In the last 30 years, CO2 emissions have increased by 60 percent worldwide. The most pressing problem facing our civilization is global warming. What solutions could there be? This documentary accompanies activists in their efforts to combat climate change.
According to scientists, if by the year 2100 the global temperature has risen more than 1.5 degrees Celsius on levels recorded in the year 1850, the consequences could be devastating for people and the environment. But will we manage to achieve this ambitious goal? Around the world, politicians, companies, laboratories and universities are struggling to find solutions.
The film team visits climate rescuers in Sudan, Indonesia and Europe. Their inventive spirit cools buildings, connects countries with green electricity lines or sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Their work helps determine the living conditions of generations to come.
Every time the women of Shagra plant an acacia seedling in the sand of Darfur, it is an occasion of great joy in the Sudanese village. The tree will drive its roots 100 meters into the ground and be better able to withstand the droughts in the Sahel than most other plants. It will secrete gum sap when women scratch the bark after a few years. The sale of gum arabic will alleviate poverty in the village.
65,000 acacias are already growing in Darfur: a blessing for the bitterly poor region, as well as a carbon dioxide reservoir that can help limit global warming.
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22 Comments
Please stop whitewashed it. There is not a happy face,or even hint that our efforts are having a meaningful effect. it.
Sorry, folks. This video is nothing more than glamorzied fear-mongering based on faulty incomplete data. There are hundreds of scientists all over the world who can challeng these claims with facts and figures, but since we no longer live in a democracy, their voices are not only ignored, they are ridiculed. Despite the enormous amount of hype, there is no climate emergency.
We urgently need to double our emissions to stop us being buried under a mile of ice when another ice age happens.Even now there are areas like Patagonia wear glaciers are advancing.Climate has always cycled long before man existed Antarctica was ice free as it will be again one day and later on covered in ice again.We are a very small cog in a very large machine and short sighted to want to bury this vital gas for life underground when nature already buries gigatons each year by natural causes.
I could careless about mountaineering they spoil people with too much and only way they can climb is with man made gear
Temperature goes up CRISIS. Temperature goes down CRISIS. Temperature remains the same, NOT ENOUGH.
Don't stress about global warming, it isnt actually a big deal. Humans are incredible at adapting. We will be completely fine at the end of the day.
I look forward to warmer days, overall it will be better for humans. More year round planting season, crops dont die to frost, we will just use desalination plants every where. Dont let this crap stress you. Enjoy life, we good 👍🏻
an eye opener documentary on serious danger rising at great pace. most of the peoples of the world are unaware of this rising danger, who need to change their life style to beat climate change. this type of documentaries are helping in awareness of normal peoples. great work
It's all because of misuse of land , Seas biosphere and overexploitation of all resources. Everything is available within the needs but nothing for greeds .
Immoarality behind needs and greeds are not properly addressed. If the trends are not changed not altered there may be a big loss to the environment and all spheres. The people are supposed to stick on best Economic yields of every commodity .
Rich and Poor all have to suffered irrespective of Areas and regions . Poor have adaptations than Rich .
Teleprompters shall not work and no knowledge driven attempts !
It would be great if our elected officials would do something about this inexorable mega-crisis. Perhaps that's too much to ask for. After years and years and years of chatter, no one does anything at all. Imperfect action is always better than perfect inaction.
I think climate change is disturbing all our world 🌎 we can think about like that we grow plants ☘️
People changing lifestyles will do nothing to slow or even bend the exponential deterioration of our situation…
Governments, banks and corporations will continue to do nothing that would in any way decrease or just threaten to decrease profits or economic growth…
Scientists only research, report and advise. Most often when they break out of the institutional restraints on speaking truth, they lose status or receive massive subsidies from the petrochemical/petroleum industries to shut up and go away. Many are persuaded to begin lying publicly about the climate crisis.
We’ve increased wind and solar massively over the past few years and…?
Emissions of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide are up!
Large numbers of electric vehicles have been sold and…?
Gasoline consumption continues to rise, oil exploration and pipeline construction receive large increases in subsidies and huge new tracts of land to destroy in the arctic…
Face the truth…
Speak the truth…
It’s the governments, the UN, the corporate elites, the economists and the mass media that control and manipulate the people and the environment and they have a vested interest in increasing the use of fossil fuels, increasing levels of consumption of all goods, natural resources and energy and pushing for ever greater GDP growth…
It’s over rover…
It’s war, pestilence and disease for us…
It’s mass extinction for insects, mammals and fish… and us…
Why did they blur the words in the beginning ?
Climate change is only 2nd with the church the biggest earners ever for the few
How do you weigh lighter than air we are not all stupid
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Sahara desert used to be green. Nothing is forever!
DW is in the forefront of pushing climate change alarmism. It is astounding that anyone takes these people seriously.
I think in the end it.s nature.s way:if a spicie is thriving too much in the end it will dissappear…just dreaming that cutting some gigatons will solve the problem is utopic;)
I vote we do nothing. Do nothing, let the mass die off and then we can talk 🙂
Art has represented the sun as orange, yellow and now go look at it. It is white hot, UV up. Earths changes it's distance over centuries. Deal with it no need to panic we cannot shut it off.
Watch this doc for the third time now.. I get frustrated every time I see the part abt the closing of nuclear power plants. Closing down power plants for climate change, then open coal plants (which means mining coal is suddenly cool i guess…on top that coal need transport from carbon puking transport.. like wtf??). These coal plants do not make any near the same amount of energy, so we lack even more energy.. We are closing the solution, way before something else is even close to substitute it. That is something which gonna destroy a lot of nature (building and installing windmills for instance) further letting out carbon, and fuel what we gonna pretend.
We close down the solution because someone doesn't like the word nuclear, and because of waste, we would be able to find ways and solutions to store safely…and do not be a hypocrite and talk about morals around the nuclear waste, when we can store Co2 from the oil and gas industry, but nuclear waste is NO NO! Just another joke, to say Norway (where I live) is ''so responsible'' and takes climate seriously. Do know that Norway needs more green energy, so they can KEEP searching for oil and gas – to support the screaming need for energy. The energy that lacks because of what I've already said. Btw. The windmills/new green energy they have started to install on mountains are just destroying HUUGE areas of untouched nature.
Norway s going green to electrify the oil platforms (which sounds good) by 2030.. not stop searching for it. Actually, they speed up the building of renewable energy sources to get out as much oil and gas as possible. Building new platforms, for the newest record big fields…
The pattern is kinda obvious and clear, right.. At least – it should be for everyone telling themselves they care! It's some cynical BS!
Nuclear plants would be far better than making it all worse for the climate, and having a lack of energy, which again devastates people with a totally unnecessary energy crisis – which again makes people not care abt the climate at all, because everyone has enough with just paying the bills, and getting food on the tables.
Know.. I totally agree, and support planting trees, and individuals doing what they can. Small or big. Changing the mindset is first step, but it doesn't help much to plant them when govs make it worse, rainforests is chopped down 50 times faster than trees are planted. Like the man is saying.. 1million planted by 2030 which will need decades to grow to adulthood. By then… if we don't do anything, the amount of forrest LOST is.. non-comparable!
So in several ways in the comment, my points are: Caring about the climate. Really caring. People can't be blind to the issues, the negatives. Just focusing on the few wins is not gonna solve things. It all goes way to fast. We are already far behind schedule.. Especially when climate change i just one crisis threatening us – on top of all the other ones.
Like I said… This really really frustrates me.. !!!