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Years of Living Dangerously
2014 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 2 seasons
Featuring some of Hollywood’s most influential stars, Years of Living Dangerously reveals emotional and hard-hitting accounts of the effects of climate change from across the planet.
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A timely news story. Just watched the latest episode of Years of Living Dangerously on NatGeo. Check it out. It explains why this is such a big deal.
There are a number of factors at play.
One is the demand for ivory and other products derived from endangered animals, much of it driven by new wealth in China (but also elsewhere).
Another is the lack of economic opportunity throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. As I recently realized doing the maths, Kenya's electrical generation amounts to about 37 watts per person. That's enough to run a typical laptop, maybe. With projected wind potential of up to 1 GW, wind could supply over 2/3 of total present generating capacity in the country. A gigawatt is about the size of a large coal or nuclear plant. More: http://redd.it/2dm7b0
And there's corruption and the lack of resources in policing wildlife refuges and reserves. I'm watching the opening episode of Years of Living Dangerously, one storyline follows a similar history evolving in Indonesia with palm-oil plantations taking over virgin equatorial rainforest with nominally protected status. Over 80% of the "protected" forest is described as destroyed or degraded by slash-and-burn, conversion to farmland, logging, or other activities (17,000 hectare remain of 85,000 hectare total).
The pressures of people, industrialization, economic growth, and other factors on the planet are unsustainable and have been recognized by many in the ecological and other communities for decades. General awareness is only slowly starting to leak out.