Korea’s Sea Diving Women Fight for Survival Against Climate Change | Amanpour and Company

Too often, the worst effects of climate change are experienced by those who contribute to it the least. Few people feel this more deeply than the Haenyeo women of Jeju Island, off South Korea. This community of women has been diving for generations and they’re witnessing first hand how the climate crisis is destroying the very ecosystem they depend on, putting everything they know and love at great risk. Hari Sreenivasan travelled to the island to speak with these remarkable women, in a conversation that is part of the ongoing public media initiative Peril and Promise, on the challenges and solutions of climate change.
Originally aired on July 31, 2023
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Amanpour and Company features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports. Christiane Amanpour leads the conversation on global and domestic news from London with contributions by prominent journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin, Alicia Menendez and Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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[@michaelbradley6712]

This is Hari's best interview ever. These women are absolutely amazing!

[@hkang182]

헤녀,or Haenyeo, are an integral part of Korea. Their livelihood and their legacy is interwoven with the sea. Thank you so much for sharing this important and eye opening story that shows the devastating loss of natural resources due to the climate crisis. The Haenyeo tradition must continue, and it is imperative we fight to protect and preserve nature, not only in Korea, but around the globe.

[@RandomPlayIist]

Thank you for bringing us these stories and thank you to these inspiring ladies for telling them.

[@splashesin8]

Beautiful voice from a lifetime of breathtaking control. ❤😊

[@sherryberry2394]

I got to visit Jeju Islsnd in 1981, it was so lovely. I slept in a small traditional hotel. I grew up at Clearwater Beach, Florida. I'm 64, now living near Tallahassee, FL. I sometimes visit family in the Clearwater area. I simply can not go to the beaches down there anymore, indeed our Gulf of Mexico has a dead coastline. There are few if any shells on the beaches, so little life. I breaks my heart to see this also along our north Florida coast. 😢 (I loved this interview, S. Koreans are so sweet.❤ 🇰🇷)

[@shivanidumas6607]

I recall having seen a documentary of the Haenyeo sone years ago. Thank you for revisiting this dynamic cultural history and survival of these women from Jeju Island

[@trancemuter]

high quality journalism… highlighting yet an other hopeless situation

[@allthewayfrom]

Thank you!

[@solarwind907]

Good interview. Sad story :-(

[@silviashefa4097]

As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises? The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature's inner balance. We live in a tightly-closed and interdependent system in which everything boomerangs back to us. While living in such a system, we need to reconsider what we want and think, and how we treat each other, because our human connections are the primary influence on how nature responds to us. It is common to think that climate is dependent on factors outside of us-whether it be balances between heat and cold in the environment, or the effects of various kinds of pollution we emit-because we lack a complete picture of how our attitudes to each other bring about the strongest responses from nature toward us. No creature distorts nature the way that we people do. And it is not simply a matter of switching to renewable energy sources, electric cars and the like; it is a matter of how we relate to each other. If we truly wish to witness more balance throughout nature and not have to deal with all kinds of cold waves and other natural disasters, then similarly to how we have electricity, water and gas meters in our homes, we should also have meters that count how much evil we emit into the world from our negative attitudes to each other. What I mean is that if we could feel the extent to which we emit negative forces into the world, which negatively ricochet back to us, then we would wish to change this negative driver within us. We would want to switch it to a drive that makes our human connections positive, and which harmonizes us with nature. In simple terms, when we get up in the morning, we should first and foremost consider what we need to do in order for all people to have it good. Developing such an attitude is not so simple, yet we will need to seriously work on it as we head into the future. A life of increasing blows from nature or a life of peace and harmony depends on the extent to which we impact a shift in our attitudes to each other-from negative to positive.

[@alphaomega8373]

Thats just the Fukushima water.

[@BobQuigley]

Japan hasn't released any yet troll

[@alphaomega8373]

@@BobQuigley It's been leaking since the earthquake nubert.

[@solarwind907]

Feel free to post a link to your proof of leakage. I’m betting you don’t have any.