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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 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 says it's real and it exists even tonight on lying to themselves that. it was a study that 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. climate changes the worst creation to be produced by aspirin she's.

in that mass humans have created some climate change and. now genes. 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. but densely populated coastal regions of asia will be most affected. been long gone is an island district on the best manila. here water is already eating away at the land and 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.

it's about the only. one scares me the most about this steady seem to rise is that someday we weren't even see the roots 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. some of them by the moon will go by. george there are manya who goes by joe joe is 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 at high tide everything here is submerged. and water was knee deep here. we had to stir things in higher places to keep them safe and i suppose that some of us get the want to reach the bad. and then we had to wait for it to subside before we could sleep. a little. now passe on by this was a happy home but i mean we usually had visitors friends relatives. sama sama we'd all be together inside this house chatting and sharing meals and sometimes drinking he said you know man.

now it makes me sad to think about this house abandoned that they've given me. jo-jo dreams of restoring his house but at the moment he doesn't have enough money . many families have been torn apart but young people move away to seek work in 2811 an estimated 3800000 people in the philippines fled from storms are natural disasters. world wide 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.

couple of my. path. there are still 6000 people living here in cramped quarters. in long gun is sinking due to erosion and rising sea levels. now like it or you can see the extent of environmental destruction in the life of people in vain along on 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.

that increase is 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 emitted are the big industrial nations above all china and the united states.

when they have a pinch outlets i've seen big changes here. when i was 15 or 20 years old the rainy season was normal and maint tune into line that with stocks but now we've got frost in those mountains. in the past we didn't have those problems. i can find the changes i was the rainy season is coming later and at the same time we keep having cold snaps. and the know we have long periods yout rain all month as something from that let's say yeah and then sunday we have too much rain share. people out of a simple pablo 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 and as you can see she isn't strong enough to survive the 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 a 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.

thank. them actually yeah man it's what is so important for us as a community because we have no no true view to sell says. we depend on the rain for who was here last and just that's why we buy paganism canisters to catch them i would. say. but yet 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 let's start. them without water we can do nothing that's. 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 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 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. 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 house and found it would be very difficult when i visit fails i 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'd lose a lot of money study. as an illegal immigrant husband could be deported from the us at any time so he doesn't want to be maimed. pianos that migrants from central america no longer welcome in the united states. we need cameras we need legs or we're going to be putting it and we need to bring

we need the world is not the 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 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. of building up a border or building. what we see before us right now. there's still no deeply accepted definition put terms such as climate refugees 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. the . top male 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 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 those 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 times more carbon emissions from the united states since 900 than that in guatemala. el salvador and. hundreds 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 the 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 and i 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 model and it. 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 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 work with my father my sisters with my mother. your 1st. 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 isn't a lot of growers in the hot season as they move in though there's hardly any water this. 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 deserts of 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 i mean 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 reid 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 i say how would.

he just turn $65.00 cash for an hour of gardening. eat eat. eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat. eat married a guatemalan woman in the us she comes from the same height and region as he does. he lives here in a trailer park because wife and daughter. would want to own. 'd

up on. that. on sundays that he'd like 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. carpet is this it makes me sad. it's tough to be separated from your. what out of the life of me is there over there and only i'm here. but what can you do for them so set us down the we're separate island not because we want to be but because we are forced to be by necessity. over there you can't make ends meet but about us and.

let. her live. and not the mole. club 2. where. but. who. know all that i live here as long as this world remains a building a long gun will remain there no one gun. yet. my . conditions in the ocean are changing the fisherman

a catching less and less 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 beloved leaving here they come to work overseas or in and out of that the most i may need. to. leave this i mean for me as far as i can tell the delta level here and been a long gun will continue to rise. we'll continue to blow that up to reclaim our beloved neighborhood. the people have been a long gone but this place vanished beneath the wives will be on and.

not everyone here believes that the community can be saved. every day joe johns neighbor melody finds her house flooded. not in a month single very fine dream of settling in another place not here but my husband jay is from here and he doesn't want to leave irishness kind of made out in front of us again but jake comes from here and he won't leave this place in the shadows the. things that it was. cool was that. a lot of bull. got to do you make somebody just sit by you. if.

you don't uncle won 300 sites all on the ballot man and i don't know how they done . what they have. done all. the more only. very because. i look i know. that you really don't want you to see anything that you didn't know and. i want them to receive you. believe me. easy. to be i know what i'm going to be replanted i'm not a conscience. or example you get warnings on the radio and on the television.

when a strong time food is approaching and we start tying down the roofs good though not that bad even tie them down so they won't be blown away by the wind that. we usually buy supplies before the storm so that we have something to eat the basics without government well as storm sweeps through the village and on the last hour you. bug yo. little out there. from time clues 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 know they're a victim of lack of freedom they have very little capability and so yeah everything sucks including the climate sucks but if 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 special. if there's not enough focus on how do we increase human capability. i'm an 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 that 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 bed already the ones most affected by climate change and on

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 narrative 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. i bet 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 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 experiments ever conducted with a closed or 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 where on the close to real world conditions it's possible to test how natural systems will respond to extreme environmental change the researches 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. but here and i'm on issues 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 like mad and yet we're measuring how the tropical rain forest responds when it's still

in its normal state and as well and then we're going to initiate a long drought and see how the ecosystem behaves as if it was a steam ahead. so 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. it's important to know what will happen in the world's forests in the future. is still c o 2 the climate gas that causes this atmospheric warming which arises from the combustion of fossil substances song and on us take it up during photosynthesis one must be verified seeing as to 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 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 are all inhabitants of earth and so what happens here in the us or what happens in europe or asia at some point is going to end at all of us so i think it behooves all of us. to recognize that we are seeing changes but those changes have impacts on ecosystems on resources and if 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 we will no longer

survive. pillai is 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 fund those like. saylor there's. a lot of us that has syrian it's thought that in the lead up ways. yeah you know they're not really you know as i say you know 53 domestic potato varieties grow in the fields here the seed bank gets. this in return she'll have to

give up some of her next harvest. itself up ire. yeah. for. 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. the. villages here half the population has already come to the us. neighbors. of these are not compile houses are called they live in the us but send money home to build their american style dream houses for when they retire.

the cemetery and. has tales of migration to tell. american flags decorate the graves of the immigrants in the us. when her husband left 3 years ago he made 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 end and i know in my heart that this distance will not ruin our relationship. the year i know my husband will come back. up it's hard to leave that if he. had. to to. 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 for 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 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 on their hand i'm 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 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 for a sort of new world where are those people will be more welcome. reasoning and i'm going to give people my sometimes dream of potential. because you know people stop and there's because they did know something you consumes he punished the home won't. 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 happening slowly but in different places innocent and i think it's the same scenario who never again i learned that there may have been. going to balance it out. joe joe might soon find himself

a climate migrans 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. illegal who stood there in. i don't like what's happening. especially for canada generations. i pity those children who grow up without experiencing the beauty of the. moon they're in the bottom. i don't know if we continue on this path 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. that they depends on us. and say that if we conserve force 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 the. thank god we still have water and trees and can survive. but if we continue to destroy nature and. in the future people will have nothing. if you're trying to. reinvent facts. or are.

poor. it is done frances has finally hopkins just 3 years of uncertainty in great britain has legs. simply divided country means much more for future generations remains how did we get here the mon enfant the road

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