Australia's Climate Hell: On the Frontline of Global Warming | Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Australia, one of the most beautiful countries on the planet, is also one of the most polluting. From fires and droughts to cyclones and floods, the country is no stranger to bearing the full brunt of global warming.
According to the Brown To Green Report - an annual review detailing G20 member countries’ performance in environmental matters - Australia is one of the worst performing members from the board on almost all counts: deforestation, coal mining, excessive water consumption, and carbon footprint. Despite this, the Australian government continues to encourage the production of coal, and it is one of the world’s leading exporters of this fossil fuel. Most elected officials in the country are climate sceptics. Green energy is not a priority. And the media fails to address the crisis.
Whilst exploring the Australian desert, we decided to meet the present-day cowboys of the Outback, who live on isolated ranches located hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest village. They spend most of their time searching for water. We also met the miners of Australia’s booming coal industry - who were keen to not only defend their field, but also the way of life it comes with.
However, there has recently been an increase awareness of the climate crisis and people have started to take action. Among them, Aboriginal communities who have always protected and reclaimed nature, as well as activists who do not hesitate to openly criticise polluting companies. But a number of Australian states have adopted strict laws that threaten the right to peaceful protests, leading to numerous protesters running the risk of being put behind bars for their fight against climate change.
This documentary was first released in 2023.
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Capitalism on cocaine
Maybe the Aussies are not the brightest people?
Former penal colony. What do you expect. They get very irritated when they are reminded of that.
Ape’s are not that bright
Racing boats in the desert...waste of water
They should "desert" the boats in the sand....
Get it?
I'm so done😂😂😂I
Prove it:)
How many Australians, have been displaced from droughts, against floods?
Might want to look up the Great Artesian Basin and whether Barcaldine (venue for the racing is) is in this region?
More coastline than any country in the world, waste is an understatement.
Aquifers are the last resort. Once they're gone, only desalination can provide drinkable water, but it's expensive and doesn't taste good.
DOES NZ HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM
I keep explaining the aquifers problem to people here in the States. Few will listen. Get ahead of it if you can, harvest rainwater, raise food via permaculture, set up your house to run on lower resources.
Australia has an abysmal record of protecting its wildlife and water resources as big businesses r
Miss management of resources leads to a collapse of natural and man systems.
"It's a natural cycle". Yeah, and even if that was the case, can you live long enough with the resources you have now for the cycle to repeat? If your aquifer cycles every three or four million years and you suck it dry in a few hundred, how are you feeling sanguine about THAT?
Precisely, humanity outpaces the cycles, same with resources.
Right? Even if they don't believe in Climate Change, they should still be worried by what they are seeing regardless!!
Do they think that ''climate changes naturally'' = everything will magically restore itself like it used to?!
Yep, this. They think they are clever, but they actually underline urgency. It does not matter. You will have to survive that cycle.
Thanks Rupert Murdock
Rup needs prison time for crimes against humanity.
@@LanternOneStudios💯 %
I'll leave you with a quote: "Climate change is like gravity, it's ever-present regardless of your belief."
When guoting it is common practice to mention the person who made the quote.
@@frankblangeard8865 No idea, saw it in a TH-cam comment. So, a great man or woman once said...
well flatearthers doesnt believe in gravity either...
Only to the easily led and we've seen who they are
humanity had its short run.
... The Dinosaurs existed for more than 160 MILLION years ... Humanity 300,000 at best and " Civilization " - about 10,000 years ... sad shit that is ALL verifiable.
But just about a year and a half ago or 2 years much of Australia was suffering deluges of rain and accompanying terrible rat and mouse invasion, if I remember right
its mind boggling to see people actually still be skeptic or not believe that climate change is real when they were clearly affected already
We are in serious Trouble leading scientists say 3degree Celsius by 2045. Complete chaos will ensue
I would think that the survivors will be digging a lot of holes. Peace will be a goal, but unlikely everywhere. The deniers might turn on the scientific community and claim that they actually caused the chaos just to prove themselves right.@Muddslinger0415
See the first comment below. billythekid person
Bunch of flat earthers-
Sad part is the reproduce at higher rates.
@@UnknownPascal-sc2nkdid you know Billy the kid is related to the Bidens?
Also, Billy's ears had separate names- The on on the Left was named Joe. The one on the right was Mao.
Give the land back to the original people who did not disrespect the planet!
Excellent documentary.
I agree, def not mainstream by any means...
They should invest alot of money in harvesting the flood water, they are capable of it
Crazy water sportstars using groundwater on the one side, farmer struggling to save his cows on the other. Australians seriously need to wake up to the climate reality!
IMO: Rugged individualism and climate change denial seem to run together. Generations of settlers lead us to have rugged individualism.
Australia is big and has resources, but it is still an island. Look at what happened to Iceland, Easter Island, and Ireland. Their soil is so eroded, that nothing will grow. First, the Vikings took all of the trees and the sheep, wind, and water did the rest of the damage. Australia has had its share of invasive species and they are smart enough to keep some trees, but mining and acting like there's nothing wrong with taking the resources, polluting, drilling, and mining, have not followed science or history. Desertification is real and happening all over the world. We have the power to at least slow it down and reverse the effects a lot of the time. We only have 1 planet and 3/4ths of that is water. We need to take care of our only place to live.
Do you live in Australia? This is how people have lived here for 60,000 years. Drought cycles and floods.
LISMORE is known for flooding…I used to live in Alstonville…they built their city in the wrong place. This whole video is bullshit. Again, I believe in climate change, but your sources are ridiculous.😊
Isn't every nation an Island?
@@rdallas81oh yeah, Hungary is an island
@rdallas81 Yes but some continents are so big that people don't consider mainlands to be islands, but they should.
As an Australian, I couldn't watch much of that. Sounds like whoever wrote this doco got their foundational information from some dusty old encyclepedia britannica and has a very 'dated' way of approaching the issue and took the most unengaging, unrepresentative angle to tell the story.
As if you have any room to talk 😂 (spacePriestess)😂😂😂
Love it
Houses built on pontoons and anchored like those done in the Netherlands should be a requirement on every flood plain
I'm less than a minute in and WTF! WTAF! Have their brains been fried in the heat?
Wow, Australia is just like the United States.
It's Texas!
We get a lot more rain in U.S.
The global temperature has been rising since the industrial revolution.
No construction, electric industry in australia, so hard to recover from disaster.
They need to plant trees and plants native to the area
Too late for that. It would only divert resources and waste the water that the trees would need.
That water stinks like Patrol. When I was a kid I go sailing on the lake that did not allow motor boats the water was pristine😊
I guess Australia has as many oblivious people as we do here in the U.S.A....wow it's mind blowing
Bow Down To King Coal!!!!!!
No matter the cause, drought is drought. The cycle is headed to a repeat of the PETM, the last time Hothouse Earth reigned supreme. It will be a very long reign.
We're actually at the end of the Hothouse period, 13kYear cycle is coming to a close.
@@MinusMedley HotHouse Earth, among the scientists that I know, is the 10°C warmer time, where the Earth spends 70 to 80% of recent geologic time (past 250 million years). We are in the Interglacial Period, headed back to that stable 10°C, where Primates first evolved, and Alligators roamed Hudson Bay, in Canada. I don't know what your definition of Hothouse is.
Hello! These people are descendants of the people who voted for Brexit!
These people are INSANE!
Draining the aquifers for 'emtertainment' (money) is stupidity beyond belief.
When the Dutch first discovered Australia they named it the land of fire. The Waratanga Australias national flower needs fire for it to germinate as does the Eucaplyptus. With all that sunshine Australia should build Desalination Plants and make the deserts bloom just like Israel does.
Thank You for this video 😊 The generational knowledge that was lost is carried in the souls of the next generations. The instinctual knowledge we possess from our ancestors is amazing. I am 60 and learning more about Native culture and finding out that the art that I make has been made by my ancestors and I had no previous knowledge when I was making my feather and bead creations. The hula-hoop is also something my ancestors danced with at hoop dances. I was a hula hoop champion as a kid. I have only known about hoop dancing for a few years now, but I've always felt a connection with, especially my bead and feather work. Now I know why. Even if we have never met our parents, we do things and have the same traits. I am finding that out with my oldest son who was adopted when he was a baby. We have so much in common it is crazy. Passing down the knowledge of our past is very important. I see evidence of the 2 ice ages too. Some sites I see have been through at least 1 ice age. That's how I know people were civilized longer than scientists previously thought. The glacial striations found under the petroglyphs couldn't have gotten there any other way. The white statues in Rome had color when they were first made. Archeologists noticed paint behind the ears and in other cracks of the statues and discovered traces of colored paint. She looked under a microscope and tested the substances. She is now recreating every statue with colorful clothes and makeup like they were intended. The petroglyphs in Australia are beyond fascinating. They tried to say they weren't that old, or that they were modern because of how vivid they are. No one vandalized theirs! If they have I haven't seen it. No bullet marks or initials. Beautiful.
"I never thought my life could depend on the weather" - like how stupid can you be to never think that. Wow
Those nice ranch folks are DRIVING around to check water reservoirs manually? This is the 21st century. Solar collector, a few sensors, LoRa tech, an antenna, monitor all that from remote. Any competent nerd can do that easily.
They lack help, knowledge, they are mostly manipulated by lobbies and upstream sellers. They simply don't know.
@@Pecisk Huh. I would make it a mission to provide such things at cost plus travel. You can have updates sent right to your phone. It's off-the-shelf tech.
Boulder Dam at least supplies electricity but Lake Mead is also a terrible waste of water in the desert.
When was this documentary made? All recent news events are about Australia flooding from extraordinary levels of rainfall.
Flooding doesn't service crops or ground water.
Yes, and that fits current climate change model - big stretches of drought combined with devastating floods.
Drought is not global. UK has had the wettest winter and spring in living memory.
That end 😵
6:35 Emma puts dog in its place😂
I live in Michigan. I support global warming. It's a little too cold here.
I live in Chicago, problem is everyone will be heading our way.
Why would a place like Australia be dependent on coal when they're blessed with so much sun? It's amazing how money perverts logic.
This documentary and comments here are more proof the planets negative trajectory will not change for the better.
They will change..
In the most powerful ways..
When it happens- when all these little one off events start connecting- we will remember these times as the best times ever.
There is coming a world of hurt..
@@rdallas81 comment edit :)
"Boat Racing in the Year Zero".
The big population decline doesn’t come too early (except for those who want cheap slaves)
Over 60% of the land in Australia are Desert . Australia should try to sell more coal to China , and buy the Solar Panels
from them in return . Install the Solar Panels in Desert areas only and generate a lot of cheap solar energy so as to enable
Australia to become competitive in other industries . Cost of Solar Panels is dropping 10% / year and it is not wise to
make cheap Solar Panels locally .
Climate change they do realize Australia has been like that for thousands of years😂
Climate change used to take longer than thousands of years when humans weren't standing on, as this bozo says.......... "The loud pedal.".
Not fully understanding the notion of getting a child to work once they are walking. But then perhaps that's the culture of Australian farming.
It should be that way..
I worked as early as I can remember..
I was doing landscaping when I was 10.
Work is good even for kids..
It reinforces work ethic and self sustenance.
I owned 4 vehicles by the time I was 16.
That is all agricultural people's. That's what children are for: laboring on the farm.
Kids who grow up on farms see that stuff all around them before they can even walk and talk. A very hands-on way of teaching.
I buy bottle water, so I can recycle more. Planet saved!
Feel always that being Australian citizens you are the luckest of all humankind with only 26 million population and with english language capabilities with highest net wages on earth, you are living in 7 million square kms. Australia also doesn't possess illetarate citizens or low IQs citizens. All of Australians can easily get highest scores on GMAT, GRE easliy and reach 3.5/4.00 cumulative GPA s from faculties. Within Turkiye we habe got 1 million complete illetarate people, 3 million turkish citizens earn per month as pension wage of 250 USD, minimum wage is being earned by 16.5 million people at 520 USD per month. Life in Istanbul and Ankara are as expensive as in Australian big cities. Total number of workers in Turkiye is 32 million people. We have got 230 universities in Turkiye and northerm cyprus. 10 million students attend to primary, secondary, high schools in Turkiye.
I believe that climate change is real, so don’t’ t hate, but as an Australian, this documentary is ridiculous. I used to live outside of LISMORE…they built the city on land prone to flooding. Where I was in Alstonville never had a flood. The boat racing thing is absurd, too. People have lived 60,000 years here in constant cycles of drought and flooding, but a boat race is contributing to climate change when 130,000 flights take off in the US (where I now live) is the thing that’s killing the planet? Not a serious look at climate change here, folks.
Sir, if you drank that litre he ran that lap with, it would kill you. If we put you in a closed off room with a gallon of gas and ran it in a motor, it would kill you. You people say drugs are bad but you can't even be in a room with your own stuff and you can't put it together that fire is hot. Also, it kind of hurt my feelings to see people being bought off with natural resources to be little boys with fire toys instead of representing the honesty they espouse given the aforementioned truth of your existence. So if you watched the documentary, like you would know people have been in Australia 39,000 years dude. You would also have seen that juicy ending that just makes my soul bleed. I am pretty shocked you guys are as bad as Cuba when it comes to freedom of speech. Tsk tsk, Australia is not my friend for having eco protest police forces and banning public protest. Australia is on my naughty list thanks to this wonderful documentary. Like, I already had a feeling because of their stance on the aforementioned reality we discussed, but honestly, now I really just find the place to be a dictatorship with really horrible human rights abuses and that is all in this documentary and more.
Jockumentary.
It wasn't presented as the cause, Sparky, it was used as a graphic illustration of the propensity of people........ ALL PEOPLE....... to delude themselves and do unbelievably self-destructive things with full knowledge of the long term damage done because of short term delusions. "Fiddling while Rome burns". Now you also have the "This is fine" dog-in-a-burning-room meme.
He is mispronouncing Barcaldine. I'm American, but I visited Barcaldine in about 1975. The accent is on the second syllable.
ACDC they want a highway to Hell.
It’s not called global warming now “climate change” is the less specific term.
Doesn't matter what it's called. It won't stop it happening.
Calling a climate change and human extinction is the way to scary for most people😢
That's because global warming doesn'.t just cause warming...
"Maybe under threat" IS. IS under threat. It's for real, it's factual, there's so much proof that it's overwhelming. Quit giving ignorant people so much voice.
Plenty of water in my taps, business as usual.
I started to fell bad for them then NOT. They would rather ski and boat instead of use the water for life. How F#@k up is that.
I dought your kids will do it.
I think these people eat too much processed food and it clouded their ability to think clearly. One guy even said his kids will race boats which I highly doubt because there will be no water.
Wow. Such deniability. Ignorance is bliss that it's not man made
"Subbed". 👍
Pessoas brincam com a natureza, depois vem a consequência.
25:30 seriously?
Worst crime in history, does this man know what is going on in the World.. LOL
She'll be right mate. Mel Gibson will come back traveling the outback with Tina Turner's ashes and the Abo kid with a killer boomerang beside him fighting outlaws in seach of water.
Kinda sad it’s just business as usual here in USA most don’t give a rats ass
Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels and an electric vehicle charger in the garage.
Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it.
We need to stop planting green lawns and switch to local native plantings around homes.
It is crazy to plant lawns and build golf courses in dry desert areas. We waste too much water and electricity.
the future is electric. Wind and solar energy along with electric vehicles are the future. Stop using fossil fuels. There is a climate crisis.
It's drought.,good.
Now get going start digging.make holes .
Everywhere possible.
4' large 8 deep.
Do not stop digging until it Rain again.
This is how you get out of drought.
This freakin world is really going down the pipe… and I am glad for it.
Aren’t fires a natural part of the Australian forest ecosystem?
Everything is a matter of degree. Systems are stable WITHIN A RANGE of changes. Slide outside of that range, and you encounter self-reinforcing changes which push the system to equilibrate at new levels, to present a new set of parameters which may, or may not, be survivable.
As of May 30, 2024 only 39000 views, 193 comments and 689 likes. Of very little interest to many people? Interesting numbers ... to me, anyway.
When documentaries and scientists still use words like MAYBE, Probably, possibility....nobody will take climate change seriously
The world is full of uncertainty. Even if climate change is 50% real, you have to treat it like it is 100% real because the consequences would be too grave. By the way, the consensus among the scientific community is way more than 50%.
Human's life is not long enough to experience a cycle. It's easy to rewrite the narrative between generations.
I’m 66 and live in U.S. Midwest, winters are much warmer and dryer and nice weather extends for months longer. It’s easy for me to notice.
Why te pe ple are wild. Even with their own under populated peninsula they're still on other people's lands messing things all the way up, smh.
Yeah hello its the new normal marsupial brain
Going to jail just for thinking about something? 😂
Thought police..
@@rdallas81 I thought so......lol
Wow really?
what a waste of water for useless sports
1 hour of goodness documentary ❤
Reality coming soon
It's here!
Australia..land of sun and solar power...and not one EV in this film ?
What a ridiculous comment. Go there and it might dawn on you why.
AWESOME DOC...
😂😂😂
Lunacy
Jesus 🤦♀️😱🔥💥🤯
YEAH YEAH CLIMATE FUCKING CHANGE BOLLOCKS!!!
you deserve not have water soon...
"the catastrophes will come anyhow but woe betide those who cause it!" ( Holy Bible, John)
Oink oink.
Ok. I’m not a climate denier and yes I think it’s real, but where I live in the US, we have 130,000 flights taking off everyday…just saying. Dudes racing boats isn’t the problem. Also, I’m from Sydney…whatever shot you took over the bridge is shit because I grew up in Rose Bay, just to the East. You’re basically talking about everything that what -expletive already know about our country. We have cycles of drought and rain. It’s not England.
Ok.
IF you were in charge of fuel usage and had to choose to use a very limited amount of fuel, the MINIMUM amount out fuel in the most useful and essential manner, how much would you allocate to racing boats in a desert? How much would you allocate to any and all forms of racing? How essential is racing, in the global picture? It's about priorities.
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46:50 The $%#@!!$$$! Coal Indu$try with all it's merry "All THIS from a little black rock." should be supporting affected wildlife as well as their "coal is king" fun fairs. Or is it their position that CO2 is not the culprit- or that MMCC is not happening at all?
😂😂
Your religion has made you mad! Droughts are not new.
And tens of thousands of people had to evacuate in the Brisbane area in 2022, because of floods. In 850 C.E, the Southwest United States and parts of Northwest Mexico went into a drought that lasted 240 years, but then things perked up, it rained for forty or fifty years, but then things took a slight downturn as another drought took hold that lasted 170 years..... and obviously those pesky native Americans, who made their way over from Eurasia, over 13,000 years ago, were to blame for it, because they built camp fires and hunted mega fauna to extinction........ But wait....... now we know humans were in the Americas 23,000 years ago?
There has been no net increase in hurricanes, tornadoes, floods droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, sea ice decrease, ice sheets melting, or a mass extinction event. The planet has been fairly stable since the end of the "Little Ice Age" The planet can safely handle twice as many people as we have now, but not by denying developing nations cheap hydrocarbon fuels, which also green the planet and increase crop production. There is no such thing as "climate refugees" due to increased sea level rise, 89% of all land masses over 25 hectares are stable or have increased in size. There is no "Climate Crisis"
How much are they paying you?
Funny, I was going to ask you the same question.
@@UnknownPascal-sc2nk What question?
HOW much ARE they PAYING you-
Thats probably the question.@@BillyTheKidCENTURION
@@rdallas81 Well, since I came out with the question first that you claim he/she/it is asking, why have they not answered it?
Where is the "Climate Crisis".....?
Please understand I recorded all of this back and forth for history :)
Do climate activists observe solar activity? That can also contribute to higher temperatures on earth. How will we stop that? How much money?
Have No Fear Seek Jehovah Now, he is coming!
Father Zeus hears you and answers.
From where ? Outside the multiverse?
I hope that he doesn't do it in public. George Michael did that and got arrested. It's also the reason why Santa Claus doesn't have any kids. He only come down chimneys.