much to. what i do years today later future are. still going to dot com the 2nd largest city in the making if you. click on. the. welcome to global 3000. return of the trainees 2 sisters a forest in brazil. dirty fuels in india and a is growing towards the coal industry. but 1st profit climate is abandoning capitalism and the answer to saving all planets.

more commodities more production more consumers more consumption more growth and more profits it's a never ending spiral the promise of our economic system. but can this really one forever unlimited growth on a limited planet. where already experiencing its alarming affects all climates is changing storms cause untold damage as do droughts and floods every year 10000000 hectares of thailand is lost overfishing is devastating all right. forests are shrinking and with them much of a spy a diversity we've reached a crossroads. in our forests are already beginning to change in many places.

these protesters are fighting to limit that change and to say about planets the activists from friday's the futurist say it's a matter of life and death and many experts agree. it's not just about surviving somehow it's about safeguarding the future where we don't have lots of species dying out or entire regions that are uninhabitable and people fighting each other to survive. and loving the climate to warm by 2 degrees celsius or more above create industrial levels would have serious consequences but studies suggest it's not too late to avert disaster if that's true why is so little being done. about seeing it more lacking and that's the problem is the economic link information on what would happen if we took the necessary action what

would it mean for jobs income as little savings if that's the information that politicians need in order to decide whether we can start moving toward a climate neutral economy. chaffed and. green growth is the new password the idea is that the economy can continue to grow steadily while wind and solar power and other technologies do you see eye to emissions but many experts say that's not enough. fortunately even if we were to switch to renewables completely we'd still have some emissions in the background because we need to acquire all the raw materials given the carbon that's how it starts with our view so it's an allusion to think we can have growth there is a 100 percent grains let's let your day lose your. take hydrogen feel it's use doesn't emit carbon but producing it usually does and the idea that green energy can. infinite economic growth is an illusion says business journalist hellman what

we need is a form of green d. growth but that defies the very ethos of capitalism. and the so often the in historically every time energy efficiency improves and the amount of energy needed to produce a specific product declines capitalism says ok then you can grow. when you need less energy to produce the same product your productivity increases and you can use the supposed saving to produce more it's this mechanism that needs to change. and that deliberate d. growth would that even be compatible with capitalism which depends on accumulation and grows if the economy shrinks assets are diminished what would happen to return on investments pensions swiss economics professor. points out that capitalism isn't all bad. after all it has

a very large number of positive elements of. material prosperity it leads to full employment we have a very good standard of living today so the whole thing is a devil and as soon as we realize that all these positive aspects of capitalism would also fall away the desire for change tends to evaporate. the coronavirus has seen economies shrink and many are worried about their livelihoods others have learned to live with less less shopping fewer flights could that be a lesson of the pandemic less is more no heaven because right now we actually need more growth. that's the paradox we know that we need to produce less if we want to protect the climate but because of the covert $1000.00 crisis we need to stimulate the economy right now otherwise we might end up in a severe you can i. a crisis that could allow populists to get into power. listen

to what. she says limiting climate change will require not only scientists but economists we need to develop a new economic system a system that's not based on endless growth and the destruction of the planet. it's true that you can't bargain with nature the fridays for future movement is right so the question is will we end capitalism in time and in an orderly fashion or will the system collapse in chaos at some point because our planet's limits have been boundlessly exceeded. but others say it's not so simple. i'm going to happen to listen would be the solution if we had an alternative i take it. but i don't. think it's funny or doesn't believe in major system change he believes the answer will be found in myriad adjustments such as moving to

locally produced food companies that are less profit hungry and the alternative system of stocks and shares. we can try to gradually improve things to moderate our growth and do without some things at the same time ensuring that the economic system continues to function. does that sound somewhat banal but actually it would be revolutionary. and even this revolution would involve giving up certain things that we may have grown accustomed to certain privileges that affluent countries and people enjoy. but do you think a hammond says will have no other choice if resources become scarce. we must give up certain things but it will require planning and the involvement of the state. if everyone gives up their car what happens to people who work in the

automotive industry a large majority of society needs to agree that yes we need to abstain make some sacrifices and then figure out how to organize that at the state level i think. the trouble is abstention and sacrifice don't sound that appealing to most philosophers even from the basic believes things will only change when people start to realize that abstention is not only losing something but gaining something better. when you picture all the riches beauty and diversity of our planet as things you can just enjoy and don't need to possess that you can live among and savor with all your senses then this question of abstraction is transformed do we really want to live without birds singing in the forest or do we want to preserve that pleasure that richness order of the entire debate on abstention just seems to focus on maintaining our own privileges our lifestyle but

those things are life itself. as i. say i got to sleep. existential questions with no easy answers but what is at stake here is life itself . more and more people around the world are starting to value and protect the wildlife around them the u.n. estimates that in recent years more than 13000000000 trees have been planted worldwide. for our global ideas series we went to brazil where our reporter bianca cops traveled to the saturday mantic yet a mountains there she met women who are working to replenish the atlantic forest 90 percent of which has been destroyed. 2 sisters have realized their childhood dream on

a power and flavio body andy are growing tree saplings to replenish brazil's atlantic forest up to $130.00 indigenous species many of which are threatened with extinction a large part of the atlantic a rain forest has been cut down shocked by the destruction of their native woodland the 2 women founded their own environmental group when they were just teenagers. the atlantic rain forest is among the world's most diverse natural habitats it has a very wide variety of species it's also one of the most bright and natural habitats our work aims to preserve our native forest through protection restoration and tree planting. they started out with great dedication and very little money but the work has since grown considerably the biologists now supplied the entire region with plants from their nursery huge sales are an important source of income to finance the work of their angio. growing about

$400000.00 seedlings each year it's just a part of it. is on her way to plant some of their seedlings here in the mountainous region of settled in and take it up in southeastern brazil. the area is now dominated by coffee plantations and grazing land for livestock there's hardly anything left of the original forest and yet trees play a vital role in preserving groundwater supplies. but efforts to reforest the area depend on the landowners. the natural sources of wool people's property all slowly drying up but these landowners here no longer have any water coming by reforesting we aim to restore the vegetation cover and rehabilitate the land so that groundwater levels can be replenished but about. the farmers only recently purchased their property. 30 years ago the land was cleared

for potato farming and later used for grazing. this was the spray. that is water used to flow from here in this direction and the poor law. half of the property is forested now the couple wants to bring the forest cover up to the field where they have their organic farm a few days earlier on a pole and her and geo planted 4 and a half 1000 seedlings here now she's bringing a few fruit trees as well. she says the fruit trees need more space to grow well so they're being planted in a more open area. the seedlings are hard to see in the middle of the meadow but within just 2 or 3 years they will have grown into a small forest. there was a fair go before a fall if you have vegetation cover the ground is protected and there is no erosion

. of when it rains a good part of it filters down and fills the groundwater reservoir. that's how we can regenerate this spring this. sort of thing. on apollo will assist the farmers for 2 years until the trees are well established her n.g.o.s work is mainly financed via donations and company partnerships for the farmers it's free. we've now we're covering the soil around the seedling with grass she explains this way it can stay moist and develop better. on apollo and cope by anybody have helped more than 200 landowners restore their forests but not everyone is up for it at 1st she and her organization often have to work hard to convince the landowners. so the n.-g. o. has joined forces with a large scale reforestation program called the monte canter conservation project

it's supported by germany's international climate initiative. more than 400 cities universities environmental groups and companies in and around brazil's extrema region are involved extrema is something of a pioneer in this area laying down environmental requirements for local businesses and providing bonuses for the farmers' market but as you say. here in brazil the farmers have always been encouraged to clear the forest to work economically and gain more farmland. while not a new message is the exact opposite they should reduce their grazing land and instead plant forests and be paid for it. you know his whole thing is financed by local companies who pay contributions to the community in order to neutralize their greenhouse gas emissions that are disaster as innocent as you guys are if it is to theodora neeson extrema have set up their own nursery taking

reforestation matters into their own hands. but the need is so great that they also get seedlings from the copiah angio 10000 of them just today. the municipality planted the surrounding forest between 8 and 15 years ago on cleared land it plans to restore 1500000 hectares of the atlantic or rain forests as part of a conservation plan involving numerous cities a big step for climate protection in brazil the project is also designed to secure the water supply from the mountainous region it's a vital source of water for brazil's biggest cities and rio de janeiro alone which is 450 kilometers away nearly 10000000 people depend on that water. the program has nationwide implications as one of the original project partners explains the somali there is now

a bill proposing to pay for conservation related services resilient society now recognizes that we need to invest in this area and that both farmers and city dwellers will benefit from it one of the copilot sisters set a good example on their property in the mud to get a mountains before they owned the land they reforested it for the previous owners the property owners were so taken with the results they later gave them the land for free as a donation for conservation. thanks to the forest water came back to the dried up sprained. i got this work is so worthwhile that when we go to a property and the end it tells us the water has returned it really energizes us to keep up the fight. it's very painstaking work and it takes a long time to see results but when it happens it sensational things also help the

environmental activists have now planted more than 700000 trees and over 600 hectares of land far more than they ever dreamed of when they started out as teenagers. children to come to. one giant problem and when you're in no mood to see. anything by leaving a little features in the late god leaving. how will climate change affect us and our children. learn more and b w dot com slash water. cold palace stations are responsible for a 3rd of global c o 2 emissions they also produce a huge amount of dust and ash which pollute the air and the soil. almost 2500 coal palace stations

a stint in use most of them in china india and the us in the indian states of go up people are now protesting against the continued use of coal. who does go up along to the go winds that's what these protesters you know are chanting across the state environmental action groups hold such events almost every day they want to raise awareness of the plans for a huge increase in coal imports and the construction of another set of train tracks to transport the coal into the interior i. l a muscular and yes organizes many of these events she's on a mission to stop the passage of coal for the state. she says the coal goes to steel factories and power stations up to a 1000 kilometers away in the neighboring states of karnataka and maharastra it's not even for the go inside themselves you want them all go up. the next day at the

railway tracks she says the freight cars lose a lot of coal and coal dust because they're not properly sealed you can see those clearly. on the tracks in the month that was into ground water that's well into our drinking water. so 4 years ago she discovered the dust was threatening the health of her family. my son. and i took him to several doctors they did 7 tests. he had to take the neighbor. he was also put on steroids. over $10000000.00 tons of coal arrived at the port of mormon every year it's then transported by truck or train across the central government has approved a plan to increase imports fine fold to $51000000.00 tons

a year by least 2035 the coal is imported from australia south africa and indonesia by 3 companies. and. heading east into the interior the trains pass through in a forested area rich in biodiversity international studies have shown that up to one percent of coal is lost for each 500 kilometers of transit that's at least 300 kilograms per wagon and there are 3 trains with more than 50 wagons per hour. yes shows us where a 2nd set of tracks is to be built so that more coal can be transported she says houses here are solid by the dust many of also sustained damage because the ground shakes when the trains go by the demolition she tries to reach out to older people in the area. many feel trapped and helpless. after the call as we have. a lot of pollution.

and. then you have problems you have. any chance. huge i do believe life the bad one might have your wildlife sanctuary is part of the western ghats a mountain range recognized by unesco as one of the world's 8 hottest hotspots of biodiversity nonetheless knew by thousands of trees have been felled to make way for a substation for the power line just serve the new broadway tracks krishna's or who's tried lives in the protected area fears the land trees animals and water sources are in jeopardy he added what he had there once the war the missiles were wide and when it's gone they will start coming and all but we need this big weekend right now we can see the monkeys there they. need the. human alice to grow by 9 other stuff so the. protests alone won't help he says

the bank. the have fired up and we're hoping that a legal system the court they will. look into it it's often up to the courts to block projects that have been approved without proper public consultation they use in goa are hoping that will be the case here as we know go is facing lot of destruction projects which are coming and it is very wrong to go in there and is not listening to the people at lacoste we don't want. we don't want you know. he got off trees which is going to effect us today and if he. wanted to talk to us if he is in danger what is the use of this development there is no point. when my son solomon miranda fears that the mega projects that are coming will lead

to a total destruction of goa 15 different protest groups formed by people like miranda and mustering yes are trying to stop the expansion of cold transports in order to protect both nature and the health of go with. cancer this is how the protesters here sum up the problem cold magnates are coming to go or to bring disease and destruction while the government turns its back on them the state government was not available for an interview meanwhile work on the cold related infrastructure projects continues as do the protests. now it's time to meet a teenager from here at this week's. i said. ok.

daryl's from new york why i live in the cologne district of montevideo. my mother is a housekeeper and my father is a bricklayer. he built houses. in a way that i go to school for agricultural science i like countryside living and want to specialize in it. maybe i dedicate my free time to my animals chickens ducks guinea pigs and sometimes other animals like geese for example.

i like old music and i really like brazilian music is now coming. i imagine young people's lives to be at least partly very good but they probably have less contact with nature than i do i want to talk more. about the name besides the coronavirus pandemic and stopping it spreading i think protecting the environment and problems of deforestation and soy farming are the biggest challenges only are. social so many trees get cut down because of soil farming in order to feed cattle but even that i might know. but i mean i think the older generation had a nicer childhood there wasn't so much stress and pressure like there is for our generation today.

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