Scientists say 80% of the Maldives could be uninhabitable by 2050
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2021
- ABC News’ Ginger Zee travels to the Maldives, where rising sea levels could potentially wipe the island nation off the map.
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Ummm, you need a geography lesson, the Maldives is in the Indian Ocean, NOT in the south Pacific. 🤦
Poor journalism. Maldives is like few kilometers from India
Welcome to the US ~ where geography knowledge and common sense are not that common.
@Lessco Brandon
It's not a lie, but just like you, they fail in their fact checking.
Americans, it seems, only know two oceans, Pacific and Atlantic.
Why does it have to be a specific ocean? I mean overall the ocean is just one big ocean that's all connected not like land masses.
After spending hours or days of researching and putting this news story together, you still don’t know where Maldives is located?
I know, I think its just because Americans lack any real understanding of the planet more than 100NM off the continental United States.
0:45. Perhaps you missed it.
@@Me97202 The news anchor said South Pacific lol. She was wrong
@@Me97202😊
"We would like to thank ging.. HI EVERYONE GEORGE STEPANOPOULOS HERE"
I am happy for the reporter, must be a fun day when she heard she got assigned to Maldives.
Assignment editor : you got assigned to make a story about Maldives
👧: Yes.
sweetie the Maldives aren’t in the South Pacific it’s in a whole other ocean the INDIAN Ocean, do better 😚
maldives is not in "south pacific", it's in "south indian ocean" 🙂
Its actually in the north Indian ocean... bruv, south Indian ocean is close to Antarctica
He meant to say south of India and in Ocean
So, in other words we have gone from "fighting" or turning the tide of the effects of climate change, to adapting to it.
Too bad the Maldives isn't considering constructing their man made Islands into several giant middle fingers in the direction of those wealthiests nations who renegade on their promise to offer some assistance to them back in 2009.
We will get to that one day
That’ll leave 20% for the 1% to visit….
2050...that's like 30 years from now...
@@nerdygamerguy8378 I doubt you can predict anyone's last days girl
This is yet another reason why earth needs Thanos to come snap his fingers.
🙏 I hope all well be well… such a beautiful place♥️and people ♥️
*AFP 1988:* “rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation of 1196 small islands within the next 30 years”. Didn't happen. Wake up, people.
I learned about this place in school (1960s).
Nothing new...
Why you think all these billionaires are going to space. They know earth will be uninhabitable in the near future so they setting up shop somewhere else just in case.
No sense of going to Space. Black holes are up there and no oxygen
Because if climate change killed off all the humans millions of other species would still exist. If a significant foreign body were to hit the Earth all life could be wiped off the surface including microbes and that would be the end of Earth's life story. Other planets need to be seeded. We can't sit here hoping we don't have a gamma burst for breakfast.
You guys are strange
We're trying to change with science and explore the world not because they know when earth will end.
Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy?
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I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist.
So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark.
In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all.
The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only,” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise.
Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct.
Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership-and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world-is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.
He literally said the coral wasn’t 3-D printed , and then she proceeds to say 3-D printed coral .
Why dont you upload in 1080P?
Scientists also said second ice age coming in the 1970’s. When Leo gives up his jet and yachts, maybe I’ll believe the hype
Science is changing everyday. The tech we have now is much better then back then. Unfortunately science can be bought. But theirs enough peer reviewed journals for us not to believe it’s a myth and this point
You couldn’t MAGA, even if your life depends on it.
You know science changes as we evolve ? Is that lost upon you?
@@damien1781 and people are as dumb today as 50 years ago. You also think men can be women lol
Good ole republicans, still using the talking points given to them from large corporations back in the 90’s!
So in order to fix it we’re going to build a huge city! 😂🤤
They can't even drink water from their wells. That's WELL terrifying, innit?
Interesting how these people always present possible threats that are so far away they really they could never be held accountable for any mistakes in their predictions and actions. Set the sights so far away that people can’t tell all you’re doing is grifting.
I ❤️ the Maldives! 🦎🦀🐡🐠🐟🐬🌴 I have spent wonderful vacation there several times. And it is very sad to see with your own eyes, how these beautiful islands are vanishing. The corals are dead and the water is rising. 😢 #SaveTheMaldives
assdives rip
Sri Lanka pls help me
Tuvalu is getting bigger and so are Maldives. The sea level rise is a hoax.
@@saintgeorgefloyd9488 ...
Nonsense, they have GROWN in size. You're a liar. They just built a new airport fer crying out loud! Property porices are going way up because it's such a popular place mong the rich.
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We have to leave coral reefs alone.
Coral reefs has grown last years
"Maldives does not a higher ground to go" The atmospheric polluters has the high ground to go
Tuvalu is getting bigger and so are Maldives. The sea level rise is a hoax.
i'm not confident in the immediate future of this planet. Last years pandemic is nothing compared to what is instore for us all. Hug your kids until then end!
Don't be scared
Tuvalu is getting bigger and so are Maldives. The sea level rise is a hoax.
The guy said 3D printing the base for coral, not the actual coral...
Maldvies is not in the South Pacific as the Anchor stated. It's in the Indian Ocean.
Is this a news report or a promotional travel ad?
Ocean level rising only there? Could be TECHTONIC SUBDUCTION as this area is geologicaly active , the island is sinking!
If it was it would take thousands of years
Not 50
I live in Maldives and today I learned i am from Pacific. not Indian Ocean. wtf is this journisml stuff??
4:10 Incorrect!! All Western and developed nations are equally responsible, if not more, because they developed themselves with looted colonial blood money and now happily offshoring their manufacturing and other industries to cheap labour abroad in still developing nations.
Misleading, highest emission should be shown per capita then you will know who needs to change their life style
Maldives in South Pacific… geography is taught differently in the USA
Edison generators and dynamos powered desalination is much cheaper to produce electricity and inexpensive water. They say the us government is standing in the way of Edison generators and dynamos to replace nuclear power and fossil fuels.
Thanks to the US, China, EU, UK, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, all of those who got rich on fossil fuel, and industrialization now we are all doomed. Good luck everybody we are heading to next to Jupiter. This reminds me that movie Water World.
Tuvalu is getting bigger and so are Maldives. The sea level rise is a hoax.
When u live in maldives its kinda scary
Scientist said New York would be underwater by 2022
Oh so no climate change exist then? Cool problem solved man
@@1TopDog if climate didn't change we would still be in an ice age.
@@nogivenogets1 I'm referring to climate change due to Co2 emissions from our industries. Not natural climate changes. Did you even watch the clip?
@@1TopDog is there more than 1 climate that's changing?
I pray for the people who live there
Use some logic. Shouldn't there be a firesale of oceanfront mansions worldwide if they are about to be deluged?? Wouldnt tycoons be all moving to the mountains??
Noone uses logic. They trust these idiots on tv instead
I thought these same scientists were talking about no *snow* after 2014 in United States 😆😆😆
There are millions of scientist with theory's wtf 😒 god Americans
Can't they just dig to make the water go deeper, then take the stuff you dug out the ocean and put it on the edges of the islands to make them bigger? Granted everyone all around the world needs to do this to have any impact......
I asked it as well
Land reclamation is constantly happening on a large scale already in the Maldives, but it won't be enough. And the costs associated with literally creating land is a huge burden for an island nation to bear
well they can do many things to prevent this if the government actually cared about it enough. they care about literally nothing other than tourism in this country.
There's a lot of things that COULD happen by 2050
and a lot that will not happen.
That is if we last that long.
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Yes!! Thank you Ginger I love your reports 😊 💓 ☺. 🙏 prayers to the people there. Ginger your so beautiful 😍 💕 Ginger you forgot to say " it's not to late" it's not we can do this 🤗
You know she’s at that hotel instead of slumming it
Solution: install a 10 ft concrete wall around the whole island, embedded securely into the underlying coral.
Also by 2050 Moon cheese may be very expensive. Or it may be inexpensive.
I see massive dredging happening at Maldives..lots of hi-rise buildings under construction.
NOW I WANNA TAKE YOU TO GEOGRAPHY CLASS, BABE
I'm drinking all the water I can
They said something similar 34 years ago too. Predicted to be under water by now and abandoned. instead, the population has doubled and banks are lending to build sea front resorts. Go figure !
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Then-Environmental Affairs Director Hussein Shihab told AFP “an estimated rise of 20 to 30 centimetres in the next 20 to 40 years could be ‘catastrophic’ for most of the islands, which were no more than a metre above sea level.”
The article went on to suggest the Maldives, along with its 200,000 inhabitants, could “end” sooner than expected if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992 “as predicted.” Today, more than 417,000 people live in the Maldives.
I'm a believer in the new technology called living coastlines whi ch is currently being used along the southeastern coast. It works to rebuild the shoreline and it might work elsewhere. It should be used everywhere.
The water level has not risen AT ALL in the Maldives. It was supposed to have been under water ten years ago. The ocean is not rising. Around the world, the only registered rises are the result of local subsidence, not global ocean rise. Climates change. That is normal. Climate change is not a bad thing. It is a natural thing, a dazzlingly complex expression of which we are an impossibly tiny variable.
Fear sells....
How tf you know if they’ve risen at all?
The whay you say the maldives island's name is really weird
Take all the liquid nitrogen in the world and make a new ice cap
It's the Indian Ocean not south pacific!!!
If you cared about these people you wouldn't advocating to make energy less affordable for them. The idea that you need to pass climate policy to change the path of nature in order to help an economically collapsing nation is complete insanity.
Maybe they should start moving before nobody does anything to help them
that's easily said than done
Maldives is in the Indian ocean ABC. NOT South Pacific.
Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 a reality 🙌
LETS TAKE CARE OF OUR OCEANS !! HUMANITY IS GOING EXTINCT ONCE THE OCEAN IS 50% infected
I am an Aerospace Engineer so I have a pretty heavy hard science background, but I just don't understand this...there must be other variables at work. I say that because I grew up in Cocoa Beach, Fl. in the 60's and 70's and moved back three years ago and the same beaches I went to as a young boy and the same lagoon estuaries I hunted ducks in as a teen boy still look very much the same to me.
Warmer temps are killing coral in Maldives which act as a natural barrier, allowing for more severe wave action and tidal changes causing more erosion and flooding. Think of it as the beginning of worse things to come. Canary in the coal mine. The changes will be slow, and then all of a sudden for Florida. Especially as the ice caps melt.
That's a LIE about the budget, less than 30% is on that
I guess we’ll find out in 2050
Probably would’ve made it to 2060, if some world leader didn’t take an 85 car motorcade across the world and back in a private aircraft or two
Lmao some you mean all!!!
@Major Problems and who demands the products these companies make? Honestly I'd feel relieved if we turned the power off and focused on cleaning things up, figure out if we can do anything about the farming situation. Agriculture is an emitter and we cannot live without food.
Better go get the Dutch to help you out. The geography lesson is shocking
Thats in many areas..
I’ll be eligible to retire in 2050😂🤣😂🤣
The south Pacific?
What happened to the “South Pacific“?
It's too early to predict that
Risen where? Not in MA
Horrible idea of floating cities 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Very sad 😥
America, India, and China need to start doing some major policy reforms if this is going to meet Paris 2015 targets.
Tuvalu is getting bigger and so are Maldives. The sea level rise is a hoax.
I pray for the people that live rhere
i love the maldives and have been there multiple times it would be horrible to see it vanish
Tuvalu is getting bigger and so are Maldives. The sea level rise is a hoax.
By 2050? Will Covid-19 still be around or how many shots will everyone have by then?
Japan built sea walls but they have holes really Japan REALLY?
That floating city reminds me of kara from the the small gloating town in avatar
No fresh water….
Did she just say "South Pacific" ??? ) 0:01
South Pacific??? Lol its indian ocean sis
Indian Ocean not the Pacific.
Like they said Maldives will be under water by 2018 ?
With the recent sudden rise in temperature across the globe, pretty sure the current Maldives won't be habitable by 2100.
Remember when the scientists said California would be underwater?
I do!
I heard this b******* for the last 80 years
Soon we will be living like in Bioshock. Massive underwater citiess
It could be sooner than 2050 as the Indian ocean floor continues to expand northward into indian subcont that could cause some giant earthquakes beneath the ocean floor to sink this tiny islands chain into water. Indian ocean is also a culprit of pacific rim violences that can shake the island nations like indonesia, Philippines, or japan... even to the Formosa island, as well as the pacific shorelined nations, all the way fo Chile.
just take a close look those US journalists, and you get an idea who brought this trouble to maldives.
Time to start building flying cities!
Why do people especially in the west make it seems like these tiny flat island surrounded by the sea with palm seems like heaven on earth? There's literally nothing there especially since the coral have mostly died off.
They're beautiful and some people don't like how you live. Mind your business for god sake.
@@damien1781 I have the right to my own opinions. Maybe you need to mind your damn business.
Oh really?
yes but the good part is a non moslim cannot be a citizen of maldives
Why do u hate non Muslim so much?
If humans go the earth survives . 🐺
@Ac if humans go the earth survives .
It’s my country 🥺❤️
What's sad is this comment section has people that assume just because we are a small fragment of the world population, we're better off forgotten.
We're half a million people, but one people. Our ancestors have fought battles with Portuguese, the Dutch and south Indians for our people. We have our own language, scripture, and culture derived from African, Indian, SriLankan, East Asian and Middle Eastern roots. We have artists, businesses, entrepreneurs, scientists and skilled labour just like any other country.
We are not big enough for your maps. But we are a people. I may be over 50 by 2050, but my children or grandchildren will not. They will need a place to call home, to speak their Dhivehi language and to express their Maldivian culture and freedom rather than adapting to the discrimination and racism from another country which the past two decades have taught the world.
So. Since a big part of the world couldn't care less... "How willing are you to accept us as climate refugees"?
Oh well I guess We'll adapt and evolve. Maybe we'll become the first merpeople because obviously evolution happens within 3 decades. 🤦♂️ *Sarcasm intended*
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if Maldives was from south pacific ocean, Maldives would have sunk already.
Tony gaskins been there
Thank God Gilligan and Mary Ann no longer live on a island.