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india discovered the dangers of stealing capital from nature as well as with demanded 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 at the current rate that will drive up prices. for construction, for instance, the industrial relies on sample materials to build a booming cities. but sand mining has a dramatic environmental consequences, as we've discovered on my soul. with it's just before mid day when a small fishing boat approaches the shore near mon bye. but the men on board, on making a living from fishing as their fathers and grandfathers did. mr. they've been pulling sand out of the sea, bucketful after bucketful. among them is jerome channel. he can dive up to depths

of 12 meters. when he started 20 years ago, he was just the 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 with no protective equipment and no oxygen tank. it's dangerous work. i'll 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 use the bucket to dig out. sam, i thought nobody i have and then the people on the boat pull up the bucket. i come up by holding the pipe, the empty the bucket into the boat. i give it back to me where and then i dive again. you still owe them money, but the dam is helping out with his to looking this coastal region of the decades long tradition not pulling sand out of the sea for using construction. the problem

now is the scale several 1000 people on a living by mining the sea for san says, activist. so mara de la lee, 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, the sun mining is destroying their fields and their livelihoods, and making their fishing livelihood loss was my actually reducing the amount of fish catch it's also because it's taking away the medium which holds the river, the creek on 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, vice population has more than double to almost 21000000 people in 10 years. that

number is expected to grow by another 5 and an remote growth needs done in the waters all around one by st. mining is prohibited but illegal. st. mugging is a thriving business. what billions that's what makes samira up the lollies work so dangerous. she's been brutally attacked twice, were speaking out publicly against illegal send money. but she hasn't let that stop her. 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 was 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 the lolly done to the united nations to raise rent as of legal and mining. and the you and environment agency has declared sander with the world. second, most exploited resource of the water was up to 50000000000 tons 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 good them, the habitats of plants and animals, as well as natural flag barriers. at the indian institute of technology, bombay researches are looking for alternative materials for the construction industrial. she arm also lick who has been looking for a sand substitute for years he and has the students have finally found one in decades old 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 aids landfills, which we call in india legacy landfills, that legacy solid waste can easily broad, the processed at that location. and then vaccinated into video size fractions, and the fractions of hardness. and we got a separate just like some loss. the solid waste can be used in a multitude of different ways on building sites. so this can be built very quickly . i would estimation is that between 5 and 10 percent, my tail 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 can we're dead 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 standards of all material and pursuing mom buys sun divers to give up

their jobs will be no easy task. a diver is weird. a 1000 groupies around 12 euros a day. a bucket bull again and 400 rupees, much needed income for several 1000 families. it's impossible to go and stop at overnight. 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 sand. divers of mom buy, and even more damage to in the us marine ecosystems. the catalina 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 newton lives in the world to a series of initiatives. locals now have their site set on becoming a model. wetland village. ah, only half an hour to go before school ends or in another. 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 video 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. a shock addressed an ecology and environment all eatery that she decided to switch to making bags, pillow cases, 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 clot. for the women, the benefits have been multi fault. but if i had a lot of dental and at a lanka, there had been so many changes in our lives. and even though it's small skew,

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 said under. then i let us under shall my liver further. it does need a village ma hammer in allah for our district lies along them. bernard lake, the longest lake in india. and for years, she has witnessed pollution in the lake getting progressively worse being part of an initiative that reduces the number of fluids dumped into the leak . while also helping me alternatives for plastic bags seemed meaningful to her. said to go and her. but though, now i live in my husband, breaks in the lake, he collects clamps for a living, but then 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 and then they don't, they're always bottles and plastic boxes. there is no control on how people are dumping plastic and garbage into the lake,

florida lake. um 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 lake with serves as a lifeline for one point. 6000000 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 $25000.00. the impact has been severe. i ya know, living oh lord, abundant had got the load blown and rolling had been to the production of glands as

decreased. the production of fish as decreased, told by the production of the bronze husband, had been a guy alive. 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 the law he thought of another entered it under the situation was dire when the oliver branch of bangalore based nonprofit ha approached the pageant in 2016 with an idea. make me huh. a model. wetland village. under the project, a wide range of initiatives including the up cycling enterprise, were launched, the all on work, those involved with maximum community participation, we believe in an inclusive form of management. so actually for this project also we made sure that the local fungi of these partnered with us along with the health department and the ah, other community based organizations in video. so i think that maybe that that

should be one reason or that butler submitted happening are the, the of us won't be good, was tremendous. that response was the highest for another initiative which made mahatma 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 on subsidized rates. been though switch to using cloth pads, and menstrual cups died the younger body and neither got by the gun. we saw the cups for the 1st time. we were scared me. but now that we have started using it, we can't do without it. i'll go on. um, it was very helpful for us during flood stuff like that. after using the carpet, we can dry them inside the way jam crossed paths have to be dried outside and unload and 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 amo gone 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 child's 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 wood from storm quarries in india's o'dee shall states that newton to hillsides 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 with 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 moon landscape like this. the locals thought echoed jolla was crazy. down the road, give hard for us must den sites the lawyer, the router people kept asking, what do you do? showed people the whole. so the mood was different. back in the wall i, there was still a lot of the pits from the other natasha mines. exist. i thought some ball today locals are proud of what's happened here,

as i'm sure it was pretty. 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 transform into a green holiday region, with broad cycling lanes. hotels and landmarks like the rusty nail, 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 and was really it's really something special that god, i mean, how many people can show you how come it likely new landscape dogwood, cellphones as i, if everything goes as planned, this will be finished by 2025. god willing leave us the show has been developed and

stabilized over at fault. there's still some work left to do over there and all that should take another year or 2 though on in its prime the coal industry allows its employed 80000 people. but in the late 19 ninety's, the energy sector in germany was restructured dozens of unprofitable minds were closed. 90 percent of the work has lost their jobs. one in 5 people left the region . only for open cas mines remain active in laws it's to day. but that days on them, but to germany has pledged to phase out coal completely by 2000 said he 8, transforming this mining landscape cost the german state upwards of 250000000 euros last year alone. between 199-220-1610 point 2000000000 euros was spent. lime needs to be at 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. n. genius. like phillips auto, is his 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 and accomplish oscar luther, which is huge, wave was triggered artificially so that land areas could be moved in a very effective way. if there is a landslide happening underneath moving further and further back and it's these forces that create the sudden wave on his india at the bottom here we see trees are knocked over like matched egg. there are very powerful forces that work. all of like isn't good bye to a curved armoire. 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. the. um, i'm 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. the transformation from what the landscape once was to what it is now is radical. and there's no blueprint on how to do this work in 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 us without human hellboy . it ornamental issue this location has develop particularly well. it's better than

the standard thoughts, which i nod it up. the at the and one species has grown up here that is common in germany. it's bush grass lun type class. stephanie leah shide 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 dry conditions on soil that is still acidic and low and nutrients. many flowers anal thriving here. when you come on visually song, this process is definitely taken around 1015 or 20 years of g o one at yahoo portal . so it requires a lot of patience flesh. i'd seized the project as a success this to 1000 tact a patch of land and louse. it's one of many former mines is now a wild natural habitat. as an attorney here and when i am his cause, hang, obviously it's an enormous gift to have been able to observe this change over the past 20 years. civil suzanne at the same site and i look fussed and asked and

stunned. and i've been here from the start and victim bull button. and i've seen that what we envisioned as cone true struck with your vow. and yet susie and us abided 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 wanted to learn about b, it on this old convey a bridge now surrounded by parks of renewable energies. because of lexi or honest, guided tour with people who are born here like a cat hoya. he observed the rise and fall of the brown coal 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 coal, 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 is 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 thumb allowed 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 kumar 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 new. and within that on the symbol barbara from durcan, we gave the machine a simple design. i mean, you go that there is a very little training, is required to operate in that owner. alabama. do 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 panel. once the machinery isn't it long, it takes 40 minutes to heat up very on. i think broad materials are added, but i a, the diet cavity. they go deal, loading and unloading are controlled by the lever,

a little controlled. 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 serious 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 are used to make biodegradable and products. oh, bertha de la la, meaning that the la la, the agricultural waste leg rice paddies, draw it can be managed more efficiently. allow me to think currently it's either burned or crushed down and reused as fertilizer ended with an over the land as can be highly profitable. when done right. when he bought the the, what are my, most of the farmers do not know what to do with the exit. strong adjusted. i don't know, a go learning anything. we certainly need to create awareness about this whole process more than i'm well known. lego thing was on the alone, i can invent machines,

the but the real challenge lies and driving the whole process to make sure equipment is available to the farmers and then on like a liquid vailable seattle of, i'm going gotten the machine to santa from co inventor strongly believes that the real push must come from consumers. they must be the change makers of plastic urban, broadly allow in spite of the government's ban on plastics. and now we can see what's commonly used on a day to day basis. or we can blame people for that. all right? 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. other on the show have we really come across alternative tea cups. at any nearby stall or 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 land of buffalo, these biodegradable cups, or at least one step in the right direction. now,

as calon komatt just pointed out, using draw 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 off to 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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