The World Bank - Climate Change, Peru: Retreating Glacier

In Pucarumi, a small community in the foothills of the snow-capped Peruvian Andes, Felipe mulls the fate of the life-giving Ausangate glacier. Year after year, the great white glacier of his boyhood has receded and slowly turned black.

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"We are feeling the effects of climate change," says Felipe, an alpaca herder whose animals graze on pastures irrigated by Ausangate's waters. "This loss of snow means we receive less water. This climatic factor is causing us great danger."

Less water has meant less pasture and more difficulty raising livestock. Animals such as alpaca and sheep aren't eating enough, "so their wool doesn't grow as well," forcing people to turn to synthetic wool to weave hats, sweaters, and scarves.

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[Gavin Curtis]

Whatever fear invokes maximum profit. All that water evaporating off the Earth into space, use that water and its gone forever. Imagine a planet of 70% water where inhabitants die from lack of water. Pretty damn stupid. There is enough solar energy to provide clean water for every human on earth easily. Problem is MONEY and the intentions of those who control it.

[steshystesh]

Fuck the world bank :) They'll talk about global warming etc while they've been destroying many many many water sources for quite some time. Like they give a damn about people.

[XxiFifa12xX]

this is part of my geography work

[kylee538]

This video is very sad, but it is true. Lives, and crops well be at risk. Much more than they are now.

[SuperDickweed]

Send in Bechtel

[Guiem21]

What is the song of the video?Thanks!

[laraluen]

word!!



[AcidProblemChild]

And if it was up to the world bank, all of that water would be privatized as one requirement to getting one of their loans. Also Genetically Modified monsanto crops are being pushed by the World Bank and many other horrible things.

How can they even be so two-faced to make a movie like this! The world bank is part of the problem!

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[Erling Andreassen]

Yes. 98 percent of the world's glaciers are retreating. That's global warming, and it's accelerating. It's horrific really: (