In northern Mauritania, people are seeing first-hand the impact of climate change.
Rising temperatures and desertification are wiping out communities and many are being forced to leave their ancestral homes in search of a better life.
BBC Life at 50C looks at the impact of extreme weather, on communities, across the globe.
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I thought the library is full of thermodynamic books and the librarian has a scientific calculator standby
muh climate change
Dude I don't care we're full
Mauritania, Population 1950: 660.000 people, 2023: 4, 9 Mio. people. With this increase comes deforestation for housebuilding, firewood, increased livestock incl. goats as "desertmaker" etc. Population growth rate = 2,7% –> population will double in about 25 years. Do you really think that has no impact on the local climate?
Dramatic changes in the climate are a RESULT of ubiquitous pollution + ecocide; the destruction of flora/fauna/soil. PLEASE focus on eradicating the causes, those trying the dissemble so you won't focus on the causes and eradicating them, and all those working SO hard to eradicate the myriad causes that fall under the vast umbrella of pollution & ecocide. Changes in climate are just ONE result.
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Please BBC, quit your climate change propaganda! There have always been 50 degree days in Africa as there have in deserts in Australia, North America and elsewhere.
But it seems the elites are hell bent on declaring such landscapes vacant so they can go in and mine them for the rare earth metals needed for their electric vehicles.
So-called climate change is not the problem, it's underdevelopment i.e. a simple lack of roads and other infrastructure.
Look at the benefits the iron ore train brought the country, but my guess is that the income only pays the interest on their IMF loans dished out by LaGarde and company.
Right across Africa, people suffer from lack of basic infrastructure that we take for granted.
I can only admire their guts and resilience and acceptance of their tough lives. But to write them off as victims of climate change is a cruel hoax.
This is heartbreaking. I'm a Canadian and my neighbours are onto their second newborn and their disposable diapers fill their trash bin every week to be picked up by the city garbage truck to be taken to the local landfill where they'll be buried like millions of others for thousands of years. Going to the local big-box retailer will reveal a full aisle of such nappies, they're even marketed to adults. Such disparity on the planet as the wealthy nations treat the earth as their trash bin. It's hard to be optimistic about our future.
I don't get climate deniers. First, you need to travel abroad more to see the effects it has on poor people just like this documentary shows. Second, just follow the money, who makes millions right now and benefits from this thinking that you don't contribute to climate change and you are helpless? The polluters (fossil fuel companies)!!! Right now everyone else is suffering the consequences of this. I want to see bank cash flows of politicians who vote against climate change actions and budgets, the public needs to see this is 💯 about money and who benefits from the status quo.
Animal eat carton boxes?
Unfortunately, I don't see any hope in improving the lives of these people. I feel very sorry especially for the children, they might suffer even more due to worsening climate changes. Having four children in a such extreme conditions… No job, no education, no medicine, no basic food, where is the hope? Sorry people, I just don't get it.
I feel terrible to see goats have to eat cardboard.
After I saw the goats eating cardboard and stuffed in the car in the blazing heat I couldnt watch it anymore. Its good they make documentaires like this to show the truth about global warming but I feel so much pain for these animals this is so cruel.
Seeing these people, made me realise, why. tf I'm still complain about my life
Families still too large, and too many grazing animals on the little forage that's left.
The hottest temperatures in Mauritania haven't occurred lately, they occurred in the 2000s. Along with the coldest temperature ever recorded, in 2009……..the highest Mauritania temp ever was recorded in July 2002. The hottest summer ever, based on readings from all 13 weather stations in the nation, was 2006……….2018 was the coldest winter ever there.
Stop making documentation and do something or else mother nature will cook yall…..
Heartbreaking to see what those poor goats have to go through
desertification cannot be blamed on climate change. Sun and heat don t cause desertification.
Removal of the trillions of living organisms from soil creates sand(desertification)
In order to obtain the same nutrient value of one orange grown in 1920, today we need to eat 8 oranges grown in 2022.
Nutrients derive from living organism in soil; NOT fertilizers
The minimum organic content required for proper nutrients is 3-5%. NA averages less than 1.6%, Eu less than 1.3 %
Africa and India less than 0.75%. The Chicago area is in immediate danger of desertification.
More than a trillion people will be migrating within 10 years due to food shortages due to desertification.
Proper farming methods can reverse this disaster. @savesoil
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This is yet more man made climate change scaremongering, manipulative lies