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not an option. i'm on and property are stuck in the spanish border area. of the young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams start january 18th on t.w. . welcome to global 3000. in colombia the indigenous me sank people have set up a school to protect their traditions and their natural environment. in india a village community plants $111.00 trees whenever a baby girl is born a custom that benefits society and the planet. but 1st to new zealand where sheep farmers are fed up with being blamed for climate change.
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the corona outbreak has reduced travel and industrial production and resulted in a dip in carbon emissions so in that sense it's actually improving the health of the planet but the environmental impact of animal agriculture for example from mainz massive. in 2016 global greenhouse gas emissions totaled $51.00 gigatons of which more than 7 gigatons were caused by meat and dairy companies. to meet the targets set by the paris climate agreement global greenhouse gas emissions have to be reduced to 13 gigatons by 2050 but if the meat and dairy industry continues down its current path its annual emissions are expected to exceed 10.5 gigatons with devastating impact on the climate in new zealand.
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sheep farmers are coming under increasing public and political pressure. sheep as far as the eye can see and what looks like boundless freedom for randall aspinall he's the 4th generation of sheep farmers a new zealand south island. farmers have always been valued in new zealand that the backbone of the country's economy. doesn't appreciate she. says. nationals. a favor chatter around. seem to mount. climate change is shaking up this rural paradise sheep and cows are major producers of meeting they generate one 3rd of all greenhouse gas emissions in new zealand suddenly farmers are seen as environmental centers randall can see growing misunderstanding between people in the city and in the country. as most people in
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the cities knew had cousins had a farm and friends that had a farm so most people probably spent holidays on farms. as. the includes new zealand center left governments in this for example sheep and cows wading through rivers and possibly fouling the water doesn't fit with new zealand's clean image so many farmers now have to build fences along the waterways on their property. which farmers have become a political pawn says randall. in terms of. how to actually bring an opposition from on years centers of how they actually run a country and run a business strategy from chinese. experience for me and so it sort of feels.
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well there's a lot of stuff when. the aspinall's farm is located near one of the main hiking trails in mt just spiraling national park it's a unesco world heritage site. i think brothels wife alice and sells ice cream and to spread so from a food truck here the family are trying to move into a better economic position. when i do what. is right timing as accounting there are more constraints environmentally and really just like things i just looking advice to an alternative and common yeah this is just a really small stash towards that. from the breath taking mountain regions of new zealand is a major export the government wants to cut meat and emissions from livestock by 10 percent by 2030 otherwise farmers will face penalties but how is this supposed to
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happen randall asks a cd worm says sheep use elance farmers are already producing in an ecologically sustainable way that would be hard to find anywhere else in the world. the ford says about a little but people not told me she says i tend to like them and. want to call it seems quite a bit more work and. if you quality of the paula i. will give. you people just want to be a bit more somebody born into the stuff and then the wealthy stuff and we just want to provide. them with the system on a beautiful day. for the market. this afternoon the aspinall's are taking a break from the sheep the family including grandma are having a day out on their own farm this is a playground of over 2000 hecht. there's for the 2 children of even has
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a waterfall with a natural pool this is our johnny and josh are growing up typical new zealand the next natural wonders never far away. this is not saying that it. just gives you time to thank and just enjoy life and i think little bit yes. it's going to be around on you get away but. i used to every now and then but if you do you just face a day every now and then use a look around and all of it's a pretty cold life of a living and working and we operate it will be a problem we have to get i'm enjoying. it's not all rolling she postures and games of frisbee in the natural pool. for this new zealand farming family there are many new challenges but with views like this everyone can see why they choose this life.
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in our global ideas series we go to the andes in south america in colombia our reporter count your dinner met the indigenous misaka people who are determined to protect their cultural identity and their tradition of nature conservation. when the nice ak indigenous people have important matters to discuss they always sit by the fire. as 27 year old nestore explains is the most important place in the home. centers cost into the fire after all. but the ritual which joins us to the earth. you know that so i leave you all leave for the cities rather than staying here to be no one who protects this area. and then our beliefs our language. culture will be lost the.
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next still wants to do something to prevent that together with his friends from the village he's a member of the association. yes that's an association designed to keep local cultural traditions in line with. everything in the garden is planted in the circle the beds around to here they cultivate plants that back and celeste is also used aloe vera and many others every plant here has its own special purpose. when women are menstruating mom we take the seeds and through that yes this helps us against the cold. this is a coal plant that's why when i use it to tackle a favor when i hear and this is common it helps her stomach aches we also make an
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on it meant to treat arthritis for example but. the medicinal use of cannabis which is being legalized in more and more countries has a long tradition among the muzak people though they don't use it as an acrostic the members of the association also want to pass on the botanical knowledge to children in the village to teach the younger generation what properties the plants have and why it's important for the means act to cultivate them themselves. but group with a lot of one of my heart theatre group is called the magical tree and their play is about how we're destroying our environment over then you know it's about how important it is to protect our animals and our plants and mood that's. going to get. some of the children playing music people fighting against
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environmental destruction. you know you. were. here you can see some symbols this is a belt symbol it stands for the moon and here is the spiral it stands for the part that really misses tread. the group was set up about 15 years ago. in the past nestore used to perform himself but now he directs the children. then as. an armadillo i'm going to kill it and sell it but i will. gradually all of the plants and animals are killed by the children who are playing the role of modern day individuals right down at good there.
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afterwards the association members meet in the communities heart they come together on a regular basis to sit around the fire and talk about old traditions but also about new developments in the community. that means that manage 70 hec to land a vast area most of it is beyond the settlement and consists of pristine jungle they are determined to prevent deforestation. and. a lot of communities are destroyed by transnational companies also the expansion of industrial agriculture. the kind of. the land around the means that community has already been cleared nature has been devastated by large scale cattle
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farming and also by gold silver and coal mining. many indigenous communities in the still suffering from the fallout of the colombian conflict the decades long war between the government paramilitary groups and communist guerrillas fock drug cartels at the tension one 3rd of colombia is indigenous territory deadly violence is widespread in november 2900 there were 19 homicides in one week alone. those. leaders have been murdered there are threats are using violence to hound people out of their communities. a school in the region of and below. in a condo is visiting as a representative of the autonomous indigenous university. it brings together students from various ethnic groups to bolster their cultures
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and join forces to improve their communities learning takes place in small groups. the seminar participants discuss what they can do to tackle the threats their communities face solidarity and cooperation between the indigenous groups is crucial. because i was given was going to. make you part of this you know can we make our community a stronger so that we can't be forced out if we don't have a strategy or we'll lose everything and that'll be it but then we've got the job of the child back in the me that territory at the moment the situation is calm but while the threat posed by armed groups has receded environmental destruction is a growing problem. the children's play is almost over. and it has a happy end and means act brings new seeds for plants and breathes new life into
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the animals. the people are given a 2nd chance this time the plants and animals have a message for humanity. just saw you climb the condo or i'm the messenger of the sun king of the n.d. i dream of freedom at least let me live. on the i'm the woodpecker if we birds die there will be no more bird song and no more joy if he. gets a lamb i'm the butterfly we want to spread our wings please don't clip. it goes like i made an armadillo please don't kill me. this week we've had our visit to our living room in kenya.
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crown. and. this is my main area this is where i spent most of the time in after walk after they had they walk my t.v. it is the work of my hands and i really do that and i mean i love beads black that's why my house mostly black. my fastball on. my 2nd born andrew is that my that
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born jeremy my 4th one is say very grateful to god for. interestingly with them they make me feel more stronger and stronger every day. and. this is bad. and we lag has so good she's also part of our family and over that i'm in love with my. very very much i'm a little technician but i also do with this. beauty industry. i work to bury had to get it that i treasure it really had it is one of them with
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expensive that i have been this fit in the room. bye bye thank you for visiting me i'm happy they're calm again and again. this is. india women are responsible for the family and household and played key roles in education and farming but families still value sons over daughters and sex selective abortions of widespread the result is a gender imbalance the country is missing 16000000 women one village is bucking the trend. a grandmother wields a pickaxe soso ranch but is planting the 1st tree for her baby granddaughter all of
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the families here follow the same ritual there are $111.00 trees for each newborn girl and. medicines that man when i was born my mother and father were very unhappy that i was a goal today we're planting trees because we're happy when i got one if my parents had experienced this and i'm sure they would have been proud of me too. the maybe it isn't near the audience we get a beer to maybe even to go a lot has changed in the village of people on tree thanks to shine on sunday polly he came up with the tree planting idea 13 years ago back then he was mayor today when proud parents introduce him to their newborn girl he can barely believe that things haven't always been like this but 13 years ago girls were still regarded isn't fieri are as worthless children before he continued into adult it used to be that women weren't allowed to leave the house alone you had to hide behind the
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curtains that was a man's doing they were afraid something would happen to the women but this is changed dramatically. and it's not just thanks to the trees now parents pledge to not marry off their daughters before their 18th birthday. they're also required to educate their daughters in return the village community opens a savings account for each girl. when my granddaughter was born it was if the goddess luck shmooze good fortune has entered our home now we deposit 150 euros into a savings account and she on sunday or gives us twice that amount this the little one can later pay for her education of course we also plant the tree to buy was an . idea for the trees and the education fund has a very personal motive 13 years ago his own daughter died he doesn't like talking about be exact circumstances afterwards the businessman fell into
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a deep depression he thought a lot about how girls in india are often harassed and disadvantaged he had a monument put up in his daughter's honor but it wasn't enough he wanted to do something more. and i planted a tree as a memorial and as a way of coping with my grief but i soon realised that one tree wasn't enough. that's why we started this program $111.00 trees for each girl it has to be as many as that it will be for this area had become a total waste and now you can see the result. but i've you know the region around people on tree is full of marble quarries this is how it used to look 13 years and 350000 new trees later a dense forest now surrounds the village it's a blessing for the microclimate in the hot summer and the village of 5000 is now more prosperous because the forest is cultivated local see the boom is directly
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connected to the support for the girls things are changing now there are just as many girls as boys in the classroom 10th grader polly explains why it often looks rather different in the rest of india. that boys get an education and girls often don't but that's seen as a burden that's also why so many females are aborted killed right after their born that's led to that being fall fewer go than boys. 13 years ago coal miles mother was one of the 1st people to plant trees for her daughter even though komal was already 2 years old at the time her mother wanted to take part when komal goes into the woods today she knows that some of the trees bear her name it's a great feeling when they cannot pick up. what they benefit me i'm there that good to say look at it the trees give us wood and by fruit. we plant
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them because they're useful. now that thing in a sense because our mothers planted them we see them as a brother. is bogus am i to buy it is only love and i will she sunder is now famous in india politicians and entire university classes come to him to hear how he succeeded in improving living conditions for the girls and the entire village with the many trees and with little money. moving to come but inevitably to go back . since he appeared as a guest in a celebrity special of india's version of who wants to be a millionaire the whole country knows him it's. going to be a sort of argue i never would have thought that it would become such a big thing for with the gospel are coming here from everywhere. but many of them come to get ideas are gone they want to do the same thing. it's gone will be it's
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a great mix of them or the little guy getting it's a man and they thought. when it all gets to be too much for him he withdraws to the forest this is the tree that started it all the tree that he planted for his deceased daughter. she says that at least her death had a positive effect its daughter would certainly have been proud of her father. this week our world wide search for tasty snacks takes us to iceland. the icelandic landscapes are spectacular and you don't even have to leave town to enjoy them even from the center of reykjavik there are a breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains because it tends to be pretty cold for most of the year but swastika feeders or small restaurants where you can warm up and enjoy the local speciality soup in a bread bowl. tiësto this perfect place for this we call this like
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yesterday was raining it was too cold soofi now was cold so was. here also a few days after the shots name is unpronounceable for anyone who doesn't speak our slandered servery one calls him sick. this restaurant is a small family business the 1st opened in 2003 with the same concept it still does today. with 2 cans of soup we always phasing is always one with c. and one week soup 1st day we have very much to serve as a both of them a cream based to a server for all the one is hungry and needs to make you hungry in his life more like africa you will in hong unit and it's quest to both freshly made every morning soups are served in a bowl made of bread. i would choice because it is also going to get hard so the soup doesn't go off. to
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study if all sides if you. like. the cuckoo since i've fixed costs around 14 euro fairly cheap icelandic standards and one reason why this little cafe is so popular with both locals and visitors. city serves about 600 soups a day in winter the weekends get very busy you can see the faces of people who are you need to it's like they enjoy it and that makes me happy that's going to go overseas and i'm stupid ok. the below a cool.
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the moment. i cannot sleep because you know war isn't love. in those swollen smaller. rooms lol hers will soon. there's no news no love no love for the wicked. doesn't know your word piercing the murder. oh i can't sleep. her closely. her
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murders. my 1st boss was a sewing machine. where i come from women are bones by this ocean towards the middle or something as simple as learning how to write them by side isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have both buys a lot of my own but it took me years to them. finally gave up and mention buying young bicycles and returns with the sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for goes than writing advice as knowledge i want to reach out to those woman back home who are bones by their duties and social norms and inform them of oded basic rights my name is the about of people homes and they are more due to.
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