population is growing fast. and young people clearly have the solution that future loans from you is 77 percent of every weekend on d. w. ah, welcome to global 3 thousands. loved and fought over in mexico. the mafia and farmers are embroiled in a war over lines one and yet lost the tough water 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 at all. then thrown away this kind of consumption creates mountains of textile waste. but it's actively encouraged by the fast fashion industry. some producers 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 clothing, land in the trash, or even far away in the chile and deserts were in the utter. com, a 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 of others. but he's also aware that they give people an income you know, with you and ian vehicle, can some people come here to find clothes for themselves or to sell at 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, i'm sorry. 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 the, the unilateral by that the little buys a bit of the clothes come from all over the wow, if that robot you'll effect that sometimes they come from local shops in warehouse as well by telephone. if you would that go masada, i go there and ask if they have any stuff they can give me pony it, but i want to say you are sudak, manuel olibo st 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 salon equity. that's my livelihood here. going to sub that back to yoko about manuel o leave us lives in a wooden hut on the dumb site. she and her husband get a state pension worth the equivalent of 150 euros

a month. the money she makes here is much needed extra income. they are not in compassion. they know no one takes pity on us. dinner are gone, i keep chickens and ducks or were you do i even and i grow some plants. okay. oh well, you've been awesome 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. in more than he was given, a 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 at it, but only for them. it's detrimental to the wider community. i'm in the little one 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 the 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 a low quality textiles in the dumb weapon. good. 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 the food go at the thought, my 2 children and i came through the desert. let me call it. 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 see 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. won't happy get you all 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. it us side about your problem because we find discarded videos and a phone book from breyman bowl and cotton socks that cost for euro's $0.49. i pam p. o women. the mountain of

clothing in the chilean desert is of symbol of 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 chant 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. water rich, la soto is keeping thirsty south africa alive. but the tiny, landlocked country is paying a high price for it. we didn't anticipate to that, dams here in the so to woody did miss on, that is bringing over her wall will, to the law. i see nothing of the better life that they promised us would. rather if it were up to me, i would decide against that building the damn the needful water i saw buffy, gun grains high and the soles of such water remains the little islands were to project. we have been able to divert water and twas how africa. but we are limited by the quality of our environment.

the pit i had when i beg, 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, holes, 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 le soto highlands water project started 3 years ago. one of 5 dams 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, and i wasn't. our children are supposed to be earning something from this, but instead they're out of work for i babbled while other people in south africans get the jobs we go hungry one. and they also took our fields till

another about gas in the corn fields 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. eulissa 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 jar lens face to scheme to provide future demands. it's one of the largest infrastructure projects in africa, and it's supposed to benefit both sides. south africa, paisley soto, nearly 70000000 euros a year for the water under so tight uses the dams to generate electricity for its population with the local project manager from the list. so time highlands authority tells us that him 5 years time, the dumb wool will stand bright hair, $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 i, we, as the project helpful at number of programs, which had been discussed,

mac lead vocal many, it is a, as ways that means ha, ha, ha, mitigating against the laws of land that the laws over there, my crazy alia, fin, perpetual, that led to sea 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 works for the say, i know the legal center. it's hoping local people like here in the village of my lang to now claim the compensation they were promised. it's a while on yahoo way down with as everyone knows. yeah, a lot that you were severely impacted by the construction of the dam. will you, your rights have been traveled on may about more. we all know why your water springs have run dry. the load law,

which i own will have it for your own. i me. it in the working care that then we had decided to use the money to get our village connected up to electricity. you will hear that, but the development authority has done nothing. well or look at us. we're still waiting for power in my pulling my bid in the area decry late. i don't know to tell them when i tell you 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 body. i was conceived jill bye to an democratic governments of south africa, opposed to the gym. and the military regime in minnesota,

those governments did not have mandate from the people they did, they say a need for the review of dysentery to 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. a sediment in many places only by rock remains totally to say lay as a consultant for a national project. the aims to protect the so toes, 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 shrub, but otherwise whitehouse endemic ponds. he's roots help to keep the soil in place with the current erosion the life off. such 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 bio diversity, the type of visit to enable infiltration of water. oh oh oh, which is the space 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 for letting

me 9 or popular ingredients in cold drinks. the green freights of a cool, delicious refreshment, and a lot of whitman's to $100.00 milliliters of lime juice contains 30 milligrams of vitamin c less than lemons. but that impressive, mexico is the world's largest exporter of interest rates in 2026, 40 more than 800000 tons of lemons and limes. now, however, the mafia is getting involved as the evening descends over the yucatan peninsula. w 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. a vertical deal. i need the gun to defend my limes from being stolen. mirabelle rose,

i don't want to kill any one. i just shoot into the air and then they run away. the corridor for either assert and lime 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 cancel or to live with paula. they come here and fill up their rucksacks, or sometimes in groups of 5 of them. and they take several crates for about $5000.00 pieces worth zeros, siegel cargo federal campus, the equivalent of $230.00 euros losses, that really add up. the 76 year old sometime stays out until dawn on the lookout for suspicious activity. for her, 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. marcello avila patrols his family's orchard together with his

father, brother and nephew, thieves have struck here countless times in the process also destroying the next month. harvest. when the rope of the universe, as they pack limes into the clothes, they tear it 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, eastern average of 18 killers of the fried per year. a stable fleet that served with practically every dish. all busy salvazar back in everything from studio to tacos. you need limes in early morning. it without it normally would buy a key low. but these days only a quarter kilo,

because prices have risen so much marcial. but it's comic relieve content on social media with limes depicted as green gold as a cash alternative or a commodity. transported in armor 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. with them, he bought it a 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're afraid of getting killed if they talk, there's every one he says, pays protection money one way or the other, whether for the harvests or their transportation, that gives the cartels a share of profits while pushing

a prices. any one refusing to pay up is threatened, or worse, montana they kill traders and going in and fix line prices. and then for the yearly more, how is they attacked you and dictate how much you have to pay them as he local perceived the campaign and assembled manner? while in mario chavez is determined to carry on the struggle, come what may hill was only me see who i lost one of my son, saudis. i mean, and a lot of friends who'd fought alongside me one by yet. it's a pain that you're on will very deep. you say you will not let them. other farmers have already fled the violence, leaving behind tens of thousands of trees to wither away with no one to harvest their fruit. and that gap in supply on the market is a further reason for the rise in prices back in you can turn the farmers at least don't have the cartels to worry about just the petty line for a little slow on april monday,

local law enforcement provide support for the farmers patrol squire example, police chief nelson avila has been analyzing the thieves tactics. it'll piazza, leather em, hello. 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 crisis 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 vis 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 order it by family mon pull the quantity stolen by each individual is too small to charge them. so they're held in custody for $24.00 or 36 hours, whether it's a facial,

some of them have to do a little cleaning work somewhere before they are released. if they're certainly made out this night has been a calm and quiet one for lime farmer, david medina. he's summoned to sherman in order to keep it that way. together they make a sacrificial offering of herbs to the sacred deities. rather be asked to name was an esl, we do this because we have faith that will work so that we're able to harvest our fruit, wanton. and i also pray for the line prices to stabilize so that farmers like him can earn enough and sleep peacefully again. this leakage label team comes from the nevin and i have a global team. 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 program 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. d . a bentley in many kids don't like school, but i do. i get to hang up with my friends and benefit from my education is 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 problems. submitting the ha, if i have been 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 it hadn't said that

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