Desert
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  • Unsustainable farming methods probably contributed to the initial growth of this desert 1000s of years ago. Its going to take a lot of mulching to combat this.

  • I hope you enjoy bagging my groceries then.

  • I thought this was gonna be a video about apple pie and ice cream:P

  • what country are you from then?

  • Shit !!!!!0_0

  • Sadly, this is happening around the world... people need to learn how to coexist with the land lest they lose it.

  • damm global warming!

  • you dont need to have gloabl warming to see the desert spreading. build up a lot of rainforest over the entire wordl and soon you would freeze the ass off , since the water in the air would even support an iceage probably. its not so easy .

  • explain more??

  • there are some interviews from the field of science at google vids, probably as well here. look for the lie about global warming. of course as ever yinformation anywhere else, watch with caution ;)

  • Bloody hell the entire world and media are targeting China coz of the Olympics...

  • doesnt matter for what reason attention raised, it ws time to more be aware of this huge percentage of humanity. of course medias are now trieng to pull off moods and stuff, but after all its just a good mirror.

  • Seems like they're having a dust bowl effect much like we did.

    Better get their agricultural system in order.

  • i hope they figure something out soon.

  • Perhaps Chinese have to plant more trees, that may help.

  • look up russel peters you douchebag

  • i had a lesson on desertification of china in SS :)

  • the desert/sand storm is part of the environment, and it hurts itself. Must be emo.

  • 1:16, what the fuck is on that guy's head?

  • LOL! That's a fuckin lantern shit! @ 1:04 did she say "niggah"?

  • rofl!

  • hahaha

  • dude, she said "neiga" which can mean "that", or is a word which you say when thinking of what to say next.

  • idiot.

  • Your mom

  • A pumpkin.

    ;]

  • I dunno, if I said somethign bad about america, I would probably get a thumb down too.

  • lol i gave you a thumbs down for that comment

  • wow vampirelady69 how retarded can u get? i thought you were just trying to be an asshole but you're just retarded by saying that... who wouldn't thumb down people who are dissing their country?

  • lol my parents love girls....

  • didnt the west already have massive industrial age? they are just tying to get up to par.. so if your going to blame anyone blame the west too!!

  • damn you sand!

  • desertification is a common consequence of unsustainable agricultural practice

    China is not the only place experiencing this. In fact, desertification has been around ever since humans invented agriculture. It is hypothesized that the Assyrian civilization was doomed due to desertification. Ancient Egypt used to be arid place.

  • @JaMoond Too right , if you notice desert or marginal land is prevalent in Iraq , Iran , the middle east and western China and Egypt. What do all these places have in common - they were cradles of the original agricultural civilizations. The mayan civilization was destroyed due to the population demands on the local land around the cities. It does make you wonder if theres some lost civilization hidden in the central or western Sahara desert somewhere.

  • nice pc they have there *cough cough*

  • im sure that pc is quad core, hehheheh.

  • How beautiful is Fascism=], wait Capitalism.

  • 0:20. y is he dressed like the place is cold

  • The Chinese? all the athletes that are about to compete in the Olympic Games? All the countries that trade with one of the biggest economies in the word?

  • do they, REALLY?

  • well chinese people duhhhh

  • I wish the best for you

    I wish the best for the Peoples Republic of China

    love

  • China may end up taking the front line on technology to go green. As more and more cities pop up, the demand for resources will necessitate massive restructuring. The Olympics drew attention to he air problem. Hopefully, this attention will start a cultural shift toward environmental thinking.

  • Interesting.

  • 1:18... thats a sick helmet =P

  • great idea by china but you cant stop what nature wants

  • But humans brought this change about in nature, and their only hope is now to try to change it back. not to say it will work, necessarily, but you never know.

  • ture we might fix things only time will tell

  • oh i know this sand storm.

    I live in S. Korea and that sand storm from China comes to Korea every year. Everyone has to wear masks and if you look outside you can see like sand in the air. Its very harmful because if you breathe it in, it like stays in your lungs. And the worst thing is, the only reason the sand storm comes is because the chinese people cut down all those trees. If they didn't the sand storm wouldn't even come to where people lived. Amazing how nature works.

  • yeah sometimes it flies even to california

  • really? i used to live in California, and i never heard of the sand storm there.

    Used to live in Socal.

  • that seems unlikely...that a sand can be carried all the way across the pacific by winds...

  • Thanks for sharing.

  • Lol, it doesn't mean nigger, it means something else in chinese.

  • woah

  • my name is Wang...Shoes Wang

  • I find it funny that the two scientists were using Windows 95 or 98.

    ...I thought they would be on like, Windows Vista XP 2010 by now.

  • Why upgrade to new computers if the old ones still work? It saves money.

  • Or Mac, hehe...interesting video though.

  • haha, really sounds like it

  • That means there will be more immigrants in countries such as England and the U.S.A.

  • they could make little walls not very tall out of brush even that would encourage different habitat and less sand. in Tuscon they have these ugly bushes that grow everywhere that prevent sand and keep the ground together. Tucson is desert you know.

  • Industrial civilisation is turning the world into both a physical and an emotional desert. And in the desert, only cacti can flourish - plants with long spikes that can survive on very little water and nutrients. Underneath their spikes, cacti are hypersensitive of course...

  • lol

  • i'm sure your being dramatic and exaggerating. problem is people are braught up on media and though tv. everything is a sitcom or glorified. people are still people and have to survive. it's not that hard in a society but the common perception is that society is supposed to spoon fed them so we have generation after generation of brats that turn out to be worthless or even criminals. the hours of time one spends entertaining and not achieving a day would make a person from 1800s barf.

  • I'm not exaggerating at all. On the contrary: perhaps "wasteland" would be a better word than "desert" but when I watched the video I was reminded of this analogy which Wilhelm Reich made in one of his books and I took it a step further by adding the last sentence.

  • yah just after the olympics

  • Fuck you not the entire China population is communist >.>

  • communist concept is not bad. your confusing them with communist Russia which is not a comparison. in fact there was no difference between nazi germany and russia at the time. russia even had prison camps themself and committed many atrocities. their also big into mind experimentation and even experiment on their own people but just happened to be hitlers enemy. communist just means everything goes though the government.

  • yeah yeah...I totally agree..I think people usually have this concept that chinese communism is bad without even knowing why.

  • China STILL has Lao Gai prison camps

  • Only 59. Why?

  • 161. get a life

  • I guess you didn't notice. China completely adopted free market capitalism 26 years ago in 1982

    Where have you been, under a rock?

  • I wouldn't say "completely" but they have been moving closer.

  • cool

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