Climate Change: What Will Our Lives Look Like in 2050?

Climate disasters, health crisis or even food shortages, the future looks bleak for the planet. Find out what our future could look like if the world population does not change its behavior and consumption patterns.

[DMatthewW]

Its shocking that there were warnings back in 1979 by scientists about climate change and instead of being heeded they were laughed at instead.

[encarnacionfernandeztorres]

Tengo 55 años y todo esto me pone muy nerviosa
Sobretodo pienso en el futuro de mis hijos..
Que ahora tienen 32 y 27 años😢😢

[garyjohnson]

Scientists have been warning us for decades, but have largely been ignored, people keep kicking the can down the road, even denying climate change is a largely a human made issue, forgetting that a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…

[MarieTournelle]

Il y a 40 ans j'avais 20 ans. J'étais écolo, j'avais ma carte des verts (Brice Lalonde à l'époque je crois). On nous prenait pour des "paysans" qui souhaitaient revenir aux boeufs, à la charrue et à la bougie, nous étions la risée de tous. Très difficile de faire comprendre qu'on peut évoluer, grandir, en considérant notre environnement, parce-que nous sommes humains et faisons parti de l'écosystème de la Terre. A 30 ans j'ai tenté de monter un groupe écolo à Versailles avec deux amis, lol des écolos chez les Royalistes... J'ai vu les verts avoir des ministères et faire n'importe quoi, j'ai vu les magouilles politiques, l'agressivité, la rapinerie, la soif de pouvoir, la corruption et les seuls objectifs pour lesquels chacun se bat : le pouvoir et l'argent. Depuis quelques années, je suis abstentionniste et très heureuse de l'être. Je trierai mes bouteilles quand tout ces connards démoliront leurs yatchs, quand Macron et son gouvernement prendront le train plutôt qu'un avion pour faire 100 bornes, je n'achèterai pas de voiture électrique parce-que je suis opposée à l'énergie nucléaire. Bref, non on n'y arrivera pas, je n'y crois pas une seconde, l'argent est trop puissant.

[JugglinJellyTake]

Our ground water urgently needs preserving. Depleting ground water is a serious ecological debt we cannot afford. Glad this programme is covering this.

[MEANASSJAMSTER]

sadly, it's too late for the 'act now' part ...many of the things described in this video about 'what will happen if we don't act now' are actually biblical prophecy! ...these things are going to happen!!!

[arthurpriestley]

Not everyone is a high payed scientist who has an opportunity to earn enough to purchase a large plot of land and build a home off grid . Think of all the energy it took to creat everything that affords him to live off grid . Even buggy tires uses a lot of energy to produce . Nothing magically appears . Remember that !

[rosemariebredahl]

Resource allocations in an economy where consumption is reduced will require a massive paradigm shift.

[RajibKarmakar-mj]

I think not only temprature rising also some radiation having in atmosphere.

[cdf-]

Je suis de La Chaux-de-Fonds nous avons eu une première tornade l'été passé dispo sur ma chaîne, jamais auparavant une telle force mais c'était abattu sur ma ville, avant il y a eu Dombresson et la Neuville.

Le changement climatique n'est pas un mythe nous le vivons chaque été.

[lpopzz]

We are so screwed its not eaven funny and the worst thing is that people stil dont realize it .

[hugojames]

I am a linguist by occupation, and nobody else will probably know - or care - what I'm talking about, but it doesn't bode well for a problem requiring international co-operation for any attempt at a solution when the French makers of this TV programme have refused to use a native speaker of English to translate their voiceovers, so that the English version sounds really stilted and foreign. Just like all producers of material originating in the French language that I have come across in my 30 years' professional translation experience. Oh - and we're all fucked because of climate change as well.

[bstill]

My life will be looking a little deceased by 2050 😂

[Nataly]

The alarming state of the planet is hunger and poverty.

[ADELEetANDRELlanoscruz]

Es algo común y natural k se da cada miles de años en la naturaleza No vemos el porke su preocupación más bien espanta la ignorancia de haber olvidado los ciclos naturales

[parrsnipps]

I think our species has an over-arching attitude we dominate nature, not the other way around. Right now it's a stalemate between our ability to continue to rebuild after fires, floods & wild storms and Nature's response of ever more energy trapped in the biosphere. At some point the scales will tip in favor of Nature & we'll fail to rebuild as much as before, accepting we're 2nd to Nature & work to right the ship.

[pameladavies]

We reach a tipping point when nothing we can do will change the disaster that is our future. As trees burn more CO2 is dumped into the atmosphere and fewer trees are there to act as carbon sinks. As the permafrost melts methane is released in huge quantities that is 10 times worse than CO2 for climate change. The oceans become less saline and ocean currents change and the sea life dies off. Red tides and rotting sea life will inundate the coasts. I am totally pessimistic about the future especially with people not changing their behavior but expecting governments to make us change. What kind of government would be necessary to make us change? Certainly not democracy as people will not vote for someone who tells them they can't use plastic bags anymore let alone drive huge gas guzzling cars. truck and SUV. We want to live as we always have with all our creature comforts and will only vote for someone who will let us do that despite repeated warnings. Autocratic governments are the only type that could possibly put measure in force to make any impact at all. I have no hope for the future but then I won't be around for much of the worst of it.

[franckferre]

Merci quelle belle présence d'esprit, quand je me permet d'expliquer à mon entourage ce qui va nous arriver, si nous ne chargeons pas notre façon de vivre au quotidien, je passe pour un fantaisiste, un élu berlue, un marginale, déconnecter de la société, je suis quelqu'un de réaliste, avec le sourire .

[GrandmaBev]

I was in Fairbanks from 81-83 and the Permafrost and snow were melting back then. The whole upper state was ice and the furthest you could drive without a snowmobile was the city of "Noth Pole, Alaska". Now you can drive hundreds of miles past all year. Back then, in the winter, there were no roads in or out of Fairbanks. We had to get enough supplies to last a few months at a time. I couldn't imagine how soggy places in Fairbanks have gotten. Houses were sliding off their foundations back then.

[brega]

Oh, not to worry ! There are many of us who are not consuming or using resources due to inflation and rapidly increasing poverty. What is meat ? Something to now steal ? Yes ! Had my stored canned protein taken from my little place. Took me over a year to squirrel enough away to have minimal amount of protein for a few months. Pathetic but true. Tuna, sardines, salmon, spam, a bit of beef....peanut butter. All food costing so much. Just wondering how much weight will have to lose before am considered in starvation.