Hope in a Changing Climate
HOPE in a Changing Climate – the groundbreaking BBC documentary that shows how ecological damage can be reversed – may provide one of the key solutions to global warming and climate change, but only if it is adopted as a matter of urgency.
The 22-minute film shows how farming and over-grazing led to soil erosion on a massive scale in China, Ethiopia and Rwanda, but also shows how simple programs can reverse the damage and help to capture carbon at the same time.
Hope In A Changing Climate shows how one of the most devastated landscapes in the world, went from barren to green in fifteen years. Click here to watch the film.
Once the cradle of civilisation, parts of the Loess Plateau in China faced environmental ruin just 15 years ago as hundreds of years of over-farming took its toll on the eco-system, making its once lush terrain a degraded landscape.
This uplifting new documentary, being screened today by the BBC, explores how an environmental restoration project empowered local people to dramatically transform their devastated environment and safeguard it for future generations.
Presenter John D. Liu provides an uplifting insight into what can be done to address the global challenge of climate change.
Hope in Climate Change asks vital questions.
What if there was a natural way to sequester carbon, just as it had originally been removed from the atmosphere over evolutionary time?
What if it were possible to have streams flow again throughout the year, instead of only during the rainy season?
What if it were possible to return barren lands to fertility, ending hunger for millions of people?
And the film provides positive answers to all these questions, and more.
Program presenter John D. Liu says: “We know what is needed, we know it works, and we know from the history of other civilizations that have collapsed what the consequences are of failing to act - and quickly."
He is backed up by Dr Joe Smith, Senior Lecturer in Environment at The Open University. (UK), who says: "…. the breathtaking before and after footage from these projects shows that imaginative research and policy can generate solutions on the ground."
For more information on China’s reforestation project in the Loess Plateau, see http://www.angelfire.com/nc/prannn/lo… and http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN… .
For a brief overview on deforestation visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforest… and for information on on the Loess Plateau visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess_Pl… .
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[...] Watching John Lui on “Earth Report” wonderful documentary from the BBC about the reforestation of huge parts of China and Ethiopia, if the mind wants to, if we envision it, it shall be done, we can reverse ecological damage if we want to, we have the knowledge or we will get the knowledge, necessity is after all the mother of invention. There is enough on this earth to double population if we open our minds and focus on the positive. [...]