Madagascar is on the brink of famine because of its worst drought in 40 years. And a big reason for that is climate change. #AJStartHere explains.
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Governments that can have an obligation to help
You don’t think their starving because we shut down the world economy over covid and 3world countries will feel the brunt of a famine first?
These people grow their own food, nothing to do with world economy.
@Mr. Sahab he is just a climate science denier who can’t handle the truth. he wants anything else to be true
If the world wasn’t running out of food we could easily help them. What I proposed was one part of the very problematic society we live in. Climate change is real now do we really have an impact that changes the temperature maybe.
The origin of the cane toad and the island of Madagascar? The biggest island in Africa?
Your presentation is outstanding
Imagine a solar flare as in 1859 that wiped out the telegraph system.
It’s nothing to do with climate change. It has everything to do with corruption and mismanagement.
yes the corrupt government should not have sold the last 5 years rain… [shakes head]
Kuddos i have not heard of this story . Now im sad
‘Climate change’ = Weather Warfare against US
yeah those madagascans are just starving to make the US look bad
so sad they blame global warming and greenhouse gases. its the sun and the earths magnetic poles moving
Stop chemtrails
Good reporting and good detail information given
you are servant of warlord of seven century named Mohammed ? 🤔
We have Covax but we don´t have Foodax.
They are speaking French that’s why
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seriously why they always put the clapping music in the beginning of videos about horrible events?
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@Amanda You have shared so much knowledge on here I’m glad I came across this god bless you ma’am.
@Amanda Does he trade globally I am from Australian.
@Jacob Asher Yes of course his services are global. He earns as he is making profit no service charges.
droughts happen every 40 years or so
Here in Eastern Africa they happen every 10 years or so….famines happen every 10 years, right now Somalia ,Ethiopia and Kenya are facing a food crisis
@Brian Mwaura they’ve really struggled with famine issues over the decades. thankfully the USA has extra to go around, at least when they can get it past the warlords and corruption.
@flashfyre I’m from Kenya and it’s not the warlords here that cause famine, it’s just bad weather…but irrigation schemes have been established and relief efforts are regularly being carried out, the human cost of famine has been cut down ,
I have reserved the ticket to flight to Madagascar last year, which was cancelled because of Covid-19.
I like to move it move it. I like to move it move it. I like to move it move it. U like to?
climate change affects the whole planet… every time it changes, over thousands of years…. its evidenced in reports, maps, cave walls everywhere. greenland was once green… it will be green again, too.
this is nature’s cycle, not man’s…. nothing man can do to stop what nature does in patterns. people just want to throw money at it like that will do any good. removing co2 means plants, trees, life dies… we are all carbon based beings. this is ‘god’s’ way…
KJ21
and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines and pestilences. And fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Pray to the Lord Jesus and be saved
“Madagascar is among the world’s poorest countries. As such, people’s day-to-day survival is dependent upon natural resource use. They must live off the land that surrounds them, making use of whatever resources they can find. Their poverty costs the country and the world through the loss of the island’s endemic biodiversity. Madagascar’s major environmental problems include: Deforestation and habitat destruction; Agricultural fires; Erosion and soil degradation; Over exploitation of living resources including hunting and over-collection of species from the wild; Introduction of alien species.”
Yeah, let’s just call it “global warming”. More disingenuous and deceptive agenda driven propaganda.
What about foreign aid all the governments to help in these cases it a price on how much they get plus donations
I’ll appreciate if you can do a video on the Coup in Mali and Ginuea and how it impact the concept of Democracy in the Sub-regions
It would be nice to expose the level of corruption in Africa that warrants coups again to bring some sanity to the continent of Africa. Corruption is the reason why Madagascans are suffering today…responsible government would have done something long ago to avoid this catastrophe. Of the UAE can provide water for its millions of inhabitants, even though they live in a desert, what’s the excuse of African leaders. Military members should protect the Constitutions of their countries again across Africa.
Very true
So why aren’t we talking about geo engineering & cloud seeding around these conversations… I mean since we’ve had the tech sitting in the back shed since the 60’s might as well start using it publicly,
Maybe that would calm down the climate change debate…
There’s a large chicken and the egg conversation there for those who haven’t been aware.
Cant get money to siphon off if we solve the problem…
u cannot stop something that’s been happening for millions of years
Because the ones that care doesn’t care about the starving people of Madagascar, Haiti, sub Saharan Africa. The world still produces more the enough food to feed all the people in the world.
@Worship Da King im kinda being facetious & implying a chicken & the egg conversation,
I don’t think “extreme weather” would be an issue if we started speaking publicly about what different governments are intentionally doing / learning to & about the environment / climate, I mean, it would still be an issue, but we’d atleast have an understanding of why it’s happening & how we can calm it down.
This is all being spoken of aside from the interglacial periods & history of climate on the earth because, yeah, we can’t actually reasonably do anything about it.
We can keep F*****ng each other up though.
💗💗💗 Where is UNICEF ,red cross ,nations to help
OHH MAN 😞😞😞😞 God please help him🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
1:13 Worst in 40 years. It means there’s more worse in the past. Is it really because climate change or ordinary nature phenomenon?
Of course there were the thing is climate change is making it worse
over populated….under fed…. under educated…. how about birth control and investment in you agriculture…..
AU leaders should be at the forefront of bringing up climate change issues talking about Magascar’s issue
AU is busy doing absolutely nothing and collecting funds from EU and UN.
Agenda 21 …..food as weapon
Where is the United Nations? WFP? FAO? Amnest International?? Qatar Foundation? This is so sad to see and we need to help each other as humans. May ALLAH help these people affected by the famine. My prayers 🙏🏽🙏🏽🤲
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Less food they have more baby’s they make
Please don’t flee to netherlands,
Stay and fix you’re own country
Just nuke them
Drop dead
Proud to be Indian who send 1000 tons of rice in recent months 💯
Shut up!
Your Government can’t even Provide Enough Oxygen for its own People
@exodus007 disrespectful for you to say that.
These people have only 1 skil : making baby’s
Unless Madagascar can bring down its corruption to almost nothing, maybe it needs the West’s help with that, then what developed country is going to want to offer aid to them? Where are those money and supplies going? Someone’s pocket.
How to protect the environment?
Don’t have baby’s
Thank you for informing us about such important issues. Local media do not even bother to mention.
Cloud-seeding must be introduced in Madagascar
peoples in Afghanistan are experiancing very dire condition nearlly all Afghans are starving and have faced famine and this level will reach 97% in a year plz make a video on Afghanistan too
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Dont share this video to republicans in the US.
“The great famine which I sense approaching
Will often turn up in various places, then become universal:
It will be so vast and long lasting that
People will grab roots from the trees and children from the breast”
–Michele de Nostradamus 1556AD
Sandra is absolutely stunning
Germany elections
PlSSSSSS
I don’t understand it at all
this is bad
Owesome report. How many times do you post a video
Why are we allowed to let this happen, people should not be staving in 2021 my government in Australia should hang their heads in shame for not helping
Could you also Producer a Clip about the Situation of Christians unser Taliban rule in Afghanistan??
This would bei very interesting..
Thanks
People will suffer because of people
It won’t be pretty…all world’s leaders should and must put their ideology differences behind otherwise we humanity are only the losers!!!
Climate change only? The country has lost about 80% of its original forest from PEOPLE CUTTING DOWN and you want to blame it on something else. PATHETIC!!!!
@aminmohammadids the average annual precipitation varies from 1,000 to 1,500 mm (39 to 59 inches) and it recently rained in Antananarivo… The people and their government are irresponsible, and quite frankly, some of them are just plain stupid. Did you watch the video? Its infuriating! Especially when it is surrounded by water and all hey had to do was borrow some desalination technology or something….
@aminmohammadids well stated
This is an irony. USA destroyed tons of potatoes last year and another part of the world are having famine.
For those who don’t believe in climate change, live in Madagascar.
Can we have a video about Mozambique and how this radical Muslim group all started
Whilst climate change is very real, something not talked about here is the incessant deforestation of Madagascar since the 70s, leading to increasing dersertification. The country has lost about 80% of its original forests and the primary forest now covers only about 12% of the country.
This is heartbreaking
the walking reporter is driving me nuts
Africa is going to get the full brunt of global warming but we never contributed much to it.
Our nations export raw materials that contribute to the emission of greenhouse gasses and carbon dioxide e.g Coal(South Africa) & Oil(Nigeria)
Western Sahara please. These people need help against Morocco’s abuse of freedom of speech and movement.
Are you Touareg
I don’t know why West don’t take credit for climate change, 😂 like they are proud of industrialisation.
Prince harry and Meggie should go there and do their humanitarian help…oh wait they can’t because they live in montecito…
Blame the government. And no one really cares because its been like that for hundreds of years….all the elite and billions rather buy yachts…..and mansions…..God is going to judge them…..billy gates did a vaccine for them and lots have died…..God speed.
The UN is to blame….
it really is an inequality issue in addition to an environmental one.
the ones who have produced the most emissions are the least affected and have the most resources to survive this, whereas the ones who get the brunt of the impact are the poorer ones who produced the least emissions and have the fewest resources to survive
If that Lady wasn’t here I wouldn’t know that this is happening
If they are starving and no energy, how come they are having non stop children.
They’ve only been in famine for two years or so.
@Niall Walsh they have newborn children in their arms
This issue has nothing to do with global warming, the situation in Madagascar is more complicated than you think..
There’s any number of things going on, and yes, it’s a hugely complicated situation. But climate change makes everything worse. It amplifies problems and conflicts that are already there. But yeah, the biggest environmental factor there is probably local deforestation.
Look up Tony heller on you tube he exposes there junk science manufactured crisises
I wonder could IMF be involved
why when french companies touches a place people starts to starve ?
So Shameful for Christians World and specially for Europe 💶😥
Maybe if their Allah would send them water, or their fellow Muslism would help them, but no they don’t even help countries near them like Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
@Alex S they aren’t even Islamic
Then why don’t other parts of Madagascar help?
They don’t have that much of a surplus themselves.
I understand that other countries’ actions are causing the major events causing the conditions of living in Southern Madagascar. But what about their own government? Think about it, even if a private company went there to help reverse this famine by investing in irrigation systems, are they going to afford the food? The state has high levels of illiteracy and people may not be able do anything in the form of formal jobs.
Nonetheless, right now, these people need help alongside good governance and foreign aid.
Foreign aid already allowed them to have 10 kids that they can’t feed giving them more foreign will allow them to have 15 kids they can’t feed.
@Npc 24 The average number of children per woman in Madagascar is about four. Infant mortality rate there is about five or six times higher than in the West. The number of children people have is hugely influenced by how wealthy they are – richer people mean fewer kids. We can debate whether the current model of foreign aid works for these people (my view: it doesn’t) but fundamentally, your logic is backwards and your numbers are silly.
I’ve been waiting for this for so long thank you for letting the world know
No till farming
Talk about it
I would love to understand why adults in countries like this continue to make children. Sending $ to them doesn’t answer that fact. Child abuse is the worst extreme!
why did this thoughtless comment get three likes??
Well even if we accept your logic, given they have only been in a famine for two years or so, it’s still not really their fault?
Desertification is on the way and southern inhabitants need to adopt, not get surprised . Maybe the North is becoming green. Who knows?
Africa from space can be quite deceiving.
Guys which ever religions u believe pls pray to god for madagaskar
Vaccines before starving people 😔
Is it a coincidence that the poorest and starving countries are the ones with people having 10 kids while prosperous countries having families with 1 or 2 kids?
Overpopulation the Elephant in the room.
Wrong way round. People on average start having fewer children as they get richer. That’s pretty well known. Children in wealthier countries are not needed to provide additional household income, educational opportunities for women mean more women have careers and have children later in life, there is increasing access to family planning and contraception, and increasing life expectancy means that people don’t need as many children to be sure that they will survive to adulthood. In the UK in the 19th century, people had huge families (some of my ancestors had as many as ten siblings), and the vast majority of them over the age of ten or so were working in industry to help support the extended family. And since they were considered expendable by their employers and healthcare was non-existent, very few made it to adulthood. Madagascar’s current number of children per woman is hovering around 4, by the way.
There is a lag between living conditions improving and family sizes getting smaller though; population growth is largest when families are still large but infant mortality has gone through the floor. But that can also bring economic advantages as you end up with a large, young, largely healthy workforce for a few decades that can really get your economy moving. Until you end up with the same problem as countries like Japan and Italy with a population of pensioners that is almost bigger than the working population.
Now, if you’re talking about the environmental problem of over-consuming resources then fair enough, but you also have to acknowledge that there are more than enough resources on the planet for all of us and several billion more to have a comfortable standard of living (think of the amount of wealth you might have somewhere like Mexico, for example) but the problem is that so many resources are being consumed by the wealthier countries like the US and Europe, and so many people live in places like Madagascar which are very vulnerable to all sorts of natural problems. But the amount of resources used by people in the developing world is absolutely tiny by comparison to us.
@Niall Walsh There was a study that the earth’s resources are enough for 3 billion to all live in middle class standards.
There was 4.3 billion people in 1980 now we are almost 8 billion with a forecast of 10 billion in 2050.
More people need and use MORE , it’s as simple as that.
Thanks for the helpful content.
Why is SADC not doing anything about this?
Its a mmater of shame for all billionaires and wealthy class of our society that people are losing their lives from starvation and thet brutal class just thinking about how to live in space etc etc… shame on elion mosk, zekburg, and Gates and so many others.
Please make videos on Nagaland, Baluchistan, Khalistan, and Kurdistan.
Can you please make video in CHRISTIANIZATION in NEPAL
Appreciate your coverage.
Very professional.
It is nice to symathize..
Its another to support
those willing to go and help
Families who live there.
This is BS , they’re pushing a communist antichrist agenda ,there is plenty of food there
Stop to make more children!
Why isn’t there leaders calling for some diselanation equipment so thay can have water to drink and grow food????
climate change is REAL
It is the natural process called “Global Warming”. “Stop this European Climate Change Extortion”
Climate Change Extortion is the biggest earner for Socialist’s world order.
Today:- it is north of the “Tropic of Cancer” and south of the “Tropic of Capricorn”.
Hope you can discuss on your following vids the Arbitration Rulling on the Sabah, Heirs of Sultanate of Sulu and Petronas Malaysia
The people and the government should work very hard to improve the economic situation. The government should review and implement the ways in which the economic situation has been used in other countries.