Africa's Great Green Wall: Stopping the Spread of the Sahara
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The green solar farms on the lake I think in France its the 2nd or 3rd biggest 🤔.
First biggest water solar farm though.
Keeps is great and all, but what if you’re already bald, and you want to get on rid of stubborn patches that refuse to fall on out? How about an opposite product? Since the name keeps implies playing for keeps, you can call it funzys
@@aarononeal9830 ya but how seeds or a living tree if living there doing some damage to the soil how they need to dig and trees grow fast if seed then its fine just a pencil hole will work.
Ps I got a 7 month old mesquite tree from seed its 4 feet tall now
@@thesilentone4024 You have a good point.
Oh no!!! Not your collarbone!! Poor Simon…. Feel better buddy!
Don't know what I found more interesting... The content of the video or the fact that Simon had time to go mountain biking between hosting 100 TH-cam channels
Well apparently he tried to rush it and look what happened.
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Also see the anthropologist James DeMeo from the USA and also the international Nexus-Magazine.
I may have watched things in the wrong order, but as the previous video I watched was a Side Projects about the most dangerous toys invented and his references to a slip'n'slide, when I saw him I though, hmm??? Slip'n'Slide accident? lol
Simon broke his arm fighting off a version of Simon invading our timeline. He ran out of channels to create and wanted to create one within our universe.
The alternate Simon never lost his hair
@@wyatthill6252 In that universe he invented keeps
Poor Simon broke his collar bone flogging Danny for longer intros. Allegedly. Heal quickly, Legend!
14 minutes epic blaze intro...the revolution is at hand!
"Maybe it was a sick ostrich...."
Danny, this is your chance bro, he's down an arm, he can't put up much of a fight! #FreeDanny
Simon: The biggest living organism
The Boreal forest: Am I joke to you?
There once was a forest from Boreal,
that spoke, "Are I not seen as for-real?"
There, now you're technically a joke...
Limerick *
@@Battle_Beard Well, I could add a few more lines about that guy from Nantucket...
😁
@@TarkMcCoy to continue your limerick...
"With limbs you can climb
And greenery sublime
I believe that I'm quite a big deal!"
Ahh, the obligatory American "we have the biggest" claim.
Obviously he broke his collar bone trying to prevent Danny's escape
Okay, so it hasn't gone exactly in the direction originally envisioned. It has accomplished a lot and instead of denigrating it for not achieving its goal, we should be building upon what has been accomplished. In reality, very few truly "mega" projects in history have ultimately turned out as they were first envisioned.
Stay positive bro, maybe one day slavery will be abolished and we will have world peace... oh wait... im not smoking what you are.... id love to be as naive as you.
It's a learning as we go. One way or many others, this project/these projects are going to be massively scaled up in the future. The more we learn now the better we will perform in the future.
We have the ideas but we’re just not there yet to successfully control the weather or landscape of the earth. We’re great at being able to take away but don’t know how to effectively put back. This will never work without the money and infrastructure to water and seed a desert
The thing about this one is it's historical precedence. Here in Arizona you can find areas where the Native Americans were geoforming the terrain, simply by digging shallow depressions roughly perpendicular to the path water would take. And these weren't always a few inches deep, spaced every few feet. These are features only noticable by the air. Distinct green stripes in the desert, features we are replicating by accident with all the roads, and especially the canals, that criss cross the desert.
It works by slowing down the run off from the intense, but very short lived, desert thunderstorms just enough to percolate down through the dry, cracked topsoil. Much of the rainfall we see in the desert does just that, flow right over where it's needed and on down the dry creek beds. This technique, over generations, not years or even decades, but with enough time it theoretically could shift weather patterns. The problem is often to get more rain in one area it will rain less in another.
Granted, the native Americans weren't trying to turn the entire untied states green. I don't want to think of the chaos that would ensue if parts of SE Asia dry up while N Africa and the Middle East turn lush green.
My last mountain bike crashed involved a deer, a concussion, a long walk home, and no real memory of what happened. Always wear your helmets, kids. I'd be brain dead without my MIPS helmet.
Yep, I'd be much worse off if I hadn't been wearing a helmet.
Sir.. are you from Australia?
What happened to the deer? 😉
Was the deer wearing a helmet?
@@megaprojects9649 your beard would be just shifted to head just before fall thereby providing much more protection than any helmet. Its alive and has an obvious symbiotic relationship with you. No harm to the host lol. Also just admit broke arm due to rubbing blaze oil too vigorously into that beard. Pretty stressful to the bones lifting a 55 gal drum of oil every morning to keep that beard ALIVE!
Do one on the the Great Man Made River in libya which cost over 20 billion and pumps water from the worlds largest ancient aquifer which has 150000 cubic km of ground water (more water than the nile river discharges in 500 years)
I’d watch that.
@@Battle_Beard yup. I'm a sucker for "more water than the Nile in 500 years" videos.
Send it.
That sounds like a MEGAproject for sure!
Listen to Abdallah Zargelin and make the video. Sounds incredible 🤩
Nubian sandstone aquifer system
Even if it doesn't reach the goals, it's certainly better than doing nothing at all or trying to stubbornly ignore the issue
I lived in Ghana's Northern Region briefly in year ~2001. It was hot, and dry, and visibly very like many of the videos you showed - red dirt, some-but-infrequent trees, dry farming and occasionally a water source. It was an unpleasant and challenging place for anyone to live a self-sufficient lifestyle but that's NOT EVEN IN the Sahel which is further north yet ...
Hard life there im sure. Africas pop has tripled in last 100 years. Its a big place but not a great place for food production. It will become the worse. Mass starvation event in the history of mankind if they dont learn how to feed themselves without imported food.
This project gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity. Thank you Simon.
Not quite Sudan, but when I was 25 I went to Egypt and met a man of similar age while in the South; I remember asking him if it ever rained there, and his response was "yes, it rains, I remember it raining once" ...ONCE in his lifetime's memory he could remember rain! was a big eye-opener for me
Nice I'm trying to plant out most off my 53 Acer farm in native plants for the bird's and native animals growing back the forest in Tasmania Australia
I lived in Palm springs California, & saw how the desert would eat whole golf courses trees & all in under 2 years of not being kept up, I couldn't imagine the Great Sahara being tamed..
Just by total chance, I looked at palm springs on google maps the other day. River extraction right ? Colarado river ? I was looking to compare church density compared to Texas. A bit random I know. But such is life. Golf courses upstream cost farms of water downstream. 👍
I was tracing the river from hoover dam. Looking for churches. Particuarly in reservation areas. No idea why. Insomnia. There, in the middle of where there should be no green.. pockets of green. And yeah.. seems Texas has a church every block.. with ford pickups parked outside. Sigh.
A dessert taking over a golf isn't a bad thing. I'd rather look at a dessert then fat bad dressed white old men hit a ball and chase after it.
@@paulcrowley2014 Dont disagree. I was thinking of the fish downsream. The ones trump hated. You know that story. Golf in desert v fish downstream. 👍
How big is a golf course? Ever seen one 10 miles on its shortest dimension?
Funny, Millions of years ago the Sahara was under water and just about "5000?" years ago it was a lush land with lots of rain. The earth naturally wobbles, it's called axial precession and this has a effect on the seasons and how glaciers shrink and grow over thousands of years. Just learned about it after watching this video. Hope the "wall" helps. Thanks for posting................
Honestly I'm almost as worried about what our boy with the blaze is going to do when he can't slap the script
Slap it on his thigh...like a boss!!
Oh. Didn't even think about that. Yikes!!
His head
Slap danny and sam.
I don't even think I needed to record a single BB vid with the sling. It's wild how quickly I got better with this new metal bone. It's sweet.
One of the most amazing projects I have heard over the years, I say any progress is a way to a brighter and greener future and a greener africa
This is a definite megaproject
And this megaproject that can and change the world for the better.
@@XenoRaptor-98765 I am weardly happy to finaly see a mega project that has a chance to do that. Now if only the rest of the world had that level of cooperation.
Standard forestry practice to plant 5 saplings for each tree felled, a feature which at least one toilet roll manufacturer has used to promote their green credentials !
The 5 become one as death and thinning take place to leave one adult/ mature tree to be felled before the process starts again.
A broken clavicle is a painful cycling right of passage!
I really do feel that the restoration of the California Condors from extinction is a Megaproject, granted a semi-megaproject, but it still fits..
Sideproject?
@@rainbowiam I was thinking that, but the project got unusually complex and doesn't quite fit as a three-minute entry. Maybe Simon could start another channel...after all he's got way too much spare time with this mountain biking hobby.
Buzzards...
How does Simon have time for mountian biking? Surely managing the amount of channels he is involved in is a mega project in itself
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They brought Cactus and Mesquite from the Americas which have done great alongside Agave that was also brought over. The Agave is liked but the locals complain about the spines of the other two. They want to eliminate them but are often reluctant because they are the only green plants to feed livestock during droughts.
I think Simon must have hurt his arm picking up the script for the next “epic” Business Blaze, part of Danny’s escape plan.
Simon mountain bikes? Hell yeah man! Broken collarbone, almost a right of passage for mtb haha.
Exactly what I thought!
You’ve either broken it, or you’re going to. It’s a club.
I’m not in it yet, and I’m not looking forward to joining.
Haven’t done my collarbone, but separated both AC’s as well as broke, fractured, and dislocated my wrist all at once. That was fun.
Does getting hit by a car count as a substitute? It had better. It took longer to recover from that than a mere collarbone injury. 2 weeks before being able to get to the front door without help. 4 weeks to be able to get up stairs by myself. 5 weeks before I could ditch the crutches occasionally. And a full 6 months before my balance recovered well enough to get back on a bike.
@@Markle2k glad you recovered that sounds like a bad time.
So, in summary, the continent of Africa needs Keeps.
How is mexico supposed to pay for this?
The Sahara isn't sending its best, folks
The Earth has been ' Warming " since the last Ice Age just a scant 12k years ago. Heck the Sahara Desert was a large lake just 7k years ago ( water left over from when the Ice Melted ) The idea of terraforming the creeping desert into a green wall is nice, but most likely won't work. What if they have another natural arid disaster like they did in 1914 and the whole area goes into another year long drought? I suggested many decades ago, to pump the ocean water into the middle of the desert, this way, we will lower the oceans, and the water will evaporate and create the needed rain clouds to rehydrate the surrounding area.
This sounds like a smart idea but is it without risk ?
You should do the ITER fusion power plant or just Fusion power in general.
Oh shit Simon! Heal up bro, it's hard to keep up with a little one when you're broken!
I hope you heal swiftly Simon! Love all of your channels😊❤
Don’t lament your lack of hair, We love your bald self exactly the way you are.
The greening of marginal arid land over the past decades is one of the good pieces of environmental news we don't hear enough about.
However, credit where credit is due. It is due in no small measure to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide as much as to tree planting schemes such as this.
ssssttttt, don't steal the honey from the fat cats
terraforming Mars? how about terraforming the deserts on earth . . . ?
It makes no sense for mega billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to fund space projects for us to live on Mars. Why don't they just invest in saving Earth?!.....I know. Because it will make them even more rich!! The unbelievable greed of the mega rich will end up killing us all!
I think the best solution is to build canals and reservoirs from lake chad, the Nile and lake Victoria westwards similar to the canals built from the Euphrates in Iraq
Now this is truly a megaproject! Of all the ones you have done since 2019? This is up there with THE absolute best!
Africa's future remains uncertain but with this amazing project underway that future may be sealed
Unsurprisingly water is a major key element. Trees need it too! how is this obstacle going to be overcome? Of all countries looking at Africa, Chad is going to be the most notoriously difficult to develop, possibly furthest African country from the sea(?)
Thank you for doing the video I requested Simon! You rock!
I do have to admit, although mot enough what they have done is very, very impressive
Today I learned Simon is only 34! I totally thought he was like in his 50’s
Yeah he's the same age as me but we look like total opposites. I look like I'm in my 20's and he looks like he's in his 40's.😬
should have a look at some of his videos from way back when he started...quite a cute cheeky chappie...it's the beard that has aged him...🎇😁🎇🤪🎇
He’s 34. His hair is in its 50s.
Neat! A successful outcome would be cool but I do hope it doesn’t adversely affect the Saharan dust feeding the Amazon.
Wanna drop these Cold War projects again:
A10 the flying gun.
The development of the Bradley IFV
The thing is it's not to change the desert but to prevent its advancement into the Sahel region . Speaking from experience here as the northern part of my country now experiences more dry season compared to just 6 year ego .
I have never sat through the promotional bits in Simon's videos in my life and I watch a lot. I did this time. Hilarious.
I hope you feel better soon, Simon. I like watching your videos to go to sleep to. youre really educational as well. Take care.
Very interesting video. I hope this project achieves its goal.. even a portion would be great!
Just glad to see someone doing something.
I'm confused and laughing at how most of the comments are of simon preventing Danny's escape 🤣🤣
It a running joke on his channel 'Business Blaze' that he keeps his writer, Danny, chained to a radiator in his basement. Allegedly. #FreeDanny
@@jimcappa6815 oh so that's why
This is the first video I've seen with your sling! Hope it's feeling better. I am now prepared for a month or two of "Hello welcome to [Insert Channel Name], I'm your host Simon Whistler and this is my broken collarbone. Let's get into today's video."
Seems you missed some of yesterday's videos on his 9 other channels 🙃
Correction, he never mentions his surname.
i really don't have anything to say about this on top of my head, its so random and simple project!
Love it ...makes me feel warm and fuzzy!
So Sorry you got Injured Simon! Hope you Heal fast! If ya happen to slow down on new videos I understand! Just get better man! Thanks for all the Awesome videos on all your channels!
I know you did Desertec recently. There is a theory that solar panels help improve the conditions to grow greenery as solar panels or mirrors make shadows and capture humidity that ends up on the soil and help to enrich it with extra humidity. Combined with the forestry program, altogether, could make a real difference in fighting desertification.
I've heard about this too, but I've also recently found out that if the sahara went totally green, it would screw over south america, as it is fed Phosphorous by sand blowing all the way over there. Yes. Really, it's mentioned on the NASA site if you give it a search online. Still, even just stopping the Sahara expanding would do a lot of good, and there's gotta be a better solution to fertilise the soils of South America.
@@michaelchildish Yeah. You watched it alright!
OOOOOH SHRED ON BRO...I separated my shoulder last fall 🤣
I'm so sorry about your clavicle! I've heard that's a particularly painful break. Hopefully it heals fast!
There's a TopTenz video where he is sans-sling, but you can still spot the bandage from the surgery where the plate was put in.
Simon's beard makes me realize that going bald is not the end. A beard can compensate for it
Indeed, with such a magnificent beard, hair as well would just be overwhelming.
He just outgrew his hairline
I hope you heal quickly Simon! You’re a trooper for not skipping a beat. Have a good weekend!
What makes this project wonderful is that it's not a "great sacrifice to combat climate change", living in those regions, you don't have to believe in any eco-arguments to appreciate a project that gives you a job, secures your food and water supply, and most importantly, keeps the sand dunes out of your living room.
First of all, HUGE fan. I sub to all of your channels. I really appreciate how you put both metric and "freedom unit" measurements in the videos. I have, however, noticed that there is one you always seem to miss. Most Americans have NO idea what a hectare is. If you could please see your way to also including the measurement in acres, it would be a welcome addition. Thanks.
I’m guessing 100mx100m
I hope you're already healed or on your way to healing Simon, best of luck!
Get well soon my man. I love what you do
Love the humor in the ad must have good pain killers 😂
Imagine if instead of sending priceless resources and aid to a growing, unsustainable population for decades, the rest of the world had been helping African learn how to improve agriculture and land management. If only.
Charity vs investment/empowerment. This is always how that works out.
I've been following the great green wall in Instagram for a few years, great idea
If there's a lush forest to the south then isn't this just building a green wall between the desert... and a green wall?
Its grasslands to the south.
@@flamcheeseful ahh thank you. Grass will lose to sand every time.
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I know Simon keeps saying he wishes he had keeps at a younger age but honestly... Chrome Dome + Righteous Beardage = Win if done right and he is...
Sorry for your injury. Hope you will get better soon.
Ive always wondered, if there was a massive pipeline pumping water from the rising oceans to the middle of a desert like this, the water would evaporate and let more stuff grow there. The left over salt would make a giant salt flat type place but would that be enough to geoengineer to stop rising oceans and also help them get some much needed moisture there?
its salt water,, maybe possible if they have a water-filter-converter of the ocean water adding it to chemically cleaned/filtered water,, isnt tgere a urine-to water converter?? im sure genius scientist could also filter the ocean water chemically add and subtract minerals to make it not only sustainable but a fertile-oriented water towards the plant but not drinkable for people., have the large filter build sturdily against tides water-sun corrosion, possibly underground and get the filtered water flow from the ocean to the forest project., manmade forestation needs a lot of water everyday and we dont have that so we definitely need recyclable water, from the vast ocean to the trees.
Simon, was that really you on the bike or just a minion? Whoever it was, they really nailed the landing! I know breathing for the next several months will be noticeable but you'll tough it out.
Breathing is now the worst.
Ooooooof
I learned something today. Thank you 🙏
I fear overpopulation is the biggest problem in Africa.
Also the way they are building the Green wall is very bad.
Too much corruption i guess.
Africa is 70% the size of Asia. Considering that Asia is home to 4.56B humans, Africa at just 1.2B humans, would need to more than double its population to even come close to the population density of Asia. No, there aren't too many people in Africa. There's literally zero evidence to support your argument.
@@StfuFFS You do realize the ammount of Desert right?
Its also about timing and populations growth.
There is also a thing called temporary overpopulation which can do a lot of damage.
Plus Asia isnt exactly a example of how to live.
Overpopulation and the suïcide Economy system is destroying ourselves.
@@bundleofhumble3119 you know, all you have to do is scratch the surface of a "compassionate" argument about helping Africa before you find the smuggled Marxist roots. The same bs bases you just espoused led to the genocide committed against the Eritrean people by the communists in Ethiopia. No, you're wrong. Capitalism has lifted and is lifting millions out of abject poverty in Africa and is its LITERAL salvation.
@@StfuFFS I dont think so and i am not on any side here, it Might be their Salvation to poverty but it Will Still bring us close to Total destruction. more then 50% of the earth its landmass is allready being used for food and the Meat industry with its living hell for animals is allready not sustainable.
@@StfuFFS No no, there aren't too many people in Africa.
There are too many people who can't provide for themselves and require handouts from the Western civilisations.
There are too many people in Africa who will resort to corruption just to have the slightest possible taste of Western living.
We(The West) have been helping Africa for like 50 years and it's still an absolute hellhole on earth, caused by the mismanagement and corruption of African "officials".
I'll buy keeps when Simon grows his hair back!
Wow. This is such a fantastic project. I can only imagine what Africa can look like in 50 years or 100 years if this project continues.
Still a shit hole.
This is an awesome project! I love to see it!!
Kinda interesting how one of the poorest and hardest hit ares of the world can get something like this going, meanwhile some first world countries are stuck debating things and can't get much of anything done.
I cant imagine Simon without hair, in fact I think Simon with hair could be cursed.
Hosted by Simon "Sling Blaze" Whistler.
Sling Blaze for the win.
I'm 31 😄 and I've recently given up my head of hair, too. No balding, maybe some, but just mostly wanting to stay cool more easily.
Haven't watched this but am commenting befor I watch .
Looks like you read my mind about two months ego I searched TH-cam. If anyone was talking about the great green wall project. But found none and today a got a recommendation from TH-cam. Nice my expectations are hight
Mom did the total shoulder replacement a few months ago at 85. She got a much better brace and is mostly recovered now. You got this but I would give up the mountain bike.
Yup, broke my collar bone @14yo. I had to wear this brace that pulled my shoulders back and crossed my back. Never used a sling that pulls down on that bone?...
I rolled over in my sleep on that first night once.... once...
Also had alot of fun trying to wash off in the shower.
I wore sandals for months.
I also drummed one handed. From then on I understood just how hard Rick Allen had to work to adjust.
(Def Leppard drummer)
So, Mr. Simon. Hope it heals fast.
What a project!...more power to their elbow and their perseverance...
Simon...why are you reading at such a speed...got a train to catch?
Thank you for the miles and Fahrenheit temperature measurement. I appreciate you.
Giga projects. Brilliant
As a 40-year-old who's finally broken bones for once in his life and is now healing from only two broken toes for the last two months, your resilience is not only amazing but also inspirational. Stay strong and keep going, brother!
Broken tootsies? Lol how.
@@theenzoferrari458 Very uncarefully. 😀
@@krayzeejojo why are you happy ur tootsies got broken?
So saw this year's ago at a friend's house, her husband was going bald and she left him a message on the fridge, God made few men with perfect heads, the rest he covered with hair. Just something to remember.
My husband started going bald when he was in college; in fact, I've never known him with hair on top of his head. Not that I care; he's got a mind like a steel trap and a higher IQ than a lot of people, with hair or without it.
I got a mega-project for you, our new danish energy-hub islands.. you got a good headstart on the projekt it self 😁
Acacias have a very important side effect, they are fabacaeas and fix nitrogen in the soil and make it better for growing other crops.
Simon isn't bald. It's green screened in!
His hair slipped onto his chin 😂🤔
Love what you make.Please no more of background noise.Fan forever.Thanks for knowlege
Simon your videos are so good and engaging, I started watching at the beginning of the pandemic because of the pandemic, and I thank the pandemic for introducing me to you, thank you COVID-19, thank you.
Thanks Simon, just so you know Keeps works, maybe one day they’ll have a company called Gets and you can have hair again.
They’re… trying to… stop the natural advance of the largest desert in the world? That’s an epic level of hubris.
really dig the scope of this show. on the one side we got a someone tellin' everyone who's not on a tree by the count of three "mate, you won't believe how fucking big my boat is" and on the other hand we got countries trying to fight a bloody desert. That's a spectrum and a half and I'm down.
it's like watching pulp fiction surfing between your channels at the moment, some you have a band aid, this one your arm is in a sling and others you look 100%.. my mind can't place them in any chronological order arghh..
An interesting thought is that if a tree won't survive perhaps another plant might. The American Southwest is home to a wide variety of desert plants not found in Africa. Not all of them would be a good fit but it might be worth having an ecologist look at them. A tree won't work so how about a barrel cactus? That won't work either? What about a desert shrub or hardy grass that can hold the dunes in place while soil quality builds up? Quality too low for American desert plants? What about Australian ones?
I had the exact same break and I also have a plate. Twinsies!
Hope you will heal properly. Thanks from Panama city beach FL
A very realistic approach (and rare) about this project.
Have you done a MegaProjects on the "Snowy River Mountain Scheme"? My grandfather was heavily involved in the design and construction of it, including creating several machines used to fabricate the tools required to build it. I don't know as much as I wish I did about it all, but it was one of the biggest engineering projects in Australia of the 20th century, or at least the early 20th century.
mountain biking? heck yeah! keep at it boss
Simon, you should do the U.S. VLF (very low frequency) radio transmitters like the Jim Creek Naval Radio Station, that allow encrypted communication with submerged submarines anywhere in the world.
Oh eff, i broke my left one too years ago biking, well i up a ramp too fast and landed on it . Ouch, get well soon !!!