Climate Change In Guatemala: Between Starvation And Migration

[@dfredericks9119]

I Been to Guatemala, Everything is True what they are reporting🙏 GOD BLESS THEM🙏

[@skaetur1]

So is there a place on Earth that is not facing catastrophe?

[@tomnguyen9931]

Not really. Some just way worst than other. In America they cry about food inflation. In these country it just food.....any food.

[@jacobvalle4430]

I find it pretty sad to think that people who live in one part of the world can be impacted so heavily because of actions taken by others. I find it to be hard to even watch and the fact that it happening because of other countries carbon footprint. This is something we need to work on as a whole, and there are ways to help the environment but there not being used used because of big companies and political reasons. Its just sad that there is a way to help stop things like this from happening and yet it is almost impossible to get it done because of political and economic reasoning.

[@laftiskuno1357]

Just a thought. Money come and go and never enought nor fix the problem. May be send machines, engineers, etc. To help farmers fix the land, rivers, etc so they can farm again? Just a thought.

[@jackiepaper101]

That assumes the US government is interested in helping people.

[@MrWaterbugdesign]

That exact thing has been tried many times in different places in the world. I'm not aware of it ever working and the reasons are many. Corruption is often a big factor. If a farmer becomes successful their resources are taken away. Why work hard, save money, if someone is just going to take it away? Send machines sounds good but what are they going to run on? Expensive to operate. No one trained to maintain machines. Western engineers are well trained for high production but that all depends on a western infrastructure. Growing a single massive crop, storage and markets to distribute crops, electric, etc... Guatemala doesn't have the required infrastructure. Helping farmers requires farmers willing to be helped. Low education results in people believing in mystical things rather than science. Bringing science into such areas often results in people hating the outsiders, not believing or trusting them and in many cases violence. Consider southern Africa and all the farming tech brought in over the years, high farm production and the end result was a lot of killing, taking resources and hunger. Currently farmers from India having been moving to African countries, starting productive farms and meeting very strong resistance from locals. Today there is absolutely no reason to import engineers and tech to Guatemala because all that info is online for any Guatemalan to use for free. Engineers can't force Guatemalan farmers to listen. What would engineers do beyond pointing farmers to the same info available online?

[@ronwe4639]

Did anyone know US own 60% of the good farm land in Guatemala ? Maybe now you know!

[@lilak4361]

Bill Gates owns more farmland than anyone in the US. It's widely known, and it's not right, but it's privately owned, not "US owned". There's probably a similar situation in Guatemala

[@tycute21]

First solution is to educate these people HAVE LESS CHILDREN 👦. They are already poor and lack of foods, but each family have many children’s that is a big problem.

[@OregonGrower420]

All they need are giant tanks and when it raid full them with water. They can also build a reservoir at the top of a mountain but sadly they aren't advance enough and do things the old fashion way, which is stupid

[@madwisdom4929]

The Bush family owned fresh water aquifer is larger than Texas and California combined. *BUSH's* family bought 300,000 acres on South America's and World's largest aquifer, Aculfhero Guarani. *Jenna Bush* (daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush) reportedly bought 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay). This land is said to be near the 200,000 acres purchased by her grandfather, George H.W. Bush, In 2005. The lands purchased by the *Bush* family sit over not only South America's largest aquifer -- but the world's as well. Acuifero Guarani, which runs beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. *FUTURE WATER WARS C/O WATER BARONS*

[@virginiarivera197]

The same here in the U.S. CANT TAKE CARE OF THEIR KIDS

[@MYZZ56]

Do you know that when we help others Jehová God sees as his people and blesses us with more. And being full of selfishness and hatred or total disregard of others needs it's the contrary of serving God.

[@marcjoanbartosch7559]

Hello! Is there also an article available? :)

[@aarononeal9830]

Nbc news needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress

[@jami.franchestquazimolamai]

i really hope that they were able to bring food on their trip and give it to a lot of people there, regardless of if they were in this video or not. it's the least they can do

[@natela6787]

She looks like she’s part of the field

[@Robert0sorio2]

Feels sad, however we also need to educate them about having kids that they can afford to feed only. We need to help in all ways possible. Giving then education and give then jobs.

[@drakokamikaze8823]

I feel for them but I think they are capping . How is she chubby with just that per day. The camera crew got finessed from the beginning. They paid a tour guide and got what they paid for. Every one from there is saying its not like that.

[@MYZZ56]

This is part of the last days we must show our love and help as much as we can. Until ou lord Jesus Christ comes back and heals the earth.

[@samsam451]

Is he coming on Delta Airlines?

[@robbiesmith9786]

Y can't they import food

[@lilak4361]

Or rotate crops, or irrigate

[@minotauro8154]

Guatemala is not americas problem.

[@superipodmanvik]

Guatemala 1954 causing a Civil War that lasted 36 years

[@espoespo3557]

Many of them forgot about the Mayflower.

[@dianawolf894]

Between starvation and migration.

[@thepranksters9841]

The real question: Why the poverty??? What resources does- pick a state- say Arizona, Wyoming or Utah have, that central America does not have? So what really matters is: WHY the poverty ?!!

[@JoseMorales-ld2lg]

Mayans were rich and well when England was starving in the dark ages. Same during the potato famine in Ireland and Italy. Why the poverty in Italy back then? Why so many Germans migrated to America? It's just cyclical, the dust bowl forced Iowans to California. Now it's the Guatemalans turn to migrate. They are native Americans. This is their tbeir land. Global warming will turn Arizona and Texas into rainforests. Guatemalans will do very well here. Welcome to your new lands Guatemalans. Tje Vikings Spirit is with You. 🙏🇺🇸💙

[@babydragon4813]

I hope y'all think about these people when you're drinking your "fair trade" coffee

[@skaetur1]

Why? They don’t care about my plight, why in this screwy alternate universe should I care about theirs?

[@jackpinesavage1628]

Let them come. It's way past time to evenly distribute the resources of the Earth between the "haves" and the "have nots". These arbitrary lines between regions in the world were drawn by man, not by the Almighty.

[@virginiarivera197]

Stop having babies if you know you can't feed one why do you keep having more.

[@MYZZ56]

They have no healthcare either, no educación.. you move to an urban area and you will see how access to commodities is impaired.

[@kingh7395]

One of the biggest problems in these poor country's

[@DEZONAENZONA]

Tenemos un gobierno no tiene planes , no se ve que quieran ayudar se escusan en que no hay fondos monetarios

[@joshwalker171]

we are blessed in the united states and in our nations climate change is getting worse and while in america places like new orleans was hit by an hurricane ida i feel we should all be greateful that for most of us we have an place to live and food to eat and do not get me wrong we need someone like president biden to tackle climate change and global warming in 2024 he has my vote and i am concerned about the climate and he is an good president. your friend josh walker

[@gd1889]

Lmao, good president?

[@gersonvasquez4820]

Im guatemala american made i get it agaisnt with plantions and enconomics but made one day we both will work together fix north and south american of the problems

[@Chano601]

Move factories from china to Mexico and their.

[@quintonmillett5149]

I think Build Back Better world initutive lead by the U.S. should give irrigation systems to these countries.

[@MrWaterbugdesign]

It's this type of absolute crap "reporting" that leads people to question climate change. Guatemala has soil, water and sun. You can't just dismiss the fact that most of the country is lush with plant growth and say drought is killing crops. It makes no sense at all. Yes as the population grows they have to increase productivity. Better soil management, better irrigation, better crop choices, better pest control, invest more in equipment. Guatemala hasn't done any of these things. Growing corn on a hillside worked 100 years ago when there were fewer people. Each person had more land available to make up for lower yield. They aren't even terracing yet alone switching to other crops that could be grown. Look at hillsides in Asia covered in terraces with irrigation to grow rice. Very productive. Keep blaming everything on climate change if that makes you feel good but it improves nothing. Yes we may be approaching a time where the Earth can no longer sustain current population growth. If climate had stayed the way it was then sure we could have continued to reproduce at lemming levels for more decades, maybe another century or two. But at some point humans will be up against a population limit and it's not going to be a soft landing. Yes, because there is no way humans are ever going to do anything other than increase warming there will come a time when many places on Earth will see large population die offs. But today places like Guatemala could sustain themselves. But not with the level of corruption they have. Aid can pour into corrupt areas and it will do nothing for poor people and instead just feed corruption.

[@jackiepaper101]

Ok, thanks professor.

[@joshmoody9859]

@Rosita #end1492 Since they arrived? USA is full of people from all over the world including South America. Problem is the American way was bread on competition and doing better tomorrow than you did today. Guatemala looks like they just gave up and is looking for hand outs because its too hard to look for better ways of surviving.

[@sebastienrimbeau6867]

Do you prefer overpopulation?

[@lolcatjunior]

You forget that water is expensive in these countries due to Nestle buy all the water sources and raising the prices. Also mega farms making it hard for people to buy proper fertilizer. Global population is massively decrease it will never hit 9 billion due to a rise in modernization and global fertility rates dropping like a rock. Malthus was completely wrong when compared to whats actually happening.

[@rudynavas5545]

Seria

[@anthonypassarelli5534]

A "climate migrant" lol try "famine" quit acting like you need to use stupid politically charged terms like climate change to deliver a point. Lack of rainfall and droughts and famines have been a part of human history since we have cultivated crops, but it is neat how you managed to incorporate the political stance on climate change in with immigration.

[@MYZZ56]

This is only the beginning..we are in the last days

[@briandavis849]

baloney

[@jerrypeal653]

The Climate changes ? Who knew !

[@oppressedspeakeroftruth6558]

I love the climate change propaganda. It's always entertaining

[@its_rick_james_bich2575]

Why is it propaganda? Climate change is real!! The only debate is how much is attributed to human activity as far as fossil fuel extraction!

[@johncotter2008]

glo-bull warming

[@hosnimubarak8869]

Why the denial?

[@rareroots]

nonsense