Denmark: The Baltic Sea is running out of oxygen | Focus on Europe
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Marine life is dying in the Vejle Fjord: eutrophication and climate change are causing algae growth in the Baltic Sea. As a result, fish lack oxygen.
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The reason for death under the sea in Denmark is poor farming and lack of regulations for nitrogen discharge. Most Danish farmers destroy the otherwise good Danish groundwater with pesticides. The fields by the fjords and the nearby sea areas are fertilized, among other things. because of far too many landburg animals in Denmark, where the primary production is animal - with large imports of soya from Brazil! Danish agriculture accounts for 1/3 of all CO2 emissions in Denmark - and where everyone else reduces this emission, agriculture remains unchanged. Hope the EU can "help" Denmark get on the right course. Kind regards from a Dane.
A Danish farmer once told me: First of all no farmer will use more fertilizers or pesticides than absolutely nesseceary. Because it costs a lot of money. The problem with Danish farming is that the industry is to big for such a tiny country. Denmark exports more than 30 million pigs every year. Denmark needs to find other ways than agriculture to create jobs and tax income. I live in northern Jutland. There is hardly any nature left. Its like Denmark is just one big farm.
@@hansmarheim7620 We have several ecological farms in Denmark. Ecological products are not that expensive, that's what I buy mostly.
In a capitalistic market you don't pay for external costs like destroyed water environment, unless you introduce taxes for e.g. fertilizers.
This is one of the most visible consequences of the nitrate problem. 90% comes from farming. It is a big problem in Holland as well.
It might be like that in the Nederland but not in Denmark. When there’s a heavy rain pour the sewers are overflowing.
But this is not about fact it’s about politics/ religion.
Fellow Dane here who happens to hold master's and PhD degrees in urban water infrastructure, including sewers and wastewater treatment. Like the employee from Vejle municipality explains in the video: the VAST majority of this problem is caused by nitrogen emissions from farming through water ways to the sea. We have tons of scientific reports and papers to prove that. No religion here.
Similar things happening in the Gulf of Maine. Many places have lost all eelgrass , and invasive "green" crabs have expolded in numbers.
The crabs have eliminated large mussel beds, with only dead shells remaining.
Agriculture is not as prominent, so perhaps the nitrate loading is not as severe, but it sounds eerily Similar to the situation in the Baltic
Good reporting!
Very good explanation of this complex problem in just 5 minutes.
Fewer farms is the only option. They tried this in the Netherlands and huge farmers protests and protest party were the result. Nothing got solved so far. Very sad.
Agroecology, regenerative agriculture are the solution.
Does Netherlands sea waters have this problem?
I thought the problem there was on the land?
@@vfclists the Netherlands definitely has a problem on land with too much Nitrogen. But that doesn't stay on land. In addition, the heavily engineered coastal waters don't have the circulation necessary to flush extra N out of the system. They are working on that part of the problem. But the excess N on land is a hot political potato that won't be solved for a while
When the sea runs out of oxygen, we run out of oxygen.
Oh please, it's been a massive problem since before 2000 in the southern Fyn archipelago from Als to Lolland
Thank you please continue sharing.
so sad to look at...... 💔😠😠😠
Well said
It has been dying for 50+ years, nobody cared. Now its in its death throes. Its too late to change anything.
Listening to fishermen complain about this is peak hilarity. 😅😅😅
Same story off the West coast of Scotland - more pollution from the salmon farming than from all the human settlements there - the ‘fish’ producers take all the profits, and leave everyone else with a trashed marine environment.
Fish farms should be moved onto the land in huge pools. It’s the only way to control the waste from the fish and food. That water would need to be filtered before releasing back to the sea. Fresh water farms could be a source of fertilizer for the farmers as well, organic farming in all aspects is a closed loop system, industry keeps blinders on everyone to keep profits rolling in.
its one of the most shocking & messed up things of the last&future decades!
i grew up fishing & doing watersports on the "Ostsee" its only sad whats going on there now!
Here in the states,we’ve got bay systems dying on all three coasts,no oxygen whatsoever,not to mention water so warm that species are unable to procreate at all.We do have among other things,46 obsolete aircraft carriers at 30 billion a pop and building more.
I would love to see a segment on why it is that farmers can't use less fertilizer, and what it would mean if they had to go back to farming like we used to before artificial fertilizers was invented in the middle of the 20th century. Would you need to rotate crops? Regenerate entire fields for several seasons? Would we all need to pay substantially more for food?
We have several ecological farms in Denmark. Ecological products are not that expensive, that's what I buy mostly.
In a capitalistic market you don't pay for external costs like destroyed water environment, unless you introduce taxes for e.g. fertilizers.
They would harvest much less, prices wouldn't especially go up, just there wouldn't be many local farmers anymore as food would be imported from somewhere where it is cheaper to grow food... maybe because somewhere there they use a lot of fertilizer.
people would starve
Not convinced that we would import more, what would happen i think is we would subsidise farming even more, if we were to demand all farming had to be ecological. We need a domestic food supply as part of a national resilience and defence. I am not against subsidizing farming more frankly, food is in everyones interest. People might starve, but people in the future will starve more when there are twice the population in the world and both seas and soils are dead.
@@adaslesniak Organic farming produces less per area, yes. But not much less when the farmer has learned how to do it. That is why it isn't much more expensive.
If imported products were a problem you could copy what EU is doing to make the World more sustainable as regards the climate. CBAM, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Producers of e.g. steel in EU will have to pay a tax if they release CO2 (or have to buy CO2 quotas), to avoid unfair competition steel producers outside EU will have to pay a duty on steel they sell to EU unless they pay a tax in their home-country. I love this legislation because it is not protectionism and fit perfectly into a capitalistic economy. This is being introduced too slowly in my opinion but it is on the way.
I've been watching the marine life disappear on the California coast my whole life. Since about 1990 I started to realize that.
We used to have huge kelp beds off the coast of San Diego and they are all gone now. And that's where all the marine life would stay under the kelp beds.
I'm sure the Fukushima incident isn't helping things and along with all other similar types of things and I remember writing a news article about the Exxon Valdez way back in the day.
The worst thing is chemical pollution. Excess nutrients causing algae blooms and carbon dioxide causing the water to turn more acidic will have a significant effect. The radiation from Fukushima seems unlikely. There is already plenty of uranium in the ocean from natural sources, so the amount released seems insignificant.
There is a thirty mile dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River due to fertilizer run off from farms. It’s is alarming to see these eco systems disappear.
The main driver is climate change - and other incidents surely do their part, too.
Also the decades of pollution from the yangtze river.
@@RuleofFive Yeah. Switched to a vegan option instead of butter, hopefully it will help to some extent with all of the excessive cattle manure that's polluting our rivers.
Is it really the nitrates in the fertilizer, or has it more to do with the use of pesticides in agriculture?
So excess fertilizer is coming from fields to the sea, then the algae's interrupting the sea ecosystem making fish and seabed weed disappear. Since fertiliser is crucial for farmers and cannot be removed, can the water from fields be recycled and the fertiliser remainings reused on fields instead of feeding algae's in the sea? How we could monitor and recycle fertiliser pollution in the irrigation (at source) or where it is entering sea? Is this only problem in the sea or also in rivers? Humanity has simple but severe ongoing problem with cleaning up after itself. Another part of the problem - can we make a fertiliser that will remain with soil until it is absorbed 100% so no excess go to the sea?
We can stop farming in areas, where fertilizer is easily washed out. That is suggested by lots of scientists and green organisations in Denmark. But the lobby organisations of farmers are convincing politicians to protect them, and to allow them expanding their use of fertilizer. Even the EU are supporting the Danish farmers in their great pollution with the heavy financial subsidies.
The Baltic sea is long dead. What remains, is just the last stugglers.
There is no solution. Enjoy.
This is the main reason why Philippines is very protective of our coral reefs and other marine life in the west philippines.
What are you talking about? The Philippines doesn’t do anything for conservation and has no concrete programs headed by the government. Most of the conservation programs are spearheaded by the private sector. But then again, at least the Philippines doesn’t destroy reefs and overfish unlike China
Does not matter. As temperatures rise all coral reefs will be bleached and destroyed.
Where is west philippines?
you can't protect marine life from marine heat waves.
Puh. I thought we are in trouble - but if Philippines do so well it couldn't go wrong.
How are they going to sustain the pharma and medical industries when they give up fish and meat!?
Fun fact: 75% of all farmland could be returned to nature if all people adopted a 100% plant diet. Fishes would thrive again. But that is not happening.
Or if more people eat alternative, more sustainable meats instead of red meats.
vegan diet is unnatural for human consumption the nearer you get to the poles though
vegans can only exist near the equator
in extremes like near the poles there is no alternative to animal based protein
@@polymorphism1464 Wrong. The denialist typically say this kind of things. Livestock is more destructive than farming. The runoff created from livestock grazing has contaminated water. Agriculture today is not sustainable and at this rate the consequences will be graver. Maybe you are blind to the wider picture due to your ideological beliefs.
@@polymorphism1464 How many kg of food does a hectare with meat cows produce a year and how many tons of food does a hectare with potatoes produce? There I already answered it for you.
@@dougveganparadisebuilder5808 Cows are inefficient eating anything but shrubs and grass, unless on areas where even potatoes wouldn't grow properly.
100% plant diet indeed needs less space, but (maybe counter-intuitive for you) ~92% plant calories (at least when seen worldwide and not just for Denmark) is actually most efficient. Again, blanket statements only work for homogeneous soil and climates.
agriculture is not the same as 50 years ago, nowadays farmers dont use unnecessary amounts of nitrogen nowadays. Farming is what gives us food, if u dont want to pollute start treating food with respect.
Shame on EU for allowing this while criticising Asian countries for this...
Stop dumping phosphorus into water and problem will dissapear.
Its not only Baltic and Denmarks fjords. Its global problem with fertilizing. And we know better, organic farming, regenerative farming. But its more diffucult and we got addicted to just spraying fertilizer, which yiealds grater results now, but degrades the soil and water systems.
Uh... Vejle Fjord is not on the Baltic Sea.
This is the modern denmark. Well done.
Yes it's very bad it's not just Pisces It goes beyond that it's all the nice beaches But I live right next to a beach and it's full of algae so bad that sometimes there's so much it's possible to be on the beach and it smells terrible
A land of rich farmers playing green!
Blame human's exponential growth. Since we can't control it, mother nature will do it for us.
Nature Bats Last
install a bubbler
LOL we tried once in a lake it did not work
@@mnp3713 Did you try two?
@@mnp3713 extinction is the norm survival is exception
If oxygen is added without tackling the algae first, the algae will just multiply to consume it. I think the nutrient profile in the water needs to be balanced so the habitat is less favourable for the algae.
If people used to grow food with natural fertilizers then why would it be impossible to do so now?
because with natural fertilizer there will not be enough food for 8,9 billion people...that is the problem, there are just way too many people to fed
@@ninae.6920Thats not true.
It has been calculated over and over by various organisations that the problem is animal agriculture.
You need to feed a cow multiple times the calories it needs to grow before you kill it and get a few calories back by eating the cow.
We can feed the planet easily many times over if we would stop using 70% of our land for cows and giving 80% of all plant crops to cows.
Humans literally just eat about 10-15% of all plant agriculture.
Not eating meat means we can free up land used for animal agriculture (which is about 70% of used land), and we can also free up about 30% of land used for plant agriculture because we don't need to eat as much as we are feeding livestock.
cows eat gras from the meadow and fermented gras. I live near a big farm and never have I seen them feeding crops. Maybe it is for pigs.. Anyway the more north you go the more likely people have developed an organism which needs meat to function properly. Not saying 5 schnitzel per week but for many people in the north and east it is crucial for an healty body .
@@ninae.6920 98% of meat eaten globally is factory farmed.
We would need a few extra Earths if more people want to eat free roaming animals.
The new 2023 Nordic countries food recommendations advise that people eat no more than 200 grams of meat a week.
People in Northern countries are recommended to replace meat with sustainably caught fish and plant foods.
Lab grown meat will eventually fix the environmental problems with the meat industry... But thats at least a decade or two away
well I would not have a problem with 200g per week. The problem is that there are way too many people on this planet...so more people need even more meat.
My grandma was a child in the 30s and they ate meat everyday. They used to slaughter 2 pigs before the winter, and the meat was eaten for half a year. Not all humans are able to turn into vegetarians just because the 'elite' and its aganda wants that to happen
it's time to ban farming, at least in that region. the land would be much better used if converted to residential housing projects. as it was stated this is the most expensive part of Denmark, which is one of the most expensive countries in the whole World. converting farmland into housing would be extremely profitable for all involved. food could be imported from elsewhere for a lot cheaper
3:16 I’m sure someone tracks the pH and temperature of the water, right? Amoc situation? Oxygen loss. I think that’s kind of what’s happening in the south Atlantic)Florida)
Excess nutrients is the main cause.
Florida! That's water near boiling!
Wtf. I often watch DW, and here is something about my hometown.. whaat
With Denmark producing almost 5 pigs per capita annually maybe take a hard look at that sector and it's externalities and weigh it against going all in with green H2 production as an alternative industry with export potential (like they're already starting to do).
With 5 pigs per capita Denmark is going down a wormhole
The pigs are not the problem. It is how the waste is managed is the problem. Human waste needs to stop being dumped at sea as well.
this is what happens when humans eat animals like there is no tomorrow
Well you could start by not fishing.
work cool
I feel so sorry for all the maritime sea life...all these animals lost their life and habitat because of human stupidity. And the human species is entirely useless for the planet,.i don't understand why nature doesnt put an end to it. Normally useless inefficient systems are whiped out quickly.
At least in Europe you seem to be taking the problem seriously. Here in North America we have a serious problem. A significant portion of the population denies climate change is even happening. The deniers breakdown into two camps. The it doesn’t exist at all camp and the it ain’t real and even if it was I don’t care because I’m making money from it.
That doesn't help when countries like China keeps burning more coal and add tons of fertilizers
Yes, it's sad to see!
Climate change people. Climate change.
Cultivate nori, wakame and konbu!
Hell its a little early for an impact to happen. Look forward to the first angel aperance
Too many live stock and too many people. And damaging farming practices - the planet is screaming out 😢 were out of control and aren't doing enough to tackle it
May be an other kinds of algae could absorb the nutrients from the see, produce oxygen, sequester carbon diluted in water and become a source of food for people or fish, even the algae could be used to produce industrial products.
I’m sure there are many species of algae, some of them could be cultivated, preferably using endemic species.
Some research and development has to be done.
Why is the scientist diver keeping filming himself? 🤪
Industrial beast must feed on nature. Limitless hunger nomnom
When there’s a heavy rainstorm the sewage from the city’s is overflowing
But this discussion isn’t about facts it’s a religion. I eat my beefsteak with joy.
Would that be like the Great Barrier Reef near Australia?
The one that was supposed to be dying but is actually growing in size?
What similarity do you see between the two?
God gives a solution to this in the bible. Smaller fields, some left fallow.
I love the nature. So beatiful.
Most people buy fish from supermarkets 😂😂😂
Noget lort.
DW elsker at hade Danmark eller bare få os til at komme i dårlig lys…….hver gang de laver et indslag om Danmark handler det altid om hvor forfærdelige vi er
Try grow more seaweed in the ocean for oxygen.
It's almost as if the problem isn't cO2 emissions at all, and is what climate science and the IPCC have been talking about since their inception. Population scale. Too many people, means more farming large scale industrial farming to feed them, which means inevitable large scale nutrient run off.
Our environmental problems, along with many of our social problems, can ONLY be solved by reducing the population to 1/8th the size it currently is. That number is not arbitrary, it is the result of 60 years of modelling.
To get these we either need to send a whole bunch of people to other planets, or we need to actually act like an intelligent species and control reproduction to sustainable levels.
Sustainable reproduction should be a buzz word media are reporting on
put down the crack pipe
@@DSAK55 What? 🤣
Mate, the science is exceptionally clear. There are too many of us on this planet. What the industrial revolution has actually done is removed the naturally occurring restrictions from population boom. This has allowed our species to artifically grow in population scale far beyond natural limits.
Population scale has ALWAYS been the prime driving force behind climate change and other environmental problems.
In 1962 when we first started talking about climate change the primary focus was on population. It has featured as the noted driving force in every IPCC annual report since 1988 when they first formed.
It is an objective fact there are 8x too many people on the planet to be sustainable. There is no debate to be had. We have no choice but to reduce our population
@@YehWNoU This isn't someone else's problem. Every country on the planet has an artificial population size. The population size of Denmark in 1769 was half a million people. All countries need to reduce their population size.
Perhaps the ns2?
They gonna blame russia for it😂
Hypocrites
Goooooooooood!
Just stop oil
DW loves hating on Denmark as usual…or just loves making Denmark look bad in general.
You don't think this is a real issue that we needs to be addressed? Besides, the exact same issue was treated in Danish state media just recently.
This issue has been massively covered by the Danish medias, so why not DW?
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This is happening in all the internal waters of Latvia the Baltic Sea. I've been spearfishing for many years, and visibility every year is getting worse. 🥲
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