Climate change - Averting catastrophe | DW Documentary

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

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.

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 YouTube videos. Luckily because of Internet and YouTubes 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’

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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".

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

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

The society needs a drastic change from shift from luxury towards sustainability

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.

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

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!

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

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 👍

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