The Tragedy Of Deforestation | Climate Change: The Facts | BBC Earth 

Government are ignoring this issue like i ignore ads and sponsors in the video

the picture with the Orangutan says everything ....

Well, that was the most depressing thing I've watched in a while. Something really does have to be done, we humans as a whole can't seem to see past the end of our nose.

I recently planted 700 trees but I felt I have achieved nothing😭💔❤️But now I am planning to plant 1Million trees by April 2022

I live in Sweden and deforestation is a thing I see daily and something I have gotten used to. I can only remember one single bit of forest that have not been cut down since I was 10 years old. Just some kilometers away, maybe 4, alot of trees are being cut down to build houses, or just nothing and to just gain money. This leads to all the deers for example, comes down here to the fields, destroys the field and our garden because they have nowhere else to go. It really hurts me and I worry about climate change each day. I really don't want to just watch it all happen, but what am I, a 14 year old, gonna do in a world where people just listen to "adults", those who did not listen when told that climate change was real, those who are making me grow up on a burning planet, dying species, rising sea levels and soon incredibly many immigrants who've lost their homes. We're taught about it in school, but it feels like no one else actually understands the seriousness. If this don't go well, which is very much possible, each summer will come with immense heat, and therefore huge wildfires and dangerous smoke. It feels like everything is hopeless about it sometimes, because even when I tell people about how worried I am and telling them what could happen, most just shrugs it off and says "They're probably gonna find some machine that will fix everything.", but to be honest, we already got those machines, but they cost too much and we can pretty "easily" life a more simple life that won't affect nature that much. The world kind of just care about money, until it finally sees that it needs to do something, though it's already too late when it does. So I beg whoever is reading this, spread the awareness, try to make people see that it's already happening and that it will get much worse if we don't do something. We would get a planet with seas full of poison, air full of smoke, populations with extreme hunger, weather that is constant hell and people running away from their home. It might seem hopeless, but it ain't yet. Just try to make people hear and educate them, so they know that they need to live a bit more different lives and how. If you don't want to do this, think of the coming generations, maybe younger siblings or cousins, you maybe even got kids, do it for them. (Now excuse me if the text's grammar isn't great, just wrote this in a hurry and didn't have time to look if I've spelled something wrong. Have a good day, and thank you)

"When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realise that you cannot eat money."

The narrator saying forests are like 'the lungs of the planet' is essentially a brilliant wrap of the whole documentary

2:56 This breaks my heart

The cause of all problems: 💵

3:02 the monkey attacking the machine was sad to see..

3:00 broke my heart

It's always good to learn about why deforestation is so bad,and how we can solve to minimize it.

I become tensed about future after seeing this 🙁

Everybody talks about CO2 levels going up. No one is talking about dropping oxygen levels when all these trees disappear!

Love BBC earth lot of nature learning

I'm always reminded of deforestation. Lumber and fish are our only export where I live, so everytime I go out I think "oh, I don't remember that missing chunk of the mountain". The government won't do anything about it because we must "protect union jobs". It's really depressing.

The thing is that everyone on this planet knows what should be done but no one is doing it...and I m sorry to say that the day is not far enough when we have to say goodbyes 😭

I’ve travelled to 43 countries since 1972 and seen nearly everything minimized or totally destroyed. So depressing but with no way out. The world is dying.

I remember giving a school talk about deforestation in 1988! I never would have dreamed it would have got worse but there you go!

this is the most saddening picture. I have always been driven towards nature and saving it but i am afraid most of the humans are not aware or don't care about forests. These people from BBC and other scientist are trying their best to warn us but i feel many people are still unaware and something different needs to be done to spread this message. I live in Pakistan and just today i saw trucks with logs of woods being transported and it really made me so mad and sad

Please make The Tragedies of Overpopulation and Fossil Fuel Production next

It's very sad 😢 to see how we humans causing damage to the mother Earth 🌍.

Great video to understand the importance of cause and effect in our environment now and the importance to make better decisions for the future

Simple outstanding

That made me cry 😿

Searched about deforestation because of an essay writing competition tomorrow at school but after seeing this I feel so bad...I mean we didn't even think or was aware of it before.

These stories are so sad

Typical humans. 1:35 I didn't expect Norway to deforest their land that much.

A really good video that brings to life the issue. I feel like I've just witnessed the real life version of a scene involving an orangutan from Nicky Head's book 'Sophie's Cause' - a children's book that highlights the importance of amending our eating habits to reduce deforestation etc caused by issues like palm oil plantations. Worth a read for the younger and older generations. Seeing an orangutan in this situation in real life truly brings it home.

This experience in the end.

There hasn't been any rain in the Masai Mara game Park in Kenya for almost a year. Climate change.

It is nice to see Dr. Hansen himself (whose publications I referred to many times) talking about this global forest loss.

Nice to here from you

heartbreaking to watch..

Sou agricultor no Sul do Brasil, não entendo nada em inglês gostaria que fosse dublado. Entendi o vídeo mostrando a realidade da Amazônia e aqui no sul do país tem chovido pouco devido os efeitos do desmatamento. Muitas frentes frias que deveriam trazer chuvas só trazem fumaça da região Amazônia e Pantanal.

Wow

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

wanna cry wacth this video😢

Unreal. Poor and rich, we all share the same air.

It is certainly going to be tough going for the next few generations

Palm oil is 2nd. Let's talk about the 1st reason.... *Top reason for deforestation: Animal agriculture.* Growing food to feed animals. Especially in places like Brazil, who's payed off by Canada, UK, and USA, to create massive grain, corn, soy felids to feed Cattle. We don't need to all be vegans, but we also don't need to consume this much meat in a system that taxes rainforest acreage. That's one of the reasons lab grown meat and plant based meat (you see Beyond Meat more and more now) is on the rise.

Was nice to know you

When the deforested countries have droughts, will they be able understand why. Habitat destruction leads to species extinction then the end of humanity is imminent.

when we all know how deforestation can affect our lives and how forests are destroyed but we are not taking proper measures and actions.

I hope deforestation stops sad that forest animals lose their homes

People tend to only show concern when major events or personal circumstances affect them. As humans, we often prioritize our own interests and fail to extend the same level of care and concern to others. This raises the question: why is it so hard to care for others? Perhaps it's because there's no monetary reward for doing so. However, if we want to make the world a better place, we need to start caring more. Though it may be challenging, it's important to start taking action now. After all, if we don't start now, when will we?

i weep for our planet

The earth will fight back and destroy us before we destroy it.

Hey I want to know more about nature make more about nature or about water pls🙏🙏🙏

This in the morning it’s a vibe

I am from Ethiopia and we are doing everything we could to reverse the impact.

We're coming to the end, and justly so

There are so many people who own land and waste it by planting lawns. If everyone who had a lawn used that land to grow food instead then maybe people would not cut down as much forest to grow food. Heck, why not grow palm trees for the palm oil in people's yards instead of cutting down rain forests to do it? Soybeans could probably be grown instead of lawns, too. Especially by people who don't use their lawn for anything else. I just think we're wasting so much land that has already been cleared while other people continue to cut more forest down. It doesn't need to be this way. 😔

Johan Rockstrom should be a household name. 🚨🚨🚨

Some key information is left out about deforestation: that those soy farms largely go to feed the cattle, pigs and other animals that become meat for rich-world countries (who set the lifestyle aspirations for much of the rest of the world). That most processed foods are less nutritious and tie into diet-related health epidemics in America. Solutions : eat food made closer to home, eat lower down the food chain, and demand products grown without conflict palm oil.

Save Our Planet

Yea but micro plankton in the ocean provides the majority of o2 and photosynthesis

there are exactly 806 people that have commented and all of us can pick up 1 piece of trash outside and that will be 806 trash picked up and make sure the plastic is recycled

we all can make a change. Let’s make it happen🙏🏾

@02:56 That is just so... depressing to see. Just like watching people that work at the slaughterhouses - how can these people keep doing their shitty job?!

The day after tomorrow coming soon 🙈

Have you seen in these years in India actually plantation increased despite being largest population on earth. A commendable job

Friend- who is the powerful super hero Me- camera man*

We are doomed, period, the end.

Government is simply pushing the can down the road on such a massive challenge🌍….need to understand the severity of the major issue🌳…we all need to be proactively look forward for the solutions...many of the species are on the verge of extinction..🦇🦧🐆🐅🦒🪐animals are the beauty of jungle and they also balance the world's ecosystem..save them🙏🏻

It's really scary.

Where can we get that maps?

Daily reminder that we as a group can do more than we think, and if there wasn't any hope left we wouldn't still be trying to solve things!!

We need to vote for government that is more responsible for Earth! And we as individuals need to plant more trees and spread awareness.

Are these maps avaiable somewhere?

The tragedy of deforestation in Brazil is that it will actually lead to Brazil turning into a large desert and wipe out their agriculture industry that deforested the Amazon in the first place.

Will we learn in time?

could i have permission to use some scene of this video for my enviroment music video ?

the monkey trying to defend the fallen trees is very very upsetting. i hope these tree killers feel the wrath of karma swiftly

People may not realize deforestation till the worst sets in and there will point of no return will be Infront of our eyes . Human minds just got two things ,the good and the worst . ...and because of greed , the effect, everyone suffers will go on and on . Till climate devastation will have no end . Hope this people who are contributing to worst climate scenario will be blessed to realize of what they did to humanity .

We Should Learn From Bhutan It's The Only Carbon Negative Country. They Treat The Environment Like God And That's Why They Care And Protect The Nature And One Of The Happiest Country In The World 🌏🌝

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And yet it goes on and on, what are we to do and who will stop it, cant we find another way?

I’m not a pessimist, but as a realist I believe that unless something changes in the nature of we humans (me included) as a whole we will not solve the environmental and social issues we face. It seems to me that we have an unceasing desire for gain that needs to be checked. As for the many that do good things to try to help the state of the earth, I applaud each for their efforts.

Isto é uma tristeza ...coitado do Orangotango!Já não chega de perpetuar estas acções? São estas radiografias que deviam obrigar as consciências para problemas graves e que com determinação colectiva convocar as capacidades humanas existentes para o desafio transformar a realidade ...criminoso é continuar a deixar tudo na mesma!!

Plant a tree on your property or donate a tree in a park, lets fight this deforestation! Its fun to plant trees.togeather we can make a diffrence!

As pessoas do Mundo sabem disso. Mas os governantes ,politicos e grandes exploradores Ignoram

hello good video

Deforestation that's crazy.

I live in Uzbekistan. Nowadays, many forests are being destroyed and as a result the climate is also being destroyed. Many measures are being taken to prevent this situation, but unfortunately, they are of no use.Consequently, environmental pollution is increasing. People are cutting the trees in the forest for their own purposes, for instance, some use the trees to make paper,oil and other things. Naturally this leads to forest degradation. And again in the autumn leaves fall,and people burn them and spoil the atmosphere. After cutting down the trees in the forest ,it is difficult to purify the air,for the reason that the trees and plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen

" So you really can't start a fire in the Amazon!" Has anyone told the slash and burn people this? Wait maybe he is talking about starting a fire in the Amazon river? I'm cornfused?

Governments from allover the World had ignored the years of tragic Deforestation & still ignored to day 2021 the continue thousands of thousands ectaras every day taking place and the answer is Nature is going to heal by itself????

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The comdedy in all of this is that.. the people who make this documentary are also in the first world consuming and are the reason behind all of this.

Trees = OWNED

Change happens so fast, from day to day, from generation to generation. Humans created these problems and we can change them - we can change our habbits, avoid things like animal produckts and palm oil, and thereby demand change to the people who only listen to our money.

As long as there is a demand for palm oil, there is no chance to stop deforestation. The question is, how to stop the demand?

Humans….A real Effd up creature

Time to send the 1% to Mars and let the rest of us dismantle the system we currently have in favour of a clean up the earth mission. 🌍

This is sooooooooooo sad

Industrial Revolution it was started in UK - FYI 🤣

'an aspiration on a piece of paper' which was made by cutting down trees ;) good point though

They should just make a law that if you cut down a tree you get hung on one.

I am a millenial and watched the rapid decline in green spaces... Forests and the sounds of the insects... The invasion of artificial light and sound polution... Air, water and soil quality declines... and they wonder why i am depressed and sees no future at all. Fortunately, i have no kids and pretend ot to have... How can a normal person have? Look the world we are putting them in... They will hate us

I can’t stand Deforestation I want animals to live free and in the wild