Big thanks to all the Nebula subscribers who make projects like this possible! Just know that your subscription is still well worth it as this is one of the last cases of a Nebula original going to UA-cam. This is just a legacy of how the contract was when we agreed to do this original, but that's no longer the policy.
Genuinely, I've got so much respect for the way Sam can pump out HAI videos that are jokey and educational, then standard Wendover videos which are good bite-sized learnings and then something like this which so serious and heartfelt, yet still educational. Three different skill sets but he nails all of them
I'm not from the Marshall Islands, but coming from another island republic that often gets ignored unless its for tourism purposes, I'm glad this documentary exists to tell the story of its people.
I lived in Majuro for a year and can honestly say that everything about this documentary was so well done. The stories captured and the amount of information packed into a one hour film was amazing. Truly a heartbreaking scenario and my prayers will forever be with aelon kein ad. Anij ippam im jeramman
I think a neat way to remedy the experience of the island is to do a thorough 360 capture throughout the island, so people can visit the island via VR. It can have a picture walk-through, so people can tour it like Google Maps. The picture walk-through can visit stores and school grounds. It can have a video walk-through, so people can be immersed into the cultural events.
As someone who’s Marshallese, seeing this video brings me great happiness that everyone can learn the true untold history of the Marshall Islands. But also brings me great sadness that everyone is now only just learning of the Marshall Islands.
1:02:22 is the most viscerally upsetting part. Here is a child whose life at home is on a timer, set by the immovable ocean that surrounds him. No war will defeat it; no appeasement will satisfy it.
Editing, mate. It's all down to editing. 1. You explore the topic intellectually and until the intellectual streams dry out. That is the bulk of the documentary. 2. Next you go through your guests, each one doing a summary of "how they feel about it". Yeah it's closing time. 3. You might get lucky and get a perfect priming response from one of them. If not - you do the priming through narration. Wendover got lucky with Carl Hacker staring down the abyss and thinking aloud about the future generations. 4. Music Drop. Has to be a Music Drop. You reveal the core guest. HAS TO BE SILENT for a few seconds for the tension to sink in. Has to be outside of the "speaking cast" before this moment. That's why it's a reveal - the guest is a surprise who's supposed to give a sudden new perspective when you thought it was thoroughly explored already. 5. That core guest serves as the emotional core either by being the main topic or by being the most affected by the topic. That's why priming is important. Carl's lines primed you to feel like that kid is the most affected. Because the last guest is the emotional core - they don't have to be capable of exploring any intellectual facet of the issue - they serve a different purpose. They're here to secure your emotional investment. It's such a typical strategy in documentaries, yet so powerful. Emotional manipulation at its finest. Kudos to the staff at Wendover - this was a pro move.
SGresponse lol I’m confused, what’s your comment supposed to show? What you all said is obvious, the editing is precisely how this documentary gets the attention it needs (hopefully). Are you criticising the emotionally driven editing, cause that’s what it is, not manipulation. You are not being manipulated to feel sad for these people or the kid at the end; these people have an issue and are letting the world know. Please don’t tell me you think this documentary loses all weight simply because you don’t like experiencing the same sadness and a fraction of the bleak future these Marshallese people are facing.
@@sheryaarahmed3109 Oh yee holder of presumptions :D It is a fact of life that a documentary with an agenda will manipulate you - and this is a documentary with an agenda. Is manipulation bad by default? Well depends on your point of view. I personally feel, that it is bad when it is not recognized. If you recognize the manipulation and accept it - good for you. If you reject the manipulation as a low tactic to make you care - good for you as well. Ultimately it is only bad when you fail to notice you're being manipulated. And I betcha you didn't notice that there is something very much glossed over in this social story - the magical 1.5 degrees. I am sure it is based on some study, perhaps even a number of studies. However without any frame of reference and at least a cursory glance at counterarguments to that number... it just becomes a "call to arms" and a political statement. Just like "make America great again" - except less derisive and slightly more based in actual reality. Coming back to the emotional manipulation - I consider it praiseworthy in terms of skillful execution. The morality of doing it - I ultimately don't care, cause I'm a cynical asshole.
SGresponse SGresponse yes I admit I went a little heavy on the presumptions but I assumed you’re a troll. Thing is your choice of words make it seem (at least to most people) a bad thing: ‘documentary with an agenda’; everything inherently has an agenda, that in itself is not a bad thing. Yes it is bad when you get ‘manipulated’ without being aware however that should never derail from the original point/agenda, in whatever case, unless it is flat out lies. I did notice and to that I say it isn’t a political statement as it has always been around from the earliest days and many people believe it to be realistic but ultimately that depends on your personal moral beliefs as genuinely reaching that target would destroy capital on a large scale and wreck lives on people who depend on said capital all in the hope of staving off something in the future which has shown a fraction of its feasible consequences. Frankly to see it as a political statement is foolish imo as the people in the documentary are in a state of early panic and survival; a place we we likely be in very soon mind you. Finally yes I agree, it is a skill indeed and one that works well! Morally speaking however is an entirely different convo which I’m happy to get into if ya want :P
I watched this on Nebula, It is genuinely one of the most insightful and emotional docs I’ve ever watched. Thanks Sam and Wendover crew, I hope we get season 4 of Extremities eventually.
There are other documentaries on the Marshallese around on the UA-cams, and they're equally heartbreaking. None of them, though, mentioned that during the meeting between Juda and Wyatt, Wyatt asked *twenty-six* times for the citizens to leave, each time being told the cultural version of "No", before deciding for himself they were going to go, will they or nill they. As an aside, the term "atomic playboy" was coined by Blandy, commander of the Crossroads series of tests.
Outside of Springdale, there are a few other Marshallese communities throughout the US. I was born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma. Enid is home to a community of around (at last count and with probable undercounting) 3000 Marshallese people. For a small Oklahoman city, this number is not insignificant. I grew up and went to school with many peers and friends who were Marshallese. Much like Springdale, signs in my high school were posted in three languages: English, Spanish, and Marshallese. And yet what really shocked me when I was younger was the fact that, even in Enid with a significant community of Marshallese people, we learned effectively nothing about the Marshall Islands in school. Not in history classes or government classes or any other classes. If the Marshall Islands were ever mentioned, I can guarantee that it was for no more than a second or two in passing. It wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I learned about the history of the Marshall Islands and the US’s involvement. And the only reason I learned about it was because one of my Marshallese friends happened to write a report about it in English class. That report actually set off a class long discussion (even our teacher had only known about the Marshall Islands in a vague sense) and it was an incredibly eye opening experience. In a way, this was just a long way for me to build up to saying thank you. Thanks for making this and putting it in UA-cam so that others can see it and become aware and educated about a place and a people that aren’t just overlooked but purposefully ignored. And to you who has read this far and is perhaps still feeling the emotional consequences of a well made documentary, I just want to ask you to keep educating yourself. Never stop learning or seeking new information. There’s so many more people who are overlooked or ignored out there and as long as we are unaware we cannot be of any help to them. Thank you.
58:35 "We're the canary in the coalmine" That was an inspiring insight This documentary exceeds the quality of TV documentaries, touching on very many subjects, sketching the whole picture and history. Really, really great work!
Kind of heartbreaking to see how the poet is fighting for 1.5° limit and knowing that by now the latest reports show that we already past the 2.0 °, knowing that no matter how hard she, her daughter , her country or anyone fights its already to late and their country will be swollowed by the sea and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it
I once made the following back of the napkin calculation for Germany: carbon capture and storage is estimated to cost 200€ per ton, Germany produces 9 tons per person and year, which works out to be 3-4% of the gdp if completely captured. That is roughly the average growth of 1-2 years. So stopping emissions in two years, would only mean no growth for two years. The coronavirus apparently caused the GDP to shrink by 10% in q2 2020 which means that in some way climate change is easier to stop than the coronavirus. Especially if you use carbon pricing which guarantees that the cheapest measures to reduce emissions are taken first. And ccs is surely not the cheapest measure. So if there was the political will we could easily stop emissions or even capture co2 from the atmosphere with negative emissions if we really wanted. Wanted. Want is the problem. Not can
@@trulyUnAssuming I would be extremely hesitant to do that kind of calculation. Unless you are a climate scientist there is likely a ton of stuff you are missing and you might be oversimplifying the problem but I agree with the political will part
@@trulyUnAssuming heyyy german meetup in the comment section :) That sounds quite astonishing do you have some kind of source for the carbon capture price? Would love to take a more detailed look
Seen a few "memey" comments like you find on most UA-cam videos, but I thought I would just take some time to really applaud the efforts of Wendover Productions. This video really reminded me of the Guam video, where you visit the place, and actually show the opinions of the people. This is really impactful because it gives the people of an unknown nation a voice, and shows how devastating it is for someone to lose their home. Climate Change is going to be a huge struggle going into the future, and the fact that so few people ever really care about it shows how selfish we have truly become, replace Majuro with Hawaii or another place close to home, and I think the U.S. would probably be doing something about it. Really well done, I look forward to future content like this.
I'm sorry bud, but it ain't doing enough. I mean right now, we currently have: - A president who doesn't believe in climate change. - 100 of the world's biggest energy companies are responsible for 71% of carbon emissions, with many uncaring for obvious profit reasons. - Our nation is filled with climate deniers and conspiracy theorist who spread falsity. In my opinion, we have a long way to go before we make the slightest dent of doing anything substantial, but hey that's just me.
umop apIsdn you can be critical of a country while still believing it’s a force for good in the world. He doesn’t hate the US you’re most likely just interpreting it wrong due to your own nationalistic tendencies.
Having seen this on nebula, I'd recommend everyone to watch this in its entirety! One of the most relevant conversations that will be had over the next 50-100 years is addressed in this documentary. Also a very beautiful location! An excellent documentary and I look forward to see more such content on nebula and UA-cam.
56:19 "We're damaging the reef, and as long as you drill the reef and building concrete wall, you're messing with mother nature you know." This. He knows what he did was damaging the environment, but he needs to do that just to survive. That's just... sad
Fantastic documentary I just had tears rolling... “Of all the ends the Marshall Islands could meet, though, this one stings most: to be killed by the ocean, its creator, turned against it by people who don’t even know its name” - Sam from Wendover
@Henryk Gödel This is entirely human made problem, nature was in an equilibrium before humans pumped the atmosphere full of crap. Don't scape goat "nature being our best friend or worst enemy" it's people that did this
@@ipadair7345 This is bullshxt we are actually over due for another ice age the climate has ebbed and flowed back and forth from the creation of earth. Also i don't see people like u pointing down ur smart phones or internet to combat industry
@@MommaKnowsBestest I think whether the ads actually get shown to a particular viewer depends on how many other ads they've seen recently or smth like that because there are many times I haven't been shown ads listen on the time slider
As someone from northwest Arkansas, I did not expect northwest Arkansas to pop up in this documentary. That was a shock when Tyson popped up in the animation and sam said Springdale
Imagine if he did a documentary about Newark Airport. But seriously this was well done, what an emotional documentary. Heartbreaking to see what they have to deal with because of our actions
Why does everyone hate Newark Airport? It's easily accessible from most of Manhattan, clean, and shockingly well-connected to the world for a metropolitan area's secondary airport... now LaGuardia, that's a punching bag I can get behind.
Ryan Kennedy you’re right in most regards, since I have family in Staten Island it’s Newark over JFK any day but that’s not really saying much. If only they could finish any of the remodeling
The Moment that dude says „Coronavirus“ and you realize that sam just traveled around the world to make this amazing and important documentary. Thank you!
@@aespa690 Yeah to address that, this was filmed in February when Coronavirus was out there and a threat, but not yet a pandemic and not yet at the point where travel became irresponsible
@@aespa690 But but butbutbut ... how are we supposed to spread the virus if we don't travel to distant islands and kiss and hug people with little immunity to Western diseases? Come on now, think about it!
Wow, I’m crying at the end of this documentary. It’s really hard to think, losing your home, your land, your nation to the same thing that give you live.
I was fortunate to land a job on Guam in 1990 and live in the Micronesian islands for 5 years. I had the joy of experiencing Chuuk, Palua, Guam, Saipan and the Marshall Islands. My first memory of going to Majuro was standing on the side of the road and be able to look in any direction and see water for miles and miles as the wind swept up the ocean smells. I could feel the spray of the waves hitting me as I stood there next to the rental car. I had the joy of spending time with several local families, eating fresh fruit grown in the yard and fish just caught from the ocean with red rice. You could see how much everyone loved the place. I also thought how wonderful it would be for others to see it. I became a bit advocate for my friends to come visit me in Guam but only taking the island hopper and stopping off at the various islands you were allowed. It is sad that this will, some day possibly while I am still alive, no longer be. I am already sadden that my children and grandchildren will not get to experience the wonder and awe of this place on the earth where the sunsets look like the ocean is set on fire and people are the kindness, sweetest and loving people you will ever meet.
I think a neat way to remedy the experience of the island is to do a thorough 360 capture throughout the island, so people can visit the island via VR. It can have a picture walk-through, so people can tour it like Google Maps. The picture walk-through can visit stores and school grounds. It can have a video walk-through, so people can be immersed into the cultural events.
This is quality that I would expect from a mainstream tv station. Wonderfully edited together and provides a solid historical overview of how things got to the dire state they are today.
Another victim that isnt talked about with the US nuclear testing in the pacific is the young soldiers who were sent to clean up the radiation without being told what they were doing. Sold the idea of a summer job of the beach they were given radiation poisoning and many died very young.
@Joe Marley ww2 started in 1938 ended in 1945. What your describing was the situation at the beginning of the war but by the end Japan was all alone and facing a foe who wasn't traveling half way across the world to fight with them. The Imperial Japanese Army considered the Russians far more of a concern then the Americans, look at who surrendered to who. More to the point two atomic bombs did less damage then the prior firebombing raids and where widely covered up/denied by the Imperial Japanese government add in general ignorance about the effects of radiation. WW2 was won on the backs of Soviet soldiers, feed and transported by American lend-lease and the British were the glue that held the whole alliance together because the United States and Soviet Union already couldn't stand each other. The most conclusive point I can offer is Japan gets hit with two atomic bombs doesn't surrender, Soviet Union declares war Japan surrendered to the United States within three days. Japan made a mistake poking the US in the eye but they gambled on racial stereotypes and vapor dreams that Uncle Sam wouldn't coming looking for payback, the Japanese knew the Soviet would cover their motherland in their sons before they would lose territory especially since going East was Russia time honored strategy for handling West Asian aggression.
I think the more important point was that these soldiers could have been given protective gear at least, or that the government could have given more thought to ways to clean up without putting their lives on the line. You can test nukes without having lots of unnecessarily irradiated sailors and soldiers too- you just have to take the necessary precautions.
I'm from Maldives and it's just heartbreaking to even think of ever leaving these beautiful islands we call home. The hard truth we all have to accept is that in the not so distant future we will have the same fate as the people of the Marshall islands at the rate of the current climate change, and it's probably already inevitable.😢 Great documentary Wendover.
@Victor Joseph when you are poor and uneducated you don't magically develop modern family planning practices. Most cultures in history have seen children as a crucial insurance for their future. You need a support structure as you get old and if children have a high likelyhood of dying, having many becomes necessary. As countries develop economically and as women gain control over their reproduction, the less children they have.
As someone who grew up on the US military base on Kwajalein I'm really happy to see this being discussed. Such a tragic situation forced upon people who can do very little to prevent it
@Just some Forest Ranger with Internet Access so did the other guy lol Most normies use their real names on youtube. What are you gonna do now, hack his IP?
I’ve been subscribed for over 5 years and I can still say with confidence this is your best piece of work. Absolute masterpiece of journalism, could’ve told me it was bbc or Al Jazeera and I would’ve believed it
Not only is the content of this documentary necessary viewing to better understand our world, but the production is fantastic, the script is eloquent, and the narration is captivating.
Thank you for this video on the negative effects of our rising ocean. My ancestral atoll of Takaroa is slowly being swallowed by the sea, and the acidification of the ocean has destroyed the way of life of much of my family. Takaroa was once home to over 3000 people, but today, only 600 people remain because climate change has made it almost impossible to remain. Thank You.
I think a neat way to remedy the experience of the island is to do a thorough 360 capture throughout the island, so people can visit the island via VR. It can have a picture walk-through, so people can tour it like Google Maps. The picture walk-through can visit stores and school grounds. It can have a video walk-through, so people can be immersed into the cultural events.
I'm wondering if you entirely understand the difference between reality (A set of atolls with the population of a mid-sized town here that is going to be gone) and instagram. Documenting things in real life is great, but the larger issue is the tens of thousands of people who live in them and cannot live in a 'video walk-through'.
I myself am not Marshallese, but I did live on Kwajalein for several years during and around high school. Climate change is an issue we always talk about in America, but when you see its effects in person it becomes a sort of wake-up call that climate change isn't something that will happen, it's something that is already happening. Despite knowing I had a rather unusual experience, it always surprises me how little people know about the Marshalls and the region in general, so it's really nice to see a channel this size with such high-quality content make something about this country.
Having lived on Majuro 40 years ago, I just want to let you viewers know it's not always gloomy weather. I remember few days like that one that greeted the film crew. And there are parts of the atoll that are green and picturesque and the lagoon could be glorious for snorkeling. I learned so much about the ocean there. I'm not saying bypass Kauai to get to Majuro. Just think of it more as a happy place with good people. Urgh and the sharing culture, as they called it in the piece. True that.
I'd be more likely to trust this channel if he'd stop doing things like talking about the US relationship with the Marshall Islands while showing some agreement the US has with Micronesia. (7:24)
@@juliansmith4295 definitely, you should know on which parts he’s probably saying accurate stuff and on which parts what he’s saying seems like it could be wrong.
@@juliansmith4295 The compact of free association applies to three Pacific states: Micronesia, the Marshall islands, and Palau. The agreement shown in the video is indeed the correct one.
I graduated in English today (I am Austrian) and I would like to let you know that your videos are perfect material for getting prepared for writing textes like reports or essays. The kind of vocab, the terminologies used and the structure of your content's sentences really helped me A LOT improve my English. And besides, I love the kind of topics you cover, keep going! 😉
I subscribed and found it unusable. I think they assume that everyone lives in major cities, is middle class and can afford expensive computers and high speed internet.
my problem is the keybinds or lack there of, so many people can only use a laptop for a computer and not being able to press f for fell screen or k to pause i'd rather just watch the youtube channel. also just the concept doesn't really fit me, for every educational video i watch a non educational video; this means when i go to nebula i can't see other videos i might want to watch so it's just not appealing to go on it. and one last thing, i think that the content that is also uploaded to youtube floods the originals, if there was a feature where i can only see just originals i would go on the site. now, my family does have the youtube premium family plan so i am ad free on youtube too so my opinion wont matter as much because of this but i do believe it would still be a feature worthy of adding.
What do you mean? I was thinking on buying one year subscription assuming I'll be able to see it at least. I have somewhere 6-8Mb/s so Do I have to replan the purchase ?
This is such a high quality documentary that I can't even believe it's for free on UA-cam. Excellent work, hope to see more quality content from Wendover Productions.
This gave me friggin chills Sam. Thank you. Thank you for alerting me to an area that is impacted by actions that myself and others may not even think twice about. My drive to make a difference just got that much stronger.
Hey sam from Wendover productions, just got recommended this video before bedtime, and it was a really good documentary. You've swayed me over to nebula, I just hope UA-cam doesn't kill it by encroachment. All the best to original, independent content creators! Hope this comment helps boost you
The most heartbreaking part is when you see they finally realized the end is coming, however they still stand back up and try to live on despite all the fear and regrets. Shout out to all of Marshallese!
Evolution. The people came there. From where? This is a pipe dream. It’s not a safe land even before the nukes. They may have to find a new home. Global warming is not a human cause. It’s natural.
@@kellyprice1024 Still in climate denial in 2020? The human race has been past this for about 10 years now. The research is in. You can compare the historical natural fluctuations with the rapid rise of the last couple decades in this graph: xkcd.com/1732/
@@Vii905 human accelerated global warming, but it would happen inevitably anyway. Also the Earths crust is dynamic nevertheless. In the long run there's no safe place to live anyway. The last Tōhoku Earthquake moved Honshu 2.4 meters east, shifted Earth on it's axis and increased rotation. And continental drift is still a thing, for example as a result Himalayas are growing 2,5 inch per year. This is life.
@@fish9468 You can't prevent a planet from exiting it's 5th ice age. Melting ice and changing climate is as natural as it can get. Now shut up and thank fossil fules for giving you the quality of life you can enjoy now.
I am marshallese and I do love & care about my small isolated country. Even though we are small countries but i do strongly believe that "everything's in God's hand" and i love this story/documentary. Thank you so much Wendover Productions for sharing and make the world feel what we feel and experience everyday of our life. God bless.
This is a heartbreaking account of what has and is happening to the Marshallese people, and what is a terrible precedent for what may occur for the rest of the world. Thank you so much for creating this, and opening up my eyes to their story.
That last conversation with that boy was very very powerful. I have honestly loved this documentary and I know and you know that this will be an issue for everyone yet some people are still in denial and saying that climate change is not real. Thank you for making this wendover. 🙏
Yeah, just like we were supposed to be underwater already, now it’s 2050, then it’s 2100. It’s easy to not be held accountable when you always keep moving the goal post.
This is one of the most engaging and emotional documentaries I have ever seen. Great effort. Great documentory. Watched the whole thing in one go. Thank you for this film.
Yeah. I feel like I'm balling out rivers of tears on the inside right now. I've moved 6 times in my life, but I can't imagine having my hometown and local culture dissapear upon doing so. Especially not in a way so similar to being Thanos-snapped out of existence. Except this time it's a few dozen naive and ignorant foreign nations who have decided to stay naive and ignorant. I definitely haven't done much to help besides watching this video as I have yet to face a dozen challenges of my own. One can hope that if Majuro is permanently swamped over within a lifetime the Marshallese culture will live on in Springdale, Arkansas (which funnily enough resides in Washington County of which I'm also from, just in another state) or more ideally in a nearby island nation if one of such nations miraculously survive the sea-level rise at 2.0-2.5 degree global temperature increase. This reminds me of the lyrics from the song How Far I'll Go by Lin Manuel Miranda: *No matter how hard I try,* *Every road leads back,* *To the place I know,* *Where I can not go,* *Where I long to be,* *See.....where the sky meets the sea?* *No one knows how far it goes,* *How deep it goes,* *One day I'll know,* *If I go there's just no telling how far I'll go.* I don't know how appropriate or relevant that song is to your situation in Majuro, but that's where my train of thoughts and feelings led me. In some sense I understand what one of your leaders meant by "It's all up to God." Life takes its course. We humans do the things and the things happen. Or as Isaac Newton put it "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." It is sad and disgusting that you are taking the brunt of the consequences stemming from the social and environmental inconsiderations of others. I stand with you. Godspeed.
This video is incredible. I lived in Hawaii for about two years on a religious service mission and had the chance to meet many Marshallese and Chuukese people. The stories about their lives are amazing and many are filled with laments regarding their home in the Marshall Islands. I moved recently to Bentonville, Arkansas for work, which is just ten minutes north of Springdale and I was pleasantly surprised to see so many Marshallese people here. Thanks, Sam for highlighting the stories of these people. They and their culture deserve to be in the spotlight!
01:03:52 'People can move, a nation cannot' I think there's more to it, in Telugu we have a song - Desham ante bhoomi kaadu; Desham ante manushuloi. Which roughly translates to: “A country is not just about the land; a country is about its people.”
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36:25... To simply put it: when a room full of concerned politicians gather in one space for a cause, they leave with a clause to forget about the cause
This is really neat! I live in the part of the US where the United States forced the residents from the Bikini Atoll and surrounding islands to move after nuking their island. I actually went to a talk that the Marshallese community hosted about their history. The thing that really got me was one man described American scientists in hazmat suits coming to their island the day after the bomb went off only to just leave. Even though that nuclear fallout was falling. Then another day later, the Americans came out to say that they could not drink the water or drink the fish. And then they just left again and came back a while later to evacuate them to Kili island! They were studying them! They were studying the effects of nuclear fallout on them!! It’s ridiculous!
One notable thing about this: blame the politicians. Not the scientists. If Corona should've told people anything, is scientists are never taken seriously until it's too late. having experienced it personally. I can tell you, academia started warning of this issue in early february, but the politicians used WHO as an excuse to delay action, despite for instance ISCIII had been planning for this from 2008 and activated their protocols immediately. But the lockdowns didn't come until way, way later. Because that's how the politicians always operate. They refuse to allow for the solution to be implemented until there is "sufficient data" about the harm. Sometimes not even then. Another obvious example with this is MMS. MMS is a cult that attempts to make people drink bleach, promising them it will cure their ailments. Needless to say, drinking bleach is a very bad choice. Many, many people have died as a result. And yet, this cult was allowed to make multiple "experiments" (unsupervised might I add) and many "initiatives", specially in africa. And persecution didn't start until months later. Why? How is it posible that the medical authorities wouldn't catch them before that? Oh. The scientists knew damn well this was dangerous. But they couldn't get the politicians to "violate religious freedoms" (the excuse the MMS cult use) until they had hard data about the harm done to the population. Without the study, they could do nothing. This is the reality of the situation.No matter how hard they lobby, they'll be called unprofessional and kicked asside if they try to fix the situation before the harm is already done.
I grew up in Pohnpei and I know so many Marshallese people. This is a very well crafted film that sheds much needed light on their situation. For this, thank you.
There is another option they didn't discuss in the video, raise the island. To raise Majuro's 3.7 square miles of land 6 feet would require 22.9 million cubic yards of dirt, a massive amount of material, but still well within the neighborhood of other large projects. It would be much more expensive than moving the entire population of the Marshall Islands, but it is still within the realm of possibility.
The problem is not just delivery of all that dirt, but also the idea of it even being viable as an alternative. Just because you dump dirt on the island, doesn't mean it will actually do anything other than still delay the inevitable. Gaia gives no f**** about what we do. It's not a bad idea, but one fraught with too high logistical and practical issues.
Sad reality is that atoll cannot be saved. It will be gone. Best the world can do is provide them a new place to live or imigrate easily. It is not fair or what they deserve but that is the world we have.
if you actually watched the documentary you will know that most Marshallese immigrate to Springdale, Arkansas. As the US has an agreement with the marshall islands that they can freely move and work in the US without a visa.
52:27 - While this isn't really the point of this video, it's what I took away as being the most significant message: "There are other people who grew up here just like me, that continue to talk about the good old days, the days when we grew up and things were different. But, you know, I'm reminded that we're somebody's good old days right now." Today might not be the good old days, but today is the best day of someone's life. Try not to ruin it for them.
What an amazing documentary! Very well done. I could really feel the conflict of the Marshallese - their strong desire to stay on their home atolls conflicting with the inevitability that they will someday have to leave, that all their efforts will come to naught, and it's due to forces beyond their control. You are such an amazing storyteller and it's great to see you venture into these longer form stories. Thank you!
Thank you Sam for brining awareness of and about the Marshal Islands. I wish the people the very best in dealing with what appears to be insurmountable task of surviving humanity's greatest failure. Much love from Canada 🇨🇦
Over 1.2 million views as of now... seems like that's pretty good. Realistically, stopping climate change which the best global estimates admit is already basically happening and we have no practical way to address today is a tall goal. But, getting messages out there like this one is still important and this documentary is very well done.
What a beautiful poem with such rich and strong thought behind it. I was brought to tears, Kathy gave a voice to those who do not have the chance to speak. Wonderful
23:36 oh I get it what a great imaginative analogy making it so simple to understand. i would never be able to wrap my head around this without this. how did he think of such a good connection and knew it was worth important to add and same with wendover reconciling the brinances and putting it in.
Dude that is just a basic appeal to emotion. Let your intellect rule and realize these people are fucked. The best thing you can do for them is to send boats and/or plane tickets.
@@Snipergoat1 but its our fault man! So we need to unite and cry together, so that the excess salt from our tears dissolves the sea water around the island and brings the level down by 10 meters. Have a bit of empathy for fucks sake
Sadly, I don't think that a documentary as powerful and moving as this should be confined to a platform such as nebula only. I also believe that you know this, and did the right thing posting this to UA-cam ♥️
Such a sad, important and beautiful documentary - thank you Wendover Productions for shedding light on this matter. I was particularly moved by the poem read by Kathy at the UN - even as she was literally pleading for the future of her country and her people, she took a moment to acknowledge the suffering experienced due to climate change by people around the world, including in my country - Pakistan. I have no words. Growing up, my mother would sometimes tell me that if you want to understand the character of a person, a family or a community, see how they treat animals - how they treat those creatures who can neither fight back nor speak up for themselves. Someday, in the future, the nations of the world of today will be judged by how they chose to treat the weakest and smallest of them - people who cannot change the direction of events by either threats or bribes, no matter how hard they struggle. They can only plead for understanding and support. Even if we choose to ignore it, this is a responsibility that we all bear to one extent or another - particularly the strongest and largest among us. I hope we prove worthy.
Big thanks to all the Nebula subscribers who make projects like this possible! Just know that your subscription is still well worth it as this is one of the last cases of a Nebula original going to UA-cam. This is just a legacy of how the contract was when we agreed to do this original, but that's no longer the policy.
@@dorito5086 already one on CS from him matey
Your vids
Are great.
I signed up for Nebula about a week ago and it has been my go-to platform. Really great content and value. Thanks!
Do you get nebula aswell with the monthly subscription
I took Nebula Subscription 👍👍🤩..It is great...
Genuinely, I've got so much respect for the way Sam can pump out HAI videos that are jokey and educational, then standard Wendover videos which are good bite-sized learnings and then something like this which so serious and heartfelt, yet still educational. Three different skill sets but he nails all of them
Thank you, that's the goal!
Oh, the rare wendover replies on a comment is out there.. Oh! I think I saw it.
Curse you and your leftist propaganda, Sam! Stop pointing out our society’s issues!!!
@@Miguelitojones1 If that's sarcasm please say so, because it's gotten to a point where I honestly can't confidently tell anymore.
Wait, the one who made HAI and Wendover REALLY is the same person?
everybody gangsta until wendover gets rid of jokes and gets serious
majuro should build bricks into the ocean
Wendover Productions is always pretty serious; it's HAI that isn't as much
oh shit first time i had a comment get steam
@@ELS-tone What's HAI?
@@madattaktube I am still waiting for the: "Oh wait, so it was him?"
I'm not from the Marshall Islands, but coming from another island republic that often gets ignored unless its for tourism purposes, I'm glad this documentary exists to tell the story of its people.
What island republic are you from?
@@Ingyboy911 Maldives I presume
It's too bad that this is all emotion and no facts. The Marshall Islands aren't sinking.
@@Replicant9900 yeah you're right, the ocean is rising to cover them.
@@Ingyboy911 Maldives
I lived in Majuro for a year and can honestly say that everything about this documentary was so well done. The stories captured and the amount of information packed into a one hour film was amazing. Truly a heartbreaking scenario and my prayers will forever be with aelon kein ad. Anij ippam im jeramman
I think a neat way to remedy the experience of the island is to do a thorough 360 capture throughout the island, so people can visit the island via VR. It can have a picture walk-through, so people can tour it like Google Maps. The picture walk-through can visit stores and school grounds. It can have a video walk-through, so people can be immersed into the cultural events.
@@mihaelab.1104 the clock is ticking...
@@mihaelab.1104 that sounds like a really great idea.
As someone who’s Marshallese, seeing this video brings me great happiness that everyone can learn the true untold history of the Marshall Islands. But also brings me great sadness that everyone is now only just learning of the Marshall Islands.
1:02:22 is the most viscerally upsetting part. Here is a child whose life at home is on a timer, set by the immovable ocean that surrounds him. No war will defeat it; no appeasement will satisfy it.
Editing, mate. It's all down to editing.
1. You explore the topic intellectually and until the intellectual streams dry out. That is the bulk of the documentary.
2. Next you go through your guests, each one doing a summary of "how they feel about it". Yeah it's closing time.
3. You might get lucky and get a perfect priming response from one of them. If not - you do the priming through narration. Wendover got lucky with Carl Hacker staring down the abyss and thinking aloud about the future generations.
4. Music Drop. Has to be a Music Drop. You reveal the core guest. HAS TO BE SILENT for a few seconds for the tension to sink in. Has to be outside of the "speaking cast" before this moment. That's why it's a reveal - the guest is a surprise who's supposed to give a sudden new perspective when you thought it was thoroughly explored already.
5. That core guest serves as the emotional core either by being the main topic or by being the most affected by the topic. That's why priming is important. Carl's lines primed you to feel like that kid is the most affected. Because the last guest is the emotional core - they don't have to be capable of exploring any intellectual facet of the issue - they serve a different purpose. They're here to secure your emotional investment.
It's such a typical strategy in documentaries, yet so powerful. Emotional manipulation at its finest. Kudos to the staff at Wendover - this was a pro move.
SGresponse lol I’m confused, what’s your comment supposed to show?
What you all said is obvious, the editing is precisely how this documentary gets the attention it needs (hopefully). Are you criticising the emotionally driven editing, cause that’s what it is, not manipulation. You are not being manipulated to feel sad for these people or the kid at the end; these people have an issue and are letting the world know.
Please don’t tell me you think this documentary loses all weight simply because you don’t like experiencing the same sadness and a fraction of the bleak future these Marshallese people are facing.
@@sheryaarahmed3109
Oh yee holder of presumptions :D
It is a fact of life that a documentary with an agenda will manipulate you - and this is a documentary with an agenda. Is manipulation bad by default? Well depends on your point of view. I personally feel, that it is bad when it is not recognized. If you recognize the manipulation and accept it - good for you. If you reject the manipulation as a low tactic to make you care - good for you as well.
Ultimately it is only bad when you fail to notice you're being manipulated. And I betcha you didn't notice that there is something very much glossed over in this social story - the magical 1.5 degrees. I am sure it is based on some study, perhaps even a number of studies. However without any frame of reference and at least a cursory glance at counterarguments to that number... it just becomes a "call to arms" and a political statement. Just like "make America great again" - except less derisive and slightly more based in actual reality.
Coming back to the emotional manipulation - I consider it praiseworthy in terms of skillful execution. The morality of doing it - I ultimately don't care, cause I'm a cynical asshole.
"No war will defeat it" the only way to defeat it is to mobilize corporations on a war footing.
SGresponse SGresponse yes I admit I went a little heavy on the presumptions but I assumed you’re a troll.
Thing is your choice of words make it seem (at least to most people) a bad thing: ‘documentary with an agenda’; everything inherently has an agenda, that in itself is not a bad thing.
Yes it is bad when you get ‘manipulated’ without being aware however that should never derail from the original point/agenda, in whatever case, unless it is flat out lies.
I did notice and to that I say it isn’t a political statement as it has always been around from the earliest days and many people believe it to be realistic but ultimately that depends on your personal moral beliefs as genuinely reaching that target would destroy capital on a large scale and wreck lives on people who depend on said capital all in the hope of staving off something in the future which has shown a fraction of its feasible consequences.
Frankly to see it as a political statement is foolish imo as the people in the documentary are in a state of early panic and survival; a place we we likely be in very soon mind you.
Finally yes I agree, it is a skill indeed and one that works well! Morally speaking however is an entirely different convo which I’m happy to get into if ya want :P
"We're someone's good 'ol days now." This is such a sweet sentiment, I wish more people had this mentality. ♡
Me too, it makes me so happy seeing genuinely happy and nice people like that mayor
I watched this on Nebula, It is genuinely one of the most insightful and emotional docs I’ve ever watched.
Thanks Sam and Wendover crew, I hope we get season 4 of Extremities eventually.
who is sam?
@@jaimeleiva4865 the narrator
Extremities was great.
There are other documentaries on the Marshallese around on the UA-cams, and they're equally heartbreaking.
None of them, though, mentioned that during the meeting between Juda and Wyatt, Wyatt asked *twenty-six* times for the citizens to leave, each time being told the cultural version of "No", before deciding for himself they were going to go, will they or nill they.
As an aside, the term "atomic playboy" was coined by Blandy, commander of the Crossroads series of tests.
Outside of Springdale, there are a few other Marshallese communities throughout the US. I was born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma. Enid is home to a community of around (at last count and with probable undercounting) 3000 Marshallese people. For a small Oklahoman city, this number is not insignificant. I grew up and went to school with many peers and friends who were Marshallese. Much like Springdale, signs in my high school were posted in three languages: English, Spanish, and Marshallese. And yet what really shocked me when I was younger was the fact that, even in Enid with a significant community of Marshallese people, we learned effectively nothing about the Marshall Islands in school. Not in history classes or government classes or any other classes. If the Marshall Islands were ever mentioned, I can guarantee that it was for no more than a second or two in passing. It wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I learned about the history of the Marshall Islands and the US’s involvement. And the only reason I learned about it was because one of my Marshallese friends happened to write a report about it in English class. That report actually set off a class long discussion (even our teacher had only known about the Marshall Islands in a vague sense) and it was an incredibly eye opening experience. In a way, this was just a long way for me to build up to saying thank you. Thanks for making this and putting it in UA-cam so that others can see it and become aware and educated about a place and a people that aren’t just overlooked but purposefully ignored. And to you who has read this far and is perhaps still feeling the emotional consequences of a well made documentary, I just want to ask you to keep educating yourself. Never stop learning or seeking new information. There’s so many more people who are overlooked or ignored out there and as long as we are unaware we cannot be of any help to them. Thank you.
The US not caring about human rights and lies in order to do whatever they want? Americans are like that, nothing new.
That’s a looooooooooooooong comment
58:35 "We're the canary in the coalmine"
That was an inspiring insight
This documentary exceeds the quality of TV documentaries, touching on very many subjects, sketching the whole picture and history.
Really, really great work!
Ok
Kind of heartbreaking to see how the poet is fighting for 1.5° limit and knowing that by now the latest reports show that we already past the 2.0 °, knowing that no matter how hard she, her daughter , her country or anyone fights its already to late and their country will be swollowed by the sea and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it
are they ok tho
I once made the following back of the napkin calculation for Germany: carbon capture and storage is estimated to cost 200€ per ton, Germany produces 9 tons per person and year, which works out to be 3-4% of the gdp if completely captured.
That is roughly the average growth of 1-2 years. So stopping emissions in two years, would only mean no growth for two years. The coronavirus apparently caused the GDP to shrink by 10% in q2 2020 which means that in some way climate change is easier to stop than the coronavirus. Especially if you use carbon pricing which guarantees that the cheapest measures to reduce emissions are taken first. And ccs is surely not the cheapest measure. So if there was the political will we could easily stop emissions or even capture co2 from the atmosphere with negative emissions if we really wanted. Wanted. Want is the problem. Not can
@@trulyUnAssuming I would be extremely hesitant to do that kind of calculation. Unless you are a climate scientist there is likely a ton of stuff you are missing and you might be oversimplifying the problem but I agree with the political will part
@@trulyUnAssuming heyyy german meetup in the comment section :)
That sounds quite astonishing do you have some kind of source for the carbon capture price? Would love to take a more detailed look
@@MrBlockyTV sure: doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.05.006
Seen a few "memey" comments like you find on most UA-cam videos, but I thought I would just take some time to really applaud the efforts of Wendover Productions. This video really reminded me of the Guam video, where you visit the place, and actually show the opinions of the people.
This is really impactful because it gives the people of an unknown nation a voice, and shows how devastating it is for someone to lose their home. Climate Change is going to be a huge struggle going into the future, and the fact that so few people ever really care about it shows how selfish we have truly become, replace Majuro with Hawaii or another place close to home, and I think the U.S. would probably be doing something about it.
Really well done, I look forward to future content like this.
The us is doing something about it
I'm sorry bud, but it ain't doing enough. I mean right now, we currently have:
- A president who doesn't believe in climate change.
- 100 of the world's biggest energy companies are responsible for 71% of carbon emissions, with many uncaring for obvious profit reasons.
- Our nation is filled with climate deniers and conspiracy theorist who spread falsity.
In my opinion, we have a long way to go before we make the slightest dent of doing anything substantial, but hey that's just me.
Interloper you obviously just hate the us
umop apIsdn you can be critical of a country while still believing it’s a force for good in the world. He doesn’t hate the US you’re most likely just interpreting it wrong due to your own nationalistic tendencies.
Lokland what nationalistic tendencies?
Having seen this on nebula, I'd recommend everyone to watch this in its entirety!
One of the most relevant conversations that will be had over the next 50-100 years is addressed in this documentary.
Also a very beautiful location!
An excellent documentary and I look forward to see more such content on nebula and UA-cam.
@Hoo MantewSource?
@Hoo Mantew Oh ok, sure thing lad.
56:19 "We're damaging the reef, and as long as you drill the reef and building concrete wall, you're messing with mother nature you know."
This. He knows what he did was damaging the environment, but he needs to do that just to survive. That's just... sad
That school director, saying "We're just another one's good old days", that really hit me there
The SJW’s, for one.
@@ieronymos9265 what?
52:30 thereabouts
maybe a little sooner for context
Totally, me too. It’s amazing to hear him say that.
@@ieronymos9265 Calm down
Just finished this, wow this was incredibly eye opening and depressing.
Fantastic documentary I just had tears rolling... “Of all the ends the Marshall Islands could meet, though, this one stings most: to be killed by the ocean, its creator, turned against it by people who don’t even know its name” - Sam from Wendover
Dat quote struck me
@Henryk Gödel This is entirely human made problem, nature was in an equilibrium before humans pumped the atmosphere full of crap. Don't scape goat "nature being our best friend or worst enemy" it's people that did this
@Henryk Gödel are you stupid climate change as it exists now is all due to humans, climate change does happen but over hundreds of millions of years.
@@ipadair7345 I guess ice ages never happened.
@@ipadair7345 This is bullshxt we are actually over due for another ice age the climate has ebbed and flowed back and forth from the creation of earth.
Also i don't see people like u pointing down ur smart phones or internet to combat industry
What an absolute LEGEND! He posted the whole thing!
With tons of ads momma.world
@@MommaKnowsBestest I didn't actually get the ads but ok
@@reinatr4848 there was like 10 ads sliced in
@@MommaKnowsBestest I think whether the ads actually get shown to a particular viewer depends on how many other ads they've seen recently or smth like that because there are many times I haven't been shown ads listen on the time slider
As someone from northwest Arkansas, I did not expect northwest Arkansas to pop up in this documentary. That was a shock when Tyson popped up in the animation and sam said Springdale
I'm from southwest Missouri and I didn't expect it either something so close to home becoming a safe haven for a tiny island nation
This is like Tuvalu but less domain names and more radiation
Yea sad for these atolls
Codes320, is this HAIs second account?
@@najrenchelf2751 First, HAI is the second channel
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Imagine if he did a documentary about Newark Airport. But seriously this was well done, what an emotional documentary. Heartbreaking to see what they have to deal with because of our actions
Why does everyone hate Newark Airport? It's easily accessible from most of Manhattan, clean, and shockingly well-connected to the world for a metropolitan area's secondary airport... now LaGuardia, that's a punching bag I can get behind.
@Carlos Lara You mean I could be getting paid to publicly not hate Newark Airport??? Drat!
@Avery the Cuban-American, I'm pretty sure he'd be dead by the end of it. ALSO, HE MADE A BRICKS VIDEO ON NEBULA/CURIOSITY STREAM!
Hi again
Ryan Kennedy you’re right in most regards, since I have family in Staten Island it’s Newark over JFK any day but that’s not really saying much. If only they could finish any of the remodeling
The moment I have a free hour, five minutes, and 36 seconds I will be watching this non stop.
Andrew Mechem You mean a free hour, five minutes, and *thirty-seven* minutes?
Andrew Mechem wait like ALEXANDER HAMILTON? Sorry
@@mackycabangon8945 you mean free hour, 5 minute and 37 seconds?
Yup
@@mackycabangon8945 I will take second to get up
The Moment that dude says „Coronavirus“ and you realize that sam just traveled around the world to make this amazing and important documentary. Thank you!
Then you realize it was incredibly irresponsible of him to bring undoubtedly a whole crew to an island chain that should be sealed off to outsiders
@@aespa690 Yeah to address that, this was filmed in February when Coronavirus was out there and a threat, but not yet a pandemic and not yet at the point where travel became irresponsible
@@aespa690 But but butbutbut ... how are we supposed to spread the virus if we don't travel to distant islands and kiss and hug people with little immunity to Western diseases? Come on now, think about it!
Wow, I’m crying at the end of this documentary. It’s really hard to think, losing your home, your land, your nation to the same thing that give you live.
I was fortunate to land a job on Guam in 1990 and live in the Micronesian islands for 5 years. I had the joy of experiencing Chuuk, Palua, Guam, Saipan and the Marshall Islands. My first memory of going to Majuro was standing on the side of the road and be able to look in any direction and see water for miles and miles as the wind swept up the ocean smells. I could feel the spray of the waves hitting me as I stood there next to the rental car.
I had the joy of spending time with several local families, eating fresh fruit grown in the yard and fish just caught from the ocean with red rice. You could see how much everyone loved the place.
I also thought how wonderful it would be for others to see it. I became a bit advocate for my friends to come visit me in Guam but only taking the island hopper and stopping off at the various islands you were allowed. It is sad that this will, some day possibly while I am still alive, no longer be. I am already sadden that my children and grandchildren will not get to experience the wonder and awe of this place on the earth where the sunsets look like the ocean is set on fire and people are the kindness, sweetest and loving people you will ever meet.
I think a neat way to remedy the experience of the island is to do a thorough 360 capture throughout the island, so people can visit the island via VR. It can have a picture walk-through, so people can tour it like Google Maps. The picture walk-through can visit stores and school grounds. It can have a video walk-through, so people can be immersed into the cultural events.
The US not caring about human rights and lies in order to do whatever they want? Americans are like that, nothing new.
This is quality that I would expect from a mainstream tv station.
Wonderfully edited together and provides a solid historical overview of how things got to the dire state they are today.
Except mainstream
It's like a PBS Doc but so Amazingly good.
This exceeded mainstream TV quality.
Bless whoever was speaking on behalf of Springdale he seemed like such a genuine and socially aware man, we need more like him 😌
Another victim that isnt talked about with the US nuclear testing in the pacific is the young soldiers who were sent to clean up the radiation without being told what they were doing. Sold the idea of a summer job of the beach they were given radiation poisoning and many died very young.
@Joe Marley Umm... yeah, I guess so. Not sure why we're talking about Nazis, but you're not wrong.
@Joe Marley ww2 started in 1938 ended in 1945. What your describing was the situation at the beginning of the war but by the end Japan was all alone and facing a foe who wasn't traveling half way across the world to fight with them.
The Imperial Japanese Army considered the Russians far more of a concern then the Americans, look at who surrendered to who. More to the point two atomic bombs did less damage then the prior firebombing raids and where widely covered up/denied by the Imperial Japanese government add in general ignorance about the effects of radiation.
WW2 was won on the backs of Soviet soldiers, feed and transported by American lend-lease and the British were the glue that held the whole alliance together because the United States and Soviet Union already couldn't stand each other.
The most conclusive point I can offer is Japan gets hit with two atomic bombs doesn't surrender, Soviet Union declares war Japan surrendered to the United States within three days. Japan made a mistake poking the US in the eye but they gambled on racial stereotypes and vapor dreams that Uncle Sam wouldn't coming looking for payback, the Japanese knew the Soviet would cover their motherland in their sons before they would lose territory especially since going East was Russia time honored strategy for handling West Asian aggression.
@Joe Marley They were literally science projects. They did not know what they were walking into.
Don't you know that White Americans can't be victims?
I think the more important point was that these soldiers could have been given protective gear at least, or that the government could have given more thought to ways to clean up without putting their lives on the line. You can test nukes without having lots of unnecessarily irradiated sailors and soldiers too- you just have to take the necessary precautions.
That poem to her daughter really tore the tears out of me.
It was whatever
@@DeandreSteven it was awful
I know slam poetry is shit
I hate people that talk like that
@Drone Strike 🐡hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?
I'm from Maldives and it's just heartbreaking to even think of ever leaving these beautiful islands we call home. The hard truth we all have to accept is that in the not so distant future we will have the same fate as the people of the Marshall islands at the rate of the current climate change, and it's probably already inevitable.😢 Great documentary Wendover.
☹
u are beyond dumb if you think they are choosing to have that many children 😂
@Victor Joseph Wow congratulations American, you've proved that half of your country is dumb.
@Victor Joseph Why is abortion legal if people can just not have more children.
@Victor Joseph when you are poor and uneducated you don't magically develop modern family planning practices. Most cultures in history have seen children as a crucial insurance for their future. You need a support structure as you get old and if children have a high likelyhood of dying, having many becomes necessary. As countries develop economically and as women gain control over their reproduction, the less children they have.
As someone who grew up on the US military base on Kwajalein I'm really happy to see this being discussed. Such a tragic situation forced upon people who can do very little to prevent it
Holy shit I think I know you, I think we played football on kwaj and you were on my team, my names Cody Wright and my dad was our coach lol
@Just some Forest Ranger with Internet Access so did the other guy lol
Most normies use their real names on youtube. What are you gonna do now, hack his IP?
@Just some Forest Ranger with Internet Access Yeah how could anyone do that /s
Just some Forest Ranger with Internet Access so? Lol go follow me in Instagram
@@Kwaj32 Wow small world! Those were good times. Hope you are doing well man.
This was absolutely fantastic! The poem read aloud at the UN is one of the few poems I have ever enjoyed listening to. Very well done.
I’ve been subscribed for over 5 years and I can still say with confidence this is your best piece of work. Absolute masterpiece of journalism, could’ve told me it was bbc or Al Jazeera and I would’ve believed it
Not only is the content of this documentary necessary viewing to better understand our world, but the production is fantastic, the script is eloquent, and the narration is captivating.
Thank you for this video on the negative effects of our rising ocean. My ancestral atoll of Takaroa is slowly being swallowed by the sea, and the acidification of the ocean has destroyed the way of life of much of my family. Takaroa was once home to over 3000 people, but today, only 600 people remain because climate change has made it almost impossible to remain.
Thank You.
I think a neat way to remedy the experience of the island is to do a thorough 360 capture throughout the island, so people can visit the island via VR. It can have a picture walk-through, so people can tour it like Google Maps. The picture walk-through can visit stores and school grounds. It can have a video walk-through, so people can be immersed into the cultural events.
I'm wondering if you entirely understand the difference between reality (A set of atolls with the population of a mid-sized town here that is going to be gone) and instagram. Documenting things in real life is great, but the larger issue is the tens of thousands of people who live in them and cannot live in a 'video walk-through'.
There is no such thing.
@@tee2567 They won't be living in them much longer... in the next 50-100 years, they are all going to have to move.
@@Col92015 ??
54:50
*Points at concrete wall*
"Well, we call this a concrete wall"
Lmao was searching for this comment
Good on him for mentioning it. I thought it was made out of wood.
Lol. Mexico will pay for it
You sure it isn't invisible?
Walls don't work. Everyone knows that.
I myself am not Marshallese, but I did live on Kwajalein for several years during and around high school. Climate change is an issue we always talk about in America, but when you see its effects in person it becomes a sort of wake-up call that climate change isn't something that will happen, it's something that is already happening. Despite knowing I had a rather unusual experience, it always surprises me how little people know about the Marshalls and the region in general, so it's really nice to see a channel this size with such high-quality content make something about this country.
Having lived on Majuro 40 years ago, I just want to let you viewers know it's not always gloomy weather. I remember few days like that one that greeted the film crew. And there are parts of the atoll that are green and picturesque and the lagoon could be glorious for snorkeling. I learned so much about the ocean there. I'm not saying bypass Kauai to get to Majuro. Just think of it more as a happy place with good people. Urgh and the sharing culture, as they called it in the piece. True that.
Dude I just wanted to let you know you're being referenced on online arguments as a viable source of information. Keep up the good work.
the praise of people arguing online is what we all strive for. the highest form of accomplishment.
I'd be more likely to trust this channel if he'd stop doing things like talking about the US relationship with the Marshall Islands while showing some agreement the US has with Micronesia. (7:24)
@@juliansmith4295 definitely, you should know on which parts he’s probably saying accurate stuff and on which parts what he’s saying seems like it could be wrong.
@@juliansmith4295 The compact of free association applies to three Pacific states: Micronesia, the Marshall islands, and Palau. The agreement shown in the video is indeed the correct one.
@@mackenziemiller3512 Perhaps showing a section that is not solely talking about the relationship between Micronesia and the US would be a good idea.
damn, I thought this would be boring and ended up finishing the whole documentary.
No Wendover video is half as interesting. Always great content
I hope that I'm not the first to say this, but thank you for putting so much effort and passion on your videos @wendover productions
I never cry for things, but the poem first send chills down my spine, and then made me cry. Beautiful.
I graduated in English today (I am Austrian) and I would like to let you know that your videos are perfect material for getting prepared for writing textes like reports or essays. The kind of vocab, the terminologies used and the structure of your content's sentences really helped me A LOT improve my English. And besides, I love the kind of topics you cover, keep going! 😉
How is this free, this is such great quality. Keep up the good work
Wendover Productions, I don't know if you can see this, but the problem with Nebula is not the content quality, it's the streaming speed.
And the price
@@elimerritt4849 I don't mind the price, they do have some good content on there
I subscribed and found it unusable. I think they assume that everyone lives in major cities, is middle class and can afford expensive computers and high speed internet.
my problem is the keybinds or lack there of, so many people can only use a laptop for a computer and not being able to press f for fell screen or k to pause i'd rather just watch the youtube channel. also just the concept doesn't really fit me, for every educational video i watch a non educational video; this means when i go to nebula i can't see other videos i might want to watch so it's just not appealing to go on it. and one last thing, i think that the content that is also uploaded to youtube floods the originals, if there was a feature where i can only see just originals i would go on the site. now, my family does have the youtube premium family plan so i am ad free on youtube too so my opinion wont matter as much because of this but i do believe it would still be a feature worthy of adding.
What do you mean?
I was thinking on buying one year subscription assuming I'll be able to see it at least. I have somewhere 6-8Mb/s so
Do I have to replan the purchase ?
This is such a high quality documentary that I can't even believe it's for free on UA-cam. Excellent work, hope to see more quality content from Wendover Productions.
This gave me friggin chills Sam. Thank you. Thank you for alerting me to an area that is impacted by actions that myself and others may not even think twice about. My drive to make a difference just got that much stronger.
Hey sam from Wendover productions, just got recommended this video before bedtime, and it was a really good documentary. You've swayed me over to nebula, I just hope UA-cam doesn't kill it by encroachment. All the best to original, independent content creators! Hope this comment helps boost you
The most heartbreaking part is when you see they finally realized the end is coming, however they still stand back up and try to live on despite all the fear and regrets. Shout out to all of Marshallese!
It’s sad how a country that would contribute almost nothing to Climate Change will experience it the most
Evolution. The people came there. From where? This is a pipe dream. It’s not a safe land even before the nukes. They may have to find a new home. Global warming is not a human cause. It’s natural.
@@kellyprice1024 Still in climate denial in 2020? The human race has been past this for about 10 years now. The research is in.
You can compare the historical natural fluctuations with the rapid rise of the last couple decades in this graph: xkcd.com/1732/
@@Vii905 human accelerated global warming, but it would happen inevitably anyway. Also the Earths crust is dynamic nevertheless. In the long run there's no safe place to live anyway. The last Tōhoku Earthquake moved Honshu 2.4 meters east, shifted Earth on it's axis and increased rotation. And continental drift is still a thing, for example as a result Himalayas are growing 2,5 inch per year. This is life.
Join me and become a climate activist, if more people join we’ll win and prevent these shtty people from destroying these amazing places.
@@fish9468 You can't prevent a planet from exiting it's 5th ice age. Melting ice and changing climate is as natural as it can get. Now shut up and thank fossil fules for giving you the quality of life you can enjoy now.
48:20 *planes*
_Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him_
How tf did you watch this video so damn fast
gijs kroot _I am speed_
gijs kroot he probably watched it on nebula because this was uploaded to nebula first
LeVral Noval That would be so lame 😂 I don’t even know about Nebula, I just scrolled through this video lol
Planes: *Exists*
This Channel: *NUTS*
I am marshallese and I do love & care about my small isolated country. Even though we are small countries but i do strongly believe that "everything's in God's hand" and i love this story/documentary. Thank you so much Wendover Productions for sharing and make the world feel what we feel and experience everyday of our life. God bless.
Hey bro, are you Marshallese? I would love to contact you, im doing a project for school and I'd love to interview you
@@sebastianhuertasmvd sure, just email me @ jietasladen@gmail.com for your queries
This is a heartbreaking account of what has and is happening to the Marshallese people, and what is a terrible precedent for what may occur for the rest of the world. Thank you so much for creating this, and opening up my eyes to their story.
That last conversation with that boy was very very powerful. I have honestly loved this documentary and I know and you know that this will be an issue for everyone yet some people are still in denial and saying that climate change is not real. Thank you for making this wendover. 🙏
Wendover Productions in 2050: *The Final Years of Florida*
Edit: The video will feature an exclusive interview with Florida Man
As a Floridian I would watch
Thank goodness
Interviewer: Looks like everyone here is covered in filth and setting themselves on fire. How are you dealing with this?
Florida Man: FULL LIQUOR BAR
Yeah, just like we were supposed to be underwater already, now it’s 2050, then it’s 2100. It’s easy to not be held accountable when you always keep moving the goal post.
@@SamuraiX6288 I don't think Florida will be completely underwater by 2050, it was just a joke.
This is one of the most engaging and emotional documentaries I have ever seen. Great effort. Great documentory. Watched the whole thing in one go. Thank you for this film.
Yeah. I feel like I'm balling out rivers of tears on the inside right now.
I've moved 6 times in my life, but I can't imagine having my hometown and local culture dissapear upon doing so. Especially not in a way so similar to being Thanos-snapped out of existence. Except this time it's a few dozen naive and ignorant foreign nations who have decided to stay naive and ignorant.
I definitely haven't done much to help besides watching this video as I have yet to face a dozen challenges of my own.
One can hope that if Majuro is permanently swamped over within a lifetime the Marshallese culture will live on in Springdale, Arkansas (which funnily enough resides in Washington County of which I'm also from, just in another state) or more ideally in a nearby island nation if one of such nations miraculously survive the sea-level rise at 2.0-2.5 degree global temperature increase.
This reminds me of the lyrics from the song How Far I'll Go by Lin Manuel Miranda:
*No matter how hard I try,*
*Every road leads back,*
*To the place I know,*
*Where I can not go,*
*Where I long to be,*
*See.....where the sky meets the sea?*
*No one knows how far it goes,*
*How deep it goes,*
*One day I'll know,*
*If I go there's just no telling how far I'll go.*
I don't know how appropriate or relevant that song is to your situation in Majuro, but that's where my train of thoughts and feelings led me.
In some sense I understand what one of your leaders meant by "It's all up to God." Life takes its course. We humans do the things and the things happen. Or as Isaac Newton put it "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
It is sad and disgusting that you are taking the brunt of the consequences stemming from the social and environmental inconsiderations of others.
I stand with you. Godspeed.
Best Doc about this small yet already disappearing Island due to Climate Change. Still think Nebula is better than YT tho.
This video is incredible. I lived in Hawaii for about two years on a religious service mission and had the chance to meet many Marshallese and Chuukese people. The stories about their lives are amazing and many are filled with laments regarding their home in the Marshall Islands. I moved recently to Bentonville, Arkansas for work, which is just ten minutes north of Springdale and I was pleasantly surprised to see so many Marshallese people here. Thanks, Sam for highlighting the stories of these people. They and their culture deserve to be in the spotlight!
01:03:52
'People can move, a nation cannot'
I think there's more to it, in Telugu we have a song -
Desham ante bhoomi kaadu; Desham ante manushuloi.
Which roughly translates to:
“A country is not just about the land; a country is about its people.”
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Holy crap I only checked the seek bar because of your comment and didn't expect 65 minutes video
Ihsan Aulia Rahman A19EE0459 what’s the seek bar
@@overdebted8734 the bar which turns red the more you watch a video
AxxL your channel is messed up
My god. The poem, the letter. Crying.
Nebula just gained a new customer. What an amazing production this was.
36:25... To simply put it: when a room full of concerned politicians gather in one space for a cause, they leave with a clause to forget about the cause
Just finished this and I am in tears, Sam. The destruction of these people (and others) by climate change is so heart breaking.
Oh man I'm going to need a snack to go with this, a full hour documentary, lets go
I also snack to Wendover vids. It just makes sense
The irony is our snacks are contributing to this tragedy.
One hour wendover video, yes please
Springdale Mayor seems like a cool dude
This is really neat! I live in the part of the US where the United States forced the residents from the Bikini Atoll and surrounding islands to move after nuking their island. I actually went to a talk that the Marshallese community hosted about their history. The thing that really got me was one man described American scientists in hazmat suits coming to their island the day after the bomb went off only to just leave. Even though that nuclear fallout was falling. Then another day later, the Americans came out to say that they could not drink the water or drink the fish. And then they just left again and came back a while later to evacuate them to Kili island! They were studying them! They were studying the effects of nuclear fallout on them!! It’s ridiculous!
One notable thing about this: blame the politicians. Not the scientists.
If Corona should've told people anything, is scientists are never taken seriously until it's too late.
having experienced it personally. I can tell you, academia started warning of this issue in early february, but the politicians used WHO as an excuse to delay action, despite for instance ISCIII had been planning for this from 2008 and activated their protocols immediately. But the lockdowns didn't come until way, way later.
Because that's how the politicians always operate. They refuse to allow for the solution to be implemented until there is "sufficient data" about the harm. Sometimes not even then.
Another obvious example with this is MMS. MMS is a cult that attempts to make people drink bleach, promising them it will cure their ailments.
Needless to say, drinking bleach is a very bad choice. Many, many people have died as a result. And yet, this cult was allowed to make multiple "experiments" (unsupervised might I add) and many "initiatives", specially in africa. And persecution didn't start until months later.
Why? How is it posible that the medical authorities wouldn't catch them before that? Oh. The scientists knew damn well this was dangerous. But they couldn't get the politicians to "violate religious freedoms" (the excuse the MMS cult use) until they had hard data about the harm done to the population.
Without the study, they could do nothing. This is the reality of the situation.No matter how hard they lobby, they'll be called unprofessional and kicked asside if they try to fix the situation before the harm is already done.
The US not caring about human rights and lies in order to do whatever they want? Americans are like that, nothing new.
I grew up in Pohnpei and I know so many Marshallese people. This is a very well crafted film that sheds much needed light on their situation. For this, thank you.
There is another option they didn't discuss in the video, raise the island. To raise Majuro's 3.7 square miles of land 6 feet would require 22.9 million cubic yards of dirt, a massive amount of material, but still well within the neighborhood of other large projects. It would be much more expensive than moving the entire population of the Marshall Islands, but it is still within the realm of possibility.
The problem is not just delivery of all that dirt, but also the idea of it even being viable as an alternative. Just because you dump dirt on the island, doesn't mean it will actually do anything other than still delay the inevitable. Gaia gives no f**** about what we do. It's not a bad idea, but one fraught with too high logistical and practical issues.
Construct buildings on concrete stilts.
Sad reality is that atoll cannot be saved. It will be gone. Best the world can do is provide them a new place to live or imigrate easily. It is not fair or what they deserve but that is the world we have.
I'm sure China will provide them a spot. They love building islands in the ocean
if you actually watched the documentary you will know that most Marshallese immigrate to Springdale, Arkansas. As the US has an agreement with the marshall islands that they can freely move and work in the US without a visa.
Live The Future He probably means for the people who can't afford to relocate on their own
J J yup, it’s almost like they keep moving the goal post and screaming for more attention and MONEY.
@@livethefuture2492 Duh!
what the hell plane boy you're not supposed to make me cry...
well done this deserves so much more attention
52:27 - While this isn't really the point of this video, it's what I took away as being the most significant message: "There are other people who grew up here just like me, that continue to talk about the good old days, the days when we grew up and things were different. But, you know, I'm reminded that we're somebody's good old days right now."
Today might not be the good old days, but today is the best day of someone's life. Try not to ruin it for them.
The globalist, maybe?
The US Empire?
@@ieronymos9265: You completely missed the point of the person I quoted.
What an amazing documentary! Very well done. I could really feel the conflict of the Marshallese - their strong desire to stay on their home atolls conflicting with the inevitability that they will someday have to leave, that all their efforts will come to naught, and it's due to forces beyond their control.
You are such an amazing storyteller and it's great to see you venture into these longer form stories. Thank you!
Thank you Sam for brining awareness of and about the Marshal Islands. I wish the people the very best in dealing with what appears to be insurmountable task of surviving humanity's greatest failure. Much love from Canada 🇨🇦
So sad that this video isn't performing as well as his regular content besides having way more effort put into it
probably because it's very long
Over 1.2 million views as of now... seems like that's pretty good. Realistically, stopping climate change which the best global estimates admit is already basically happening and we have no practical way to address today is a tall goal. But, getting messages out there like this one is still important and this documentary is very well done.
@@MittyNuke1 Yeah, this video blew up which is awesome. When I made rhis comment it had almost no views which was insane. Something like sub 100k.
bought nebula 3 hours ago to watch this then Sam the memelord himself makes it free now ._.
.-.XD
I wouldn’t worry, there’s a lot of cool stuff on nebula tbf
Big oof, but there is other documentaries you could watch with your money spent.
Thank you, for supporting him, so I can too see this.
I’ll probably get Nebula once I’m sure the not-quite-post-COVID job I’m getting back to proves secure.
This is incredible! Thank you. What a wonderful production.
Thank you so much for giving these people the recognition they deserve
What a beautiful poem with such rich and strong thought behind it. I was brought to tears, Kathy gave a voice to those who do not have the chance to speak. Wonderful
Imagine how different the world would look, If the one who causes something actually had to carry the consequences...
Right. How many Hawaiians are still waiting on that hypothetical check from Japan? How many French that check from Germany?
@Sleipner 33 That was the point.
No one is the cause
@@CoolioXXX52 yeah, that would be such an easy answer if if only was true :/
@@CoolioXXX52 not remotely true
I feel so bad for that 77year old woman, I can’t imagine how I would feel if someone forced me out my house and nuked it
Thank you, Sam. You really touched my heart with this documentary.
23:36 oh I get it what a great imaginative analogy making it so simple to understand. i would never be able to wrap my head around this without this. how did he think of such a good connection and knew it was worth important to add and same with wendover reconciling the brinances and putting it in.
I’m blown away, that was really moving and well done. It’s actually caused me to do more research and I want to help these people...
Fine, you got me. We're subscribing to Nebula...
i saw this on nebula and it was soooo good!!! I cancelled my netflix subsciption and i haven't regretted it!
Next Video:Logistics of Wendover Productions of making a 1 hour long video....
I'd watch that ngl
man this needs to blow up it’s such a good message and perspective from the most vulnerable people
This is a world class production, writing, narration, and journalism.
What that kid said at the end really stuck with me. Imagine someone else just telling you "Just live in my country, it'll be ok"
Dude that is just a basic appeal to emotion. Let your intellect rule and realize these people are fucked. The best thing you can do for them is to send boats and/or plane tickets.
@@Snipergoat1 but its our fault man! So we need to unite and cry together, so that the excess salt from our tears dissolves the sea water around the island and brings the level down by 10 meters. Have a bit of empathy for fucks sake
@@Snipergoat1 Have some compassion and drive
I know I shouldn’t be making jokes especially how serious this is but I would say this is a very concrete effort.
23:40 gotta love this guy’s analogy. “If it is covered in water it will become submerged!”
29:50 This was such an inspiring segment. Amazing heroes are fighting every day. This comment is also for me to come back and watch again ;)
Wow. Amazing work guys. Your best yet.
Sam, thank you so much for sharing this publicly. The world needs to see this.
Sadly, I don't think that a documentary as powerful and moving as this should be confined to a platform such as nebula only.
I also believe that you know this, and did the right thing posting this to UA-cam ♥️
well Im on edge of tears. Such well made document and I feel such sorrow for the people
Is Wendover a travel agent?
Cause he is sending me on a guilt trip (watching this for free)
It's a place in Hampshire, England. :-)
This is one of the best things I have seen all year!
Such a sad, important and beautiful documentary - thank you Wendover Productions for shedding light on this matter. I was particularly moved by the poem read by Kathy at the UN - even as she was literally pleading for the future of her country and her people, she took a moment to acknowledge the suffering experienced due to climate change by people around the world, including in my country - Pakistan. I have no words.
Growing up, my mother would sometimes tell me that if you want to understand the character of a person, a family or a community, see how they treat animals - how they treat those creatures who can neither fight back nor speak up for themselves. Someday, in the future, the nations of the world of today will be judged by how they chose to treat the weakest and smallest of them - people who cannot change the direction of events by either threats or bribes, no matter how hard they struggle. They can only plead for understanding and support. Even if we choose to ignore it, this is a responsibility that we all bear to one extent or another - particularly the strongest and largest among us. I hope we prove worthy.