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sand. why 14? see? cuz they're heading to the mauretania and deserts. and the doctors of the incas, how bolivia is traditional healers is seeking their place in the modern world just under 200 years ago, french physicist and mathematician is yourself fully a discovered the greenhouse effect. when sunlight shines into a closed glass box, the box heats up because the energy can't escape. no one knew then that this also applied to our planets. nor did any one know that that was because of the huge amounts of c o 2 emitted into the atmosphere by burning oil gas and coal. mm. things are different today, of course, for decades we've known why our climate is changing, but doubts have been sown about it for just as long as well as about what needs to

be done to stop it. means streams, seeds, shopping communication, all the information on the world ready when you need it. the internet is a magical place, but there are also some weird corners. i'm talking about the dark underbelly, the ugly face of conspiracy theories and misinformation that shows itself and obscure forums and chap groups, especially under stories about renewables. we read the thousands of commons posted under videos and wind and solar and collected those that smelled of misinformation . and slowly, patterns emerged, the same talking points kept coming up and a futile as it may be, we decided to debunk some people kept pointing out that making wind turbines and solar panels creates emissions because it needs energy. all these materials have to be mind refined and or manufactured in order to make solar panels requires massive amounts of conventional energy. and yes,

that's actually applies to every form of energy generation. but some spelled out what others just insinuated that renewables are worse for the climates than fossil fuels. the fumes coming up to make, make these massive windmills is more than anything that we're talking about with natural gas. no, no, no, no, no. for wind and solar, i think for wind, you're not 20 grams per kilowatt hour that you a met. and for, for, for solar i think on average now look like 40 grams ovo seo. typically what our and that's fraction like 110th or 128th of what you get with a fossil fuels. of course, wind and solar have a carbon footprint, but it's tremendously lower than that of any fossil fuel. when this next drama, by the way, is also not true. a wind farm spends the 1st 78 years of its life earning back the energy that went into building the wind turbine. it's such nonsense that such

author nonsense, i mean for windmills it thinks like half a year nowadays are for to windmill to produce as much energy as it took for the whole thing to be produced and put in place. so with this one out of the way on to the next one, a classic on the renewables bashing head list, the essential unreliability of solar and wind, solar and wind are unreliable fuels. we cannot rely on renewables alone. the message here is that solar and wind will plunge us into chaos. this isn't exactly a newsflash, but the sun doesn't shine all the time. and the wind doesn't blow up. and those peddling, the smith got very excited and early 2021 record snowfall in parts of texas. deadly winter storm blanketed most of that state with snow and eyes. winter storms swept across the us state of texas, leading to severe power outages that killed hundreds of people. and the anti renewables propaganda machine immediately found a culprit. the windmills broke,

so the power grid failed. even the state governor was received millions of dollars and campaign funding from the oil and gas industry blamed renewables are when in our solar we got shut down and that thrust texas into a situation where it was lacking power. it just shows that fossil fuel is necessary for the state of texas. this picture started spreading on line and along with it's the narrative that frozen wind turbines caused the blackouts. but they didn't. the photo was actually taken in sweden and 1st published in 2015 and frozen wind turbines were really not the biggest problem in texas. a nuclear went down, all went down, natural gas went down, and a portion of the wind turbines went down simultaneously. every by the university of texas, which came out in the catastrophes after mouth showed what the biggest problem was, outages and fossil fuel power plants, especially those running on natural gas. yes,

some winter bands also stopped working, but that could have been prevented their wind turbines and many states in the u. s . and in northern europe, the don't friends because they actually have the icing equipment on them. so the problem was not intrinsically with the wind turbines, but the fact that there was no dicing equipment. what's happened on taxes was not the fault of renewables, but that's exactly what's countless people were told and believed. the online world is like a kind of cooking, and there are things that have been in that cutting cost for quite a quite a long while. there are new ingredients being at a day every time he gets out a day it gets to adopt. this is neil johnson who researches online misinformation many one time and any place in this, in this network can appear any kind of combination of preexisting ideas which will never go away. he can't replicate them. our brain plays its part in this as well. it favors information we get from people we trust or admire. and information that

supports our worldview change can be intimidating. and it's also not always easy to separate fact from fake. much of the misinformation out there does contain a grain of truth that then gets blown out of proportion. yes, solar panels do have a carbon footprint, but it's tiny compared to that of fossil fuels. yes, some winter binds, did freeze in texas, but that wasn't the main reason for the black out by a long shot context. metas also for this di, hot myth about wind turbines, that terrible for blood kills all the birds. again, it's true that wind turbines kill some birds, but cause kill significantly more and so de skyscrapers and even cats debunking is a hard and thankless job. the list of falsehood about renewables circulating online is pretty much endless. we could keep telling you what's wrong with them. one by one forever. and i guess that's what the people behind them want us to do. they

want to keep us busy and distracted from asking way, way more interesting questions, like, who's peddling these myths and the 1st place. it's kind of hard to pinpoint it. i think it's a little think tanks are right. let me think things they get most of their funding through donations and grants and wouldn't it just be interesting to know from whom usually the most important interesting thing. thanks don. tension. read a, get their money from shell, it's basically a little guest room. sometimes we do get the odd glimpse into the finances in the past, many of them received money from exxon mobil according to the fossil fuel giants donation reports. but usually most of this plays out behind close doors. the think tanks operate as non profit charities, which allows them to keep secret to the sugar daddies are quite frankly, it's been frustrating and disheartening to see all these outlandish claims about

wind and solar still out there. i guess it's important to take them for what they are a symptom, a symptom of a trillion dollar industry clinging on to its business model, doubts about the alternatives and fear of change, a helping its keep its grip. ringback ringback gold is the stuff of dreams and desires. busy in the late 19th century, more than 100000 people flocked to alaska's con dyke river to try and find it. this is probably the most famous gold rush in history that, that has been many mo, poverty was the big driving force behind the desire to find gold in often inhospitable regions. it still is in mauritania, in north africa, people come from many countries in the hope of making bear. 1480 dreams are

sent to come. true, and the scorching heat of the sahara and northern mauritania. oh, but any one looking to fulfill their dreams here has to dig deep in. they also need to be brave or extremely desperate. the mauritania government has opened up the area for gold prospecting. those seeking their fortune descend deep into the sand in search of buried treasure, but it's a risky undertaking. a senior booklet with that, there are many dangers here over if you could be working on when suddenly everything collapses in the sand falls on on them. thought we'll look for you and remove the sand until we find who did all welcome off. but there's no oxygen when you're trapped on the pit. tavares gothic indiana peloponnesian ah, ah, ah myth on what there are a lot of cracks in the rock with us. so it's really dangerous from

a safety point of view. the rocks in this part of the sahara em are not very stable with bbva mover perk. of all the gold diggers try to locate the vain and follow it into the depths upon booking a white ball. sometimes it's slanted, sometimes vertical, depending on how jag the rock is thankful to miss it falls that to the surface, i'm assuming there are veins here. the miners will try to find the part of the vein closest to the surface. they'd start digging here or for example, but those who start their whole here, for example, follicle will have to dig a lot further to reach the vein. so it all depends on the depth of the strand. more than 40000 people from mauretania and neighboring countries have flocked to the desert. with many want to escape poverty

and unemployment. they helped to find something in the sand that could give them a shot at a better life. as if it there on the name of if, if i study telecommunications at university for 2 year. uh huh. but it didn't work out if you're interested through it. it's very difficult to find a job here in the to live here. so you choose a path and walk it until you find something. it gets your question. you're just kind of sitting here for you that i tried to go abroad to further my study. i applied for visas for spain, germany and canada. fine. but the applications were all rejected or thought of 50 getting a visa is harder than finding gold. it of no further, if it has not done with the prospect of a big find,

has attracted many people from the region. 18 year old mohammed has already made his way through a number of countries since leaving sudan in 2019. who had club i own. i worked in his chair and chad, then i went to libya, a soon as you come on, ross it in algeria vision and finally here to martina down to always through the desert. i have been with for mohammad and other men who come here to work. the journey to mauritania was not easy. mafia, no, no. there's a mafia among the way and the dinner and flung in molly, for example. there are jihadists who come out of the bush and attack you. none or money. they have gone live and the ruthless folk bottle on they take everything you

have in, and if you try to fight back again, you'll be killed when his over walker did. we encountered many problems on the road, workable. go could it? oh michelle, good security is just one of many problems for the men in the desert. after the rock has been washed out, it's treated with mercury in order to extract the gold. the process is highly toxic for people and the environment. hm. the sea and bank are gone national park, a unesco world heritage site, is less than 30 kilometers away. mercury at the missouri. how in the 21, a mercury level of 0.5 milligrams petula was measured here a 100 times more mercury than about 10 years ago. mercury is the puzzle much. i goes from animal to animal. it's converted to lecture at the end of the chain and

humans, it becomes methylmercury, which is extremely talk, say o'clock fixed, come on basel dilemma catalogue. these are very high environmental costs. this has this phenomenon being adequately studied him. are we giving the issues in of consideration, or are we asking the right question was girl? while arkansas in the gold miners are not concerned with these questions, the environment is not a priority compared to their own survival and the dream of having their own little piece of the pine. if we found the stones here not very far down off, it will appear that their pollution in treasures are widely documented watching. i love watching documentaries and after cost. honestly, i used to watch netflix which are do you know the netflix up to the fair coca?

sure. i see people there who want to do something and they just do it. and amazon, oh my god, come on. i watched a documentary about the 1st person from his country to climb out, ever a sprinkler come out with his on it. and if they are part of it, i hope one day to do the same. nevada, if we're plugging in the city the federal and the world health organization estimates sit around to 80 percent of the world's population regularly uses traditional medicines. these include active ingredients from nature in tablets, teas and ornaments, as well as acupuncture, yoga or u veda and spiritual therapies. pip, traditional healers still play

a key role in many societies. that's often because modern medicine is either difficult to access or simply on afford his entries. legendary medicine men decay a wire, live close to leg tittie cocker. they with a doctor's if the inca king's office code, which is the andy's what remains of his coach at today. we met o'reilly o latino, who calls himself one of the last chi elia. i'd be a boy to this will be a good at the right a lawsuit i use this week. i a wire. know the medicinal properties of roots or flowers it out of it leaves us and fruits as it gets with her broke or lucy mia. but with lucille so that i received my extensive knowledge about plants for my

grandparents is not willing to set it up. if that, because you look at this, a mos vicky coldest of where the school you can chew are many people who have been put in psychiatric ward with elsie kept hey lebanon, traditional western medicine visits. you know, you just called these people crazy law, kuda, locals. the silver already you also has remedies for outsiders and cancer, but he won't tell us exactly which ones. a patient from the capital city of la passes arrived at his practice. already a welcomes, a young man between stuffed cats, tinctures, herbs and roots. as money art sir requested a ritual with coca leaves recorder to my lesson will become a wester i want to know from a railway. oh, what i need to do to live

a healthier life was done. we were less young and i need advice for my life, my emotional world in see, and the future of my work through this, not the news in coming now in a demo level. based on the shape of the coca leaves or earlier interprets whether someone will come into money stay healthy will be blessed with good fortune. but he also analyzes his patients past lydia, the needle worker so so they can pull this hit the the osmani has endured emotional trauma. liquidity is who his wife cheated on him at the day and he was in a car accident bush. oh, actually both of those things have really scarred and shaken him who he is, who in free, that's why he saw reserved. and now they've got to be that a ritual to heal emotional scars is prescribed or elio assures is that he's already been able to heal cancer patients with his natural medicine. we couldn't verify

this already. i also shares his knowledge with non indigenous townspeople book if you guess from chile a waiting for earlier in his kitchen. they want to stay here for several weeks to study traditional tie, a wire healing methods in the foyer to now to let him dos again in the big cities are relationships with each other are often talk, settlement this affects our energies and our sol total formula. quelly a liquid good at case, so there are many good reasons to learn about ancient medicine from people who still live in harmony with nature. easy now pro piano ah, at this hospital in the chi a y, a valley, the chief physician daniel fernandez. his respect for he lives like really a not least because many of his patients ask for them, are illegal person no me whoever wants to can get

pills from the 1st and then be treated by iowa healer again, who then prescribed an additional natural herbal medicine for gala pharmacies are almost non existent and the provincial capital chair rezani, because the strong tradition of alternative medicine has been preserved. here. dozens of kaya like o'reilly. i live in the valley, but they also feel the modern world moving ever closer as good as that void out. the foreign western culture and it's thinking are coming closer and closer to us a little bit. but i think our healing medicine will remain strong and important to promise it, even if our children suddenly only play with smartphones sources. my mother had the similarities, centuries old traditions live alongside a new digital generation. a generation that plays computer games on their

smartphones, after school, on the slopes of the andes, where they can still get cell phone service with a little further on. and it's time for yes, money ought sir. a city dweller to cleanse his soul seemed to i feel the power and peace of the soil of the earth in contact with nature them inclin enough to release. while the offering of wax flakes with icing mouths or earlier tries to bring as many arts as sol, imbalanced with prayer, like so many others before him. gather his soup on the star with each passing years . people are moving further and further away from mother nature. like she stays here, little bud. and that's why it's clear that there will be many diseases at a more drought city. yes. earthquakes and seek ways of us will. how can we save

ourselves? get the nebraska see it, these ritual? is it help us pay a tone met to mother nature, ammonia golub either that to dallas? ah, it's a star contrast to the accelerated pace of the modern world that lives on regardless with the k, a y, a heedless of bolivia. but i have a global t. m this week we're off to fiji to beta global teen below vinegar. my name is faith. run, dover. i'm 15 years old and i'm from villa. i live in fiji.

mm hm. my father is a foster at our church and my mum, she's the manager of communications and public relations in monday. ah, yes, i have the siblings, my older sister enmity, who is 19 years old. and my youngest sister, who is eunice, she's 4 years old. so i'm the middle child, les, if there's a claim with extra and when we are free, sometimes we go and check out the men gross that we had planted. and we see the

growth and the development that the, the men grove has. and sometimes we find member of siblings on the shore, so we pick them up and we go to the places where there's like small patches and you start planting and start filling up the area with more men. i have a younger sister and i want her future to be much better than what we have now. because we are fishing, a lot of environmental problems, climate change and left sea level rise. and what i want to see when my sister goes up, i want her to be happy in the environment that she use. most

of the 3rd i play with my a small sister. i help my parents and my alicia's the with the house choice. and i play with my cousins, sometimes i play rugby or maybe volleyball, and that's all from us at global 3000 this week. thanks for joining us. drop us a line to global 3000 at d, w dot com and we're on face. but to see you next time take care ah ah

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