This Nigerian town is slowly disappearing under the Atlantic Ocean

The coastal community of Ayetoro in Nigeria was nicknamed "Happy City" when it was founded decades ago. But the lives of its current residents are far from happy. Their community is slowly being submerged by the Atlantic Ocean, with households displaced and businesses lost to the waves. #nigeria #atlanticocean #news
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[@bola_m_a]

Thank you for sharing

[@AnthonyMcRedmond-Vg2ry]

Sadly the poorest will be hit the hardest

[@volkerengels5298]

Nope - the rich countries are hit harder. They depend on functioning infrastructure and social systems. In densely populated areas. Social dynamite under these circumstances. Just wait 2, 5 years.

[@bizantino]

Our future is under the water in almost every coast!

[@FTY13]

We just need to stop buying stuff from China and thinking that adults need toys and we might have a chance of solving this

[@tommas2674]

china's United Nations another despot dicktators get together organization paying "scientist" for propagandas. Long ago they used to take females and small males to "sacrifice" to weather and earth event gods, but not before they drugged and abused them for their laughs and giggles, it is Still to TAKE FROM WE THE PEOPLE. Weather and earth events CYCLE as well as seasonal, within seasons, 4, 10, 20, ... 800 years. Excuse for some to extort rather than do something, Excuse to take from Americans, Americans better get down there and do the heavy lifting ALL MY LOOOONG LIFE to just keep getting bashed. "Environment" didn't work, they would not be loading America up with bodies, They don't care, then "ice age" no it cycled to warmer, then global warming NO we had a cool cycle, for now settling for "climate change" BECAUSE IT CYCLES. closer to the truth FEAR MONGERING for gain off we the people.

[@tommas2674]

professors HAVE TO GET PUBLISHED, best they go along with the other despot dicktator types.

[@gamingtonight1526]

Funnily enough, when the climate crisis gets so bad most coasts are underwater, there will also be a huge shortage of clean water, leading to millions/billions of deaths!

[@ckelly8833]

I'm so sorry to see this... Praying for Nigeria 🙏🙏😭😭💯

[@surunitemiakanni-oye4346]

Wasting your time. Prayers don’t work!

[@Light4theWorldTV]

People will have to pray for direction and try to begin to move away from the coasts perhaps

[@Jessie-J]

The remaining house stumps submerged, heartbreaking

[@Vonnie777]

Father let us stop fighting each and start helping each other pray 🙏

[@growngrownman5950]

THIS IS IT!

[@surunitemiakanni-oye4346]

@@growngrownman5950 You are not serious!

[@FTY13]

What does that have to do with climate change caused by idiots in the west who want to play with toys made in China that is causing the problem

[@surunitemiakanni-oye4346]

Prayers has never solved any crisis in human history, let alone those of climate change.

[@Sharon-hn9wn]

So sad. My thoughts and prayers are with these people. 🙏❤️

[@juliet7703]

Exactly my thoughts..heartbreaking especially when government could put resources into it to try stem the flow but that is unlikely to happen 😢 . Generally Nigeria should be addressing this issue concerning climate change or maybe they are of which I m not aware of

[@MatteBlack2024]

What has the ruler done to prepare his people?

[@arronsmith4958]

What has the US done to stop their CO2 emissions?

[@tbabii6145]

Sell these people out this clown that runs Nigeria also is one with the demonic hidden elites with the us government & nwo govs

[@catherineleslie-faye4302]

I wonder how much of Nigeria is now less then 60 feet above sea level? I know we have many of the same problems on all the coasts of the USA where the ground is less then 100 feet above sea level.

[@joykennedy1368]

Wish this channel would provide CC.

[@lis819]

CC?

[@joykennedy1368]

Closed caption

[@lis819]

@@joykennedy1368 thanks!

[@humbertogonzalez7561]

Samething is happening in the Baja peninsula from Cabo to bit pass los Angeles

[@Jason_556]

Their water is chit brown like Galveston is. You would think the water would be very light blue. 😮 unless they keep dumping stuff into it. Or is there a river dumping into ocean up upstream.

[@magesalmanac6424]

Hello misinformed comment. Sometimes water is that color because of silt, minerals, water currents, etc. it’s not always because of pollution.

[@eckosters]

Correct, it’s sediment.

[@jarrettalyssaneville1122]

So much polution. The water is brown, the people there trashing their own living environment. The Nigerian government should invest more in education.

[@sentientflower7891]

You do know that Western oil corporations trashed Nigeria's environment? You do know that the ocean alongside Texas is just as polluted?

[@jarrettalyssaneville1122]

@@sentientflower7891 at least there is way less corruption in Texas than in Nigeria.

[@levmoses742]

Wow! What a way to respond to people’s suffering. We could invest way more in education, healthcare, dental care… Instead of judging others one might consider offering compassion. What Texas is experiencing and will experience as well as the rest of the world, is Texas’s own contribution to climate change, just like the rest of our country. 😊 We are the #2 polluters on the planet. Let’s save our judgment and our focus on what we can do. After all, Florida, Louisiana, So Cal, along with parts of Texas are will see their day sooner than we want to know. We have to figure out a way to work together. Respectfully, Your Neighbor

[@clydejack1329]

I’ll bet it isn’t. Texas and the USA cover their corruption better than the others.

[@theodorafyn]

Tell that to the non white woman in your pic

[@prosperousnatasha8153]

Time to turn up the sustainable living to all. 🤗

[@haputmacatiag9813]

waterworld is here to stay.

[@Emy4316]

Someday, human will adapt with waterworld by changing their hand and feet like fish 😊

[@patriciagurwitz509]

Sometimes we get so caught up in what problems we’re dealing with in the United States, we forget just how much worse it is in 3rd world countries 😢😢😢It’s a painful rude awakening

[@Atis323]

Njeriu Kunder Njeriut edhe Qeli edhe Toka janba Kunder Xhdo Temire.😰😔😥

[@FTY13]

Ok translating to English didn't help

[@emmahardesty4330]

Would like to have heard from Nigerian groups who must, hopefully, be advising this beautiful community. What efforts are being made for resettlement?

[@Nengit]

Letter to the gods. The Mangroves were deliberately destroyed in the Niger Delta, the Coasts and River beds destroyed it will certainly affect the rest of Nigeria negatively. It is self induced not a result of global warming.

[@GotoHere]

Newsflash. Costal erosion happens on every coast line around the world. Has been since the earth has had water.

[@nonadaze]

Rate at which it is occurring might be the distinction.

[@arronsmith4958]

Denying reality doesn't make it go away.

[@magesalmanac6424]

The pace of it has changed. Stop pretending this is normal. That’s a child mindset.

[@SteveSmith-kd9if]

😂😂😂😂😂😂THE ZOMBIES, THEY'RE GOING TO SEE THOSE MISSILES COMING, AND STILL BE YELLING "CLIMATE CHANGE"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mariuszjp100able]

Zbiorniki z rybami 👁️🌊🌊🛳️🚣🏿🐟🐠🦐🐥🐣🐔🦬🐃🪵🌲🛖📏⛺🚛🚜📦🫕🥗📱🐏🤝🔦📱nasiona

[@globcsiebresztgeto]

Erosion 🤷

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

They got The Dandies over there, why not put them in a commercial to fix the trouble?

[@yt650]

An occurrence like this has been going on since the beginning of the Earth and water. Some people want to opine that this is occurring at a more rapid rate than in centuries past, and how would you know that? Mountains crumble, coastlines change usually very slowly. My suggestion would be, move to higher ground. I am told that in the area where I have lived for over 80 years there was ice a mile thick. Imagine how that compressed the Earth and how it is still rebounding perhaps maybe a millimeter a decade.

[@loumcast]

The world powers are spending billions of dollars in the Ukrainian war which could have been avoided, when they should be donating money to poor communities in Africa and other vulnerable coastal areas around the world to build sea walls and combat coastal erosion.

[@duanecarroll8255]

Putin , is that you?

[@loumcast]

@@duanecarroll8255 Is that the best you can do? 😕

[@techheadone]

The world power ARE donating serious huge amounts of money to Africa already and have done so for decades. I happen to live in such a country, and I pay taxes so that Africa can be helped, If this coastal city has no electricity then why do you live there. Unfortunately, Africa's low level of education and the general level of corruption depletes these funds. I see a coastal city that does nothing to help themselves. Sitting down and walking about instead of being responsible and doing something. Here I mean stone works against water, or digging down palisades to at least delay water encroaching. This coastal city should write to its government and ask for help. Some smart guy coming by once in a while who does nothing to help is not worth much. Have you ever heard about Venice in Italy?

[@commanderbell1965]

Well move away from the coast

[@terrancekayton007]

Wow, you’re brilliant! 😒Geez, why didn’t they think of that

[@surunitemiakanni-oye4346]

Over to you New York, San Francisco and all communities worldwide with a coastline

[@arronsmith4958]

Climate change is going to cause the relocation of more than half the population of the world.

[@p.ipebomb]

​@@surunitemiakanni-oye4346Why y'all think every comment is from America, not everyone is American 😂

[@user-qd4iv3qh9e]

How many of yall were so hoping to see due to... Global Warming. Sry your narative didnt go through...🤭

[@surunitemiakanni-oye4346]

You make no sense.

[@arronsmith4958]

Just cause you don't understand science, doesn't make it go away.

[@user-qd4iv3qh9e]

@@arronsmith4958 When the scientists that "dont understand sciense" stop saying it maybe ill listen to your opinion.

[@arronsmith4958]

@@user-qd4iv3qh9e so you don't know how the world works and are scientifically illiterate... Wierd flex.

[@arronsmith4958]

@@user-qd4iv3qh9e being scientifically illiterate isn't something to brag about.

[@DeadPixel1105]

As someone who does a bit of 'scam-busting' just for fun once in a while, I feel no sympathy. The *vast majority* of wannabe-scammers live in Nigeria, from what I've seen personally. People saying "thoughts and prayers for Nigeria". Why? They don't give anything to the world except scammers.

[@clydejack1329]

That’s funny -you couldn’t prove that lie if your life depended upon it. And your supercilious ignorance is showing by saying there’s nothing coming out of Nigeria but scammers when it’s easy to know that western oil companies are feasting on the oil from that country. It’s always easy to noticed the village idiot by how they speak.

[@zeke5491]

Obama will bring them all here

[@clydejack1329]

lol-he owns real estate in your brain

[@rudymartinez6242]

Dikes, breakwaters, bring in tons of sand from elsewhere, push the town back a few hundred yards. The USA should help, it would show our wavering friends and all others that we can still show true empathy. If we dont do it the russians or chinese will slither in. Its the human thing to do. We are having the same problem in Florida, the Carolinas and California. Sand. We need sand.