new amsterdam
Holland tunnel!
I think if NY still belongs to Dutch at that time, we will perhaps all speak Dutch nowadays as the international language :O
@@011azr english is just a weird frisian dialect! ;-)
@@michielvdvlies3315 I thought wall street was named after the walle
The Dutch: we have little land
Also The Dutch: lets make a new province
*Flevoland has been summoned*
Kiohte t /summon Flevoland
@@jam5533 How much mana would that be?
@@CriticalCoen Honestly I'm not really sure how much it cost, sorry.
@@jam5533 I was referring to a card game called Magic the Gathering, in which you summon things with mana. A magical resource gained from land.
The Dutch just looked at the ocean and said “no” 😂
The windmills weren't just for pumping water, but also for grinding wheat to flour for breads.
And as lumber mills to make the boats.
Dont forget that we used them to make paper aswell!
And if i'm correct there is still one windmill that makes paint.
They are just free energy
Woodmills sawing wood!!! , Grinding corn, pressing oil for mustard, linseed, etc. The area above amsterdam was one hugh industrial area full of windmills for all kinds of purposes when amsterdam had the biggest commercial fleet in the world in the 17th century
"Amsterdam is a giant economic and global hub"
Port of Rotterdam: Am I a joke to you?
By income, investment and production, Amsterdam is far above Rotterdam, even with Rotterdam's larger port.
Voor wie het na wil lezen: www.cbs.nl/-/media/_pdf/2017/19/2017dne04%20economie%20amsterdam%20versus%20rotterdam.pdf
And he was talking about events in history, not today
@@s.-8406 I mean historically Rotterdam was a pretty big deal too, it was the direct competitor to Amsterdam. That's why the Nazis bombed it.
@@mormacil Nope. They bombed it because they didn't want to bomb the other major cities. Utrecht was too important because of distribution purposes, Amsterdam was the most important city, Den Haag was where the government was, so that leaves Rotterdam.
@@l.bakker7563 I am not sure that is the fact, however you might be right of course. When I was in primary school I learned that Rotterdam was bombed and directly after that the German chief of staff had threatened with bombing of Utrecht, Den Haag (The Hague) and Amsterdam if the Dutch army did not surrender immediately. The Dutch surrendered after that message to avoid total devastation of our country. What sadly slowly happened in the 5 years following...
*Dutch ppl looking at the ocean*
The Dutch: "We should take the water, and push it somewhere else!"
*We push de water in de water* 👍
There is a saying; God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands.
Xcrement Lord there is another saying; “and as a final touch, God created the Dutch”
ducht? ;-) stop talking shit! :D
@Analisa Melano Pretentious means you're portraying yourself as something you're not. If there's something the down to earth Dutch aren't then it's pretentious. If anything they've earned their reputation through centuries of innovation and hard work.
Half the country is man-made so that saying bares a lot of truth. All this water expertise actually became a huge export product and is now applied by the Dutch worldwide. All those amazing islands off the coast of Dubai, airports in the sea, large scale coastal repair in the southern US after hurricane Catrina, just to name a few, are all done by Dutch companies.
Coastal defense is a multi billion dollar industry in The Netherlands alone, and double that in the rest of the world. And it's booming because it's a matter of rising urgency with half of the world's population living in coastal areas.
You're getting wet feet, you call the Dutch. It's simple as that.
There is a very old portuguese saying also; God created the white and the black man, but the portuguese created the mulato (mixed).
Nothing to do with the video, but that Dutch saying reminded me of that.
*leaves the comments*
@@Gurb27 And man created God (actually he has created about 1,000 of them). All because of fear.
"Americans, The United States and Wisconsin are all the same thing!"
*Northamericans
*USians
Damn generic name.
J I mean... that’s technically true.
actually "Dakota" would be better, because there is a "North Holland" and a "South Holland", not just "Holland"
Close enough
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Tulips actually are from Turkey and during the time of the Ottoman Empire they were reserved for only the Sultan himself. However, in the 16th century an Austrian diplomat took some of the seeds from the Ottoman Sultan at the time (Mehmed Suleyman the Magnificent) and gifted them to a dutch botanist (Carolus Clusius) who planted them in his gardens and discovered they grew extremely well in the dutch soil.
On behalf of all the Dutch people I apologize, Tulips have seeds... we just forgot about it.
@@bakasheru Haha its all good. Yes Tulips have seeds but it is much easier to plant them as bulbs. When transporting them across a continent they would've taken the seeds to make the journey easier.
dutch tulips were breed on variety something the turks couldn't just like our mills we made them do almost anything unlike the mills in other countries!!!!
And Tulips was brought to Ottoman Empire from Persia. Theyve been grown into various colors by artificial selection since then
there's an unspoken rule tho
don't talk about the.....ecomic problem that caused big troubles in here bringing in tulips :)
God damn Netherlands is such a beautiful country. Their architecture and the design of the cities is mind blowing.
When I was really young, at school my teacher used to tell me that we need to learn from the Dutch about water management. They're the best when it comes to fight back to water.
Love the storytelling - despite the hairsplitting that I as a Dutch historian would like to do over some stuff.
But just to correct one part: 9:58 the flower fields ,including the tulips, are [edit: *traditionally] grown in soil that is NOT (re)claimed from the sea. Indeed as you said they grow in a sand rich soil. But the land that was reclaimed in very dense clay! The flowers grow on what it called the 'old dunes'. A flattened dune strip, behind the current line of coastal dunes on the coast of Holland (=western part of the Netherlands).
And that is the other thing Johnny - most of the Dutch coast line does NOT look like what you showed. The most part is beach with dunes! [*like what you experienced on Texel]
So now you have to visit again. ;-) I would love to show you around some more in the Dutch landscape!
'the flowerfields ,including tulips, are grown in soil that is NOT (re)claimed from the sea.'. There's plenty of polders that have flowerfields tho, like the Noordoostpolder and Anna Paulowna polder
@@sjaak5172 true. Ik had vooral de bollenvelden bij Lisse voor ogen.
Mike Spaans wow thanks for the detail and direction and the kind way in which you explained it!
@@johnnyharris Also i'm not sure if i missed it, but we used the windmills for sawing wood and grinding grain aswell. Ofcourse the main topic was water so its understandable you left that out.
Waarom? Niet vaak in de genoemde polders geweest?
I really hope TH-cam starts transitioning into more topics like these, I find this way more interesting than a reaction video or prank video or whatever the kids are doing these days
?? Stuff like this has always been on TH-cam
boomer
but this video is great lmao
yeah I don't want youtube censor anything - sometimes I want to watch a cat video : )
Even as a Dutch person I learned a lot from this video, keep it up, legit vibing to your videos.
You know “CGP Grey” cringes when he hears *The Dutch, Holland and Netherlands are the same thing* .
so happy to read this comment ;)
exactly
@@BakjeLeip no shit Sherlock
You know many many dutch people cringe aswell. As it's just not true.
@@CamperPro2012 This is why we can't have nice conversations on TH-cam ...
7:56, that's not the Amstel river. That's 't Ij. The Amstel river runs through the old part of the city towards the South.
Joël van Delden bah that’s right. I total mis labeled. Thanks for catching!!
@@johnnyharris No worries! Thankbyou for replying. Great video by the way! As a dutchie it is always nice to see my country through the eyes of others!
* 't IJ.
De i en de j moeten altijd beide met een hoofdletter worden geschreven :)
@@Niels-3 ...Heel precies zijn we ({; D ...!
North not South
You forgot to name the video “How the Dutch stole the ocean”.
Everyone laughing at Australia for declaring war on emus
But the Netherlands is at war with the ocean and it has been happening for hundreds of years
But the Dutch are winning that war :^)
@dominic k I truly wonder what facts/statistics you’ve based this off of. Yes, there are areas that are sinking significantly, but claiming that that land will dissapear into the sea is quite shortsighted. Besides, there are solutions to those problems, it’s not about winning or losing, it’s about playing even. You lose some, you win some.
Hey
De zee oorlog zoals wij het noemen
Or sea wars is very serious
It has more drama then game of thrones
Ah the great emu war. technically we are still at war with the emus because a treaty was never signed
Well thats not true its bassically build dam now live normally
I wasn't expecting anything crazy but wow, I'm shocked how amazing and interesting it is. Love from France, it's always a pleasure to go to Amsterdam
"They built a huge wall..."
Donald Trump has entered the chat.
Lmao
I don't know why you're even bringing your President Trump name here. Annoying...
A Jen Nungshi Because Trump is a racist whack job who’s obsessed with building a ridiculous border wall.
And they made Germany pay for it...
For us Trump is a living meme
The Dutch the real water benders
😂😂😂
Lol
Water and earth, but yet our land is flatter den ex wife
Me a dutchman sees the ocean: finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary
We are on a 70 year winning streak, the ocean is not a worthy opponent. We need to look elsewhere. Also the projected sea level increases is only what? Like 1 meter this century? That's nothing, we would not even have to change anything. We started to prepare for the 1 in 10.000 year storm, what else could we do. The ocean has to increase its game
Look up zealandia.
Poseidon: Let me flood the world
The Dutch: Not today, you fool.
@@StewieG46 climate change will melt all ice sea levels rise then whole country underwater
Build a wall, and the ocean gonna pay for it..
The ocean can't wait for the climate change to get its revenge
@@Anita_Dick nah a bigger wall is always the answer
@@sjaakbral83 eventually nature always wins!
Yea we good in building walls
@@Anita_Dick nah maybe in the usa but not in the netherlands we mastered that shit by now
Johnny proves time and time again that his music taste is as good as his content
we haven't won back land from the ocean...we invaded the sea !
Robert Rijkers Thank you! I thought I was the only one hearing this.
We would have conquered the world but the rest of the world keeps raising the waterlevels! Damn you😉
Yeah I don’t think we claimed land back, I think we took land and now the ocean is triggered
Also if we sacrifice the Netherlands we could stop the oceans rising for a bit! Plz do not take this seriously thx
@@captainyolowaffle3160 we have a plan for that 😂
Wow. This takes me back! I was there October 2019. Best trip I've had so far. But after watching this I feel like I truly did miss a lot of details. Gotta go back! Thanks for another great content Johnny!
The Mexica people did this in Tenochtitlan in the year 1325. When the Spanish in 1519 arrived they say that they never seen a city that organized, established, clean and well built before.
It’s a shame it no longer exists anymore but remnants can still be found
in 1325 amsterdam was a little village ;-) there are much older dutch cities especially along the river rhine which was the border of the roman empire
This needs a video!!!
Tenochtitlan es como Venecia, comenzó con Islas y se canalizó y rellenó pero era un solo cuerpo de agua con espacio finíto. No es lo mismo que se habla acá, al drenar el lago de Texcoco ya "se pudo concretar el proyecto" (énfasis en las comillas); el mar y los vientos de Holanda son una cosa constante que lleva mas de 500 años bajo control a punta de ingeniería hídrica de la mas alta complejidad.El mar nunca va a parar de erosionar o tratar de reclamar esta tierra.
isnt that mexico city?
Tenochtitlan and it's inhabitants were probably our spirit cousins. #Waterspirits #Netherlands
A few years ago I was in Zeeland with my school. There is a village where they have a glass cylinder filled with water that is directly connected to the ocean. So you're standing in the middle of the village and you can actually see how low under the water level you are.
Duuuuude I started my channel in the Netherlands! I love that you made this breakdown!
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Hier was ik naar op zoek
I N G E P O L D E R D
Ewa niffo
@@hubachub5116 Zij gegroet, bloedverwant in de vierde graad.
Willem van Oranje / Guillaume d'Orange leuk mattie
I N G E P O L D E R D
British: We mastered the waves!
The Dutch: *laughs in colonization*
I just want to know where you get your music from.
me too!
Its just a song by khalid
@@joshentertainment2 instrumental?
@@seraphimsforge-master5433 can we talk by khalid
@@joshentertainment2 thanks 🎹🎛️🎧
6:50 actually only a relative small part of our coast looks like that. Most is beaches with dunes, some dunes do get extra sand to build them up or foundations. But our coast is mostly soft and partially hard coast.
I`m Dutch and I really love this video. I`ve been intrigued bij the Deltaworks for a while and even though we've learned about this in school, it`s never looked as appealing as it does now. Really want to go to a museum about this stuff right now and learn more. Great video
You should've absolutely talked about the delta works, they're almost as impressive as Flevoland. And if you make a follow-up video, be sure to include 1953 as a big part of it. It really sparked the modernization of water management.
Boy i love the track and editing of this video. Keep up the great work man!!!
The dutch are the people, the Netherlands is our country and Holland is A part of the Netherlands (north and south Holland combined) 😉
And the country's main destination management company for incoming tourism brands The Netherlands as Holland, see holland.com.
@@lennartschoemaker6367 EXACTLY! LOL
Dym fan Ohhh so happy that we dutchies calt Nederland (The Netherlands)
@@lennartschoemaker6367 I am from Holland and hoand is one part of the country I as a Dutch And all the ather dutchies hate it that every budy calt as holland it is the netherlands
2:44 the original name calt is Tessel but You spel Texel but you don't say the x
Been watching your videos for the past few hours and am so glad for TH-cam's suggestion. Your work is incredible man, I hope you'll continue to make these 🙌🏻
why don't you have a patreon? I literally just went down to description to do a donation! I love your videos soo freaking much! We want to support you dude!
Mykola Hlushakov absolutely agree!
im going to amsterdam soon and I'm so excited to make a travel vlog inspired by your style! As a solo female traveler its a little harder to film but I'm still learning, your videos give me so many ideas!
This was a faulous video - thanks so much. I'm coming to Amsterdam soon so this context will make my stay that much more meaningful.
“Where are we going?”
“Trexel”
“Texel”
You actually call it “Tessel”
By a Dutchmen
I pronounce it as 'Teksel' and I live close to Den Helder lmao
The more you know
@@marittas1609 but that's not the correct way
Yess Its Truee Tessel it is 🙌🏼
Also a Dutchmen
Btw* We call it 'Nederland'
Ik ben op die boot zo vaak geweest
Amazing video man! I was constantly thinking that you should mention the Delta Works, until your disclaimer. A fun other little thing is that we do not only have provinces and municipalities in the Netherlands, but also ‘Water boards’ that are state bodies with their own elections and representatives and who are devoted entirely to the management of water. So that means: defence from
water, the cleaning of water, transportation over/through water. I love it.
These videos are changing my life, honestly.
wow I love your videos always so beautiful and informed and funny! And I love the Netherlands! You guys should visit South Africa next 🇿🇦
3:45 that background music is "Good Morning" by Laxcity .. listened to it on my headphones while I was in The British Museum in London. Magical.
I spent less than 24 hours in Amsterdam and within that time I fell in love with the city.
Dutch: I'm Winning
The Ocean: laughs in Climate Change
Out of all low-lying areas of the world, the Netherlands is probably the most likely to survive climate change.
Boy you'll all be fucking swimming while our plan B: Our houseboats and floating buildings will be roaming the seas conquering every nautical mile again. Muhaha
not sure if you know but in the Netherland they even made House Boats that drife on water
wat happend once can happend again and the Dutch people will do over again to beat the ocean
God the climate is never static we just add to the processes' that cause it. Climate Change is a constant pre-human and will always be. So the ocean never stopped laughing.
Mike O'Keeffe We know, but humans have added so much that the balance is disturbed, causing the climate to change much faster than it ever did. Species (and the human culture as a whole) need time to adapt to changing environments, and that time is what we’re taking away. Never did any researcher say that climate change is bad. The climate change we now experience (and that we are by far the main contributor of) is dangerous because it isn’t natural and is much much faster than natural climate change
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dutch people: we declare this sea as a lake
foreigners: no that’s definitely a sea, anyway you slice it, it’s a sea.
dutch people: make sea into lake
foreigners: surprised pikachu face.
I was recently in Europe and I fell in love with it, I hope to go back soon!
0:40 it's truly a wonder you're still together
Water management has in many ways also influenced our politics. Google 'Poldermodel'!
I’m here in Amsterdam and looking up on TH-cam and one of my favourite TH-camrs has done this film thanks
Johnny Harris now I get what’s going on here
water: exists
the dutch: G E K O L O N S E E R D
Fighting the nature while making their capital look amazing ✅
No one goes to Flevoland or Zeeland.
I literally hear not a single tourist that wants to go to either of these provinces when these two are amazing in their own right.
It is always fucking Amsterdam.
@@AngryDemonBowser I know right, even here in the north we don't get ANY tourists, they all, go to amsterdam...
The capital of the Netherlands is The Hague.
@@adrechsel you are wrong
@@adrechsel Following universal terms, The Hague is the political capital, rotterdam is the economic capital and amsterdam is the tourist capital, but over time with all of the netherlands we've decided to call amsterdam the capital
Many parts of the video show such wonderful images of nature. I have visited the Netherlands once, and immediately fallen in love with it.
now i understand her, "if i hear one more thing about the water" hahaha
I'm from the Netherlands and I didn't even know all of this. Good job!
Your r fuckup....
Common... this is like first year highschool stuff
wat? dat kan je niet menen! heb je geen geschiedenis gehad???
@@stijnhs not even highschool, i got this on primary school.
@@michielvdvlies3315 yeah true, I mentioned that cuz that would be the worst case scenario for me but you're completely right, most people would learn stuff like this at the primary school
As a Dutch living abroad for many years, this is one of the things that I’m proud of for my birth country. The Dutch are hired to reclaim land from the sea everywhere in the world, Singapore, Dubai and many more. Very nice video but indeed, just scratching the surface.
6:23 lol I can see my house.
The Nederlands =/= Holland
Holland is just a part of The Netherlands...
Actually the fight against the water was first fought by using Terpen.
Dunno, i really think Dutch culture is more than cheese, windmills and tulips.
Rogier is hier this ☝🏻Holland is not The Netherlands!
@@ReneSebastian He didn't say that. He said for convenience sake since everyone outside of the Netherlands (including my dutch friend) use Holland instead of the Netherlands half the time. He said there are reasons they are different and to just google it if people didn't know.
To be fair, this video is not about Dutch culture, it’s about how the Netherlands manages their water.
Wrm is dat zo erg? Is net als hoe iedereen de Verenigde staten Amerika noemt, maar dan andersom sinds Amerika beide continenten is
@@jinjunliu2401 McOinky Holland refereerd aan twee provincies waar altijd de nadruk op ligt. En dan zijn er mensen die zeggen 🤷♂️ "maar het is toch hetzelfde als Nederlanders?".
🤦♂️- "gewoon nee".
Limburg is niet Holland.
Brabant is niet Holland.
Drenthe is niet Holland.
Overijssel is geen Holland.
Groningen is geen Holland.
Zeeland is geen Holland.
Utrecht is geen Holland.
En Friesland is al helemaal geen Holland.
Flevoland, is raar.
Al die provincies zijn ondergeschoven aan Holland, terwijl ze net zo veel geschiedenis hebben en cultuur(met uitzondering van Flevoland want die is raar). Die geschiedenis en cultuur zijn anders als in Holland. Soms ook taal die anders is. Het is gewoon vervelend wanneer mensen dingen zo plat maken. Zeker omdat het "gemakkelijker" is? Het is gewoon fout.
this is the channel which makes one of the most amazing intros IN THE WORLD.
7:56 that river is actually called 'ij' (pronounce like eye but more y-ish) the Amstel is the one facing the old central station
Guru of video editing and storytelling, how did you acquire permit to fly drone in AMS?
you just don't
Probably stock footage!
You're allowed until your not.
@@cohenfolkson LOL yes, exactly. forgiveness rather than permission...
Probably didn't and just blatently broke the law. (Or stock footage I guess) Maybe we should send this to the people who gave a ticket to the Guy who made a video of the tower in Utrecht.@
This makes me wanna visit the Netherlands and Amsterdam 🥺
If you ever do please skip Amsterdam (maybe go 1 day) and go to Maastricht, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Groningen, Zwolle & Friesland!
Please dont skip Amsterdam! Lol..but ofcourse there are here many nice cities. I welcome you😊
To be fair, Holland was one of the regions of the Netherlands which was created through the largest land reclamation projects in history and thus also kickstarted its economic success and wealth accumulation during the Dutch Republic
Not entirely correct. The core lands of the county of Holland was the coastal dune area between Voorne and Alkmaar.
As a Dutch person, watching these kind of videos is a guilty pleasure. Gotta say I love your editing in this! That old painting at 2:38 is my desktop background now.
Great stuff Johnny, as an American you are well educated and knowledgeable! Please spread the knowledge far and wide in the States, it's needed! Been U.S Three times and it's scary how ignorant some Americans are about the Globe.
how come they didn't suffer from all the windmill cancer?
Millions die a year from windmill cancer in the netherlands.
MayoChips I can confirm, my uncles cows got launched into the air a few months ago and now their dead bodies lie in the north sea
The BackYard yeah we only got about 17 million people living in our country, I can confirm that we’ll all be gone in 18 years!!!
They get excellent healthcare that can catch it before it becomes a serious thing
@@MayoChipz Windmills are something different than wind turbines. And saying that the country is full of them is a bit of an exaggeration
"sometimes they break, but for the most part, it's a success story...."
glosses over the most significant disaster that The Netherlands ever had to endure :')
RIGHT
@@JustIsold well, you might call a small event called the second world war somewhat more significant
The saint Caterina flood?
@@remko2 but that does not really qualify for "disaster" in this context, does it?
@@jasperdelange4748 no, I mean the 1953 northsea flood, it was a flooding affecting the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and small parts of Franse as well as Germany... roughly 20% of Dutch territory was flooded, some parts for weeks on end.
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Fun little fact. The shore you see over here is the start of the duinendijk in Den Helder. The dijk are the hills along the entire western coast of the netherland (and I mean all of it) that keep the north of the country from drowning by 4 meter high seawater. You will undoubtedly see it if you were to travel to Texel, as the only form of public transportation to Texel is throught Den Helder, and the dijk ends at the port of the TESO 1, the ferry that brings you there.
I live in Den Helder, so I recognized the place immediatly. Anyway, fun video!
How they managed to remove salt from the soil would've been a big point to cover
For centuries the go-to crop to plant as soon as the area is pumped dry, is rapeseed/coleseed. It has high resistance to salinity. But the process takes years and is really complicated. In Dutch it is called 'polder ontginning' and it's a well developed art.
Intelligence is knowing the difference between Holland and The Netherlands.
Wisdom is knowing when it doesn't matter.
Correct. In this case it mattered less since he was mainly talking about the county of Holland and its modern equivalents.
Each of your videos blows my mind
Thank you for making them.
there are two hollands, south holland and north holland, they are provinces in the netherlands
calling the netherlands holland is like calling the united states dakota
just dakota
@@yanishrambocus3774 true! i'll change it to that thanks
@@kimehrenschiold1693 good job
In Germany the term „Holland“ is used to describe the Netherlands as a country ( I live 5 kilometres away from the border)
thats pretty inaccurate, Holland has a much different historical connotation with regards to the country than what you are saying.
The map on the left is not from 1300, definitely later. A lot of the land in the south of Holland and Zeeland only flooded during the Elizabeths floods in the early 1400's. And the Haarlemmermeer (Which was 3 seperate lakes back then) and some of the other lakes used to be much smaller around 1300 but greatly expanded in the 3 centuries after by unsustainable peat digging on the edges.
The history of land reclamation in the Netherlands has never been a linear process from less to more land, with natural events and human intervention both creating and taking away land.
elizabethvloed 1421, south holland got more water than friesland
Such an amazing video, loved it so much, thank you.
I feel like Louisiana is the USA should adopt some of this.
Great video.
Speechless!!! What an awesome video!!!
Great video! Hope you two enjoyed your time in The Netherlands.
One small thing: the canal you pointed out as the Amstel is actually "Het IJ", connected to the "Noordzeekanaal" and "Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal". The Amstel is in the center of Amsterdam; the one with the famous "Magere Brug" (or "Skinny Bridge") going over it.
And a recommendation if you liked Texel: definitely visit the island of Terschelling next time, even cooler place 😉
- an Amsterdammer
''I mean it's totally crazy"
Johnny: Guys wth are you doing? Why are you building a wall in the water?
The dutch: Land.
Johnny: What?
The dutch: *LAND*
LAAAAAAND!!!
I'm Dutch and I learned lots of new things from this video
Same, it makes me proud at what our nation has achieved
And there's a vast amount of history that has been whitewashed to undervalue our influence worldwide.
(Discovery of Australia and New Zealand by Abel Tasman, which is often credited to James Cook.
Saturn's rings first noticed by Christiaan Huygens, which is credited to Galileo.
The influence of Dutch culture on New Amsterdam/New York)
It's fascinating.
Am I the only the one that whispered “can we just talk” in every part of the background music
What's the music name
@@entertainmentprime101 Talk by Khalid
@@kenan9919 Thank you very much
@@entertainmentprime101 You're welcome!
But he has used a different version, do you know which version this is?
2:51 Texel is acutally pronounced like Tessel.
Liked the voice without the background noise/music. Nicely modulated voices. Interesting facts. Thanks for sharing skillshare stuff useful for my knowledge course content. Like the oranje jacket. Very dutch.
Further reading: “Why the Dutch are different” by Ben Coates. Talks about all of this, plus the historical prevalence of cheese in the diet which is why they’re so tall.
bruh I don't eat cheese yet Im still kinda tall, maybe genes (didn't read book)
Wait, cheese is the reason I'm nearly 2m tall?
Actually recently a scientific study showed that most of the height gain of the last centuries has to do with progress of social well being and wealth in combination with diet.