The Most Absurdly Overcrowded Island on Earth
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Date: 2025-05-31
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JayceeR
here's an idea to the maldivian government, try matching the first number (0-9) on the license plate to a specific day of the week (mon-sun, example if the numbers 1 & 2 every mon & wed, other cars that doesn't have 1 & 2 as the first number are not allowed to drive around.
OR just simply learn from singapore on how they manage car ownership.
motorbikes i understand, you can still carry a lot of goods with a sidecar, i've seen a lot of those here in the philippines, cars are so unnecessary for a very crowded island when you can carry the same amount of goods in a motorcycle with sidecar.
i don't need dumb excuses to defend your unnecessary use of cars. our people here can do it, some places here will even have people using pushcarts running around delivering goods, and we're not cramped in a crowded island, but why can't you
maybe you're doing what i'm saying, it just wasn't seen clearly in this video. or maybe not, and you just rely tooooo much on your cars.
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here's an idea to the maldivian government, try matching the first number (0-9) on the license plate to a specific day of the week (mon-sun, example if the numbers 1 & 2 every mon & wed, other cars that doesn't have 1 & 2 as the first number are not allowed to drive around.
OR just simply learn from singapore on how they manage car ownership.
motorbikes i understand, you can still carry a lot of goods with a sidecar, i've seen a lot of those here in the philippines, cars are so unnecessary for a very crowded island when you can carry the same amount of goods in a motorcycle with sidecar.
i don't need dumb excuses to defend your unnecessary use of cars. our people here can do it, some places here will even have people using pushcarts running around delivering goods, and we're not cramped in a crowded island, but why can't you
maybe you're doing what i'm saying, it just wasn't seen clearly in this video. or maybe not, and you just rely tooooo much on your cars.
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waffle2434
I lived in Male for one year as a teacher, and I can confirm that buildings wise it is very dense, but honestly people wise, it didn't feel as dense compared to other places I've lived like Hong Kong or Tokyo. There are still a lot of nice parks in Male to visit, and the fact you are so close to the ocean makes it not feel so cramped, yes it feels like any other city when you are in the middle of it, but anywhere on the island you are MAX a 20 minute walk from the ocean and open views, which help a lot to make it feel not that packed. That was honestly the best part about living there.
P. s. just as a small correction, to walk across the whole island (end to end, it doesn't only take 20 minutes, more like 30 - 40, but that's because of how crowded it is, you can't really walk that fast.
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I lived in Male for one year as a teacher, and I can confirm that buildings wise it is very dense, but honestly people wise, it didn't feel as dense compared to other places I've lived like Hong Kong or Tokyo. There are still a lot of nice parks in Male to visit, and the fact you are so close to the ocean makes it not feel so cramped, yes it feels like any other city when you are in the middle of it, but anywhere on the island you are MAX a 20 minute walk from the ocean and open views, which help a lot to make it feel not that packed. That was honestly the best part about living there.
P. s. just as a small correction, to walk across the whole island (end to end, it doesn't only take 20 minutes, more like 30 - 40, but that's because of how crowded it is, you can't really walk that fast.
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markwiedmer1555
theyre just going to dredge and raise and restore all the resort islands. Same as they do with miami beaches The rest of the maldives will flounder underwater but most of the the resorts will be fine, or at least the ones good enough to double or triple their costs for the elites. Im sure there will still be hell to pay at some point for this kind of hubris (like most of our society tbh) but I hate the fatalism of this video. Theyre going to have decades to adjust and manage this crisis, a nice long drawn out wave of [deserved] human suffering.
Also, they all have scooters for a 15 minute walk because that's what people do everywhere. What do you guys think uber and lyft are used for People suck and refuse to walk. It's wasteful, but it's faster.
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theyre just going to dredge and raise and restore all the resort islands. Same as they do with miami beaches The rest of the maldives will flounder underwater but most of the the resorts will be fine, or at least the ones good enough to double or triple their costs for the elites. Im sure there will still be hell to pay at some point for this kind of hubris (like most of our society tbh) but I hate the fatalism of this video. Theyre going to have decades to adjust and manage this crisis, a nice long drawn out wave of [deserved] human suffering.
Also, they all have scooters for a 15 minute walk because that's what people do everywhere. What do you guys think uber and lyft are used for People suck and refuse to walk. It's wasteful, but it's faster.
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ambika69
If I could get the sultan to listen to me, I'd suggest opening up the Sea-steading research tree. If you could make floating islands capable of floating small villages of a few thousand people and their infra-structure, you wouldn't need to worry about the sea rising, the boat floats. And as an entire village floating as one unit, you don't need to worry about waves. Once you've got the design right, you can build a factory on one of the islands to machine the parts, and churn them out, and chain them together as a gigantic flotilla archipelago. I bet it'd probably cost the same as geoengineering the islands, and would be a good excuse to go out and harvest all of that sea-plastic.
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If I could get the sultan to listen to me, I'd suggest opening up the Sea-steading research tree. If you could make floating islands capable of floating small villages of a few thousand people and their infra-structure, you wouldn't need to worry about the sea rising, the boat floats. And as an entire village floating as one unit, you don't need to worry about waves. Once you've got the design right, you can build a factory on one of the islands to machine the parts, and churn them out, and chain them together as a gigantic flotilla archipelago. I bet it'd probably cost the same as geoengineering the islands, and would be a good excuse to go out and harvest all of that sea-plastic.
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techguypaul
It's also conceivable that this could be the worst refugee crisis unrelated to war. If the climate gets even worse, all those 500k-1M people might have to be completely evacuated if the country is just completely swallowed up by the ocean. Is there even a plan remotely in place if a whole country is just gone I know this isn't something that happens overnight, but still how do we as a society deal with the fact that millions of people around the world will eventually no longer have a country that exists
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It's also conceivable that this could be the worst refugee crisis unrelated to war. If the climate gets even worse, all those 500k-1M people might have to be completely evacuated if the country is just completely swallowed up by the ocean. Is there even a plan remotely in place if a whole country is just gone I know this isn't something that happens overnight, but still how do we as a society deal with the fact that millions of people around the world will eventually no longer have a country that exists
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YTPrenewed
16: 44
Meanwhile, I as a SimCity fan since childhood and someone with a more general fascination with urban planning ever since, would have preferred to have seen that kind of heavy urbanization with my own eyes if not for the fact that in so doing I'd be enabling the Maldives' hypocrisy in enforcing more rules on its own citizens than it does on its guests.
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Okay, there's a side of me that's contemplating doing so anyway. >_>
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16: 44
Meanwhile, I as a SimCity fan since childhood and someone with a more general fascination with urban planning ever since, would have preferred to have seen that kind of heavy urbanization with my own eyes if not for the fact that in so doing I'd be enabling the Maldives' hypocrisy in enforcing more rules on its own citizens than it does on its guests.
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Okay, there's a side of me that's contemplating doing so anyway. >_>
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james2042
Their tourism industury will be fine, the ocean levels aren't going anywhere and the energy can be solved with solar on less populated islands and offshore wind. Energy genrated in excess of demand can be used for desalination in large quantities, allowing for large scale production, and then large piping systems can be used to bring it to the main island. As for waste. well just make sure to pump it where it wont show up on resorts
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Their tourism industury will be fine, the ocean levels aren't going anywhere and the energy can be solved with solar on less populated islands and offshore wind. Energy genrated in excess of demand can be used for desalination in large quantities, allowing for large scale production, and then large piping systems can be used to bring it to the main island. As for waste. well just make sure to pump it where it wont show up on resorts
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qaisjilan5085
As a Maldivian who’s living in male this feels little exaggerated, but every piece of information is correct I guess I just don’t feel this way cuz I lived my whole life here. So many words were horribly mispronounced and some pictures are showing the foreign labour workers more than locals, u weren’t really see Maldivians hanging out in parks it’s usually foreigners
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As a Maldivian who’s living in male this feels little exaggerated, but every piece of information is correct I guess I just don’t feel this way cuz I lived my whole life here. So many words were horribly mispronounced and some pictures are showing the foreign labour workers more than locals, u weren’t really see Maldivians hanging out in parks it’s usually foreigners
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kjack111683
I can get why the Hawaii big island population is nowhere near as dense PROPERTY VALUE places that are poor have no property value and so can be super densely populated because the cost of living is low and if its not poor and the cost of living is high then locals dont have as many kids and over time get forced out because of the cost of living as Hawaii has experienced
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I can get why the Hawaii big island population is nowhere near as dense PROPERTY VALUE places that are poor have no property value and so can be super densely populated because the cost of living is low and if its not poor and the cost of living is high then locals dont have as many kids and over time get forced out because of the cost of living as Hawaii has experienced
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reallifelore
let’s applaud this urban miracle’ where people are packed like sardines, paying $3, 000 for a shoebox apartment, and breathing air thicker than soupall so corporations can maximize profits while calling it innovation. ’ But sure, keep romanticizing human overcrowding as vibrant city life’ while mental health crumbles and basic dignity becomes a luxury.
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let’s applaud this urban miracle’ where people are packed like sardines, paying $3, 000 for a shoebox apartment, and breathing air thicker than soupall so corporations can maximize profits while calling it innovation. ’ But sure, keep romanticizing human overcrowding as vibrant city life’ while mental health crumbles and basic dignity becomes a luxury.
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ShufflerBluey
The main issue isn't global warming, it's the next earthquake tsunami or other type of natural disaster that's going to wipe them out. Especially all the resorts that aren't protected.
Sharia law probably isn't doing them. Any favours either. I have no idea why they have so many vehicles, look at Singapore in contrast.
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The main issue isn't global warming, it's the next earthquake tsunami or other type of natural disaster that's going to wipe them out. Especially all the resorts that aren't protected.
Sharia law probably isn't doing them. Any favours either. I have no idea why they have so many vehicles, look at Singapore in contrast.
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CatzHoek
I can't stand this voice anymore. At least try to stop sounding like the most stereotypical AI on the globe. I have been watching for years and the content is always top notch but with the raise of actual really bad AI voice in the maainstream i cannot listen to this anymore without feeling extremely patronized.
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I can't stand this voice anymore. At least try to stop sounding like the most stereotypical AI on the globe. I have been watching for years and the content is always top notch but with the raise of actual really bad AI voice in the maainstream i cannot listen to this anymore without feeling extremely patronized.
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kuamir573
maldives government should invest their money into fishing fleets, open sea fish farms and vertical farming in building built on solid ground with stilt underneath it, assuming one day those building will be submerged at ground level, if they do this, their future would be secured, at least food wise.
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maldives government should invest their money into fishing fleets, open sea fish farms and vertical farming in building built on solid ground with stilt underneath it, assuming one day those building will be submerged at ground level, if they do this, their future would be secured, at least food wise.
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guy7008
It's not ao certain that the unprotected islands will all disappear under sea level. Due to erosion and deposition of sand, some of them might actually rise in height along with the rising sea levels. The palm trees and small dunes om some of the islands might help with that aswell.
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It's not ao certain that the unprotected islands will all disappear under sea level. Due to erosion and deposition of sand, some of them might actually rise in height along with the rising sea levels. The palm trees and small dunes om some of the islands might help with that aswell.
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dezozlesa
Do they grow any food there Or how does that work Feeding that many people must take a lot of fish. Also, I can't understand why they didn't add a tram track to those bridges they are building. While it already is very unsustainable they are making it more unsustainable.
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Do they grow any food there Or how does that work Feeding that many people must take a lot of fish. Also, I can't understand why they didn't add a tram track to those bridges they are building. While it already is very unsustainable they are making it more unsustainable.
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scottwebb4722
why they getting the Netherlands to do the dredging they should be getting China, they managed to create islands in the South China Sea that are big enough for military bases. with the Maldives they could probably create one big island out of the entire chain.
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why they getting the Netherlands to do the dredging they should be getting China, they managed to create islands in the South China Sea that are big enough for military bases. with the Maldives they could probably create one big island out of the entire chain.
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reallifelore
What would be the source of income for Maldives after the sinking of the tourist islands I think the best way to go forward is to start investing in cruise ships and becoming a hub for them! Also it wouldn't hurt to get rid of their strict sharia laws!
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What would be the source of income for Maldives after the sinking of the tourist islands I think the best way to go forward is to start investing in cruise ships and becoming a hub for them! Also it wouldn't hurt to get rid of their strict sharia laws!
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ADJYT598
As the country most susceptible to rising sea levels, and if you believe carbon taxation is an actual solution, I sure hope that they're paying the absolute highest proportion of this. Probably shouldn't have all those vehicles either.
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As the country most susceptible to rising sea levels, and if you believe carbon taxation is an actual solution, I sure hope that they're paying the absolute highest proportion of this. Probably shouldn't have all those vehicles either.
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namelessghoul615
Visited last year, and it definitely came as a shock how dense it was. Had to lean against walls while walking and hold your arms against your body to not hit a person on a scooter. It was definitely an experience!
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Visited last year, and it definitely came as a shock how dense it was. Had to lean against walls while walking and hold your arms against your body to not hit a person on a scooter. It was definitely an experience!
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nowistime8070
I noticed you repeat the same info over but vary slightly each time you repeat it. At first I thought it was me then I realized the way you talk makes it sound like you are saying something BRAND NEW with each word.
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I noticed you repeat the same info over but vary slightly each time you repeat it. At first I thought it was me then I realized the way you talk makes it sound like you are saying something BRAND NEW with each word.
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