always henrik kristofferson of a cane a big mistake that almost took him right off the course in the early part of his 2nd run but he went on to win and increased his lead in the men's all feisty walk up standings the competition moves on to germany this weekend. this is the dublin news up next a documentary drought and floods the climate exodus looking at the massive increase of refugees from climate change i'm talking a lot of thanks for. this time to take one step further and face the possible. time to search the know and fight for the truth. time to overcome boundaries and connect the world it's time for tea w.

bush coming up ahead minds. the global climate is changing faster than expected and the effects are 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 all 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 seals its borders.

it's true that means humans are causing climate change says it's real and it exists even tonight on lying to themselves. it was a study even babies and 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. and i'm going to change is the worst creation to be i asked when she's. in

that house humans have created some climate change. well james. 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 long gone 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 deeper into the sea. and. residents have to rebuild their houses on the rooftops of their old sunken

homes. it's about the only. one scares me most about this steady seem to rise is that someday even see the roofs anymore alice knew that in that. entire houses will vanish. and at the same time will keep trying to build up the ground through land reclamation. the moon. george the manja who goes by joe joe is captain of the community's 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. and water was knee deep here. and i knew we had to stir things in higher places to keep them safe and as of last summer fast if you want to reach the bad. time we had to wait for it to subside before we could sleep. now. this was a happy home. we usually had visitors friends relatives. would all be together inside this house chatting and sharing meals sometimes drinking he

said. i am. 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 2018 alone an 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 prepare it here they have to be taken to the mainland.

back. at my. dad. there are still 6000 people living here in cramped quarters. been long gun is sinking due to a roshan and rising sea levels. now i can't see it i can see the extent of environmental destruction the life of people in been a long one 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 cars. the biggest c o 2 and mentors are the big industrial nations above all china and the united states.

when you have been jailed let's go i've seen big changes here. when i was 15 or 20 years old and the rainy season was normal and may june july you know what that would start but now we get frostbite just months. in the past we didn't have those problems. i can find the changes was the rainy season is coming later and at the same time we keep having cold snaps. and the know we have long periods yeah it rains. something from the last let's say yeah and then sunday we have too much rain. grew up here in the highlands of guatemala. she's grown potatoes all her life but in recent years

things have changed. this little plant and as you can see she isn't strong enough to survive if we can't use it for seeds or potato production it's a loss in sydney. every year drought and frost destroy many potato plants which is all her family grow on their fields. in guatemala's 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. actually yeah man it's what is so important for us as a community because we have no natural water sources so we depend on the rainfall was here last again just that's why we buy potato his and canisters to catch the water so. when the summer comes that's the only way to store a bit of water and that it's very important for our communities and our plantations let's start. without water we can do nothing but. around half the residents of toddlers sometimes have gone to the united states after every drought and more and more leave most of the men are now working in the us. every month they send a few $100.00. pillows house was built with us dollars. the

family also uses the money to pay the installments on the 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. this is. our. last husband emigrated 3 years ago they now make their decisions together over the phone. you know that it's a commitment that my husband's health and it would be very difficult when our

harvest fails we lose all our money look at that my husband didn't send money we wouldn't get by 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 did. as an illegal immigrant her husband could be deported from the u.s. at any time so he doesn't want to be named. pianos that migrants from central america and no longer welcome in the united states. we need cameras we need to make sure that we're going to be moving in and we need

to bring we need there's no good drugs or the human trafficking we need. you know it's really difficult to when you think of donald trump what he believes he's 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 has asked for be it's 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 that story. of building up a border wall building. what we see before us right now. there's still no deagle the accepted definition for 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 miller 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 of 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 7 miles away radar systems drones there's a fleet of approximately 10 drones. there's other things that you see and u.s.

military operations there's been a lot of this kind of transfers from 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 honduras combined 700 times 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 border walls than ever before to you like it's like this emphasis like this is

a 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 for sponsors yeah i don't have a green card yet but what can i do no matter what i'll always be quite a model and it. c c c c c

doesn't it 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 with his parents from as one of 9 children. discourses gave. i didn't enjoy my childhood all that much. but it was an ordinary childhood. we grew up working. my brothers work with my father and my sisters with my mother. if so 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 and it's. arizona has a desert climate and a severe lack of water life here is only possible thanks to water pipe from a 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 world. hundreds of thousands of liters of water go into keeping golf courses in the desert 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 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. that it. does read 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 gets plenty of. thanks so much because.

he just turned $65.00 cash for an hour of gardening. keep. eating eat. married a guatemalan woman in the us she comes from the same high in the region as he does . he lives here in a trailer park of his wife and daughter. on .

up on. that. on sundays 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 us this. is. the part that is it makes me sad is that it's tough to be separated from your family but all the for me. is there over there and only i'm here. so what can you do for them so set us down were separate and i would not because we want to be but because we are forced to be by necessity. over there you can't make ends meet but i love some.

thought. here not. that they. live big. and loud lol. good. club 2. where. but you know. who pulled. down on the idea here as long as this will remain it's been a long gun will remain in a long gun. yet. my. conditions in the ocean are changing the fisherman a catching less unless they can hardly on

a profit nowadays. almost every family has at least one member who's left been long gone. but i mean my the law leaving here they come to work overseas or in iraq and that i'm also may need. as far as i can tell that ultimate goal here and been no one gonna continue to rise . we'll continue to build up to reclaim our beloved neighborhood. the people have been a long gone but this place vanished beneath the whites would you.

not everyone here believes that the community can be saved. every day joe joe's neighbor melody finds her house flooded. the lot of the no money thing bungled i mean my dream of settling in another place not here but my husband jay is from here and he doesn't want to leave i want to reach a friend of mine and find about us again but jerry comes from here and he won't leave this place in the shadows the. things that. your sons. who was that not. only blow. got to do you make somebody does so by you.

that. you don't know a lot that he handed so it's all on the ballot man and i woud be done. with a. 0. more. very big guy. i love. that they. do it in the. one that gives you. the it is you. know what i'm going to be replanted i'm not a conscience. for example to get more news on the radio and on the television.

when a strong time food is approaching and we start tying down the roofs the thought that i need to tie them down so they won't be blown away by the kind that. we usually buy supplies before the storm so that we have something to eat the basics but i gotta get while the storm sweeps through the village and on the last. buggy oh. there is a lot of 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. any 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 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. 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 scotian is 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 think. 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 air 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 would 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 trying to find out how to model and perhaps save the earth's major ecosystems. the biosphere started out as the world's largest ecological experiment ever conducted with a closed door controlled environment to try to replicate or 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 research. can control the climate and measure how the ecosystem reacts. in the model rain forest an international team of scientists are studying what happens when there's less rain. but here and i'm ologist that's 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 and if we're measuring how the tropical rain forest responds when it's still in its

normal state and when and then we're going to initiate a long drought and see how the ecosystem behaves as if it was a steam ahead. so fired once it gets dry at the rate of photosynthesis goes down we want to know at what point a system like this reaches its limits seem all because. it's important to know what will happen in the world's forests in the future. treaties store c o 2 the climate gas that causes this atmospheric warming which arises from the combustion of fossil substances song and asked take it up during photosynthesis and 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 so they act as a huge buffer that helps mitigate the climate effect without them it would be much

worse 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 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 end all of us so i think it behooves all of us to recognize that we are seeing changes that those changes have impacts on ecosystems on resources and we are dependent on those systems for our existence and so again if they change so dramatically it is going to impact us and potentially if we're not able to adapt.

the lion seeking help to defy the extreme weather potatoes on her livelihood 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. the sailor there. i love the syrian it's thought that i'm in the lead up with. the holy you know what. are you going up or you know as i can 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.

it's up up. yeah. a farming co-operative collects and stores seeds from local. props 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 gone to the us. rescue most fun cars must ghost neighbors is what the owners of these are not your pie houses are called they live in the us but send money home to build their

american style dream houses for when they return to. the cemetery and told our son. also has tales of migration to tell. american flags decorate the graves of those who died as immigrants in the us. when her husband left 3 years ago he and make that decision together. they knew they wouldn't see each other again for many years. and when. they come i know that he's far from home and we're a long distance apart. but i

also know that we did it because things are very hard here with actual ups of it but from a to let it the cons the am and i know in my heart that this distance will not ruin our relationship. i know my husband will come back. up at. least 3 times that of the. future. 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 for a and they see all the cars that are going back and forth and 3 lanes of traffic 4 lanes of traffic and i think that is

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 think you know like i don't know if i turn on the television i don't know how many times i'm told to buy a car i'm buying you know and one hand there's a climate crisis right then and then other hand i've always been told being told to buy 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 we're certain people have access and others do not and and we have to start thinking of 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. reasoning and i'm going to give people i sometimes dream of the deluge. because you know people stop the news because they didn't also thank old songs he punished the home won't. really get i'm going to promise that he would not do the same thing you get when you. look at what's happening now it's not going smoothly and in different places there isn't and i think it's the same scenario who never again i learned that there may have been new. going to but in a scenario. jo-jo might soon find himself

a climate migrants 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. little. i don't like what's happening. especially the current generations. i pity those children haha grow up without experiencing the beauty of. me in there in the largest. i know if we continue on this path of. being able to do anything about climate change.

in the highlands of quantum allah the descendants of the maya believe that the global climate is out of kilter because humans have lost their respect form of a. planet. is that they and i depends on us. to say that if we conserve and care for the tree we'll have a chance of surviving. but if we continue like we're doing now and cut down the trees the future for our children will be very hard and sad at that just say it can come thank god we still have water and trees and can survive. but if we continue to destroy nature and. not in the future people will have nothing. if you're trying to act. and back when. i was.

more like. one. i'm in. one of the richest countries on earth. but every year around 700 women die in childbirth or shortly after. most of them are african-american. like why are their risk factors so high. a mom has gone to heaven america has

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