The taiga. The largest boreal forest on Earth and a crucial oxygen source. But its ecosystem is increasingly distressed, due to global warming and exploitation of raw materials.
The forests of Russia produce some 1.3 billion tons of oxygen every year. But Greenpeace Russia warns that millions of hectares are being lost every year to fires and clearing operations.
Along with ecologists, climate scientists, an environmental inspector and members of indigenous communities, this documentary runs a health check on the taiga and examines the potential impact on the world’s climate if this vast boreal forest isn’t protected.
Open-cast mining in the Kuznetsk Basin is inflicting irreparable damage on the natural world, while business booms. Whereas Russian mining companies extracted around 260 million tons of coal in the year 2000, two decades later that figure climbed to some 400 million tons. And it’s set to rise even further – to some 590 million tons by 2030.
Oil production is also a destructive force in many places. In 2020, Russia was the world’s second-largest oil producer with a market share of more than 11 per cent. But facilities are often in very poor condition. Russian environmentalists record some 10,000 cases of oil pollution every year.
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Profit, is always at somebody else's expense.
How about Germany give up all its industrial production, contribute its share to environmental protection?!
Thank you so much DW for sharing this video!❤
I've made a rather big painting about this "The earth is on fire" (too bad that you can't post images here). Like 3 years ago, when the forest fires were very intense. I see nothing changed 🙁
Greed of capitalism in its best avatar….go on…sky is the limit for the profit.
It's not "Russia's green lung". As if it only impacts one single country. It's "earth's green lung".
we are all dead soon. no way this is going to sustain life in the future. we are all done for.
Less focus on russia, please. Lake is great, but people are not.
It’s not just Russia it’s all over the world we don’t taking care of our Mother Nature.
God is watching humans destroy the world. Since human beings are not worthy to live on this earth that God has given to human beings, one day God will destroy human civilization.😢
Russia is so blessed, vast, and rich.
I truly hope and wish the Russian people will be able to become better stewards of all this wealth. You cannot have a healthy culture without a healthy environment.
When you stop the so-called "climate engineering" everything is fine. "Climate engineering is the culprit", not CO2. Without CO2, those forests would not exist.
Strip mining is destroying nature. When nature dies, we all go extinct.
The taiga is the part of the left side lung of the planet and time is running out.⌛😵
Coal you can put filters on the machines to make the smoke clear.
Throwing Stones by Bob Weir.
It's such a shame it's in Russia/Siberia. Evil Putin will just keep allowing logging and polluting…He's been getting money from these companies for years. It won't stop, until someone stops him. It was a very informative, but troubling video. I hope something can stop the corrupt Russian government from more environmental carnage. This is too important to ignore.
Need to protect the wild life❤️❤️❤️
"clearing operations"? my god, when i thought they couldn't fall lower.
*humans*, please stop destroying – or as you call it "clearing" – Amazon forests, the Taiga forests, and other forests, as the forests are responsible for STOPPING global warming.
yes, we do understand that there are no profits involved in stopping global warming – can't exploit and destroy nature for profit, can't charge people extra for the "green" option, etc., however, you can't use your money if you and everyone else have d¡ed.
This place jn Russia is so beautiful.
This madness is happening or has already happened all around the world.
Speeding up.
Why do you care? These are our forests and if we want to let them burn,they will burn….none of your buisness
Yep along with many many other issues around the globe.
The Amazon
Fracking in Ecuador
Raw sewerage being pumped into rivers and the sea in the UK
Slaves working their guts out in the Congo digging for Cobalt, some are children. huge amounts of land lost to this for batteries.
I could go on and on. None of the above are interested in changing anything unless they can make a huge amount of money out of it.
Once opencast mining is finished in that area, it will rewild itself in under twenty years. I live in a town where we had it along with underground mining since mining was first discovered more than a century ago.
The UK government are looking to make it illegal to protest here too. You can make a documentary about our corrupt bunch of sick and twisted privileged parasites if you like.
russians turn everything into shit, not only in Ukraine
Great subject, but the music and narrations were over dramatic.
Please be aware that lots of environmental organization were qualified as foreign agents at the end of the last year and they can't act anymore. The oligarchs are going to destroy everything.
Save nature save tomorrow
Russians have no idea how much money they could make if they became friends with the west… millions of people would gladly build log cabins in that beautiful forest… a tourist industry probably bigger then their oil market
It is in every russian's blood – destroy everything. They can't live in civilization
If summer of 2023 will be hot and dry, people with independent thought, wanting for destruction of russian tyranny = should lit up forests in 1000 places.
this is ilya peed in water
Trees are not the lungs of the earth the oxygen in the atmosphere was created 2.5 billion years ago by Cyno bacteria
Everyone becoming emotional because it's Russia. Yet they forget Germany, US are way worse….. Propaganda by DW
That issue is worldwide. Thanks DW.
We have to thank the Russian conservationists who risk emprisonment to advance the cause of land conservation and for their demands to clean up the polluted places that displace Indigenous people from their stewardship of these places. Kudos to DW for working with such groups to document these monumental problems. Is it too much to ask the Russian government to consider their exploitation of these resources as a threat against humanity? When Americans and Canadians did the same to their forests, their greed was only promoted as an economic boon to those areas until those impacts became known as to their detrimental effects on all of humanity. We are all in this struggle together. Transitioning away from unfettered exploitation of natural resources has to close with the will of the world to enforce agreements made by our countries to curtail damaging exploitation. It isn't going to be easy, as these wars over resources around the world play out. And people don't see this relationship of climate change as being the source for wars for resources!
It seems the end is near
And not just for humans.
The fire is going to be much worse the summer watch test me in this
Путин следующий Гитлер, и его нужно уничтожить!
Russia is such a stain on the planet.
Yet another issue
Life is difficult in future, More diseases and more wars to come on the human world. Greenpeace is only F$%#K$%G organization eating money and plays like a drama. Nothing else. Humans face the consequences of the planet Earth.