Why Barcelona’s beaches are disappearing | It's Complicated
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2023
- In 2010, Barcelona’s nine city beaches were topped up with 700,000 cubic metres of sand. Since then, 70% of that sand has disappeared.
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In the last 20 years the rate of erosion along Spain’s east coast has been accelerating. It's partly to do with storms and rising sea levels, but there are also other factors at play. The local authorities are in a bind, trying to balance economic needs and the environment, with no viable solutions to choose from. It's a tricky situation that could spell the end of Barcelona's beaches.
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In southern California we have the same issue. The sand is replaced each year. So now some beaches are replaced with rocks on the shoreline instead of sand.
Over Population is the issue in Southern California
Florida is also losing its coastline
There was never a sand beach to begin with. It was artificially created, so it was not naturally occurring, so it will not naturally stay. That's not a climate crisis.
No, it's not a climate crisis in itself, but the increase in more extreme sea & weather patterns that is causing the movement is.
Valid point.
Brighton in the UK has a gravel beach. Always has. That hasn't stopped Brighton being an overwhelmingly popular spot since going to the beach was invented. Wouldn't it be okay for Barcelona to be the same, especially, as this video notes, the city has many diverse attractions?
because nobody goes to spain for a drab gravel English beach💀
Why would a Citadel be in unison by Varied Ecology? To serve TV?
@@za2206 For the objective inversion of a single-focus heliotrope ?
Before they built the beach, it pretty much was that, just a narrow muddy brown, gravelly flat. Mind you, that was also at the time when untreated sewage used to dumped in the Med too. It's funny how beach holidays took off before sewage treatments did. Back in those days, it wasn't "fecal count" that one was concerned with, it was whole turds.
The beaches are surely a problem, but, much worse is that the train tracks on the coast are meters away from the beach...and it's a question of years, 5 or 6, before they will need to reroute a lot of those trains....and considering the cost of land....that's going t ohurt.
What is disapearing in Barcelona are the mobiles phones of the tourists...
Hahaha! Absolutely true! Pickpocket capital of Europe.
Great video, I live in Barcelona and this is very accurate. Thumbs up.
Coast erosion is a natural process that always happened since million of years. Sand removal in the oceans causes holes that are filled by moving sand, accelerating the process.
The sand in Barcelona came from Egypt and Sahara so would hardly have any effect. Although coastal erosion is "natural", the rates and places of it are not, exacerbated by climate change and rising sea levels.
the shape of the beaches is defined by the local currents and whatnot
if you add of remove sand, the current will just correct it;
also I don't get it. Why do you need to have large sandy areas by the sea.
Nature always wins in the end.
We either learn to understand it and work with it or we keep fighting it and losing.
Well if Nature wins, No 1 in Espana is Native there... so, You suggest Espano is a new U.K. resort?
Define ‘fight’ and ‘work with’
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If you need an explanation you wouldn't understand it.
@@dondoodat making a house is fighting nature.
For a video titled "It's Complicated", you completely failed to explain the underlying processes involved in beach sand erosion and deposition, and the role of human coastal structures that impede the process and amplify problems further along the coast. There's much more to it than just increased incidences of extreme weather.
Point of clips like these is not to explain anything, but to perpetuate the climate crisis scare ..
Before 1992 Barcelona haven't beches.
Where did they appear
There were beaches, but not all along the coste.
@@alexandrejuve1305 Only in Barcelona area was turning its back on the beach. And the big changes that came about because of the Olympics changed everything
I'm pretty sure I saw some walking up and down the Rambas during my first visit in 1981. I was with my girlfriend so I didn't get a chance to take a close look.
And if you build houses within the beach-sea zone, it is likely to be swapped away in an extreme weather event.
So, the beaches are artificial from what nature put there.
No 1 is Indigenous to that land there except Sweden
In our Mekong Delta we have the same problem. Anyone here know how to control it?
Full of old pops also😢
Isn't it better to invest money in breakwaters instead of sand as mentioned they did once? Slow the process down so they will have to replenish less sand per year?
Interesting
Ask Florida the same question
New to violence this much by comparison, why bother?
In Borneo=East Malaysia=Kalimantan, the South China Sea coasts are erroded. Land disappers. On top of that, Jakarta is sinking fast. They are transferring the capital to the centre of Borneo Island.
The sand isn't "disappearing", it's going somewhere else. I wonder what problems it is causing elsewhere?
Dredging is sufficient.
Marking the province of Barcelona (from the beaches to the Pyrenees) as the metropolitan area should be considered as an act of violence
The Mediterranean sea is not the Atlantic Ocean....jajaja
Deconstruction isnt complicated
We're having this problem in Louisiana. Prior to us redirecting and controlling the Mississippi river this was not a problem because the river would replace and lengthen our shoreline with new sediment. Keep in mind the Mississippi river didn't stick to the same route (like 3 routes if i remember correctly) and would move randomly (not often) and k*ll ppl.
now do one one the sahara desert get smaller esp at the south side
The guardian is obviously the worst place on Earth to get your information
It makes sense they are not natural
Has Europe been gaslit by the calls of a “climate emergency” so much that they now don’t question it?
Put big boulders on the beache,it will reduce wave impact
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Why is EVERYTHING always attributed to climate change when this video makes plain that poor management of land - in this case, ineffective beach renurishment - is the main culprit? Yes, climate change is a big problem but when we attribute every environmental issue to it, we take away human agency which is needed to solve other drivers of environmental degradation.
The world is coming to an end 😭😭😭
no, just humans
Should I stop paying my mortgage ????...
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I am one of those 1% men in the world right now and maybe I make up a 100 million dollars per year from but that does not mean I will stop cuz it does not harm my children for right now😂😂
Might harm new Births in Sweden, who like a tan near the origin Longitude
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clickbait!!! your title "why...", yet you do lip service and not getting to why, clickbait!!!
‘Climate crisis’. Switch off.
Q. Why are we here? Where are we going? Where did we all came from? What really is the purpose of our lives?
Inbreeding is unhealthy.
What if we all "Just Stop Oil"?
If the whole of Europe went net zero in the next 12 months by reverting back to a medieval agrarian economy, the global CO2 output would still be higher in a decade than it is today due to Asia and Africa. The only savings ever made in the west were due to shifting the location that manufacturing occurs in. I worked on a project years ago where the client closed a factory in Germany, pocketed a huge cheque for doing so and used the money to open a similar facility 10 times larger in India. No carbon was saved, the opposite in fact, but lots of people made money and the new plant didn't have to contend with as strict environmental or labour laws.
What a great idea ! Why don't you start ? Get rid of all plastics in your life, including your beloved phone. Reduce your electricity consumption to one that can be completely fulfilled by renewables. (You may be a little cold and hungry for a while on that one). Same with transportation. Medical care? You'll need to go back to the 18th century on that one so I hope you and your dear ones don't mind dying a bit early. After you've got that all up and running please do come back and let us know how it's working out.
And there we go. "Climate crisis". Yeah, okay. Next video.
Our planet is flipping (the excursion). You can imagine, water leaving some places and appearing in others. The sun appears to be getting ready to go into a micro-nova which is one of the reasons we are seeing the climate changing so radically. We did not cause, animals did not cause and there is no industry that has caused this. This is an EVENT that all who live on this planet should know, right now. By the time it super obvious there will be nothing that you can do about it. Now, there is time to prepare ourselves and our hearts. I am loving all that is and all that is not.
No.
Anyone who has knowledge of climate change knows for a fact that humans are making any situation worse.
To pretend it is all to do with the sun is just burying your head in the sand.
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