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In an effort to fight climate change, the Sahara Desert could be going green... literally. Plans are being made to terraform the entire Sahara desert; changing it from a dry, barren landscape to a lush green space.
If successful, the transformation could remove 7.6 billion tons of atmospheric carbon yearly. How could we change the nature of such a vast, isolated landscape?
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What if 7 billion people around the World planted a tree each year?
That's the better option.
Oh yeah
good and necessary idea actually upvote this comments!!
yeah they would plant 1 tree and cut down hundreds to make up for planting 1 tree
10 trees a year
an agreed national day would be cool
WHAT IF.... we don't use a price tag when it comes to saving our planet?
pimp damn right.
pimp because everything costs money
Sad truth of life
In our society as a whole anyway
hahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahah
Superpower countries are fighting for oil and you saying saving our planet without price tag
funny
thats impossible, we are beasts even among animals, why would we want to save this planet ?
The Sahara desert has been growing. A good place to start would be planting on the sidelines, to reduce the desert's expansion. It's already been done in some places on very small scales.
the end of world would come if we do that lol.
@@y4hikomp484 No, it's for sustainability, communities live on the sideline (extremely poor people with no means at all), and as the desert progresses it's more and more challenging for them to grow to feed themsleves. Creating a green barrier on the sidelines has proven efficient to break the dry desert winds, thats dries up everything and stop the progression of the desert.
@@Tanouuuu i get what r u saying but im talking if they dont do it and instead the nature becomes green by itself. have you seen the arabic desert turn into a river now with the water exploding below? if you are a muslim, you would know about this as an sign of the judgemental day. im sorry to be too religious btw man, have a great day!!
@@y4hikomp484 I have defenetly not seen this thing about the desert having a river exploding. Am curious, in which country is this happening? Well am not muslim, but I know of the christian bible and it does talk of many sign of end times...
They are already trying that. Read about "The great green wall of Africa"
Why pump desalination water which is costly to produce when there are huge water reserves beneath the Sahara?
Also planting eucaliptus is another terrible idea. It grows fast but it sucks up all the nutrients, and it is a real danger when it comes to forest fires.
The reforestation should be done with native species and nothing else.
Yup look at Australia,
True
"Solar desalination dome"
This is bullsheet video, don't you see...in China "smaller scale" just that saying is... Gadafi try with someone of that reserves beneath and look how is finish(project man made rivers....Do you see movie DUNE? Just Alzir and Libya are almost like west Europe in territory...this is security problem... this video is just stupid
And yes is possible and very easy, not costly like this stupid, propaganda video telling
We can't even protect the existing Forest,how are we going to protect new one.
Lol
Yes true dude really we humans are vamps for nature
th-cam.com/video/JzujurCUUJk/w-d-xo.html
damn the irony
Planting new forests can still combat large scale problems our species faces. Some of you are so defeatist you not only refuse to come up with solutions to problems, but you actively scoff and say "what's the point?" whenever someone more driven and capable than you is working to solve a problem.
What if we could preserve the existing rain forests in africa and south america first?😂
ifti hasan
Ikr
@Grant Leindecker We needing wood is not the problem. I think the problem is that after cutting all the wood in an area, we don’t replant them. We destroy the whole forest along with its eco system and use the land for other purpose. No, Alhamdulillah I am not homeless, but as far as i can see only my doors are made of wood, the rest is concrete.😂
YoMoma Of we built for timelessness, as opposed to building to make money, we’d have great homes that lasted hundreds of years.
Europe has 1/2 Millenia old homes.
When they are not needed any more, we can reuse the rock.
Same can be done with steel, concrete, and glass.
We need a paradigm shift, to move away from wood.
Good point
I came in this comment section to tell this but after seeing this im satisfied
“Sahara” is Arabic for Desert. Calling it the “Sahara Desert” is like saying “Desert Desert”.
Its also like calling Sharia Law but what your really saying is "Law Law".
Lol. That's funny.. but this is a bit beyond that.
@وردة سيرا i mean not completely, english does use reduplication to emphasize, so it could be interpreted as calling it "the desert of deserts" which is fitting since it is the biggest desert on the planet
Green Sahara = 🟢 🏜🌵
@@dayman7136
In Arabic the proper name is: As Sahara Al Kubra
الصحراء الكبرى
Which would mean the greatest or the largest desert.
There is just that slight feeling of satisfaction everytime I look at an oasis in the middle of a dessert, just me?
Grow many more plants and flowers for pollination
What if we terraformed sahara desert?
MrBeast: *HOLD MY MONEY*
Zenn Lozanno it tooks like 10000 MrBeasts in order to do something like this tbh
Mr. Hair Bar
But we only need 1 :)
Mr. Beast, the only beast.
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MrBeast about to plant 20,000,000 trees here
Dam it I was thinking of that nice
It cost 2 trillion because 1.9 trillion would go to the politicians
Or tax cuts for the corporations😒😒
Fact
Ahhahha genius
Nah u dumb u don't know how the economy works
@@King-Nova how does it work then oh genius lord
😒😑
We should also terraform the Atacama and Sechura Deserts, both of which are in South America. The former is found in northern Chile, while the latter covers up almost all of Peru's coastline.
Tutankhamun: where's my sand?? WHAT THE F is this Amazon thing doing here??
If we can transform SAHARA....we can also save the Amazon by same means......
Amazon Belongs to Brazil and we decide what to do with it. Deal with it
One-Above-All shut your goofy ass up your not deciding shit so do not even say “we” lol
One-Above-All Honestly Brazil doesn’t own the amazon the people who live in the amazon do.
So true.. One man planted a few trees per day for 20 years, and made an enormous forest. It started off as a sandy place :D
@@jross9919 Your country in the shit hole with your Fascist ass president, he'll turn it into another Africa at this rate.
The video is basically saying that "a soul for a soul"😂😂
Lol
Only marvel fans understand
RiP Gamora lol
Haha I was thinking the same.
More like an eye for an eye
As an egyptian , we have two deserts in Egypt , my dream was turning them into green lands , but this dream had been destroyed 😓
Don't give up!
Give up!
@@danielcantiego9374 chad
@@yousufrashwan not Chad to discourage others trying to Maxx
I say we save the Amazon rain forest first and then work on other areas of the world that have been deforested. In regards to the Sahara, I think terra-forming it would cause problems as he mentioned. So perhaps we should start with stopping the Sahara from expanding? Start planing trees in places like Niger and Mali and keep pushing the forests upward over time.
If we can’t terraform the deserts on the earth, don’t even think about Mars.
But Elon Musk senpai said he could
😂😂😂😂
You are 100 percent right. Instead of improving their own planet they are planning to move to another planet. Humans are such idiot.
yeah
@@sakil8272 theres nothing wrong with looking towards the future. Looking to other areas to live can help this planet survive.
Very interesting "If". It shows how our planet is connected in many ways without us knowing it
Yes
No, we always knew it. It shows people manipulate and censor truth to fit their own agenda.
That God the one who made everything perfect for Human us to live and worship him..
Have you not seen that Allah created the heavens and the earth in truth? If He wills, He can do away with you and produce a new creation.
(Quran 14:19)
@@ummahofprophetpbuh uh lets not talk about gods
@@octa2875 Why not?
"Plants and trees are the lungs of the earth..."
Actual lungs:
The bloke applied for a job as a timber getter and said he used to log trees in the Sahara Forest.' You mean the Sahara Desert?' The boss asked
He said 'Now'
When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poisoned, you realize you cannot eat money.
Amen
Too bad humans are so narrow-minded and short-sighted
Too early, not before 3100
@@ronjayrose9706 and who exactly are broad minded and far sighted?
Well said boi 👏🏻👏🏻
what if we terraform the amazon rainforest into a new sahara desert?
wait, we're already doing it full speed
Yeppers , by 2050 humans will be gone the way of the horse , robots will do 99% of all work , this is the agenda
@Jack McLaughlin by 2050 the question will be where have all the people gone ,,,, not are there any robots ?
the amazon will become a desert simply by stopping the phosphorus from being stirred up by the powerful wind of the great sahara. this gets delivered via the jetstream and then it condenses when it reaches the Andes mountains and becomes the Amazon river..........the rain wont stop making the river ....but it will no longer contain the phosphor that the entire region lacks .......in fact the whole reason it exists as it does is because of the Sahara becoming a desert ......otherwise it would not be possible for such a dense jungle to exist in this region at all.......interdependence is the common element that needs to be the main center of focus if we wish to fully understand the dynamics at play and only then will we be able to make efficient responses to an ever changing volatile universe
@@jeremyschissler337 We would make the Atacama Desert even bigger.
Nope we aren't
What if, someone sows blue grass seeds on the Atlantic coast of the Sahara because that grass has roots 50 feet long so it can get into the groundwater and twice a day water vapor rises from the Atlantic and moves inland
Yes you'll need to start at the edges. First the low hanging fruit. Seed bombs by plane, rain catching land features etc
Isn't the prevailing wind direction going the opposite way?
@@downbntout daytime yes
I always believe that Earth also need the place like Sahara as much as it needs Amazon rainforest.
Imagine the Earth as a spaceship with many compartment and its own functions, there's engine room, crew cabin, leisure time room, entertainment room, kitchen, and the list can go on and on.
So, everything is connected.
For example, if Sahara get colder, Scandinavia countries or Canada will become a total ice box.
Something like that.
All we have to do is, keeping all the rooms clean, neat and functional as it's meant to be in order to play its role effectively.
this is an embarrassingly overly-simplistic way to look at this
@@TheCelticsAREboss You have your own opinion, that's right. But the truth is, we simply don't know... even the reason why we are here
What if we terraformed the destroyed part of the Amazon.
Billion dollar thought
exactly....
It’s a good idea, I worry what kind of a planet we will leave behind.
M.Q.S. The government over there is really corrupt and supports the destruction of the Amazon.
Thats 100% percent better coz that place was meant be a forest and wetland terraforming the desert could create another ocean...
Just place 1 grass block in the midle and it will spread
yeah, it would've been much easier.. whats wrong with all this people...
@@26shah89 dunno
Yeah, thought that too. Grass and other weeds, grow faster than trees. Planting should be started along the end of the Savannah regions.
Don’t forget to plant saplings and bonemeal the grass
It doesn't work around sand block
You might be sacrificing one rain forest to give life to another, since this will get rid of the dust storms that blow Sahara dust into the upper atmosphere and deposit it over the Amazon to fertilize the soil there.
Grow many more plants and flowers for pollination
Need to start pushing projects like this as holiday options, make a difference, free labour and tourism income
The Amazon has been around for 55 million years in relatively the same state it’s in now, except with more trees. The Sahara only became a desert roughly 6,000 years ago...
So, I doubt terraforming the Sahara would drastically effect the Amazon.
A very good point and I wonder how What If overlooked it.
yes.. and the oceanic life that depend on the sahara dust storms for their nutrients
@@Rainyumz oceanic life is mostly concentrated around coastal area, if you check map of bioactivity of ocean, you will see that most of the oceans in southern hemisphere are deserts, including the part between Sahara and Amazon basin, so it mostly settles down on the ocean floor.
@@mariusdesu1633 yea.. i never said otherwise.
@@Rainyumz sorry, misunderstood your previous comment, for some reason interpreted it as a counter argument...
Meanwhile we are planning to teraform Mars😂
Teraformming Mars is far better because as we know it, there is no life there. Not to mention, Mars has very weak atmosphere. It's like starting with new program vs. fixing the program. Second, it would offload stress from Earth and move it to Mars, ensuring that our CO2 output becomes balanced. Also, Mars requires more greenhouse gas as it's far away from Sun compared to Earth. Of course, the biggest issue with terraforming is time. It would take enormous amount of time.
Use the Sahara as a test base.
Arthur Zettel
Great idea!
@@arthurzettel6618
Great idea!
Sad reality!
Thanks for your remembering our planet earth 🌎 what if....
I planted ten trees in my desert yard they all died this year even with great soil and water.
Mr beast here’s a nice open place to plant 20 million trees
lmao someone show this to him
Who is Mr. Beast
Bluenix _Indo u don’t know!!!!!!!!!! 17milion subs
@@oliverst nope
@@irend1163 just search this channel on TH-cam and watch of couple of videos, you'll get the idea
A "bad man" by the name Gaddafi actually did turn the desert to green landscape.
Hillary took care of that ,,,
Them laughed
Its just FrEeDooM aND DeMocrACy
Well Gaddafi was a bit of a dictator. But good on him I guess?
@@novau115 dumb
@@novau115 Gaddafi was good for Libya but not for interests of murica
I saw in Borneo Indonesia, Forest transformation into dessert
rip...
BECAUSE illegal logging
I hope not :(
Yes! I have made it through watching a full year worth of what if video's, although i had an idea about alot of the sibjects, i was mindblown by alot of what if video's too, and here's looking forward to watching the other year's worth of what if video's, and to learn more stuff i do not know about lolz.
Thankyou for the great what if video's what if, and keep up the good work. Respect
I feel like there's a reason its a desert
Exactly 👍
Soyboy me to
No just no
Yes, there is a reason. Due to current wind patterns, there is hardly any rain in the Sahara.
However, due to global warming, wind patterns are already changing. This summer, the wind direction was reversed and instead of Australia, East Africa got rain. A lot. There was severe flooding. (And in Australia there were fires.)
For the Sahara this was the wrong side. If West Africa also gets a lot of rain, the Sahara will get vegetation. (Not for the first time.)
If the Sahara stops being a desert, one result is that it will stop furtilising the South American rainforest. Yes, it sounds weird, but the Sahara really does this. Finely ground organic material mixed with the desert sand is picked up by the east wind and carried over the Atlantic. On the journey it becomes part of rain clouds, which then result in fertilising rain in South America. Part of the rainforest there actually relies on this!
True, don't know why humans have this stupid tendency of trying to turn a grassland to a desert and desert to forest.
What if, we plant trees back where we took them away. So we dont change the ecosystems, but bring them back to their former glory. Like the amazon rainforest
Humans live there now
We need to ask bolsonaro first 😁
Its possible, all those government lands which are empty should be converted into forest lands completely. It would increase the organic material in soil. All empty lands which are of no use must be converted. It will be beneficial to all. That's not the only solution, population bills should be strict and forcefully implemented. We only have population crises. We cannot fill billion peoples stomach. This earth cannot handle 7 billion peoples we must do what is needed not what we want. That must happen otherwise its a doomsday. Ecology and economy must work together.
Start planting
I agree
Rather than relying solely on desalination water treatment plants to get the water, it would probably be beneficial to also connect pipelines from the ocean that would drain into massive man-made lakes in the Sahara. The evaporated water would enter into the water cycle and add rain into the environment, and since it's the desert, it's not like the salt water lake would damage the environment.
Whenever there's a force there is always counterforce. Thank you, this video has helped me understand better.
And I agree with you that smaller scale but with larger frequency is better. They most likely still cause environmental impacts, but in stages.
The benefit is lucrative enough for the risk. That I feel strongly for
*"What If We Terraformed The Sahara Dessert?"*
Lil Dicky and Leonardo would be proud
Lol 😂
😄🤗😁😀
Here is another terraforming video. Check it out:
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What happens to the indigenous animals & plants of Sahara if we terraformed?
@@cluBMallu A desert zoo, may be.
What if we destroy all the man made dam's, and let water make it's natural way around the world again?
Plzz do
What if earth was a square...
@@unknownlegend4906 Check this out:
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The less costly alternative is creating inland seas using tunnels or canals first. Then let new weather patterns emerge around those new seas/lakes. And then go from there. So we could terraform maybe 25-30% of the Sahara and it leaves 60-70% of sand to fertilize the Amazon basin. I don't think we need to terraform the whole thing.
Trees be like:
It's global cooling!
It's global cooling!
Everything is just a "what if" without Action.
Sad reality though.😢
Nobody wants to spend for the greater good of earth even though the money is just sitting there collecting dust
I keep insisting that every household should plant at least one tree in their back yard if they haven't already done so.
Hmmm
Haven't got a backyard at the moment, so that is going to be tough. And planting a tree anywhere else around here is just going to annoy the city planners, or more likely: be cut down by the city's professional gardeners during maintenance.
I used to have my own small forest in my backyard it was a place for animals and a lot of trees and other plants where there until some people came and completely destroyed it (
they cut the trees and trampled the plants) it still makes me sad after 6 years
Nothing is impossible.we should do our best to make a safer world for our future generations 🙏
My suggestion is to terraform maybe 1/3 of Sahara.. We have to build a mega solar farm protruding higher than average size trees that will cover 1/3 of Sahara.. Solar panel reflects the light and heat of the sun and covers the sand below it.. Eventually the sand cools down and grasses will grow.. Bring in some cattle to fertilize the grassland under the Mega solar farm.. Then start planting small to medium sized tropical fruit trees..
2019:planting 20 million trees
2030:making the whole dessert green
I will I promise
The Jordanian rainforest
@@ammarammari WE NEED MRBEAST!!
@@ammarammari صدقني ما راح يصير اذا بني ادم ما تغير
What about the animals that live in the Sahara
Clearly, no one did their research on this. Couple scientific points you should know that the people who made this video clearly did not know.
1) The Sahara desert provides nutrients to the entire Atlantic Ocean. Trade winds move across the Sahara, pick up soil/sand/nutrients, then deposit those nutrients into the Atlantic ocean, not just the Sahara.
2) As in point 1, the nutrients from those trade winds help feed corals, fish, and a variety of oceanic life. Specifically, phytoplankton. Which, provides the world with over 70% of its breathable oxygen. So while you have been taught trees provide all the worlds breathable air, you'd be wrong. 2 out of every 3 breathes you take is because of the oxygen phytoplankton produce.
They did say that the Sahara feeds the trans Atlantic areas, you didn't watch the whole video did you?
@@everettduncan7543 Clearly you didn't read my entire post. derp
@@everettduncan7543 What since when was the atlantic a trans? Jesus christ now we gotta gay pride flag and other shit for a fuckin ocean too?
@@battyflaps5410 LOL wut, Trans means more than just Transgender, someone didn't pay attention in geography 😂
@@phaseloli6668 LOL wut, someone didnt get the joke
Saying "No sahara, means no more Amazon rain forest." is wrong. In the past Sahara was savanah not a desert. But yet Amazon rain forest was alive an well.
first save the remaining evergreen forests, then think about new one.
This is the first what if video in which I am not dying
Don't think so
Hooray!
That's because with global warming you already are.
They will just destroy it again like amazon
nope.
Yes Africa is the largest tree cutting continent
If we plant 2 trillion trees then we equalies the pollution we create so I request you all who read these coment start planting trees first by yourself and then create tree planting community I wish we will achieve these target one day
@Night Falls their fault for colonialists and most of the population is dumb. Choose politicians for what they say, not what they will do or have done.
upgrades people, upgrades
TBH I also think it'd be desastrous for the local ecosystem and the fauna that developed in these desertic conditions. To me it'd be more suited to just maintain existing forests around the world where there are already, and especially at the edge of the Sahara to get prevent its further expansion, rather than changing it.
But we already changed it. The Sahara used to be full of rivers, lakes and forests until domesticated goats overgrazed the land.
@@austkeat Agreed, but this should've precisely taught us to stop killing ecosystems :)
What If Season 3 Episode 21, What If We Terraformed the Sahara Desert
We should focus on saving trees in the Amazon than planting new one in the Sahara
You can't plant trees in sahara you only can plant sand
mustafa creft dumbass
How many channels Do i have to make to sub 2 pewds 😭😂
The fire in the a. Amazon
@@smartoutiii7560 😂😂😂😂😂
"Good luck having govs pitch money on that...."
"... especiall if it's only for the good of humanity"
Summary of politics be like
very interesting video!lots of love and respect from andhra pradesh,india.
After covid, usa has spent 2 trillion on the economy. Perhaps next time, they should spend it on kickstarting the sahara project instead
the sahara project will be a failure.
@@kairon5249 yeah the nations that control the desert will just teal the donations or fight each other over who gets to control the desert.
What if we terraformed back parts of the Amazonas? 🤔
The poor Countrys have to make some living room and money either?
so u wanna tell them dont do this and that to earn money?
ya na People only care about money and having a roof over their head but their not noticing that our planet is changing quick and were not doing anything about it and just ruining our ONLY planet because of our poor choices.
If people only cared about money, then their one of those people who are ruining the earth.
ya na are they going to be able to breath money?
The Amazon can just through successions and they'll be prime
It isnt the official current government policy, unfortunately there is nothing we can do....
How bout we stop cutting the trees we already got?
0 efforts, $0 cost
It will cost millions
It will cost Millions to just cut them... then Trillions to and a lifetime to replenish them.
Schools and organizations should have mandatory programs to plant trees, organized by government in consultation with ecologists, geologists, etc.
Root for the reforestation of the earth!
@@MusicOfEpirus The problem is everyone needs wood
@@MusicOfEpirus Millions of people will lose there jobs because companies that are cutting tree will shut down or people that use wood for winter to survive will now use gasoline
You need home, not wood. But even if you need wood, there are trees that grow at 10 times the speed of others that are being harvested now. Called Paulownia...
That’s one option. Other option we need to GMO trees for construction, and leave natural ones alone.
We don’t need jobs and money and trees and gas. We just need to be smart and think better then yesterday, cuz right now we’re doing shit backwards, and we’re all asleep. We don’t challenge the status quo.
We’re doing what was always done. We’re no interested in saving ourselves.
Europe has half Millenia old homes... no wood in them. They didn’t go hungry. People found better things to do than cut wood... made baguettes, fondue, music, finance, fashion, gardens... the time they would have spent cutting would, they spent it think about improving their state of being.
It's very easy to convert any desert into a lush green place only by using some simple tricks for example direct sun exposure dried out the roots of the plants and moisture left there so after planting a tree or sowing a seed it should be covered around by some stone or bricks .
This idea works out because we have applied it successfully personaly to make our surroundings green ;we live in a deserted area.
Fantastic , brillians !
Thank you Maister IF ! 💚🌳🌴💚
The whole Sahara? No.
Part of it is possible. You could, you probably can get away with 27% of the Sahara, but not much more before creating environmental damage.
Working our way up from central Africa and the green belt would probably be more efficient
No forest on earth is environmentally damaging , how will doing it in Sahara be the first ?
Benjamin because of the animals living there....you can’t change a desert to a forest and act like nothing will change
Originally the Sahara was a lush jungle so why wouldn't it be possible?
@Martin Denny you had it right the first time. Soul is required. Lol there are plants that live in the Sahara though they're just constantly buried by the sand
we can teraform Mars and Moon but we can't our earth
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😣
Its a lot harder too terraform a planet like earth
And when did we ever terraform the moon or mars?
These are just what ifs
we r trying to terra farm mars.
Manish Berwal u think it’s that easy to terraform a whole planet?
There is another idea by planting Solar Panels on larger area of Sahara and Outback. Solar panels would generate electricity and make shades on the surface. Shades in longer run would be helpful in growing tiny plants with the help of seasonal rain. 👍
We could maybe terraform, a third of the desert, instead of the whole, these '''''what ifs''''' videos are succinct, informative and well narrated, thanks for not crowding out such important infos, with loud unnecessary music / noise
What if: Every house ran on solar energy
Blackout in night XD
Władca Wymiaru One word: batteries
no bird in sight
Then the sun would burn out in 40 years
@@RFKtoenail lol
Making the Brazilian rainforest a desert and then wanting to go back to Egypt I don't know what to even say!
Desert is the ugliest scenery of the world. I don't like desert.
Please don’t- I live in the Caribbean and we feel the effects of even minor disruptions to the dust. You’ll kill us
How long has it taken to do all this and get to this point?
*Hitler has joined the game*
No to be serious it's every 100000 years that it actually goes green by natural
You’re right that it will go back to being green. The Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (ﷺ), stated this over 1,400 years ago:
It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour (Day of Judgment) will not begin until the land of the Arabs ***once again*** becomes meadows and rivers.” Narrated by Sahih Muslim 157.
Also sea becomes desert and desert become green just like Mediterranean was once desert and Antarctica was green
Sahara rainforest = Amazon Desert
Sahara Desert = Amazon Rainforest
🤔
Which one would you rather have?
@@totalanarchy-yt Two halves of one whole. And to rule over only one would be to never truly rule either.
You should make an episode about putting some sand from the Sahara desert in the ocean just to see if there's water still in the Sahara and what will happen to the ocean if we do
Nice idea. But it’s very very difficult to make plants grow once there is nothing. I so much wish that nature has more chance with us 🙈
What if my invention of a plastic-eating shrimp actually gets noticed and put to use?
Then we hv problems of plastic shrimp...
SATAKA not true. They turn the plastic into organic material which are fertilizers for plants. Phosphorus and nitrogen
Old Turtle
But than we have a plague of plastic eating shrimps to deal with and I’ll have to release my plastic eating shrimp eating whales to eat the shrimps and than someone else will have to release their megeladon’s to stop the whales from over breeding.
Niroon 64 lmao. They are selectively bred and genetically engineered to eat plastic. So they are the same as normal shrimp, they just eat plastic. They don't reproduce any slower, or faster than normal ones. And more whales wouldn't be a problem. They take millions of tons of co2 from the atmosphere each year
aksaek 1 all I know is that I keep a tank for when I cull colorless shrimp. Over time, they bred to be bigger and stronger. Filtering water that is a trait only found in their cousins, the bamboo shrimp. They would start to eat everything, not just leftover food and detritus, but the actual plastic pots that the crypts are in with rockwool. It's crazy, and the only explanation is that before I tissue cultured my own bucephalandra I was feeding super worms to my tortoises, super worms are known to be able to consume polyethylene, aka plastic. Anyway, when I placed the explant of Bucephalandra into the murashige and skoog medium, I must've accidentally touched the medium, and the bacteria from the super worms was placed and left to reproduce, and when I put the bucephalandra into my tank after the vessel was full, the shrimp were feeding on the bucephalandra, and must've consumed the bacteria that forever stayed in their system and became genetic.
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May be other plants and trees for Sahara desert, aloe vera, ,date palm, and not the whole desert at ones of course, but smal places ?
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To go about things the right way, you only reduce the size of the desert and reclaim it by 1/4th and that should start from the southern Edge in the Sahel region as well as the Savannah Between the Congo Rainforest and the Sahara Desert. You should first establish a framework composed of fast growing and commercially important local tree species like Neem, Acacia as well as Forest and Fruit trees. Once it has been established you can plant a full fledged forest on this framework as well as expand grassland in the southern edge of the desert and also create more water based habitats like Marshes, Lakes and Ponds, taking advantage of the resulting increased precipitation patterns & even restore & Expand Water bodies already in Crisis like Lake Chad & Niger. It is because at one time it was said that these lakes were so wast that they stretched from the Congo Forest & went till the Sahara Desert & covered Grasslands as well. This was their earlier state, whereas now they are dying and shrinking like the Aral Sea.
Also Do not use Eucalyptus as it is having heavy water requirements and it will deplete scare ground water resources making Water Scarcity & Desertification worse. It also has a high Oil Content & is very Flammable & its leaves do not readily decompose thereby making soil poorer. So this is not to be done at all.
As far as Locust Plague is concerned, then you can use biological controls like birds etc to eat it.
Now as far as the Dust that Fertilizes the Amazon is concerned, then going by my Plan & not taking more than 1/4th of the Desert Area, so we still are left with Ample space of Desert & Sand to go about it as well. Also That way even the Same Dust will fertilize the Congo Rain forest as well. Because it is just next door, whereas the Amazon is on the Other side of the Atlantic on an altogether different continent.
The other part of the Plan is to expand from the Forest at the Foothills of the Atlas Mountains, we expand that & add to greater green areas in the Desert. We also make more Oasis habitats as well as Corridors for migration & movement of different species as well.
Also countries like where the Nile Passes the Desert like Egypt and Sudan can start forestry Projects & also ease population pressure away from the Nile to other parts of the country & many streams & canals can be dug to bring water into remote desert areas making them conducive for forestry, agriculture as well as human settlement. But we need to primarily decide Land use patterns and also how to maintain balances & sustainable use of resources. Also Population control should be prioritized as after-all we still are playing a delicate game here.
This could all be paid for with a Tobin tax, and provide housing for displaced populations at the same time.
I believe it is Feasible but the price is just too expensive but I hope it does Happen!
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If we terraformed the Sahara my car in England wouldn't keep getting covered in Saharan dust!
The problem is not in the Sahara
The problem is in the word "if".
Reversing a third of the Sahara to pre Egyptian/Roman influence would mean greening the mountains. Providing water naturally to the surrounding land and people. This would also help slow erosion by stopping the winds from being so strong coming down off the mountians. The atlas mountain range is huge and that plus the Ethiopian highlands restoration would greatly effect the water in that region on the Sahara
I wish we could move the continents. If we could do that, I would prefer a little smaller Pacific ocean. I would place continents a little away from each other and by this way every continenet could get more humid winds coming from the oceans. And I hope this could help to create bigger green lands and smaller deserts.
What if we all died? That would solve every problem
Safiye Sultan we all die, our planet dies..there’s nothing to be solved..we need the earth, and the earth needs us
@@tikipunch9940 tell me one reason why earth needs us
TIKI PUNCH That is wrong, if you look at Chernobyl which still remains radioactive, forests took over building and animals are living there too so this is an example of how well the environment can recuperate without human intervention. You can watch the documentary on Netflix called ‘Our Planet’
Safiye Sultan okay like i’ve seen the “what if humans all disappear” so dont come at me when you’ve just learned ur answer from that video
TIKI PUNCH Why are you angry?
Oh well the amazon rainforest is burning anyway lets just do it lol
ThoseGoodVibes or we could just save the amazon
Simpler solution
Shrink down the size to about the size of a state, lowering the overall price, keeping plenty of land so it doesn’t affect the amazon drastically.
For the locust problem, plant natural pesticide plants like calendula and horehound along with other herbs, grads, and trees. Doing this would lower the overall temperature making these plants survive easier in the heat.
Down side is still going to be a bit of a hefty expense, dealing with politics not just the world over but the countries that the sahara are located in, stopping and preventing people from poaching the plants that are growing. Depending which country you would need to still pipe water to sustain the plants at the beginning. You would also require lots of fertilizer to give the plants nutrients to grow.
But thats just my 2 cents, If anyone has knowledge on botany I would love to hear the thought on this idea.
That last bit also is crucial because all that dust carries the minerals that will feed large parts of the ocean where plancton thrives. It's literally a whole cycle of the Atlantic Ocean, and should not be messed with.
Sahara has right to live too. Minerals will be used by own biozone for once.
@@DrSmooth2000 But Sahara means desert, and the category for desert means that an area lacks life. I know is not totally dead, but the atlantic ocean has way way more opportunity to make serious effects on the world than the Sahara.
@@chej9 what we have here is lack of 4th Dimensional Awareness. Be a Doc, not a Marty.
Sahara was not always desert. Started getting really uninhabitable 4500 years ago, refugees accumulated at Nile.
Not always been a desert doesn't always have to be. Not seen model of how a no ice caps climate would look w current continental configuration. Can't fully predict ofc. More water in atmosphere seems some should fall on Sahara
@@DrSmooth2000 The Sahara being a proto Garden of Eden is pre mineralization of the Atlantic ocean. In fact, the vast area of trees in the area would've made it impossible for erosion to carry these nutrients to the West. The Saharas time is done, and it's death brought life to the ocean. Right now, more of the earths economy is dependent on these circulation of nutrients than of the current flora and fauna of the Sahara.
@@chej9 we'll see. In a Climactic Optimum w no Polar caps should cause/coincidence with very acidic and less oxygenated oceans. Plankton and jellies dominant? Guess sturgeon survived but didn't have us as predator.
Lake Chad bigger than Caspian could be domesticated can only speculate metric tonnes of fish or mussel as possible offset. Amazonia estuary mega-swamp suppose tameable in theory.
All bets off if Bill Gates teams with China to pump Stratosphere w SO2 in attempt to prevent that. Am now seeing danger that too aggressive geoengineering could set off Runaway Cooling Effect. Solar radiation management leads to rebound Heating if stopped. But if went heavy then coincidence of mega 🌋 series and carbon sequestration, especially if like a modified algae or seaweed (Azola Event) we'd take on ice age traits like drought and haze like we have this year. Sulfuric particulates eventually rain down not sure as dust or acid rain like 1988's eco-emergency. Acidify but cool.
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The most interesting thing about this, and the main reason why this is not an option, is that it would actually *increase* the global average temperature. While it does decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, the albedo of our earth decreases aswell. The reason for this is that a rainforest reflects only very little of the sunlight shining at it while the sahara reflects most of it resulting in the higher global average temperature.
The Sahara used to be lush in vegetation. Part of the reason it is so arid and void of plant life now is due to overgrazing. It literally used to be an oasis with lakes, rivers and forests. Are you suggesting that man made climate change is actually helping? Because humans made the Sahara what it is today, and it happened thousands of years before we discovered fossil fuels.
Nice idea
I will try this:)
Goodbye camel glad you're happy when camel extinct
The displaced temperatures will push heat domes further north than normal, acting as a catalyst towards raising sea levels. In turn terraforming lush lands to arid lands, with many more large scale wild fires, due to the higher temperatures for extended periods out of season. Which is then exacerbated by seasonal winds and displaced pressures...
When I saw the title and understood this is a true WHAT IF episode and can happen only in what if
There are lot more detailed videos about this topic. Some even stating it would rise the global temperature.
Instead of transforming Sahara desert into a rainforest, we are transforming Amazon rainforest into desert.
Desert is the ugliest scenery of the world. I don't like desert. I want that there will be no desert in the world because we get no benefit from desert.
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