Grasp the opposition claims the vote was rigged. The very has announced tougher coronavirus lockdown rules aimed at slowing the rate of new infections there the new measures will see people having to provide good reason for leaving their homes and a maximum of 5 people from 2 households will be allowed to meet in public a very has the highest coronavirus death toll in germany. Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the bell of russian capital minsk and elsewhere to demand president Alexander Lukashenko resign from office the march was the latest in nearly 4 months of weekly demonstrations hundreds of people have been detained by police. This is d. W. News from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram the handle is at d w new or visit our website to be found at d. W. Dot com. There are nearly 2000000000 people on our planet and an impact. On the one hand on the fossil fuel band 1900000000 energy and the resources of nicholas lee but on the other hand our efforts to reduce our Carbon Footprint and work with the environment country will be willing salmon closely backed bad and good so that you can leak an informed decision about your choice of how welcome to equal india that one way of tackling the problem of overconsumption and the subsequent resisted generally is for people to work with me and by. The people in our next story live in a few more region of india with extreme climatic conditions its not easy to make a living and transporting a regular supply of food and other essential uses a lot of energy in their bid to help the environment. There the 15 a 1000000000 growing im looking at me a potential so before providing them with a new source of nutrition and. Conditions are cool up here in the mountain desert of law holds pretty in the indian state of him actually predation winter is approaching the area lives for 1000 meters above sea level and temperatures can drop well below freezing in winter. Conditions here can be harsh and Climate Change is making things much harder 2 years ago heavy snow fell in september by being out a key part of the harvest farmer priem chandas 84 years old he says life here used to be quite different. In the past the better circuit was fairly predictable. Its no one time and there was no trouble with water so the only travelling from one village to another was a problem. People here are cut off from the outside world for 6 months every winter during that time they have to live off whatever they have produced in the summer if the harvest of potatoes peas or barley is poor the farmers can sell as much so some people have started picking seebach tahn berries or jeremiah as theyre known here. On new york city where you. Will know its only been the tibetan medicine men that have used them or on the local mall didnt put them in the mideast for video. Or. We had no idea or knowledge about these ourselves but they knew all this is called well we dont know anything about their medicine properties or any other uses. We just thought they were of by. You. Once a remedy used to treat altitude sickness high Blood Pressure ulcers and bone conditions today see buckthorn is considered a super food the berries are in high demand among indias urban middle class and they are plentiful up here making them an ideal source of extra income the shrub also plays a key role in preserving the landscape. Is more or less found in abundance across the malias across pretty in many other areas too much of produce make the environment here is very fragile and prone to soil erosion. Helps to preserve it by stopping the soil from eroding which protects the wildlife and thats just one part of the story reason. Why i left. After you. Reading this saying has spent 30 years studying feedback on the 1st scientists in india to do so at a Research Center in lahore and hes breeding new where right is that are more suitable for farming the idea is to increase the use of Sea Buckthorn and maximize its potential. Those go through the fruit and the leaves are extremely rich in vitamins amino acid fatty acid and while its not so. Nor the plant in the world possesses such a rich composition of compound. The amount of vitamin c. Present in c. But is 4 times what is present in the indian gooseberry for example. 3000. 00 tons of c both on are sold every year in india and the scientists believes that the demand could double over the next 5 years many areas have yet to realize the shrubs economic potential. Local selection. Im sure c. R. Is looking to change that with her start up top so working within the sing and supported by Government Institute shes developed and marketed a result of Sea Buckthorn products including fruit piri and fresh juice meijer levy act theres a you know Marketing Agency for taking these producers and at the same Time Products also into the market to specific industries where they fit in basically so replugging different at those and different kind of existing technologies and make sure that good from the harvesting the delivery time that the product reaches the customers or the businesses in the right place and it reaches in no particular order and hands nope quality we basically so that is what the person make sure. The start of works closely with farmer producer organizations known as if deals one of them is led by 81 year old former teacher be deeper she he represents the interest of 150. 00 small holders in marketing the berries the farmers have long since recognized the benefits of siba tone. Or is caught up with god we will remember many of them in the process involved. And we far most hardly have to do much work with. We dont have to deal. With men or you know and yet were reaping the benefits of your board over there. The farmers used to sell their berries to intermediaries for less than 20 rupees a kilo and even that price wasnt guaranteed now by selling them to the f. B. O. They get 4. 00 times the price for their produce so each farmer earns an extra 40000. 00 rupees per season in addition to want to get for their other crops this the marked on flourishes in the cold desert landscape which covers more than 40 percent of him archer predation the shrub is hardy it can cope with drought and temperatures as low as minus 43. 00 degrees celsius for the farmers it has the potential to become a cornerstone of their income and because the Sea Buckthorn is also good for the ecosystem its a definite win for the region. Siebert cotton grows not only in the hymn ali and region but also in many parts of central asia and even the arctic over millennia its spread all the way to the alps in Central Europe and the costs of the north and the baltic sea. See about corn is also farmed in germany but in the last 4 years theres usually undemanding plant has begun to struggle. Buckthorn is basically our life philosophy or company philosophy. This area. In the north of germany used to be covered in Sea Buckthorn the lemon of the north as locals call it but now famines like function better sounding. For over the past 5 or 6 years weve noticed that more and more seabrook thorn shrubs are dying at 1st they were just isolated cases maybe one or 5 shrubs but the last 2 to 3 years its been really extreme. Vast areas that were covered in buckthorn are just dying off. Its not exactly clear whats killing the shrubs with its northern climate and favorable soils Sea Buckthorn used to thrive in the area around with explosives but thats changed the function is working with researchers to find out whats happening to his plantations. The researcher checks the question is what the problems usually begin to affect the plant from inside many dry out. But why its still a mystery. To us. Thats the weather will no doubt have had a massive impact in recent years. So also obviously. At the moment it doesnt look like were dealing with any kind of new previously unknown pathogen or disease. It seems to be a complex of different factors all working together. Samples of c. Back thrown from all over germany are being examined for possible causes the German FederalResearch Center for cultivated plants is running tests to try to save the plant. Our hypothesis is they out me how were major role of fungi in this disease complex. Its quite likely that we are climate as an additional insurance but there are certainly other factors that need to be investigated like forums or the effect or other. Like cultural practices. The harvest ended in september previous they function better collected around 80. 00 to 90. 00 tons of berries this year he got only 110th of his normal harvest. Long and this freezer is usually filled with contain is. Putting this kind on our freezer could be fuller given the time of year. But im not thinking about it too much at the moment for now well just process the berries that we have and turn them into a good product so when once we run out well have to see where we go from there. See box on berries have a long history in the last germanys 1st ever plantation was here the berries tot fruity and have a strong flavor and soon became popular in germany and their powerhouse of atom in c c bucks on oil is used in a wide range of food and Beauty Products and Nutritional Supplements my favorite is the juice its the most versatile product. Whats also nice is honey with Sea Buckthorn and Sea Buckthorn chili mustard as productive to save the local plantations research is one to do an experiment they will plant 8 different varieties of Sea Buckthorn here most of them from the alps and then study how they cope with the local ecosystem. Will be investigating whether these other varieties develop the same kinds of problems we see in the local shrubs. It may be that some of these other varieties are more robust and better suited to cultivation here in northern germany over the long term. For fam is the Experiment Office the hope that theyll be able to continue their production or that a solution will be found to restore a. Part of that might involve new farming practices or organic supplements to bring the nordic lemon back to life. Now when we begin to talk about the impact on the planet population is one of the factors. Its being blamed for Global Warming station shortage of resources among many. In india for example has the worlds 2nd largest population after china 1300000000 people but is there another way to examine this problem of just looking at. Lets find out. In the time you watch this almost a 1200 people have been added to our population. Breathing the same oxygen sharing the same space and creating more and more Greenhouse Gases. Are we need to address much more aggressively relation part of the equation if we keep norine Exponential Population rise nature reduce your population for us is this the whole story. About nature growth peace peace. Peace more from the stupidity tribune. How many is really too many and what does the also have to do with frozen food. Lets start at the very beginning when multi follow around meant security in an insecure show on the indian subcontinent for example china get the full also 1st suggested that widows quickly find new husbands and during the. Increase in population was celebrated as it meant more people could work on a farm and produce more food for the roman emperors were no different in some cases passing laws to promote early marriage and frequent childbirth so that on these could stay up to strength. Like. Setting up new colonies until the number of people started becoming a visible problem. In the 18th century british economists started ringing alarm bells ok ancient history lesson. In more modern times the feel exploited by the publication of a book called the population bomb its author an american biologist won the western world of the conditions he had seen in new delhi. Overpopulation will soon blame for everything from poor Resource Management to destroying the environment. Some countries began experimenting with moderately and political. Control. China became the poster child and its one child policy resulted in a disaster. And like other control measures in asia it was eventually. But the enemy had been identified as. So what exactly is overpopulation. It is defined by carrying capacity a slightly complicated concept which basically means the number of individuals on ecosystems resources like food water and space can sustain indefinitely but demographers have consistently got it wrong. Theyre almost pretty good. Because. Of natural resources. So were not quite sure what the carrying capacity is because the variables are constantly changing one things for sure its not the population element thats going to be the problem. Already in the. Well up to world the population has largely stabilized or begun to decline and the developing world is on track to follow education and access to contraception are driving the numbers down even if cities dont look like it yet. Its deception in the cities of overcrowded and. Planners havent really taken into account population growth can happen anywhere. And then theres the 2nd point which is actually the kind of bigger impacts on the environment and a link to consumption. Could say. As seen around the world consumption unlike population is on an exponential rise. If we look at the levels of consumption across different contexts. Globally across cities within cities they are highly highly any. Ok so lets then look at how we are consuming resources and that equation. Every research as we look at the earths annual resource budget and calculate at what point we will use it. If we look at this by country the differences are startling many nations in the middle east and west exhausted budget in the 1st quarter while a few countries like india dont overshoot yet. Significantly. Higher. India. And correspondingly how much Carbon Dioxide we entered on the world is different to in 2018 an indian family of 4 had a Carbon Footprint of less than 8 tons an American Family of 4 in the same year came in at almost 70. So shouldnt we then me looking at who is consuming and how much. Instead of simply counting the number of people. One of the 1st studies to compare global emissions involved over 200 diverse researchers and policymakers the result called project drawdown publish a definitive list on reducing our impact we deal very complex models you know we didnt know what they would be i had a strong hunch of what the top 10 would be and i was clearly wrong all the rest of us were wrong number one is refrigerant management yes you have that right the way we keep things cool is one of our worst offenses against the planet are air conditioned as in reference to is still largely emmet Greenhouse Gases much stronger than Carbon Dioxide when cooling like transporting frozen goods. The project estimates that changing to more efficient cooling could save 5 times more emissions than if all cars became electric. Another big one on the list is something we can all individually do something about. Is huge its about a 3rd almost a 3rd of all global emissions go to the food system the waste nothing possible. No one can really deny that the human population has an impact on the environment but right now wealthier countries emmetts so much carbon that even adding 3 or 4000000000 people in the global felt one significantly impact the rate of Climate Change but also lowering consumption sounds weird easier than deciding whether that many people should or shouldnt exist to say theres too many people that sort of. Kindness to a person you know like which person things are to know. Its time to change the narrative away from the easy to blame visual problem. Population to the more hidden and dangerous concerns of waste and overconsumption. We try to answer the biggest questions concerning Climate Change today. In metropolis and around the world traffic is one of the major causes of pollution where 2 parts of the worlds population to live in urban areas by 2050 according to the un expected to one lead get worse city a part of the world. Changing their infrastructure in germany capital berlin and developing projects with him off niche in the city greener and smarter. Or limit livable is best achieved with the help of people who live here via where hes in new technology to contribute to better understanding of traffic. I would like to see the city authorities and the general public taking care of the trees. The city. The streets of berlin are increasingly busy with cars cyclists pedestrians. Take a left gets around by bike. Its believed in and out. Loud and i dont want to live in a noisy polluted concrete jungle that i want to live in a city where people chat on the pavements apartment dont have to shout at one another over the roar of porches was in the past a porter and read up on. The platform fix my berlin was set up a year ago for. The city Cycling Community it allows users to see for example where theres a new bypass or where a new one is planned it already has a 1500 users the idea is to put pressure on urban planning authorities. Already said planning a new bicycle boulevard or new bike racks the public can say whether they approve of the plans. So you can see whats possible what the public sees as a priority and what it sees as less urgent and where there is less demand. 8 people now work for the startup its office is in city lab or land a shared work space for people developing projects and ideas to make berlin greener and smarter. The city a city lab is a Public Innovation Lab coat run Biotechnology Foundation and the berlin state we focus on the future of berlin as a digital city and we develop a range of products designed to make the city more livable. Berlins population increases by about 20000 a year according to forecast the city will be home to some 4000000 people by 2030. How can traffic be reduced how can traffic flow be diverted to reduce congestion and pollution. These are questions that a group of scientists also based in city lab or them are seeking to answer with the help of Data Collected by traffic cameras. Lets take a busy balin street as an example a street you think would be quite dangerous for cyclists. Would look at that your checked aries see if they often need to overtake trucks and buses say and see if that could be quite high risk with. Their findings could be used by urban planners to redesign busy cross roads for example. Traffic patterns are constantly in flux recent months have seen a 25 percent rise in cyclists on berlins streets when the pandemic hit the city created a number of pop up cycling paths. But the fix my berlin team say theres still a lot of work to be done. And im sure there are many not. Compared to other cities the mayor and the City Government arent very invested in cycling policy. In paris and london its a political priority thats at the water truck here to show south korea and. Perhaps not yet but the visionaries at city labs are working hard to get the land up to speed. That so many people around the world can make a positive impact on the earth in the hot fact i hope you will examine your impact however a big of a small write to us if you have any questions or thoughts about it go and get. Well see you again next week until then good bye. Truck in good shape people who dont play has nothing to laugh about and it is important for us to keep training some of the brain of Senior Citizens and of good fortune to cause the form civil behavior and its a lot of fun where designers of the blade come from pams and while the little bit of fine is much more than just a childish pastime good should. International are totally. Starks but only mean one. Concern for the planet can also be felt in the Financial MarketShare Holders want to and doesnt sustain a point but how does that work do Green Investments pay off for the environment the sustainability financial chat reveals some surprising results in the global 3000. And 60 minutes on t. W. Board. For. Sure that people are all gone for g. W. Or for a small again twitters up to date and in touch and follow us. On the career path guy called meal and im game to. You know those thats 17 trillion land on the move on killed worldwide sure so that we can eat but its not just the animals at all suffering its the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the mutation if you want to know how one click to a priest and the whole trust changed anything to listen to our podcast on the green thumbs. Up. Welcome to in good shape coming up. Bad breath how can it be prevented. Recipes for love which foods are aphrodesiac. And why childs play is good for grownups too. L. O. L. Wrote in shes in good shape many of us do it every single day for hours and hours adults children at the workplace and in school im talking about games in playing all you might say such a waste of time but wait wait youre wrong because its important for us to keep trains the brain of Senior Citizens and its good for children too because it forms the behavior of the character and its a lot of. Us who engrossed to go to sleep. Too absorbed to do admin or clean up. If youre busy playing a game time whizzes by. Youre in a world of youre wrong for hours on end not doing anything thats obviously useful. It can be intense and taken very seriously. Playing looks like theyre. Very opposite of a fish in action yet everybody doesnt. Animals also like to play. Apparently it helps to train the skills needed to survive and thrive. Its important to be flexible and able to respond to new situations play teaches us just back from an early age. The more intelligent an animal the more it plays a. Little animals and little humans seem eerily similar when theyre forcing around. From the very start baby humans learn about how the world works through play in all cultures. They grasp objects taste of them listen attentively to the sounds of their world. Its all very new and interesting. When children reach the age of one or so play becomes more purposeful sorting objects or building a tower. Is proof that its a big plane and a pilot. For a 2 year old a tower can be a plane all you need is a bit of imagination. Slipping into different roles starts at around age 3. Wont play is great fun. Young primal like to monkey around to be it in simpler fashion. Children process their experiences to role play now theyre in charge they set the rules play by them or youre out. By the time they start school most children have understood the importance of rules and not just in games. Around this time more games become an object of interest how i when im home. In Early Childhood we learn all the fundamental forms of play. Im mama which in your system which. Children play similar kinds of games all over the world just the tools very youngsters love repurposing everyday objects they find at home or outdoors. It is. It can be hard to roam free and play in big cities. And having too many manufactured toys can backfire playing with them can curtail the imagination and ultimately be a waste of time. Play helps children to develop a sense of self and of other people and learn about boundaries and empathy. You have to say sorry. Playing with others children develop Emotional Intelligence feelings are allowed free rein most of the time. In the United States a study of play behavior among Prison Inmates found that many violent offenders had rarely played with others as children and so never learned to regulate their emotions. The author concluded that a propensity to violence can result from a lack of play. When adults play that can cause consternation if it becomes compulsive. Grownups who play more than usual are often considered weird that might not be fair playing is not just for kids. Throughout our lives its a way to negotiate and renegotiate the rules of the game. Its an essential element of human culture. Some people argue that were not for childrens Building Blocks there would be no architecture. And were it not for the experimentation central to play there would be no progress no science or arts or societies ready. When we talked about games and playing we talked about building blogs check balls and card games but. Times have changed talking about gaming today means computers and phones and its is good for children well were not sure about this but recent studies may suggest that playing games and sitting in front of a computer for kids might be good especially in times of corona because it calms them down and its not only good for children it can be good for adults too because you can learn a lot while play it starts off like a suspense novel but its actually a german course from the girl to institute the idea instead of painstakingly memorizing vocabulary and grammar students investigate a crime as part of a fictional detective story and learn the language almost without even trying learning apps like this are indeed peoples instinctive way to solve the case the players have to master sentence construction and vocabulary the key elements of learning a language gamification are learning more playing and spinors high hopes in the education sector. In order to win again people often do things for which they would otherwise struggle to motivate themselves. You have fallen from the Students Experience this is highly motivating they dont just feel like theyre doing this as part of a dull learning process that are actually having fun a lot of people dont necessarily play because they want to learn german but because the game is fun thats the essence of game if occasion. Game if occasional all smart the concept of game of haitian works. As seen in the impressive example of the piano stairs in sweden. To motivate people to make the healthier choice between using an escalator and climbing stairs the steps were turned into piano keys. That result 66 percent of escalator users were tempted at least temper. Rarely to use the piano stares. At gamification during a conference on how learning while playing actually works experts agree that learning games can succeed if they spark peoples instinct to play a. Game if occasion if occasion is focused on inspiring intrinsic motivation we know that when people say i want to do this its always more effective than when someone else tells them to its easier for our brains to learn while playing games than in a classroom. But gamification not only aims to get us wanting to learn good games also improve our ability to concentrate and according to many of the experts here this in turn makes it easier to remember what we just learned. Why are. We know this from classical education to we try to get away from undocking this frontal instruction through workshops and find out for yourselves as a group or whatever when you internalize something interact with it maybe even to derive it yourself then you lead yourself you get an aha fit yourself i say life is able to affect playful interaction instead of teacher centered classes show nothing like the signs so much that she even uses the go to institutes app in her free time thats never happened to her with an ordinary vocabulary list. So my good i always think its good to learn not only from books but also by using various materials is an alternative to of the smartphone games if im sitting in a subway or a taxi or whatever. Taxi it is or will gamification be the key to learning in the future. Educational scientist mark fabiani book sees the advantages in using games for learning. But warns it. Relying on them alone. I think game of occasion is more promising for continuing education and training because here its about learning in addition to what we already know we generally have specialists who have completed Vocational Training or a College Degree or both in school certain forms can be practiced however game of occasion should not be upper hand but rather remain one of the many teaching approaches. For schoolchildren and College Students poring over books will not become all fun and games any time soon but gamification can be used effectively to train working adults. Apart from finding the most suitable application the success of a game a fight learning depends on how well it is designed for target audiences there is no one fits all solution. In an overall theres Great Potential for a game of occasion in very limited settings but not in others you cant replace lessons with a game of occasion people who say you can somehow play your way to a High School Diploma or the like are underestimating the educational process considerably. The language students at the go to institute have come a step closer to solving the crime and have learned their new Vocabulary Words almost effortlessly above all theyve had fun while learning. And. People want to know everything this is why they study the subject of games to called dollar gee what is. This is what medical peter will talk about with you. Or the government today i get to play on it im at the institute in berlin and with me is professor. Your head of a sense. So what is lead ology what do you do all day dark donna g. Is the science of game playing we study the widest range of games there are explorative games that we can look at spontaneous free play fantasy games role playing and building games and then all the regular ones like board games card games phone and Computer Games that. Games you know or why study them we want to identify player motives and also look at the crossover with other areas like health games for example management and Software Development game full design those are the buzzwords. Games help to train our minds and develop social skills to how does that work. Games allow us to step out of reality and enter a kind of magic circle and within that circle a whole other realm of experience opens up there we can reflect on our behavior and seek new ways of doing things for example change our behavior so that the next time were in the same situation we hopefully respond better move games and just about passing the time what other functions do they have. They involve a lot more than that they develop our personalities sharpening individual characteristics how open we are whether we stand by our word how easy we are to get along with how emotionally stable those are all components that we learn and train indirectly through games when you say adults should play to why were here obviously everyone has their own personal experiences of games and games have changed over the years i wouldnt say everyone should always play the same thing these days there are so many different games that provide just the right challenges for adults too and we adults are constantly in different roles anyway we play a particular role in our jobs every day we also have to deal with various conflicts around us and games are a way of getting into conversation about those conflicts in society kings organized dialogue. And online games are the subject of heated debate people say game is isolated they may become aggressive or develop Mental Health issues what does science have to say about that. So on the 1st issue of isolation today online games are mainly Multiplayer Games so they actually bring people together from different cultures. You get to know each other and communicate with others beyond your National Borders then theres the issue of addiction studies have shown that Computer Games are no more addictive than other things that we enjoy doing on a daily basis. So. We can become addicted to many things or use them even though we believe them to be unhealthy and thats where parents are needed or people around you who can say what are you doing there. I mean do you enjoy games. Of course its part of my job and thats how i got into this field in the 1st place i started out with board games in my job and i still enjoy analog games to this day but i also play computer and smartphone games computer. But how about ludo or parcheesi. Yes this is a clue