Let’s face it. There are A LOT of us, and it’s getting more than a little crowded. Right now, there are over 7.7 billion people on Earth, and the United Nations predicts we’ll have 8.6 billion people sometime in 2030. And that’s a problem. Many scientists think Earth can only support 9 to 10 billion people. We’re running out of room. But, could there be a way to get more land to accommodate our ever-increasing population? Enter the atoll, made of doughnut-shaped underwater mountains, and islands, formed by underwater volcanoes. Could these submerged rings of land be just the thing we need to create more living space? What if we could drain the world’s largest atoll? Would we benefit from this? Or would it make things way worse?
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When the video said 7.7 billion i just knew i needed to see that woah this was 4 years ago, and woahJ four years ago was only 2020
sunken territories of atolls rich of azote wich means its accutally arablle fertile land but we need them more under the ocean instead above
This is plain bollocks. The developers don't even seem to have passed Economics 101.
more or less what chinese are doing , making land out of atoll. US do that too during the cold war- the johnston atoll … regardless best to keep them for what they are
This is a bad reason. There’s enough land for a lot of people, and adding atoll land would add such a trivial amount of land
Thanks wordle 30.05.2022, now I know what an Atoll is
I like this video so much! Thank you!There are so many fringing reefs which may be influenced by human activities in my country. If you don't mind, I would like to ask your permissionto share this video to the other wedsite in China for the embarrassing reason that YouTube is blocked from accessing in China. Of course, i will give sources of the original wedsite.Thank you very much!
Here you come ro water
There's enough land for all the people in the world
Running out of room? Everyone can fit in Texas. There's plenty of room.
I don't believe someone really thought about doing this, also because all the Atolls are in the tropical area and in a hypothetical future is going to be very hot out there and sea level is supposed to going up in the future. Sound very stupid to me anyway
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Excuse me, but the largest atoll in the world is actually Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
War is a great population controller…. Just saying…..
We are better saving our coral reefs, and if the worlds population is that much of a problem, Governments need to stop the welfare payments that encourages women to keep having kids.
Living space isn't problem at all, resoruces are. This is stupid.
If we’re going to have a global population problem do I have to make some sort of thing where we’re going to have to execute 2 billion people but they will have to volunteer it’s their choice
Or… we could… just try to have fewer babies… maybe?
Chinas already drainning out money from our Pacific Islands 🤦♂️🇼🇸
We just need to stop converting nature to useless paper which soon become really useless and start thinking the meaning why we are given this short life for. Otherwise we will be killed by nature much sooner.
What a stupid subject for a video!
What if Australia existed
Its scratching my head too much ..how can these coral rims (atolls) float when the islands sinks to the bottom?
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Um… I learned in geology class that the islands didn't just sink. Erosion plays the biggest role in wearing down Islands to the Atoll stage…
Actually 7 billion people could all fit in the Midwest.
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This sort of video is specially made for retards
7.7 billon people
And right now there less than 4’k tiggers
his videos are good but step it up plz
This is disgusting, almost every seconds creeps me out. They should put a trypophobia alert.
The sound of the corals growing is super satisfying
How about vertical cities
destroying coral reef for bunch of ungrateful humans?
i'm gonna stop you right there.
How to make extra land?🙄
No 1 Corona Virus
No 2 World War III😳
Earth isn’t crowded. Its population is simply densely packed into various areas.