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00:00we are in Tanzania the volcano of Kilimanjaro the national parks with
00:14their majestic animals a host of many unforgettable sites that fire the
00:18imagination of travelers but this special treasure is under threat beset
00:23by floods and drought water and earth are now out of sync
00:43the first victims are those who have always lived in harmony with nature
00:48the Maasai the emblematic people of Tanzania risk losing that which they hold
00:53most deer their livestock other tribes too are under threat such as the Hadza
00:58this hunter-gatherer tribe may soon see its thousand-year-old way of life
01:02closely linked to the forest disappear forever
01:14all over the country the climatic confusion wreaks havoc
01:18in the front line are the farmers
01:23the land of Tanzania
01:28every year exiled by drought over 150,000 of them head for the capital Dar es Salaam
01:35in search of a better life but it is often a trap
01:39the poorest end up in the shanty towns where they are subjected to flooding
01:42the land of Tanzania and the land of Tanzania
01:51can Tanzania adapt to changes in the climate
01:55do the authorities grasp the scale of the problem
02:00who can drag the country out of this impasse
02:02this is the story we are going to tell you
02:20our journey begins in the north of Tanzania
02:22Tanzania in Ngarosero at the foot of the volcano
02:26Oldonyolengai
02:30for the Maasai this is the mountain of the gods
02:36we are with Elias Ole a livestock farmer
02:39like all Maasai his only resource is his animals
02:42in the early hours he returns to the scene of a tragedy
02:56in 2009 right in the middle of this arid earth
03:01he lost the most precious thing he had his herd of cattle
03:14in 2009 right in the middle of this arid earth
03:19he lost the most precious thing he had his herd of cattle
03:23and his a hill that was a bit of a cat
03:26of his cattle and his cattle and his cattle
03:28he lost it
03:34he lost it
03:36in 2019
03:38the year 2009 was cursed
03:53Drought struck northern Tanzania and southern Kenya for the third successive year.
03:58The Maasai territory suffered badly.
04:01The cattle were unable to cope, and hundreds of thousands of animals died.
04:15Elias Ole and his wife Signati had 30 cows.
04:19Only two survived.
04:20The pictures we showed them stirred up some bad memories.
04:24Yes.
04:44The tragedy is magnified by the fact that wealth, social rank and honour, here, is
05:14gauged by the number of head of cattle owned.
05:19From the volcano summit, the Maasai god, Ngai, is supposed to watch over men and animals,
05:25but since 2007 he seems to have forgotten them.
05:32Even though she no longer believes in this mythology, Sinyati milks the cows every morning
05:36with almost religious devotion.
05:44Sinyati and Elias know that they won't be able to recover from another drought.
05:51While making light of their own fate, they worry about what the future holds for their
05:56fortune.
05:57Sinyati and Elias know that they won't be able to recover from another drought.
06:13While making light of their own fate, they worry about what the future holds for their fortune.
06:20Sinyati Holds for their four children.
06:22Hello, I'm Jamie.
06:23I worked for a lot of children, and I worked for a lot of children a little bit.
06:30They worked for a lot of children in the midst of their children.
06:35We've got to work with our parents,
06:38and we have to go to school.
06:42We've got to work with them.
06:45We have to work with them,
06:48and we have to work with them.
06:50But we've got to work with them.
06:54We can't do that.
07:05The collective herd of the village is today a shadow of what it once was.
07:10One third of the animals died in 2009 alone.
07:16The situation might deteriorate.
07:19Experts predict that the region will become increasingly dry.
07:23An entire people and its ancestral way of life is under threat.
07:27On this particular morning, it was Elias' turn to graze the clan's cattle.
07:35The second round is to pay attention to the tribe and the family.
07:41We are proud of them.
07:45We are not proud of them.
07:48We have to look at the people's cutting their tails and be alive.
07:52We are able to get married.
07:56We have to look at theiciats and theiats.
07:58We have to develop the power of the land and theiats.
08:02They must learn theiats.
08:05It is not only drought that threatens these nomadic herders, ever since the 1950s the
08:28government has been chipping away at their territory, claiming that the herders and their
08:32livestock damage the wildlife. So in order to protect the fauna, the Maasai have been
08:42evicted from the national parks, which account for around one-quarter of the
08:45country. Marco Sicorai is a Maasai who works for the FAO, a United Nations
08:54organization. He does not believe in conflict between Maasai and wild animals.
08:58He shows us a rather revealing map.
09:04From Kenya, Maasai Mara National Park, Serengeti, and all of these are the Maasai territory and
09:20that the world-known national park in the world. And this is not by coincidence. It's
09:27because since time immemorial, Maasai were the best conservation history in the world.
09:34You see now there's a mixture of livestock and wildlife. That means these creatures, they
09:45can feed together without any conflict. For people who say that livestock harm wildlife,
09:53this is not true. If you see, it's just because they don't know the system of livestock. We know
10:00that livestock, they go for rotational grazing. And this is very important in environment management.
10:06During the wet season, there is a grazing area for wet season. And during the dry season, there is a grazing area for the dry season.
10:14And that the land can regenerate. And the new species of grasses, which are palatable grown.
10:21Marco takes us 200 kilometers north to meet another Maasai community.
10:37Uprooted people with no land.
10:45Out of nowhere, men suddenly appear.
10:48Evicted from the famous Serengeti National Park in the 50s, these Maasai found refuge here, in Loliondo.
10:55But the Tanzanian authorities drove them out of this territory too. This time, by force.
11:18A scorched earth policy. Their houses are no more than cinders.
11:32According to the Maasai, Tanzanian special forces burned down their village by order of the government.
11:38The Maasai's crime was to live in a safari zone. One rented out to a hunting society from the powerful United Arab Emirates.
11:53The Maasai's crime was to live in a safari zone. One rented out to a hunting society from the powerful United Arab Emirates.
12:06The Maasai's crime was to live in a safari zone. One rented out to a hunting society from the powerful United Arab Emirates.
12:10The Maasai's crime was to live outside of the 젖 любitry zone.
12:15Theanti conditions of this Нiantis interview were involved in a predestined doctrine.
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12:38We call them to the Albuythuri
12:45My father also gave up his family
12:47We will call it the Los Angeles
12:49they'll call it the island
12:51and call it the other island
12:53And the island is coming in
12:55they'll call it the island
12:57I won't go back to town
12:59if they call it the island
13:01I'll call it the river
13:08The courage of Maasai warriors is renowned throughout the country, but what use are their
13:16spears and bows against the authorities' guns?
13:20How can their scrawny cows counter the might of hundreds of thousands of Emirates' euros?
13:26Marco is worried.
13:27The hunting season is drawing near.
13:29Soon the hunters will be turning up in their hundreds.
13:33Lions, zebras, gazelles, the treasures of Tanzania will be lawfully slaughtered, and
13:40the Maasai will be threatened once again.
13:43At our request, Marco has sought a meeting with the officer responsible for safaris.
13:47He wants to appeal to the authorities.
13:50For him, attacking the Maasai is tantamount to attacking the roots and the history of the
13:54country.
13:55What do you think is a good idea to turn their house, to make them go away?
14:11I cannot say it's a good idea, but you know, this is what the government decided, you know,
14:19and I'm really not allowed to talk anything about that sometimes, yeah.
14:24It happens because, according to the Wildlife Conservation Act of 1974, all game controlled
14:33areas does not allow people to have any kind of socio-economic activities rather than
14:40hunting.
14:41Now, during the hunting season, the government do require people, I mean pastoralists, to
14:49remove their livestock inside the area.
14:51This officer supervises all hunting activities.
14:59He implicitly acknowledges the role of the government in setting fires.
15:04Tanzania wants more tourists, and safaris are promoted by any means necessary.
15:10For Marco, with Maasai blood running through his veins, the policy is a despicable one.
15:16The Loliondo tragedy is not an isolated case.
15:19NGOs have documented hundreds of cases of Maasai houses burned down every year.
15:24No census has been carried out, but several hundreds of thousands of Maasai live in Tanzania.
15:30None of those we met would contemplate any kind of exile.
15:33Their life is here, on this land and nowhere else.
15:45We head a few hundred kilometers south, to Yayeda Valley.
15:55Mark Baker, our guide, is English.
15:58Now 41, he has spent 20 years of his life in Tanzania with his wife and children.
16:04His objective is to help another tribe in danger, the Hadza.
16:11The Hadzabe, as a cultural group, are very much in tune and as in balance as a human society
16:21can be with the environment in which they live and depend on.
16:25The Hadza people are really unique, they are representative of an ancient human society.
16:35We have a lot to learn from their ability to adapt to their environment and adapt to the
16:43changing world in which they live.
16:49From the oldest tribe in Tanzania, the Hadza arrived long before the Maasai.
16:54These hunter-gatherers have survived for more than 40,000 years thanks to the forest.
17:00Only a few hundred are still living this way.
17:06On this morning, three Hadza were setting off to hunt gazelles.
17:19Although they no longer wear the traditional loincloth, nature is still an open book to them.
17:44They kill game using poisoned arrows.
18:05On this particular morning, they caught nothing.
18:12Ruben Matayo, one of the hunters, finds his friend Mark Baker.
18:18The two men are now allies in a common battle to save the Hadza.
18:25In this small village, they live in complete harmony with the environment.
18:31Thanks to the resources of the forest, the droughts do not affect them.
18:36But in recent years, they have fallen victim to another scourge.
18:43A few hundred years, a few hundred, three hundred.
18:46But with a fire, they have fallen victim to another place.
18:48Yes.
18:49The one who will catch the wild, the one who will follow the wild, the one who will catch it.
18:53The other who will catch them.
18:55Yes.
18:56But this is not a bad thing.
18:58The people who have been able to get a baby is a bad thing.
19:02It is a bad thing.
19:04We are not going to die. We are going to die.
19:07We are going to die because we are going to die.
19:09Because this is a bad thing.
19:12Maybe this is a bad thing, but we are going to die.
19:17This is a bad thing.
19:20The landscape tells its own story.
19:40Corn, sunflower, millet.
19:44All around, agriculture is eating away at the Hadza forests.
19:48It is just as if they are surrounded.
19:52Drought forces the neighboring farmers to keep clearing more trees to cultivate new soil.
19:58Deforestation has deprived the Hadza of two-thirds of their territory in 50 years.
20:07This morning Piligudo and the women of the village are taking the children to look for roots.
20:12Every day knowledge is passed on to the next generation.
20:15We are going to die.
20:17The future is our country.
20:19We are going to die every day.
20:20Knowledge is passed on to the next generation.
20:23There's a lot of water.
20:25There's a lot of water.
20:29There's a lot of water and water.
20:32Now, we have to use water and water.
20:38We can use water because water is a lot of water.
20:44Yes, yes.
20:46We can use water and water.
20:53These fruits and roots contain a lot of vitamins and minerals.
21:03They have been doing the same things for thousands of years.
21:11Making fires, climbing 100-year-old trees with an axe, braving honeybees with the help of smoke.
21:18A beehive atop this baobab contains precious, delicious nectar.
21:32The Hadza take only as much as they need, so that the honey supplies can be replenished.
21:38For those who treat it with respect, the forest is a true nurturing mother.
21:49It makes Ruben Matayo wonder why certain men continue to destroy it.
21:54Along with Mark Baker, he sets out to meet the farmers who persist in encroaching on their territory.
22:00Their arrival is met with stony faces.
22:04Our questions seem to put them ill at ease.
22:07Only one man agrees to talk. Surprise, surprise, he's a Hadza.
22:12Sir and of course they willalar love this ABOUT 30,000 children and read it out of the village.
22:18The village was missing hundreds of because they also have turned on.
22:34This is why they think about the village or Mongolian kanel.
22:36savages it's a word that Ruben Matayo has heard all too often he chooses to
22:52keep his own counsel not till later does Mark Baker confide his views on this
22:56rather delicate matter a lot of the people who are coming into this area are
23:01desperate for land the the issue surrounding climate change and climate
23:08instability in this region mean that more and more people are failing with
23:14agriculture so it's very difficult to blame people to come in who come in and
23:20cut trees and try to farm because they don't really have any land use choices
23:26together Mark Baker and the Hadza have found a solution the creation of a 20
23:32hectare sanctuary 20 hectares of primary forest no agriculture no poaching no
23:38grazing livestock this is the protected area the boundary I just want to show you
23:44the sign so the boundary has these signs in five different places the sign
24:01reads in nail lah ifadi namatomizia sili ya wahadzabi which means this is a protected
24:09area for the natural and cultural use of the wahadzabi a dozen national
24:16agencies provide financial aid to the project their purpose is to show the
24:21eco responsible face of business
24:28the Hadza used the money to organize a system of rounds in the village to patrol
24:33the forest using this map which clearly delimits their territory they regularly
24:40take stock of the situation no longer mere hunter-gatherers they have become
24:45guardians of the trees
24:48are harmful the financial aid and their civilians no longer
24:56they have to be specialists regardless of the threat of the child
25:00they need to promote some infrastructure
25:03they have to stare in theça jalCE
25:06more Robertson
25:10are in its might
25:14as you
25:16It's because it's a huge amount of water.
25:20It's because it's a huge amount of water.
25:27But the safeguarded territory is already too small.
25:30Less space means less fruit and fewer game to hunt,
25:33forcing the Hadza to seek out new resources.
25:36Pili Gudu has changed her way of life.
25:39She has planted a small vegetable garden to feed her children.
25:42So it's a huge amount of water and have a fridge.
25:45We just have a food that we could develop with.
25:56If we learn more, we learn more about their food.
25:58It's a beautiful way of life today.
26:04Will Hadza be able to cling on to their thousand-year-old way of life
26:09for much longer?
26:11Some, like Pili, find agriculture an attractive proposition.
26:15But whether self-sufficiency or intensive farming, it is no longer a viable long-term
26:20solution in this unpredictable climate.
26:23Drought and erratic rainfall mean that the earth no longer provides as it once did.
26:28All over the country, the official reports are the same.
26:31Given that 70% of the population lives off the land, it constitutes a national crisis.
26:38On the surface, this farmer's cornfield seems productive, but his words tell a different
26:42story.
27:08Corn, although a popular crop in the country, demands too much water and gives nightmares
27:15to small farmers.
27:16What to do in the face of diminishing yields?
27:17Some cling to their land.
27:18Some cling to their land.
27:19Others, though, throw in the towel and hit the road.
27:25Next stop, the big city.
27:26The El Dorado symbolized by the country's ecotasy.
27:31One, although a popular crop in the country, demands too much water and gives nightmares
27:36to small farmers.
27:38What to do in the face of diminishing yields?
27:42Some cling to their land.
27:44Others, though, throw in the towel and hit the road.
27:52Next stop, the big city, the El Dorado symbolized by the country's economic capital.
28:00Next stop, Dar es Salaam.
28:09The city is undergoing an unprecedented demographic explosion.
28:13In 20 years its population has doubled and its economic growth is almost 12 percent.
28:20Its buildings offer despairing peasants the promise of a job and a better life.
28:27But for these new urban dwellers, the poorest of the poor, their quest often ends in a shantytown.
28:34Its a dangerous dead end.
28:36Accommodation is insalubrious and located in high risk zones.
28:43One man in Dar es Salaam is particularly upset by the situation.
28:48He has set up an NGO to help people relocate to decent living conditions.
28:54This man is Tim Dizzi.
28:56For him the problem is that 70 percent of accommodation is illegal, constructed in an illogical manner.
29:03In 2017 you have a majority of the informal settlement, could be around say 45, 50 percent of all the informal settlement, they are located within the valley site.
29:14So which means during rainfall time they are the ones that have been seriously affected by flooding.
29:20He believes that flooding is bound to become a more frequent and more brutal issue.
29:29As this graph demonstrates, the amount of water falling on the city over the past 40 years has remained constant.
29:36But it now beats down over a much shorter period than it used to.
29:39As a result, the rains are torrential.
29:43For the shanty town of Suna, located in a bowl, there was one flood too many.
29:52On December 20th, 2011, in a period of 24 hours, 156 millimeters of water fell on the city.
30:02It was the highest daily rainfall since 1954, greatly exceeding what usually falls in a month.
30:13The result, 30 deaths and hundreds left homeless in Suna alone.
30:43Tim Desi knows these people well.
30:50For months now he has been fighting alongside them to give them new hope, to help them rebuild their lives.
30:57But five months after the tragedy, he can see that the situation is as critical as ever.
31:02Nothing has changed since the floods.
31:04The shanty town is a huge marshland.
31:07You can see this is still flooding.
31:10There's still some water here, and it's a neighborhood for children to play around, and it's still very dangerous.
31:17You can fall down here inside, yeah.
31:29So because of this one, you can have mosquitoes, which can cause malaria.
31:35And stomach pains, and because of diarrhea as well.
31:40An environmental cesspit.
31:42That's the reality of life in the shanty towns.
31:45And yet along the streets, the children are still smiling.
31:51The people have recreated a village ambiance.
31:54Hard as it is for Westerners to understand, they prefer to remain in Suna, rather than to return whence they came.
32:00Everyone likes living close to the city center, where they can find odd jobs and earn a bit of money.
32:05But people were afraid, and that night of terror has left its mark in their homes.
32:10You see here, this mark here.
32:15So that's where the water came with that level.
32:19She put up that level.
32:24Oh, she put up that level.
32:27But that's where the water came with that level.
32:30So that was Wednesday, 20th of December, 2011.
32:34So she put that one as a remembrance.
32:37This was a very deadly day.
32:40It's a fear shared all over the shanty town.
33:08There is fear, but also anger.
33:12Mama Muaneeri is sick to death of it.
33:16During the floods, she lost her hens and goats, kept in a small enclosure.
33:20She blames the authorities.
33:23And was affected by the androiding.
33:29People, the people who come and then said to us did it.
33:33They were afraid of it.
33:34They were afraid of it.
33:36They were afraid of it, they went through it.
33:38They were afraid of it.
33:39They were afraid of it, the garage, the place.
33:41They were afraid of it.
33:43But the children they raised, they are afraid of it.
33:46However, when we took the land, we took the land here because we took the land here.
33:55No sewage system, no refuse collection, no running water.
34:01In any case, the government has decided to demolish these houses
34:04and have offered to rehouse the inhabitants elsewhere, right in the middle of nowhere.
34:09In this tented camp, 40 kilometers from the city center, far from any economic activity,
34:19dozens of victims have been given a patch of land and a plastic tent.
34:23They have the right to build new houses here, but where can they find the money?
34:29These provisional arrangements are set to last.
34:39Yes, we were able to find the land here.
34:42There is always a page that I can find the land here.
34:43My child, I have a little girl, but I've been watching it.
34:46By the way, I'm going to put it on the land here.
34:49And where are the kids?
34:52They are all around here.
34:54They have the land here.
34:55So they are making the land.
34:56At one point in saving my children, they will find the land here.
35:00Every day, I'll take on to the land.
35:04There is lots of land here.
35:05But the land here is the land here.
35:06Because there is a land here,
35:07We have to get them to help them.
35:11That's the reason why we are children.
35:18I am an uncle.
35:20I am a uncle.
35:22He is not a uncle.
35:25He is a uncle.
35:27He is a uncle.
35:29He is a uncle.
35:32A hostage to drought and floods, the Tanzanians have been hit hard by climate change.
35:49But is the government aware of the battle ahead?
35:53Back in Dar es Salaam, judging by the picture that has pride of place in the office of the
35:57Minister of the Environment, one might be forgiven for thinking so.
36:00Here you can see the planet Earth, and you can see here the frying pan with the firewoods
36:07below. It's our own Earth where we live ourselves, but we are trying to burn it. Obviously that
36:13will lead into our own sufferings and, if possible, the disappearance of living organisms on the
36:22Earth, including ourselves.
36:23Is it taken seriously by the government? Is it a top priority of the government?
36:27In terms of being a priority issue, I can say yes or I can say no, because normally
36:34when we plan for the national budget, our financial year normally starts in July towards June of
36:40the other year. So in future, we might advise the government to consider climate change as
36:46a priority issue to be addressed.
36:53Maybe a future priority then. Either through a lack of funding or a lack of will, the authorities
36:59are oblivious to the scale of the problem. But if the government resigns, who will lend a
37:05hand? Who will help the victims of the climate? We head for Arusha in the north of the country.
37:16This is where ordinary heroes are rising up. The men and women here are inventing solutions
37:20for the future or reviving old culinary traditions, the better to adapt to climatic conditions.
37:26Their motto is, God helps those who help themselves.
37:32Welcome to the World Vegetable Center, an NGO financed by governments and international backers.
37:39Agronomist Chris Ojewo is the head researcher. He shows us around his laboratory, where he crosses thousands
37:45of seeds to find the one that gives the best yield.
37:52His treasures are stockpiled in a small refrigerated room.
37:55This is amaranth seed. Amaranth is one of the seeds that are most requested from this specific gene bank.
38:07There is also the black-coloured amaranth, this particular one.
38:11This black-coloured amaranth is usually used for leaf rather than for grain.
38:16We recommend them strongly for farmers to beat the upcoming troubles of climate change.
38:24This is the most precious room for us here in AVRDC.
38:28Precious because it contains around 4,000 different seeds.
38:32Among these small seeds lies the miracle solution that might ease the effects of climate change.
38:39Amaranth, like so many other plants cultivated in the center, was born on African land.
38:45Chris, the researcher, has no need to go to the other side of the world.
38:49The necessary resources are right here. Amaranth is like spinach.
38:53With the development of corn farming, this plant has been neglected.
38:57But now, in the unpredictable weather conditions, it is demonstrating hitherto unsuspected virtues.
39:03If we have situations of unpredictable rain, or rain flashes that take like about a week or two or even three weeks and then it's gone.
39:14For maize, if a maize farmer plants out his maize in such a situation, he will not be lucky to be able to harvest anything.
39:21Because if the rest of the five months are dry, then the maize will not be able to reach maturity.
39:26For amaranth, whose maturity is just 21 days, even if we have rain for just one week, the residual moisture for the next two weeks is sufficient for amaranth to be ready.
39:35So amaranth is really a crop to beat problems of changing climates.
39:44Chris's finds need to be relayed to the local farmers.
39:48They need to be taught to grow the endemic plants found in the center.
39:55This is the job of agronomy teacher Invioleti.
39:58Arifadio surinimus'
40:13Arifadio Fado
40:25This research center has thought of everything.
40:27The following workshop is a cooking class.
40:55Mama Guga is manning the oven and the mill.
41:02There's nothing like grandmother's recipes.
41:06Mama Guga is a nutritionist, but she is also a cordon bleu cook.
41:12In a flash, she brings out flavors, using ameth leaves to produce vegetable stews and seeds to make flour for tasty cakes.
41:24The goal of this course is to teach the farmers how to work in vegetables, especially indigenous vegetables, which are neglected.
41:43They used to grow the maize, beans and other things, but they never grow the vegetables.
41:50Children, they don't like bitter leaves or they don't like the vegetables we are not tasty for.
41:56And we need them to eat a lot because they need for their health.
42:06Mama Guga stands over her pupils with a spatula.
42:09She finds the right words to fuel their enthusiasm, passing on the flavors of good cooking made from local produce.
42:15Mama Guga is an alternative to the food for a party.
42:17Mama Guga stands over her pupils and her hands in her mouth.
42:22Mama Guga stands over her pupils, and she finds the rightwarnens with beans, still has the rightwarnens with beans.
42:23Mama Guga stands over her pupils and her pupils.
42:26Mama Guga stands over her pupils and her pupils.
42:28, and she makes him
42:41The steaks are high for Mama Guga.
42:59The proof is in the tasting.
43:03The steaks are high for Mama Guga.
43:11Can you cook them?
43:13Yes, they cook them.
43:19At least the kids can eat, the children can eat.
43:23Sometimes they can't eat because it's bitter.
43:26They say, no, no, no, we can do that.
43:29So even at home, I go to cook to my family.
43:33Everybody can enjoy the meal.
43:36Mission accomplished for Chris Ogiru and Mama Guga.
43:43After two days of training,
43:45the farmers leave again with the precious seeds in their pockets,
43:48a few good farming tips and a head full of recipes.
43:55Slowly but surely, ideas are changing.
43:59A two-hour drive away in the city of Moshi,
44:02hopes are carried by an evangelist.
44:06Frederick Shaw has been a pastor for over 30 years.
44:09An assistant bishop in the city of Moshi,
44:11he leads a diocese of about 500,000 followers.
44:14To begin with, though, it wasn't really his vocation.
44:20First of all, there was, we say,
44:22we will receive a call from the people.
44:25The people of my village, the church elders and the pastor,
44:30he came to me as a young man, and they said,
44:34we would very much like you to be our pastor,
44:37to go for the training.
44:39And it was not an easy decision,
44:42because I wanted to become, to be a medical doctor.
44:45So it was not easy to decide,
44:47because pastors don't earn a lot of money,
44:50and it was also not easy for the family to accept that.
44:57And I have never regretted being a pastor.
45:01Frederick Shaw doesn't cure people.
45:03He wants to care for the land.
45:05His mission is to protect the environment.
45:07Brandishing a tree or a flower,
45:09the pastor reminds his congregation of the pressing need
45:12to look after their Garden of Eden.
45:14to look after their Garden of Eden.
45:15parents have access to their own担い
45:20,
45:21to give the Lord their visions.
45:24They know how to discover the blessings of the Lord.
45:28We will not know how to impart people,
45:30even as an emperor.
45:31It is just because of it,
45:33we say that the word of the mazingera,
45:36the word of the blessings,
45:38the word of theヤ and his mother,
45:40Every day from church to church, the pastor spreads the good word about the environment
46:01to hundreds of thousands of churchgoers in his diocese.
46:05He wields a considerable influence.
46:08After Mass, he takes us to a field he used to cultivate during his leisure time.
46:12So about three years now I have not done anything on this farm.
46:17It was not paying back, you know, you invest a lot, and then at the midway you lose all the crop
46:32because there is not enough rain and not enough water for irrigation, not even water for irrigation, so you just give up.
46:41After a few years the rains dried up and the river level kept dropping inexorably.
46:48Hell on earth, he says.
46:55You can see, it uses to go to the top there, you know.
47:02For the past seven years we have been receiving too little rain, too little rain.
47:11And actually now it should be all over green.
47:15Everybody must do something, and in his capacity, in his or her capacity, wherever we are.
47:22We cannot blame just, well let's say, blame others.
47:26But everybody has to see where am I responsible, what can I do.
47:31And it is, there is always a possibility to do something.
47:39Words turn to action.
47:41The following day, a few dozen kilometers away in another parish, the pastor pulls out all the stops.
47:58Three hundred children, one tree each.
48:02The church is supplying the young plants.
48:04But children and parents are also encouraged to buy and plant trees themselves.
48:09for Frederick Cho, change begins with a small gesture, full of hope.
48:17Here we get to the river, but the next one you get to the river.
48:22Here we have to go.
48:23Here you get to the water, the water then you get to the river.
48:25Here is the water, the water, the water.
48:29And the water is not as good as one day, so we get to the water.
48:32Here the water.
48:33Here are the water, right?
48:36Here are the water warm.
48:37Every child's tree is going to have her or his name.
48:41They are coming maybe once or twice a week to water the trees until they grow.
48:46Yes.
48:51The trees are going to... They help to retain the soil.
48:55And so during the rainy season when we have plenty of water here in the river,
49:00the soil is not carried away.
49:02You can see over there, we have a terrible erosion, soil erosion.
49:12And this has happened because people have encroached to the riverbanks like here,
49:18plant maids and beans.
49:21And so tons and tons of soil are taken away by the rivers during the rainy season.
49:28The message gets through.
49:32Trees, which protect the soil and provide fertility, are the farmer's best allies.
49:38In 15 years, the pastor has encouraged the planting of one million trees in his diocese.
49:44His secret is to make every child plant and care for at least ten trees between their communion
49:49and confirmation.
50:19What we want is a generational change.
50:22We want to change their way of thinking.
50:24Their parents have learned to fell trees,
50:29and these ones are learning to plant trees.
50:32And that is what we want, a tree planting generation.
50:36A tree planting generation, beyond the symbolism,
50:39it's a matter of making an entire nation aware
50:41that nobody will be spared the effects of climate change.
50:45For the time being, a few individuals and organizations
50:48are on a mission in the vanguard of the combat.
50:50It's a daunting task, and they appear
50:52to be fighting a losing battle.
50:54But their example might inspire others,
50:56and trigger a domino effect that might one day
50:58even prompt the authorities to revise their priorities.
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