In the elections twenty nineteen may twenty sixth on g. W. Back the world has changed whether its getting more extreme. To day be a struggling minute talking with people on the moon in the millions and it talking up of people in the billions. Drought floods hurricanes that asked areas are being devastated by environmental catastrophe how many people will be forced to leave their homes by the mid century not due to conflict and war but due to Climate Change we appear to be on the path to a troubling future. From mr hill region to Southeast Asia from the pacific to the caribbean some people are fleeing rising waters others drought. The worlds population began to soar about two hundred years ago soon it will top ten billion Greenhouse Gases are rising apace the resulting warming of the earths atmosphere is wreaking havoc on the climate humankind which is responsible for this warming is becoming its victim more and more people are forced to leave their homes. Inequality is being exacerbate
the permafrost of russia. nikita zima of trained as a mathematician. but his father sergei is lifelong commitment inspired nikita to change course. now like his father he has dedicated his life to preserving russia s permafrost. he s come to the river in northeastern siberia an eight hour flight from moscow to gather evidence that the promise frost is vanishing. the ground has warmed up to three degrees celsius causing the top layer of the ice to melt. one side effect is that more and more rare fossils are surfacing.
a problem before it so you can do it to see if it s going to be bad somewhere it will turn very bad so if there is a week to stop that from happening we need to apply that because if not you know. you can write any apocalyptic scenarios you want and probably most of them will come true. it s breakfast time in nikita s him off guest house. interest in permafrost has soared over the past decade so now the guest rooms here at the station are usually booked year round with researchers from all over the world. this is a group from oxford university here to study the transformations currently underway in what used to be frozen earth work. during the soviet era this enormous satellite used to broadcast television