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echoing yet discovered the dangers of stealing capital from nature as well as ways to manage the assets on which all our lives depend. hello, welcome on front of that. some raw materials could be exhausted within decades if we continue extracting them and the country that will drive up prices. for construction, for instance. the industrial relies on sand for materials to build a booming cities. but sand mining has a dramatic environmental consequences, as we've discovered on my soul. it's just before mid day when a small fishing boat approaches the shore near mom by but the men on board, on making a living from fishing as their fathers and grandfathers did. mr. devon pulling sand out of the sea, bucketful after bucketful among vendors jerome channel. he can dive up to depths of

12 meters. when he started 20 years ago, he was just to person who hold the buckets on board. but then he started diving the spending of the firewall was in the water doing dive after dawn. good mill protective equipment and no oxygen tank. big dangerous work? well, on the day i go into the water with the pipe in one hand and the bucket in the other . we hold the pipe with our legs and used a bucket to dig outside. i thought of ivy i have and then the people on the boat pull up the bucket. when i come up by holding the pipe, the empty the bucket into the boat. i give it back to me and then i dive again. you still owe them money, but this is the up north. lydia is delivering this coastal region has a decades long tradition, not pulling sand out of the sea for use and construction. the problem now is the

scale several 1000 people on a living by mining the sea for sun says activist samira up the log. she has been campaigning against legal st mining on and he has goals for more than 10 years. has a lot of adverse effects on environment, but of course it also has effects on the community because although they don't realize it, this sun mining is destroying their fields and their livelihoods, and making their fishing livelihood loss was by actually reducing the amount of fish catch it's also because it's taking away the medium which holds the river, the creek, or the beach together. it's also making land more vulnerable to land loss. meanwhile, the demand for sound is growing as a raw material for the construction industry. since 1990 mom wise population has more than double to almost 21000000 people in 10 years. that number is expected to

grow by another 5 me and, and remind growth. need sand in the waters all around. mom, boy send money is prohibited but illegals and money is a driving business. what 1000000000? that's what makes samira up the lollies work so dangerous. she's been brutally attacked twice, was speaking out publicly against illegal send money, but she hasn't led the stopper. i was in the hospital for a little bit. and her, of course, the idea was to frighten me and make me stop complaining. but for me it worked. the other way, i felt that if somebody is taking it seriously enough that they actually willing to do physical harm to somebody. and particularly a woman in full side of the village who all pretended to be asleep while this was happening. then surely, there is more to it together with her

a vase foundation of de lolly, done to the united nations to raise a rent as of legal and mining. and the you want and violent agency has declared sand to be the world. second, most exploited resource after water was up to $50000000000.00 dance used each year . in other words or reserves in need of governance, rivers doesn't cost lines are being destroyed in the search of sun, and with them, the habitats of plants and animals, as well as natural flag barriers at the engine institute of technology bump, researches are looking for alternative materials for the construction industrial she, i'm also lick has been looking for a sand substitute for years. he and had the students have funding. he found one in duckett, all the garbage. the good outcome of that the search was that media lays after eating what remains is nearly all useful. and then if we really go and mine,

those is landfills which we call in india legacy landfills. that legacy solid waste can easily brought the processed at that location. and then fax admitted into video satisfactions and the fractions off had ms. dr. that'll be separate, just like so. the solid waste can be used in a multitude of different ways on building sites. so they can move into very quickly, i would estimation is that between 5 and 10 percent, my deal only needs to go through the lengthy, among the entire solidly that is generated in a given location and, and, and, and anywhere between 90 and 95 percent material can be put into several recycle and then converted and refurbished into various other construction material and substitute which can go again back into the construction industry. it will take time until raced. can replace sun as of all material,

and pursuing them by son divers to give of good jobs will be no easy task. a divers cleared a 1000 groupies around 12 euros a day, a bucket bullock, and on 400 rupees, much needed income for several 1000 families. nits impossible to go and stop at all the night. there will be a many problems with something like that. you know, you would, you would have a problem in meeting the needs of the country in group, in growth. you would have a problem in providing alternate livelihoods. if it was done overnight, over the next 25 years. if you want to invest $1.00 trillion dollars in infrastructure projects for its growing population in its growing city, that means no shortage of work for the son, divers of mom, buy, and even more damage to in the us marine ecosystems. the catalino and the community that is spearheading and drive to conserve the wetlands that it relies on

and that thousands of species call home it's located on one of the most will new to leaks in the world to a series of initiatives. locals now have their site set on becoming a model wetland, which ah, only half an hour to go before school ends here in nevada. but at this government school in bahama, in the southern indian state of carola students are still hard at work. ah, you know what we're going to do? we're going to make a bag and use it when we go to buy rice. tell your mother not to buy any plastic bass. tell her to make such bags amusing, old clothes. we should save our environment, right. i mean,

it's not just another lesson in math or history, nor is with their understood, had their teacher. she is here as part of a new program to train students on how to up cycle old clothes and make them into clots backs in there. there has been stitching clothes for years now, but it's only in 2016 when she was approached and given training by her bad child and non profit ashika, just an ecology and environment. all eatery that she decided to switch to making bags, pillowcases, and sanitary pads from old clothes, collected from homes, schools and colleges. since then, she, along with the small crew of women, have made close to 6000 cloth bags from around 2600 cages of used close. for the women, the benefits have been multi fold out of out a lateral and at a lanka there had been so many changes in our lives. and even though it's small

scale, we get an income from this. we also get to meet more people and get to know more things, but it gives us a lot of happiness and mental peace of our set under. and i let us on the osha and hipaa video as media village, more hammer in up or our district lies along than bernard lake, the longest lake in india. and for years, she has witnessed pollution in the league getting progressively worse being part of an initiative that reduces the number of fluids dumped into the lake while also helping me alternatives for plastic bags seemed meaningful to her. said a garrander, but though now i lebanese, my husband breaks in the lake, he collects clams for a living old that when he comes back with clam seeking, we see a lot of plastic in it. every time he comes back and each he will have 2 or 3 plastic items in the loaner. there are always bottles and plastic boxes. there is no control on how people are dumping plastic and garbage into the lake,

florida local. i live local allen. it's also a lancer site, meaning it has been designated a wet land for international importance by unesco. but the leak, which serves as a lifeline for 1600000 people is also one of the most polluted water bodies in the world. a recent study found high levels of plastics and micro plastics in the league decks, dias and glass are also media sources of pollution. pesticides used in nearby paddy fields, also trickle down into the water. joking the rich biodiversity that exists in and around it for in muhammad, a small village with a population of $25.00. and the impact has been so i oh lord, abundant had got that old plan on going into my production of glands is decreased

or the production of fish has decreased over by the production of the bronze has been hidden, budnick itemized. but all of this had affected the people who depend on the lake for the livelihood. and this had begun an issue of the survival ever did. i don't know that a lot of all it he thought of than a low entered it under the situation was dire when the oliver a branch of bangalore based non profit. ha. approached the paget in 2016 with an idea. make me huh. a model. wet land village under the project, a wide range of initiatives including the up cycling enterprise, were launched. the all our work, those involved with maximal community participation. we believe in an inclusive form of management. so actually for this project or so, the made sure that the local fungi of these partnered with us along with the health department and b r a other community based organizations in video. so i think that may be that that should be one reason that partnership made it happen. ah, the,

the of us won't be good, was tremendous. that response was the highest for another initiative which made mama in this 1st synthetic sanitary bad, free village. plastic beast pads that end up in the lake were found to be a major source of pollution in the village. with a survey finding that $7000.00 menstruating women and will hammer use up to one lack sanitary pads, a month ever since they were distributed unsubsidized streets been though switched to using cloth pads and menstrual cups. dad, the young lady added neither got by the gun. we saw the cups for the 1st time. we were scared to me, but now that we have started using it, we can't do without it tail. go on the thumb, it was very helpful for us during flood sap. but then after using the carpet, we can dry them inside the way jam crossed paths have to be dried outside and unloaded upper layer with the cops. and we didn't have to worry about anything when

it rings and floods. ca, i know a good that i can lead. i'm gonna go naughty and now they don't. despite the funding received by ici, ending in 2020, the project continues to live on with the and your support and upon chives. leadership for the residence here. continuing to set a model in wet land, conservation is as important a task as protecting and consulting the lead that nourishes and 15th them are hungerford raw materials has scarred landscapes around the world? from storm quarries in india's audi shall states that route and to hillside to the gaping hole left by germany's open fit lig knife. mice for what can be done with these regions once extracted practices. in a former industrial hub, near berlin, off was hope of a total transformation. the east german village, of course, caution is puzzling with some of visitors. it's just 150 kilometer south of berlin

and not far from the polish border. the bikes offered at a cat hoist rental, are in high demand with visitors, keen to explore the region. what is that side of the 16th or is finally going for a spin? it's been idle, old i wikker started his business here 20 years ago. back then, no one believed that this region of lou, sasha, or louse, it's as it's known and german could attract any tourists at all. the area was solely associated with a bronco industry. it was a mood landscape like this. the locals thought, echoed jolla was crazy. down below to get fog plus must then sites the lawyer you reach out. people kept asking, what do you do? shows people the whole. so the mood was different. back then the wall. i was still a lot of the pitts from the ivan cast mines, which i thought so. all the fun today, locals are proud of. what's happened here with giant, i'm sure it was. yeah,

i see of the vast open pits are gradually being transformed into europe's largest lake landscape. once complete, the lu zation lake district will cover 350 square kilometers. it's helping louse, it's transformed into a green holiday region with broad cycling lanes. hotels and landmarks like the rusty nails, which serves as a reminder of the regions industrial past, from the top of the tower visitors can observe another new lake in the making. the former open cast mine is slowly being flooded by ground. water is showing vast biz, unless we are, it's really something special there. got, i mean my, how many people can, shall you come and lightly new landscape hog what's of if everything goes as planned, this will be finished by 2025. god willing suddenly thought the show has been developed and stabilized over thought. there's still some work left to do over

there and all that should take another year or 2 of the one in its prime, the coal industry and louse, it's employed, 80000 people. but in the late 19 nineties, the energy sector in germany was restructured. dozens of unprofitable mines were closed. 90 percent of the work has lost their jobs. one in 5 people left the region . only full open cost mines remain active in laws it's to day. but that days unknown but to germany has pledged to phase out coal completely by 2000 said he 8, transforming this mining landscape. cost german state upwards of 250000000 euros last year alone. between 199-220-1610 point 2000000000 euros was spent. lime needs to be added to the lakes to ensure they are not too acidic for wildlife and full swim us. last year, more than 30000 tons were required to balance p h lentils. then there is

maintenance and risk assessment work carried out by g. u. engineers, like phillips auto, is this job to ensure that there are no land slides. after decades of digging, the soil is more loose and can be moved more easily by groundwater if it rises quickly. on a cruise, lish, oscar luther, which is huge wave was triggered artificially. so that land areas could be moved in a very effective ways. and there's a landslide happening underneath moving further and further back. and it's these forces that create the sudden wave on who's in you at the bottom here. we see trees are knocked over like matched egg. there are very powerful forces that work, all of them. good bye. to good customer officials only one to these kind of land slides to happen in control circumstances in 2010 this area. so a natural landslide, which is why entries now unauthorized back then several trucks were drowned in the

zoo. nami, like wave that drive us only just rescued in time. yeah, um and gonna this work will take generations. we still have to make 30000 hector's of land safe as part of the basic reconstruction work. we need to develop certain technologies, like non invasive blast induced compaction to strengthen the soil of the transformation from what the landscape once was to what it is now is radical. and there is no blueprint on how to do this work. a 30 minute drive away in an area known as coon house of a 3000 animal and plant species have found a new home. it's become a hot spot for bio diversity. and so he and our stella come here. we can see how nature is re conquering the land on its own without human hellboy. it ornamental fisher, this location has developed particularly well. it's better than the standard dots,

which i nod tapia t and one species has grown up here that is common in germany. it's bush grass lun tied class stiff, unclear, shy. it is one of the several ecologists who proposed to not intervene here in dispatch, but to just let nature to its own green naturalization. under try conditions on soil that is still acidic and low and nutrients. many flowers and now thriving, here will your commands the shirley songers, the processes definitely taken around 1015 or 20 years of g. o 20 yog, quoted. so it requires a lot of patience lash. i'd seized the project as a success. this to 1000 tact a patch of land in louse. it's one of many former mines is now a wild natural habitat as a natalia sir when i am his hang. obviously, it's an enormous gift to have been able to observe its change over the past 20 years. civil susan at the same site and i look fussed and asked him stunned,

and i've been here from the start and victim will button. and i've seen that what we envisioned as cone true struck with your law. and yet suzanne the us or above, i'd had switched on all. another vision that has come true is the transformation of louse. it's into a tourist destination. that combines green space is felicia and in industrial past that visitors want to learn about be it on this old convey a bridge now surrounded by parks, off renewable energy's doesn't mixing or honest guided tour with people who are born here. like a cat hika. he observed the rise and fall of the brown, col industry for himself, and he's still shocked by the devastating impact that the last few mines left and now's it's, are still having on the land. in gordon,

the good norm zia, if i see it myself at the landscape, was being destroyed. thus i hope that someone will develop a better storage capacities for renewables to increase their use as well. was this over exploitation was not at the future than the martin. this between 40 and 45 percent of germany's energy comes from renewables. fossil fuels like brown coals, still play an important role, but the country is now paving the way for life after the cold. gemini has created a blueprint that could be of useful other countries like india that still half that path ahead nor that as the environmental damage caused by a growing material use more obvious than in the case of plastic pollution. as we seek more efficient ways to manage our resources, finding alternatives to plastic is key. we met an engineer and tom laud who's developed substitute products made from agriculture to lift

india generates approximately 3 and a half 1000000 tons of plastic waste per year. what's more, researchers say that the per capita figure has doubled in the past 5 years. tackling this growing problem requires the development of environmentally friendly substitute materials. kelly and kuma and his company came up with a very useful idea. they built the machine that uses 15 different types of biodegradable agricultural ways to make food containers for mission. and within that on the symbol glover from google, we gave the machine a simple design. i knew that there is a very little training is required to operate in that owner. all of our material companies buying a machinery just need to choose the raw materials on monday and we will help them mix the raw material based on what, which hardly takes a minute. no, no, on one or once the machinery isn't it long. it takes 40 minutes to heat up very on i think raw materials are added, but i a, the diet cavity. they go de la loading and unloading are controlled by the lever.

only one control of when we unload after 3 minutes, the cups and containers are finished up on the fall might look the burning of agricultural waste leads to series environmental pollution. and that in turn leads to worsening health issues among the population. but farmers could make more efficient use of the waste coconut fibers straw, tamarind, nuts, and tea and coffee. i used to make biodegradable and products beneatha de la la meaning good la la, the agricultural waste lake rice and paddy's drive can be managed more efficiently . allow me to think currently it's either burned or crushed down and reused as fertilizer ended with another. the learners can be highly profitable when done right. when he bought other, what are my most of the farmers do not know what to do with the excess adjusted. i don't know, i go learning it. we certainly need to create awareness about this whole process. i know that i'm well known, legos are thing with under laplant,

i can invent machines, but the real challenge lies in driving the whole process to make sure equipment is available to the farmer and then i'll go, okay, look, well bailable theater, lavon barton, the machine to santa from co, inventor strongly believes that the real push must come from consumers. they must be the change makers. a blasting cabin broadly alone, in spite of the government's ban. i'm placed eggs and now we can see what is commonly used on a day to day basis. or we can blame people for that, so they're going to buy the things that are commercially available. i am arguing that we have to provide substitutes so that plastic usage law can be gradually halted and other, our navy shall have we really come across alternative tea cups. at any nearby stall i, the garden, the reality is that we are not efficiently managing ways, but above and there are raw materials available for producing sustainable and eco friendly products. on the 30 longer of these biodegradable cups, or at least one step in the right direction. now as kaleon

tomorrow, just pointed out using raw materials which are sustainable is the need of the hour . remember, there is no planet beat, and it falls upon us to secure the future of those who come after us. i'll leave you with that and see you again next week. good bye. and thanks for watching. with blue, blue with

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