Giant ravines: The global phenomenon swallowing whole neighbourhoods – BBC World Service
Giant ravines: The global phenomenon swallowing whole neighbourhoods – BBC World Service
Entire communities across Africa and Latin America are disappearing because of an extreme form of soil erosion.
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Experts have told the BBC that gully erosion is advancing at a worrying speed thanks to deforestation and the extreme weather caused by climate change and a lack…
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The things we do to this planet are unconscionable. We are a terrible, terrible species.
standard loose sandy soil known for its severe instability so building on it is ridiculous
Population change and mysterious maintainance-money evaporation that condenses in widespread corruption. Don't chew our ears with that climate bully.
Its called a drainage system.
Climate is not changing and becomming more severe… If anything, human deforestation has just accelerated natural erosion that has been happening all over the planet from the beginning of time…
Improper soil studies and lack of infrastructure investment. Climate change preys on poor city planning
And it's all because of oil drilling and fracking.
Mining
I llive in a place with this type of soil and these landslides are ALWAYS linked to deforestation. Whenever a patch of land collapses, the edge of the cliff will have native trees holding it back while the rest is washed away. If we really wanna ditch the nomadic way of life we have to learn to live among trees and native vegetation, otherwise the land cannot stand the stress of human activities.
That’s what you get
This reminds me of the Grand Canyon . The sand looks like it has no rocks in it—like a desert that stuff just happened to grow in and stabilize it, but humans come in and destroy the delicate balance
Perhaps if their previous president hadn’t cut so many trees down this might not have happened ?
Clearly a man made disaster because they think mankind runs the world. Actually, the world runs our lives, the Earth is not dead, constantly changing.
It's far more likely that over-population and poor land practices are causing these erosion problems, rather than rainfall.
It's de-forestation that is causing extreme weather events. And everything else
If land is all u have than you had no life anyway. CLOWN SHOW
Climate change is not to blame. The idiots that plan, design and construct projects without taking nature in to account, they are the ones to blame.
Has nothing to do with climate change.
Man created these problems and why is there so much garbage everywhere? If you don't take care of Mother Earth, you can't expect prizes.
Living on the edge 😮
I was on a bus in western China a while ago. I remarked to a man sitting next to me that the desert of rocks that we were riding through wasn't on the map. He said that when they printed the map it was a forest, but they cut it down and didn't replant it.
Of course it's deforestation just like plastics in the ocean. And the humans in charge won't do anything because economics. The old Keynesian maxim: who care about anything after I die?
So its climate change, oh wait a minute its actually stupid building practices
This is what happens when you cut down the forest and start building human dwellings. It is too late to do anything, but not to repeat the same mistake in the Amazons. Although it is also too late in Brazil. When I visited your Amazon half a century ago, they were blowing up the forest with dynamites and bulldozing the forest. They completely destroyed the forest in the south to grow potatoes. Before the end of the 21st-century the Amazon Will disappear! Before the climate activists attack the CO2 emissions, why don't they attack the people who are cutting down the forests all over the world? The biggest destroyers of forests I Brazil, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India. They leave nothing behind!
The earth is constantly forming. That's a fact we must always accept and consider.
The Bayfield Wisconsin floods of 1942, 1946, 1951 & 1953 led to them building a concrete sluiceway to capture and divert the storm runoff and halt erosion. This is not a new phenomenon. Hills erode by natural processes. Living there speeds up the processes and you have to take measures to slow it down.
Lots of sand makes these hills unstable .
I was looking at residential plots in some new developments in my country. All of them had retention ponds located in the development. I asked a guy in charge of a very small place and asked him if this was standard now – and he said yes. They are now required to have them in order to control the flow of runoff downstream. This wasn't a thing in past developments, it is now. You need to build for climate resilience.
They wantonly abused their environment. Sorry that happened.
This is what democracy gets you!
Climate change has nothing to do with it. Sheesh. This is basic construction planning. You dont take the trees out. Trying to spin it as a climate change grift is capitalizing on the crimes of poor planning and these people's suffering.
Blaming climate change again! 😂 just stop lying.
"Climate change" propaganda.
Irresponsible building is always the reason for this sort of erosion.
Ravines have been around since time began. The sudden difference is deforestation. Long term, who knows.
It's called bírth pangs… God is coming to judge ALL people.. only the blood of Messiah Yeshua can save!
The theory of relativity…
It depends on people's choices of their own.
They want you all out ,so they create disasters that look like natural disasters. Once everyone leaves theyll show there hand . Its Chess not checkers
Just replant Trees. It doesnt take a brain scientist. Leave Gods glory alone. This is a man made disaster.😮
overpopulation
Climate change is causing less rainfall in the Amazon. Climate change is causing more rainfall in the Amazon. Climate change is causing hypocrisy all over the world.
Might I suggest mass seeding the gullies themselves.
This is a huge problem in Turkey for decades as well 😮
The problem could be solved by building proper drainage but of course who is going to pay for it.
So sad
Its mother nature's Way of population control all hail mother nature
It's always fascinated me how humans move into locations that are clearly compromised and yet don't understand when things go wrong. Move into a valley, expect focused water flow, move into flatlands, expect flooding, move into sandy unstable land, expect erosion. Humans.
we used to show empathy and feel sad with these kind of news but after the reality show in Palestine we are taugh that after 2024 its every man for him self. The best we could do is press like on this video