the green revolution global. so listen to all kinds of problems. if victorious, i'm tom is helping subscribe to those channels. we've got new york every friday tried to plan. it's a the, i look over and there's a man wearing a sleeveless shirt and he's got a side shirt on over it. and he rolls up his bod shirt and he shows me his swastika and his s s faults. and he points out divided states in the usa, a coach award is raging as a trends, right? the destructive forces, power, nature can protect us from flooding, the and invisible danger at pollution

as an occupational hazards. the transgender writes are running topic of debates in the us. around 1600000 people in the country identify us trends. while many republican controlled states the settlement restricting trans rights, more liberal ones, such as minnesota, provide a safe haven for many. here trends, people find the legal and medical support that's often denied them elsewhere. minneapolis in the state of minnesota, in the us transgender people, people who don't identify with the sex they were assigned to birth or increasing the ponds in a bitter culture war. many republic and run states across the us are passing empty

trans laws. the liberal state of minnesota, meanwhile, has declared itself a legal refuge for transgender people. sam ruled or moved here precisely because of such a protective laws. she and other trans people here, once transgender rights to be enshrined in the minnesota constitution field, the edwards is 14 and was able to start treatment before puberty. no one sees her as a boy. now she's a passionate activist for trends, right? running across the country, my buyers and i feel like a lot of children feel like they have no power in this kind of kind of here today to show the trans you we're here because we are transfer using this new place and we have an obligation to make our voices heard. sam

roller fled to minnesota from the republican state of indiana. together with her partner katy, she had to leave her beloved home. they see themselves as political refugees in their own country. sam roller feels safe here. no one stairs as she walks by. her family is run a farm in india and for 200 years, sam herself was a farmer in a tight knit community until she came out as trends. her friends deserted her, she was laughed at even threatening. then one day while out shopping, a truck parked up in front of her. i look over and there's a man wearing a sleeveless shirt and he's got a applied shirt on over it and he rolls up his blood shirt and he shows me his swastika and his sports. and he points out that the message to me was not settled

that, you know, was the final stop, you know, we, we just refused to live in tier. we through our hands up and we said it's time to go in minnesota trends, people are also able to access the medical care. they need to easy say critics and too young to be edward streams of becoming an actress. she never felt like a boy at 5. she told her parents she was a girl. oh well i always knew i was kind of a girl. i mean, i was very like fun presenting it as a child. i used to wrap a blanket around my head and pretend it was my hair. but yeah, it was very early on. i was very like a very feminine just support her follow her lead. maybe she's trans and

maybe not. maybe she's just considering things, but it became pretty clear, but when she became very persistent, you know, i'm a girl. i am not your son. i'm your daughter to the edwards and her parents. talk to doctors early on and here in minnesota were given the support they needed. he'll, he was prescribed puberty blockers to prevent her voice from breaking and just stop her developing facial hair careful about for some time now. she's been taking female hormones. dr. angela gifford specializes in the treatment of trans children . many republicans criticize gender affirming health care for minors, citing the need to protect them. but angela gepford believes such criticism has a political motivation. louis miners, she says, own the receive reversible treatment is a common misconception that essential health care for transgender diversity this fast or quick or easy to obtain. and none of those things are true and there as

long waits to get in, which by the nature gives more waiting time for young people. and parents to think through decisions doesn't assessments and intake with a young person prior to making decisions like masculine eyes in or from an icing. hormones that would have some long term impacts. and for some young people, they may pursue additional interventions beyond that, which may include surgical procedures. those are almost always done in adulthood. judy edwards wants to show your true self to the outside world. she's with the that here in liberal, minnesota. she's allowed access to hormone treatment. so it's definitely feels good to just be like growing up like a normal child. and for people who don't, it's very like scary inside because they're gonna have to grow up without to see looking in the mirror and seeing themselves that is how life was for sam roller

in her republican home state of indiana. and the trends laws are institutionalizing hate. she says, and deepening the divide between democratic and republican state. you know, this division is real. you have one group that wants to fundamentally give dignity and life. an opportunity is that people in another group that wants to take it away . and as we enter this world, the very stark part is decisions. and i just pray that we find a way out of it. many americans like sam roller, andrew partner, katie, are moving to where they feel best, ideologically, far from united to us is becoming ever more divided the floods of the world's most common natural disaster base,

trusting no certainly coastal regions, but also river basins and can do untold damage, but nature offers a solution rivers and supposed to look like this. today, many of them a straight, narrow, deep, defeated and surrounded by concrete. that's because humans have a long history of changing griffith enter landscapes, but it can use them for farming, industry, transportation, and to this house was close to the edge. this river here is a great example of how we have mess, but our landscapes as a can see it's been straightened, regulated, and died also pods. if it's flat planes on our side, which would usually provide space for over, for, and water has been drained and filled the rivers and sub planes in this area. so it's an important function though. they cross the seed is a flap sake market back and guidance, and as opposed to storage. okay? water to one of the largest urban slept in forest and central europe. it is home to many animals and plants species. but from the middle of the 19th century,

dance and bridges for railroads were billed to you right through the forest. and during that process phone over the course of this area of a cut off and an outline drive. and all this means they can no longer supply water to deflect in forest. and that's not just happening here. around 2 thirds of the floor plans along germany 79 major rivers can no longer serve the original purpose of storing excess moder because of the dykes built as the border from beating them . one 3rd of the remaining slipped in areas are covered by fields and houses and it's happening across europe. we're 70 to 90 percent of floor plans have been environmental, need a great it is on the americans are also struggling with the pete obstruct planes. so why is that a problem? flux means i'm not only important ecosystems. they also absorb and store carbon from the athens c hoping take a climate change, and maybe most importantly for the people who live along the rivers, they keep flesh flats and check. forcing him to hold and functioning floodplain forests are very important because they keep water in the landscape longer. they

soak up water and provide the crucial sponge function to go sponsored soon. that's not tsr. it's a set time you called it just, he's been studying the role of rivers and coastal wetlands for decades. then to kind of own the what kind of wood that flood plains in floodplain forests, water flows out of the landscape very quickly, leading to large flood waves that cause a lot of damage. and the cost is enormously high for society. it's what you can say soft in normal. that's why shots, together with a series of live seconds guidance, the university of flats and the environmental association novel decided to give the fluff to landscape here, a more natural face. again, feel free to touch on what about assessment 40 years ago, we realized this flood plain, far as it was, undergoing a process of expansion license, many trees development here that were not flood resistance and which displaced the tree species typical of a flood plain virus to cushion palmer at the big oak trees like this one. and elm trees like this one doesn't die off what other species that are a lot less because built into flooding like maple side of the a spread video,

a hospital when the floodplain dries out, a long come to maple trees. and here's a good example. scans of them is it seems that they have a white milky set. the other species find it difficult to compete with them, you know, not to be proficient us. dot com. yeah. and then, and those are the species to protect us against flooding. know can, although decent members can do exactly. and because those species are highly resistant to flooding uh for the send to even keep the whole process. and. ready that's because those species can handle being fed better than others. they can also handle drives better, and they sec moisture out of the side, which decreases the amount of water contribution to flesh setting events. so the research has had an idea. they started purposefully flooding a small area of the forest every spring for decades and watched what happened. i confess, jenkins, the sub deceptive. i am wanting a face to face. we found out that that allowed the forest to stay moist for up to 3 months longer. even during drug periods and that this flood plain forest was able

to adapt to these weather more dynamic conditions under. so species that don't belong here, we seated leaving space and light for the tree and animal and plant species that are typical of the floodplain far all talking with your phone. so i can even move, they literally train to for us to be able to soak up more water again and find the opens, you know, football. so as a sense, even with flood resisting trees, if they don't experience flooding for a long time, they may forget how to cope with it or how to adapt to it in an come chart says the data they collected over 30 years tells the story of an ecosystem going back to its natural state. this was a 3 d model of a 7 have to forest area that they flooded. and so they had for 3 decades. just look at how many veterans that were before they started flooding the area. those on typical, sometimes invasive species that are not so resilient to flats and drought. and now look how many green trees came back once they thought of southern the area. those a typical native slept to increase whichever system 2 flats and drops to see one

here you can clearly see that the maple is dying of this area, husband under water for several weeks. and right next to it is the flood color into europe and ash for which it looks very healthy and see have you tied all a seat? they were surprised by how fast the forest went back to its natural state. once you set it, adjusting the water levels are full incentives for us. these are nature based solutions which will help mitigate the dream events we expect from climate change up to move on. so how exactly the flat, the area which provides ended on the end of the 199, i use the city of leipzig began reconnecting old channels systems and the flood plain like this one here, the book own box to the main one, the courses so that the forest could access water again. on the multiply, reconnected the old historical channel systems that were still in place. this ditch

was partly restored by hand, and his stomach hurts me to walk. instead, the channel systems were connected and then an intake structure was built in the dyke, which fed water back into the channels systems. we thought these have been sustained highlighted. they've been cut out several paths of the diag on the river side so that the water can naturally overflow into the flat plane in order to afford to buy them. unfair. seeing a clear and measurable rise in ground water levels even within a very short space of time. and even with such a small water body, there were visible measurable results. back then it was easy to get a permit for an undertaking like that. light is supposed to day, it's far more complicated. there are new guidelines you regulations, which have to be followed. more evidence is needed more calculations. it's not as simple as it used to be as miles i've always online, but that didn't stop the cd from doing more. it brought together scientists and yellows and local officials in 2018 to come up with

a concept to rejuvenate the entire of something over the next 30 years. and they just finished the 1st project that was stored. this is towards real bad here, and design in a way where can overflow more naturally regularly and predictably like it did in the past before we also drove us to home human feet testing. as you can see here, we've moved the field relatively far away from the edge of the far is from creating a large car. it will and which the voltage can be on the freely is all quite implies and off. that's cool. down a fullback was responsible for revitalizing this old was a bad, we hadn't even done and we have several outlets through which when the floods comes, the rising goes to can fly in cheap. i'm start, it flows over this very low bank, directly into the forest invitees. because this means that with the 5.5 kilometers of new will to way which we recently finished building. we can float around $45.00, hacked has a floodplain for us several times a year to invest, ma'am us and yet that's roughly the size of 80 for football fields the and that's

also good news for the animals. so let's here, fish and very species of insects have already settled in, but it was easy to get to this point. it's a tricky process to find the balance between flooding the forest enough and so it really runs so just like i from a water and not over flooding it. otherwise the water could permanently stay there like in a bath tub, which would change and tire ecosystem. and you have to consider different interests unless you were in a big city. so there are many different views on how the forest should be used. and recreational use is particularly important that for you instead of we flood certain areas and some paths become inaccessible in spring. as a result, we need to explain this and provide information or offer alternatives. so actually we found that there was a very high level of acceptance and that people often find very creative solutions . it's quite the same. i'm so happy right now. yeah, right. because it really was years of talking to people every day,

making sure that they weren't afraid of the water coming in hoffman here. and it's just wonderful to see that we now have water in this small river. despite that size, has a big impact upon the closer the closer vehicle. i think it's not just people using the forest recreational purposes. we needed to be convinced about the flooding plants. locals. thomas had to be on board as well. the times that they can't expropriate. people without offering alternatives, bringing more watering to the landscape, doesn't mean giving up agricultural use. you just have to adapt the agricultural practices like turning once arable land into a wild meadow. and then of course has to be appropriately compensated. that means instead of planting corn and grapes, eat on all left and then thomas would, can grass in some areas and sell the hands that they would also receive a compensation payment. so that's, that's the goal for the next 10 to 15 years is to revive less more than 16 kilometers or for my arms along the river. they want to reconnect drive that river

on an internet, at least 30 percent off the left hand area by the new river. so that instead of this, the area will look like this. and here they already started turning from a farmland into effect in forest. they planted species resilient to flooding so that future floodwaters can be sucked up by the plants like a sponge that way. shots, as they can also get more water to stay in the ground. of course projects like this come with i have the price tag, the city of flats already spend 6500000 euros, logically funded by the gym state to buyback land and build new bridges and good ways for crossing the newly restored river. us to talk a little while ago was in a k to require a great deal of effort to get this project approved here in the region and by the authorities so that the further steps can be taken to preserve the floodplain forest. and so that funding in the 10s of millions can be put in place. i said this new device, it sounds like a lot of flooding is actually the most expensive natural has it in europe with one

study estimating that the river based flood risk could increase 74 to 6800000000 euros by the end of the century. most latch you can see it is situated on functions . these other ones that are predicted to suffer a lot of that damage in the future. and the changes we've made to most of our waterways adding to the fact risk not detracting from it. that's why you environmental ministers recently approved the contests of nature. reservation law that seeks to recruit forests, re what people end, and what time drove us to the natural freestone states. most of the child's welcomes as each of us, extreme like yourself. so when we consider the monetary damage that extreme events can cause to our society, and the long term effects required to address them, as it's clear that putting money into ecosystem restoration is of future proof investment invest, it's illusion to isn't so called to shop. that's why i'm one more european cities situated. in fact, plants experimenting with nature based approaches like this. and the project in

lights like has become a blueprint fathers. charles has been cooperating was cutting some stone. yes. span and fortune both to share knowledge and best practices. such as how to retain water in an area as long as possible. and as a lot of other countries can learn from that success, finding the item to move than anything, it's important to get the landowners and tenants. the farmers in the forest is on board. and to make decisions together with them on site and not just with plant us at the drawing board waistcoat. then do the tool when nature functions properly, it works for us and we can benefit from all that it offers us. and that's an insurance policy for the future, the physician over $52.00 cost. the pollution is a sign in kilo almost the entire global population breeds. uh that exceeds

w h o at quality limits at pollution causes 6700000 from a to a debt. so yeah, and then the one of the most effective cities, women are organizing to bring much needed change. this is the post world line face at about 30 to pick this. it's the 2nd largest dumpsite in india is gap, which is new daily. more than 200000 people live alone, it's fair to meet us for the last 25 years came, i have lived and worked here as we speak a pyramid comp. it'd be that the p. r used to go to work, then come home that send my child to school and do all the chose to go to excel. but for the boss here, my house hasn't been good. so piece. so i stopped going to walk as often as we are used to a 2025 days a month. but now i will close and put out the cut. i will know what estimate with them. i make out about the big for people who live this close to the line. so even the ad debrief is toxic in a city that has some of the most polluted ad in the woods, improper waste,

dispos that makes things much worse. table is bought of a group of fuck the women who have been learning about this issue. and the reasons for the has problems they're planning to reach out to the thousands of other women who do similar work. the group meets regularly with local rep as natives and conducts public hearings on social medical and environmental issues. i think this is extremely important to have this kind of community level engagement because typically what happens is that, you know, people are not at the end of their is they are unwillingly. it's bush to i live in the air, pollution heat, both outdoor indoor. so the 1st step definitely is that uh, you know, feeding awareness among them. and, you know, some of these, our nets programs i am aware of are also providing some individual level, you know, a strategy to really add up to the situations. so people are more of it of the need

for the strategies then looks on a she grew up in a family of base because it has forced hot expedients of the health problems. these by the women. things that are such as also seen in medical tests that in these b, if this is it says the bottom very function test, we found that this big of a main road about 3.6 times more likely to have a voice in long conditions and stuff. like um, chinese was 6 times likely to have worse and long functions as compared to men. and because the cooking indoors and the cooking on bio bio mass fluids or 2 we highs is equal. it looks on and the theme audits into an environment of action and research group have set up a quality monitoring devices across the neighborhood. this has local them and land . they walk and daily activities they avoid working in the waste of rent. the monitor flashes red and fig precautions like reading box,

even outside of book. back at home. the women have taken steps to cook with mispronouncing fuels. just to get all this up to the women here, use bio mass jobs. but then be heard about a government program to provide for you guys to lenders. we looked into how to access the scheme of part of the v head details to do to 35 people in the colony obtained surrender. this gas bill idea in 2022, the wood air quality to for designed debbie ford and a list of the boards 50 most when you did cities all the april lease. it affects everyone walker in the informal sector. so for the most major in perspective, projects and construction sites rely on no big workers who have little to no protection for pollution on the job. this homes that also near the construction site, so they get little respite from the pollution. that's a good little, boring cement, always created a lot of dust under the effect on them and went into a mountain like that. we had no choice to live on the the construction sector.

workers here are also organizing. i'm returning to work and see for jobs. many large, depart in an introductory book shop run by and n g, or to learn how to use the proper safety equipment. she says it made a difference. we will pick a not that of the model but i took part in this training for 15 days on august. first and foremost what safety equipment i need to protect my health is the goal. yeah. my goal on any with the efforts of women like fema looks odd and many may be a drop in the ocean with the hope that with time the will help raise awareness and promote better working conditions for, for informally was indeed looking for more insights and solutions from around the world, if he wants to meet the people fighting climate, change the test on facebook, instagram, and 6. ok. the

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