Rich don’t suffer from climate change as much as Poor.

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

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

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

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

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

Next bumi yang indah hanya bisa di lihat di foto n gambar oleh anak cucu kita!!!

I like how the biggest concern for everyone is losing their job.

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

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

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

Absolutely amazing photography.

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

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

It's wild that you can watch the permafrost in real-time melt so fast

Australia is helping to combat climate change by approving more and more new coal mines and gas fields. I'm all right, Jack, the donations roll in!

Took decades to get here and good luck with turning back time.

As usual, the video has lived up to the expectations of a DW genre. Extremely informative and stimulating right from the individual level to the Government level.

This documentary should go viral. United Nations should promote it aggressively. Unfortunately , no concrete measures are being taken by major Nations, especially politicians who are ignorant and callous about this serious issue. With this worsening climate issues now viruses may emerge killing mass populations around the world. You should have covered plastic pollution as well. Had ithe production of plastic be stymied 50 years ago, lakes rivers oceans would have been much less polluted. Thank you so much for eye-opening documentary 👍

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

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

Our rivers and lakes here in Arkansas are boiling hot!! Im not kidding just went to the lake this weekend and I'm 6foot as far out in the lake was hot like a hot tub not even deep water was cool it was hot. How do fish live in that is beyond me..

Tree plantation can help us to perpetuate our climate from being worsted, we should be more aware of planting trees and saplings! Every year there is a certain time comes when we can plant saplings and i think we should teach school students!!

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

The worst is already here for the poorest people on earth. it's as man made as climate change as it is also its cause , chronic wealth inequality and the very inaction to tackle it. Oil executives and politics are fighting exactly how tobacco used to. Even Slavery, colonial plantations. The power of capital

What's done is done, there is no going back, that is it !

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

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

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

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

Buen documental, gracias DW.

That is all, folks! I know it, you know it that it is too late. Fortunately, Earth is not going anywhere! We are...

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

Fine film! Except for one failing: electro-mechanical carbon dioxide capture and storage is way too expensive and the risks of the machinery and pipelines are too great. Waste less energy by gradually converting to modern heating and cooling technology, building more compact and better insulated homes and businesses. Manufacture locally to reduce transportation energy cost - its not just the vehicle fuel - cement and asphalt are huge energy wasters for every lane we build.😊😊

Nature's gifts must be preserved well for our own long-term benefit. Nature's gifts must not destroy for short-term benefits 🙏🏼

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

We don't have governments that can be trusted with power or wealth. I am not willing to increase the size of governments.

It is so very painful for me to see what we are doing to nearly every single species of wild animal and the habitat they depend on for survival. And at the same time it's shocking to see our apparent complete lack of concern for what we are doing. It really leads me to wonder if we actually think we can continue as we are without the changes affecting us, or if we know exactly what we're doing but just do not care as long as the money is still rolling in. I'm afraid that those of us who are in positions of power are in the later category. And in that case the name of the video instead of "A-verting Catastrophe" should have been "A Coming Catastrophe".

theyd do well to put the water in the ground before they put the trees in rather than on the surface of the ground after the tree is in. Aside from that, amazing documentary

When I was a Kid,my hometown had always been snowing in winter in South-Mid main land, but now it's hardly to seen the white beauty.we need take action to protect the earth ASAP, such eat and travel with low CO2 action, reduce traveling by car.

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

I don't get it why DW interpreting the Russian scientist, he just speaks English with a Russian accent. I seen DW not interpreting Indian, German, French, Indonesian, African and other accents, but first time I noticed with this Dimitry scientist, and he sound confident of what he say.

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

The permafrost will all melt. It's not just the greenhouse effect anymore. It is also the metabolic waste heat generated by the microbes degrading the previously trapped matter. Compost heaps have been known to combust from this heat. It will most certainly be delivering a double whammy for permafrost melting. There are places already in the middle of vast sheets of permafrost, under lakes, where there are melted columns going down kilometers. It WILL all melt now.

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

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

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

The part about Germany wind being comingled with Norway hydro is the type of thing we need to see more of. Call it pragmatic cooperation - sharing the load (and ideas) rather than each entity each doing it all on their own - that is very inefficient with a lot of redundancies.

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

How awesome is it that humanity started out as nomadic tribes and now thanks to global warming we will soon return to being a nomadic people 😊

Thank you for such informative documentary..

In the hottest July on record I'm afraid it's much too late. Scientists began warning us over 100 years ago. We refused to listen. I'm not a religious person but I pray for us all.

To summarize: businesses’ and consumers’ greed, arrogance, and complete foolishness got us here. I am constantly blaming corporations, but if people's behaviors don’t change as well, nothing will change.

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

Thank you for sharing such a wondeful exposure

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

We're doomed and our future is a horror. From now on each year will be worse than the one before. Say it with me... _"Faster Than Expected!"_

My spirit will be most amused to return to earth within the next 300 years to see New York City streets covered by the ocean.

The 50 Gigatonne decadal methane dead pulse scenario was posited by four Arctic specialists in 2008 and is now considered plausible by Met Office scientists The paper noted that while seabed permafrost underlaying most of the East Siberia Arctic Shelf (ESAS) was previously believed to act as an "impermeable lid preventing methane escape," new data showing "extreme methane supersaturation of surface water, implying high sea-to-air fluxes" challenged this assumption. Data showed: "Extremely high concentrations of methane (up to 8 ppm) in the atmospheric layer above the sea surface along with anomalously high concentrations of dissolved methane in the water column (up to 560 nM, or 12000% of super saturation)." One source of these emissions "may be highly potential and extremely mobile shallow methane hydrates, whose stability zone is seabed permafrost-related and could be disturbed upon permafrost development, degradation, and thawing." Even if the methane hydrates are deep, fissures, taliks and other soft spots create heat pathways from the seabed which warms quickly due to shallow depths. Various mechanisms for such processes have been elaborated in detail. The paper then posits the plausibility of a 50 Gigatonne (Gt) methane release occurring abruptly "at any time." Noting that the total quantity of carbon in the ESAS is "not less than 1,400 Gt", the authors wrote: "Since the area of geological disjunctives (fault zones, tectonically and seismically active areas) within the Siberian Arctic shelf composes not less than 1-2% of the total area and area of open taliks (area of melt through permafrost), acting as a pathway for methane escape within the Siberian Arctic shelf reaches up to 5-10% of the total area, we consider release of up to 50 Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage as highly possible for abrupt release at any time. That may cause ∼12-times increase of modern atmospheric methane burden with consequent catastrophic greenhouse warming." So the 50 Gt scenario used by the new Nature paper does not postulate the total release of the ESAS methane hydrate reservoir, but only a tiny fraction of it. The scale of this scenario is roughly corroborated elsewhere. A 2010 scientific analysis led by the UK's Met Office in Review of Geophysics recognised the plausibility of catastrophic carbon releases from Arctic permafrost thawing of between 50-100 Gt this century, with a 40 Gt carbon release from the Siberian Yedoma region possible over four decades. Shakhova and her team have developed these findings from data derived from over 20 field expeditions from 1999 to 2011. In 2010, Shakhova et. al published a paper in Science based on their annual research trips which highlighted that the ESAS was a key reservoir of methane "more than three times as large as the nearby Siberian wetland... considered the primary Northern Hemisphere source of atmospheric methane." Current average methane concentrations in the Arctic are: "about 1.85 parts per million, the highest in 400,000 years" and "on par with previous estimates of methane venting from the entire World Ocean." As the ESAS is shallow at only 50 metres, most of the methane being released is escaping into the atmosphere rather than being absorbed into water. The existence of such shallow methane hydrates in permafrost - at depths as small as 20m - was confirmed by Shakhova in the Journal of Geophysical Research. There has been direct observation and sampling of these hydrates by Russian geologists in recent decades until now; this has also been confirmed by US government scientists.

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

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

I keep hearing about how much cheaper wind and solar are but for some reason my electric bill doubled? Weird...

Also pumping efficiency by changing model of pumps. Radial flow model to mixed flow model impeller and save 25% time by keeping power at same, 12.5 hp

We are driving straight into a tree, without changing direction fast enough, and some people arguing the tree is fake.

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

the positive side of all this is, it will kill off all the corruption in this world also.

Amazing Documentary ❤️❤️❤️. (Please save the Earth🙏🙏🙏) (कृपया पृथ्वी को बचाएं🙏🙏🙏).

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

Its scary to think that what would be release if perma frost is gone.

DW produces the most amazing and thought provoking documentaries. These I will share with my children and students. The future however depends on co-operation with the peoples of the world. The future must include DW and the countless producers of these types of documentaries. DW, it is time to contact the best of the best to collaborate all the knowledge and provide fruitful ideas, solutions with all the warnings for mankind. It can not be accomplished alone any longer. DW, collaboration is now needed sooner than we all think. Clicks, views, subscriptions and "likes" amount to nothing when it is all gone. DW, it's time to change all the rules. Polluting industries, thoughtless corporate leaders and mindless politicians need to be held to account. We are also the greatest part of the problem, we all bought into the "I want". The Century of the Self.

Thank you DW for this documentary.

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

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

Why not put a reflective blanket over the glacier for the summer months?

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

We are living in the opening scene of Highlander 2. Like it or not, it’s true.

It's just ridiculous that so much water and energy is wasted just for artificially making snow, just because rich people think they are entitled to a ski holiday.

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

Finally a straight answer from a reliable Swiss News source

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

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

The textile facades to reduce cooling costs @52:00 sounds good but it takes energy and raw materials to make the fabric, transport and install it, uninstall it in the winter, and then any kind of fabric or plastics degrade under the UV of the sun etc and will wind up having to be disposed of and replaced

Remarkable video ❤

Surely DW can afford a proof reader for the title of this video!

I think people get these figures wrong, and that the situation is far more critical than people realise, but also our ability to act is far more extensive than people are realising. Also, from a film I've seen, because of the Ukraine War, and Russia's invasion - despite everything CO2 emissions have fallen 2.5% last year across Europe!

Great video.... Quality awesome....

It is sad. Devastating to those who always lived there.

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

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

Every human being can do their part to turn this around. E.g., for the last 10 years I stopped buying any product containing Palm Oil. (Its even turning up in peanut butter at Walmart!) Maybe that has helped save a hectare of rain forest in Borneo. Then, I stopped eating industrial pork, bacon, sausages, etc. I eat beef less than once a week, but am having trouble cutting back on dairy products. It might be easier to hold back when I think about the thirsty cattle and pastureland in the Swiss Alps. Of course, the wells have gone dry there. When you remove too much forest, the water table drops. The farmer there is blaming it entirely on lack of rainfall. Everyone, young and old, think of what you can cut back on. One eye opener the last 2 years is the amount of waste in the "fast fashion" industry.

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

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

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

for climate change activists this is like a post mortem rather than a diagnosis

A doubling of the population in the past 50 years hasn't helped 😕

These videos were enlighten our mind,how the climate change happening today,hoping Filipinos may kababayan watching arun mahibal an nato kung unsay ugma sa atong mga anak,nagka anam2 na ug init ang panahon ,how cac we help dealing like this situation,unta government would force in every society need tree planting.

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

We are very excited and really like your creative ideas, made it enjoyable to watch and keep watching, hope you continue this great idea forever.

Thank you!!

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