Very moving, scaring and eye-opening documentary. Reversing desertification should be a priority of every government in the world. If every country combats the deserts within its borders, then the whole world will conquer. To those who are already doing this, I take off my hat.

Respect to all the unsung heroes in this outstanding doc for their tireless efforts to arrest/reverse desertification.

I could be wrong, but the largest desert is in Antartica. That is about to change!

Came here to watch the adds but the documentary kept getting in the way!

Spain has plenty of sea-coast and sunlight. Put them together as *passive solar distillation* of sea-water. Then you only have to pump the distilled water inland (not cheap), and sell the resulting salt. Use the money from selling the salt to get the water to the farmers first.

Spain should save every drop of water by building ponds and digging trenches and mounds to stop water runoff. And planting trees and grasses to stop evaporation etc.

Each nation as far as possible must grow its own food to feed its population instead of heavily depending upon borrowed food from elsewhere.

The key is to supply the hotels with desalination water and save the runoff water for farming. Its what they have had to do here in Hawaii. The tourists don't even notice the extra few dollars.

Politicians in Europe especially in Spain should learn from this great documentary.

Sheep grazing needs to be managed so that there are paddocks that contain the sheep and so they can be moved daily for grazing and the plants can regenerate.

I know these topics are important, but these are also helping me sleep.

Really excellent documentary. Very interesting & very informative.

I retract my previous comment. A fine and very relevant documentary.

I loved this documentary. Thank you very much .

Fighting the NATURES FIGHT BACK❤

They should visit China and see how they are re greening the deserts , it's amazing

Kudos to Island...Spain should take a few lessons.

So the upper land was watered for decades/centuries by man made terraces to catch seasonal rain volumes in dry seasons. So historically there were dry seasons such as what they are seeing today but homosapiens compensated with terraces and proper water storage creating usable land.

Thank you for sharing this very informative documentary!

This very good documentary was made three years ago, be nice to get a update on how things are going, much can happen in three years…

The use of composting toilets by humans can provide the humus needed for regeneration.

Great documentary! I really appreciate the English dubbing. Not depressing at all.

Iceland should build more ponds and swales to stop water run off.

I hope there is a Spanish narration for this highly important report!

Spain’s Water Situation : I hope that the fresh water for the water parks, swimming pools is recycled, instead of draining into the ocean. That water could be used for the badly needed irrigation where the crops are drying up.

More people need to follow Geoff Lawton's permiculure gardening .green the desert

The Far Majority of desertificaion has been happening naturally over the course of thousands of years. Poor Farming practices in some areas have excellerated the process. A Healthy Balance between Farming, Hunting, and Fishing...and Conservation is possible.

Awesome documentrys ❤

People in these changing landscapes can reverse the desertification process. First watch the film The Biggest Little Farm. Then implement their business model by reinvigorating the soil.

It is heartbreaking see that catastrophe happening! Sad. Sadder because ignorance and pursuit for money at any cost are significant part of a such tragedy.

At about 1hr 24mins there is what can only be described as a rather large object in the upper right hand corner of your screen. It’s admitting light and is maneuvering too abruptly to be humanly possible. I hope someone else sees before it’s scrub out or something.

What about posts with plast mesh here and there to stop the wind gathering up speed an power then plant the trees and tough grasses in front of them.

Reforestation is essential to prevent further desertification in many areas but tourism has to end. Citizens can travel virtually to tour the glove.

Now Iceland is being overgrown with Alaskan Lupine. It fixes its own nitrogen. Its a love hate relationship. It recovers barren ground but takes over ground that has cover.

The Dimming is real. I recently moved away from the city to a much more rural area to live off grid. I use less than a gallon of water a day, this includes bathing and bathroom use. Im near a free flowing creek and boil what water i glean from the creek. Working on building a filtration system. Get out of urban areas. Hard times are coming.

to be fair, some countries are also reclaiming desrt-- like china; and the usa sometimes does this but we don't have a lot of recently desertified land ourselves. It definitley can be reclaimed- as in the mideast , israel and i think it's jordan, are doing.. their deserts got bad thousands of years ago by human causes.

Excellent video. Thank you!

Is there a connection between rain and plants ? Or is there something in the plants or green that causes rain to fall ? Yes, there is. Dry land is hot and it's uplift of heat sends the rain elsewhere.

Imagine if we spent as much as we do on wars on recovering the damaged earth, I think we could conquer the climate problem without cessation of farming.

#Thanks

Pretentious narrator: “homo sapiens are to blame”. Drought stricken Spaniard: “We need rain”.

The Spanish drought, with the peach trees for example... use sea water 🤦‍♂️🤣 seems so obvious to me.

21:10 For Iceland, preventing mobility of fertile soil is key to success. Take terrace building, using crushed rock mixed with plastics, from garbage. Melt all thermoplast plastics together that melt at a relative low temperature, and use that to build terraces. Once it cools down, it will stay like forever and will need little or no maintainance for the next 100 years. Yay useful purpose for plastics. Now, with each terrace, take any rock sticking out above the terrace wall's level. Remove by either dynamite blowing, or electric jackhammer, dependant on amount. Crush the rocks that are the result into sand like grains, and spread evenly. Then get some black fertile dirt, mix in some more crushed rock, sand granularity, and fill till about 2/3 of the terrace heights, roughly 80 cm wall. Add on top black dirt, fertile sand, and plant weeds and other fast growing hard to kill bushes, and allow that to grow for 2 years, mowing and allowing to composting again. In the meantime, prepare another such a terrace. Once the two years of growth has been done, now the most of the terrace's filling will now completely be fertile, and usable for more fertility terracing. Use half of the soil from the first terrace, and mix in once again with crushed rock from the building leftovers from the second terrace. Use te mixtures after adding some fertilsers like sheep manure, leftover greens, hay, and whatnot mulch and compost. Allow for another 2 years for the soil to once again get fertility, after having planted weeds and other fast growing plants. Create a new terrace while you wait for the first two re-complete their fertility cycle. get the weeds from the topsoil of the 1st terrace, and mix that in with the new terrace and terrace no.2, again with leftover crushed rocks, sand granularity. Spread that over terrace 2 and 3. Burn the topsoil of terrace no.1 and turn that into 1/4 for tree growth, 1/4 for crop growth, and 1/2 for grass and small bushes, for replanting purposes. Now, wait for 2 years, while tending the 1st terrace, and allowing the 2nd and 3rd to fertilise. Build terrace no.4 and 5 also. Terrace 2 and 3 should get once again mixed with mulch, compost, manures, fertiliser etc, and once again mixed in with crushed rocks, sand granularity. Spread the result into 2,3,4 and 5. Grow weeds again into 2,3,4,5 for one year. Now terrace 2 can be used like terrace no.1. Do so. Terrace 3-5, mix again with soil created by crushed rock, sand granularity, add enough to get another for terrace 6 and 7, which should have been built by now. The ratio being higher, but the surface area greater, you can do the same thing, but only need one year weeds, fast growth plants. Take the top of 3 and 4 weeds and bushes, compost that for the newer terraces. Burn 3 and 4 till the weeds can make room for 1/2 trees, 1/2 food crops. The bushes and plants grown for cultivating on terrace 1 and 2 can be used for additional carbon capture, or replanted into soil that needs to keep it's soil in place, instead of being washed away. After these 8 cycles, you'll have 4 terraces being room for trees, en-situ crop growth, if temperature allows, and replantables, and by now 5 more for fertilisation expansion, repeatable for one terrace per year or exponentially available for fertility expansion. It takes time, and effort, but you can turn it into a better greener place. The only thing that takes a lot of work is the creation of the new terraces, but even that is not that much, since it only involves making a shape for the plastic/concrete to be fillied in with, and pouring the hot plastic/concrete nto the shape. You can call the mixture of plastic and pebbeled rocks plastite, a very durable building material that needs no hardening, but only cooling down, and will do so under ANY weather conditions.

You need to build Moses West AWG Industrial-size Water From Air machines!

My goodness very educational and great content, will watch again and learn.

I love desert!

Could you plant some fruit trees, like apple 🍎 , peaches 🍑, prune , papaya, apricots , oranges 🍊, etc.

TY for your work. Can BRICS help Spain. They’ve offered to help West Virginia but the government refused😢

They travel around with their livestock and eat all green in desert areas, and move on, and then wonder why there is less green, as the desert expands.

I saw the greenhouses. Then I watched a documentary about how migrants labored in them and suffered. On the beaches, I saw how developers built high rise apartments and sold them. Then new apartments were built in front of those buildings where the tenants had bought for the view. Now I am watching this documentary. It is so sad.

This is a top quality documentary, and thank you very much it was very informative.

Forest fires are the wrong thing to do. As an Australian I see where fires are the biggest mistakes that have ever been made. It just makes the worst disasters even worse. You can only grow death from ashes.

infomative

How can Spain be so dry when the rest of Europe isn't?

An orange co.in Florida loaded 3 tons of orange peels only and when it was gone the ground was fertile like crazy!

Não existe uma solução tecnologica ,o un milagre ,mas a unica solução e o reflorestamento!!! Se não agirmos logo terminaremos en un grande deserto!!!

There is no need for grazing too much sheep or sheep as a cattle for human consumption. This is like taking too much salt in our food. The same result has happened here also.

Thorium nuclear powered desalination plants could provide the water needed by Spain's coastal cities.

If people are not beleave that they are the Problem, they will change nothing

Cutting down the trees is not helping their problem.

It isn't that man is neglecting the environment. It's that man is doing the damage that's causing desertification. Sad as it is.

Where does this water go when its "consumed"? Even if I drink it. The path leads back to where it started. If I shower with it the path is shorter.

Impressiv and also frightening. Thanks for ubloading👍👍😎✌

Sadly, the poor and disenfranchised, will be the ones left to reap the horrors the wealthy ultimately caused. The rich can afford to uproot and live where water and food are plentiful. You can only run for so long, however.

Water amount on Earth has never changed due to human habitation, it gets relocated, stored but not 1-drop is lost

They sure messed up in Iceland big time

If we put more C02 into the atmosphere it will help as it is plant food and will lower the stomata in the leaves and save water.

Permaculture can reclaim desert.

Also watch the movie documentary called "kiss the ground"

Let's go Benidorm (while wi can) 🆘️

Stop the rainwater to runaway, sea don't need more water, save the water immediately underground.

I love universe the stars for space in the world 🌍🌍🌍

Desert tree looks like modern sculpture of Buzzard

Mycelae: The fourth ingredient.

Amazing documentary

Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

I like desert improvement

This isn't a result of the drought it's the cause. They said it right with their own words. Peaches aren't grown without water that wasn't there, it was brought in. From where? Did that cause those areas to experience drought? Then after harvest did the peaches stay in Spain? Or exported? If exported, you just boxed up and sent a whole lot of water right out of the country. Because of the water cycle, the evaporation, rain, etc, isn't able to replenish the ground water. The more you conserve, the drier the soil becomes, and the top forms a crust and new rainfall just sheets off without being able to soak into the earth. Global trade is a horrible thing for the environment.

Humanity is going to burn for its greed and abandonment of its responsibility to maintain the garden.

That's troubling when those scientists in Iceland can't figure out what to do........how about planting trees, millions and millions of trees. Put a cage around each and everyone that is within sheep grazing land.

You should get some peat soil from us. We got plenty

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the... it doesn't.

Human stupidity will lead to the end of humanity in just a couple of decades

Eye-opener video. Thanks

Do not understand the cutting of half the trees to save the other half

thank you for not making me read.... 5 star documentary

Big company SHELL has a lot of very good seeds, but is not giving this to the poor to cultivate their land for food.

If i was that man id be digging ponds and stop the water running away with sands dams and planting trees an grasses etc

It is a case of the grasshopper and the ant. We're all grasshoppers. Most of us.

Those are some awfully nice clothes those conservationists and "farmers" are wearing while planting trees. The CCP truly loves "plants."

When the plants are gone, so the seeds of the plants will also be gone.

Desalination and water recycling are the answer.

Trees and grasses are very important water makes it all better and money you cant eat it

What can I say... excellent docu.entary but so so sad. Don't fly, don't eat much meat, have only 2 kids, don't have cars..... lobby against any new golf courses.... we are so sleepwalking into desperate times... could be very much averted..

With small population Spain may sustain the draughts by other means.but countries with high population low technology is unable to save themselves.

Poor Iceland. No trees. Awful.

Australia with 80pct arid landmass is hame of only 30m people.rain is scanty.its main revenue is mining .so it's crisis is manageable.

You're saying that in the days of Ghenkis Kahn, thousands of horsemen could hide there but now the dust is being blamed on overgrazing. So what were the hoses eating back then? Don't blame the animals. They also feed the soil, and they can't be accused of the damage people do, and they can't be blamed for the wind.

Iceland is a easy fix and not expensive

The Northern China project I saw no goats. sheep nor camels the locust of green.