Yea, the Indian saffron government does a lot of projects all over the country. Such as, hindu-muslim divide, destruction of independent news media, propaganda stunts such as demonetisation and CAA, changing name of different places including the name of the country itself, and projecting Feku as a God. And all the projects are hugely beneficial not for the country, but for their political party.
Re forestation efforts in last 20years have succeeded in parts of Maharashtra state so well that leopard population has increased & humans have suffered. Irrespective of results we still need green cover.
Did you make an effort to interview G. Taylor and he said only 20 or so words? Typical US style shallow reporting. He just had to point onto the 'witch' - climate change. I've just watched th-cam.com/video/k7XfLRY0JmE/w-d-xo.html where in India they have dumped rubbish and destroyed 1000 y.o. huge irrigation system, but now are reviving it. Nothing, nothing to do with the 'witch' - climate changes. G. Taylor: '...idea doesn't hold a water' 🤣🤣🤣 - very expert like! In this very video there is a lot of talk about how HUMANS destroy Aravalli Monutains - but let's call the witch - climate change! Very US style shallow reporting. What is the point of this video? What's te message?
Andrew Millison did a great job documenting India's Paani foundation water cup contest, in which farmers fixed their local desertification, village by village, in just a couple of years. It's really impressive.
That's a different region and state of Maharashtra.. that has been a good success but the northern states are not much interested in ecological balance
@@ryn2844There are plenty of people working in different areas.. Don't make opinion reading some random comment.. Indian's can do this once they see little success..Pani foundation is success of year's of hardworking.
@@anime4life636 well show me apart from the few ecological NGO that are working in Rajasthan.. who are revival of the ancient lakes.. who is working on aravali and getting results.. The distruction of yamuna and ganga.. the stubble burning.. gurgaon and NCR have destroyed the aravali.. should I go on..
I grew up in a village in the Shekhawati region of Eastern Rajasthan where the entire village was once surrounded by several small hills on each side, lending breathtaking views to the area. About 10 years ago, several mining companies starting blasting and mining one side of the hill and within 5 years the entire hill disappeared. I was shocked to see the impact on the area when I visited the village after a few years. The frequency of dust storms has increased significantly and a large part of the agricultural land is now almost barren. Rajasthan Govt. (and residents) really needs to do take urgent actions to prevent this from happening in other areas of the state.
Chipko movement is the only way. Plus indian villagers need to be educated about eco tourism. If those hills had remained, the locals would have earnt more from tourism and in a sustainable manner. Now the hills are gone, and so are lands, and so have sources of income....
eco tourism and beautification while also allowing rich politicians to live there is the solution. So if politicians will not actively work against their own land.
If you have proper documents regarding this project is destroying greeneries in RJ region then you should go to NGT or you can visit their site and submit your report they will take a step to stop this if illegal.
Yes Rajasthan Government is very very bad for protecting environment whether BJP or Congress all these corrupt politicians give tender of mining to there family and friends and they are always trying to fill there pockets. Even in the state capital Jaipur several of hills are now disappeared due to mining these uneducated and selfish , greedy politicians are the worst thing in India they deserved the worst in this world 😢
@@kracks9852It's not just about tourism, India will Loose very big area of Fertile plains, And It would be disaster for a country of 1.4 Billions which can't even feed its own people, Also they helps to deviate monsoon to Northern India. Who is responsible for this? Dumb People and Corrupt politicians. After all whole nation, not only our nation but other nations which is directly or Indirectly dependent on India for Food because India produce large amount of wheat and rice than its requirement and then we export. It will be disaster for Poor nations of Africa and other South Asian countries too.
Im from Rajasthan and I can tell you that politics, illegal mining & widespread corruption has ensured zero progress on the ground. Construction and real estate business is on boom and businessmen are happy to support the upcoming election campaigns. Most of the so called NGOs are hand in gloves with these corrupt business lobbies.
Whoa, sounds like Rajasthan is going through some serious struggles. It's frustrating to see corruption hindering progress, but thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. Let's hope for better days ahead!
I'm also from Rajasthan, and desert storm in west Rajasthan was a normal thing in summer n still is , it's not a new phenomenon or something lol. Infact desert storm reducing in frequency only every year media sensationalise things like earth is collapsing.
5:42 conservation agriculture is also a really amazing solution for this problem. Not only does it reduce the amount of soil getting taken away by wind, but it also allows farmers to grow their crops with significantly less fertilizer which reduces the GHG required to grow our food!
So far as an Indian, I haven't seen this project in action till now. I live in NCR and the quality of air is degrading each year. Hopefully, the Government take strict action and more people come forward for this great cause.
Nobody was in better position to solve the Delhi pollution crisis than the AAP government. They are in power in both Delhi and Punjab. While they curbed the pollution caused by Delhi they failed miserably in doing so in Punjab thanks to vote bank politics. Now they are giving excuses that the pollution came from Haryana and UP.
Quality of air in Delhi is degrading because of the Supreme Court. In 2012 Supreme court gave an order that groundwater could not be used for rice farming in Punjab. As a result the planting season has moved 45 days back to the start of monsoon. This also means that between rice harvest and wheat planting there is as little as 15 days. Farmers who used to mulch the crop stubble earlier now burn it as there is no time. Result since 2013 Delhi air becomes horrible from October end. Delhi never used to have air so bad before the Supreme court order.
Also, it kind of looks like mars depiction with the dust storms, it's missing the lightning storms. Solar is going to be too late for some places, and I'm guessing wind is not going to have it easy either.
I think he said something like desertification is caused by climate change and changes in rain patterns, and since trees dont really do anything to reverse that, its not a viable solution in most cases.
@@ramganesh4067 But then he made some excuse about China's government being different. What did China do different from Africa, is it an organisational or funding issue and why claim climate change makes it futile while in the next breath calling China an exception? If China is doing it differently we need to know what they're doing.
@@hurrdurrmurrgurrThey're getting things done. Because China's government isn't useless like democratic ones that talk a good game but does nothing at the end.
Indeed! But did they make an effort to interview him and he said only 20 or so words? Typical US style shallow reporting. They just had to point onto the 'witch' - climate change. I've just watched th-cam.com/video/k7XfLRY0JmE/w-d-xo.html where in India they have dumped rubbish and destroyed 1000 y.o. huge irrigation system, but now are reviving it. Nothing, nothing to do with the 'witch' - climate changes. G. Taylor: '...idea doesn't hold a water' 🤣🤣🤣 - very expert like! In this very video they talk a lot how HUMANS destroy Aravalli Monutains - but let's call the witch - climate change!
@@sagarsharma8960not everything is propoganda. We need to take up these issues with our local leaders so that they can pass it on to the central or state government.
Re forestation efforts in last 20years have succeeded in parts of Maharashtra state so well that leopard population has increased & humans have suffered. Irrespective of results we still need green cover.
@@juliuscaesar564Our country is not overpopulated compared to other Subcontinental countries like Pakistan or Bangladesh...Pakistan has twice the fertility rate at 2.1 while india has 0.9...soon india will be below the replacement rate after peaking at 1.6 billion and will crash down. already southern states have reached that state. 80% of Pakistans 22 crore population is in the narrow strip of Punjab and Sindh rest half Khyber and baloch province are mountains and desert. Compare Pakistani Punjab and Bangladesh with indian Punjab(haryana,Punjab,Himachal) and West Bengal. then you will know the difference.
If you go to Google earth you would see how much of land is converted to farmland in India. Exception is kerala and north east states where farmland and forests coexist and look how the air quality and dust control is much better in these states
You're just making up shit with no sources. Northeast is completely filled with tea farms. South is filled with coconut, rubber, coffee farms all over.
That is not the reason these two areas are different in Google Earth. It's because Kerala and North East have tropical rainforest climates, while most of the other parts if India is semi- temperat climate.
Also Kerala and NE imports a lot of foodgrains from other states. So if this replicated in all states India would have no longer be self sufficient in food.
Northeast is hill not fertile plains so it's common sense they can't grow wheat & Rice crops & don't talk about Kerala it's just a totally different state it's demography, geography, political sociology everything is exception from rest of India
2023 this year is unpredictable, As in January we receive very less Snowfall in North India, in March-April we receives heavy rainfall which destroyed crops(wheat) heavily, In May-June summer breaks up the record in Delhi, UP. Resulting in Forest Fires Burning hectares of Forest , Destroying WildLife, Even Flying birds falls down in Delhi and when the summer is going on, Kedarnath and Surrounding area were experiencing Snowfall in summers. These all were just Trailer and the climax was performed by Monsoon season with flash flood all over India. Himachal Pardesh was tremendously suffered by flash floods, Landslides destroying lives, cities, Ecosystem, Economy. The scene was completely unforgettable. But who cares, After Monsoon, Rapid unplanned develpment, Deforestation, Reducing Forest, Shortning of rivers, Mining, Deforestation, Road Construction, Tunnels, Hydro-Power projects in Himalayas all are going in their rapid. Recently, Negativity between people is increasing rapidly in India, as you can see in Manipur, Haryana. When People are killed in the name of religion. So How can we expect Care of Environment. Hope India to Revive I don't wants to Lose my Country its people, its Natue, Its Ecosystem, Its Environment, Diffrent cultures in India, Diffrent relegion in India.
Not entirely. Due to erosion the mountain range will disappear anyway in a few million years. That's the fate of all mountain ranges. Trees (and all other plants) fix soil with their roots and cover the soil with their biomass, thus preventing dust storms. So, if forests can indeed take hold, they will fix the dust problem long term. It wouldn't be a bandaid but a permanent fix.
@@lorrainegatanianhits8331 My background is in Geology and that's a very simplistic and wrong idea of both erosion, coupled with the misunderstanding of both the geography of that region and of how dust storms work. To begin with there is a huge difference between a sandstorm in a desert and a duststorm. Another mistake is thinking wind erosion in arid regions are what erodes down mountains. Instead it's the fluvial aka rainwater and surface runoff action that does the heavy lifting of eroding mountains. It's the river channels that cut down and then widens channels, and landslide, mudslides and other mass wasting methods which are triggered by saturation of topsoil by rainwater. Even in arid regions the main force that cuts down mountain is- frost wedging, aka freezing and thawing of trapped surface water. The effect of none of those can be prevent or mitigated by trees. Infact frost wedging is made worse by root wedging- which by the way is a main form of weathering caused by biogenic activity. Mining of mountains, again severely destabilized slopes, which is imperative to keep top soil from erosion. Having lots of trees with strong deep roots growing in destabilized, cut down mountains, is equvalent to taking away the main foundation holding everything together and then putting another weathering agent that increases another weather process of frost wedging. To put it bluntly, it cutting the branch you are sitting in. Now to address the misunderstanding of the sandstorm part here. Sandstorm picks up the loose sand deposits in dunes in vast plains of sand desert and you cannot mitigate that by ignoring the source plains and planting trees somewhere else; that sandstorm will just scour and sandblast through that forest like sandpaper- you think those young trees are going to survive it enough to establish? They'll just get buried by the small part of sand in lower part of the storm that hits the vegetation. The only practical method to mitigate sandstorms, is to green the desert sand plains to build a horizontal blanket of wind barrier. That area which cannot sustain a forest, but only shrubs and other ground covers that can survive in extremely hot, arid regions. And mountains, being there beyond the loose sand plains as a solid vertical barrier, high enough is the only way to physically block the wind and stop the wind from going further. If you raze it down to plains and then plant a forest, you are making an unrealistic expectations of the forest cover to stop something that's towers multiple times the height of trees. It's like expecting a landscaping ground cover plant to do the job of a brick wall. A mountain range is a vertical impervious non-living barrier which physical halts the wind carrying from the sandy plains behind. But once you blast out and level the mountain, and then plant a forest, now what you have is a pervious green live sensitive blanket. It will do absolutely nothing to stop the sandstorm from going inland, simply because of the basic logic of a horizontal cover cannot be a replacement for a vertical physical barrier
@@lorrainegatanianhits8331 Are you using a concept that might not even be true, one that will take millions of years to prove, to disprove their statement? What is wrong with you. Like, the amount of this makes no sense. Also you explained why it's a bandaid essentially. What with the if they can take hold.
The Sahara was once rainforest but shifting rainfall patterns encouraged desertification. I'm not sure how effective these strategies will be long term, but their impact might be seen more in making more people aware of the problems of climate change.
Indeed sahara was a savanna, but the point here being that the part of India surrounding the Thar deserts is semi arid and it gets incredibly hot for 8 months a year. I live about 300kms away in the mountains but we feel the effects even over here. The hot spot effect of the urban sprawl of the capital brings in dry and hot air further in the river valleys. There used to be many forests but now they are getting converted into shrublands. A huge area beyond Aravalli range is badlands with minimal water sources anyway. Saharan desertification at least took thousands of years. Here we are seeing these changes in one lifetime. It's not just concerning, it's directly affecting lives.
The video starts with a wrong fact. Thar desert is actually contracting and has been confirmed by satellite records. Thanks to intensive afforestation programs, better irrigation by indira canal and sardar sarovar, higher rainfall over eastern thar over the last 30 years and farmer cultivating more arid crops like dates, Bael, anar etc instead of water intensive crops
Yes, Western news channel are very good in narrative/propaganda create. They are very busy showing India down or India can't do it. They are really jealous in India's success.
Here is my suggestion for greening deserts: 1. Use Supercritical water oxidation to convert fecal waste into water 2. Use this water and other organic waste to fertilize the soil 3. Focus on planting big trees that can provide shade and let nature do the rest. 4. Use drone and AI to spot for any mining activity in the region and create a strong legal framework for addressing this. 5. Provide incentives to people to invest money here in return for either land parcels or other ways of getting a return on their investment.
@@SK-em2wd yes and you are educated to keep the people living in poverty without any sight of improvement in their livelihood. Make promises during the elections and keep them stuck in this class struggle
Very ambitious plan you mentioned. But unfortunately it's a fantasy under these Govts. They just weakened the forest protection law instead of strengthening it.
They have to be the right big trees. Actually, start with native. desert hardy shrubs, and don't change the fertility of the soil with a big infusion of organic matter suddenly. Nature is much more complex than ANY machine.
except the drone and AI expenses, its pretty out in the open.. the problem is corruption and apathy more than theft or pilferage.. no1's really hiding while doing it...
I don't get it. How does illegal mining happen if the government has already banned it? More than once too? Mountains and hill don't move around. And you need heavy equipment to actually put a meaningful dent in them. What has been the barrier to enforcing the ban?
00:01 India's Great Green Wall aims to fight desertification in the Aravalli mountain range. 01:25 Human actions like illegal mining and deforestation are contributing to desertification in India's National Capital Region. 02:58 India's ministry proposed a Great Green Wall to restore degraded land and stop desertification in the Aravalli region. 04:21 The Great Green Wall aims to combat land degradation and create livelihoods. 05:39 Africa's Great Green Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030. 07:03 India's Great Green Wall initiative is yet to commence planting, and there are concerns about the dissolution of forest protection regulations. 08:36 Local communities in India are responding to government inaction by implementing their own reforestation strategies. 09:57 The Great Green Wall in India aims to combat desertification through native plant regeneration and water capture techniques.
its refreshing that someone is doing actual journalism. Someday I hope indian jounalist which are very capable, break their chains of government a**licking and do actual journalism like this, which affects everyone in the country if remain unchecked.
I think that in india thar desert is dying, already a major part of thar desert is now farmland due to cannal based irrigation system... It can easily seen in Google earth time lapse...
@@uditabhattacharya2824 still there is a hope bro, a major portion of thar desert is now extensively cultivating farm land due to indiraghandhi canal.. And future river interlinking project like sardha yamuna Rajasthan canal could also intensity irrigation and water supply to desert, Future projects like easten Rajasthan canal can stop desertification of easter Rajasthan, still government should do some thing to protect aravally ranges especially in haryana and Rajasthan...
It puzzles me the expression "illegal mining". Is it so that people take all that machinery during night time and extract the raw materials and then just run away when the sun comes up again? Or is just the government/authorities don't care or turn a blind eye? If everybody goes along with it, the the "illegal" e just a formality.
Great video! Thanks for clarifying that great green walls don't actually stop the geologic movement of deserts... well in the necessary time. However any large scale permaculture techniques that restore groundwater and soil health are a big win for the surrounding communities and that in turn helps fight desertification.
Somehow, i wouldn't fully believe George Taylor, at 6:24...i saw a video before where people somewhere are making headway with re-greening, especially if a variety of stuff is planted, (Though planting a terrible invasive species is not good, unless somehow it's vey beneficial in some ways for some reasons)...The monocultures, (planting one thing), died out and they had to start again planting a variety of stuff, which worked better...The Chinese government does NOT get things done when it comes to the environment, in fact, the opposite, is my guess...i think re-greening may have started with an individual there, instead of the government...The Chinese literally paint their environment green with spray paint to fool people, and China is the number one contributor to destroying the environment, more than many countries combined...They promote themselves as leaders in green technology, when they use extremely polluting coal plants, and always building more of them, polluting all the water completely, as well as many other things that are destroying the environment there...i would suggest anyone to watch videos about those who expose the Chinese government and it's horrific practices, like "CHINA UNCENSORED," "CHINA FACT CHASERS" which take clips from "THE CHINA SHOW" - (So far there are 184 episodes, even though only a few show up on the video page, so i type in the number, like 184, into the search on their video page, and that episode will come up, and you can type in any number that precedes that as well), "SERPENTZA," "LAOWHY86", "CHINA OBSERVER" "CHINA INSIGHTS," "ADV CHINA," and there are more...🍓🎄
Yea you mean those CIA plant propaganda channels spread misinformation on China in a long running hate and war mongering campaign and you sucked it up. Hardly any of the things they say is true, or accurately represented
While it's still in the early stages, the project has the potential to significantly reduce desertification if implemented effectively. Success will depend on consistent funding, community involvement, and adaptive management to address climate change impacts
I personally don’t like the lady in the middle who says the gov’t isn’t doing anything right. Gov’ts have to manage the entire ecosystem of the region including the politics. They can’t be single minded about forest conservation. What about the people who live off of illegal mining? Workers who feed their families and buys goods and services using the money from the activities? She’s nagging the gov’t to do something without saying any real practical solutions. The lady after her who actually made a solution into action with conserving ground water and using local infra techniques has my respect as she’s doing something that actually helps the situation not making thing politicized. If you see a problem try to do something about with concrete actions. Too many politicians in disguise of activism makes real solutions harder to implement.
@@inkedge1519 1. I’m not supporting illegal mining. 2. You don’t crack down “illegal” activities and the world is suddenly a better place. 3. The point I was making is about activism with a single objective and no a feasible solution. We all agree illegal mining to the extent they are bad for overall society should be banned and laws enforced. But public policy don’t stop there you gotta put those people somewhere productive otherwise they’ll cause more harm to the society by joining gang or criminal groups. You think you’re doing a good job by cracking down illegal mining but what you could actually be doing is feeding the criminals the political capital to win over those effected.
this is a project which needs more awareness campaigns I didn't even heard about it until now and I live in jaipur, I read newspaper daily so clearly it's not advertised well enough for people to know what is going on around them
Even in the state capital Jaipur, The foothills of the nahargarh hill is being encroached upon too These corrupt and Greedy ass politicians have no limits whichever party they belong too🤮
Perhaps the emphasis should be on stabilizing then restoring degraded soils with any vegetation, mainly desert shrubs and grasses. Only success with this stage will trigger investment into tree-sustainability and new tree-planting. And large-scale environmental planning should be prepared for major losses, with the unpredictability of climate change. Any so-called walls may suddenly develop large breaches, that doesn't mean fixing soil degradation becomes less important.
There was, and is, a very old wall and fence system that surrounds Mumbai, a left over defence system from centuries ago. There are several of these man made structures all over India. When I was in India, 50 years ago, I was on a train crossing on a bridge. Below me I saw several thousand Indians moving dirt from the floor of a basin up to its ramparts. It was the largest group of humanity I had ever seen.
The great green wall project is a wonderful idea. Anything that people can do to grow permaculture, natural waterways and forest is good for our planet.
I am living in Delhi/NCR but never seen this storm here. it would be true near rajasthan not in delhi though. Delhi has low visibility because of punjabs Crop burning practices.
Tomorrow, we'd have a heavily air polluting festival Diwali for which our people even have every justification without knowing how badly it affects the heart patients and infants with the loud noise and air pollution with asthmatic people.
Water wall is 1millionX superior to Green wall.., India needs to protect Aravalli and use infinite Himalayas for its infra development by putting more freight trains and dedicated freight tracks for cheaper transport. Also rather than wasting water on Pakistan, India needs to develop a bigger navigable Sindh Canal from Jammu to Kandla integrating Sapt-Sindhu tributaries, existing canals and water bodies to sustainably green Thar..!!
1. Create clear fines for mines, 2. Give the people a way to submit a report about who is violating the rules. 3. Require key details about names, numbers, companies involved supporting systems like transport facilitation. 4. Give folks who submit a helpful claim $ in proportion to how helpful the report was. 5. Prosecute violators
Can't even take constructive criticism??? I mean really grow up its important to understand the importance of aravali hills and everyone should support this.
@@rishabhsingh6023 who will take seriously 😒 when they criticise whatever India does. Maharashtra, Gujrat already have almost completed their safe water or biodiversity projects, but rajasthan Government Congress is not doing anything. Still , bjp lead tree walls are being planted. Rajasthan mainly exports minerals, mining won't stop. We would need to find middle way.
@@NativeBharatiye yup you are right i agree , i was against this comment which always says lecturing india i mean they do sometimes but this time it was actually beneficial
Melting glaciers in himalaya has one of the cause, sands dust getting accumulate at top covering snow and rather reflect what white sheet of snow does is absorbing sunlight and melting snow
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The people of this region got themselves into this by their own activities, and it looks like they were warned 3 separate times over 15 years! Only now it affects a city are local governments seeing the real problem, poverty and the need to give financial assistance and incentives to stop such outrageous practices. Maybe it's a case of too little too late? The consequences are here, live with them?
Fascinating video. But I nearly bailed out several times on account of that horrible, pointless background "music". A bit more consideration for people not blessed with perfect hearing would be appreciated.
They are already demolishing the naturally present hill ranges that would have been a counter to desertification if afforestation continued along the range and taken further
It is only the village community which inhabits lap of the mountains which can save it. Only in villages where greed takes over ancient wisdom and there is no collective voice among the villagers mining is rampant. In villages where ancient wisdom prevails not even a single pebble from the hills can be taken.
Perhaps whats needed is to comprehensively review all the projects to see what works and what doesnt. The results seem to be very mixed, so if a program is to succeed its important to benchmark and apply what works into a program and them competently implement it.
Not much that I am aware of, but it seems like a brilliant idea. A huge breadth of fresh air, lots and lots of timber, will create beautiful parks too. However, the government should improve the laws, too.
Best thing to do to make a green wall is make them food forests for people to take care of and maintain with other native species to help buffer your crops and food trees.
i wish this sort of news would be more worldspread so people could see what the heating up of the earth has for effects. Desertfication is only getting worse and worse in these areas. Most people just ignore it so long it doesnt effect them.
The best things the activists can do is go to villages, develop them, and stop more people from coming to cities and lower the need for building more cities. However, none of the activists will do that. They will certainly blame the govt for everything. No activist stopped Nord stream pipelines from being built at the bottom of the ocean or stopped US from conducting nuclear tests in oceans. However, one can't build anything in India without there being a protest from an NGO that's funded by foreign countries. The best example of this is Sterlite copper plant in Tamil Nadu that was closed by fake allegations of pollution when all enquires and tests showed that there is no danger to the people living in the vicinity of the plant.. This led to India becoming a net importer of copper from being self sufficient at a time when going electric is considered to be green. Who is behind this?
Desertification has it's roots in the global/earth process system. Turmoil in it presently due to the envirmental disorders caused due to anthropogenic reasons amplifies it's speed. Tiny patch of green cover cannot withstand the stress of destructive forces. It will contribute it's global role in regaining the natural balance, thoug, on micro level. In any situation it's good initiative.
That is a great question. We know that for example the Saharan regreening could lead to less dust being transported to the Amazon rainforest. Therefore, it could have negative effects on the functioning of the rainforest. What are all the possible consequences of the Indian Great Green Wall must be further investigated and measured globally continuously. 🌱
Ajmer, a city known for it’s scenic location between the Aravalli hills, is experiencing a lethal “storm” of urban sprawling and illegal encroachment on the hills while the district has already lost several hills in the name of illegal mining. I’m one of it’s unfortunate residents and I can already see the Thar desert engulfing this entire district by the end of 2050s. The unprecedented loss of forest cover and native wildlife species of the Aravallis surrounding the city and the district has turned the once pleasant climate with clean air, fresh water and relatively lower temperatures into a living hell, where the temperatures are soaring higher as each summer passes by while the winters are shortening up. The rise of concrete and asphalt cover in the city is resulting in the air quality dropping down, noise and light pollution levels at an all time high, local flooding during monsoon, and loss of walkability. Most people of the district have gotten normalised to this model of unsustainable development and got no time to worry about the disastrous future lying ahead of them, while they enjoy their favourite meal of kadhi kachori every single day, such a sad state.
I believe taking all known species globally, that share climate similarities, and planting them in succession, would maximize your diversity and increase the probability of success. Following initial planting you would maximize diversity even further by integrating sub canopy layer, shrub layer etc, into the same stand planted the previous season. This, while not completely native, would give the highest chance of establishment success.
When selecting global species, lowest minimum and maximum temperatures in recorded history should be taken into account. Successional planting of taprooted species acclimated to the climate would further increase success
That wise woman made the whole point. If you can't protect what's already there, that you got for free, how can you dream of spending money to build something similar and have that work?
Do you know of any regreening projects in your area?
Yea, the Indian saffron government does a lot of projects all over the country. Such as, hindu-muslim divide, destruction of independent news media, propaganda stunts such as demonetisation and CAA, changing name of different places including the name of the country itself, and projecting Feku as a God. And all the projects are hugely beneficial not for the country, but for their political party.
Re forestation efforts in last 20years have succeeded in parts of Maharashtra state so well that leopard population has increased & humans have suffered. Irrespective of results we still need green cover.
Did you make an effort to interview G. Taylor and he said only 20 or so words? Typical US style shallow reporting. He just had to point onto the 'witch' - climate change. I've just watched th-cam.com/video/k7XfLRY0JmE/w-d-xo.html where in India they have dumped rubbish and destroyed 1000 y.o. huge irrigation system, but now are reviving it. Nothing, nothing to do with the 'witch' - climate changes. G. Taylor: '...idea doesn't hold a water' 🤣🤣🤣 - very expert like!
In this very video there is a lot of talk about how HUMANS destroy Aravalli Monutains - but let's call the witch - climate change!
Very US style shallow reporting. What is the point of this video? What's te message?
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Permaculture is the only way. Look up Cauvery Calling, Ralley for Rivers, the Pani Water Cup. And Andrew Millison covers it.
Andrew Millison did a great job documenting India's Paani foundation water cup contest, in which farmers fixed their local desertification, village by village, in just a couple of years. It's really impressive.
That's a different region and state of Maharashtra.. that has been a good success but the northern states are not much interested in ecological balance
@@rohand04 Oh. Not even after the paani cup was a success? They didn't want to copy? Strange.
@@ryn2844There are plenty of people working in different areas.. Don't make opinion reading some random comment.. Indian's can do this once they see little success..Pani foundation is success of year's of hardworking.
what an illiterate opinion . @@rohand04
@@anime4life636 well show me apart from the few ecological NGO that are working in Rajasthan.. who are revival of the ancient lakes.. who is working on aravali and getting results..
The distruction of yamuna and ganga.. the stubble burning..
gurgaon and NCR have destroyed the aravali.. should I go on..
I grew up in a village in the Shekhawati region of Eastern Rajasthan where the entire village was once surrounded by several small hills on each side, lending breathtaking views to the area. About 10 years ago, several mining companies starting blasting and mining one side of the hill and within 5 years the entire hill disappeared. I was shocked to see the impact on the area when I visited the village after a few years. The frequency of dust storms has increased significantly and a large part of the agricultural land is now almost barren. Rajasthan Govt. (and residents) really needs to do take urgent actions to prevent this from happening in other areas of the state.
Chipko movement is the only way.
Plus indian villagers need to be educated about eco tourism. If those hills had remained, the locals would have earnt more from tourism and in a sustainable manner. Now the hills are gone, and so are lands, and so have sources of income....
eco tourism and beautification while also allowing rich politicians to live there is the solution. So if politicians will not actively work against their own land.
If you have proper documents regarding this project is destroying greeneries in RJ region then you should go to NGT or you can visit their site and submit your report they will take a step to stop this if illegal.
Yes Rajasthan Government is very very bad for protecting environment whether BJP or Congress all these corrupt politicians give tender of mining to there family and friends and they are always trying to fill there pockets. Even in the state capital Jaipur several of hills are now disappeared due to mining these uneducated and selfish , greedy politicians are the worst thing in India they deserved the worst in this world 😢
@@kracks9852It's not just about tourism, India will Loose very big area of Fertile plains,
And It would be disaster for a country of 1.4 Billions which can't even feed its own people,
Also they helps to deviate monsoon to Northern India.
Who is responsible for this? Dumb People and Corrupt politicians.
After all whole nation, not only our nation but other nations which is directly or Indirectly dependent on India for Food because India produce large amount of wheat and rice than its requirement and then we export. It will be disaster for Poor nations of Africa and other South Asian countries too.
No point having a green wall if there are no strong environmental laws protecting it.
And you assume there would be none!
Such a ignorant this guy is!
Of course there are laws
You should try to get a permission to cut a tree from government department. You will know how difficult it is.
India has one of the strictest wildlife and environmental laws.
Im from Rajasthan and I can tell you that politics, illegal mining & widespread corruption has ensured zero progress on the ground. Construction and real estate business is on boom and businessmen are happy to support the upcoming election campaigns. Most of the so called NGOs are hand in gloves with these corrupt business lobbies.
Whoa, sounds like Rajasthan is going through some serious struggles. It's frustrating to see corruption hindering progress, but thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. Let's hope for better days ahead!
@@DWPlanetA India is waiting from so long
And I am from Delhi and have seen no desert storm here, they used to happen decades back.
@@TransgirlsEnjoyer Yea , we only got Andhis (semi-gloomy dust storms) like twice a year
I'm also from Rajasthan, and desert storm in west Rajasthan was a normal thing in summer n still is , it's not a new phenomenon or something lol. Infact desert storm reducing in frequency only every year media sensationalise things like earth is collapsing.
5:42 conservation agriculture is also a really amazing solution for this problem. Not only does it reduce the amount of soil getting taken away by wind, but it also allows farmers to grow their crops with significantly less fertilizer which reduces the GHG required to grow our food!
Stop mining
So far as an Indian, I haven't seen this project in action till now. I live in NCR and the quality of air is degrading each year. Hopefully, the Government take strict action and more people come forward for this great cause.
Nobody was in better position to solve the Delhi pollution crisis than the AAP government. They are in power in both Delhi and Punjab. While they curbed the pollution caused by Delhi they failed miserably in doing so in Punjab thanks to vote bank politics. Now they are giving excuses that the pollution came from Haryana and UP.
Thanks to So called Annadatas from Punjab 😂😂
Quality of air in Delhi is degrading because of the Supreme Court. In 2012 Supreme court gave an order that groundwater could not be used for rice farming in Punjab. As a result the planting season has moved 45 days back to the start of monsoon. This also means that between rice harvest and wheat planting there is as little as 15 days. Farmers who used to mulch the crop stubble earlier now burn it as there is no time. Result since 2013 Delhi air becomes horrible from October end. Delhi never used to have air so bad before the Supreme court order.
That is primarily because of those who burn crops. Govt. can do nothing because they ar dominant voters.
Strict actions?
Political party in punjab saying bcoz of other neighbouring state(and the blame game coutinue on)
The expert on desertification didn't actually say anything about why it didn't had a good track record, was it inviable or just bad execution?
Also, it kind of looks like mars depiction with the dust storms, it's missing the lightning storms. Solar is going to be too late for some places, and I'm guessing wind is not going to have it easy either.
I think he said something like desertification is caused by climate change and changes in rain patterns, and since trees dont really do anything to reverse that, its not a viable solution in most cases.
@@ramganesh4067 But then he made some excuse about China's government being different. What did China do different from Africa, is it an organisational or funding issue and why claim climate change makes it futile while in the next breath calling China an exception? If China is doing it differently we need to know what they're doing.
@@hurrdurrmurrgurrThey're getting things done. Because China's government isn't useless like democratic ones that talk a good game but does nothing at the end.
Indeed! But did they make an effort to interview him and he said only 20 or so words? Typical US style shallow reporting. They just had to point onto the 'witch' - climate change. I've just watched th-cam.com/video/k7XfLRY0JmE/w-d-xo.html where in India they have dumped rubbish and destroyed 1000 y.o. huge irrigation system, but now are reviving it. Nothing, nothing to do with the 'witch' - climate changes. G. Taylor: '...idea doesn't hold a water' 🤣🤣🤣 - very expert like!
In this very video they talk a lot how HUMANS destroy Aravalli Monutains - but let's call the witch - climate change!
These are the kinds of news reports we need rather than meaningless political debates.
True that
@@Himanshu_Khichar😂
I live in Gurgaon but I never knew about this. Thank you DW!
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You didn't knew about it because it is a propaganda video.
@@sagarsharma8960please elaborate
@sagarsharma8960 What propaganda ?
@@sagarsharma8960not everything is propoganda. We need to take up these issues with our local leaders so that they can pass it on to the central or state government.
Re forestation efforts in last 20years have succeeded in parts of Maharashtra state so well that leopard population has increased & humans have suffered. Irrespective of results we still need green cover.
Leopards will never kill as many people as the dust will.
Yes but Rajasthan Government is so bad corrupt and greedy politicians are giving new mining tenders to there family members
@@mudit1 Rajasthan needs a big shake up rather than the current musical chair of Gehlot and Raje. Hopefully Bjp would make someone new the CM
@@hurrdurrmurrgurr no worries, our country is overpopulated anyway lol
@@juliuscaesar564Our country is not overpopulated compared to other Subcontinental countries like Pakistan or Bangladesh...Pakistan has twice the fertility rate at 2.1 while india has 0.9...soon india will be below the replacement rate after peaking at 1.6 billion and will crash down. already southern states have reached that state. 80% of Pakistans 22 crore population is in the narrow strip of Punjab and Sindh rest half Khyber and baloch province are mountains and desert. Compare Pakistani Punjab and Bangladesh with indian Punjab(haryana,Punjab,Himachal) and West Bengal. then you will know the difference.
Rajasthan has built a great tradition of conserving water through johads. They need to take the lead with such citizen initiatives
If you go to Google earth you would see how much of land is converted to farmland in India. Exception is kerala and north east states where farmland and forests coexist and look how the air quality and dust control is much better in these states
The south and east states have forest cover go and check it maps
You're just making up shit with no sources. Northeast is completely filled with tea farms. South is filled with coconut, rubber, coffee farms all over.
That is not the reason these two areas are different in Google Earth. It's because Kerala and North East have tropical rainforest climates, while most of the other parts if India is semi- temperat climate.
Also Kerala and NE imports a lot of foodgrains from other states. So if this replicated in all states India would have no longer be self sufficient in food.
Northeast is hill not fertile plains so it's common sense they can't grow wheat & Rice crops & don't talk about Kerala it's just a totally different state it's demography, geography, political sociology everything is exception from rest of India
The transformation by the IamGurgaon group is amazing - loved seeing those before & after pictures!
2023 this year is unpredictable, As in January we receive very less Snowfall in North India, in March-April we receives heavy rainfall which destroyed crops(wheat) heavily, In May-June summer breaks up the record in Delhi, UP. Resulting in Forest Fires Burning hectares of Forest , Destroying WildLife, Even Flying birds falls down in Delhi and when the summer is going on, Kedarnath and Surrounding area were experiencing Snowfall in summers. These all were just Trailer and the climax was performed by Monsoon season with flash flood all over India. Himachal Pardesh was tremendously suffered by flash floods, Landslides destroying lives, cities, Ecosystem, Economy. The scene was completely unforgettable. But who cares, After Monsoon, Rapid unplanned develpment, Deforestation, Reducing Forest, Shortning of rivers, Mining, Deforestation, Road Construction, Tunnels, Hydro-Power projects in Himalayas all are going in their rapid.
Recently, Negativity between people is increasing rapidly in India, as you can see in Manipur, Haryana. When People are killed in the name of religion. So How can we expect Care of Environment.
Hope India to Revive I don't wants to Lose my Country its people, its Natue, Its Ecosystem, Its Environment, Diffrent cultures in India, Diffrent relegion in India.
Razing down mountains and replacing it with a stretch of forest is the very embodiment of 'putting a bandaid'.
Not entirely. Due to erosion the mountain range will disappear anyway in a few million years. That's the fate of all mountain ranges. Trees (and all other plants) fix soil with their roots and cover the soil with their biomass, thus preventing dust storms.
So, if forests can indeed take hold, they will fix the dust problem long term. It wouldn't be a bandaid but a permanent fix.
@@lorrainegatanianhits8331 My background is in Geology and that's a very simplistic and wrong idea of both erosion, coupled with the misunderstanding of both the geography of that region and of how dust storms work.
To begin with there is a huge difference between a sandstorm in a desert and a duststorm.
Another mistake is thinking wind erosion in arid regions are what erodes down mountains. Instead it's the fluvial aka rainwater and surface runoff action that does the heavy lifting of eroding mountains. It's the river channels that cut down and then widens channels, and landslide, mudslides and other mass wasting methods which are triggered by saturation of topsoil by rainwater. Even in arid regions the main force that cuts down mountain is- frost wedging, aka freezing and thawing of trapped surface water. The effect of none of those can be prevent or mitigated by trees. Infact frost wedging is made worse by root wedging- which by the way is a main form of weathering caused by biogenic activity.
Mining of mountains, again severely destabilized slopes, which is imperative to keep top soil from erosion. Having lots of trees with strong deep roots growing in destabilized, cut down mountains, is equvalent to taking away the main foundation holding everything together and then putting another weathering agent that increases another weather process of frost wedging.
To put it bluntly, it cutting the branch you are sitting in.
Now to address the misunderstanding of the sandstorm part here. Sandstorm picks up the loose sand deposits in dunes in vast plains of sand desert and you cannot mitigate that by ignoring the source plains and planting trees somewhere else; that sandstorm will just scour and sandblast through that forest like sandpaper- you think those young trees are going to survive it enough to establish? They'll just get buried by the small part of sand in lower part of the storm that hits the vegetation. The only practical method to mitigate sandstorms, is to green the desert sand plains to build a horizontal blanket of wind barrier. That area which cannot sustain a forest, but only shrubs and other ground covers that can survive in extremely hot, arid regions.
And mountains, being there beyond the loose sand plains as a solid vertical barrier, high enough is the only way to physically block the wind and stop the wind from going further.
If you raze it down to plains and then plant a forest, you are making an unrealistic expectations of the forest cover to stop something that's towers multiple times the height of trees. It's like expecting a landscaping ground cover plant to do the job of a brick wall.
A mountain range is a vertical impervious non-living barrier which physical halts the wind carrying from the sandy plains behind. But once you blast out and level the mountain, and then plant a forest, now what you have is a pervious green live sensitive blanket. It will do absolutely nothing to stop the sandstorm from going inland, simply because of the basic logic of a horizontal cover cannot be a replacement for a vertical physical barrier
@@lorrainegatanianhits8331 Are you using a concept that might not even be true, one that will take millions of years to prove, to disprove their statement? What is wrong with you. Like, the amount of this makes no sense. Also you explained why it's a bandaid essentially. What with the if they can take hold.
@@lorrainegatanianhits8331 forest itself can't fix the dust problem. Educate yourself.
The Sahara was once rainforest but shifting rainfall patterns encouraged desertification. I'm not sure how effective these strategies will be long term, but their impact might be seen more in making more people aware of the problems of climate change.
The Sahara was not a rainforest
Well, It really was. I found out about it myself just now @@Dim.g0v
Indeed sahara was a savanna, but the point here being that the part of India surrounding the Thar deserts is semi arid and it gets incredibly hot for 8 months a year. I live about 300kms away in the mountains but we feel the effects even over here. The hot spot effect of the urban sprawl of the capital brings in dry and hot air further in the river valleys. There used to be many forests but now they are getting converted into shrublands. A huge area beyond Aravalli range is badlands with minimal water sources anyway. Saharan desertification at least took thousands of years. Here we are seeing these changes in one lifetime. It's not just concerning, it's directly affecting lives.
Such enlightening videos should be shown on tv channels for common people to become aware!!
That won't fetch them TRP so they won't.
The video starts with a wrong fact. Thar desert is actually contracting and has been confirmed by satellite records. Thanks to intensive afforestation programs, better irrigation by indira canal and sardar sarovar, higher rainfall over eastern thar over the last 30 years and farmer cultivating more arid crops like dates, Bael, anar etc instead of water intensive crops
Yes, Western news channel are very good in narrative/propaganda create. They are very busy showing India down or India can't do it. They are really jealous in India's success.
Are u from Rajasthan?
It is contracting by the west and moving towards East.
It had contracted by a small proportion in west but has recently started expanding east
@@QuantumNinja1.9He's actually correct.
I'm from Jodhpur, can confirm.
Common people movements can only make a huge difference here. Regroup & fight people. More power to you.
Here is my suggestion for greening deserts:
1. Use Supercritical water oxidation to convert fecal waste into water
2. Use this water and other organic waste to fertilize the soil
3. Focus on planting big trees that can provide shade and let nature do the rest.
4. Use drone and AI to spot for any mining activity in the region and create a strong legal framework for addressing this.
5. Provide incentives to people to invest money here in return for either land parcels or other ways of getting a return on their investment.
yess under modi raj you try to stop the mining. you and your fam might end up in one of those lakes in the mountains.
@@SK-em2wd yes and you are educated to keep the people living in poverty without any sight of improvement in their livelihood. Make promises during the elections and keep them stuck in this class struggle
Very ambitious plan you mentioned. But unfortunately it's a fantasy under these Govts. They just weakened the forest protection law instead of strengthening it.
They have to be the right big trees. Actually, start with native. desert hardy shrubs, and don't change the fertility of the soil with a big infusion of organic matter suddenly. Nature is much more complex than ANY machine.
except the drone and AI expenses, its pretty out in the open.. the problem is corruption and apathy more than theft or pilferage.. no1's really hiding while doing it...
I don't get it. How does illegal mining happen if the government has already banned it? More than once too?
Mountains and hill don't move around. And you need heavy equipment to actually put a meaningful dent in them.
What has been the barrier to enforcing the ban?
Help from Indian Bureaucracy
Well who cares when your getting money 🤑 from it.
If it becomes desert just blame the govt and nature.
Or migrate to other places
These guys only thinks about money, and they have there way around the laws.
Corruption
There is a great organised system of corruption in India for everything
Thank you DW for covering this 🙏
I remember stories about those dust storms in the 1960s and 1970s. Rampant corruption has also been a problem for many decades.
00:01 India's Great Green Wall aims to fight desertification in the Aravalli mountain range.
01:25 Human actions like illegal mining and deforestation are contributing to desertification in India's National Capital Region.
02:58 India's ministry proposed a Great Green Wall to restore degraded land and stop desertification in the Aravalli region.
04:21 The Great Green Wall aims to combat land degradation and create livelihoods.
05:39 Africa's Great Green Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.
07:03 India's Great Green Wall initiative is yet to commence planting, and there are concerns about the dissolution of forest protection regulations.
08:36 Local communities in India are responding to government inaction by implementing their own reforestation strategies.
09:57 The Great Green Wall in India aims to combat desertification through native plant regeneration and water capture techniques.
You must be an UPSC aspirant.
@@Mr_Pussi Good guess
I am a NEET aspirant!
its refreshing that someone is doing actual journalism. Someday I hope indian jounalist which are very capable, break their chains of government a**licking and do actual journalism like this, which affects everyone in the country if remain unchecked.
German media doing what Indian media should be doing. Thank You DW.
Good initiative by the people and the governments. Restore the green cover asap.
I don't have any great walls but I still plant living things around my home. I hope my little bit helps.
I think that in india thar desert is dying, already a major part of thar desert is now farmland due to cannal based irrigation system...
It can easily seen in Google earth time lapse...
So is it bad or good?
@@thecomment9489 im always against on desertification...
For me its good..
hence the desert is actuallly expanding east. sand doesn't disappear, it is instead moving towards the fertile yamuna plains
@@uditabhattacharya2824 still there is a hope bro, a major portion of thar desert is now extensively cultivating farm land due to indiraghandhi canal..
And future river interlinking project like sardha yamuna Rajasthan canal could also intensity irrigation and water supply to desert,
Future projects like easten Rajasthan canal can stop desertification of easter Rajasthan, still government should do some thing to protect aravally ranges especially in haryana and Rajasthan...
Thanks DW for such deep analysis
It puzzles me the expression "illegal mining". Is it so that people take all that machinery during night time and extract the raw materials and then just run away when the sun comes up again? Or is just the government/authorities don't care or turn a blind eye? If everybody goes along with it, the the "illegal" e just a formality.
Big corporates use India's inefficient bureaucracy and corrupt politicians to allow them to mine with just a slap on wrist by the courts
Yes. 1st reason is done majorly with little help from corrupt officials.
The corrupt and Greedy politicians give mining tenders to there family and friends 😡
They actually kills police personnel when raids happen,
And they also have connections with corrupt ministers of Rajasthan Government.
Great video! Thanks for clarifying that great green walls don't actually stop the geologic movement of deserts... well in the necessary time. However any large scale permaculture techniques that restore groundwater and soil health are a big win for the surrounding communities and that in turn helps fight desertification.
What a nice journalism.❤
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Nurturing the nature is the way forward!
Somehow, i wouldn't fully believe George Taylor, at 6:24...i saw a video before where people somewhere are making headway with re-greening, especially if a variety of stuff is planted, (Though planting a terrible invasive species is not good, unless somehow it's vey beneficial in some ways for some reasons)...The monocultures, (planting one thing), died out and they had to start again planting a variety of stuff, which worked better...The Chinese government does NOT get things done when it comes to the environment, in fact, the opposite, is my guess...i think re-greening may have started with an individual there, instead of the government...The Chinese literally paint their environment green with spray paint to fool people, and China is the number one contributor to destroying the environment, more than many countries combined...They promote themselves as leaders in green technology, when they use extremely polluting coal plants, and always building more of them, polluting all the water completely, as well as many other things that are destroying the environment there...i would suggest anyone to watch videos about those who expose the Chinese government and it's horrific practices, like "CHINA UNCENSORED," "CHINA FACT CHASERS" which take clips from "THE CHINA SHOW" - (So far there are 184 episodes, even though only a few show up on the video page, so i type in the number, like 184, into the search on their video page, and that episode will come up, and you can type in any number that precedes that as well), "SERPENTZA," "LAOWHY86", "CHINA OBSERVER" "CHINA INSIGHTS," "ADV CHINA," and there are more...🍓🎄
Yea you mean those CIA plant propaganda channels spread misinformation on China in a long running hate and war mongering campaign and you sucked it up. Hardly any of the things they say is true, or accurately represented
You destroy the aravali mountain and then try to build a tree wall!!
Create a problem and try to solve them. Wala you get votes and a name in the history
Correction: *claim* its not *try*
True😔
Where do u think the construction materials come from? U want GDP growth, jobs and poverty alleviation, right? Don't be a hypocrite
@@mlg1279absolutely
This video need more views.
Desertification might be reversed but how will you get back those beautiful hills that are being mined continuously 😢😢
Mining helps economy...
@@sigmachadtrillioniare6372 economy is important or health of citizens?
While it's still in the early stages, the project has the potential to significantly reduce desertification if implemented effectively. Success will depend on consistent funding, community involvement, and adaptive management to address climate change impacts
Really informative, Tysm for sharing ❤ really sad for Indian politics
India Central Government and State Governments are super super corrupt whatever party comes everyone is corrupt and Greedy 🤮
An excellent presentation by your channel 🎉🎉
I personally don’t like the lady in the middle who says the gov’t isn’t doing anything right. Gov’ts have to manage the entire ecosystem of the region including the politics. They can’t be single minded about forest conservation. What about the people who live off of illegal mining? Workers who feed their families and buys goods and services using the money from the activities? She’s nagging the gov’t to do something without saying any real practical solutions. The lady after her who actually made a solution into action with conserving ground water and using local infra techniques has my respect as she’s doing something that actually helps the situation not making thing politicized. If you see a problem try to do something about with concrete actions. Too many politicians in disguise of activism makes real solutions harder to implement.
Foreign funded NGO. But last woman from Gurgaon, who created forest is example of a few nice NGO in India.
Trueeeee
Dude, you literally said "illegal mining" and then goes on length to support them... 👏
@@inkedge1519 1. I’m not supporting illegal mining. 2. You don’t crack down “illegal” activities and the world is suddenly a better place. 3. The point I was making is about activism with a single objective and no a feasible solution. We all agree illegal mining to the extent they are bad for overall society should be banned and laws enforced. But public policy don’t stop there you gotta put those people somewhere productive otherwise they’ll cause more harm to the society by joining gang or criminal groups. You think you’re doing a good job by cracking down illegal mining but what you could actually be doing is feeding the criminals the political capital to win over those effected.
this is a project which needs more awareness campaigns I didn't even heard about it until now and I live in jaipur, I read newspaper daily so clearly it's not advertised well enough for people to know what is going on around them
Even in the state capital Jaipur, The foothills of the nahargarh hill is being encroached upon too
These corrupt and Greedy ass politicians have no limits whichever party they belong too🤮
Great Aravali Live Long ❤🙏
None of these initiatives will work out unless the local community is involved.
Such quality for free 👏👏
Perhaps the emphasis should be on stabilizing then restoring degraded soils with any vegetation, mainly desert shrubs and grasses. Only success with this stage will trigger investment into tree-sustainability and new tree-planting. And large-scale environmental planning should be prepared for major losses, with the unpredictability of climate change. Any so-called walls may suddenly develop large breaches, that doesn't mean fixing soil degradation becomes less important.
Most people are clueless, Govt. Is not committed.
Kudos to these few great men and women of the Aravalis.
There was, and is, a very old wall and fence system that surrounds Mumbai, a left over defence system from centuries ago. There are several of these man made structures all over India. When I was in India, 50 years ago, I was on a train crossing on a bridge. Below me I saw several thousand Indians moving dirt from the floor of a basin up to its ramparts. It was the largest group of humanity I had ever seen.
The great green wall project is a wonderful idea. Anything that people can do to grow permaculture, natural waterways and forest is good for our planet.
I am living in Delhi/NCR but never seen this storm here. it would be true near rajasthan not in delhi though. Delhi has low visibility because of punjabs Crop burning practices.
Tomorrow, we'd have a heavily air polluting festival Diwali for which our people even have every justification without knowing how badly it affects the heart patients and infants with the loud noise and air pollution with asthmatic people.
It's hard not to read the closed captioning and watch the video. Please leave the CC to TH-cam.
Never knew this was happening in my country 😮
People living in Delhi ncr know this
Hindi Musalmaan se bahara aa lavde tab dikhega...
Water wall is 1millionX superior to Green wall..,
India needs to protect Aravalli and use infinite Himalayas for its infra development by putting more freight trains and dedicated freight tracks for cheaper transport.
Also rather than wasting water on Pakistan, India needs to develop a bigger navigable Sindh Canal from Jammu to Kandla integrating Sapt-Sindhu tributaries, existing canals and water bodies to sustainably green Thar..!!
1. Create clear fines for mines, 2. Give the people a way to submit a report about who is violating the rules. 3. Require key details about names, numbers, companies involved supporting systems like transport facilitation. 4. Give folks who submit a helpful claim $ in proportion to how helpful the report was. 5. Prosecute violators
Indian, Lecture to India started at 7:53
I waited for 7 mins. Pheww
Can't even take constructive criticism??? I mean really grow up its important to understand the importance of aravali hills and everyone should support this.
@@rishabhsingh6023 grow some balls and self esteem if possible.
@@rishabhsingh6023 who will take seriously 😒 when they criticise whatever India does. Maharashtra, Gujrat already have almost completed their safe water or biodiversity projects, but rajasthan Government Congress is not doing anything.
Still , bjp lead tree walls are being planted. Rajasthan mainly exports minerals, mining won't stop. We would need to find middle way.
@@NativeBharatiye yup you are right i agree , i was against this comment which always says lecturing india i mean they do sometimes but this time it was actually beneficial
It's well intended and I am glad they are trying. I just don't want their efforts to be a waste!
Melting glaciers in himalaya has one of the cause, sands dust getting accumulate at top covering snow and rather reflect what white sheet of snow does is absorbing sunlight and melting snow
Welcome to India
5:36 i think u mean Mali* not Malawi
Hi Musa! According to several reports, Malawi is one of the African countries that fights desertification 👉 masterpeace.org/malawi-fighting-desertification/
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The people of this region got themselves into this by their own activities, and it looks like they were warned 3 separate times over 15 years!
Only now it affects a city are local governments seeing the real problem, poverty and the need to give financial assistance and incentives to stop such outrageous practices.
Maybe it's a case of too little too late? The consequences are here, live with them?
i am from alwar, rajasthan and i see our ancient mountains disappear its real its happening !
Fascinating video. But I nearly bailed out several times on account of that horrible, pointless background "music". A bit more consideration for people not blessed with perfect hearing would be appreciated.
Could you please level the audio to a scale audible.
I could barely hear what George Taylor was talking about.
Thanks for your feedback. 🌱
Some of the water from the All North Indian rivers to Rajasthan and Gujarat through a network of canals .
In this situation, India must do what it always does when it faces problems.....Blame the British.
They are already demolishing the naturally present hill ranges that would have been a counter to desertification if afforestation continued along the range and taken further
It is only the village community which inhabits lap of the mountains which can save it. Only in villages where greed takes over ancient wisdom and there is no collective voice among the villagers mining is rampant. In villages where ancient wisdom prevails not even a single pebble from the hills can be taken.
Not a lot of video showing sections of the great green wall…
Chinese have perfected desertification infrastructure
Nice initiatives
Perhaps whats needed is to comprehensively review all the projects to see what works and what doesnt. The results seem to be very mixed, so if a program is to succeed its important to benchmark and apply what works into a program and them competently implement it.
Gotta protect what you already have
Good report
We should protect our lovely trees
Yes. Trees are lovely 🥺
Not much that I am aware of, but it seems like a brilliant idea. A huge breadth of fresh air, lots and lots of timber, will create beautiful parks too. However, the government should improve the laws, too.
Mother Africa showing India how its done 🙏
It's upto the small communities in Village levels to the regreening. Governments will achieve very little.
*Cries in Radiant Historia*
Do we have enough gas for this winter?
It must be mandated to miners to restore the flora after mining.
I've always been curious about this historical period. Thanks for providing such a well-researched and engaging video.
I have offered a free hectare of land in Costa Rica to create a food forest and have had no offers. Illegal mining is a huge problem here too.
Isn't desertification reversing in Thar? (according to a report)
They should add fog screens to capture any available moisture and retain it.
Best thing to do to make a green wall is make them food forests for people to take care of and maintain with other native species to help buffer your crops and food trees.
6:55 “the ideas that trees will stop desertification doesn’t hold water” 😂
I live in the desert area so i would love the desert to eat everything else also 👍👍👍
i wish this sort of news would be more worldspread so people could see what the heating up of the earth has for effects. Desertfication is only getting worse and worse in these areas. Most people just ignore it so long it doesnt effect them.
The best things the activists can do is go to villages, develop them, and stop more people from coming to cities and lower the need for building more cities. However, none of the activists will do that. They will certainly blame the govt for everything. No activist stopped Nord stream pipelines from being built at the bottom of the ocean or stopped US from conducting nuclear tests in oceans. However, one can't build anything in India without there being a protest from an NGO that's funded by foreign countries. The best example of this is Sterlite copper plant in Tamil Nadu that was closed by fake allegations of pollution when all enquires and tests showed that there is no danger to the people living in the vicinity of the plant.. This led to India becoming a net importer of copper from being self sufficient at a time when going electric is considered to be green. Who is behind this?
Desertification has it's roots in the global/earth process system.
Turmoil in it presently due to the envirmental disorders caused due to anthropogenic reasons amplifies it's speed.
Tiny patch of green cover cannot withstand the stress of destructive forces.
It will contribute it's global role in regaining the natural balance, thoug, on micro level.
In any situation it's good initiative.
Why? Will this not mess up the desert ecosystem?
That is a great question. We know that for example the Saharan regreening could lead to less dust being transported to the Amazon rainforest. Therefore, it could have negative effects on the functioning of the rainforest. What are all the possible consequences of the Indian Great Green Wall must be further investigated and measured globally continuously. 🌱
Ajmer, a city known for it’s scenic location between the Aravalli hills, is experiencing a lethal “storm” of urban sprawling and illegal encroachment on the hills while the district has already lost several hills in the name of illegal mining. I’m one of it’s unfortunate residents and I can already see the Thar desert engulfing this entire district by the end of 2050s.
The unprecedented loss of forest cover and native wildlife species of the Aravallis surrounding the city and the district has turned the once pleasant climate with clean air, fresh water and relatively lower temperatures into a living hell, where the temperatures are soaring higher as each summer passes by while the winters are shortening up. The rise of concrete and asphalt cover in the city is resulting in the air quality dropping down, noise and light pollution levels at an all time high, local flooding during monsoon, and loss of walkability.
Most people of the district have gotten normalised to this model of unsustainable development and got no time to worry about the disastrous future lying ahead of them, while they enjoy their favourite meal of kadhi kachori every single day, such a sad state.
Save nature save the poor animals save the world 🙏
I believe taking all known species globally, that share climate similarities, and planting them in succession, would maximize your diversity and increase the probability of success. Following initial planting you would maximize diversity even further by integrating sub canopy layer, shrub layer etc, into the same stand planted the previous season. This, while not completely native, would give the highest chance of establishment success.
When selecting global species, lowest minimum and maximum temperatures in recorded history should be taken into account.
Successional planting of taprooted species acclimated to the climate would further increase success
Can skin of orange help create a fertile environment?
Pretty funny when a German News source uses cricket pitches as area measurement example.
That wise woman made the whole point. If you can't protect what's already there, that you got for free, how can you dream of spending money to build something similar and have that work?