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e coin 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. i'm fun of that. some raw materials could be exhausted within decades if we continue extracting them at 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 soul. ah, 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 them is 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. biggest dangerous work 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 fasten 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 medical facility. this coastal region has a decades long produce, not pulling sand out of the seat, but use them construction. the problem now is the scale several 1000 people on

a living by mining the see for son says activist samira of de la u. 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 by 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 lang loss . meanwhile, the demand for sam has grown as raw material for the construction industry. since 1991 weiss population has more than double to almost 21000000 people in 10 years.

that number is expected to grow by another 5 and enormous growth need sand in the waters all around one by st. mining is prohibited but illegal. st. money is a trifling 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 sand mining. but she hasn't led the stopper. 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 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 sight 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 a rent as of legal and mining. and the you want and violent agency has declared sandy with the world. second, most exploited resource after water was up to $50000000000.00 dance used each year . in other words, or result 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. bombay researches are looking for alternative materials for the construction industrial. she almost like a husband looking for a son substitute for years he and has the students have found 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 off hardness. and we got to be separated 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 followed with 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 some of the raw materials and pursuing them buys sun divers to give up

. good jobs will be no easy task or direst. we had a 1000 groupies around 12 euros a day, a bucket bullock, and on 400 rupees, much needed income for several 1000 families. miss, impossible to go and stop at all the night. there would be a many problems with something like that, you know, you would, you would have a problem in meeting the needs of the country. and roy, in growth, you would have a problem in providing alternate livelihoods. if it was done overnight or the next 25 years, if you wanted to invest $1.00 trillion dollars in infrastructure products 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 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 here 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 a 2nd. 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 help and 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 clot. for the women, the benefits have been multi fold. but of i'd like dental and at a lanka, it 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. and i let us under, shall i live a 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 periods dumped into the lake while also helping me alternatives for plastic bags seemed meaningful to her said to her and her. but though, now i lebanon, my husband, breaks in the lake, he collects clamps for a living. but then when he comes back with plant 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 it, and 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 live local talent. 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 more um, a small village with a population of $25000.00. the impact has been severe. i ya know, live oh lord, abundant at guffgalloway barn along had been to my to production of glances

decreased. the production of fish has decreased over the production of new bronze has been hit badly, guy alive. and all of this had affected the people who depend on the lake for the livelihood. and this had begun an issue of the survival of, 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 or so we made sure that the local fungi of these partnered with us along with the health department and the ah, ah, other community based organization to be here. so i think maybe that that should be

one reason or that partnership made it happen. ah, 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 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 young lady and the the got by the guy we saw the cups for the 1st time. we were scared to me now that we have started using it, we can't do without it. i all go on. um it was very helpful for us during flood stuff like that. after using the carpet, we can dry them inside the white cloth pads have to be dried outside and unload, end up with the cups. we didn't have to worry about anything when it rings and

flood ca. i know that i can lead. i'm little gone naughty and belly adult. despite the funding received by ici, ending in 2020. the project continues to live on with the and your support and the punch i, it's lead for the residency are continuing to set a model in wet land. conservation is as important a task as protecting and consulting the league that nourishes and 15th family. our hungerford raw materials has scarred landscapes around the world. from storm quarries in india's o'dee shall states that it into hillsides to the gaping holes left by germany's open feet, 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 bustling 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 came to explore the region of his ex i or the sink center 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 tourist 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. den sykes did, lloyd you rich, our people kept asking, what do you do? show people the whole. so the mood was different. back in the wall. i was still a lot of the pitts from the ivan cast minds, which typed on some ball. this one today, locals are proud of what's happened here,

as i'm sure it's francisco garcia this. the vast open pits are gradually being transformed into europe's largest lake landscape. once complete, the, the 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 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. this is showing vast biz and was really, it's really something special there. got, i mean my, how many people can, shall you come unlikely, new landscape hog was a from july. if everything goes as planned, this will be finished by 2025. god willingly assures been developed and stabilized

over 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 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 on them, but to germany has pledged to face out coal completely by 2000, said he 8 transforming this mining landscape caused 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 too acidy for wildlife and full swimmers. 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 way. 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 like matched eggs. there are very powerful forces at work. all of them isn't good bye to a 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. come and go. no, this 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. and so he and our stella come here. we can see how nature is re conquering the land on its own, that's without human help, boys ornamental wishes this location has developed particularly well specimen.

standard thoughts, which i nod at optimality. and one species has grown up here that is common in germany. it's bush grass lun type class. 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. so many flowers anal thriving here when you come on visually, song processes definitely take and around 1015 or 20 years of g o 20 yog posted. 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, his us, when i mean he's saying it's an enormous gift to have been able to observe this change over the past 20 years at the same site and ask them i've been here from the

start and pick them up. and i've seen that what we envisioned as come true and strictly as your involvement yet suzanne us. i did fish than 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 an industrial past that visitors wanted to learn about b, it on this old convey a bridge now surrounded by parks, off renewable energy, stating 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 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 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 agricultural rift. 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 contain the emission new and within that on the symbol blood version did we give the machine a simple design? good and very so 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 one or once the machinery isn't it long, it takes 40 minutes to heat up. very unlikely. raw materials are added, but i have the diet cavity. they go de la loading and unloading are controlled by the lever. only one control when we unload after 3 minutes, the cups and containers are finished up on the fall might look the burning of agricultural ways 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, bertha de la la. meaning it did la la, the agricultural waste like rice and paddy's dried 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 when i go learning it, we certainly need to create awareness about this whole process. mother, 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 pharmacy has been ongoing gaelic 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 of blasting gerberg broadly alone in spite of the government's ban unclasped eggs and now we can see what's commonly used on a day to day basis. and on my we can delay in people for that. i'm 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 and other, our navy shall have we really come across alternative tea cups at any nearby stall . i've gotten to 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, 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, 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

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