a meeting of the loom, we'll sure for the remote island of saint hold me is a testament to the quality of the artist waters. one of the many success stories from a bastion of biodiversity in saint on november, 18th. he w hm . 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 atoll. then thrown away this kind of consumption creates mountains of textile waste. but its 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 point

3000000 tons of cost of closing land in the trash or even far away in the chilean destiny were in the outer commer 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 make shift tuts. without electricity. we drive past the piles of used tires. and then mountains of discarded cheap clothing. the stench of chemical vapors hence in the air. freddy is a local man. he's angry about the desert landfills. but he's also aware that they give people an income with you and ian vehicle here. some people come here to

find clothes for themselves or to sell at 2nd hand markets in town. what of a little bit, but 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, all right, i think that the unilateral by the dollar buys a bit of the clothes come from all over the wow. if federal bar, 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 as soon as 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 salanda. that's my livelihood.

you're going to sub that back to your cobra. 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. they are not in income plus younger. now no one takes pity on us. dinner are gone, i keep chickens and ducks. will you do? are you going and i grow some plants. are you doing well? nothing but a yellow in new by alto, species 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 low than he was given, the business refused. 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 them, but only for them. it's detrimental to the wider community miller. i'm in the

little one of warner. we had to e, kiki, the provincial capital sandwiched between 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 know, when they go medina, it depends what's in the containers at the in some of it's in good condition have our but sometimes we have to throw low quality textiles in the dumb weapon. good venue. 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, i feel okay, 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. what time to 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 and the to go that the, my 2 children and i came through the desert because we had to leave behind our suit cases containing all our clothes. but we'd have never made it. but i warner media and i've used up all my savings. we blood everywhere we go. we see

refugees who have traveled through the desert despite the scorching midday sun. there's family wants to keep going until they reach a key k, 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 it from the border. 20 kilometers away on. we're not making much progress down to but we haven't lost hope on a happy kathy. all my year venezuelan refugees in chile often end up working for a pickles, including here in the landfills site. this one is 12000 kilometers from europe, but it doesn't take long for us to find items that are clearly from germany. us side about your partner because we find discarded videos and

a phone book from breyman bowl and cotton socks that cost for euro's $0.49 a pound. you're over 9 foot. the mountain of clothing in the chilean desert is of symbol of the shocking hidden cost of the global fast fashion industry. and made of plastic sashes. these little packets might be handy, but they quickly learned in the garbage bin, and they don't ross. in all web special, we chant the journey of such a sachet 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 sessions is growing and why they're so lucrative for businesses. and so disastrous for our planets. find out more at d, w dot com slash plastic. the small kingdom of le 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 richly soto is keeping thirsty south africa alive. but the tiny, landlocked country is paying a high price for it. we didn't anticipate that the dams here in the sotu. nobody did me sorry. that is bringing back a wall and we'll put a what 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. that is needful water islip, africa,

grains high and the soles of such water remains the little islands were to project . we have been able to divert water at was hollow africa, but we are limited by the quality of our environment in the pit. i will not 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 dms is being built her to supply water to neighboring south africa. the entire village has been moved to another location. yes ma'am. how 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 adults. while other people in south africans get the jobs we go hungry. one and 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 has 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. and 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 is supposed to benefit both sides. south africa, paisley soto, nearly $17000000.00 euros a year for the water under so tight uses the dams to generate electricity for its population of the local project manager from the list. so time highlands authority tells us that him 5 years time, the dumb wool will stand right? hair, $5000.00 hectares of land will them be flooded?

as we are all away, this kind of projects would have social impacts and environmental impacts. and i, we, as the project pebble at number of fi programs, which had been there, these customer lead vocal many desert, as ways that means ha, ha, ha, mitigating against the laws of land. that the laws over there, grazing alia, fin perpetual mer 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 santa legal center. it's hoping local people like here in the village of maha. lang to now claim the compensation they were promised. yeah, tommy, it's a while on yahoo! away. down with as everyone knows. yeah,

i wrote that you were severely impacted by the construction of the dam. will you? he writes, have been traveled on may about more. we all know why your water springs have run dry load my, which i wouldn't have it for yellow, maybe in the war game tele, 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, we'll look at, we're still waiting for power in my polling. my bid in the area declare 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 wouldn't be too much to this day. we have not received anything really got had a blue moon on the body. i was conceived jill bye to

andy milk had teak governments of south africa, a passage him and the military it at the gym in this or to those governments did not have mandate from the people they did. they said need for the review or basically to the project is also threatened by massive soil erosion. the construction of the dams, along with overgrazing and the climate change mean more and more soil is being eroded by the rain and ends up in reference. a sediment in many places only by rock remains told 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 white powder endemic ponds he's roots help to keep the soil in place with the current erosion the life off site stems 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 biodiversity that enables infiltration of water or our original idea. oh done. which is ah limit is with we went to weird for 10 more. yes, there will be time when i may not be able to produce anything. and then

we become a failed state. in my opinion, we already did ring of saving this or letting it fall. lulu lines are a popular ingredient in cold drinks. the green fruits of a cool, delicious refreshment, and a lot of vitamins to $100.00 milliliters of lime juice contain 30 milligrams of vitamin c less than lemons. but still impressive. mexico is the world's largest exporter of citrus rates in 2020 at exported more than 800000 tons of lemons and limes. now, however, the mafia is getting involved as the evening descends over the yucatan peninsula. gavin 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 tail will. i need the gun to defend my limes from being stolen. everything. i don't want to kill any one. i just shoot into the air, and then they run away. decorum where 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 until its 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 pieces, worth zeros, siegel cargo federal group of the equivalent of 230 euros losses. that really add up the 76 year old sometimes stays out until dawn on the lookout for suspicious activity for oh 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. marcella avella patrols his families or chips 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 at all the trees around them. and in the morning we see that the smaller limes have also fallen off la 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 would have risen $3.00 or 4 fold since the end of 2021. mexicans is an average of 18 killers of fruit per year. a stable fleet that served with practically every dish,

all against you, salvazar back in everything from stews to tacos. you need lives in early morning. it without it normally we'd 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. he bought it 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 found the others they're afraid of

getting killed if they talk as 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. anyone refusing to pay up is threatened or worse, montgomery kill traders and going in and fix line prices and then facility more, obviously attractive and dictate how much you have to pay them. and unless you look what was the of the can plain and simple manner? well in wiley chavez is determined to carry on the struggle come what may hill was only me see who i lost one of my sons sadie was i me and a lot of friends who fought alongside me on bunyan. 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 fries. 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 squires up of police, steve nelson avila has been analyzing the thieves tactics. it okay. arthur lather 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 when 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 goose batch here is stolen goods, looking at it 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 mournful 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're released within. sadly made out 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. rather be asked to name was in essence 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. a this lee can't label team comes from 11

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 no 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 here . and 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 and i said, 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 with 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. sa, been submitted by ha, it might have been on the day when now, the corona virus is a globe problem, 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 property, sola, the hell is that the fed and that so from us at global 3000 this week, thanks for joining us. and do sent us your views on the program, where at global 3000 at d, w dot com and you can visit us on facebook to d w global ideas. see you next week. take care. ah ah, with

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