love on central hospital and live with them. i had a serious problems on a personal level, and i was unable to live there. good of it. oh, you mean to know their story? leverage clarified, entry level information for my grants. ah, welcome to global 3, thousands. loved and fought over in mexico, the mafia and farmers are embroiled in a war of aligns won and yet lost the tough war to dale. between south africa, endless soto and but 1st bought and then thrown away. the

chilean desert is a dumping ground for old clothes with cheap, easy to buy, worn, briefly or not to told, then thrown away. this kind of consumption creates mountains of textile waste. but it's actively encouraged by the fast fashion industry. some produces boast up to $24.00 different collections per year. since 2000 global clothing production has doubled every year to an annual total of $100000000000.00 items. the fashion industry also emits more than $1200000000.00 tons of c o 2 per year. more than global air and ship travel combined. and yet, 4300000 tons of cost of closing land in the trash, or even far away in the chilean dest. hm. we're in the auto. com desert in northern chile. this is where the global fashion industries,

discarded clothing ends up. locals are taking us to the dumb site, past informal settlements, where mainly migrant workers live in makeshift huts without electricity. we drive past piles of used tires and then mountains of discarded cheap clothing. the stench of chemical vapors hangs in the air. freddie is a local man. he's angry about the desert landfills about it, but he's also aware that they give people an income you're with you and ian vehicle here. some people come here to find clothes for themselves or to sell it 2nd hand markets in town. what about? there's no one here at the moment because some of the waste was incinerated

recently. jennifer jennifer and the robot. manuel. oh leave us is in charge here. she collects unsold clothing and brings it all here. you know that, oh no, no, i think they love unilateral by the door or by you say, better the clothes come from all over the wow. if federal bar, you'll effect that sometimes they come from local shops and warehouse as well by collect sophie what i call masada. i go there and ask if they have any stuff they can give me a pony. it, but i want to say you are sudak, manuel olivas decides who can help themselves to the piles of discarded textiles. you'll been, dea, a thought i get money from people who come here looking for clouds. yeah, we'll get you about either for themselves or to salanda. that's my livelihood. you're going to sub that back. the yoko bell, manuel olivas lives in a wooden hut on the dumb site. she and her husband get a state pension worth the equivalent of 115 euros

a month. the money she makes here is much needed extra income, or, you know, didn't complex young lena? no one takes pity on us dinner. oh, i taped chickens and ducks. what do you do? i can and i grow some plants. okay. oh, you didn't want us. yeah, bro, yahoo! in nearby altos busio authority, see the mountains of used clothes as a nuisance, but the environmental officer says he's powerless to do anything about it. it more than he was a game that business with used clothing is highly lucrative for dealers in the free trade zone of a kicker, who import secondhand textiles. there are 53 of these companies, and their business model is very profitable. you look it up but only for them. it's detrimental to the wider community miller. i'm in the little and i wanna we had to e, kiki, the provincial capital. sandwiched between the desert and the pacific. this used to

be a depressed region until the container port was built here, and the free trade zones off recreated. companies operating here enjoy tax exemptions, including apparel importers, unsold and used clothes from around the world, including germany are partly sold to buyers in the region, but an estimated 40 percent ends up in landfill sites. you can even go medina, it depends what's in the containers at the in some of it's in good condition have an hour, but sometimes we have to throw low quality textiles in the dump weapon companies. sheila is south america's main importer of used clothing in neighboring countries. it's illegal or restricted. the result is the vast dumping ground in the desert. we meet dario blanco, head of keke, a free trade zone users association. he says the situation is improving. oh,

boy, well, if you'd care he thought a. what i can say is that the clothing important companies want to help things improve. they want to address the negative impact of their business model. the other the situation is definitely going to change it with me. most of the clothing is made of synthetic fabrics and takes years to buy or degrade. this family sifting through the piles of used clothes or refugees from venezuela. they're looking for clothes they can wear and also anything they can sell. and i thought of on the 3rd go that the, my 2 children and i came through the desert. let me call we had to leave behind our suit, cases containing all our clothes. but we'd have never made it. but i wonder if i've used to pull my savings. glad every where we go. we see refugees who have travelled through the desert despite the scorching midday sun. those family wants

to keep going until they reach a key case where they hope to find work. the city is 200 kilometers away. the family looks exhausted. we normally it's hot. oh, it took us 4 days to get here from the border. 20 kilometers away on board. we're not making much progress on that bundle that we haven't lost hope. gonna happy get ya, my year venezuelan refugees in chile often end up working for a pickles, including here in the landfill sites. this one is 12000 kilometers from europe, but it doesn't take long for us to find items that are clearly from germany. beat us side about your problem. we find discarded videos and a phone book from breyman bowl, and cotton socks that cost for euro's $0.49. a pound p. o women should see the

mountain of clothing in the chilean desert is a symbol of the shocking hidden cost of the global fast fashion industry. this new and native casting session. these little packets might be handy, but they quickly land in the garbage bin, and they don't ross. in all web special, we chart the journey of such a sashay from the origins of the raw materials it's made from to its ends on the rubbish heap. we find out why the number of such haze is growing and why they're so lucrative for businesses. and so disastrous for our planet. find out more at d, w dot com slash plastic. the small kingdom of la soto, known as the roof of africa, is one of the world's highest situated countries. as an enclave, it's entirely surrounded by south africa and is largely economically dependent on its bigger neighbor. but the soto has something very valuable for drought played

south africa water. increasingly, however, this provision of water for its neighbor is creating problems for both local people and the ecosystem. walter rich le soto is keeping thirsty south africa alive. but the tiny, landlocked country is paying a high price for it. we didn't anticipate to dodge dams here in the so to liberty did miss of that is bringing perhaps worn. we'll put a lot. i see nothing of the better life that they promised us would. rather if it were up to me, i would decide against building the damn the needful water islip africa, grains high and the soles of such water remains the little islands were to prove. we have been able to divert water add to us all africa,

but we are limited by the quality of our environment. the pit i had when i back when the children were growing up, this was a beautiful and peaceful village. we looked out for each other. nobody here went to bed hungry, but look what happens now. people don't trust each other any more. it's just not the same. here in much harbor righty sees village. phase 2 of the la soto highlands water project started 3 years ago. one of 5 damages is being built here to supply water to neighboring south africa. the entire village has been moved to another location warmer the construction work hit us hard. they had promised us jobs or children are supposed to be earning something from this, but instead they're out of work for about a while. other people in south africans get the jobs we go hungry. when they also

took our fields till another about glasses, the cornfields and grazing land. now, how's construction workers? far from leading to greater prosperity, the dam has brought misery for residence. driving 8000 people from their homes. the water will flow to south africa's financial hub, johannesburg, 400 kilometers away for the 16000000 people in the city and surrounding province la. so toes dams a vital and already provide 60 percent of their water since the project is financed with south african taxpayers money. eula, kline hans has been monitoring it for a long time. he works for the organisation outer, which seeks to expose corruption and mismanagement, urbanized ations taking place and future development and expansion of business

needs more water. the problem is we are only very limited to the water that we have in south africa. we don't have innovative technologies and circulated infrastructure yet to recycle water. and currently we highly rely on the las joslyn's face to scheme to provide future demands. it's one of the largest infrastructure projects in africa and is supposed to benefit both sides. south africa paisley side tire nearly $17000000.00 euros a year for the water under. so to use this, the dams to generate electricity for its population. the local project manager from the list. so ty, highlands authority tells us, let him 5, he has time. the dumb wool will stand right here. $5000.00 hectares of land will them be flooded as we are all away, this kind of projects would have social impact and environmental impacts. and we as

the project total number of programs which had been discussed in mac, lead vocal mean, it is a as ways that means, oh wow, mitigating against the laws of land that, that the laws over there, my crazy area. and we're patch me to see sick. we heard exactly the same promises 24 years ago when the cat saddam was built. all other dams feet that water into this reservoir, from where it's piped to south africa. sick. we what's for the say and only legal center. it's hoping local people like here in the village of my lang to now claim the compensation they were promised it. i mean it's a while. i know we don't with them as everyone knows. yeah, i wrote that you were severely impacted by the construction of the dan, will you you rights have been traveled on may obama. we all know why your water

springs have run dry. the load law, which i own will have it for you. i don't, i mean it. hello again. tell that day we had decided to use the money to get our village connected up to electricity, e m. okay, low yet. but the development authority has done nothing on all. again, we're still waiting for power in my polling. my b m, when i the area declare late, i don't know to tell them when i figure we also promised compensation for the loss of our homeland and the pain we had because of the resettlement. and how could i help? some people here got injured during the move career much to this day, we have not received anything really had a blue moon on the point to us, conceived jill bye to andy milk, antique governments of south africa, a possibility him and the military and the gym in minnesota,

those governments did not have mandate from the people day. did they say neat for the review of decent reaching the project is also threatened by massive soil erosion. the construction of the dams, along with overgrazing and climate change mean more and more soil is being eroded by the rain and ends up in rivers settlement in many places, only by a rock remains totally to say, lay as a consultant for a national project. the aims to protect the photos, rivers, work as hair rebuilding low walls into the hillside to reduce the speed and force of rain water run off and prevent erosion. they also remove invasive shrubs, but what otherwise whitehouse endemic plants, he's roots help to keep the soil in place with the current erosion,

the life of social dems would be fairly compromised the lifetime, because in no time there will be more full of sediment done water. so this would be lost investment and therefore we depend largely on biodiversity. the type of that is to enable infiltration of water. oh really? oh oh. we went to weird for 10 more. yes, there will be time will not be able to produce anything. and then we become a failed state. in my opinion, i read the rings of saving this or letting

me know are popular ingredients in cold drinks. the green fruits of a cold, delicious refreshment, and a lot of vitamins to $100.00 milliliters of lime juice contains 30 milligrams of vitamins, see less than lemons. but still impressive. mexico is the world's largest exporter of citrus rates. in 2020 it exported more than 800000 tons of lemons and limes. now, however, the mafia is getting involved as the evening descends over the yucatan peninsula. david medina gets out his single barrel shotgun. he inherited the 20 gauge harrington from his grandfather. it may be an antique weapon, but it does the job. horrible, but a vertical deal. i need the gun to defend my limes from being stolen. little girls

. i don't want to kill any one. i just shoot into the air, and then they run away. well, at the corridor for either a search in line prices has turned his farm into a growing small fortune. hence the nighttime thieves for them a crate of lines means enough food for several days. let it run through zillow. with paula, they come here and fill up their rucksacks or sometimes in groups of 5 m, and they take several crates for about 5000 pieces worth 03 carbon photographer, the equivalent of 230 years losses that really add up the 76 year old sometimes stays out until dawn on the lookout for suspicious activity. for referral, i'll stay out for a little while longer and we'll see if anything moves or if i hear something more.

a 2 hour drive away, my fellow avila patrols his families or trip together with his father, brother and nephew. thieves have struck here countless times in the process, also destroying the next month. harvest. when the robot, the, you know the rope as they pack limes into the clothes, they tear at all the trees around them. and in the morning we see that the smaller limes have also fallen off the mancha. you the 2 episodes in mexico's growing plague of lime crime, triggered by market price increases, leaving farmers fighting against thieves and customers with high prices, which have risen $3.00 or 4 fold since the end of 2021. mexicans eat an average of 18 killers of the fruit per year. a stable food that served with practically every dish. all of these are, those are bug in everything from stews to tar goes you need lines in element it without. it normally would buy a kilo, but these days only

a quarter kilo because prices of risen. so much marcial bad. it's comic relief content on social media with limes depicted as green gold as a cash alternative or a commodity transported in armored security vans as engagement rings for making people millionaires behind the soaring prices. there are several factors, the climate, the season, and the state of me to walk on. the land here ought to be covered in lime green, but fighting cartels left farmers in the crossfire forcing many of them to quit. he bullets or chavez has decided to stand his ground defying the criminals with his own vigilante group. he's the only farmer here, willing to talk on camera. i'm going to have than the others. they are afraid of getting killed if they told everyone he says, pays protection money one way or the other, whether for the harvest or they transportation that gives the cartels

a share of profits while pushing a prices. anyone refusing to pay up is threatened or worth my kill. trade is going in and fixed line prices and, and then facility mom have a say, a check and dictate how much you have to pay them as he was in the country or in edison or manda. is determined to carry on the struggle. come with me, you only me see who i lost one of my sons and a lot of friends sued for alongside me. the pain that you're on the very deed guess are you able knowledge them other thomas have already fled the violence, leaving behind tens of thousands of trees to wither away with no one to harvest their freeze. and that gap in supply on the market is a further reason for the rise in prices back and you get on the farmers at least don't have the cartels to worry about just the petri line,

fill it up on that local law enforcement provide support for the farmers patrol squires up of police chief nelson avila has been analyzing the thieves tactics. it okay arthur, let them alone. what do they do? they don't come in through the main entrance. they cut themselves a path through here to gain access to the premises. when it, the thought is that i don't know if that well, he hopes prices will come down a little soon and that com will be restored to the community. he currently had his 5 lime thieves a week together with their whole. if the, if for employ, if that this batch here is stolen goods, look into this and the themes won't say where they're from. so that means we don't know who to return the meeting on some of those apprehended. i'll repeat offenders, but there is little the police can do to the frustration of the farmers and only by family mournful the quantity stolen by each individual is too small to charge them

up. so they're held in custody for $24.00 or 36 hours, whether it's a fatal, some of them have to do a little cleaning work somewhere before they're released within. sadly made us this night has been a calm and quiet one for lime farmer, david medina. he summoned a sharmen in order to keep it that way. together they make a sacrificial offering of herbs to the sacred deities. brother be after him was an error. we do this because we have faith that will work so that we're able to harvest our fruit, want dinner. and i also pray for the lime prices to stabilize so that farmers like him can earn enough and sleep peacefully again. this lee count label team comes from the nevin and i have a global team and i started

karate when i was 5 years old. honestly, i used to find it a bit boring summer, but my father continued encouraging me to go to training agenda. i participated in many international and regional competitions. my name is name ma'am mazin. i'm 15 years old and i live in tripoli, lebanon. although my father was the manager of the programming department, a at a company called soft wave and is one of for partners of the company. and my mother is a french teacher and has a ph. d here been the in many kids don't like school, but i do, i get to hang up with my friends and benefit from my education. is that with them

about that, but when i'm older, i want to be a lawyer. but it's everything is heading towards technology. i'd like to be something in between a lawyer and a computer engineer. but on, but in europe, of course, their lives are probably better. they have more freedom and more development. i'm on the other hand, in some countries like in africa, life is hard and they struggle to get basic necessities problem solving. by ha, if i was born on the day when now the corona virus is a globe problems and in my opinion, poverty is a social dilemma. it can be into many things such as murder, drug abuse, and insecurity. and hopefully there can be a solution for poverty, sola that hadn't fit

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