and now it‘s already a bit too late. there‘s almost no way for the west to stop this, kind of, profit making business and to simply cut it off, it will hurt, deeply. that‘s why china is very arrogant. china sees it differently. it regards itself as a developing country, only now taking its rightful place in the world. hello, sorry for the wait. this newspaper owner is closely linked to the top chinese leadership. translation: the situation is tense. that‘s a fact, but we are not confronting not confronting the west as a whole, the west does not equal the usa. i think the hard line attitude of the usa is, in part, caused by its election politics. yet, he is pretty hard himself.
when when you know farmer needed help his neighbors responded along with the rest of the community. here s kevin tibbles cosby, north dakota has a bush el seven miles if the canadian border. honestly we wouldn t expect anything less out of this community. reporter: they all knew exactly what to do when their neighbor had a heart attack. it s when time to take the crop off, it s time to take it off and it s got to get done. they did a thousand acres in just seven hours. by the end of it all machinery was turned away, we had too much already. reporter: posting pictures on social media while the seeds of kindness grew and grew. it also makes us feel good making them feel good. everybody feels good when this is all over. reporter: thing is folks in this little place aren t that surprised.
many places left untouched. it s hard to predict how many people would move in response to that, but our numbers suggest it could be upwards of half of the population in the united states. one of the most disturbing points you make in the piece is that in some ways, public policy has encouraged some of this kind of more dangerous living. explain how. yeah. in the rest of the world there s quite a logical response of impoverished people moving generally northward but at least away from the equator in the hot zones. the united states has long had policies and incentives in place that have more or less encouraged us to do the opposite. you know, americans move towards the coasts. we build on beaches. we move to arizona in search of sunny climates where there s not a lot of water. these movements have been encouraged by policies ranging from the easy and cheap availability of insurance to farm subsidies that encourage farmers to plant the wrong crops
more rapid urbanization, deepening discord that goes with increase in poverty in their biggest cities. in your second article you point out to americans who might think this is all happening in foreign countries and we don t need to worry about it, that s actually not true. we have some of the same pressures in the united states as well. explain how. yeah, that s right. the united states is not immune to climate change. we might not see the most dramatic changes we would see in, say, north africa, but climate change will have a rapid and really deep affect on our lives here in the united states. so, we looked at the best climate data that s available and we tried to map that data. and it portrays a picture of the walls closing in on the united states. we have fires in the west and intense heat coming from the south and sea level rise approaching on the coasts and failing crops in the midwest. you tastart to see there s not o
the coronavirus pandemic is a result of our encroachment into the natural world. it originated in bats, and was first spread in a chinese market that sold wild animals forfood. but maybe the pandemic provides an opportunity for a rethink, the programme suggests. if we can reduce pollution, if we can stop wasting a0% of the food we produce, if we can cut the impact of the things we consume, then nature can begin to be restored. the programme revisits the gorilla sanctuary in rwanda. the government has increased protection and worked with local communities. the programme team finds some of the children and grandchildren of those gorillas david attenborough met back in the 19705. this is the daughter of poppy. the population is now thriving.