hi, steve w dot com. ah, we live in a world of finite resources, and yet we, pillaging the planet like there's no tomorrow. coming up eco, india 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 sample materials to build a booming cities. but sand mining has

a dramatic environmental consequences. as we've discovered on my so it's just before mid day when a small fishing boat approaches to show me among bye. but the men on board on making a living from fishing as their fathers and grandfathers did. instead they have been pulling sand out of the sea, bucketful after bucketful with among them this 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 dive, spending up the firewall was in the water doing dive after dawn. big mill protective equipment and no oxygen tank. it's dangerous work. so 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. 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 the dam is helping out with his delegation. this coastal region of the decades long tradition not pulling sand out of the sea, but using construction. the problem now is the scale several 1000 people on a living by mining the sea for sand, says activist. so mara de la lee, she has been campaigning against legal st mining on in years. 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 1991 voice population has more than doubled, 2 almost 21000000 people in 10 years. that number is expected to grow by another 5 . and an remote growth needs to send in the waters all around mon by send money is prohibited but illegal. send money is trying business. what billions 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 let that stop

her. i was in 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 sandra with the world's 2nd most exploited resource of the water was up to 50000000000 tons used each year in other words or result 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 and the indian institute of technology.

bombay researches are looking for alternative materials for the construction industrial. she arm also leg who has been looking for a sand substitute for years. he and had the students have finally found one in decayed all the garbage. the good outcome of that they said was that we realized 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 broad, the processed at that location and then vaccinated into various sites, fractions, and the fractions of hardness. 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 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 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 likelihoods. 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 catalina and the community that is spearheading a 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 through 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 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 back and use it when we go to buy rice. tell your mother not to buy any plastic bass. tell her to make such bags losing 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 that there has been stating 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 dressed in 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 this 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. but of i'd like dental and at a lanka to have 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. i've said under and i led us on darcia my list of her father. but there's native village, mamma in allah, poorer, 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 leak . while also helping me alternatives for plastic bags seemed meaningful to her. said, a calendar, but thou, now i lebanon. my husband works in the lake. he collects clams for a living. but 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 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 and i learned local the land. 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. dex 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 thought, oh lord, abundant had got that old one. i'm going into my, the production of glands is decreased. the production of fish has decreased, told by the production of the bronze has been hit bad ne 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 la holler, he thought of another edrick under the situation was dire when the oliver branch of bangalore based non profit ha approached the budget 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 or so, we made sure that the local fungi at these, partnered with us along with the health department and the ah, other community based organizations in video. so i think maybe that that should be one reason or that partnership made it happen. ah, the, the of us won't be, god 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 were hammock use up to one lack sanitary pads a month ever since,

they were distributed unsubsidized traits been the switch to using cloth pads and menstrual cups. dad the younger body, and neither got by the gun. we saw the cups the 1st time we were scared me, but now we have started using it. we can't do without it, you know, 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 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 15 staff

are hungerford raw materials has guard landscapes around the world from storm quarries, an in the us only shall states that route and to hillside to the gaping holes 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 summer visitors is 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? it's been, 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 the road to get fog was must then sites the noise, utah, people kept asking, what do you do? shows people the whole. so the mood was different. back then, while i was still a lot of the pits from the ivan fast minds, i thought some ball today locals are proud of what's happened here. 50 i, and i'm sure it's francisco garcia 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 nail, which serves as a reminder of the regents 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. this is showing vast biz, unless we had, it's really something special there. guns. i mean, how many people can, shall you come unlikely, new landscape, hardwood cellphones as well? if everything goes as planned, this will be finished by 2025 god willing to leave us. the show has been developed and stabilized over felt there's still some work left to do over there and all that should take another year or 2, the one in its prime, the coal industry and allows its employed 80000 people. but in the late 19 ninety's, 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 cars mines remain active in laws. it's today,

but that days another 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 19922016. 10.2000000000 euros was spent. lime needs to be added to the lakes to ensure they are not to acid, a quote, 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 ground water. 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 in there's 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 at work. all of them to provide 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 zone. army like wave that drive us only just rescued in time. come and go, no, his work will take generations. we still have to make 30000 hackers 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 is no blueprint on how to do this work. a 30 minute drive away in an area known as greenhouse of a 3000 animal and plant species have found a new home. it's become a hot spot for bio diversity. but we, under stella, come here, we can see how nature is re conquering the land on its own without human hellboy, it ornamental issue, 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 type class. she's definitely a 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 with your commands, the shirley songers,

the processes definitely taken around 1015 or 20 years of 2 yards. one's a 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 an attorney here and when i am his cause, hang, obviously it's an enormous gift to have been able to observe its change over the past 20 years. civil suzanne at the same site and i look fussed and asked respond, and i've been here from the start and victim bull button. and i've seen that what we envisioned as come true, struck with your vow. and yet, susie and us are above, i did switch done 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 hika. 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, is 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 not 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 have 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 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 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

their mission. 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 at all. now, 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 feel brought 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 are used to make biodegradable and products.

beneatha the 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 i believe this can be highly profitable when done right. when he bought the water, my, most of the farmers do not know what to do with the excess throw on adjusted, i don't want to know a go learning everything. we certainly need to create awareness about this whole process. i know that 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 farm and you have that on like a liquid bailable 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. a blasting cabin broadly alone in spite of the government's ban on plastics and we can see what's commonly used on a day to day basis. or we can blame people for that, right?

they're going to buy the things that are commercially available, either model. and then we have to provide substitutes so that plastic usage can be gradually halted. other on the feel have we really come across alternative tea cups at any nearby stall i've gotten. 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 from the 30 longer buffalo. these biodegradable cups, or at least one step in the right direction. now as calion come on, just pointed out using raw materials which are sustainable is the needle. viola, 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

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