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global climate is changing faster than expected and the effects already plain to see too much water from storms and flooding is driving people from their homes. elsewhere too little water is robbing people of their livelihoods over this could produce the largest wave of migration in human history up to a 1000000000 people may be displaced by climate change in this century initially most will be poor people in the global south even as the wealthy north seal's its borders.

it's true that we humans are causing climate change. it's real and it exists to night and lying to themselves that. it was a study that. they can see and feel the effects of it in their surroundings they can feel the effects of climate change. in the philippines the future has already arrived tropical storms flooding and heavy rains are striking at ever shorter intervals and growing in intensity. change is the worst creation to be species. in humans have created some climate change. and more and more people are on the run from it if sea levels rise to the extent

that scientists have predicted then by 2030 millions of people on the coasts worldwide will be in acute danger. the densely populated coastal regions of asia will be most affected. been wrong on is an island district on the bay of manila. here water is already eating away at the land . every year this community has been sinking 4 to 6 centimeters deep into the sea. residents have to rebuild their houses on the rooftops of their old sunken homes. so. one scares me most about this steady seem to rise is that someday

even see the roofs anymore alice that is not an. entire houses will vanish. under the same time will keep trying to build up the ground through land reclamation. the moon. george the manja who goes by joe joe he's captain of the communities rescue vessel he's been homeless for years now since the rising water made his house unlivable he's been sleeping at his workplace. jo-jo doesn't come here much anymore after the water began to destroy the home his

wife took their son and left that high tide everything here is submerged. until the water was knee deep here. we had to stow things in higher places to keep them safe and i suppose that some of us if they want to reach the band. then we had to wait for it to subside before we could sleep. now passe on by this was a happy home. we usually had visitors friends relatives. would all be together inside this house chatting and sharing meals and sometimes drinking . he said. my only son. now it makes me sad to think about this house abandoned.

jo-jo dreams of restoring his house but at the moment he doesn't have enough money . many families have been torn apart the young people move away to seek work in 2811 and estimated 3800000 people in the philippines fled from storms are natural disasters. worldwide most refugees are internally displaced in their own countries. in the end everyone in been long gone will be driven out by climate change. the dead can no longer. buried here. they have to be taken to the mainland. couple of man.

there are still 6000 people living here in cramped quarters. in one gun is sinking due to roshan and rising sea levels. now i can tell you i can see the extent of environmental destruction the life of people in been a 100 is bound up with the water around us. sea levels are rising worldwide as the temperature of the atmosphere increases causing ice at the poles to melt. and. that increases due to the rise in greenhouse gas emissions especially

carbon dioxide c o 2 it's released when we burn coal oil and gas industry heating and costs. the biggest c o 2 emitted at the big industrial nations above all china and the united states.

when you have a child let's go i've seen big changes here. back when i was 15 or 20 years old by the rainy season was normal in may june july and you know what that with stretched but now we get frostbite response. in the past we didn't have those problems mine. i can find the changes i was the rainy season is coming later and at the same time we keep having cold snaps. the know we have long periods yeah with rain all month or something from the last let's say yeah and then sunday we have too much rain share. grew up here in the highlands of guatemala she's grown potatoes all her life start in recent years things have changed. this little plant

as you can see got them chosen with strong enough to survive if we can't use it for seeds or potato production it's a loss of sydney. every year drought and frost destroy many potato plants which is all family grow on their fields. in guatemala as western highlands most people are small scale farmers and 3 quarters of them live in poverty during the rainy season from may to october the countryside changes from dusty and dry to lush and green for people are this would be the most trouble free part of the year if only rainfall patterns were like they used to be thanks. thank. you actually what is so important for us as

a community because we have no natural beauty so says. we depend on the rain for who was here last and just that's why by taking his own canisters to catch them i would. say. yes when the summer cannons that's the only way to store a bit of water and that it's very important for our communities and our plantations that struck us a year. without water we can do nothing. around half the residents of told our sun times have gone to the united states after every drought more and more leave most of the men are now working in the u.s. . every month they send a few $100.00. pillows house was built with u.s. dollars. the family also uses the money to pay the installments on a loan they took out to finance the trip and the people smugglers.

like most here and her family are mom and indigenous mayan people people our lives together with her children and grandchildren. if. you think. you're. going to change our. doubts about the last husband emigrated 3 years ago they now make their decisions together over the phone yeah. i hear that it's a commitment that my husband found it would be very difficult when i harvest fails we lose all our money my husband didn't send money he wouldn't get behind me and

it's not just this one piece of land we have more land where the harvests have failed without his help we lose a lot of money is that he. as an illegal immigrant husband could be deported from the us at any time so he doesn't want to be named. pianos that migrants from central america no longer welcome in the united states. we need cameras we need to make sure we're going to be quoting here and we need to bring we need the world to stop it drugs are the human trafficking we need. you

know it's really difficult though when you think of donald trump why he believes he's he's so contradictory and so many different scenarios for a and you're going to build up this wall but you're you're saying on twitter climate change is a hoax as climate change exacerbates other things that are going on. it's definitely coming either a secondary or primary reason why people are leaving and their answer of course is this very. building up a border building. what we see before us right now. they're still know to legally accepted definitions of terms such as climate refugee even though the world bank predicts that mexico and central america will have at least 1400000 internal climate migrants over the next 30 years and many more who will migrate abroad. the number of guatemalan migrants registered

at the southwest u.s. border has quintupled in the past 3 years. taught me is an author who writes about security policy on climate change he's been observing developments at the u.s. mexican border for years. if you go along the 2000 mile us mexico border there's about 650 miles of either walls or barriers of some sort there's all kinds of technologies billions and billions of dollars and technologies from high tech cameras cameras that can see something miles away radar systems drones there's a fleet of approximately 10 drones there's other things that you see in any u.s. military operations there's been a lot of this kind of transfers from conflict zones abroad to here. now the united states has a new conflict zone on its own doorstep it's a crisis that the u.s.

and other industrial nations have helped to create. there $700.00 times more carbon emissions from the united states since $900.00 than . el salvador and. combined 700 times or more yet this is like this the this is a country that's that's that's fortifying of the borders from people who are obviously impacted by those sorts of excessive amounts of emissions and and i think how could that be possible i mean we've known about the science for so many years and we had more than ever before but the same time there's more of border walls than ever before to you like it's like this emphasis like this is kind of adaptation plan right for the richer countries.

when does he the ramos arrived in arizona 80 years ago there was no reception center for migrants. but he still waiting for a permanent residence permit. to go see him the always feel like a guatemalan. i don't feel american because that's where i come from and i'll only be here for a while sponsors yeah i don't have a green card yet but what can i do no matter what i'll always be quite a moloch. c c c c c c doug has a work permit that has to be renewed every 2 years even if you were to be expelled

what he's achieved here is something that many back home can only dream of and he earns enough to help support his family in guatemala. he grew up there his parents farm as one of 9 children. discourses. i didn't enjoy my childhood all that much. but it was an ordinary childhood. we grew up working. my brothers worked with my father my sisters with my mother. then i started to look for a way to earn a living and how i could continue my studies. so i got a job in a workshop. here in the us he works as a freelance gardener. gets mother. it's very

different from guatemala is a lot of growers in the hot season it's them even though there's hardly any water in this. arizona has a desert climate and a severe lack of water life here is only possible thanks to water pipe from the far away colorado river. but the cities of phoenix and tucson still use the resource wastefully. they counted among the least sustainable cities in the wild. hundreds of thousands of liters of water go into keeping golf courses in the deserts green. it's a different life here they have more ways of treating the water and we don't have that in guatemala and i can't judge if that's fair or unfair things are more

advanced air. when you look at their houses and they're not wasting water or using it for their plants and since they have money they can pay for as much water as they want it. does lead says someday he'd like to live like his clients in his own house with a god and. to achieve that goal he works 6 days a week. just . the name that you. thank so much because. he just turned $65.00 cash for an hour of gardening. keep you.

going to eat. does he married a guatemalan woman in the u.s. she comes from the same heinen region as he does. he lives here in a trailer park with his wife and daughter. would want to own.

up on. that. on sundays david likes to drive out into the desert the hills remind him of home. he'd like to go back to guatemala someday to see his family but without a green card he wouldn't be able to reenter the u.s. . who thought that is this it makes me sad is that it's tough to be separated from your family. what out of the law for me is there over there and only i'm here. but what can you do for them oh so said it's done well we're separated out not because we want to be but because we are forced to be by necessity it over there you can't make ends meet but of the. author.

let. her live. and not the mole. at the. club 2. where. who look. down on the body of yeah as long as this will remain it's been a long gone the remaining they no longer. yet. have. conditions in the ocean are changing the fisherman a catching less and less they can hardly on a profit now adays. almost every family has at least one member who's left been long gone. and i mean my golly ving here they come to work overseas or and i doubt

that a mouse may need. it this i mean for me as far as i can tell the delta level here in benaud i'm gonna continue to rise. we'll continue to build it up to reclaim our beloved neighborhood. the people have been a long gone but this place punished beneath the whites move on and. not everyone here believes that the community can be saved.

every day just neighbor melody finds her house flooded. not in a month saying bungled i mean my dream of settling in another place not here but my husband jay is full head and he doesn't want to leave i want riches remaining that in front of all tests i get a bill but jerry comes from here and he won't leave this place in the shadows the. things that. concerns. you most that are. only bull. got to do you make somebody do. so by. you the number 1300 sites all on the ballot man and i don't know how to get.

what they. all. more. very because. i have. no proof that you believe the lie and you. know you didn't know them and. want them to reserve you. really need. if you. know what i'm going to be plenty of indications. i wouldn't for example get warnings on the radio and on the television. when a strong typhoon is approaching and we start tying down the roofs it though not that bad if you tie them down so they won't be blown away by the ground that will

hold you know i mean usually buy supplies before the storm so that we have something to eat because 6 without god well as storm sweeps through the village on the last hour you won't. bug you oh. that will allow good. from typhoons to storms extreme weather has grown more frequent in recent years scientists still don't know to what extent this rise is connected to human induced climate change. and a place you look at that supposedly a victim of climate change no there are a victim of lack of freedom they have very little capability and so yeah everything sucks including the climate sucks but is not to put more c o 2 in it is just because life sucks when you're a human being on a difficult planet with very low capability so for example if you look at the us we

have every form of climate imaginable we have a polar climate in alaska we have like swampy florida of all the way of california where i live which i think is the nicest climate but we all have life expectancy is over 75 why because when human beings are sufficiently capable they can adapt to and even master any climate versus when they have very low capability when they're in primitive and poor societies they can't deal with anything so i think one of the big things that's misplaced in the climate discussion. there's not enough focus on how do we increase human capability. i mean energy philosopher which means i try to help people think more clearly about energy and environmental issues. alex epstein is widely known as a climate change skeptic at least 13 percent of americans share his views on global warming a higher proportion than in any other western country epstein advises the oil

companies on how to sell their products better also using climate denial arguments people have a very deep seated fear of changing our environment and i think that causes that when when we change our environment through fossil fuels through say having a warming influence on climate i think people tend to exaggerate and get overly fearful versus looking at it proportion. since the 19th century the u.s. has burned more comb oil and natural gas than any other country the current administration has refused to take responsibility for that and in 2019 officially gave notice that the u.s. is withdrawing from the paris climate agreement. that's bad news for the countries in the global south that already the ones most affected by climate change and are least able to deal with the impact. i think

it's been great for us to have a lot of energy but also it's been amazingly positive for the poorer parts of the world that we've used all this energy so what's happened is we have been spending decades and decades and decades thinking about how to improve life including things like medical discoveries that have then been shared in large part with the poor parts of the world so there's a certain area of that a we've made people's lives worse but no the wealthy world has made in so far as they've created all of this innovation has made everyone's lives. better so i don't think we should feel guilty about it and i think we should be very proud i think that humanity there are a lot of problems but we life has never been better and earth has never been a better place to live and i think most people if they think about it one agree i don't think they would want to go back to 50 years ago or 100 years ago.

in the arizona desert scientists at the biosphere 2 experimental station are trying to find out how to model and perhaps aid the earth's major ecosystems. the biosphere started out as the world's largest ecological experiment ever conducted with a closed our controlled environment to try to replicate our systems and to better understand that. the earth is truly unique and we know that that uniqueness is what allows us to live and survive and if those conditions change so much so it could definitely threaten or it will threaten our survival and so i think understanding what those potential implications are before they actually play out are crucial. the research center houses 7 model ecosystems

it's a unique place well under close to real world conditions it's possible to test how natural systems will respond to extreme environmental change the researchers can control the climate and measure how the ecosystem reacts. in the model rain forest an international team of scientists studying what happens when there's less rain one. but here and i monitor is this when the unique thing is that in the biosphere we can control the entire forest and we can decide when it will rain and how much like mad and yet we're measuring how the tropical rain forest responds when it's still in its normal state as well and then we're going to initiate a long drought and see how the ecosystem behaves as if it was a steam dish for hit. so hard once it gets dry and the rate of

photosynthesis goes down we want to know at what point a system like this reaches its limits seem although. it's important to know what will happen in the world's forests in the future. the boy. trees store c o 2 the climate gas that causes this atmospheric warming which arises from the combustion of fossil substances song around us take it up during photosynthesis one must give it 5 c.m.'s that's what we see around the world is that up to 30 percent of the emissions that we put into the atmosphere can be taken up again by forests but also they act as a huge buffer that helps mitigate the climate effect without them it would be much worse in a fusion among scientists 1st warned about global warming decades ago but it took years for the message to even begin to sink in. today it's apparent that the

climate is changing faster than scientists have predicted. but at the end of the day we're all inhabitants of earth and so what happens here in the u.s. or what happens in europe or asia at some point is going to impact all of us so i think it behooves all of us. recognize that we are seeing. those changes packs. on resources and we are dependent on those systems. and so. potentially.

people seeking help to defy the extreme weather potato livelihoods now she's lost not only a large part of the harvest but has too few seeds for planting next year a seed bank helps farmers like. they are. seeing is thought that in the lead up where's. the. you know what. are you going up with you know as i say you 53 domestic potato varieties grow in the fields here the seed bank gives. this in return she'll have to give up some of her next harvest.

yeah. a farming co-operative collects and stores seeds from local crops that way local growers can obtain seeds if need be so when the next drought hits they're less likely to have to give up their farms and leave. in some villages here half the population has already come. to the us. who knew the rescue most fun cars must ghost neighbors is what the owners of these are not your pie houses are called they live in the u.s. but send money home to build their american style dream houses for when they return to. the cemetery and toss some toss could also has tales of

migration to tell. american flags decorate the graves of those who died as immigrants in the u.s. . in the old. when her husband left 3 years ago he made that decision together. they knew they wouldn't see each other again for many years. i knew that he's gone from home and we're a long distance upon it's. difficult. but i also know that we did it because things are very hard with. to let that the and i know in my heart that this is just and will not ruin our

relationship if. i know my husband will come back. but. that's not going to be. you can. scientists agree that climate change can no longer be stopped but its magnitude will depend on whether people are prepared to radically alter their lifestyles. as i drive myself or a and i see all the cars that are going back and forth and 3 lanes of traffic 4 lanes of traffic and i think that as a person that's aware of the kind of climate crisis and i and you think oh is there any progress being made and all you have to do is go out on the main avenues and thank you know like i don't know if i turn on the television and i don't know how

many times i'm told to buy a car i'm buying you know i want to and there's a climate crisis right there and then there had always been told being told by the new car new car new car. i mean as you look around the world it's all adding up it's the stresses put on upon people are getting worse and worse. i think what the world needs to be looking at is we're going to have people on the move right this is there something set in motion that cannot be stopped like there's going to be places that can no longer be lived in and now this idea of a border bordered world is an idea of exclusion where certain people have access and others do not and and we have to instead start thinking or old of where there's going to be a lot of people on the move and how can we how can we begin to. understand that and

maybe make it probably make or begin to at least forge a sort of new world where are those people will be more welcome. resetting and i'm going to give people my sometimes dream of potential huge. because you know people stop the news because they didn't also thank god zones he punished the home won't and yours. to get i'm going to promise that he would not do the same thing he did. better not to look at what's happening now it's happening slowly and in different places. it's the same scenario who will never again be. going to but it's not you. joe joe might soon find himself a climate migrant if sea levels keep rising not just his home but the entire island district could be submerged. how long that might take nobody knows.

the cool believe it was the day. down the line was happening. especially about. generations now. i pity those children hardly grow out and about experiencing the beauty of their life. i mean that in the largest in a bottle. i don't know if we continue almost obscene about i won't be able to do anything about climate change. in the highlands of guatemala but descendants of the maya believe that the global climate is out of kilter because humans have lost their respect form of

a. planet ranger isa day and i depends on us. i'll save that if we conserve and care for country we'll have a chance of surviving that. battle so that if we continue like we're doing now and cut down the trees the future for our children will be very hard and bedside at that site can call thank god we still have water and trees and can survive. but if we continue to destroy nature and then on tuesday night in the future people will have nothing left to trying to eat so that's when bands are being.

the harbour's 2 continents. one cycle. scrub the friendships of groups that are reduced in asia. it's called ecological ship recycling. in our series work place it's. global 3030 minutes on d w. africa. a

special club with a special purpose. and organization in mozambique empowers girls educating them about biodiversity and conservation in their local national park. it's a big step towards a bright future. eco africa and 90 minutes w. . earth a home worth saving googling to yes tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global india's 1000000000 by a series of global 3000 on d w and online. a very i'm david

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