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tv   Earth Focus  LINKTV  June 29, 2022 6:00pm-6:31pm PDT

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(dramac musi - [manthis is major reat tour city ain, ather verpowerful force. nopies a trees ming, (dramac musi - [wom] this ia lot rse than thought - [jamesoh my. - weo in thereek, terally,
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anyouwh we lovewouldhatere oth, we ddestroy ur housend, - [jam] turn yr he a littlmore. th's it, gd. - [jam] turn yr when became photograer, i wantedo celebreore. the elegce and beauty onature. but i so realized there was a more complex story going on in t world aut the clision tween pele and nure. and felt a gat sensef urgey to beawitness that. but i so realized there was a more complex story going on thesevents are part otc
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d the sty of ourime. - [boy](mfled talng)o do - we're just trying to cram people in swe can g them toafety. - [jameswe've goa bunch of refe. - mypartment floodedow. yeah, anwe need get out of here ause theater isising arnd us. in t course my care, ve seen lot of dferent kinds ofnvironmeal chang (man yelng) bfothousas of yea, muchmanyeopled bieved
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that nate was ma up fr elerth, airces ter d fire. but i' come realizethere'a fif. we'ra force nature,oo. people a changg thother elen. at t same ti, the elements arehanging . and wh i want do is bring th story tlife. (saking foign langge) and wh i want do is bring(lig dramatimusic)
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wh i firsttarted tlook solid wer, ice lting, turnininto thecean,the momee that happening rit now inur tim started come ale for me itas a powful expeence. tycally, starenvironmtal chans,me th're hardo see, ty're all and cremental. sohis is wre the it was extreme e surveytarted. - [bill] james balog, james. (audienccheering - [m] james log launed thextreme ice suey by - [bl] and jt tellas th brieflyhat you did. - weut out te lapse cameraand t
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on the bedro alongde the glaciersnd they oot ery ur or evy half hr and ey've amsed on the bedro alongde the glaciersnd they oot ery million image arive of how the ice hareeated as a conquence of clima change. on the bedro alongde the glaciersnd they oot ery mno dying that thee opictes e how aciers are going away. dot normally get to see tse tngs. anbringinghat evidceo is ba to peop whong evidence [james] there such thing atruth. real it thugh the ages. i'm trng to fi it anone way anoth, (lig dramatimusic) real it thugh the ages. i'm trng to fi it anoater triling), billns of to of glacr extremice5 ichave meld into t ocean
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the te of me is steadi increasg. and althat melwater rais sea levels worlide. incling onhe shore of my n countr [man] noolk neigors one comnity are wadi through the war . - [man] is is prably wh you're nna see ar you comout the door twhr you'rerying toet today - [- oman] trafficpped the. alerfor 26 - [m] it'sising quk, high tidnot exed until 8:00 a.m.,
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yocan havelooding on a snyy i- ames] inhesapeakbay, just on dinary ds, thtide ces up an it fods the reets. nny day ooding, i mean gfigure. - norfolhas had a fo and a lf of selevel se over e last 1 years. it's the highest on t eas. se over e last 1 years. anso you c see wha thimpactas been. ause obvusly when that chuh was but, it wasn'meant to look ke that. we sawhose waterbubbling up ths that chuh was but, i me look athis, tseng plan, thesare marsplants. why e there marsh plts in the midd of a paing lot? everybodin the cy know thaturing a gh watervent likee're havg right w, u don't meown he becse thers water the roa
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- [jam] a lot these hses in this areae've beeworking are onla matter of a fto - [jam] a lot these hses orhree abo the dinary hh tides. and sobit by b by bit, a sn or eighth of an incht a me, thocean going u d beforeou know , the ocean is rhtby bit, a sn or eighth of an incht a me, your ling room. - these uses werall eleved atifferenteriods itime. so, beeen the time that that house was raised and that house was raised, the estimate of where the safe zone was from flooding has gone up, what's that, three courses of cinr block, at's wha a foot d a half u know, fe, no, t anymor safe, yeah, , not anore. now, thas safe. thin are chaing and of stl floodsven course ough we enton 1.million llars elevatinit. those anes ovethere, that's o port fality. we're onof the lgest pos on t east cot, so thas partf our economicngine ov there.
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but th most imrtantly, mo of our litaryinstallaons are. there'naval stion norfk, 're starng to sethe earl impactof sea lel rise. - navastation rfolk 're st the larst navyarbase ithl impactof sea lel rise. almost 7ships ar homeorted he, 40,000 ps peopleome toork hereveryday. , it's snificantnationalefe. when wsee a stm coming in, a a level se, it mes thosetorms more sigficant and creases e impact. it mes thosetorms you ow, if s level was rise ass projecd tothatould be significt no lone imct to naonal secity. [james] as t oceans se evy communy on theoast wille affeed and se of em much oner thaothers.
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(lht dramac music) [james] as t oceans se evy communy on theoast - name isames eskdge, i'm the yor of tgier isld. come he. fit and fomost i'm a commc, fierman, cbber, oyerman. this is e acal shding tan and whenhe crabshed, there tan out of the wat and refrigered and ty get a e way cket to w york cy. my grafather w a waterman, myather wa i ammy oldesson's a waterm a so tt my grason can rk onhe waternd his s.
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greath's sam ato, johnerobertie wee a consvativeroup.. and condrice andhe skny one'snn coult. (chuckli) wee been he for tanghundredsf years.tory and wh you looback y see that wer is th fe of taier. water anthe folkon tgier, we're joined, we're connected. (crowd cheering) (air horn blowing) - growing up on ngier s absoluly heave - almostike, i gss,ly frving in amusementark because ere's always sff to do [anna] mosof the men workn the war,
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anit can gall thughre e evening d night. - [carol] chans are, every so crab th u've eat came fr - [jam] i'm dendent on bringg in theounty of the csapeake y to t foodn the table, to and now 's that csame csapey d just tpay the lls. look at climatehangeke taie site ichesapea waters - abt two yes ago i got ant and i sected ngier asy site. beuse i reized howire e situatn was t here. new scho is built stilts. water inple's frt yas, it's to a fo deep. yoll see fh swimmi aroundn these rds. you'llee blue abs king the way.
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that's sething tt happen on aairly relar basinow. - is islanfeels soncerta that's sething tt happen and so unsady and fragile. m conscice of th - ifactharight ov therea the oce and that cos up, it'soing to terribl fothese ople. - yeah, i remember this used to all be sand when iirst camup here. acro and we uld walkll the y up theest shorline. - ah, wherwe are w there'tree stus th was hig grou at one me, and hi enough suppo homethat werup here. they had school house, a small neral ste me, and ds up he playing just . and i'm re at th timehey coul't image ath their tn wouldbe underte. - but u can sethat li underneh the sa of theeat sedints at are eosed.
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once thagets eosed, th's what'tearing the isnd apat tangieisland ia sand hl that's cped by pt sedimes. it very loe and it's verfragil now, s level has th insteadf stking theand, asou canee the wer is ju tearingt to pies.. when youe walkin up he at theite where theommunity was, ic. yeah,actuallynow a guoded and. adstdownn the isnd,yard.
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- [did] we projected the ps is was h grandmoer. ane futureea lel rise snarios. and baseon thosecenarios i esmated holong taner has leftnd my esmations where out 25 t50 years. - it'sot too late. and baseon thosecenarios i esmated holong taner tangier savable but we don't have years to wait. what we need for the government to do is to actually put a seawall all the way around tangier. - somef the isnds do wt sically e whole land kind of nged in one, and to dos a bapark estate, probly ound 100illion dlars
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tangier ally is rt of a canaryn the co mine. for what gonna hpen to aot of low lng citiealong the ameran coastne. tangier ally is rt of a canaryn the co mine. you know, a large city, like say norfolk or miami, manhattan, they can come up with the funding necessary to proct themsves, t some o'em manhsoit's gon bean come up withmix of ptectingcessary some aas and abandong some eas. manhsoit's gon bean come up witight dmatic muc)cessary
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some aas and we're goa have t abdeci as a pele,. how 're gonnhandle ts siation beuse we aa ciety doot have e resoces to pte everythg. so, are gon have to make me choic. - 's easy r people that d', so, are gon have lorou know,hy don'tou? y to find- -toet moneyo relote.' i mean, o's, yea exactly - we'd he to sta l overrom scrah and 're a to of wateen. who's nna ta a lo of watean in? and 'rehard warmen.een. who's nna ta a laging warmen.n? yeah. yeah. who's nna ta a d the older ople this isnd.en.n? - wh ialk on thbeach it like i'm taki a trip my past but m also wking int my gndchildr's futur
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'cause wre one srm awayfrom bec. (light dramatic music) - [james] the hun enterpse isased on belief that wmore or ss arable to ow what the futu hol for usand for r ch. mmers wi be hot, winterwil. the landill be he, the ocean wi be overhere. but wh those bic exctationshange it tows everhing to disary. how out everody just sit de do this xt oneo that's cing in he.
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heret goes. (lht dramac musi. - [man] ah. (wan laughg) - [m] listeno him. - no, 's doingkay, i tnk weave a naral actohere. en the cldren inhe water get ts - [m] listeno him. d 70s an80s, theater vel is gng to beeally, thworld is changg and th aworlthat thewill knoino
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thethanhe worldhat youand i kn. profound differe world smile oro? - [jam] move yr head raight uand down tuckour ch down little t. okay, ay with . we don havto wait r theschging bodary contions ar a happeng right w.es. we'rliving i the ddle of at. a photoapher, i want treveal i s a litt boy playing in s byy grandpents hou.n
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i uld lookround mend sethe contst betwe these ibetiful fosted hiling in s band the gigant piles of waste rocks that had been dug out of the mines. isowhen i gw up anding in s bstarteto put a ceras ofhosokay.contradiions d - give ithe gas? zoom, here goes. (gas hisng) you kn, i've aays known inheory th the enlop of a that rroundus is th.
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you kn, i've aays t in - atrick] ay, so at tnow i ne you guynite to walaway frome. [james] i teameup with friend mine. [patri] that'sine. - [jam] toend a cara abovehe atmosere. [patrickkeep goi. - and exrience h thinhe air aually is two, thr, go. - and exrience h thiwhoa, ok at th.is (lig dramatimusic) it toise to wt'sminutes basicay the edon of t breathae atsphere a35,000 ft. it toise to wt'sminutes basihow gh is it it's 61,0 feet. - wow.
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just few mines later it wa, staring out into the blackness of space. - [prick] ,000 fee there's e parache. -- mera's a inhere'the ca? - atrrfect coition.g. lookt that, coinental vide. fanttic. in ls thanalf an hr myalloon h floated up into at was i und it iredible at oulayer ofir is sohin. for th, i derstoodow finit and prious their is.
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matt, w do younow wee at theight spo this inot a maed - att] i w countinone ssissipp two misssippi. - oh, go this inot a maed - when step out could go for t long ri here?i. let'see. yeah, threticall (jam chuckli) - lookt this. weet a chae to loointo thsky seei the ebbnd flow oinhe air a how e ath effectshe colort of thisubstanc th we're bathi. you cat sethe air,ut intimateelatiohip witht. you ll your ngs withir mo than 20,000 tes a d. so, can't aid thfact thawhatev put intthe air, we put in.
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- [jessica] so, ju to orie ur eye y can seeere the diffent spik thate're mearing. - 're sureetting alot of cb. - essica] d etnol and luene. volatilorganic compous t - 've beensing thilot of cb. van fothe measement a milln dolls of cusm inrumentatn in theack. we're ally intested in vols a milln dolls of cusm inrumentatn in theack. cause they contrute tolimate cnge, ozonformatio in t atmosphe and th can bece harml to hum health. - sohe numbe we're sing on the seen in there arcoming out of ts inlet here? - arcomr inlehere forll ofhe instrents. - [jam] let's e wh sort ofo2 add to t atmosphe. -th's a comn one. ethanois foundn alcoho but 's also und in st normarespiratn.
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- aw, ma ethanois foundn alcoho b's onlone o'clkin sinhe afteron--tn. - i ow now don(lht music us. - [jessi] so we' in a go spotso we'llee if weee anythingrom thisell pad herehich w-- - [jam] whoa, ere's etnol. -ana large ike in mhane.e when we ok at soces of pollutioover theast few years, scificall in t western.s., when we ok at soces of pollutioover theast few see tt oil and gas ploratio are on t rise an contrite to poution. alsoecause pulation owth have a t more tffic now we have lot more peoplesin. - [jes] an o truck without y kind o we have lot more peoplesin. r pollutn control on it. - a lae spike toluene - man, lk athat. - yeah - [jam] my god, 's way, way of. - [gabele] so ese poutants g release into t atmosphe andcontribus toe
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and thenn the presen of sunsne, the x and thvocs d form gund leveozone. - [man] ont rang is sll under an ozo action ert unti4:00 p.mtomorrow - [wom] the be adce: st inside. - the exsure to one an rticle polluti can lea to increased asthma attacks, it can lead to the inflammation oofeart attk and evlgs, les to preture dea. (light dmatic muc) you knowhen you ive that van past aell and you e the chical comi out andou go, okaythat's tt one place anthen we t into the's 40,0f thosethings aune yogo well,o wait ainute, and yodot know ich onesre leaking. and en there hundds of thsands
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ofells a across e countr and en the are allhe tapipes, iluding mown, d there'all the jet airplanes includg the on i fly i you , my godit's jus likeit's ovehelming. (lig dramatimusic) - [gabrie] we have sigficantly altereour e and feel theffects it, - [gabrie] we anwe have dealy altereour e th the eects of . - okay guy e you gu ready to brushour teet let's , come o (speakinforeign nguage) okay. (speakinf(p sizzlinage) i need ttake my xapro. takeour medine guy ready? let's .
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slow. slowerplease. sler. good jobready? go job. - ow, yore going too fa,. after weoved to th parof w myaughter,livia, whad start h on meditions - ow, yore going too fa,. at t age of one d leonar was st kindaorn intot. myaughter,livia, whad start h on meditions - ow, yore going too fa,. okaygood job nogo rin your moh alfour of have asma. so, wee indooreople. we're t outdr people e pollutn here ithe nehborhoods prettyxtreme,

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