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a fast paced lives pick up again. who we continue to innovate regardless of the cost. of live lives profit driven. and globally connected. or has this pandemic sparked irreparable change. how will we live in the future after the pandemic. hello and welcome to covert 1900. 11 or all this week we're taking a look ahead at life after the pandemic from what it means for cities 2 economies even nutrition today climate change as the world focuses on getting past the pandemic the urgency of climate change has taken a bit of a backseat but slowing global warming could actually be critical for preventing

future disease scientists warn that it warming planet will provide fertile ground for viruses and other pathogens and introduce disease carriers to new habitats. a german climate activist and author david nellis has been mapping out some of those dangers he spoke with us earlier take a listen you know one example is the type of mosquito which spreads that then your fever that you could go in your going to the positive just south asian regions but because of climate change it's warmer you have sort of mosquito came to europe and therefore the risk reasons to be an effect the tropical diseases if you're in germany organized. german climate activists and author david nellis there for more on this let's talk with he's dean of the party school of global affairs boston university professor not something you so much for joining us this connection between changes and wildlife habitat and disease has the pen to make help make this clearer to normal people and perhaps added some urgency to climate

change. i hope it will i'm not sure it has certainly had to beginning of the pandemic until there was a bit of fear mongering about how it could be but all concerned about it about you know how did it get here and because you know places that it had transmitted from sort of the zoological system or into the human system there was this concern that maybe even a gene sort of started looking at meijers the any good i hope for will happen and is happening or goes much as i would like but i hope the great message is that we have to live in coexistence with nature that nature has a huge think that nature it is we're not issues us and if we restrict the space of nature to future strip the space of biodiversity then nature will hit back in the vs for example that your guest was talking about we don't get all in the view that we have seemed cruel about us that in some ways the big lesson is there is no human

held the doubt because people help to come together and say what the management of climate change managing the pen demick has required an incredible lot of collective action and sacrifice which climate change will also require based on what you've seen so far from the pendennis should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the fight against climate change. at this point and i did but i do do hope that we should be varied afflicted of about what has happened we should try to think part of their work or just happened we're going to learn about ourselves about our own behavior and we should have a concern in some ways this pandemic give you an early warning if you will of what it truly order to matter because you've heard it before what are truly global crisis looks like you know we've talked about climate as as as a as a crisis possibly in the future and having this in your face meek's you pain can should make you think there are good lessons and there are some disturbing this is

the disturbing lesson is that this was not a very global movement our immediate reaction especially in the beginning was closing up. it was getting tribal was building walls was trying to blame the other was trying to put more workings are ok i have too many doing the problem myself i can share my ventilators i can't really give you my mosque if you go back to march of last year the good lesson if you want is the lesson of vaccine development for example the lesson of science coming in to help the lesson of listening to knowledge and intervene in the choice that we will make really to do in the future in something is the sad part is and this is what is big much like climate change scientists act surprised there's been damage happen but there was no surprise in the burnett we knew about them if you talked about her never actually prepared or we said we prepared for print comics and yet we didn't kim we have ignored it so

often that vivid found to be unprepared that is exactly the story with climate change at the same time i wouldn't happen to know what is the right to feel surprised when we look at climate change versus the pandemic the pen demick has very specific in that as we all get to a certain number of vaccines we reached her immunity with climate change there's no solid there there perhaps does that make it more difficult for someone to imagine tackling climate change versus the pen demick. it might it might make it more difficult but it also makes it more urgent you're exactly climate change does not have a back seat whether it is pfizer or no or astronauts go whatever they're going to come up with a vaccine or a bill that you're going to walk in and climate change will be solved yes there are various reports coredump dish and we will have to adapt and adapt issue will not be comfortable and our nation will not be be be cheap as again you've learned that in the bending of independent if you know what is it that bishop means something bad happens and you adapt to it you learn to live it so you build your buildings higher

if seed sea level is rising. i vehicle straighter because of discord i'm adopting where that is exactly pink about what we did with the pandemic we had that are we learned how to build a mosque we don't how to lock ourselves up we learned how to not need to mess we learned how to not hug people we love how much that is what are not dictionaries and the list is a definition is not comfortable how much harder will that shift be will those adaptations be especially as we're going from the end of the pen to make to climate change i get the feeling that not many people are in the mood to talk about personal sacrifice right now but they'd rather be rewarded for a period in which they feel like they've already sacrificed a lot so maybe taking more trips things like that. yeah i think i think you're right i didn't have a i don't want to begrudge them sort of going out and sort of you know after having me locked up for a year but on the other hand this is why this should be a moment different flexion this should be a moment of learning because you've also got so many things right we have learned

good lessons we have learned the lesson that if you spend a dollar in advance to overt a crisis you will save millions of dollars when if the crisis hits so i think those are the lessons that come not in terms of climate in bendemeer can particularly in the beginning there was a little sort of target ok we were driving as much and we want to be using energy as much and because action will go down i'm sure not sure that has exactly happened maybe it's happened in a few cases to the extent it does happen you know climate strategy should not be locking people up in their hopes. and on the other hand we found there you know we had a consumptive species we find new ways to consume wheat be other people do come and travel in our behalf and make carbon on our behalf and develop and drop food to act on our doorsteps but really r e v p r e smart species we should learn from this i hope the biggest lesson we learned is

not that we will all become sort of self-sacrifice that's that i don't think that's our job or the question is not some sacrifice this question is smart behavior we do not get pleasure out of emitting carbon via get pleasure out of quality of life and i hope for the been then it also teaches us is that what you know of life means more than just getting into your car and getting stuck in traffic where i will have to leave it there for now professor. with boston university thank you so much for joining us. let's check in now with our science correspondent eric williams for another question related to climate change. demand for meat is growing and that has consequences for human health and the environment how does science trying to address this problem our hunger for me contributes in a major way to climate change and environmental degradation and the conditions in

which billions of animals are kept also poses a direct health threat to humanity since experts say intensive animal agriculture provides a nearly perfect breeding ground for pathogens to evolve so what's science doing to help improve the paradigm well 2 things john instantly to mind one is all that research behind plant based meat alternatives that look and taste like the real thing but are mostly made from the ingredients like soy or or peas or mushrooms discoveries in a range of scientific theory it's a specially those that involve how we process taste and texture are improving the experience of eating those products which is reflected by a recent big boom in demand. the other science driven approach to the meat problem

involves the cutting edge field of cultivated or cultured meat it's based on the fact that animals themselves are actually pretty inefficient meat factories lots of what you put in comes back out again as as problematic waste or it goes towards creating unwanted by products like by skin or bone so so why not just grow only what you want the mean directly from the right types of cells replicated in giant bio reactors the science behind doing that in a commercially viable way has actually proven pretty fenech a maybe you remember the hype around the 1st a lab grown burger back and 2013 which cost 250000 euros to make but the technology has come a long way since then and production costs are coming down fast the big question

of course is how willing people will be to buy it. our own signs are for a derek williams there that's it for us today thanks for watching stay safe and we'll see you again soon. for. drought instead of rainy season in rwanda climate change is threatening harvest a startup is now increasingly yields it's out in forms farmers about the plants water needs. solar energy and sure is chief eric. cline ed smart

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on environmental issues foster went on air and we're looking forward to reporting on more and more amazing projects and great ideas for protecting and improving the walls we all live it as well as drawing attention to the problems that i gently need solving well here are some of the topics coming up on the program. because the new transportation diploma gene made in africa and example from kenya. popcorn and why it's not just for eating as scientists in germany will demonstrate is going. on to mexico savation in south africa sparing young people to protect why if you like. but post a with head to namibia more than 20 percent of the country is on the course of asian management it is home to incredible variety over a rare and in danger of species of animal including the cheetahs the super fast

cards you need a very specific kind of environment to breed can't unmaintained be aborted temperature when it gets. very court the trouble is that they often live in the a rural communities and cause problems for people and their livestock now. a way for farmers to drastically of course reduce their livestock losses without killing the beautiful big cards. a rare sighting of wild chicest in namibia. the country has the largest free range in population of cheaters in the world but according to recent research still numbers. here the population is threatened because it doesn't look inside of national parks but on commercially used farm that this obviously needs to conflict as the. livestock of the farms. teeters population numbers across

africa have dropped to less than $7000.00 worldwide as the habitat is lost to farm land and house and cost russian portion and illegal trading cops pause a federal challenge and because she test attack livestock the also get killed by farmers. scientists from germany is live in its institute have found a way to reduce that conflict to spent more than a decade studying she test in namibia part of the study involves putting video collis on the animals and monitor india movements the team not a study that she tests always for $10.00 to $7.00 areas of practice passed on from one generation to the next they visit these territories and mark read in the territory so we call this centers of the territories not a marquee trees are called a communication hops because that territorial males they used these trees and also

the olders into region around so these territories very stable now always there and even if the territory hold us does appear die then the new will territory and hold us up all day exactly the same place this allows the scientists to identify areas where cheetahs congregate the den and vice the farm is not to put a life stock in those places it's about 10 percent of the area that is highly dangerous because concentrations of the cheaters is very high and about 90 per cent that is much less risky for their harmless and their cattle. the farm is that i've moved cattle out of harms way now there was far fewer animals to the big cats. this simple adjustment region. the

livestock losses by more than 80 percent and that solve the conflict for the farmers and for the truth is in many cases. reducing the conflict between humans and money mouse means more cheaters survive and other benefits to these powerful pre-dates has helped keep the populations of the most under control thus preserving a montagne india calendrical balance off. what incredible creatures and what a great idea to promote a peaceful coexistence between the wild animals and the humans and this report is about a really interesting venture in south africa it aims to help communities live alongside animals in the wild as well as offer professional opportunities it is called the truck a company and as the name suggests it trains disadvantaged rural people in the traditional

skills of wildlife trucking. as it is sunny and. looking for this special friends in the dense bushland of the level of north of johannesburg. a group of rhinos is hidden somewhere here. this is different to pen. spurs on the ground twisted twigs and droppings lead them to the animals. their professional trackers. they were doing this tracking. for meat. they were hunting they do they did they they started. carrying on when they are back in a different way because then they were doing it for food we we have for the for the

well. not to. track his play a critical role in keeping the animals in the reserves safe. south africa has nearly 80 percent of the world's rhino population and has been hardest hit by poaching but says 2014 thanks to strict security measures reserves have half dry no killings from 1200 animals to about 600 in 29000 ticket is animal safe conservation manager had money does not only rely on devices. but they really do a lot of monitoring work especially. on conservation and species like. some of the big cats and so on we will utilize various forms of technology to try and track these animals and keep tabs on these animals but technology. from time to time. when we have to revert back to the basic. tracking skills.

this is the mara reserve is part of the great career a semi desert region with characteristic wildlife vegetation soil and climate conditions the reserve is also one of 3 training grounds for a very unusual track record to me today is examination day. has to show his instructors he can track an antelope in the semi arrid career by a. different one because even. in front. blanche. a good track reads the environment and develops an intuitive feeling for the ways and habits of animals droppings are just one of many signs they read. just finally labor hung by to find his target hidden in the bushes. grew up in the area at night in one long. hours. in the most annoyed. just more or less the ones who and then you know

what i did it because the moniker i know everything the inside. was the thing that motivates you know i want to go to the to to learn about those in the money and everything the academy is an ngo that office free training to 24 young rural people from various african countries each year realizing that only a few traditional track has remained in southern africa onyx when you 1st started this school 10 years ago with the help of a private sponsor meanwhile the academy gets thousands of applications paid here. we are training trackers to do for the benefit of conservation and for the benefit of an ancient culture and to improve the lives of the students that come through our program thickets and yet and it is proving successful 94 percent of all graduates are employed and the track is on need it many iconic animals like crocodiles letterheads and cheetahs remain critically endangered. after

a long day of working and learning in the felt the pupils returned to the boarding house for supper. many of them heard of the tracker academy through people from their villages who went through the program and subsequently found work in the reserves they hope that they too will one day be a role model for their peers back home. the one who will be on the vonage boom in solar energy in 2018 accounted for 2 percent of one white in the christie use each and its share is growing fast experts say solar and wind are said to be the most sustainable sources of renewable energy in the solvent hemisphere the international renewable energy agency says that over the past because it costs for solar have dropped by 80 percent let us now go visit an energy provider that he's building the biggest solar park in germany.

these panels are pretty easy to install but there are thousands of them still to go . in the countryside near berlin germany's biggest solar park is taking shape. half a 1000000 modules built on metal frames. 100. posts . 250 kilometers of cable. 150 fishers working on behalf of one of germany's biggest energy companies. we definitely have the potential to complete projects of this scale but rather than size it's the viability of the project that counts for you. this solar park is the size of 225 soccer pitches facilities in europe tend to be

smaller because they compete with agriculture for the land but solar parks alone aren't enough here in germany there are 19000000 apartment buildings and houses the loss of roof space. and an ideal place for solar panels. an entire industry has been built around the installing. now adays the systems are very affordable and economical to run since you basically don't have any maintenance costs. the installations have become so affordable to install that they quickly pay for themselves. out. own the house with a rooftop solar system in many cases the system actually produces more energy than a household needs. as one of the things that makes it financially worthwhile is that the cost of heating

your house or heating your water are pretty low. to. the equipment paid for itself in just a few years. after that the electricity produced is essentially free. max baucus energy needs do exceed what he produces though that is because his family have 2 electric cars that need to be recharged. off. solar energy is expected to see significant growth interim. by the time the last coal fired power station is switched off and 2030 ac there would have to be 5 times as many rooftop solar systems on parks as there are now to cover energy needs.

solar energy would then account for a quarter of the country's power i would push. back to germany's biggest solar park project 10 years ago the operating company was one of the biggest nuclear power producers in the country. they still burn coal fired plants but that will soon be a thing of the past. 39 energy in this new book these new energy sources will have to fill the gap they've become a central pillar in our portfolio. since 2012 we've seen growth in all new and renewable segments including wind both offshore and onshore as well as solar. these technologies will account for about half of our output by 2025 i mean. the solar panels just keep on coming day in day as.

talks of sustainable mobility tend to focus on the big cities in ways to reduce traffic congestion and pollution and of course make life better on you give me basis and put it in europe and what if you get it off because well it is not safe and did not meet optical you know they since it was developed in take. place handcuffs off of the way several 100 kilos and here in kenya's capital nairobi exultant noise are another problem for day laborers. kenneth one times invention could make life easier it's an electric car carts that goes faster and can carry more to be built in a system that. is.