Countries in a hot spot
Description
Across the world weather is changing. But depending on where one happens to live, the changes have very different consequences. The programme travels through three different continents to show how global warming is experienced on a personal level. In India Surinder lost his wife and only son in a flood. Together with 350,000 others he is stuck in a mud hole with all his belongings gone. In drought-ridden Malawi Valentina starves, while struggling to feed her children on a small piece of land. In Denmark, however, the young farmers Lars and Dorte are now able to grow corn in the warm weather, thereby saving a lot of money on cattle feed. Climate change is not an evil everywhere and paradoxically the countries responsible for polluting the atmosphere often are not the ones suffering the worst consequences.
Runtime
29 min
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2009
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
Similar Films
Elizabeth May. The Politics of Green
Climate change 2. Beyond global warming
Arctic quest. Our search for truth
Rising waters. Global warming and the fate of the Pacific Islands
Worldlink. Spaceship Earth
Extreme Environs - ICE
Chasing Carbon Zero
Rising tides
Breaking the Wall of Coal, How Climate Science Calls for Radical Changes in Energy Policy
Pollution and the Scent of a Flower
60 minutes. The age of warming
Gathering Storm
Solar city
Can Easter Island’s Treasures Withstand Storms of Climate Change? (6/26/18)
Two Degrees. The Point Of No Return