After the Hurricane: Climate change battering the poorest | Dying Earth: E2 | Featured Documentary

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Published 2024-04-17
The effect the carbon footprint of rich countries is having on developing nations who enjoy very few of the benefits.

There can be no denying that wealthier countries, particularly the United States and Western European nations, have emitted the lion’s share of greenhouse gases that have led to our planet’s climate crisis.

In fact, just 23 countries are responsible for half of all the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. However, it is the world’s poorer nations that are being hit hardest by the effects of climate change.

After the Hurricane explores how vulnerable populations in the developing world are suffering damaging outcomes in terms of health, food, water, education and much more. It also sheds light on how, within wealthy countries like the US, it is still the most deprived who suffer the most severe consequences of their government’s inaction on climate, while those causing the biggest damage seem to simply get richer.

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All Comments (21)
  • The fact that those who have more money also have more options to deal with catastrophes caused by climate change isn’t uniquely limited to climate change. They ALWAYS have more options no matter what the crisis. Economic inflation hits the impoverished the hardest, while it provides the wealthy with an opportunity to become wealthier. They send their lobbyists to buy up politicians who write laws to transfer wealth from the bottom up. It’s the same old story that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. They eat better, wear finer clothes, drive newer and better built cars, live in mansions built in gated communities surrounded by manicured gardens, and hire servants to do all the work who are paid a pittance and who don’t dare complain about their own cost of living for fear of losing their jobs or worse. Some people use the word ‘predatory’ in connection with capitalism to create the illusion that there’s a form of capitalism that isn’t inherently predatory; but in fact, capitalism doesn’t even work without the opportunity for exploitation, which is the very nature of the predator: to take advantage of, exploit or prey upon the disadvantaged, the disabled, and the financially or otherwise vulnerably handicapped. The PROBLEM is CAPITALISM! Have I painted an accurate portrait of the worldwide situation?
  • thanks al jajeera for reporting real news 😢❤❤❤ i wish that our indian media learn fro you❤❤
  • Earth is not dying, we are. Earth will flourish and erase or insignificant marks. Earth will be just fine. It is us who better realize that.
  • @afjalafjal381
    ইয়া আল্লাহ্ আপনি সবাই কে হেফাজতে রাকুন 🤲🤲
  • @Hussain-es5ul
    If people in power doesn't care about thousands of deaths of innocent children in Palestine. Then how can they even realize the pain of these poor people.
  • All we need is to help our earth to recover from climate change. In simple things like putting all the trash in the proper place, plant more trees. Let us be concerned with our environment because we are the ones who will benefit from it . Selfishness and greediness are the reason why it all happens to our mother nature and now we are the one who suffers as well. Let's all make a difference to give concern on earth where we live.❤🙏
  • @alexugurie
    Poverty is largely enforced by acts of exclusion; exclusion is apartheid, segregation, a tool of coercion. Deprive a population of its natural means of survival and you can extort both labour and loyalty. (If you can extort loyalty, what does that say about our supposedly free elections?) The problem is not lack of money. The problem is that we need money in the first place. The problem is that the whole world is being held to ransom and that we need to pay in order to access it. Is that not the indefensible crux of capitalism? If feudalism was a violently enforced protection racket, its offspring, capitalism, added private property and licensed plunder to the extortion. As for communism, it is still built on the same foundation and uses state property to leverage compliance and extort wealth: Ownership is violence: it violates people, it violates the land. No one can own the Earth. The changing of climate is natural. Poverty, on the other hand, is a man-made circumstance that is violently enforced.
  • Correct me if im wrong, but Sri Lanka and Bangladesh has about the same annual rainfall per year. That just goes to show how a better water management system makes a huge difference. SL doesn't come close to looking like how it looks at around 1:00 time stamp.
  • Alhamdulillah. I understood how God has placed us in such a beautiful environment।May Allah help all the poor people who are suffering from such situation
  • They live a place of constant flooding and raw weather exposure. It’s a huge muddy floodplain.
  • If selfish behavior is what brought us into this environmental situation, (and I’d agree that it did) then selfish behavior most certainly won’t rectify it. It’ll only exacerbate it. It can do nothing else. It would be insane to think that it could.