That is what we always do and did. Push the sea somewhere else to gain land or stay dry. A lot off major rivers end in the Netherlands. So we get all the flood water from other countries. Still those countries get flooded but our feet stay dry thanks to the government and our amazing engineers. It is our way off life.
@@Bruintjebeer6 payed with taxes from stoners like me living just at the border lol.. but serious this plan is so wrong, killing the noordzee would be number 1 in selfish neoliberalism, we move inland or kill all life in this sea? it's proposal shows the lack of contact with reality, those planning this should smoke some every now and then, take mushrooms and make contact with nature..
Nah, its rather: Ocean: I have the higher ground Netherlands: you underestimate my powers later: Netherlands: What about rising CO2 levels? Climate: It appears that in your industrial rage to build the dam you increased greenhouse gasses emissions accelearating the catastrophe. Netherlands: NOOOOO!
I think this would be super interesting - it reminds me of the science fiction books like 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson - you can find similar megaprojects described there in detail - not this one though - would be great to read a sci Fi story about this.
And perhaps somewhere in a small region in this Doggerland you could make something like a "Pleistocene Park"(more like a reserve actually) with living mammoths and other megafauna
@@pickledpigknuckles6945 It's a reference to when a Dutch comedian made a video poking fun at all the trumpisms and his retarded idea of 'American first and fuck the whole world'. ua-cam.com/video/j-xxis7hDOE/v-deo.html
Doesn't even need to be a war. Something like that is doomed to fail at some point. The ensuing tidal wave flood would cause more damage in hours than slow sea rise would in decades.
1. a war with who? 2. even if the dam would eventually fail, by the time it would fail the problem would have already been fixed 3. Adapting? did you go to school? adapting occured over thousands if not millions of years, sea levels will rise too fast to "adapt" to them 4. moving from the rising sea water is no solution, it will displace millions and hurt the economie more than you can imagine
It's water. If dutch people gonna stop it with a giant wall, other countries of the world going to be flooded even more. Water has to go somewhere else, right? Mostly it's gonna hit poor countries even more. Also Italy, US, so many places in Asia going to be affected by it. Again, just ignorant way of thinking. There are view places in dessert regions like sahara or in Australia that are below the sea-level. To flood these will be benefitial for everyone and more efficient.
@@fryreviews693 True, I didn't get the joke first. After reading second time, kinda funny yes. They are tall enough. I just would never support this stupid project. People actually getting payed for stupid ideas like this...
It would take vastly less to build a giant sea wall to specifically protect the Netherlands instead. It would probably be easier to build a huge freeze ray and fire it at the antarctic to start building up the glaciers again. Considering that the ice melts every year keeping it solid for even just a few weeks longer would be a massive boon to the wildlife already struggling (polar bears and penguins) and keep the white ice reflecting sunlight a little longer. Not well known is that a very large amount of greenhouse gases are actually trapped in ice, and their melting is actually speeding up global warming in a continuous destructive cycle that only melts more ice. So reversing this process could trap a lot of GH gases back in ice for a while.
@@mnomadvfx The main reason melted poles increase the temperature even more is because of the albedo effect. Btw, it is impossible to cool down the poles. For things to cool down you need to transfer heat. You cant just take away heat. And where are you going to store those billions of joules of energy in heat? If you move it to the equator it will slowly spread around the world again. You would need to shoot it into space. This would take so much more money than just taking away greenhouse gasses and let earth cool down itself over time, which is still possible if countries act quick. Also the north pole is pretty much doomed already so even if humans wanted, it would be impossible to save wildlife there. And it is correct that it would be less work just to safe the Netherlands. But, what about a lot of other coastal cities in France, England, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia. It is true however that it would hit the economie and ecology with the canal locks and fresh waters.
As a marine biologist from Norway I can tell you that this will most likely never happen. So many species of animals would go extinct for the sake of some of the countries that are leading in climate change. Migrating fish on ocean currents would go extinct, and local sea life is depended on this nutrient influx, it will completely destroy the local environment, affecting weather patterns and could cause extreme draughts making the land next to completely uninhabitable for people or animals. I mean I am a big fan of Caspian report and I love your geopolitical breakdowns, but when it comes to ecology and environment there are some things that you completely overlook. Understandable though, we live on a planet that completely overlooks ecology and environment.
There would be ways around that. For example they could build channels for marine life to able to move through. The North Sea would remain salt water, so the idea this project would change the climate is absurd.
@@caezar55 lol, clearly you have no perspective on ocean currents, are you familiar with Norwegian fjords? Narrow points in those fjords already change the salinity of the water and nutrient influx, as well as species diversity, and that are only small masses of water. These channels need to be absolutely massive and placed at the right places for your proposal to work considering the huge bodies of water it contains, and then you are basically guessing that the Atlantic mackerel, bluefin tuna and other fish and large marine mammal species are going to adapt their migration patterns. Sounds like a massive ecological disaster.
Yup there is no way this would be done, the downsides are enormous, north western europe is densely populated only because of access to sea, without that sea there is no reason for people to be there. Protect coastal populations by destroying the logic of their existence? this is futile. Even the most reasonable version of this, a dam from dover to calais which leaves southern england and northern france (which are relatively high do not need protection from sea level rise) with a functional population still requires that insanely long dam across scotland to norway and I honestly dont believe that a dam can built that will endure the north sea storm surges we will see in the later half of this century.
@@whatacruelchoice Nope. The important thing is access to waterway. Turning the North and Baltic seas into humongous freshwater lakes does not change ability for the maritime Euro nations to trade with each other. The only thing that will get affected is access to the Atlantic. But this can be ameliorated by the use of locks.
Hmm, yes, with every potential for bringing back the mosquito and malaria into the region (malaria used to be a problem in both the Somerset flats and Norfolk regions of the UK, so there's every reason to believe it ran rife throughout the swampy wetlands of former Doggerland). That'll make for a nice summer vacation spot.
Kinda arrogant. Pumping out all that water not only takes more time and money but also displaces the water. With such a mass of water being pumped out it'd do more harm globally.
4 роки тому+22
@@adaster98 I don't necessarily disagree with you but don't be fooled by India. They have plenty of money, there are just huge disparities between the rich and poor. There biggest problem is corruption which is why they are struggling. Like most of Asia and points further west corruption is crippling there. You can't get anything done unless you bribe every person you meet along the way. That said, India is one of the dirtiest, nastiest, countries in the world. Human excrement and filfth literally everywhere in the cities. Part of it is cultural. You could put a line of trash cans in the park and everyone just throws trash on the ground even after walking by a whole line of cans. They just don't have the ethos to care about what they don't own directly. I know this from my Indian friends in college and the trip we took there after graduation. A good 1/3 of the countries population couldn't tell you what a toilet was and has never used one nor seen one. People just drop their drawers and crap in the middle of the street while hoards of people are hustling by on their way to work. Just a disgusting, filthy country. China is paradise compared to India.
I might have misunderstood. But I don't think that the idea is to drain the Nordic and Baltic Sea completely. That would probably be worse than the rising sea level... Just keep their sea levels from rising the same way the Atlantic's will do.
Yeah can you imagine the population fills up the area, and natural disasters or terrorism breaches the dam and kills 1 billion people whose homes are now 200m under water?
@@DaDunge i think all the rivers flowing into the northern sea would make overflow more of a risk then it evaporating draining the sea would also be catastrophic for the fishing industry and for shipping routes
@@failedtoloadpleasetryagain1862 The last part is something you'd get with the dammed "lake" too. All the fish in the lake would die, and the locks in the dams would no where near be able to handle the amount of traffic needed to keep the coastal ports alive.
the environmental disaster this will cause will be the end of mankind. there are thousands of species of fish that travel to and from the kattegat... the dams would kill that... this would destroy fishing in the north sea, Skagerrak and Baltic sea... food for 10's of millions of people.... it is the most moronic plan ever.
@@TheRingoism Germany is richer than UK and France is equivalent, add the other members in aswell. Plus UK companies are moving to the EU. EU isn't the one who is going to have funding problems.
@@stevshaboba7476 The ISS cost $150 billion (2010 USD). Thats around $177 billion today. So govts have shelled out loads of money in the past. Yeah the whole dam project will almost certainly overrun 200 billion, but the point is it's not completely unfeasible when compared to the cost of not doing it.
however they also just needed about six years for the afsluitdijk which is 32 km long and that was from 1927 to 1933 so now we have far better equipment.
@@larsebbers5214 sure better equipment but worse management tighter budgets more corruption and no one works any day there is a single drop of rain and it takes 3 guys to watch one guy while 4 others guys are grabbing lunch and 6 six other guys are stuffing around in a office doing paperwork just to do one construction job nothing gets done that fast anymore
XDbored1 We literally replace entire overpasses in a day. Nothing in the Netherlands is slow when it comes to infrastructure aside from Groningen Ringweg ):
Dude you need to stop reading depressive Greenpeace propaganda. We haven't killed 80% of birds and insects and fishing is not over fished it's over regulated. Did you really think 80 percent of all birds and insects have been destroyed?....There are tens of billions of birds and trillions of insects.
It's ecological only in the sense of how it effects ecology. The reasons have nothing to do with climate however. The sea is rising because the land is sinking. It has been sinking for thousands of years, with no human CO2 emissions. Doggerland did not sink because of CO2.
@@ZardexM You should go back to school. Lemme break it down, more CO2 in atmosphere --> more greenhouse gasses in air --> more warmth gets trapped --> temperature rises --> water expands --> sealevels rise. Climate change does make a difference...
@@coenvdb6032 Funny how your climate change makes the sea-level go down on the coast of Finland and rise on the coast of England while the geological process of tilting earth suddenly no longer applies.
@@coenvdb6032 And before you blame civilized humanity and fossil fuels for CO2, believing any climate accord can solve anything, if you believe co2 is causing climate change, ask africans to stop breeding and eliminate the world of termite nests... both would reduce production of CO2 more then ending fossil fuel consumption.
I think something like this was proposed across the strait of Gibraltar before ww2 but it was concluded that it would take more than all of the concrete in the entire world to complete
😂 same thought almost. Why do something about nefarious international trade agreements that cause poverty and migration when you can just build a wall? Why do something about rising sea levels as a result of anthropogenic global warming when you can build a wall? Are our species doomed?
Ah yes, It has to be the Dutch Wanna build wall? Ask a Dutch Wanna build a sea wall? Ask a Dutch Wanna build a space wall? Ask a Dutch Yes, it has to be Dutch
If the Netherlands wants to save its land then the Dutch government should plant as many native trees in their country as possible. The trees take water from the land and hold the land firmly by their roots. There is no better natural way than mangroves to save the land lost in the sea, and the Netherlands will have to import sand from Arab countries. At least one thousand tons of sand should be imported to the Netherlands every year in large ships and coconut trees should be planted on the shores of the Netherlands. (Suggestion from Pakistan)
@Henrique There's no way Britain would completely cut off its major ports from the rest of the world just for brownie points with the EU. It's not going to happen.
@Tattle Boad Its a symbolic saying because most of the Netherlands lays below sealevel... U sure are ignorant Dont u Americans constantly say ''America best country in the world'', that is what i call arrogant.
@LuchtLedig Music Drum and Bass Ah yea u might be correct after all the saying goes : ''Hier gaan over het tij, de wind, de maan en wij'' Which more literally translates to : ''Here goes over the tide, the wind, the moon and us'' At first i liked my translation the most because i thought thee could be interpreted besides you as a sort of followup, but saying three makes more sense after thinking about it.
@Tattle Boad Saying u control or master the tide is way different then saying u control the ocean... Also its always ''America best country in the world'' implying its better then the rest but w/e
10:25 The baltic sea is an increadibly delicate system, the Öresund bridge almost didn't bet built because the fear that it may restrict the flow of fresh oxygenated water in from the north sea and thus kill the entire sea, willfullly shutting it of would accomplish that and you'd reduce the baltic sea to a lifeless husk of rotting freshwater, like I said the same thing would likely happen with your doggerland basin but the baltic sea there's no argument, the baltic sea would die.
@Physes This won't be fresh water this will de oxygenated brine. Also this concern doesn't come from me but fro many leading environmental groups and scholars.
@Physes Ocean currents help move around oxygenated water, your pups won't result in ocean currents. Yes the surface water would be oxygenated by the wind and the waves but the oxygen would not get particularly far down into the lake, it doesn't in ant lakes.
@@renfors3931 The stream would just be diverted along the dam walls up along the British west coast and Norway, similar to the path it takes right now. But, the lack of heat, nutrients and fresh oceanic water would gravely affect marine life within the North Sea. It's not a good solution but I can bet every penny that govts politicians prefer something flashy and dumb like this to sensible things like, I don't know, use nuclear power + renewables and give subsidies for electric cars.
As a British person, I always thought the dutch just wanted to be our friends because they were nice, turns out they were just keeping us sweet for this little project :(
We want to be your friend! This idea is just plain stupid and irrelevant in our country. When we leave the EU we will join you guys in trade and help in times of need
It would actually be good economically for the British and the French since they would control pretty much the only port outside the dam. Which mean most import for the rest of Europe would have to transit via France of England. If England ever did a canal like in panama (don’t know how you call these in English) they would make billion
nobody would be happy... england, dutch, danes, swedes, finland, french they all have naval bases, oversea areas etc that are outside the dam. its nonsensical. and what about maritime. imagine all those countries in the baltic that rely on shipments of goods etc. they essentially would have to get the british-french-nordic "ok" to import even bubblegums or w/e...
considering that it would trap literally all 6 of our destroyers, both our carriers and half our frigates from the ocean i can guarantee it would not go down well with parliament or the MoD
This project might solve their problem but if they block the natural flow of excess sea water to North Sea then water levels of coastal areas in other parts of the world might increase much higher than usualand cause a huge damage to them..... It's like protecting their countries at the cost of others....
Other parts will also have sea level increase in their part due to global warming normal but this project will increase it much higher and also if many other countries tries to do something similar in their part then it will have unmanageable Ripple Effects.
Well. If richer countries abandoned morality their response could simply be: " Its not really gonna be our problem, we're just gonna deal with the consequences whilst poor countries can go fuck themselves."
@@MrDarudin Then Bangladesh will flooding to your country both legally and illegally causing a series of social issues, because they have no where else to go. It's not like the rich has the responsibility to help the poor, but it sometimes can protect yourself by helping others.
@Sjoerd Hartman The Debt has literally nothing to with my statement, All im saying is that the money the USA is using for military could be used in potentially meaningful other places, maybe even reducing the debt. Interesting how a random person on the internet can offend a presumably non american by talking vaguely about american finances he knows nothing more but a google search about.
The Dutch can finance it by themselves if they really have to. 40 billion Euros per year for 20 years is 4.4% of their current annual GDP (913 billion Euros)
Even the title to this vid made me piss myself laughing. . . "A large body of water? *Sexual Dutch noises*. . . Can we. . . Can we dam it? You MUST let us dam it. . . Oh god we must dam it!"
@@farhanhyder7304 I don't get this point. Ecosystems are not sacred. What we should do is make sure changes to marine ecosystems will no translate into less economic prosperity and poverty.
Videos are only usable so long as we don’t fall into another dark age. Human civilisation has never been so fragile, we’re in deep without backups, and electricity would be the first thing to go in a sustained crisis, because the modern electrical grid is pretty complicated and requires specialised knowledge at different stages and levels of the system.
the middle east could use some of that water, i think it's doable to build a huge pipe towards north Africa into the Sahara, a similar proposal was presented by the UAE and Pakistan.
@@aslanbayramuqlany6189 building pipes is easy, there are many oil and gas pipes that stretch thousand of kilometers, deep sea internet cables are also a thing.
If there was a long undefended concrete wall holding back an additional 2m of sea level from flooding Western European coastlines, cue a single Russian submarine and a volley of torpedoes.
@@joestevenson5568 true. Though for significantly less money, and much faster, Russia could build it's own wall only protecting St. Petersburg. Not seriously saying any of this would happen, just pointing out how a wall would become another vulnerable piece of infrastructure that might be used in the international chess-game.
Less sea level rise in the north sea means more sea level rise everywhere else. The more such projects are undertaken, the more of such projects will have to be considered.
*northern europe builds dam* *South Europe build smaller larger dam* *North Europe sees southern european dam and proceeds to build larger dam* *Southern Europe see's Northerners building their dam larger and proceeds to make theirs taller* *end result*:newfastuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/0c67e5L.png
Majority dutch citizen are university educated. And dont make smocking their lifestyle/cause of existance like young amerikans 😆 Make university free. And stop giving that weed overimportance. Its like someone centering his life/purpose of life on drinking alcohol 😆
At some time that wall would fail and a catastrophic tsunami would destroy half of northern Europe costing far more money and lives than migrating people to higher ground. A "simple" law forbidding any construction or rebuilding below +3 meter over the sea would cause that land to be depopulated over time and it´s use can be recreational park land and floating vacation homes as the sea rises. That would cost far less. It may not be practical to save Holland in the long run if sea rise can not be prevented(sorry Holland).
@kev warriner if they build it at the narrow point at Dover, lots of communities in the English Channel wouldn’t be protected. The ports will all be maintained because you can just put sluices/locks in the dams. And you can pump the water out of the artificial sea. Believe me, the technology is already there and there are a lot of practical examples of it being used in the world already.
@Kev Warriner we have done the exact same with the Ijselmeer. It used to be the Zuiderzee (a salty sea) but now it's a freshwater lake. It's the largest levee in the world and it has a one-way flow, meaning that the river water that empties into the Ijselmeer can continue into the North Sea but the seawater cannot enter the Ijselmeer. We did this in the 1930s and it was never done before. We wanted to do it in the 1600s already but technology wasn't deemed advanced enough. We also have extensive experience with sleucegates and am sure that in whatever scenario would actually convince enough people to do this we will manage to scale-up sleucegates to oceanic cargoships sizes.
And a whole lot of CO2 to construct it lol. And also. I live in the netherlands and I have never heard of this plan. It's definitely fake or a big joke
Imagine leaving Europe and then being literally hooked up to Europe by a dam closing down your most important sea ports and being more dependent on European trade.
Zodiac Thirteen if let’s say there is a large channel that cut through the U.K. it would become the most important crossing in the world that means Britain could choose who can come across or not and the eu would be at the mercy of the U.K. as if it wanted to it could cut trade off which could mean nearly all ships coming to the west of Europe stopping
Imagine lowering the sea level of the north sea by 1 meter and then one dam breaks and the resulting tsunami destoys not only the costalregion but probably will penetrate deep in the land aswell lol. Btw 1 meter lowering would be equal to 570.000.000.000.000 Liter of Water. Imagine that much water returning in the northsea all at once lol
That wouldn’t be a tsunami. It’s 1m high, and comparable to tidal ranges seen across the North Sea. I’m not saying it isn’t a dumb idea, but a hole in the dam where one side is 1m higher than the other will not be as immediately devastating as you imagine. It will take a long time for enough water to flow through to increase the height. Certainly no massive waves.
You know when you go get a glass of water does your house instantly flood becuase that water is connected to a huge basin of water which is trying to escape ?
@@oliverbutterfield9844 Even if the dam doesn't break the ecological and climate consequences should not to be underestimate lol. cutting of such a hughe water mass from the global see will probably harm migrating sea creatures. Also what would happen with the warming effect the flowing water has? As I understand it the gulfstream is warming up europe in the winter so we don't have -40°C in the winter. What would happen to that? What about ships? Who has the legal force to collect taxes from ships passing over the dams, how would they do that?
This was my first thought as well. If it works (excluding all of the environmental and economical problems) the damage caused by that much water would be staggering. I am not sure how much I would trust that dam.
@Arska The Netherlands was more than Dietsland alone, invented the Marines, conquered the world from Spitsbergen to Zuid-Kaap and New-Amsterdam to New-Zealand.
I recon the Dutch probably inhabited most of 'Doggerland' but had to retreat as the waters came in from the Nth. So we've probably been saying that for centuries! WE COULD'VE BEEN A GREAT POWER! . . . But ALL washed up!
Once a year, thousands of dutch people run into the north sea and then run back in the land. This is a tradition to warn the north sea that of you try to flood us, the north sea will be annexed and colonized and will become one with us
People do realise France also has nukes. also I think the dam would be more like a lot of islands put one next to the other rather than an actual dam(by current standards), meaning that it would be more of a geographic land mark rather than an actual dam.
@@nuclearwarhead9338 Well with the possibility of milions dying by a tsunami if the dams are very successful destroyed, yea I don't think a Europe would be happy. See the effect 9/11 add on America, now think the effect of London being destroyed and all the Northern citys would add at the surviving Europeans. It wouldn't passify them for the contrary , it would radicalize them to the extreme.
✔ GET NORDVPN ► nordvpn.com/caspianreport
✔ USE COUPON CODE ► caspianreport
✔ USE THE CODE SO YOU CAN GET 70% off 3-year plan + 1 month free
Very interesting video as always Shirvan. Where did you hear about this project? I'm interested in reading more about it.
CaspianReport you are lame and depressed go get some friends finally
Next thing you know... this video was brought to you by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
Sounds like a fun project. Not even that hard to do tho👍 and your pronunciation of " afsluitdijk" was on point 😂👍
❌ Why you should not endorse products you don't know about and kowtow to their narrative: ua-cam.com/video/WVDQEoe6ZWY/v-deo.html
There is never been a problem the Dutch didn’t think they couldn’t solve with a dam lol
Invasion by the germans? DAM
huge asteroid about to hit the Netherlands? DAM
alien invasion? DAMMMM
And if all else fails... blow up the damn dams and call it a day.
It's worked so far.
@@ezzyth8824 We would have stopped that German invasion if it wasn't for those darn flying machines!
Damn, that's right
Eu: how will be stop the sea rise!?
Netherlands: we should take the Atlantic Ocean...AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!
push it over the edge!!
@@jimcarlson6157 yup......
Meanwhile in the rest of the world: 🌊
That is what we always do and did. Push the sea somewhere else to gain land or stay dry.
A lot off major rivers end in the Netherlands. So we get all the flood water from other countries. Still those countries get flooded but our feet stay dry thanks to the government and our amazing engineers. It is our way off life.
@@Bruintjebeer6 payed with taxes from stoners like me living just at the border lol.. but serious this plan is so wrong, killing the noordzee would be number 1 in selfish neoliberalism, we move inland or kill all life in this sea? it's proposal shows the lack of contact with reality, those planning this should smoke some every now and then, take mushrooms and make contact with nature..
Ocean: Its over Netherlands
Netherlands: You didnt see my final form yet
cringe
Nah, its rather:
Ocean: I have the higher ground
Netherlands: you underestimate my powers
later:
Netherlands: What about rising CO2 levels?
Climate: It appears that in your industrial rage to build the dam you increased greenhouse gasses emissions accelearating the catastrophe.
Netherlands: NOOOOO!
I laughed harder then I should have at this.
Netherlands: im only using 1% of my power level
@@Zarrov this is clown. Sea level is falling in the Baltic due to glacier rebound
Netherlands: We want to build a giant sea wall
England: Where do we fit in?
Netherlands: You are the wall
England: Here are several hundred thermonuclear weapons that will demolish your wall.
The whole of the UK isn't just England you know... missed out Wales and Scotland on that land mass...
@@Thorocious The guy's called Glynn. I think he *might* know where Wales is, no? :)
@@Microtherion I was referring to the other guy, but okay.
@@Thorocious Lol. Like 90 per cent of stuff people say online, I don't suppose it matters anyway. Take it easy...
1. Build the dams
2. Pump out the sea
3. RAISE DOGGERLAND!
Travis Atwood then terrorist attacked and millions drown
it would seriously make brexit look foolish if britain stops being an island.
i mean foolishER.
Roger Valor I mean. Coming to visit Britain on foot? Sure, no problem, we just pulled our 10000 years back ancestors’ trick, hi, hello there
I think this would be super interesting - it reminds me of the science fiction books like 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson - you can find similar megaprojects described there in detail - not this one though - would be great to read a sci Fi story about this.
And perhaps somewhere in a small region in this Doggerland you could make something like a "Pleistocene Park"(more like a reserve actually) with living mammoths and other megafauna
We're gonna build a wall... And make the Sea pay for it
Whats Trump got to do with this LoL maybe he will gain Land for another resort and golf course LoL
Good one
@@pickledpigknuckles6945
It's a reference to when a Dutch comedian made a video poking fun at all the trumpisms and his retarded idea of 'American first and fuck the whole world'.
ua-cam.com/video/j-xxis7hDOE/v-deo.html
we dont like the mexican wather
No they are going to make tax payers pay for it.
Europe: What can we do about rising sea levels?
Netherlands: Build a dam!
The North Sea: Well, I'll be damned!
*dammed
@@Polomac100 Search up the meaning of 'damned' and you will be able to get the joke.
Danny Boy terrible joke
Danny Boy funny
The problem is the sea levels our not rising according to sat data
If there was a war the dam would be such an easy and devastating target
Doesn't even need to be a war. Something like that is doomed to fail at some point. The ensuing tidal wave flood would cause more damage in hours than slow sea rise would in decades.
@@bryancouillard2016 By that logic the netherlands would already not exist.
That could destroy the hole Europe and Asia tho
1. a war with who?
2. even if the dam would eventually fail, by the time it would fail the problem would have already been fixed
3. Adapting? did you go to school? adapting occured over thousands if not millions of years, sea levels will rise too fast to "adapt" to them
4. moving from the rising sea water is no solution, it will displace millions and hurt the economie more than you can imagine
@@Apple-tq3ve option B, the most likely give the world's governments: government leaves people to die or make the choice to move for themselves.
Europe: "What should we do?"
Dutch: "Dam it!"
funny
God dam what a good joke
Britain: leaves EU
Netherlands: *Builds dam around UK*
YA GOT A LOISANCE FOR THAT DAM
Like the powers at be will let happen 😂
puts a massive twist on the claims to have access to British waters.
Yep.. and Afro am immigrants build it lol
Britain: Phones 617 Squadron.
I love how its the dutch. They are so sick of water that they just want to get it as far away from their nation as possible
It's water. If dutch people gonna stop it with a giant wall, other countries of the world going to be flooded even more. Water has to go somewhere else, right?
Mostly it's gonna hit poor countries even more. Also Italy, US, so many places in Asia going to be affected by it. Again, just ignorant way of thinking.
There are view places in dessert regions like sahara or in Australia that are below the sea-level. To flood these will be benefitial for everyone and more efficient.
Johny Okinawa. Im so confused on what me joking about the dutch hating water has to do with this
@@fryreviews693 True, I didn't get the joke first. After reading second time, kinda funny yes.
They are tall enough.
I just would never support this stupid project. People actually getting payed for stupid ideas like this...
I (Dutch) love water. We just happen to live mostly below sea level. And I have no gills to speak off. Yet.
@@denisneubert8013worst off all, its from tax money :(
The amount of physical material needed just to build that would strain almost every other construction project in the world.
It would take vastly less to build a giant sea wall to specifically protect the Netherlands instead.
It would probably be easier to build a huge freeze ray and fire it at the antarctic to start building up the glaciers again.
Considering that the ice melts every year keeping it solid for even just a few weeks longer would be a massive boon to the wildlife already struggling (polar bears and penguins) and keep the white ice reflecting sunlight a little longer.
Not well known is that a very large amount of greenhouse gases are actually trapped in ice, and their melting is actually speeding up global warming in a continuous destructive cycle that only melts more ice.
So reversing this process could trap a lot of GH gases back in ice for a while.
@@mnomadvfx The main reason melted poles increase the temperature even more is because of the albedo effect.
Btw, it is impossible to cool down the poles. For things to cool down you need to transfer heat. You cant just take away heat. And where are you going to store those billions of joules of energy in heat? If you move it to the equator it will slowly spread around the world again. You would need to shoot it into space. This would take so much more money than just taking away greenhouse gasses and let earth cool down itself over time, which is still possible if countries act quick.
Also the north pole is pretty much doomed already so even if humans wanted, it would be impossible to save wildlife there.
And it is correct that it would be less work just to safe the Netherlands. But, what about a lot of other coastal cities in France, England, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia.
It is true however that it would hit the economie and ecology with the canal locks and fresh waters.
@@TristanPopken yeah, and the ice was melting without the help of humans. We are just out of an ice time so it would be weird if it wasnt melting.
Don't worry this is just an internet video something like this will never happen
No, look at A chart of the North Sea. Bitch is shallow
Ah, the eternal Dutch War of Aggression against the Sea.
Doggerland shall be avenged
Hey, the sea started it! It's self defence!
The sea had it coming
*G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
nice
What did the fish say when it hit the wall? Damn.
HAHAAHHAHA no way
🍺😂💨
killer!
That's what happens when you go in head first
@@davidquezada50 🍺😂💨
"... one of the largest civil engineering projects in the world" -- how about "far and away the largest civil engineering project in the world"?
Yea I’m left wondering what is the largest civil engineering project if this one wouldn’t be?
@@Danquebec01 it's fairly obvious actually
Yeah, I thought about how the mega damns in China compare, but do those even come close to the scale of this project?
stb357 damn
@@stb357 Are you referring to the Three Gorges Dam? I don’t consider it as coming close.
As a marine biologist from Norway I can tell you that this will most likely never happen. So many species of animals would go extinct for the sake of some of the countries that are leading in climate change. Migrating fish on ocean currents would go extinct, and local sea life is depended on this nutrient influx, it will completely destroy the local environment, affecting weather patterns and could cause extreme draughts making the land next to completely uninhabitable for people or animals. I mean I am a big fan of Caspian report and I love your geopolitical breakdowns, but when it comes to ecology and environment there are some things that you completely overlook. Understandable though, we live on a planet that completely overlooks ecology and environment.
There would be ways around that. For example they could build channels for marine life to able to move through. The North Sea would remain salt water, so the idea this project would change the climate is absurd.
@@caezar55 lol, clearly you have no perspective on ocean currents, are you familiar with Norwegian fjords? Narrow points in those fjords already change the salinity of the water and nutrient influx, as well as species diversity, and that are only small masses of water. These channels need to be absolutely massive and placed at the right places for your proposal to work considering the huge bodies of water it contains, and then you are basically guessing that the Atlantic mackerel, bluefin tuna and other fish and large marine mammal species are going to adapt their migration patterns. Sounds like a massive ecological disaster.
Yup there is no way this would be done, the downsides are enormous, north western europe is densely populated only because of access to sea, without that sea there is no reason for people to be there. Protect coastal populations by destroying the logic of their existence? this is futile. Even the most reasonable version of this, a dam from dover to calais which leaves southern england and northern france (which are relatively high do not need protection from sea level rise) with a functional population still requires that insanely long dam across scotland to norway and I honestly dont believe that a dam can built that will endure the north sea storm surges we will see in the later half of this century.
[sarc on] Yes, yes: because animals are so much > than people. Typical W Euro degenerate thinking.
@@whatacruelchoice Nope. The important thing is access to waterway. Turning the North and Baltic seas into humongous freshwater lakes does not change ability for the maritime Euro nations to trade with each other. The only thing that will get affected is access to the Atlantic. But this can be ameliorated by the use of locks.
The UK- Finally Brexit!
Netherlands- How about you literally become part of Europe?
UK- Dam Busters.
Defenstrator they would need uk permission consdiering we own the channel and it would fuck the uk, that water has to go somewhere
@@sausagejockyGaming send the water to Landon
@@ahamedihamiyun5927 Nah, send it to Istanbul. the other side of Europe/Asia minor.
@Konceited Kai could easily close it, or collapse it.
The dutch are just playing minecraft at this point
Oh how Europe could N.E.E.D. the Dutch minecrafting skills.
We have an old history playing minecraft
Anyway. But the problem of the warm gulf stream blocked from the English Channel and the North Sea is kept out completely.
New game: Damcraft
The world: This project would lead to complete and utter damnation
The Dutch: what’s so wrong with being a dam nation?
damn ation
...not if you're a civil engineer!
"Budget of between 270bn and 550bn Dollars." That's almost as much as Ireland's new children's hospital! (so far)
how much it cost?
The EU: The sea is rising, what can we do?
Netherlands: *STARTS WATERBENDING*
EU: God! DAM IT
Dammed if u do dammed if u don't!
E.u are nothing but liers
Just dammed move out of Netherlands
"Make Doggerland great again!"
I just made that comment - didn't copy you - I even spelt it differently
I was going to say "Make Doggerland Dry Again"
Thats exactly what i ws gonna comment about.
You would have to drain billions of liters of water from the North Sea and English channel just to see part of it get dry.
Hmm, yes, with every potential for bringing back the mosquito and malaria into the region (malaria used to be a problem in both the Somerset flats and Norfolk regions of the UK, so there's every reason to believe it ran rife throughout the swampy wetlands of former Doggerland). That'll make for a nice summer vacation spot.
They could pump out the whole sea and reclaim doggerland.
Lets just wait for the next Ice age in a 100 thousand years to reduce sea levels
The dutch is doggerland central ...
Kinda arrogant. Pumping out all that water not only takes more time and money but also displaces the water. With such a mass of water being pumped out it'd do more harm globally.
@@adaster98 I don't necessarily disagree with you but don't be fooled by India. They have plenty of money, there are just huge disparities between the rich and poor. There biggest problem is corruption which is why they are struggling. Like most of Asia and points further west corruption is crippling there. You can't get anything done unless you bribe every person you meet along the way. That said, India is one of the dirtiest, nastiest, countries in the world. Human excrement and filfth literally everywhere in the cities. Part of it is cultural. You could put a line of trash cans in the park and everyone just throws trash on the ground even after walking by a whole line of cans. They just don't have the ethos to care about what they don't own directly. I know this from my Indian friends in college and the trip we took there after graduation. A good 1/3 of the countries population couldn't tell you what a toilet was and has never used one nor seen one. People just drop their drawers and crap in the middle of the street while hoards of people are hustling by on their way to work. Just a disgusting, filthy country. China is paradise compared to India.
@Jon Bjornssen 🤭
Neptune: I rule here
The dutch: hold my shitty Heineken sponsored dam
Heineken is not shitty
@@stephenmeier4658 im dutch and i think it is
@@stephenmeier4658 we Dutch call it piss beer cause it makes you pee a lot
Dutch: I have a great idea.
Marine life in the Atlantic Ocean: WTF
Americans coming to land on French beaches: WTF
nice, laugh hard
England
Pro : Probably double in size,
Salt buissness
Cons : Germany can now reach british mainland.
invasion wise impossible
I might have misunderstood. But I don't think that the idea is to drain the Nordic and Baltic Sea completely. That would probably be worse than the rising sea level...
Just keep their sea levels from rising the same way the Atlantic's will do.
"The British campaign to remain surrounded by sea"
A.K.A. WWII insurance policy.
Dambusters 2
@@CancerGaming56 😂😂😂
I first thought they would drain it and reclaim doggerland
Probably a better idea really, because the enclosure would become a slowly evaporating pool of Brine otherwise.
Would be amazing for archeology!
Yeah can you imagine the population fills up the area, and natural disasters or terrorism breaches the dam and kills 1 billion people whose homes are now 200m under water?
@@DaDunge i think all the rivers flowing into the northern sea would make overflow more of a risk then it evaporating draining the sea would also be catastrophic for the fishing industry and for shipping routes
@@failedtoloadpleasetryagain1862 The last part is something you'd get with the dammed "lake" too. All the fish in the lake would die, and the locks in the dams would no where near be able to handle the amount of traffic needed to keep the coastal ports alive.
Everyone's laughing at them now, but no one's gonna be laughing when they colonize all of the sea
the environmental disaster this will cause will be the end of mankind.
there are thousands of species of fish that travel to and from the kattegat...
the dams would kill that... this would destroy fishing in the north sea, Skagerrak and Baltic sea...
food for 10's of millions of people....
it is the most moronic plan ever.
@@MrWeedWacky I probpose a fish gate
@@Praecantetia the size of a blue whale?
@@MrWeedWacky yes. If we can get a ship elevator the size of the evergiven then we can make a cate for fish and whales.
What that Dutch boys and stick his finger in
North Sea: Exists
Nederland: *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
Mr BigCookie damm right
Mr BigCookie I N G E P O L D E R D
Afsluitdijk: *exists*
Netherlands: this isn't even my final form
i seriously thought this was just gibberish mashing on keyboard but it actually is a *language*
@@Qatrebew hey all the other languages took the normal sounding words! you can't blame us for being stuck with this smh
I thought I was having a stroke reading it but then I remembered it’s just dutch.
Hey don’t forget *arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekeringsmaatschappij*
At lest it ain’t welsh
so much for the UK trying to achieve its splendid isolation. now you’ll have these lovely tulip fanatics walking to Dover
biking* to dover
shit, they figured our plan to keep England in the EU by making it landlocked into Europe.
@@joeribaars5481 I say, would either of you chaps fancy a swim in the baltic pond ?
I like swimming, but maybe wait till the water is warmer.
Independence, not isolation.
The Dutch: *Sees open body of water*
The Dutch: “Not on my watch”
Sea: *exists*
Netherlands: “It’s free real estate”
Actually it's very much the other way around when you realize how much the Netherlands gets flooded
NthSeaExit!
For Gods' sake! don't tell the Chinese that, they'll claim all the oceans!
@@johnzuijdveld9585 i know the love of Dutchmen for pressing ( Total Football), but u are a bit obsessed, right?
I wouldn't exactly say free, they pay for a lot for it.
England: We want Brexit!
EU: Sure no problem.....
Netherlands: Um...by the way.... just one more thing....
One more thing the United States won't let the Netherlands do.
Funny but like the EU has the funds to pay for this and they'd want the UK to pay for most of it...
@@TheRingoism Trump just called, he said the Mexicans will pay for this wall too
@@TheRingoism Germany is richer than UK and France is equivalent, add the other members in aswell.
Plus UK companies are moving to the EU.
EU isn't the one who is going to have funding problems.
"Sure, no problem" is not exactly how I would describe the past few years in regards to EU response to Brexit. But okay xD
Even if the Netherlands sinks, they’ll just built underwater cities
Probably cheaper
So just like rapture just without the crazy adam adict splicers, child experimented little sisters, diving suit wearing big daddy's and big sisters.
That Will Never Happend
@@terraindomitus3758 Have you tried walking around Amsterdam city centre at night you may be surprised.
@@JHR36 no i haven't but my comment is just refrencing bioshock.
This has the same energy of "the oceans are warming? just throw some ice into it" solution.
~$200 billion is not very expensive when you consider projects like the joint strike fighter.
Or the GDP of the countries involved. It's be a good amount, but doing it in stages would stagger the costs rather noticeably.
Unfortunately once the dam is built they arent able to sell it
You're kidding yourself if you think this would only cost 200 billion
Lmao, £200bn wouldn't get it even a 10th completed.
@@stevshaboba7476 The ISS cost $150 billion (2010 USD). Thats around $177 billion today. So govts have shelled out loads of money in the past.
Yeah the whole dam project will almost certainly overrun 200 billion, but the point is it's not completely unfeasible when compared to the cost of not doing it.
The Netherlands: We're gonna build a wall and the fishes will pay for it
rgehjog;[pkjirge;oj;ojgkxcvx,.ndvskjdgsf;jdgfskjlkj;jrs; pkrgkxvljdae'lkpllk;/kxcvml;lkjife,.mvlkjlkepk
Kojo Tutu agreed
and we’ll succeed like trump is doing right now.
scheldedam can also the fish let free to swim, duch are smart you know
Oh, as the salinity of the water changes, the fish will pay.
Did he just say the estimate for construction is 20 years? It took 16 years to build a 10 km subway line in Amsterdam.
however they also just needed about six years for the afsluitdijk which is 32 km long and that was from 1927 to 1933 so now we have far better equipment.
@@larsebbers5214 sure better equipment but worse management tighter budgets more corruption and no one works any day there is a single drop of rain and it takes 3 guys to watch one guy while 4 others guys are grabbing lunch and 6 six other guys are stuffing around in a office doing paperwork just to do one construction job nothing gets done that fast anymore
Coincidentally this dam is not being build in Amsterdam
@@jodypelupessy2142 but you only win by default is the problem its slow everywhere
XDbored1 We literally replace entire overpasses in a day. Nothing in the Netherlands is slow when it comes to infrastructure aside from Groningen Ringweg ):
I'm more worried about how something like this would effect marine life. We've already overfished the seas and killed 80% of birds/insect populations.
Dude you need to stop reading depressive Greenpeace propaganda. We haven't killed 80% of birds and insects and fishing is not over fished it's over regulated. Did you really think 80 percent of all birds and insects have been destroyed?....There are tens of billions of birds and trillions of insects.
@Raven Moon isn't the issue it'll gradually become fresh water, not sea water over time?
@@tinkertailor7385 Ok but how many species have we as humans endangered or made extinct? Way too many my dude.
Well whats 20% more?
@@tinkertailor7385In Germany 80% of the birds are extinct since 1800
Its gonna be a beautiful dam, and belgium will pay for it!
Ah go on......let the Mexicans pay. They are paying for absolutely everything.
Here's a lol from Belgium :p
123Dunebuggy and so they should
Usually, Germany pays for everything.
France surrenders to the sea anyway so why not start the dam in south netherlands or as some people call it belgium
The world: Huge Plan!!! Takes years!
The Netherlands: We need more coffee! And 30 minutes.....
Ocean: *I shall rise*
Dutch: We dont do that here
me, a dutchie: wellllllll *hits blunt*
Sapt Sagn the Dutch: you shall not pass!
Jajaja the best comment
I wonder how Russia would feel getting boxed into the Baltic...
North Sea: I'll be damned if the Dutch go thru with this project
View Doggerland, BBC, somewhere here on UA-cam.. The Dutch are proposing to return to the conditions of 10,000 years before the present.
Dammed*
We will make it the North Lake😂😂
No, not damned, dammed 😄
the north sea... and all the countries sharing coastline with the baltic...
The Dutch and German scientists need to lay off the cocaine.
The Dutch need to lay off the weed.
Nah the drugs are just for the tourists, we don't need drugs to be crazy.
Zachary Durocher, also americans.
Lmao
Agreed way to much Boss LMFAO
This sounds like an ecological nightmare to be honest.
Especially for us humans living in the netherlands.
It's ecological only in the sense of how it effects ecology. The reasons have nothing to do with climate however. The sea is rising because the land is sinking. It has been sinking for thousands of years, with no human CO2 emissions. Doggerland did not sink because of CO2.
@@ZardexM You should go back to school. Lemme break it down, more CO2 in atmosphere --> more greenhouse gasses in air --> more warmth gets trapped --> temperature rises --> water expands --> sealevels rise.
Climate change does make a difference...
@@coenvdb6032 Funny how your climate change makes the sea-level go down on the coast of Finland and rise on the coast of England while the geological process of tilting earth suddenly no longer applies.
@@coenvdb6032 And before you blame civilized humanity and fossil fuels for CO2, believing any climate accord can solve anything, if you believe co2 is causing climate change, ask africans to stop breeding and eliminate the world of termite nests... both would reduce production of CO2 more then ending fossil fuel consumption.
Dutch Priminister : *We're going to build a wall and make the fish pay for it.*
Netherlands : yes, no more flooding here.
Venice : dam.
Lmao
Netherlands: How did you know?
Well then
Can we simply dump the sea water in space ?
It will save the earth from flooding.
The Dutch are once again looking to escalate their ongoing war against the sea
😆
And again,...with success. Mark my words!
The sea drew first blood, not us!
SEAA!!! Raaaarrrgghhh!!!
*Dutch dam effectively cutting off St. Petersburg*
NATO: Here’s a billion dollars
Petersburg is already cut off by Kattegatt.
NATO is not anti-russia. But we must protect against russian aggression.
@@lexethonor294 You mean there is no USA aggression?
@@HarrySmith-hr2iv USA didn.t invade europe and installed dictatorships.
We did install democracies though
I think something like this was proposed across the strait of Gibraltar before ww2 but it was concluded that it would take more than all of the concrete in the entire world to complete
In 1935.... yes... but we now make a lot more concrete.
The Dutch : lol u guys in survival.. *just use world edit*
//set stone
Sea: Ceases existing
The Netherlands: *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
cresta2000ESP jullie zijn gek hoor !!!
Die Gestive we zijn de baas van the zee
greta thunberg: stop climate change!
netherlands and germany: We're gonna build a wall, it's gonna be a big beautiful wall.
😂 same thought almost.
Why do something about nefarious international trade agreements that cause poverty and migration when you can just build a wall?
Why do something about rising sea levels as a result of anthropogenic global warming when you can build a wall?
Are our species doomed?
And we gonna make the British pay for it shttttt
How DARE you!!!
And it will be ‘orange’, as the Dutch like that
I live in the netherlands. I have never heard of this before. It sounds like a fake story to me.
Wouldn’t somebody just blow it up? I feel like leaving that out as a potential danger is foolish.
"It's over, Netherlands, I have the high ground!"
"You underestimate our power..."
Low ground*
@@rejvaik00 "High sea levels"
@@leodarksam6230 Netherlands has been historically called the low country it's a pun
@@rejvaik00 I see.
Fuck I was just about to comment this
Eu: “eh fuck Ireland”
BUTTT they gotta fork over some dough
Mwaniki Mwaniki Latvia and Ukraine must be jealous
justin allen “0.1 of gdp generates by countries it will affect” Ireland isn’t bothered by this
hahahahhahah i was just thinking that !!
@Mwaniki Mwaniki Your comment makes no sense.
Ah yes, It has to be the Dutch
Wanna build wall? Ask a Dutch
Wanna build a sea wall? Ask a Dutch
Wanna build a space wall? Ask a Dutch
Yes, it has to be Dutch
Contract the Dutch to build Dyson Sphere :D or Ringworld
If Trump hired Dutch workers, the US-Mexico border wall would be complete in less than a year, lol
@@leonardoschiavelli6478 It's not an option. Period!
Trump should have asked us to build the Mexican wall:p
Wanna wear comfortable shoes? Don't ask a Dutch.
If the Netherlands wants to save its land then the Dutch government should plant as many native trees in their country as possible. The trees take water from the land and hold the land firmly by their roots. There is no better natural way than mangroves to save the land lost in the sea, and the Netherlands will have to import sand from Arab countries. At least one thousand tons of sand should be imported to the Netherlands every year in large ships and coconut trees should be planted on the shores of the Netherlands.
(Suggestion from Pakistan)
Coconut trees do not grow in the Netherlands.
That's not a solution, it's better dreds sand from the sea bottom, so you catch 2 fly in one time. 😅
Dutch: Close it!
Europe: Why?
Dutch: _You wouldn't get it_
Whatever the Dutch were smoking to make this project, i want some of that
Haha this is realy fake🤣
You can bet the UK would be like, "over my dead body".
Unless Scotland and northern Ireland leave the UK and join the EU
@@definitelydaniel69420 Cornwall
@Henrique There's no way Britain would completely cut off its major ports from the rest of the world just for brownie points with the EU. It's not going to happen.
Dannyh53 Except they literally can’t? Nor do they want to... idiotic comment
Why not, because the English won't allow it?
As the dutch saying goes :
''The masters of the tides are thee: the moon, the winds and we.''
@LuchtLedig Music Drum and Bass I felt like ''Are thee'' is the more poetic translation
@Tattle Boad more like the oils
@Tattle Boad Its a symbolic saying because most of the Netherlands lays below sealevel...
U sure are ignorant
Dont u Americans constantly say ''America best country in the world'', that is what i call arrogant.
@LuchtLedig Music Drum and Bass Ah yea u might be correct after all
the saying goes :
''Hier gaan over het tij, de wind, de maan en wij''
Which more literally translates to :
''Here goes over the tide, the wind, the moon and us''
At first i liked my translation the most because i thought thee could be interpreted besides you as a sort of followup, but saying three makes more sense after thinking about it.
@Tattle Boad Saying u control or master the tide is way different then saying u control the ocean...
Also its always ''America best country in the world'' implying its better then the rest but w/e
Very reminiscent of Germany's Atlantropa project lol
nobody:
The Dutch: I N G E P O L D E R D
I read this with the *thickest* Dutch accent I could even think of
Goed bezugg 👍🏻
Zeg makker
Spannend!!
Lekker bezig
The Dutch:
Did somebody said Dam?
Nobody:
The Dutch: Did somebody say Dam?
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
10:25 The baltic sea is an increadibly delicate system, the Öresund bridge almost didn't bet built because the fear that it may restrict the flow of fresh oxygenated water in from the north sea and thus kill the entire sea, willfullly shutting it of would accomplish that and you'd reduce the baltic sea to a lifeless husk of rotting freshwater, like I said the same thing would likely happen with your doggerland basin but the baltic sea there's no argument, the baltic sea would die.
@Physes This won't be fresh water this will de oxygenated brine. Also this concern doesn't come from me but fro many leading environmental groups and scholars.
@Physes Ocean currents help move around oxygenated water, your pups won't result in ocean currents. Yes the surface water would be oxygenated by the wind and the waves but the oxygen would not get particularly far down into the lake, it doesn't in ant lakes.
Fredrik Dunge and what about the Gulf Stream, the whole of Europe would become much colder with the stream stopping at the dam.
@@renfors3931 The stream would just be diverted along the dam walls up along the British west coast and Norway, similar to the path it takes right now. But, the lack of heat, nutrients and fresh oceanic water would gravely affect marine life within the North Sea. It's not a good solution but I can bet every penny that govts politicians prefer something flashy and dumb like this to sensible things like, I don't know, use nuclear power + renewables and give subsidies for electric cars.
Rip östersjön
If the worst will happen, netherlands people are welcome in germany.
As a British person, I always thought the dutch just wanted to be our friends because they were nice, turns out they were just keeping us sweet for this little project :(
When they said, that you are their damn to protect against the rough sea, they didnt mean that metaphorical, but literally.
We want to be your friend! This idea is just plain stupid and irrelevant in our country. When we leave the EU we will join you guys in trade and help in times of need
@@lukeskywalker5392 Dam Siths they are. the way to the Dam Side of Force, my padawan, that is
It would actually be good economically for the British and the French since they would control pretty much the only port outside the dam. Which mean most import for the rest of Europe would have to transit via France of England. If England ever did a canal like in panama (don’t know how you call these in English) they would make billion
Nah we love the British, your humor, tea, and ofcourse your fish n chips
If this happens I don’t think Russia would be happy about St. Petersburg being landlocked.
The UK would lose its 2major naval and merchant ports too. Portsmouth and London...hell we would lose the protection of the channel too
nobody would be happy... england, dutch, danes, swedes, finland, french they all have naval bases, oversea areas etc that are outside the dam. its nonsensical. and what about maritime. imagine all those countries in the baltic that rely on shipments of goods etc. they essentially would have to get the british-french-nordic "ok" to import even bubblegums or w/e...
@@alora_dsatalin6517 Protection from who? The French and Germans wouldn't invade again, i hope
@@banger2998 dude they have st.petersburg
Eh the Baltic would be a lovely freshwater lake
As someone from the UK I can guarantee you that this will never be allowed.
It might actually go through because it'll give a huge boost to the West Coast and push power away from Lon.....ohhh FFS
Meh, never say never.
considering that it would trap literally all 6 of our destroyers, both our carriers and half our frigates from the ocean i can guarantee it would not go down well with parliament or the MoD
@@Nexusgamer8472 Moving those ships to the west coast before finalising the dam isn't an option?
Prohibited Area it‘s better if London is flooded.
This project might solve their problem but if they block the natural flow of excess sea water to North Sea then water levels of coastal areas in other parts of the world might increase much higher than usualand cause a huge damage to them..... It's like protecting their countries at the cost of others....
Other parts will also have sea level increase in their part due to global warming normal but this project will increase it much higher and also if many other countries tries to do something similar in their part then it will have unmanageable Ripple Effects.
Countries of the world: "Climate change is killing us!"
Netherlands: "Ahem! Allow me to introduce myself"
Well. If richer countries abandoned morality their response could simply be: " Its not really gonna be our problem, we're just gonna deal with the consequences whilst poor countries can go fuck themselves."
@J Dude. Can Bangladesh effectively terraform its coasts to prevent flooding? I doubt it.
@@MrDarudin Then Bangladesh will flooding to your country both legally and illegally causing a series of social issues, because they have no where else to go. It's not like the rich has the responsibility to help the poor, but it sometimes can protect yourself by helping others.
U have to consider that the yearly USA military Budget is more expensive than this dam
@Sjoerd Hartman The Debt has literally nothing to with my statement, All im saying is that the money the USA is using for military could be used in potentially meaningful other places, maybe even reducing the debt. Interesting how a random person on the internet can offend a presumably non american by talking vaguely about american finances he knows nothing more but a google search about.
@@dufitt8120 the budget protects the seas among other things, it cant just be spent elsewhere with no repercussions
@Sjoerd Hartman
Nah, that was all on you. It wasn't miscommunication, it was misinterpreting. (And a quite passive-aggressive response)
Damn
@@dufitt8120 Think of this, defence spending accounts for 10% of US spending.
Meanwhile, SS, medicare, Medicaid account for over 60%
Nobody:
Dutch: I got a plan... I just need some money
spot on!
Arthur ma boi think of the mangos😂
And have some damn faith.
They're not asking for money.
The Dutch can finance it by themselves if they really have to. 40 billion Euros per year for 20 years is 4.4% of their current annual GDP (913 billion Euros)
Even the title to this vid made me piss myself laughing. . . "A large body of water? *Sexual Dutch noises*. . . Can we. . . Can we dam it? You MUST let us dam it. . . Oh god we must dam it!"
The environment activist is gona have a real field day with this one.
Absolutely, it will be a disaster for marine ecosystems
+1
@@farhanhyder7304 I don't get this point. Ecosystems are not sacred. What we should do is make sure changes to marine ecosystems will no translate into less economic prosperity and poverty.
@@Gonza-lh2vo Yes. But we've to see how much it effects us. Everything is connected.
Don't forget the large business owners will not suport this becouse they will lose money becouse of the larger DGP drop in all the countries
BRO This is gonna be the 21st Century’s Atlantis. The Netherlands in a few thousand years is gonna be a myth
Or we dam
Hmmm, sounds like extra tourism.
Dozen years
It won't be a myth cause we have vids.
Videos are only usable so long as we don’t fall into another dark age. Human civilisation has never been so fragile, we’re in deep without backups, and electricity would be the first thing to go in a sustained crisis, because the modern electrical grid is pretty complicated and requires specialised knowledge at different stages and levels of the system.
Seems too large scale, they should build a canal into the Dead Sea or the qattara depression, flood them and your good to go
Indeed
Probably not the Dead Sea, but that it is a really good idea about the Qattara Depression, even if you don't believe the bs about climate change.
the middle east could use some of that water, i think it's doable to build a huge pipe towards north Africa into the Sahara, a similar proposal was presented by the UAE and Pakistan.
Fawaz Aljohani I hope you are joking
@@aslanbayramuqlany6189 building pipes is easy, there are many oil and gas pipes that stretch thousand of kilometers, deep sea internet cables are also a thing.
If there was a long undefended concrete wall holding back an additional 2m of sea level from flooding Western European coastlines, cue a single Russian submarine and a volley of torpedoes.
100%
This dam would also be protecting St Petersburg... Russias only western port.
@@joestevenson5568 true. Though for significantly less money, and much faster, Russia could build it's own wall only protecting St. Petersburg.
Not seriously saying any of this would happen, just pointing out how a wall would become another vulnerable piece of infrastructure that might be used in the international chess-game.
Less sea level rise in the north sea means more sea level rise everywhere else. The more such projects are undertaken, the more of such projects will have to be considered.
*northern europe builds dam*
*South Europe build smaller larger dam*
*North Europe sees southern european dam and proceeds to build larger dam*
*Southern Europe see's Northerners building their dam larger and proceeds to make theirs taller*
*end result*:newfastuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/0c67e5L.png
Next project: Encapsulate the oceans.
Nah just send the oceans to the moon
@@pimp963 Africa: Digs trenches through into the middle of the Sahara
Build a dam around Antarctica and Greenland. Inflow of water issue mostly solved.
And they say marijuana use doesn’t increase creativity.
That’s some far out shit right there!!
Hup Holland 🇳🇱
Hahahaha
It would also just mean that the UK, Portugal & Norway would take more of the water lol. Could be a good idea for hydra power though
Majority dutch citizen are university educated. And dont make smocking their lifestyle/cause of existance like young amerikans 😆
Make university free. And stop giving that weed overimportance. Its like someone centering his life/purpose of life on drinking alcohol 😆
Rise of the Doggerland!
I like to call it Doggoland!
That would probably be better idea, because otherwise all of this would become a rotting festering pool of slowly evaporating brine.
@@mohameda.4851 dogging means something else tho
@ you can't say doggers
@@DaDunge because youtube can't handle that kinda language this is really stupid youtube
At some time that wall would fail and a catastrophic tsunami would destroy half of northern Europe costing far more money and lives than migrating people to higher ground. A "simple" law forbidding any construction or rebuilding below +3 meter over the sea would cause that land to be depopulated over time and it´s use can be recreational park land and floating vacation homes as the sea rises. That would cost far less. It may not be practical to save Holland in the long run if sea rise can not be prevented(sorry Holland).
Just like the Mediterranean sea draining idea, this one will stay on paper.
Sea levels will rise and some answer to that will need to be provided. This might be the least costly and invasive.
@Aaron Giles I have no idea, but large scale reverse osmosis plants for drinking water from seawater already exist
@Aaron Giles there will be no shortage at this part of the world.
This one is more foolish.
DestinationVoid How so?
Dutch engineers: I have a plan. But, I need money and time.
@kev warriner if they build it at the narrow point at Dover, lots of communities in the English Channel wouldn’t be protected. The ports will all be maintained because you can just put sluices/locks in the dams. And you can pump the water out of the artificial sea. Believe me, the technology is already there and there are a lot of practical examples of it being used in the world already.
@Kev Warriner we have done the exact same with the Ijselmeer. It used to be the Zuiderzee (a salty sea) but now it's a freshwater lake.
It's the largest levee in the world and it has a one-way flow, meaning that the river water that empties into the Ijselmeer can continue into the North Sea but the seawater cannot enter the Ijselmeer.
We did this in the 1930s and it was never done before.
We wanted to do it in the 1600s already but technology wasn't deemed advanced enough.
We also have extensive experience with sleucegates and am sure that in whatever scenario would actually convince enough people to do this we will manage to scale-up sleucegates to oceanic cargoships sizes.
I'm the only one who gets your reference haha
"We need another Dam Arthur"
The Dutch can only grow mangos with this new Dam👌
And a whole lot of CO2 to construct it lol. And also. I live in the netherlands and I have never heard of this plan. It's definitely fake or a big joke
@Kev Warriner I built from Land's End. The Bay of Biscay ports, Ireland and Britain's Atlantic coast would benefit.
The UK "We want Brexit. We want to preserve our Island and its heritage.
The EU "What Island?"
The English Channel can't stop the Blitzkrieg if there is no Channel.
@@halorecon95 With proposed dam from Brittany to Cornwall the English Channel will still be intact.
@@hendrikdependrik1891 *Joke*
You
Ironically, of the UK countries, England will be the most afected by far, London will turn into Venice... at least.
@@Ukitsu2 ah, but we have our own barrier between the Thames and the sea
First step, dam the North sea. Second step, drain it and turn it into a parking lot.
Imagine leaving Europe and then being literally hooked up to Europe by a dam closing down your most important sea ports and being more dependent on European trade.
Ain't gunna happen though is it? Just some Dutch mans wet dream
They will build locks you absolute daft moron.
We'll have to move every port to the west country and finally be forced to (god forbid) actually spend money on our rail infrastructure for once
Actually maybe higher volume of trade will pass through Britain since the old European ports will be gone
Zodiac Thirteen if let’s say there is a large channel that cut through the U.K. it would become the most important crossing in the world that means Britain could choose who can come across or not and the eu would be at the mercy of the U.K. as if it wanted to it could cut trade off which could mean nearly all ships coming to the west of Europe stopping
Sea level: Rises
Dutch: “I HAVE A PLAN!”
The UK and Ireland: Wait what?!?
UK: Dutch I think this plan will be too expensiv-
Dutch: STICK TO THE GODDAMN PLAN
te1 HAVE SOME GOD DAMN FAITH!
deserves more likes
A cunning plan?
When we live in 2020, the Netherlands lives in 2220 and plans to build hundreds kilometres long dam.
Well, they did get the Deltaworks done. And this would probably be financed by more than just the Dutch.
Imagine lowering the sea level of the north sea by 1 meter and then one dam breaks and the resulting tsunami destoys not only the costalregion but probably will penetrate deep in the land aswell lol. Btw 1 meter lowering would be equal to 570.000.000.000.000 Liter of Water. Imagine that much water returning in the northsea all at once lol
Yep, this idea is fucking dumb.
That wouldn’t be a tsunami. It’s 1m high, and comparable to tidal ranges seen across the North Sea. I’m not saying it isn’t a dumb idea, but a hole in the dam where one side is 1m higher than the other will not be as immediately devastating as you imagine. It will take a long time for enough water to flow through to increase the height. Certainly no massive waves.
You know when you go get a glass of water does your house instantly flood becuase that water is connected to a huge basin of water which is trying to escape ?
@@oliverbutterfield9844 Even if the dam doesn't break the ecological and climate consequences should not to be underestimate lol.
cutting of such a hughe water mass from the global see will probably harm migrating sea creatures.
Also what would happen with the warming effect the flowing water has?
As I understand it the gulfstream is warming up europe in the winter so we don't have -40°C in the winter. What would happen to that?
What about ships? Who has the legal force to collect taxes from ships passing over the dams, how would they do that?
This was my first thought as well. If it works (excluding all of the environmental and economical problems) the damage caused by that much water would be staggering. I am not sure how much I would trust that dam.
When I first read the title I thought "What kind of Madman would even conceive such a thing.?" Then I saw Dutch and realized this is normal
This
“We need to build walls and make the Netherlands great again!”
😂😂😂
Maybe we can use Trumps wall to build this damm dam!
Make Dietsland great again!
@Arska The Netherlands was more than Dietsland alone, invented the Marines, conquered the world from Spitsbergen to Zuid-Kaap and New-Amsterdam to New-Zealand.
Tbh The Netherlands is still great
I read the title thinking all the Dutch people gathered around and looked at the North Sea and said "DAAAAAMN YOU NORTH SEEEAAA!!!"
What? Oh, we do that, daily tradition.
We've been doing that every time the country floods.
I recon the Dutch probably inhabited most of 'Doggerland' but had to retreat as the waters came in from the Nth. So we've probably been saying that for centuries! WE COULD'VE BEEN A GREAT POWER! . . . But ALL washed up!
Once a year, thousands of dutch people run into the north sea and then run back in the land. This is a tradition to warn the north sea that of you try to flood us, the north sea will be annexed and colonized and will become one with us
Commenting on this video feels like more than two months lol
Britain: leaves EU to keep its fishing deposits to itself
EU: Builds a megaproject which ultimately kills all the fish
Britain: Visible Fustration
"Damn" said Amsterdam. "We're gonna built a dam"
North Sea Dam: *exists*
Any future war involving Europe: *I'm gonna wreck this man's whole career*
EUROPE: Are you sure you want to do that?
*Finger at the Nuke button at the possibility of many Europeans dying*
@@darkend1998 any other nuclear power: sure, what can you do about it? Kill everyone else in a nuclear armageddon?
@@darkend1998 *russians with 7000+ nuclear warhead* : is that a challenge?
People do realise France also has nukes. also I think the dam would be more like a lot of islands put one next to the other rather than an actual dam(by current standards), meaning that it would be more of a geographic land mark rather than an actual dam.
@@nuclearwarhead9338 Well with the possibility of milions dying by a tsunami if the dams are very successful destroyed, yea I don't think a Europe would be happy.
See the effect 9/11 add on America, now think the effect of London being destroyed and all the Northern citys would add at the surviving Europeans.
It wouldn't passify them for the contrary , it would radicalize them to the extreme.
Italy : Dolphin are back!
Netherlands : Let's bring back the Atlantikwall