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Umesh Kumar

I am from Nepal. But I grew up in Sikkim. I grew up playing swimming in the natural spring and small creeks in North Sikkim, India. But due to the increase in population, cutting trees for wooden timber & wooden plank for building concrete houses, etc, I have seen natural springs and creeks banished from my place in Sikkim. I didn’t know about global warming and I had never been taught in detail about global warming in my school until class ‘lX’. And I was from a poor family, we did not have TV or Channel Disc to watch National Geography, Discovery Channel, or mobile phones to watch Global Warming YouTube videos.
Luckily because of Internet and YouTubes Documentaries & Videos about Global Warming & climate change, I came to know how important the issue of Global warming is. After reading some news articles, documentaries, and videos I have realized that the main problem of global warming is due to 4 reasons:
1. Increasing numbers of the population.
2. Increasing number of skyscrapers and buildings.
3. Increasing in number of vehicles.
4. Cutting of trees.

Additional: the dirtiest, stupid, and idiotic trend & belief in some parts of the world thinking that ‘if you have more children you are wealthy’

Assy Mcgee

Here in the UK the poor people have the most children at the expense of the taxpayer

Tom Nicholson

​​@Assy Mcgee Wouldn't it be better to grow the population this way, or do you think importing people is better?

Assy Mcgee

@Tom NicholsonYes I'd prefer the population increase to happen domestically , I wouldn't import at all unless the skills on offer were in some way desirable or necessary.

Tom Nicholson

@Assy Mcgee Well those poor people having more children on tax payers money is the way to go then, because low paid workers can't afford homes, utilities, travel expenses 'and' children on poor wages. My dad was able to support 7 children and a wife on one wage, these days one single wage (for lower paid workers) can barely afford accomodation never mind the rest. We've been priced out of family life in the UK and the government is concerned were not having enough kids, when they and big business caused the problem in the first place.

T J

The idea of a "global community" that we hear about in the media is just fancy talk. The truth is, it's all about countries and companies looking out for their own interests. We couldn't care less about the effects of CO2 and how it might harm people. Making profits is what really matters. Profits is also why solar energy can't compete against the interests of the Aramcos. It is dirt cheap and good for the environment but the problem is it doesn't bring in much profit.

StoleMyCoconut

Couldn't agree more!

Mugumya Paul the African NOMAD

You said it well. Profits. It explains why Overpopulation isn't presented as a problem that needs a solution.
It would be very good for the environment and for the quality of life if only we encouraged people to have fewer kids or no kiss so that our population naturally can drop...

But if we did, the rich wouldn't get more richer. For that reason we're promoting all solutions except the one solution that would help... To have fewer of ourselves. Fewer humans means less pollution and a Better planet would be here but it's not good for business

Be Low Below

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Be Low Below

Profit and free market ideology.

When we're not at the round table, we're on the menu.

Gospel of Thomas: 77th Pearl

Glad to see there is some hope for the human species 🖖🏼

Moha 99

idk friend. there are 600 dislikes on the video and I doubt we can shift from capitalism anytime soon. We're soo done. It was a good run GG humanity

Erick L

There isn't.

Gospel of Thomas: 77th Pearl

@Moha 99 we should hold onto hope, but you make a good point

Gospel of Thomas: 77th Pearl

@Erick L maybe

Morning404

​@Moha 99it was a good run for *some*.

Surf Bum

We can imagine the end of the world before we can imagine the end of capitalism—Mark Fisher

N-ze' PRIDDIE.

End of Capitalism, are you implying Capitalism needs to end ?.

Grip 47

Thanks to capitalism we are still developping.

No One In Particular

Yes, but make no mistake: it's not the world that will end, it's us.

m g

@N-ze' PRIDDIE. "are you implying Capitalism needs to end ?": You are asking the wrong question. Capitalism is going to come to an end, whether you like it or not. It is a system dependent upon infinite growth, but we live on a finite planet in a finite solar system with finite resources. It is unsustainable and every handful of years we have yet another massive crash.

Pazeer Ahmed

Thank you DW, for this amazing research documentary.

Darren W. Heffner

My heart goes out to those farmers

utsykje

Yes No life greens without Nitrogen Carbon dioxide and light!

Pecquet-DuBaLaix

Yes, lets use the Weather to ruin the Crops.

Viktor

Farmers? They are hired by corporations and get pennies for their work.

stanohps

Consumerism can't be stopped in this system. It's like oxygen. It will grow until breaks.

LMD

As someone who cares for injured wildlife - everyone of you CAN make a small difference. Even if it’s filling containers of water and replenishing it every second day. At least birds and wildlife have access to water. Remember if we ALL just did something - anything, no matter how small, together we can make a difference.

Raoul Tesla

Good one. The cheap bulk food at any box Store has nuts/dried etc. for birds squirrels. Would be fun to move to Chile, or Argentina, but would have to never see media again to avoid watching the slow pain.

Kevin Gonzalez-James

Agreed. Everyone knows it’s a problem but no one thinks they have the power to make a difference. As they say, an individual snowflake never thinks they were responsible for the avalanche.

Eidelmania

My neighbor poisons wildlife....😢

MrMustangMan

@Eidelmania take 'em out....

Elisabeth T.

Am sharing the documentary WITH your comment. Thank You!!

Saephyr Debviake

" I main solution to climate change is awareness & above all being aware of own true self & beyond where the main works starts after realisation i.e the real work starts after realisation both in & out, if one can understand what i truly mean by my words !"
Thankyou ❤🙏

Anamelikeothers

I do not doubt human ingenuity and that it is in our means to solve the problems we create before it is too late. However, corporation greed and a lack of worldwide cooperation in terms of revelant measures to combat climate change will affect the final outcome. This documentary mentions a few interesting but so isolated projects in a few European countries. Some main players are missing. We have the power to change things but will not because we are too divided and brainwashed by moguls who only care about their bank accounts. That is what's really sad.

Bartholomew Richards

Ts not CORPORATE GREED. Corporations are a vehicle that we use for development.thats it and we will have development.

Code Red

that is not corporate greed, but the short-sighted "we are poor with no skills, so let's make 10 kids" mindset is the main culprit

Anamelikeothers

@Code Red The very poor with their 4 kids have no decision power. And the 'no skills' part translates into ignorance when it comes to electing officials that are supposed to represent them. Not that it matters since government officials are indebted to industries that have no interest to address climate change. So yeah, ultimately corporations prevent measures that could help the environment.

Christian Diemond

If people would unite and work together, a great many things are possible. It is not too late.

Be Low Below

Everyone should love to that that, but we'll be fearful for our income and jobs, jobs that are actively destructive in this

Roy Hemion

Too late.
People don't care.
Are you going to stop driving?
Are you gonna stop buying factory produces products?
Are you going to go out and plant trees?
I doubt it.

Nabi Halu bin Sunda Empire

It is hard. Because what are you fighting is the power of people also. I mean the previous human act.

Mathieu Caron

@Roy Hemion It's not too late yet. We still have geoengineering. We have to talk about it more and more, it's the only thing that could now bring back the ice in the Arctic during the summer. It is absolutely necessary to succeed, otherwise it is true that it will be too late.

Joe smith

share this with every person you know. We need every person on planet to see this. The faster we act the better off we will be.

Ted V

How can you make people change their habits? How can rich countries (EU, US ...) make the emerging countries (China, Brazil, India ... ) to stop emitting carbon? People don't like to change!

sugipula

Have a strong coffee, wake up guys

Music4Relaxation&Meditation

It s not only enough to watch this video a like and subscribe it but each one of us watching this video should take an initiative as to what next step we will take to reduce our carbon foot print on this beautiful planet ! please do not take this planet for granted !

Simon John

Have you looked at the proposed carbon footprint allowance by Unilever of 1 ton per person per year? Most people in the West use 15 tons per year. Imagine you are now given a limit of 1 ton per year and have not even got through the first month of Winter and your gas/electric is cut off by your Smart meter. I would say don't take your freedom for granted.

sugipula

LMAO man.

H S

We need to act and accept our current situation in the world! If the world won't become one, and fight against climate changes. I can't imagine how the world will look in 2050
There is still hope out there

Cyberwolf

Always excellent! Thank you for your work, putting together documentaries like this one and your news broadcasts in general.

Gotta- Jibboo

I've been an ice climber for over a decade, and things are definitely changing rapidly..
Dani Arnold is a legendary climber. He was the perfect person to interview!
Thanks DW!

Perseus Persikus

What a life man! Good for you while it lasts

Ollie A

It has changed before though. Massively.
Sea levels were 8m higher 125k years ago. 120m lower 30k years ago.

Bartholomew Richards

Levels may be rising in yer part of the world but not in mine.

tubecateddevelopment • 32 years ago

@Ollie A what does that have to do with anything today?

In Captain

Not all heroes wear caps. Each action, no matter how small, contributes to positive change.

Shini1984

Nope. Not going to work. Either make billionaires pay up, or the rest of us suffers.

Peter Chui

⁠@Shini1984 I tend to agree. Then again, who are the ones buying from amazon? Who’s spending energy from fossil fuels? Who’s using google? Etc etc

Feeble Clone

Ha ha, you're precious.

izzzzzz6

The ice age is still melting, the less ice left the faster it heats. We also need to focus on air quality and land restoration. We may have accelerated the global warming but it was accelerating itself anyhow. The best we can do now is to consume less, restore more land, change current mono crop farming techniques for permaculture farming across the planet. The problem is that there is little in the way of income in these fields of work. People are naturally competitive so it is not easy to expect people to become competitive in what they can do to fix what they have damaged because the entire reason they damaged it was to profit in the 1st place. People like the idea of doing something to repair the world but we tend to wait till after the problem has caused disaster and then we act, usually too late. Why do we have to wait till the event? Are we not intelligent enough to try to average out the curve of cycles such as these? Even if we were i highly doubt we could achieve what is needed to be done to make a big difference. However we should be trying harder. Personalty i don't have much faith in the people to do what is needed to make such an effort. I discuss similar scenarios in public and 95% of people are just not interested. We also need to consider the power of nationalism. All countries need to make this effort in unison so other countries do not take advantage of those that slow their economies to help the situation. Seriously! Is this ever going to become a reality? Not likely with current geopolitics and the way people behave. To minimise my impact i am happy to earn between €5k and €10k a year. Do you really think someone earning €500k a year is going to reduce their income to my level to contribute towards minimising their impact? FFS
Apparently they are happy to breath in silver iodide every day, a form of particle pollution in order to help make rain nowadays.

Phil Knowles

I haven’t finished watching yet, but they better come to New Zealand. Because we have every single one of these problems, happening at once.

Frederic Peter Silvain Buttler

I always hear they are setting goals to cut emissions. It's nice if they do, but they should also achieve these goals...

Simon John

Their are part achieving these goals by outsourcing emissions to China. The result is net positive carbon dioxide.

funny pets

Simply amazing

Northern Colorado Transparency

Climate change is a problem, however scarcity of resources is going to be devastating!

Grip 47

Even the changes in the weather and the seasons are a problem for some idiots.

Helen Bird

Fantastic documentary. Thank you to all involved in the production and to the people attempting to make changes someway, somehow! I think, with the intense heatwaves & flooding that we are currently experiencing, even hard lined climate deniers must be questioning their erroneous beliefs.

Math Boy

@Mike Spurg
Your naked assertion was, unsurprisingly, complete and utter nonsense.
Why post comments asserting facts on matters that you know nothing about?

Math Boy

@Mike Spurg Okay - name it.

Mike Spurg

NOAA maps that cover periods of 50-100 years on flooding, drought, and heavy rain refute any significant changes overall. Storm tracks have always changed from year to year. Some years, extended drought followed by extended periods of rain. But, now we have introduced mass hysteria replacing common sense analysis.

Anita ZHONG

It is a great documentary, thanks for the good work of the team, more and more people should join in this battle of saving our home planet

jo blo

Save yourself and love Earth

DW Documentary

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

Mars Had it

@DW Documentarylair

Nilima Mahajan

This documentary should be watched by everyone n every corner. Government as well as we common people should contribute n saving our planet earth. It's time to save n it's now

Melange

@Rodney Palmer 😂 got him

AllNamesAreTaken

Please explain to me how everyone can watch every video where someone says "this should be watched by everyone".

The idea of Climate change is great for western countries, we are in prime position to look like white saviours while at the same time making lots of money to keep our countries wealthy, while those in poor countries sit on their hands and wonder to themselves, why hasn't anything improved for their country.

Grip 47

This documentary should also be heavily critisized by people with common sense and independent.

sugipula

LMAO

Troy Goss

The oligarchs who rule the entire global economy refuse to end the " planned obsolescence" that have enslaved the collective. That alone could bring relief to the ecosystem of which we all depend.

Woozah

it is called capitalism

Cyberfunk

@Woozah We can see how well the alternatives work, pushed by ignorant people that have no understanding of economics. Places like Venezuela where pets are cooked for dinner.

Jhoanne Cheng vlogs101

an eye opener to the world....what the future may bring if we are not going back to basics.

Ken Zachara Jr.

This was a truly awesome video to watch.

Simon John

Propaganda is what I'd call it.

JOSEPH KIVENGERE

Balanced, informative, factual and wholesome reporting by DW. I was fully engaged from start to finish.

The call to action is quite clear, “It’s happening & so we must act! Each in our unique ways.”

Lionel USA🇺🇲

Excellent program!

Ricky Lai

One of the key reason that the extreme weather is caused by the uncontrolled wild fire through out the world.

Ronald Woods

Really great documentary. So many powerful images - the Batagaika crater is spellbinding

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Ohhh God Please Save Our Generation From This Kind Of Apocalypse😢

Bow Bells

Save ALL future people too. Got to think not just now, but for our children & children's children 😮

Mark Rich

Excellent content, thank you

Norsepagan1973

This documentary gives me hope. Thanks.

DW Documentary

Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching :)

John Chester

Good luck getting people to unite & work together,it sure looks like the opposite these days !!😶

Serendipity42

I believe most people are good. I also think most humans feel good about being part of something, helping others, and achieving positive goals.

Unfortunately, there are major headwinds stopping this. Firstly, our media twists people's opinions of others. This makes everyone project their issues on others and think the worst of them.
Secondly, those in power tend to be there for self-interest and have sociopathic tendencies.

I think the people are ready. They would come together and feel good about it.
We are just waiting for those in power

Gary Lincoln

@Serendipity42 Sounds like we need an eco fascist government ruled like the First French Republic.

Silvia Shefa

As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises?
The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature's inner balance.
We live in a tightly-closed and interdependent system in which everything boomerangs back to us. While living in such a system, we need to reconsider what we want and think, and how we treat each other, because our human connections are the primary influence on how nature responds to us.
It is common to think that climate is dependent on factors outside of us—whether it be balances between heat and cold in the environment, or the effects of various kinds of pollution we emit—because we lack a complete picture of how our attitudes to each other bring about the strongest responses from nature toward us.
No creature distorts nature the way that we people do. And it is not simply a matter of switching to renewable energy sources, electric cars and the like; it is a matter of how we relate to each other.
If we truly wish to witness more balance throughout nature and not have to deal with all kinds of cold waves and other natural disasters, then similarly to how we have electricity, water and gas meters in our homes, we should also have meters that count how much evil we emit into the world from our negative attitudes to each other. What I mean is that if we could feel the extent to which we emit negative forces into the world, which negatively ricochet back to us, then we would wish to change this negative driver within us. We would want to switch it to a drive that makes our human connections positive, and which harmonizes us with nature.
In simple terms, when we get up in the morning, we should first and foremost consider what we need to do in order for all people to have it good. Developing such an attitude is not so simple, yet we will need to seriously work on it as we head into the future. A life of increasing blows from nature or a life of peace and harmony depends on the extent to which we impact a shift in our attitudes to each other—from negative to positive.

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The Eco Minded

Great video, i'm a small creator in this type of videos, i think the environment is something we all take care of, good luck to everyone

Lama

I totally agree with the points in the video

TANUJ AADITYA

The society needs a drastic change from shift from luxury towards sustainability

Wise

Would this stop climate change? This is also very hard to do as it's almost impossible to convince people to give up the standard of living they're used to.

And even if you do, what repercussions will that have on society? Jobs? Resource distribution? Possible wars?

Obvious solution to me seems to be to let the scientists focus on ways to delay climate change while we(activists and politicians) focus on structuring society to deal with the inevitable effects of climate change i.e how we can adapt to it.

Kumar Narayana

...western society, in particular ! what you have spread, coming back to all of us ! 🙏

André

The issue has nothing to do with luxury. Everyone deserves a good life. The issue is our economic model based on constant consumption and early obsolescence. It's a system that keeps people forever in need of buying stuff. That creates excess demand for energy and raw materials, which in turn pollute the environment. But none of this has anything to do with climate change. Climate change is another massive global propaganda effort to keep the sheep as sheep, making our lives more expensive, and again generating demand for new products. Climate change is a political and economic tool. The impact of human activity on global warming is far from being a scientific consensus, despite the propaganda to make it look so.

Kumar Narayana

@André agreed. isn't this very greed of consumption at all costs related exactly to current environmental disaster?

kevin ph.

I like this documentary, keep up the good work DW news❤️

DW Documentary

Thank you for watching and your positive feedback :)

David Cerullo

That helicopter pilot has cast iron nuts flying and hoovering in and near the mountains and hills! His skill and experience should be commended; thus, great job helicopter 🚁 pilot!

Agus Xpro

Thank You for coverage our region ...Indonesia. There were some coastal cities like Jakarta ...Purwokerto and Demak now has sank by sea water. Climate Change and global warning now showing the facts.

Sebastian White

I think people get these figures wrong, and that the situation is far more critical than people realise, but also our ability to act is far more extensive than people are realising.

Also, from a film I've seen, because of the Ukraine War, and Russia's invasion - despite everything CO2 emissions have fallen 2.5% last year across Europe!

PazLeBon

lmao less industry in war not more

Ko Neko

European industry is moving to the US

Cyberfunk

@Ko Neko No they are not, as the markets are here and if you want cheaper productions US isn't the place where you would go to.

Roberto Filacchione

I only wish you were right, but no.

Rebat Pal

In upper Himalayan area of state of uttarakhand, every day solid looking rock face is flaking and falling on traffic ,killing many commuters. The binding force of subzero water in soil is vanning due to increase of temp of air

Mae Carpenter

Plant more trees and shrubs and cover the bare soil with more plants. It will retain water and stop erosion!

Krisz

I guess the ordinary people are going to pay the dire price in the end. Since politicians are not representing public but their own wealth, the responsible companies are rather distributing the burden than making up for their destruction in the ecosystem.

S R

It's nice of them to tell you how the river levels last summer in Europe were down to the same levels of the 16/1700s (must have been all those global warming gases) as was demostrated by exposure of rocks on the river beds with inscriptions from the droughts back then. Of course another nice little detail they leave out, is how the flood markers in towns along the Rhein show flooding in the 16/1700s twice the level of the highest floods in the 20/21 centuries.

Lepi Doptera

Yes, that was before the rivers had been regulated. Nice try, though. ;-)

S R

@Lepi Doptera I didn't know you could regulate a drought. Happy to be enlightened. As for the rain and regulating the rivers....if China is anything to go by, we may soon find out how well your river regulation works

Lepi Doptera

@S R Yes, we regulate droughts all the time... with reservoirs. What other kindergarten level knowledge can I help you out with? ;-)

S R

@Lepi Doptera thanks for the laugh. obviously they didn't cover that topic in your kindergarten, cause you don't seem to know what a drought is.. here is a hint.... reservoirs are not much good when there is no water left, or it is below the safe level.

Lepi Doptera

@S R They had a drought in the Western US for the past ten years or so and the golf courses are still as green as ever... thanks to... reservoirs! Another technology to mitigate climate change brought to you by the federal government. :-)

Solutions WaterMinds

Thank you for sharing such a wondeful exposure

Les Ward

Dear DW. I would like to thank you for making this program. Some hope but more despair at the future we are heading towards. Is it possible to supply this program to each national tv broadcaster around Europe to show to the public of Europe and for those who dont use smart technology.

3dr14n G

The English voice-over on non-english speakers is one of the feature why I like DW.

nesh_san

Every year we said in our family that winters are not what it used to be, I remember beautiful winters full of snow. This year, it was cold for like a month or two, then we switched to shorts again. This year is the first year in my life I actually had to buy AC and run it 24/7, you can't open the window because the hot air make my flat unbearable. I don't take heat very well but this year is extreme even for me. I live in central Europe and it was about 40 degrees Celsius as a "normal" temperature. We are faster coming to an uninhabitable planet at this rate, even if we go green no matter the cost now, the effects of global warming will be catastrophic.

Mukhor Roy

Here in Bangladesh, The Monsoon flooding, Cyclone Just going Crazy... In Southern part of Bangladesh, People starting Agriculture in floating agriculture bed.😢

Jake Ryker

That is a technique millenia old used in South America 😮

Demon Cloud

Bang Ladies ? whao whao, chill my dude, what u saying

ผู้เฒ่า

​@Jake RykerReally?

Pik Cor

Yep. Look after yourselves the best way you can where you live because at this point it looks like the only people you will be able to rely on to help will be your neighbours.

Bella Caporado

Thank you for continuing to enlighten people.

arthur webber

Where is the one reply then

Jeff Dunnell

Propaganda works

TLFX official

we had the chance to live in the golden age. Take care people . 🤗

William Ofca

I'm sure CO2 is adding to the problem. However, our sun is going thru the peak 11 year cycle this year where hot spots and corona ejections are extreme. These solar wind storms are hitting the earth causing jet stream anomalies and magnetic storms lighting up the aurora boriolis (northern lights) to be seen much further south in northern states where it is not normally seen. There is no doubt in my mind this is contributing much more to this year's global heat problems along with El Nino in the eastern Pacific than just CO2 conditions. Don't panic yet folks as mass media is stirring the pot by blaming everything on CO2.

david cottrell

Co2 then methane are the cause.

Ravi Iyer

Absolutely amazing photography.

Energizer s

Thank you DW for this Great documentary. Hope to see more. We humans destroy everything we set foot on

JET44

That is correct. We take over the Petri dish and let nothing else survive. Too many rich narcissists on the earth that have no future vision; they just want money.

julian Holman

java's coastal inundations are also caused by mangrove eradication (so shrimp can be farmed to make it affordable for a global mass market), and by the rate of groundwater extraction for an enormous population

Grip 47

Coastal inundation have taken place for billions of years. The are normal. Until people decided to settle in those areas. The most creative and intelligent people (like the Diutch) survived.

Comfort Jombe

This year in South Africa 🇿🇦 we have had snow in many places that usually didn't usually had snow. 😭

nocomment

yeah climate change also causes more extreme weather condition since so much more energy, in the form of heat, is in the system.

Elaine Lindsey Rampertab

We normally get snow every year in kzn. But this year the snow covered alot more areas. South africa is definitely getting colder with every passing year. As the south pole continues to melt we have alot more cold fronts moving in towards south africa. A tornado hit and we also at risk for cyclones. Our coastal city's were really cold in end of May and early June. Even the influenza A in south africa came in much early than expected this year

Comfort Jombe

@Elaine Lindsey Rampertab I can imagine what December, January and February will be like...during our raining season. Oh gosh. Lots of properties shall be destroyed.

Geometrikselistikism Philosophy

​@Comfort JombeAt least its not getting hotter, getting hotter is worse

Comfort Jombe

@Geometrikselistikism Philosophy you shall see in summer. In MP it gets to around 42 degrees Celsius.

Your_Boy

Nice work ❤

Diego Gonzalez

Absolutely no way that happens by 2030.
We truly are doomed one way or another
This change should have started in the 90s at the latest

Simon John

We are living in a golden age of warm weather. What is there to be doomed by?

JenDuck

@Simon Johnwild fires.

Andy MacGregor

I was planning to sell up and relocate to the Portuguese or Spanish South Coast in a few years. After this summers heatwave I fear for the lack of fresh water that will be available and whether much of that region will be habitable. It’s making me really depressed I have to say.

Bow Bells

I will soon be gone, but my/ our children...what awaits really worries me 😮

Andy MacGregor

@Bow Bells I don’t know about you but I worry about it a lot. I’m 55 and am hoping for 20 more years most of which In retirement. Im not sure I’m going to get it. Anxiety amongst anyone in their 20’s, 30’s must be incredible

Wendi Landkammer

What I wonder about is if the glacial ice was not melting as fast, would the planet have eventually experienced a mass warming due to volcanic and other natural events, like fires from lightning strikes and shifts in the jet stream. I do believe we have sped up the process, but my question is would this have happened eventually with out our adding to it.

Icitlali Stardust

According to the Milankovich cycles, we should be living in a ice age ! ….. so, the answer to your question is NO.

Wendi Landkammer

@Icitlali Stardust I looked up what the Milankovich cycle is because I'd never heard of it. I read the whole explaination, so I could also have some kind of reference to work with.
In what I read, this comes from NASA, is the the planet is in between ice ages and the Milankovich model can't explain why.
A few years back the was a video of the Inuit people and the person they were interviewing, one of the elders said that the position of the sun had changed. The landmarks that they had followed for generations to get to open ocean to hunt had changed. I wondered back then if the shifting had some part in what was changing back then.
Then there is the evidence that the far north was once subtropical. I realize that changes are going at a very rapid rate and I do believe we've had a large part in that.
My question was is what we've done causing the process to go faster. After I read the information and the model can't explain why we are between ice ages, then it's possible that a warming of the planet is something that happens, I don't think it would be like what's going on now. What's happening now is happening very quickly and I do believe we are responsible.

5353Jumper

The natural cycles which have stayed fairly predictable for nearly a million years have suddenly been broken. The last century we are supposed to be cooling, atmospheric carbon is supposed to be reducing, glaciers are supposed to be growing. We are supposed to have peaked several centuries ago and stared the slide down towards the next ice age. But the opposite is happening, and it is happening faster than anything we have need in the natural record other than something like an asteroid strike.

But there has been no major asteroid strike. There is no unusual volcanic activity. The Sun has not done anything unusual. There is no natural event that explains this change.

The only thing that can explain this change is a sudden sharp artificial increase in atmospheric carbon the last century. Caused by human emitted carbon combined with humans destroying much of the natural carbon sink at the same time.

5353Jumper

On the Milankovitch cycles the debate is caused because typically in the cycles of the past atmospheric carbon has always FOLLOWED the rise in temperature, not preceded it.

So the Sun puts out more heat, or the planet pole tips, or the orbit of Earth changes to cause warming THEN atmospheric carbon increases typically.

Likely the atmospheric carbon follows warming due to increases in forest fires, permafrost melt, plant life and oceanic microorganisms adjust to the changing temperature and stop sinking as much carbon.

But for some reason this particular warming is following the rise in atmospheric carbon. Likely human caused rise in atmospheric carbon due to emissions and humanity destroying much of the carbon sinks.

Also nearly half forest/grass fires are started by humans, accidental fires, intentional burning to clear land, and arson. So it can be argued there are double the amount of forest fires than natural. (Though countered a bit by our forest fire fighting efforts) This adds even more carbon to the atmosphere and simultaneously eliminates carbon sinks.

The scary part is that climate science does not really know what will happen next. Normally warming causes rise in atmospheric carbon, which has an feedback loop adding a bit more warmth until nature can cycle back due to solar cooling cycles.

But right now we are in a solar cooling cycle, but have artificially increased atmospheric carbon enough to cause global warming even though the suns energy is cooling. Will that trigger even more natural carbon emissions to follow the unnatural warming and make the problem even worse?

Have we broken the natural cycles too far, too fast and caused a runaway effect that permanent breaks our climate stability.

The climate stability that has allowed us and most of the species around us to evolve to our current forms the last million years or so. Can we (and our food) evolve fast enough for whatever is going to happen? That is the scary part.

The best thing we can do now is stop carbon emissions, rebuild natural carbon sinks and hope we can restore the natural cycle before it is too late.

Wendi Landkammer

@5353Jumper it's like looking at one of those mathematical problems that take up 2 blackboards. I think there's more to the answer than just carbon and emissions. I think some of the answer is how much waste is produced world wide.
I think oil based farming has a part in this as well. If the goal is to stop the train wreck before all life on this planet goes extinct due to the planet no longer being able to support life which would make this planet the same as every other planet in the solar system, shouldn't adaptation be part of the answer as well?

My other take on climate change and the estimated time before a tipping point of no return is as follows.
While I loved the documentary and the questions it brought up and the subsequent discussion, which is good, I was left with the 'what is everybody else doing around the world and what is going on with other glaciers and ice fields. The measurement of what's going on has to be more than from just one or two places, and a handfull of culprits along with a handful of heroic efforts.
So while this is a great documentary, it leaves out the full big planetary picture.
What's going on with the mountian ranges that are part of the ring of fire? What's going on with the glaciers in those mountians? There's no mention of Antarctica in this documentary. So while it's a great documentary, it's really very limited.

john chung

How can we talk about dealing with the climate crisis when we can’t even achieve peace?

Sevanaia Seeto

Well peace is never an option when imperialistic countries want to extract more resources from their occupied territories.

Morning404

Its a good question.

리드

​@Sevanaia SeetoDeveloped countries dont exploit developing countries
They buy resources at a fair price

World Tour by AL Tarique

Looks like we are done ✅
Wish good luck 👍 to all from Buffalo New York USA 🇺🇸

Raffaele Capaldo

The concept of a 'global community' often mentioned in the media can seem like mere rhetoric. In reality, nations and corporations prioritize self-interest. Concern for the impact of CO2 on people often takes a back seat. Profit reigns supreme. This is also why solar energy struggles against the might of entities like Aramco. Despite being cost-effective and environmentally friendly, solar energy falls short on the profit scale

Frank Sears

Would help (a little—actually very little at this point) if we’d stop cutting down what little is left of the earth’s forests….

rr

Thank you DW for all your documentaries. We can all try to do something ourself i will not shop clothes before i need them. I will try to drive less and take more bus and train when i can.

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Grip 47

A new form of slavery.

rr

@D G You may be right, but have you seen how polluted and how much some cityes have? This is not healthy for us to breathe in so this is something big this clima question involves a lot of topics.

eddy mohd52

With All Due #Respect, #thankyou And #congratulations For Sharing This Video With Us All. #Yes #indeed. Dated 3rd September 2023. Day: Sunday. Time: 1800hrs 🇸🇬

John clarke

Should be "Global Warning". The current situation is dire, it's the current young that are going to suffer, god help them.☹️

Simon John

ARe you aware of the Holocene Optimum?

Dave Evans

Great informative and realistic video, but more airspace needs to be given to the benefits of rewilding (hardly touched on in this video), this could possibly be our biggest hope of extracting carbon from the atmosphere on a scalable scale with multiple additional benefits. We can start healing the earth from the inside out, restore the earth to what it should be and the natural ecosystems which are what will save us. This alongside our technology and increasing willingness to act gives me hope that we can save our planet for future generations of people and wildlife. Complaining or giving up because of this or that which may or not be true is rather missing the point of this beautiful life.

Simon John

If you wish for propaganda. There are few benefits to rewilding. What are you going to eat without farms?

Haplo

3 Days after this video is released, there was an accident in the Mount Cilo, Hakkari which still holds icefields from the last ice age. A glacier got cracked and four sightseers fell into gap, two of them found dead. In 2021, researches found the glaciers on the mountain melted by 48 percent in the past 30 years.

Jason Henza

I moved to a place where everything seems very stable.

Trever Mcdonald

There has always been fluctuation in the worlds climate, two thousand years ago the Romans were growing grapes in central England, yer only five hundred years ago the river Thanes in London froze and winter fairs were regularly held upon the ice. Our scientists did not even have records of temperatures in England less than two hundred years ago. To establish when Spring began in the days of William Wordsworth they had to refer to his epic poem “I wondered lonely as a cloud” this poem was written for his sisters Birthday, a dare we do have, the poem refers to a boast of golden daffodils, this allowed the scientists to establish that spring began at the same time then as it starts now.
Sea levels have not risen or fallen more in the last two hundred years than they rose or fell in the previous two hundred years. Low lying land around the world has always been susceptible to flooding, Bangladesh for example has flooded every year for hundreds of years, there are ten times the number of people living in Bangladesh now days and they are congregated along the coast and such flooding affects more people and is reported by the worlds media when in the past it was simply seen as an annual event.
No one is claiming that our climate is not changing, it is and always will, the question is what effect human activity affects that change. It is true that we are pumping carbon into the atmosphere but no mention is made of the fact that natural events such as forrest fires that once stepped unchecked across the world forests which used to cover most of Europe and North America are now much less common because the 80% of forests have been cut down and those that are left are controlled and fires extinguished instead of burning for months on end.
I remember being told how seal levels would rise by 30cm before the year 2000, in fact they have not risen by even one cm. Too much hype and not enough evidence to make such claims as it is mankind who are causing the present fluctuations in our climate.

HSE Aneek

County like Bangladesh suffers more from this climate change 😢😢😢

AN Q

Another amazing documentary by DW regarding climate change.Keep it up 👍.

Rodney Palmer

Terrible documentary it's all lies

Greg Bors

@Rodney PalmerWhich oil company do you work for? 🤔

Rodney Palmer

@gregbors8364  I don't I just like to use gas in my boat or my 4 wheeler for fun and in Canada where I live gas prices so high its just a way to get more money from people because government can't spend money right

Simon John

Propaganda is what I'd call it.

Greg Bors

@Rodney Palmer Oh, global warming doesn’t exist - because you like to use gas and it’s expensive. Well, I can’t argue with that “logic” lol

Scott Astell

What the world needs is political will and CEOs with ethics and the will too; it seems.

Chris RD Gymnastics, Music & Sports

Thank you for this documentary... So sad to see the Mother Earth suffering now ..its not only the south east asia and south asia who is suffering from climate change through typhoon.. its also Europe in a different way..devastating indeed

Tuneer Banerjee

as we continue to cut forests (trees) for human consumption the climate is getting warmer and warmer
when I was in school we never had an air conditioning machine in our house and we can sleep in summer peacefully
but now after 20 yrs, the Indian heat is so severe that without AC we can't sleep

Su sanne

Thank you very much for this documentary stressing the urgency of action and the hope that we can act in the face of the catastrophy.

We talked today about villages in coastal areas and on islands being given up in Europe while rivers ran almost dry.

I was wondering if the rising sea level would mean a rising groundwater level and thus the rivers running with more water again. But we didn't know.

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clive baxter

Hysterical BS

Gary Lincoln

@clive baxter Truth hurts.

Simon John

Reminds me of preachers telling its uninformed flock that the volcano or is due to erupt or bad weather and it requires offerings of first born children to stop it erupting. The worship of Ba'al is strong in this cult.

Roland Strey

wenn du deinen kopf ganz tief in eine pfütze drückst und dich nicht bewegst, wirst du am meeresspiegelanstieg ersaufen. versprochen

simba martin

The Indonesian village has more of a problem with the amount of trash. Even if there were no sea rise - I wouldn't be happy on Happy Beach. The classrooms would probably smell a bit better also. Most ocean borne plastic comes from Indonesia, the Philippines and China. They may be being impacted by global warming but they are also highly responsible for much of the ocean pollution.

Rahul Rao

Thanks a lot for making this documentary. It is very pertinent for all of us to work towards avoiding climate change and documentaries like this would definitely help common people like me to engage actively.

Polish Texan Guy

Too late to stop it.

McCheese

@TAKEOURCOUNTRYBACK US produces more CO2 than India does, and more per-capita than China does.

TAKEOURCOUNTRYBACK

@McCheese Lol

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Ryan Shuell

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.

Xavier Walker

The issue I have with these documentaries is that very little is offered in terms of true solutions. For example, if we assume the earth will have dryer conditions in some parts and people will be migrating, then let’s bring the best minds together across the world in a manner similar to the Manhattan Project, and develop viable nuclear fusion. If we create viable nuclear fusion, then we’ll essentially have the perfect, scalable energy source with no harmful waste. This means we can harness boundless energy for solutions, such as desalination plants across the world, pumping purified saltwater from the oceans into the inland regions, and bringing life back. It’s all possible.

Instead all we here is how evil the West is. Here’s an idea: let’s actually support the West so that we can innovate enough to try to mitigate the problems caused by climate change.

Oh, that’s funny, I think that’s already happening…

Anthony Doyle

Any updates on the parts of this documentary that were made four or five years ago?

nicen nice

Very well made and impactful documentary and a real call to action for every human alive today. DW just keeps producing high quality content. Share this as widely as you can.

Zak Martin

High quality anti science propaganda.

Ryan Vandy

@Zak Martin nah

Zak Martin

@Ryan Vandy But it is. There is nothing wrong with the climate.

Newshound

@Zak Martin i get all my science from Laura In graham and Jessie Smirkarse

RJ

Very nice, you make me proud of our country.

Kit Bywaters

Brilliant documentary - thank you so much!

Pecquet-DuBaLaix

Brilliant Documentary that told you nothing about The ENMOD Treaty being violated.

Erik Schiegg

Here a climate report from Germany 1911 (from Reclams Universum Weltrundschau):
"If one subjects the temperature conditions of the last few months to a critical examination, they were not abnormal in the sense that new heat records were set in Germany, in Central Europe in general. It is true that the temperature in a number of German locations has reached 35 – 37½° in the shade during the past dog days, but this has also been the case in previous years, yes, these high temperature values ​​are within the borders of the German Reich not too long ago, in the hot August of 1892, and even the absolute maximum temperature of this summer, which was reached on July 28, 1911 in Chemnitz with 40° in the shade, does not yet represent a record, since on August 18, 1892 in Reichenhall that thermometer had even risen to 41½°.

More striking and remarkable than the extremely high maximum temperatures of last summer was the long duration of the almost four-week hot period of the dog days, the tendency towards clear, dry and therefore also warm weather, which had already existed since the beginning of spring and which after a short Setbacks to rain and cold always broke through anew. This trend towards dry and hot high-pressure weather, which persisted even after the end of the main heat wave, persisted until the dawn of autumn, well into September; On September 8th, Frankfurt a.M. and Dresden still recorded 35°, on the 8th Aachen and Kleve 34°, and even on the 13th numerous places still managed to heat up to 30-31°, a temperature that during the four past cool years has not been reached in some places throughout the summer. Hand in hand with this came an immense drought in most parts of the country."

"Those who doubt our climate will now be convinced for a while that Europe is not yet on the verge of a new ice age, and that the “good old days” were no better and no worse than the present epoch when it came to the weather. There have always been extraordinarily hot and just as abnormally cool summers, even if hot summers have been remarkably rare in recent decades. However, this is a phenomenon that can easily be explained by the unpredictability of the temperate zone climate and has long been known to meteorologists. They know very well - observations which have now extended over almost two centuries have proved this as evidence - that the cool summers, as well as the warm ones, show a pronounced tendency to appear in groups. According to Lehr's investigations into the climate of Berlin, which can confidently be regarded as applicable to the whole of northern Germany, eight cool summers followed one another in the years from 1881 to 1888 (it is true that the four summers from 1907 to 1910 were all cool yes, still remembered). Going further back in the history of the weather, one finds, in the years from 1730 to 1747, 18 cool summers that followed one another without interruption, just as fifteen warm summers formed an uninterrupted sequence from 1756 to 1770.”

Sus Kagusip

Thank you for opening our eyes. Tubigon islands in the Philippines are the first victim of this climate change.

Polar Tanaka

Apabida na naman ang Pilipino😀

Doria Knight

“The situation is hopeless so we have to curb emissions.” But we know we can’t and it won’t work.

Pamela Stevens

This needs to be shone to all school children, and everyone who is not a believer in climate change. 2nd time I watched this. God Bless this Man

herbtube

Time Factor Entertainment

The size of world doesnt change, its the inside

AnimeFTW525

The environment will collapse but some people will look back and think wow, we create so much value for the shareholders at one point.

Kolo Hamala

That’s what some or many do now ! Which is why the environment will collapse

jo blo

Straight out of the Eco Health alliance playbook 👌

Cyberfunk

@Kolo Hamala And you believe to socialist countries without profit motive are somehow less polluted and better for the environment?

Saz30

@Cyberfunk no system that we have rn is going to fix this. We have to build a system that’s sustainable and be able to lower our consumption to even begin to start

Tony Do

Awesome documentary! Unfortunately, I don't have faith in humanity. We tend to destroy everything we touched.

Richard Mcdonald

Its not only that , its the fact that MONEY still RULES ALL.. In the end nothing will be left but bills blowing in the wind.

Vicki Schulz

i have been around for 70 year ...........yes!!! mankind is the worst life from on the planet... nar lets make that the universe

San N

Absolutely agree

jonathan effemey

Thanks so much for posting.

Graeme Bushell

Verting heck, we really should get around to doing something about this.