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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, i can some raw materials could be exhausted within decades if we continue extracting them of the country that will drive up prices. for construction, for instance, the industrial relies on sam for materials to build a booming cities. but sand mining has a dramatic environmental consequences, as we've discovered on my sword with 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. good. hey, mr. they've been pulling sand out of the sea. bucketfuls off the bucketful. 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 diving the spending of the firewall was in the water doing dive after dawn. good mill protective equipment and no oxygen tank. it's dangerous work. oh, the gun on the go. 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 board pull up the bucket. 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 it is the up north, middle, $50.00 levine. this coastal region has a decades long tradition, not pulling sand out of the sea, but use them construction. the problem now is the scale. several 1000 people on

a living by mining the sea for sun says activist samira of de la lee. she has been campaigning against legal sand 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 by actually reducing the amount of fish gach. 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 lang loss . meanwhile, the demand for sound is growing as a raw material for the construction industry. since 1991 wise population has more than doubled to almost 21000000 people in 10 years. that number is expected to grow

by another 5 me and remind growth need sand in the waters all around one by st. mining is prohibited but illegal st. money is trying business. what 1000000000? that's what makes samira up the lollies work so dangerous. she's been brutally at that toys 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 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 sight of the village wall 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 the rent as of legal and mining. and the you and environment agency has declared sand to be the world's 2nd most exploited resource. after water was up to 50000000000 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 san and with them, the habitats of plants and animals, as well as natural flag barriers. at the indian institute of technology bump, researches are looking for alternative materials for the construction industry. she almost so like a husband looking for a son substitute for years he and had the students have found that you found one in decade old garbage. the good outcome of that they said 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 brought the processed at that location and been vaccinated into various sites, fractions, and the fractions of hardness. and we got to be separate just like some loss. the solid waste can be used in a multitude of different ways on building sites. so this can be been very quickly. i would estimation is that between 5 and 10 percent, my deal only needs to go through the lengthy, among the entire followed with that he's entered it in a given location and, and, and, and anywhere between 90 and 95 percent. my bill 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 toss. a diver is weird. 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 wanted 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 years 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. we're new

to leaks 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 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 losing old clothes. we should save our environment right a 2nd. 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. with if 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, 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 clout. for the women, the benefits have been multi fault. but of i'd allow dental and at a lanka to have 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. i've said under then i let us and our shall my liver further. it does need a village, mamma 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 periods dumped into the lake . while also helping me alternatives for plastic bags seemed meaningful to her. said a garrander, but the owner, i lebanon, 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, man eat, he will have 2 or 3 plastic items in the loaner. they are 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, 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 $25000.00, the impact has been severe. are young. oh, oh lord, abundant had got that old barn along had been to the production of glands is

decreased. the production of fish has decreased over the production of the bronze has been had badly guy alive, and all of this had affected the people who depend on the lake for the livelihood. and this had become an issue of the survival ever did. i don't know that the law he thought of another it under the situation was dire when the oliver branch of bangalore based non profit ha approached the punch it 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, ah, other community based organizations in video. so i think that maybe that that

should be one reason or that backlash of made it happen. ah, 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 bag, 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. dad the younger body and they've got by the gun. we saw the cups the 1st time we were scared to 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 unloaded upper layer with the cops. and we didn't have to worry about anything when it rings and flood ca. i know a good i can lay down well,

go naughty and elliot don't. despite the funding received by ici, ending in 2020, the project continues to live on with the and your support and the punch i've leadership for the residents here. continuing to set a model in wet land, conservation is as important a task as protecting and consulting the league that nourishes and 15th staff. are hungerford raw materials has scarred landscapes around the world from storm quarries and india's already 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 was hope of a total transformation. the east german village. of course. caution is bustling with summer 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 came 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 below the fog for us must not. den sykes did. lloyd you reach out. people kept asking, what do you do? show 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, which i thought some ball. today locals are proud of what's happened here with you

. i'm sure once you receive 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 at likely new landscape hog lots of rooms as well. if everything goes as planned, this will be finished by 2025. god. willingly assures been developed and stabilized

over fall, 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 and allows its 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 for open cas mines remain active in laws it's to day. but that days unknown but to germany has pledged to face 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 added to the lakes to ensure they are not to acid, equal wildlife, and full swim us. last year, more than 30000 tons were required to balance p h levels. then there is

maintenance and risk assessment work carried out by g. engineers 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. 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 them up. and it's these forces that create the sudden wave on his india at the bottom here, we see trees are knocked over light match decks. there are very powerful forces that work all of them to buy, 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. 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 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. and so he and our stella come here. we can see how nature is re conquering the land on its own without human hellboy ornamental issue. this location has developed particularly well specimen,

standard thoughts, which i nod it up. the at the 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 . will you come on visually? songers? the processes definitely take and around 1015 or 20 years of g. o, it's when the yog posted, so it requires a lot of patience flesh. 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 and i am his cassandra. 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 don't fuss than to ask respond,

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 suzanne, the us are above. i'd insist on all another vision that has come true is the transformation of miles. it's into it tourist destination that combines green spaces for leisure and in industrial past that visitors wanted to learn about b. it on this old convey a bridge now surrounded by parks, off renewable energy's says off slick c 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 minds left and now's, it's a still having on the land in good the good norm zia,

if i see it myself at the landscape, was being destroyed. thus, i hope that someone will develop better storage capacities for renewables to increase their uses. what 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 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 bad 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 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 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 their mission. and within that on the symbol barbara from durcan, we gave the machine a simple design. i think that there is a very little training is required to operate in that 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, i think raw materials are added, but i of the die a cavity. they go, deal,

loading and unloading are controlled by the lever, only want to control 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. i used to make biodegradable and products. oh, vanessa de la la. meaning good. la la, the agricultural waste leg rice and paddy's 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 avalanche as can be highly profitable. when done right. when he bought the water, my, my, most of the farmers do not know what to do with the excess strong adjusted i. then with no i go learning anything. we certainly need to create awareness about this whole process and all that. i'm all alone. the only go thing 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 farmer. he had been on the gala quote bailable theater, milligram condo on 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 gerber, broadly alone, in spite of the government's ban. i'm placed eggs 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 can be gradually halted other our movie. so we really come across alternative tea cups, at any near by 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 30 longer buffalo, these biodegradable cups are at least one step in the right direction.

now as cali uncommon just pointed out using raw materials which are for scalable if the needle, viola, remember, there is no planet b 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 ah, ah, with

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