Why Indonesia is building a whole new capital

DW Planet A Oct 28, 2022 #Nusantara #PlanetA #IndonesiaNewCapital

Indonesia is constructing an entire new capital city in Borneo called Nusantara — from scratch. What’s at stake?

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Reporter: Beina Xu
Camera: Taris Hizi Iman & Georg Matthes
Translation: Taris Hizi Iman
Supervising editors: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer & Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

Special thanks to Georg Matthes and Taris Hizi Iman of DW’s Asia Pacific Bureau in Jakarta for their fantastic research and filming on the ground.

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Read more: Understanding the Allure of Big Infrastructure: Jakarta’s Great Garuda Sea Wall Project: https://www.water-alternatives.org/in…

New capital cities as tools of development and nation-building: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

Environmental Impacts of Planned Capitals and Lessons for Indonesia’s New Capital: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat…

The evolution of Jakarta’s flood policy over the past 400 years: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/catalog/uuid:26d…

5 Maps Show How Moving Indonesia’s Capital Could Impact the Environment: https://thecityfix.com/blog/5-maps-sh…

The race for the Arctic is ramping up. Here’s why.

DW Planet A Nov 25, 2022 #Arctic #PlanetA #FossilFuels

The ice in the arctic is melting, revealing huge amounts of fossil fuels, rare earths and new shipping routes. And the rush to secure these has already begun. Will countries continue their race for economic and militaristic advantages or will they finally work together to solve the global problem of climate change?

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Reporter: Monika Sax
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer & Michael Trobridge

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Are We Too Late To Stop Climate Change? | Carbon Nation | Spark

Spark Jul 8, 2020 #spark #sciencedocumentary #sparkdocumentary

Carbon Nation is a feature length documentary about climate change SOLUTIONS. Even if you doubt the severity of the impact of climate change or just don’t buy it at all, this is a compelling and relevant film that illustrates how SOLUTIONS to climate change also address other social, economic and national security issues. ‘Carbon Nation’ is an optimistic discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or slow down) the impending climate crisis.

Climate damage: How and why rich countries should pay up

DW Planet A Dec 23, 2022 #PlanetA #ClimateReparations

The people and industries of the world’s richest countries have done the most to heat the planet. But they’re terrified of being held liable for extreme weather they’ve made more violent. Meanwhile, the poorest can’t afford to pay for the consequences of other people’s pollution. So should the rich world be paying climate reparations – and what’s the best way to do so?

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Reporter: Ajit Niranjan
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer & Joanna Gottschalk

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Is Neo-Fascism Taking Over America?

Thom Hartmann Program Feb 14, 2023 #MoreFromThom #Fascism

The rich are feeding fascism to hungry Americans hit hard by the economy. But will Americans swallow it?

The Science Behind the Massive Turkey-Syria Earthquakes | WSJ

Wall Street Journal Feb 10, 2023 #WSJ #Turkey #Syria

Powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, causing thousands of deaths in Turkey’s worst seismic event in decades. WSJ explains why the meeting of three tectonic plates under the region mean there may be more earthquakes along the fault lines. News Explainers Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day’s biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.

Looting, unrest set in as quake death toll surpasses 30,000 | DW News

DW News Feb 12, 2023 #Earthquake #Turkey #Syria

The scale of the earthquake’s devastation in Turkey and Syria is becoming more apparent. While rescuers are still trying to locate any remaining survivors, there are also reports in some areas that desperation on the ground is leading to looting and civil unrest, hampering the efforts of the emergency crews. The death toll is quickly approaching 30,000, but the UN says that figure could double.

What is fueling the rampant terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa? | DW News

DW News Feb 11, 2023 #Africa #Terrorism #Extremism

In the year 2021, global terrorism claimed the lives of over 7,000 people – nearly half of them in sub-Saharan Africa. And that threat still exists, particularly in the Sahel region. But what’s fueling it? A new report says the main driver of violent extremism in sub-Saharan Africa is mainly the lack of jobs. The UN Development Program interviewed more than two thousand people in eight countries stretching from Burkina Faso to Somalia. Half of them were former members of violent extremist groups. And the insecurity in the countries surveyed isn’t just affecting their own populations. It’s creeping across borders. For example, Burkina Faso became the center of a jihadist insurgency in West Africa after violence spilled over from neighboring Mali. Since 2015, thousands of Burkinabe have been killed and 2 million displaced. Many of those who flee the conflict find refuge with their neighbors across the border. The hosts offer what they have. But as DW correspondent Maxwell Suuk reports from Widnaba in Northern Ghana, there’s goodwill in abundance but even that’s not enough.

The U.S. Has 750 Overseas Military Bases, and Continues to Build More to Encircle China

Democracy Now! Feb 14, 2023 Latest Shows

The United States struck a deal with the Philippines earlier this month to expand its military presence in its former colony to four additional bases, part of a years-long Pentagon buildup in the Asia-Pacific region meant to counter Chinese influence. The U.S. has about 750 overseas military bases in more than 80 countries, and Washington elites are pushing the country ever closer to conflict with China, says researcher David Vine. “I think the people of the United States absolutely do not want war,” says Vine. He is a professor of anthropology at American University and co-founder of the Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition.

Climate change or politics? – Why Madagascar is going hungry | DW Documentary

DW Documentary Nov 14, 2022 #dwdocumentary #madagascar #documentary

There’s been no proper rainfall in southern Madagascar for seven years. The ground is arid, people are suffering from hunger and thirst. The UN says this is the first hunger crisis directly caused by climate change. But is that really the case? There’s been no water in the Manambovo river for several months. Locals dig at the sandy riverbed in the hope they’ll find a few drops of water. The government blames the long dry spell on climate change and the UN agrees that this is the main reason for the worsening crisis. But critical voices say the government shares some of the responsibility — despite years of western aid, southern Madagascar is stuck in a rut, with few tarmac roads, hardly any schools and an extremely high birth rate. DW journalist Adrian Kriesch reports on the measures needed right now, as well as the importance of the imminent rainy season.

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