GUYANA | Thriving at a Cost? (The Environmental Leader's Oil Boom)

If you look at different countries’ economic trajectory since 2020, you’ll notice widespread struggle, a couple of total nosedives like Argentina, a handful of countries doing alright like Fiji, and one country doing really, really, really alright.
That would be Guyana.
The country is growing like no other and all kinds of infrastructure is rapidly going up in Georgetown and other parts of the country.
For the longest time, the country was largely an obscure and underrated eco-paradise. But now it feels like it’s cards are stacked against each other.
The economic boom is largely driven by the discovery of oil just off the coast. Will Guyana’s environmental legacy take a hit? What do people there think of the competing interests?
I went to find out.

[@WARVIATION]

this might have been the most true , best video I've seen about Guyana's oil. Thank you for posting this and making such high quality content

[@user-fi2vg2wo1x]

One Guyana 🇬🇾❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ no more apnuafcpnc dictatorship ..holding back out country since burnam time....

[@adrianbristol4392]

ppp is most corrupt/racist thing in the world, where is the one Guyana? that only benefit coolie and no one else, is only when racist ppp in government they sing one Guyana, Y'all cannot fool anyone else but those who wanna be fooled, the UN can see through the ppp corruption

[@WARVIATION]

nobody willl vote for APNU they are communist

[@johnnycrepaul547]

Guyana would needs s few more city to boost the economy and promotes eco -tourism. One city is not enough.

[@ErikDouds]

Beautiful film. Keep going Philippe, I appreciate you bringing me along so much to Guyana.

[@ayantuoluma6825]

Keep pumping that gas and oil because your country needs to grow.

[@richard594]

Why people are encouraged to, and continue building in Georgetown is mystifying. This city is below sea level and sits on a mud plain; it is flooded every time there's heavy rainfall which is compounded by plugged drainage due to lack of maintenance by the city council. It is an unsightly place where vendors are encouraged to erect tents and dilapidated structures on sidewalks and on parking spaces in front of businesses. This area then becomes a dumping spot for their garbage, some can be seen urinating in the open at times, it is unhygenic, disgusting and illegal, but the police turn a blind eye to all of this. Georgetown is the only city in all of the Caribbean community where this is allowed.

[@WARVIATION]

"we are the most free nation" that should be the new slogan lol

[@richard594]

@@WARVIATION yea man, free to pee, pump, dump, near any close by hump.

[@haymankhan2913]

Are you done? Sure you didn't leave anything out. Meanwhile hope you're on your way out. That would be a blessing to Guyana.

[@richard594]

From being the garden city of the Caribbean to the shantytown of Caricom😅😂😊😢😅

[@Sthmohtwenty]

Now Venezuela want to grab the ailllll part

[@josephwinslow7613]

Every Guyanese has an opinion as usual. If you are a Guyanese you might know what I mean. Every single Guyanese is an expert in everything and anything, even, the ones that cannot read nor write. And they are quite a few people in Guyana and from Guyana that can neither read nor write. But they are still experts in everything and anything, at least according to them. They are not any easy people. Yes, I was born in the Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana.

[@yogeshsukhdeo4837]

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