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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 seals its borders.

it's true that we humans are causing climate change says. it's real and it exists to deny it and lying to themselves. and they can see and feel the effects of it in their surroundings they can feel the effects of climate change. but yet. in the philippines the future has already arrived tropical storms flooding and heavy rains are striking at ever shorter intervals and growing in intensity. climatic changes the worst creation to be passed when she's. in that mass humans have creates a climate change and. now i made gains. 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 engine 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. here with the. big one

scares me to stop their steady seem to rise is that some day you can see the roofs anymore this. entire houses will vanish. and at the same time will keep trying to build out the ground through land reclamation. the moon. george the manja 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. until the water was knee deep here. we had to stow things in higher places to keep them safe and i suppose that's a must ask if they want to reach the bad. and we had to wait for it to subside before we could sleep. now. this was a happy home but we usually had visitors friends relatives about. we'd all be together inside this house chatting and sharing meals sometimes drinking. in no money. now it makes me sad to think about this house abandoned. joe joe 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 be buried here. they have to be taken to the mainland.

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 that i can see the extent of environmental destruction in the life of people and 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 costs. the biggest c o 2 and matters of the big industrial nations above all china and the united states .

when you have a pinch outlets that actually i've seen big changes. here. back when i was 15 or 20 years old the rainy season was normal and made june july you know what that would start but now we get frost in those mountains. 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 without rain 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 in recent years things have changed. this little plant and as you

can see she isn't strong enough to survive we can't use it for seeds or potato production it's a loss and. 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 thank you. thank you and then the actual yeah man it's what is so important for us as

a community because we have no natural beauty salon says. we depend on the rain for water must just that's why we buy patio his and 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 but. around half the residents of toddlers sometimes 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. pillars 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. notion about the last husband emigrated 3 years ago they now make their decisions together over the phone. to hear that it's a complete with my hands and sound and it would be very difficult when i fails we lose all our money look at that 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 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 we need to bring we need the world to stop the drugs or the human trafficking we need. you

know it's really difficult to when you think of donald trump what he believes and he's he's so contradictory and and so many different scenarios for a day 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 right. of building up a border or building. what we see before us right now. there's still no deeply 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 is. the. top male is a mole for who writes about security policy and 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 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 see 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 or more yet this is like this the this is a country that's that's that's fortifying is 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 have more than ever before but the same time there's more border walls than ever before to like it's like this emphasis like this is kind of adaptation and 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. single standard 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 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 gave. 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 had a monist at my sister's with my mother. 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 isn't

a lot of growers in the hot season it's them even though there's hardly any water but 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 to 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 won't have it really. 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 thank you thank you. thank someone. thank you. he just turned $65.00 cash for an hour of gardening. keep.

eating meat. and. married a guatemalan woman in the us she comes from the same highland region as he does. he lives here in a trailer park with his wife and daughter. on .

her. own. that. on sundays 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. is. who thought that is it makes me sad is that it's tough to be separated from your family but all the media is there over there and only i'm here. but what can you do when the most i said is down the we're separated i live 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 a. lot.

here and not. let. her live. and not the mold. good at the club 2. oh where. oh yeah i know. who. know all that i live here as long as they remain it's been a long gun will remain in a long gun. yet and. 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. and i mean my belief even here they come to work overseas or in the not

that i'm also may need. as far as i can tell the answer level here and been a long gun i'll 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 vanished beneath the white house would you. not everyone here believes that the community can be saved.

every day joe johns neighbor melody finds her house flooded. not the no one 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 i want rich and i found a man and found about us again but jerry comes from here and he won't leave this place in the shadows the. things that it gives us. who was that i. thought it only. got to do you make somebody does so by you. it done. you done uncle ma 300 sites all on the roof and i don't know

how to get. what they have. done all. the more only. very. i look at. that like you really do. you begin to know. that the reason you. really need is you. know what i mean get me there are plenty of indications. for example the iranians on the radio and on the television. when a strong typhoon is approaching and we start tying down the roofs. of that valley we tie them down so they won't be blown away by them and that will. kill and we

usually buy supplies before the storm so that we have something to eat the $36.00. got it well as storm sweeps through the village and on the last. buggy oh. that will allow good. news. 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 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. 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 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 but already the ones most affected by climate change and 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 certain areas 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 to 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 or 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 experiments ever conducted with a closed or controlled environment to try to replicate earth 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. those 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 comes on monitors 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 night on it 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 open systems for hit.

so hard 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 kinds of corn and. it's important to know what will happen in the world's forests in the future. trainees 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 so they act as a huge buffer that helps mitigate the climate effect without them it would be much worse off you should among scientists 1st warned about global warming decades ago but it took years for the message to even begin to sink him. 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 back all of us so i think it behooves all of us to recognize that we are seeing changes that those changes have n. packs 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 end packed us and potentially if we're not able to adapt we all know water survive.

pillai is seeking help to defy the extreme weather potatoes are 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. have way less. sailor they are. saying is that i'm in the lead up with. mia are you not going up or you know as i say you 53 domestic potato varieties grow on the field. the seed bank gives. this in return she'll have to give up some of her next harvest. with a hare. 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 gone to the us. neighbors. of these are not compiled houses and. they live in the us but send money home to build their american style dream houses when they return to. the cemetery and. has tales of migration to tell. american

flags decorate the graves of the immigrants in the u.s. . when her husband left 3 years ago he and people are 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 end 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 if he. were 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 it 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 crime and 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 by a car i'm you know i one hand there's a climate crisis right then and then the other hand i've always been told been 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 out of 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 the world 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. reason that i'm going to give people but i sometimes dream of the flood potential. because you know people stop in this because they did not something go to loans he punished the home won't. be good 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 it is said and i think it's the same scenario who never again may have been the. going to balance it out 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. middle who stood there and. i don't like what's happening. especially after becoming generations. i pity those children hardly grow out and about experiencing the beauty of. being there in the latter. i don't know if we continue on this path to. be able to do anything about climate change. in the highlands of guatemala 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 this time i depend on us. to say if we conserve force and care for country 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. that they should say 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. find and facts. or are. poor.

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