story trying always to understand this new culture. you want to become a citizen. migrants your platform. for me. this is the doctor coming up today fighting for. young people in the streets of go up to save us from destruction by the coal industry. activist explains why it's a mistake to preach the economy. to nature. and that's why the young people are

right. because the. forest. and the plants. all using. ambitious commitments to reduce carbon emissions are expected as u.s. president joe biden hosts a climate summit today the aim to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius to avoid catastrophic climate change the u.s. china and the e.u. are set to announce a significant reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 to make that happen india too has made. pledges in the past but his campaigning for aid from build their missions

to help build alternatives to coal plants india's coal based energy economy plays a large part in making it the world's 3rd largest a mr emitter of greenhouse gases after the u.s. and china and while government action is slow younger people in the country are already a week to the need for immediate changes. it may look like these young people are having fun. but they're here to draw international attention to a problem they say is threatening their future and that of their home state of goa in india. their leader is activist pereira. how my spirit my own is going to be destroyed i just wanted to do something to build towards. the rare has been campaigning for months to prevent the government from going ahead with 3 infrastructure projects she says will devastate

a protected forest in goa. local authorities have already begun clearing the national park the aim is to expand the railway tracks build new power lines and wide in a nearby highway in future as many as $60000.00 trees may have to be felt here. scientists say the damage the environment and the habitat of many wild animals will be immeasurable. we have a lot of. lot of you. half of which are not even discovered as of now in such. and such a unique habitat and such a rich habitat you see is so much of an go it's going why the. development authority but the government say the projects are vital for the development of the economy they're needed to accelerate the transport. the

thousands of tonnes of coal from australia indonesia and south africa that are unloaded every day ago as port and then taken through the national park to neighboring states believes in the steel industry the activists accuse the local right wing b j p government of caving into the interests of billionaire businessman and wanted to turn the site into a cold home they deny such allegations we have 60 wasn't all of our land gold would forest 500 different and nobody as we're telling what google has gone and go we have really have already done our bit of keeping history and keeping climate in control for now it comes to the standards of living and when resistant to the living why should we not be in part of it other people. a parent and others say local people stand to gain little it's a national park is destroyed and vowed to keep the fight as long as it takes for a mortgage or knob or environmental activist we're not sure rush is

a scientist and author of many books about the damage humans are doing to the planet and measure our welcome in the report the people there we see how economic interests operated against environmental interests particularly when it comes to the use of coal for example in india do you think it is possible for the 2 sides to work together for the future of our planet. well in meeting on thursday and last year at least we should wake up to the fact that there. is only one side the i course that ecology. is the science of the oil because economy is the all the lies and management of course since years ago a local began in my region where women came out to stop the logging and destruction of forests it was called a chip all the 100. 50 years ago we knew when we cut the trees. but others to build

reliance the cold all it is just to extract and we are creating a recipe for floods droughts and poverty and every one of these pressures has got everybody to even more because of climate change this is the agreement that has become so blind to nature's laws of nature has limits and ordinary people are big the price and that's why the young people are rice and go out because the golden rain forest the saudis that forest projects you know these are all mountain ranges that reach of the sea you will have no tourism and go up in the forest go you will have absolutely no economy left my research of 50 years it's shown that the real economy is protecting ecology we start mining in my valley do marry back come from because the supreme courts are steady and said

leaving the limestone in the mountain is a bigger economy because the water creates many more livelihoods i think that's our decision joy is a mental clarity has to be all right to suspecting about the young people because you mentioned them do you find that in india today when it comes to the climate movement younger people are generally more aware. well you know what i've done this work for 50 yes we won many battles the cheerful we stopped the logging we got by safety and by the worst the laws in place we got in mine until after the place all of this meant that for 20 years an entire generation lived in the chill illogical security and as neo liberalism dismantle then monitor protection laws and destruction is on fast forward the generation today is living under the threat of ecological hover there have agents like the dismantling of their mom and protection act and then monitor impact assessment

they're having to fight to stop coal being given priority well of course and what not to do on earth their president biden is holding a climate summit where some of the world's major carbon emitters when pledged drastic reduction to emissions by 2030 what we're expecting india will do. well the tragedy is that you know the climate treaty was signed in 9092. summit after summit has fallen by 2009 the co-leader climate summit was destroyed we then got the barest treaty looked at the commitments they made in paris they met nothing nothing everyone has emitted much more in the rich countries are cut our response of the 90 percent increased emissions suddenly dizzy everybody a lot of double speak for nature half. half

a metre reach gives you light that 0 leads we will keep polluting we'll just live here not accounting tricks and control of a few more trials and plan less and pretend that we have balanced out offsets you have to take science and take account accounting will not start this problem of climate change we need to return to the follow the laws of their cycles and my books on our toes saw an auto shows that the solutions lie in this bias they lie in the saw and they cannot be offset by pollution continues and you just control society even more through lawsuits in those argument has been the critter nation the need to fund developing countries to change over from fossil fuel use for example and that sounds like a reasonable argument doesn't or. can i go back to 9092 where our minister it is speech in rio at the un summit we are 90 percent renewable energy

10 percent is fossil fuels then outsourcing took place through globalization all the pollution was sent to india and china. of course justice requires that we have the means but most importantly i think the game legal played with the planet must stop we know all the laws of the earth that disloyal quality we know that the planets involved have the milius it is so that it fertilizers and species destruction that is the biggest smiley should i do organic funny i conservative us the seeds this is where we must grow all the solutions to climate change and stop the emissions we don't need next iraq we need 0 emissions on that or our present or continual thank you so much for that thank you. robel

it may sound like the stuff of science fiction but a group of researchers in singapore have already engineer venus flytrap plants to merge with machines the resulting robel plants can be controlled by a mobile phone and the scientists hope that one day of the knowledge a can be used by farmers to monitor the health of their crops. at the touch of a button dizziness flytrap snap shot. scientists triggered the response using tiny and that traits attached to the leaf with a special gel they mimic the electric pulses plants emits naturally in response to stimuli so the scientists can talk to the plant. and with the help of a robotic arm they can even get the fly trap to pick up a thin piece of wire and to catch a falling object scientists believe the technology has the potential to create robots with a more delicate touch. because it won't stop the nature. can be into

this fiscal hole is going to be sure to get. you to discount hybrids just believe one thing i discovered i just really should use it so so this also. and the plants can talk back to for now only the scientists are listening that they hope one day farm is might be able to use the technology and pick up distress signals these signals will reflect the health status of the house so we hope to study the relationship of these signals and the environmental stresses and hopefully these can instruct. i would caution practice conversing with crops could prove to be invaluable as plants face the challenges of a changing climate. but the technology still needs some what the scientists can for the time being only get the venus flytrap to close. come on and getting it to open

a can is proving a lot more difficult. the rights of the robo plant may still be some way off. that's it for today there's of course many other stories on did oprah dot com forward slash back to moral at the same time and see that. literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see as the kids find grownup. might object to what. he does the books on you to. buy you ready for some great news i'm christine one blood on the eye on the edge of my country with a brand new detail bemused africa to show that tackles the issues shaping the

concert hall with more time to also bought into still talking all the time stuff to you what's making the hittites and what's behind the way on the streets to give you in-depth reports on the inside. w. news africa every friday on g.w. . welcome to arts and culture on this earth day 2021 which is the backdrop for a virtual global climate summit and as the world focuses on the necessity of climate action we explore how the issue is manifesting in popular culture also coming up. to add a bit of punch and power to the program will mean a dutch architecture firm quite literally takes words at face value. climate change is arguably the most urgent and polarizing issue of our times and

it's also one that many people find just too vast and frightening to contemplate in any depth which is perhaps why johnny off his novel whether published last year struck such a cord how connected can we feel to this supposedly imminent crisis when we're dealing with the foibles and crises of daily life and how can we act as a questions a growing body of climate fiction tries to answer. melting ice packs cleaves in floods thousands of kilometers away. mom finds because of trapped. beneath. is about life in the present public. transit catastrophe to people. success in 2020 and in recent months has hit the shelves of many people in countries. 2 with the following the university librarian he lives in new york with

a hospital in sun. she reads text books on climate change excessively. and also some comfort wisdom. is he also nuisance to those she makes people concerned about the future looking for alternatives there on board facts in the times of need proper wisdom is both tragic and fairy funny in the beginning i think she's in the situation that many of us are where we have course no this is happening we look at it out of the corner i but we don't look at it too directly because we have so many other things that we're taking care of in our present life i also was trying to see if there was a way to make it funny because you know so much of the world of prepping and imagining disaster is actually sort of strangely funny. through writing whether often herself has become activists. she's involved in the environmental

extinction rebellion and has started a blog called the beauty train out of hard. places and in young people they're the ones fighting for change in organizations like friday sushi check. into moves to news. one of the reasons i think years ago i started to think about writing weather was that i noticed that my students. out. so luke. felt this in a visceral way the ruin of the world the sense that the world that was being handed to them was. was going to be terrifying whether it is a cool which is funny about a deadly serious subject this is you can put the end of the novel experience by both awful writing it and its regions it was important to jenny off the way to maintain a sense of so that those reading could still find the challenge. i think that

writers are i don't think we're meant to morally instruct people but i think we are meant to. perhaps create a space for more empathy. because i think that that's one of the great things about about reading a book is that you get to enter into another world and explore it in a way that is. sort of secret and interesting and you get to wander around. and scott rockstro joins me on the line now from our studios in bonn good to see you scott we're going to talk a little bit more about this phenomenon that is climate fiction it's as johndroe that's really been gathering speed for some time now so how would you say classified differs from the traditional dystopian fiction that that's really been around for many decades. yeah i think the big differences of even traditional

dystopian science fiction i mean you know in 1904 brave new world the worst possible future that's imagined is a future of sort of political dictatorship but with the rise of the climate catastrophe as a sort of the greatest fear of mankind you've seen writers respond to that end and start to imagine what this fear could look like if you realize so so books about the climate catastrophe or imagining a future in a climate catastrophe have become real bestsellers like like mylan does have a history of b.s. or a giant cooks of the new wilderness which was just nominated for the book it was interesting because it seems to me that the tone of some of these novels has has changed if you will what's your sense are they more or are they less pessimistic. yeah i don't i think there are more fatalistic really i think a lot of the client climate fiction writers now are going from the starting point that climate change even climate catastrophe is inevitable and so instead of giving

us horror stories to scare us they're more imagining what this future this climate change future will look like and that means there's more humor more irony in a lot of these books now and also a little bit of hope so their magic maybe the world that we know it is goal is gone or is going but what could a future for humanity look like so perhaps i'm implying that we're that we're a bit more that we are adaptable of course i'm wondering have climate fiction stories. changed to keep up with the changing science of course that we're seeing. yeah definitely literature of course they they always try to be on the cutting edge but i think even see it in climate fiction in the movies i mean way back when nuclear war with considered the worst climate disaster we had all those movies about nuclear bombs creating monsters you know godzilla movies but as climate change start to come into the public consciousness you had you know environmental disaster movies movies like the day after to morrow you know which imagines rising sea levels flooding new york and the gulf stream reversing causing

a new ice age all very over the top stuff but a lot of based on real climate science and those have environmental disaster movies also films like snowpiercer or mad max fury road in some ways they're meant as warnings of the worst possible scenario of what could happen if we don't change course so scott what do you think can can these kinds of books and films actually help people to understand the problem of climate change and perhaps even motivate them to take action. you know i think motivating to take action is a big big ask for any form of fiction book or film but what i think a lot of these works of fiction can do is maybe change the way we think about climate change the way we relate to nature there's a really interesting book fun jeff funded me or called annihilation which was also made into a movie i'm and it imagines nature becoming conscious and plants and animals starting to mutate in new ways and it provides us this book and this work provides us with a new metaphor for nature so nature not as an enemy and not as something we can

fight but something that's beautiful and mysterious and strange and something that we we just don't really understand yet and i think it's really kind of a message that really resonates particularly today on on earth day thank you very much scott certainly a lot of good reads there 1st on climate action inspiration and thanks for those insights scott roxboro in boston. and in other culture news from the german capital after accusations of discrimination berlin state ballet has reached an agreement with french ballerina chloe. the company's 1st black dancer took legal action last fall after learning her contract would not be renewed after she reported experiencing racial slurs and discrimination in court has awarded her a contract extension of one year and 16000 euros in damages. and british fashion brands burberry lifestream to show of its upcoming winter collection from london on wednesday capes helmet like hats and full furred dominated the collection that pay tribute to the indomitable force of mother nature

on topic and to the tradition of britain's early 20th century. designer ricardo t. she described it as a modern armor that celebrates the strength of women. well this next report will appeal to word geeks like myself and fans of what we call on a massive pia or words that imitate the very sound that they're describing they're typically used in comic books words like bam power and one rotterdam based architecture firm has built them into a prize winning design that's causing quite a stir in unique. expresses its police force so it's the creation of the architecture for n.p.r. and recently one architectural board in germany the written word is somewhat

different from the speakers. used by various companies and institutions. they display their lives in big letters and. the building itself in the background the way it is. lucas can only play a very minor part almost all like. the former factory site has been a scene for creativity for years now. the architecture firm called on local artists to think of words that would look inside the original building. together with your coworkers christian a woman and his colleagues came up with a couple of snarky ideas. they wanted to approach it with a sort of coding for example and so my time short 3 times long short

time of the symbolize it didn't work in my it was 3 times the length of the original in fact most coding stronger than the rich. look at lol this cyber sure but we finally arrived at the language of comics that was a long process i mean quickly realized that was what we like best not only does it see something that expresses a feeling and that was important to us and the. letters are seen on other sides as well on this gas receiving station in the netherlands they represent a chemical element on this liberian culture whose eastern germany the letters overlap on and. on this former chapel in the portuguese capitalist been the lettering expresses blessing. and this design center in mckinney friends invites visitors to dine and read and dream. combination with a letter architecture can take on another meaning and normally the only words in

the building are advertising and not have shines the architecture. we should approach it differently and integrate it better get into your home and hear. see that stuff in person he's an unforgettable impression of. the words from comic culture are as intended unique attention grabbers. and finally the iconic rolling stones album sticky fingers turns 50 this week it original cover artwork was conceived by none other than andy warhol who incorporated a real working zipper that opened to reveal a pair of white underwear got a cool idea but it of course damaged the vinyl record so it was discontinued but it's considered to be one of their best since it will leave you with one of its hits and hope to see you again next time until the end and by.

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