Climate injustice: Malawi crippled by global warming it didn't create
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Last month was the world's hottest February on record and the ninth consecutive month of record temperatures.
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We often see the impact played out through severe weather events and the death toll that comes with them, but there are other less visible consequences too. A recent report by the World Economic Forum estimates the health impacts will kill more than 14 million people by 2050.
Malawi, which contributes just 0.04% to global emissions, is among the global climate index's top five countries to be impacted.
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This makes my heart so heavy. This world is so messed up.
The world will get along just fine with or without us.
We are currently not going to experience the problems of climate change because we are closer to ww3 than ever before…
Yes, the mis-direction, and the lying, and mis-representation of facts, is very depressing!
Try using your brain.
@elenadunn15 so seeing people suffer is not using my brain. Clearly you have no heart.
@@philemfulloflead Seeing something, anything is using your eyes. Now, try using your brain.
Malawi is crippled by western interference in it's economic development, not climate change. This interference now takes the form of patronising lectures on what they should do to combat a completely exaggerated threat.
World bank and IMF structural adjustment policies continue to mess up our economy
All these suffering because of our consumerism, among other things.
Do you not realize that this kind of programming, is designed to make you believe that you are a sinner, who needs to repent, and accept the globalist agenda, to allow them to control everything. This was a natural disaster, in a poor country, and nobody is at fault for it.
Not true at all
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very sad to see this .
Oil companies have a lot to answer for. They new the damage there product would cause in the 50s
They could benefit from the extra water. They should build damns and resovoires out of the new deluge. This would give them electricity and clean water and a way to control the droubt and deluge a bit better.
As lets face it, no one else will help rhem out.
We bought and used the oil...
The oil compaines lobby the government to make sure pur infrastrutture remains oil reliant. You have to drive to work in a petrol car because the gov wont build charging centres, wont upgrade public transport etc, you have to heat your home with gas because the gov wont invest in cleaner Energy solutions, like solarpannels better heat retention in houses etc
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Did you know that those so-called 'cleaner' energy solutions require a truly gargantuan expansion of the mining and processing of extremely polluting chemicals, such as heavy metals, whereas the 'polluting' effect of the burning of fossil fuels isn't even proven (E.g. CO2 is good for plants, and the planet is currently is at a historically low level.)?
Yeah, I know; I didn't believe it either.
you're a selfish, excessive fossil fuel consumer like the rest of us... You think that giant plane you fly on to your foreign vacation runs on unicorn farts? You think all your unnecessary luxury goods are made from and by pixie dust?
Hydrocarbon exploitation is practically essential to maintain anything other than a 1960's (let alone a 2020's) 1st world standard of living.
Nope, "green energy/tech" isn't going to preserve that standard of living for anyone not upper-middle class. It's not actually green, it's merely alternatively un-green.
@@agravemisunderstanding9668 riiight, because the charging centres conjure electricity out of thin air? Don't say "but muh solar and wind energy", because no way could an energy grid, solely dependent on renewables, run a nation's industry, buildings AND EV fleet.
It's not lack of provision of charge points that hold EVs back, it's the technological nature of 're-energizing' EVs: hours of electrical charging.
Yet, it takes 1-2 minutes to 're-energize' IC vehicles, with more energy than an EV can even hold.
The U.S state which you no doubt think is utopia, California, has to limit EV charging when the weather isn't playing along.
Let me tell you something. A a nationwide fleet of internal combustion 'cars' (personal transport vehicles) of strictly utilitarian design and function would be more green overall than a fleet of Tesla's/BMW's/China's latest and greatest EVs.
An IC 'car' of strictly utilitarian design and function would be made to carry one-two people max as the typical car is mostly used by one person at a time. Such an IC 'car' would be limited, by engine capacity, to low top speed and low acceleration compared to conventional cars (+EVs) which are made to reach speeds that aren't even legal on public roads.
The IC car wouldn't feature any entertainment systems or unnecessary creature comfort devices. Unlike conventional cars (+EVs), this car wouldn't feature plastic body adornments to make it look cooler, nor would its paint be anything but the simplest and Greenest paint for protection against the elements.
A very sobering reporting, good work Channel 4! People living in wealthy countries really need to rethink their life styles. We can't go on like this.
translation: either 1st world countries massively reduce their populations, or they go back to pre-industrial living.
You go in any under developed village and you will find this. Chances are these people were originally Nile Valley people, and have been forced down into this regions. Overall lake Malawi is almost as big as Malawi, there is plenty of water there. These regions of Africa don't rain ficklely they rain heavily. This is where the floods are usually at. Usually due to river dams blocking water flow.
Port Talbot has been crippled by net zero. So has Scunthorpe, Middlesbrough, Cleethorpe, Govan…. Whose job is it for the U.K. government to look after??? (It’s not Malawi.)
All those places are crippled by Brexit more than anything else.
Net zero has not been a thing under the Tories.
All those places are crippled by Brexit more than anything else.
Net zero has not been a thing under the Tories.
It still makes me wonder if the real plague isn't Civilization.
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lack of civilization would've led to a far more extreme outcome than relentless climate change is supposed to: non existence of many many people.
Malawi wouldn't have a population of 20 million people in the 1st place without the 'scourge' of civilization
Life's tough in poor countries, what's new?
Careful, your compassion might show.
@@RankinMsPCompassion is a waste of time, it just makes people feel sad.
Fake news
Fake person
Additional Context (usually omitted): climate is discerned by 30 years of weather patterns. Not one single weather event or even three in close succession, in and of itself/themselves, can be scientifically attributed to climate change. The climate science is: man-made greenhouse gas emissions won't necessarily cause extreme weather events, but they likely will increase the intensity of extreme weather events (in general) to some degree. The degree to which the intensity of extreme weather events are worsened by man-made greenhouse gas emissions is estimated by way of computer models which are only as good as the data they're fed. Climate forecasting has been shown to be only somewhat accurate.
Consideration: When fearing for the well-being of societies which are particularly impacted by climate change, realize that those societies, as they are, wouldn't exist in the 1st place without that which is regarded to be the cause of the climate change which supposedly threatens them: fossil fuel mass-exploitation. Use of hydrocarbons to fuel industrial-scale processes and production (and the technological and scientific know-how generated by such) enables humanity to exist in +7 billions. The populations of societies which are particularly impacted by climate change couldn't be as they are today (relatively thriving compared to their pre-industrial society) without fossil fuel mass-exploitation.
That's a weak argument in favour of fossil fuels.
@@django3422 I read it as a strong argument in favour of fossil fuels, and I agree with it.
@@tonyr4873 Fossil fuels facilitated progress and development. Failing to see how we now need to move beyond them if we want to keep developing is foolish.
@@django3422 Moving beyond them is a good idea, but we have nothing at the moment that can replace them.
Once again the exponential birth rate rate was avoided. Why??
For info i visited the “ warm heart of Africa” in 1990. By far the friendliest country in the region at the time. Zambia had a coup, Mozambique in civil war etc.
I went back recently and the immediate feeling was the number of people everywhere
You edited this and it's still entirely pointless.
Well done.
@@RankinMsPin what way? Pls elaborate, i m open and willing to educate ignorants. Feel free.
Zambia has never had a coup
It's mad to think that in 2024 there are parts of the world like this still living in the middle-ages lol
"current-year" is and has always been a false argument.
Do you wear clothing, use soaps, use wood or electricity or paraffin for cooking, use hair pomades, wigs, perms and straighteners, hair dryers, skin moisturizers, fuel for your cars, house building materials, refined foods, medicines? Do you wear glasses, sunshades, use suntan lotions? Well, if you do, then you are guilty of global warming, no matter who you are or where in the world you live.
How?
..... and if so, why is it us, and not the big companies, who produce and make trillions from selling all this stuff, who are the guilty ones?
@@seangallagher8233 how? because practically everything material which gives us our 1st/2nd world living standard is directly or indirectly dependent on fossil fuels.
It is the laws of physics as we understand them which means that practically everything material which gives us our 1st/2nd world living standard is dependent on fossil fuels, hydrocarbons. Did you even realize that plastics (including those which many/most clothing is made from) are the product of hydrocarbon exploitation?
It is human nature to want things which make existence on this giant ball less uncomfortable and less boring. We demand, others supply. We generally accept the monetary price put on the various discomfort/boredom-relieving products which are supplied to us.
@@davidadiwego4608 Yes, but how?
....how is humankind's use of these hydrocarbons the driving force behind climate change, when most hydrocarbons in the atmosphere come from things such as volcanic action, and other natural phenomenon?
.....and why is it such an issue, when the climate currently has a historically low amount of CO2?
..... and why is the population the main 'culprits', when the main 'polluters' and benefactors are currently listed in places like the S&P500?
..... and how are the proposed measures actually going to make any significant 'improvement'?
....... and how would the necessary gargantuan increase in the production and processing of incredibly toxic substances, like the heavy metals required for the proposed solution, improve the environment?
Let's stop buying this stuff. We have the power to make a huge difference@@seangallagher8233