The World's Most Dangerous Show with Joko Winterscheidt (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - S1E5 - full transcript
My name is Aminata Belli.
I am a journalist and storyteller.
And it's very important to me
to tell a story today
that normally doesn't get a big stage
and at first glance
seems far away from us in Europe.
But I can promise you,
it's closer than we think.
A story that begins
in a country called Uganda,
in the middle of the Rwenzori Mountains.
Oh fuck.
It was meant to be an adventure
to open up new perspectives not only
for this young man, but for everyone.
Piece of cake. These 2,500 meters.
These peaks are also called
Mountains of the Moon.
Its highest point, the Margherita Peak,
is covered by one of the last glaciers
on the African continent.
Joko set off before sunrise
to get a glimpse of this very glacier.
I can't go on. I'm shattered.
It's super exhausting.
Today is about a change of perspective,
about climate justice.
We want to show perspectives
that aren't often shown.
We could show glaciers in the Alps.
But glaciers in Africa melt too.
And I, for one, didn't even know...
that there were glaciers in Africa.
Honestly, I was really scared
before making this trip.
I've often filmed in Africa,
but this time,
the circumstances are different.
We can't talk about climate catastrophe
without talking about the impact
on the Global South,
which includes African countries.
And they have felt the effects
for much longer and more drastically
than we have in Europe.
What will I experience on my journey?
Above all, I'll meet people
committed to finding
a way out of this misery.
I'll experience
the most absurd safari of my life.
And I'll get a good beating
in an action film made in Uganda.
What are we actually doing here?
All of this will open my eyes
and show me new perspectives
about this continent
and also about myself.
Was that what I wanted?
In any case, it's important
that I respectfully hold back
and just listen.
The African continent struggles
more and more with the climate crisis,
which the Global North
almost single-handedly caused.
Though its carbon emissions
are extremely small by comparison,
African countries are paying the price
for the lifestyle
of a distant part of the world
that is only just realizing
what awaits all of humanity:
Droughts, fires,
torrential rains and famine.
But there are many people
fighting against the climate crisis
and the injustice that it brings.
Not just for themselves,
but for all of our future.
My name is Patience Nabukalu.
I'm a climate justice activist
from Uganda.
Uganda is one of the most vulnerable
countries when it comes to climate crisis.
Major flooding and...
Temperatures will continue to rise...
When you talk of floods, wild fires,
famines, drought...
The drought is merciless.
Countries from Africa
are the ones on the frontline.
The most vulnerable to climate change
and the least equipped to deal with it...
Figures shows
the world's poor suffering the most.
Your life may be comfortable now,
but not for long.
You will also soon feel
the same heat and floods
that we feel every day.
And I promise you...
It's now or never to save the planet.
Humanity has less than three years
to stop the rise of CO2.
From the other end of the world,
we fight for your future and for ours.
And we will not give up.
Thousands of people across Africa
have joined the global protest
against climate change.
A bright future.
A better future. A fossil-free future.
-What do you want?
-Climate action!
-And when do you want it?
-Now!
"THE INJUSTICE IS HARD TO BEAR"
ON ENDING EXPLOITATION
A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE START OF THE TRIP
The fact that the African continent
is already being hit much harder
by the climate catastrophe
than other parts of the world
has made Joko feel extremely helpless.
How do you go about reporting it?
And, as a complete outsider,
where should he begin?
Especially as a white man
from wealthy Europe,
the continent that has exploited
African countries for centuries...
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY
...and still does.
Joko!
I heard you're going on a big trip?
I am going on a big trip. Yes.
That's why I wanted to see you
and maybe have a chat.
If we travel there,
I would just like to know
what should I consider?
What could I do wrong?
First of all I have to say,
the problem started
when white men went to Africa.
You arrive there as a white male,
maybe a Christian man,
on whose appearance
many hierarchies are already inscribed.
Everyone has to go there
with this awareness.
I don't want the mistakes
of the past to come back to life.
"I'm coming with good intentions."
Well, no, that feels wrong too.
Yes, it's also problematic.
I think what's good
is that you have an awareness of it
because there is no panacea.
A piece of advice for your journey:
if you think you can sort out
100, 500-year-old problems
just by going there now...
Of course, that wouldn't work.
What you can do is to make things visible,
in the sense,
that you also call for action.
And so the story took its course.
Before he knew it,
Joko was in the thick of it.
In Uganda.
A country in the heart of Africa
that is struggling with more extreme
effects of the climate crisis
than the rest of the world.
When the water came,
it destroyed a number of houses,
and people were evacuated.
-There were houses here?
-Yes.
They were washed away.
People used to live here, but not anymore.
A ghost town.
Ronah Masika has lived her entire life
in this beautiful region,
which has been plagued
by devastating floods for years.
The country, the people and their history
are being irretrievably destroyed.
In the Rwenzuris, some of the mountain
peaks are covered by the glacier
because there is this bad warming,
global warming.
It is too hot for the glaciers,
so they melt.
With her colleagues,
Ronah fights tirelessly to tell
the government and the population
about the climate crisis.
To show Joko that the locals
are not only fighting
for their material survival,
but also for the basis
of their traditions and beliefs,
Ronah takes him to a magical place.
-This is strong. Don't worry.
-This is my thing.
I'm afraid of heights.
-You just focus on the bridge.
-Okay.
Yeah, like this.
I hate you.
-Thank you.
-Welcome.
-But everything is beautifully made.
-Yes.
The people around the Rwenzuri
believe that their God lives on the snow.
When the snow melts,
it, of course, provides water.
His medium is also in the water.
And it is important to the people
because they do their rituals,
their sacrifices at the waterfall.
So, if it is not there,
there is no ritual.
Therefore, there is no connection
between them and their God.
But that also means,
when the glacier is gone
-that their God is gone.
-Yeah, their God is gone.
That is a total new dimension for me.
Our whole being is being
put at risk by climate change.
I've never looked at it that way.
The climate crisis destroys nature
and thus our livelihoods? Yes, of course.
But it also erases
cultural characteristics
by robbing people of faith
and to put it crudely,
the meaning of life.
Fear.
That's what I see here.
The people here also need
to be helped to realize
that they can still live,
even after the destruction,
even after what happened.
Now, what will happen if it comes again?
That is the fear that is here.
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
I am glad I have a listening ear.
At least, I have someone listening.
You have a platform.
You have people you can talk to
and something can change.
As people who live
in the part of the world that suffers,
we are meant to take a backseat.
But even when we make noise,
we are not heard.
We have suffered more
and for a longer time than you have.
This is my home. I will stay here.
You will stay there.
But we can have empathy.
Development is good
but we should be aware and sensitive
that it's also affecting the people.
If we don't do this, it will lead
to another kind of colonialism.
The people who must pay for everything
here are the least at fault.
We are also responsible.
There is no doubt about that.
And this didn't just happen yesterday.
A cruel system was devised
by European royalty long, long ago.
It's called colonialism.
It soon gained notoriety for its ruthless
exploitation of entire continents.
Its effects are still visible today.
At least for those who want to see them.
Christopher Columbus is still being sold
to children in Europe as the hero
who discovered America.
At that time, however, the continent
was already home to millions of people.
The Europeans, who claimed the so-called
"New World" for themselves, didn't care.
Considering themselves superior,
they wiped out whole indigenous groups
and used the inhumane means of enslavement
to farm stolen lands.
Millions of men and women
were deported from Africa to America
and other parts of the world.
The continent was simply divided
between the European royal houses
without Africa's consent.
For centuries, Europeans have described
colonialism as human progress.
The fact is Europe is only prosperous
due to its past and present-day
exploitation of the African continent.
Patience Nabukalu fights against it.
She is a climate activist who is a member
of Fridays for Future Uganda.
She fights to make the systematic
exploitation of Africa visible.
In order for Joko to see
the problems first-hand,
she's taking him
on a slightly different...
safari?
Ready?
JOKO & PATIENCE
ON SAFARI
Welcome to our safari extraordinaire.
Together, we will visit
the most exotic and wild places
of modern colonialism.
Please buckle up.
Here, we call them "The Big Five."
Let's start with a classic.
The oldest specimen are still found
all over the continent:
Mining.
From gold to rare earth,
the white men came for centuries
to grab what they could find
and polluted the surrounding nature.
Of course, this mostly comes
with serious human rights violation.
Next up, the most ubiquitous of all:
Land Grabbing.
Global corporations come, buy land
and use it for whatever they fancy.
But the primary reason is
to plant profitable crops
like sugarcane, palm oil, sunflowers, or
even use it for intensive animal farming.
Fuck.
Fun fact.
Between 2015 and 2020,
Africa lost
about 4.4 million hectares of forest.
That is more than the size of Denmark.
Each year.
A relatively new edition to the list
but not exactly an endangered species:
Garbage.
The Global North
generates most of the garbage.
They don't recycle it themselves
but export it to countries
of the Global South.
A perfectly win-lose situation.
Next up:
Infrastructure and industry.
Foreign investors have built roads,
bridges, railways
to keep countries dependent.
China is one
of Africa's major trading partners.
There are fears that African countries
are burying themselves in massive debt.
And when they fail to pay.
Well, China will take over the assets.
Finally, Uganda is about to be
enriched by its newest attraction.
Every colonialists wet dream:
the black gold.
And so that the Global North gets
their precious oil without delay,
they'll build a pipeline from Lake Albert
all the way to the coast of Tanzania,
where it will be shipped out to the world.
THE WORLD
For that, they have to displace
thousands of people and destroy
natural reserves along the route
so everyone gets to enjoy their oil.
Okay, back to reality.
In reality, not everyone is happy
about the billion-dollar oil pipeline.
Patience and many activists around
the world are trying to stop investors
from funding the EACOP project.
Ground! Keep it in the ground.
The people, united,
will never be defeated.
The construction has been initiated
by a Chinese oil company
and a French energy giant,
so that they can dig through
the ecosystems undisturbed.
And people who happen to live
on the planned route are duly resettled.
What sounds halfway peaceful at first,
in reality means
that people are robbed of their homes
and land without any say in the matter.
And in this newly built village,
people are in homes
without water or electricity.
Would it be possible
to maybe talk to somebody over here?
Of course.
-Hi, there.
-Hello.
-Hi, there.
-Yes, hello!
-I am Julius.
-Julius, I am Joko.
Yes.
Is it okay if we have
two or three questions about this place?
-Yes.
-What would you say has to change?
When the dry season comes,
we suffer a lot to get water.
We have a problem with water here.
The water table... It is down.
We're requesting, at the very least, the
government should provide us tap water
as they have promised before.
At least, they should speed up
and bring it to us.
We have this younger generation
of our children.
They don't study.
They will do nothing.
We don't want our children
to be unsafe within this area.
-You're really angry, right?
-Yes.
We are lost.
We have nothing.
It's not only environmental issues.
-It's also a lot of...
-Human issues.
...human issues too.
What I can really tell them is
we are angry.
We cannot live in such anxiety
for the next 10 years.
What they're constructing
is for the future
and it's going to affect us
and the coming generation.
And they are always saying
they are practicing net zero.
-Is this net zero?
-No. It's not net zero.
They are actually funding deaths
in our countries.
Look at that.
All new buildings
and they don't even have electricity.
After all I've told you
and you're wondering about this?
No, actually you're right.
Allow me to make one more comment.
To solve the climate crisis,
our energy, which we so urgently need,
must come
from renewables like wind or solar.
And in Africa, a lot is already happening
with renewable energy.
Huge solar plants and wind farms have
been built in Morocco, Tunisia and Kenya
to supply millions of homes
with electricity.
Namibia and Angola
also have perfect climatic conditions
for the production of renewable energies
and green hydrogen,
a possible energy source of the future.
And look, suddenly the rich
industrial nations are looking closely.
Germany signed agreements and contracts
securing some of the green hydrogen
to meet its own climate goals.
I emphasize:
its own.
At the expense of their own,
many African states are making
deals with corporations
that will ruin them in the medium term,
but promise profits in the short term.
Profits that disappear into dark channels,
never to be seen again.
The local protest movement
against this is large and diverse.
But nowhere near as in your face
as with this man.
I'm Isaac Nabwana,
the director of the best action movies
here at Wakaliwood.
Wakaliwood is the name
of a film studio in Wakaliga,
a neighborhood in Kampala,
Uganda's capital.
Director Isaac Nabwana is also called
"the Tarantino of Uganda" by his fans
because both love absurdly
exaggerated scenes of violence.
His ultra-low-budget action films
have long enjoyed cult status
among cinephiles around the world.
Their overtly political undertones
also ensure loyal followers.
He'll make a short film for us that shows
who is really in charge and who benefits
from solar energy.
Wow, an idea already!
-My real name is Joko.
-Okay.
But in the movie, I'm Ben.
Correct. The rich white man
from the North.
Solar.
We're gonna make more money.
Action!
-Cut.
-I fell.
Nobody expected me
to be that stupid, right?
I'm sure Isaac would have
preferred to work with a real actor...
If I can kick like that?
But he still managed
to get the best out of me,
or he'd beat me up.
But see for yourself.
-You are dead! Gone!
-I am dead?
-Yeah, you're gone.
-I'm already dead.
We just started filming.
Cut that tree! Cut down all these trees!
We'll build a big facility.
We're gonna change this place.
Stop.
-What do you think you are doing?
-We've brought development.
We are cutting these trees
to put an electric plant
and build a factory.
An electric plant and a bottle factory?
Nature has provided us with bottles.
Why don't you install solar panels
instead of cutting these trees down?
Solar panels? That's interesting.
We need this place.
We can even make more money.
You're right.
We are the authority here.
Cut down that tree.
We need this place.
Don't listen to this idiot.
You call me an idiot?
I said cut down that tree!
I'm a nature warrior!
Run! Run!
And while the filming dragged on a bit,
thanks to Joko's acting skills,
Dickens Kamugisha
made an appearance on set.
A renowned lawyer...
...and a successful
and feared political activist,
so much so that he and his team
ended up in prison for it.
He's here to explain to Joko
the brutal reality
behind many large solar projects.
Can we get the umbrella out?
-I have a handkerchief.
-Oh, you've got...
-Just do that. All good.
-Okay.
One thing that I really always wonder,
and wonder over here, too...
I'm in a country
where there's a lot of sun.
From my perspective,
centralized solar systems are a solution.
But you say it's not. Why?
The first thing is
centralized solar systems
are extremely expensive
for the majority of Ugandans.
Instead of investing
that money in a centralized grid,
it's better if you help each family
get a solar panel
so that they will be able to get power.
But most of the money the government
is using is borrowed from abroad.
And it appears
that those companies from abroad
don't invest in off-grid solar systems,
which are very small businesses.
They want to invest in huge businesses.
But what could be a solution for...
Or is there a solution
to install off-grid solar?
Of course, we are extremely happy
that there are initiatives.
There are smaller companies
that are investing in off-grid solar.
Unfortunately, those companies
are not supported by anyone.
And you're competing
with companies investing in the grid,
which are promised
huge returns on investment.
I believe that, you know,
leaders of this world,
people who have the power,
people who have money to invest,
people who have the technology,
they know that we must
address this crisis.
But they are selfish.
And you wonder why?
My journey is showing me
that you have to look closer
to find solutions to the climate crisis.
Who earns and benefits from it?
And who doesn't.
We hope that all these efforts...
-Yes.
-...will make an impact.
Yes.
We will make an impact.
Thank you so much for everything.
You're welcome.
And also that you
showed me all these places.
Of course.
By being here, seeing it by myself...
Yes.
-...and feeling it even more...
-Yes.
The picture got bigger for me
to really understand
that everything that we do
affects people around the globe.
Of course. Because the fact
that the problem is global,
we cannot just look
at Uganda as a single country
that is facing the crisis.
It's Africa at large.
The crisis is there,
but people are affected differently.
You can move around Africa
and you will get to see
how much people are suffering
and how much our youth
are willing to change the future.
Patience sends Joko on to Gambia.
When it comes
to the African environmental movement,
you can't get past the smallest country
on the continent.
Welcome to Gambia,
the smiling coast of West Africa.
That fits me perfectly.
Gambia has a very peculiar border
which is largely due to colonization
and it is what has earned
Gambia its nickname.
"THE SMILING COAST OF AFRICA"
When you look at the African continent,
it looks as if Gambia is smiling.
But that's not all that's smiling.
In fact, even the people here
have genuine smiles.
Usually, I fish on a regular boat
but it's great to be on this tourist boat.
We took a a tourist boat at my request.
I've been here like 1,000 times, but today
I feel special because of the boat.
Kemo Fatty is an activist, conservationist
and the founder of Green Up Gambia.
This is papaya, avocado, cheeseballs.
With his organization,
he encourages children, young people
and entire communities here
to take the future of the region
into their own hands
for the endangered coasts using nature.
Future environmental activists
are trained in the botanical garden.
If we don't already protect
what's existing,
it would be really tragic.
Oh, crazy! So you actually
saved this place?
-Yes.
-How did you do that?
Rigorous protests.
Rigorous protests. I like that.
With this, he wants to save the country
from environmental destruction
and in 2026, he plans to run for office
to become the Gambian president.
What is the biggest issue
for Gambia right now?
That would be the rising sea level.
Yeah?
With the rising sea level,
we have so much more to lose.
It has a cascading effect
on all other sectors.
Banjul, our capital city, where our ports
are at is at risk of inundation.
A 1.5 meter rise in sea level
will render half of Banjul uninhabitable.
And this is where we come in.
The coastal areas
are continually losing space.
But certain species of trees like coconut,
once they're around the seaside,
their roots interlock,
holding the sand in place
so that the waves
don't cause coastal erosion.
As a small country,
we do not contribute much
to global emissions
but yet we are the hardest hit.
Everything here is at risk
because of rising sea level,
climate change impacts.
Seeing all that here,
even though it's still there...
Imagining that it's all gone?
-Scary.
-Indeed.
What is your motivation?
At which point do you say,
"That's why I do it."
Well...
the reason I do all of these things
is because I don't feel comfortable
with what I see
in my own home and I decided
to do something about it.
When I was in high school,
my brother migrated to Italy
because he wanted
to go search for better farmland.
We have thousands of young people
migrating from this land
because they feel like
they can't make it here anymore.
It is a natural reflex
to find a way out, to find a solution.
Hundreds of years ago, the Europeans
were at the shores of this Atlantic.
They packed us in boats
to work on plantations.
Today, history is repeating itself.
Only difference is,
now we are doing it voluntarily
in much more harsh conditions
even than under the slave masters.
Because nobody even needs you to be alive.
Keep breathing. Come on!
We are expandable at any point in time.
So, I decided to be
the voice of the voiceless.
To stand up for these people
and explain to the world
that when you see
these young people jump in boats,
they are not economic migrants.
They are climate refugees.
You tell me whether
this is not a significant crisis.
Whether I should just sit and watch.
There has never been
any compelling action to act on climate.
This concern is a duty
I owe to my children,
to the great African heritage,
and even to the world.
This is why we do this job.
This is our motivation and our statement
and call to action for people
and young people everywhere
to join this crusade
for a better tomorrow.
Women in Gambia
are fighting for a better future.
One of them is Isatou Ceesay.
She is Kemo's great role model
and an icon for a whole generation.
Kemo is a young boy who is improving
the world and the environment.
I really respect him, the way he works.
He's a young boy. I'm an old woman.
Wherever I stop, I'm very happy that
Kemo can take it to the next generation.
Isatou Ceesay, also known
as Queen of Recycling,
inspires communities worldwide
to rethink how they treat themselves,
their environment and consumption.
In her homeland,
she triggered nothing less
than a peaceful, feminist revolution
and helped thousands
of women find fulfilling work,
a safe home, purpose
and unwavering self-worth.
We're globally interested in any waste
that is dumped in the country.
Metal waste, food waste, plastic waste.
You name it. We have a lot of ideas.
And what is it that you're doing here?
What do you call it?
-That's all from peanuts.
-Yes, peanut shells.
What we do here is that we train them
how to turn it into charcoal.
-Charcoal?
-Charcoal.
In the country here,
we use wood to cook. Firewood.
And we cut down trees for charcoal.
So, you take the waste
make it into charcoal,
so nobody has to chop down trees.
-You reverse the whole system?
-Yeah.
I always teach about climate change
and what it means.
In Gambia, 75% of the women
have never been to school.
They don't read newspapers.
They don't watch TV.
So they need to hear about it.
To learn about it.
To be able to feel scared
and then get ready.
In total, how many women
are working with you?
I would say more than 20,000 women.
-What?
-Globally, it's more than that.
It's more than that.
That was weird. Let's do that again.
Let's all understand
that we are one thing.
That is the Earth.
If you guys have problems, it affects us.
If we have problems, it affects you.
So, that is why learning from each other
will always make it better.
And then prepare the next generation.
You're my hero already.
Seriously. Because it's so simple.
Sometime you think the problem is so big.
You feel like...
I don't know where to start.
You have to start somewhere.
And take it from there.
Exactly.
-But no time to waste.
-No time to waste.
-Thank you, Joko.
-Thank you so much.
What I find crazy is how much energy
I feel from the people here.
Even if it's a small initiative,
people want to change something.
You have to start.
If we have a climate crisis
and we don't start to change,
then I don't see a future.
All the trees here are planted
by Kemo's girlfriend.
"5,000 coconuts, 1,000 other species
"between March 2020 and September 2022."
Ostend! I can't believe it.
Ostend is where I used to go
with my family for holidays
when we didn't have cash.
We always ate this tasty
frikandel speciaal with onion,
a bit of ketchup, a bit of mayo.
Yummy, I recommend it.
Ostend is not a very pretty town,
but it has great wide beaches.
But not for long either.
Climate change is coming.
It's also coming to the Netherlands.
When the sea level rises, there'll be
no more Netherlands or football.
Isn't Ostend in Belgium?
It is hope that ultimately
brings us here today.
We are trying to create
this unbroken chain of human cooperation
with one of the world's most audacious
climate change initiatives
which is the Great Green Wall.
What's that?
It's the largest
climate change project ever on Earth.
Once completed, the Green Wall
will be the largest living structure,
restoring about one 100 million
hectares of degraded land.
So...
-What?
-This is salvation for the Sahel.
You must see the Great Green Wall.
Isatou and Kemo made
a deep impression on me with their energy
and will to innovate.
We could change so much
if we were as persistent and confident
in addressing the problems
and didn't give up.
And now I'm really excited
about the Great Green Wall.
Colonel Gora Diop explains the status
of Africa's largest environmental project.
Together with many farms
in Senegal, he wants
to stop the spreading desert
of the Sahel zone.
How many trees did you plant?
By now, we've planted 25 million trees
in Senegal along
the line of the Great Wall.
The Great Green Wall
is a Pan-African vision
to combat desertification
and to promote socio-economic development.
The 7,600 km
runs through 11 African countries,
across Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad,
Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea
up to Djibouti.
Peace, development and prosperity
require that you make your own destiny.
Is it not time for Africa?
My mission is to contribute what I can
to make this vision a reality.
And when you come back in 5 or 10 years,
you will see that the Green Wall,
which seemed impossible
to many is a reality.
And the people live and flourish.
The Great Green Wall is expected
to restore approximately
100 million hectares of degraded land
by 2030, absorb 250 million tons of CO2
from the atmosphere
and create 10 million rural jobs.
It is not only the largest environmental
project in the world
and a powerful symbol of the pan-African
dream of independence,
self-determination and a dignified life,
it is a global symbol that
we can overcome the climate crisis
and build a better world
for future generations.
Even in such difficult places
such as the Sahel.
What did I actually find out?
I found committed people with energy,
many ideas, perseverance
and, above all, with more hope
than I have ever seen anywhere else.
On the other hand, I feel totally empty.
And this level of...
that you go there,
and plainly, just leave again.
That's what really bothers me.
You know what, Joko? It's not about you.
The focus you have right now
is on yourself.
How you feel.
What it did to you.
It's about the people who are there.
You need to bring the focus back to them.
The people, united,
we'll never be defeated.
My name is Jakapita Kandanga.
I am a youth activist from Kenya.
From Windhoek, Namibia.
-From Uganda.
-From Sudan.
-Nigeria.
-Ghana.
I'm a victim of climate change.
The most affected people
are underrepresented.
We live the disaster. We live the events.
I feel like our voices should be heard.
My vision of Africa is an Africa
that creates its own narration.
As an African, I want
our government to take action.
All the governments have to take action.
Value the lives of people
and the planet over profits
and fossil fuels.
Instead of investing in fossil fuels...
We cannot eat coal
and we cannot drink oil.
Please open your hearts,
and then act...
...for the billions of people
whose stories are not being heard.
The heartbreak and the injustice
is hard to bear.
It's very difficult to maintain hope
when you're constantly being confronted
with everything that's wrong.
But what gives me hope is seeing
how much other people care.
How much ordinary people want to help.
And it's so important to hold on
to that hope because...
without that hope, what do we have?
Our joint journey is still long
and the obstacles along the way
are man-made.
How can humanity act more responsibly
when it is economically much more
worthwhile to be an asshole?
IN THE NEXT EPISODE...
I am a journalist and storyteller.
And it's very important to me
to tell a story today
that normally doesn't get a big stage
and at first glance
seems far away from us in Europe.
But I can promise you,
it's closer than we think.
A story that begins
in a country called Uganda,
in the middle of the Rwenzori Mountains.
Oh fuck.
It was meant to be an adventure
to open up new perspectives not only
for this young man, but for everyone.
Piece of cake. These 2,500 meters.
These peaks are also called
Mountains of the Moon.
Its highest point, the Margherita Peak,
is covered by one of the last glaciers
on the African continent.
Joko set off before sunrise
to get a glimpse of this very glacier.
I can't go on. I'm shattered.
It's super exhausting.
Today is about a change of perspective,
about climate justice.
We want to show perspectives
that aren't often shown.
We could show glaciers in the Alps.
But glaciers in Africa melt too.
And I, for one, didn't even know...
that there were glaciers in Africa.
Honestly, I was really scared
before making this trip.
I've often filmed in Africa,
but this time,
the circumstances are different.
We can't talk about climate catastrophe
without talking about the impact
on the Global South,
which includes African countries.
And they have felt the effects
for much longer and more drastically
than we have in Europe.
What will I experience on my journey?
Above all, I'll meet people
committed to finding
a way out of this misery.
I'll experience
the most absurd safari of my life.
And I'll get a good beating
in an action film made in Uganda.
What are we actually doing here?
All of this will open my eyes
and show me new perspectives
about this continent
and also about myself.
Was that what I wanted?
In any case, it's important
that I respectfully hold back
and just listen.
The African continent struggles
more and more with the climate crisis,
which the Global North
almost single-handedly caused.
Though its carbon emissions
are extremely small by comparison,
African countries are paying the price
for the lifestyle
of a distant part of the world
that is only just realizing
what awaits all of humanity:
Droughts, fires,
torrential rains and famine.
But there are many people
fighting against the climate crisis
and the injustice that it brings.
Not just for themselves,
but for all of our future.
My name is Patience Nabukalu.
I'm a climate justice activist
from Uganda.
Uganda is one of the most vulnerable
countries when it comes to climate crisis.
Major flooding and...
Temperatures will continue to rise...
When you talk of floods, wild fires,
famines, drought...
The drought is merciless.
Countries from Africa
are the ones on the frontline.
The most vulnerable to climate change
and the least equipped to deal with it...
Figures shows
the world's poor suffering the most.
Your life may be comfortable now,
but not for long.
You will also soon feel
the same heat and floods
that we feel every day.
And I promise you...
It's now or never to save the planet.
Humanity has less than three years
to stop the rise of CO2.
From the other end of the world,
we fight for your future and for ours.
And we will not give up.
Thousands of people across Africa
have joined the global protest
against climate change.
A bright future.
A better future. A fossil-free future.
-What do you want?
-Climate action!
-And when do you want it?
-Now!
"THE INJUSTICE IS HARD TO BEAR"
ON ENDING EXPLOITATION
A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE START OF THE TRIP
The fact that the African continent
is already being hit much harder
by the climate catastrophe
than other parts of the world
has made Joko feel extremely helpless.
How do you go about reporting it?
And, as a complete outsider,
where should he begin?
Especially as a white man
from wealthy Europe,
the continent that has exploited
African countries for centuries...
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY
...and still does.
Joko!
I heard you're going on a big trip?
I am going on a big trip. Yes.
That's why I wanted to see you
and maybe have a chat.
If we travel there,
I would just like to know
what should I consider?
What could I do wrong?
First of all I have to say,
the problem started
when white men went to Africa.
You arrive there as a white male,
maybe a Christian man,
on whose appearance
many hierarchies are already inscribed.
Everyone has to go there
with this awareness.
I don't want the mistakes
of the past to come back to life.
"I'm coming with good intentions."
Well, no, that feels wrong too.
Yes, it's also problematic.
I think what's good
is that you have an awareness of it
because there is no panacea.
A piece of advice for your journey:
if you think you can sort out
100, 500-year-old problems
just by going there now...
Of course, that wouldn't work.
What you can do is to make things visible,
in the sense,
that you also call for action.
And so the story took its course.
Before he knew it,
Joko was in the thick of it.
In Uganda.
A country in the heart of Africa
that is struggling with more extreme
effects of the climate crisis
than the rest of the world.
When the water came,
it destroyed a number of houses,
and people were evacuated.
-There were houses here?
-Yes.
They were washed away.
People used to live here, but not anymore.
A ghost town.
Ronah Masika has lived her entire life
in this beautiful region,
which has been plagued
by devastating floods for years.
The country, the people and their history
are being irretrievably destroyed.
In the Rwenzuris, some of the mountain
peaks are covered by the glacier
because there is this bad warming,
global warming.
It is too hot for the glaciers,
so they melt.
With her colleagues,
Ronah fights tirelessly to tell
the government and the population
about the climate crisis.
To show Joko that the locals
are not only fighting
for their material survival,
but also for the basis
of their traditions and beliefs,
Ronah takes him to a magical place.
-This is strong. Don't worry.
-This is my thing.
I'm afraid of heights.
-You just focus on the bridge.
-Okay.
Yeah, like this.
I hate you.
-Thank you.
-Welcome.
-But everything is beautifully made.
-Yes.
The people around the Rwenzuri
believe that their God lives on the snow.
When the snow melts,
it, of course, provides water.
His medium is also in the water.
And it is important to the people
because they do their rituals,
their sacrifices at the waterfall.
So, if it is not there,
there is no ritual.
Therefore, there is no connection
between them and their God.
But that also means,
when the glacier is gone
-that their God is gone.
-Yeah, their God is gone.
That is a total new dimension for me.
Our whole being is being
put at risk by climate change.
I've never looked at it that way.
The climate crisis destroys nature
and thus our livelihoods? Yes, of course.
But it also erases
cultural characteristics
by robbing people of faith
and to put it crudely,
the meaning of life.
Fear.
That's what I see here.
The people here also need
to be helped to realize
that they can still live,
even after the destruction,
even after what happened.
Now, what will happen if it comes again?
That is the fear that is here.
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
I am glad I have a listening ear.
At least, I have someone listening.
You have a platform.
You have people you can talk to
and something can change.
As people who live
in the part of the world that suffers,
we are meant to take a backseat.
But even when we make noise,
we are not heard.
We have suffered more
and for a longer time than you have.
This is my home. I will stay here.
You will stay there.
But we can have empathy.
Development is good
but we should be aware and sensitive
that it's also affecting the people.
If we don't do this, it will lead
to another kind of colonialism.
The people who must pay for everything
here are the least at fault.
We are also responsible.
There is no doubt about that.
And this didn't just happen yesterday.
A cruel system was devised
by European royalty long, long ago.
It's called colonialism.
It soon gained notoriety for its ruthless
exploitation of entire continents.
Its effects are still visible today.
At least for those who want to see them.
Christopher Columbus is still being sold
to children in Europe as the hero
who discovered America.
At that time, however, the continent
was already home to millions of people.
The Europeans, who claimed the so-called
"New World" for themselves, didn't care.
Considering themselves superior,
they wiped out whole indigenous groups
and used the inhumane means of enslavement
to farm stolen lands.
Millions of men and women
were deported from Africa to America
and other parts of the world.
The continent was simply divided
between the European royal houses
without Africa's consent.
For centuries, Europeans have described
colonialism as human progress.
The fact is Europe is only prosperous
due to its past and present-day
exploitation of the African continent.
Patience Nabukalu fights against it.
She is a climate activist who is a member
of Fridays for Future Uganda.
She fights to make the systematic
exploitation of Africa visible.
In order for Joko to see
the problems first-hand,
she's taking him
on a slightly different...
safari?
Ready?
JOKO & PATIENCE
ON SAFARI
Welcome to our safari extraordinaire.
Together, we will visit
the most exotic and wild places
of modern colonialism.
Please buckle up.
Here, we call them "The Big Five."
Let's start with a classic.
The oldest specimen are still found
all over the continent:
Mining.
From gold to rare earth,
the white men came for centuries
to grab what they could find
and polluted the surrounding nature.
Of course, this mostly comes
with serious human rights violation.
Next up, the most ubiquitous of all:
Land Grabbing.
Global corporations come, buy land
and use it for whatever they fancy.
But the primary reason is
to plant profitable crops
like sugarcane, palm oil, sunflowers, or
even use it for intensive animal farming.
Fuck.
Fun fact.
Between 2015 and 2020,
Africa lost
about 4.4 million hectares of forest.
That is more than the size of Denmark.
Each year.
A relatively new edition to the list
but not exactly an endangered species:
Garbage.
The Global North
generates most of the garbage.
They don't recycle it themselves
but export it to countries
of the Global South.
A perfectly win-lose situation.
Next up:
Infrastructure and industry.
Foreign investors have built roads,
bridges, railways
to keep countries dependent.
China is one
of Africa's major trading partners.
There are fears that African countries
are burying themselves in massive debt.
And when they fail to pay.
Well, China will take over the assets.
Finally, Uganda is about to be
enriched by its newest attraction.
Every colonialists wet dream:
the black gold.
And so that the Global North gets
their precious oil without delay,
they'll build a pipeline from Lake Albert
all the way to the coast of Tanzania,
where it will be shipped out to the world.
THE WORLD
For that, they have to displace
thousands of people and destroy
natural reserves along the route
so everyone gets to enjoy their oil.
Okay, back to reality.
In reality, not everyone is happy
about the billion-dollar oil pipeline.
Patience and many activists around
the world are trying to stop investors
from funding the EACOP project.
Ground! Keep it in the ground.
The people, united,
will never be defeated.
The construction has been initiated
by a Chinese oil company
and a French energy giant,
so that they can dig through
the ecosystems undisturbed.
And people who happen to live
on the planned route are duly resettled.
What sounds halfway peaceful at first,
in reality means
that people are robbed of their homes
and land without any say in the matter.
And in this newly built village,
people are in homes
without water or electricity.
Would it be possible
to maybe talk to somebody over here?
Of course.
-Hi, there.
-Hello.
-Hi, there.
-Yes, hello!
-I am Julius.
-Julius, I am Joko.
Yes.
Is it okay if we have
two or three questions about this place?
-Yes.
-What would you say has to change?
When the dry season comes,
we suffer a lot to get water.
We have a problem with water here.
The water table... It is down.
We're requesting, at the very least, the
government should provide us tap water
as they have promised before.
At least, they should speed up
and bring it to us.
We have this younger generation
of our children.
They don't study.
They will do nothing.
We don't want our children
to be unsafe within this area.
-You're really angry, right?
-Yes.
We are lost.
We have nothing.
It's not only environmental issues.
-It's also a lot of...
-Human issues.
...human issues too.
What I can really tell them is
we are angry.
We cannot live in such anxiety
for the next 10 years.
What they're constructing
is for the future
and it's going to affect us
and the coming generation.
And they are always saying
they are practicing net zero.
-Is this net zero?
-No. It's not net zero.
They are actually funding deaths
in our countries.
Look at that.
All new buildings
and they don't even have electricity.
After all I've told you
and you're wondering about this?
No, actually you're right.
Allow me to make one more comment.
To solve the climate crisis,
our energy, which we so urgently need,
must come
from renewables like wind or solar.
And in Africa, a lot is already happening
with renewable energy.
Huge solar plants and wind farms have
been built in Morocco, Tunisia and Kenya
to supply millions of homes
with electricity.
Namibia and Angola
also have perfect climatic conditions
for the production of renewable energies
and green hydrogen,
a possible energy source of the future.
And look, suddenly the rich
industrial nations are looking closely.
Germany signed agreements and contracts
securing some of the green hydrogen
to meet its own climate goals.
I emphasize:
its own.
At the expense of their own,
many African states are making
deals with corporations
that will ruin them in the medium term,
but promise profits in the short term.
Profits that disappear into dark channels,
never to be seen again.
The local protest movement
against this is large and diverse.
But nowhere near as in your face
as with this man.
I'm Isaac Nabwana,
the director of the best action movies
here at Wakaliwood.
Wakaliwood is the name
of a film studio in Wakaliga,
a neighborhood in Kampala,
Uganda's capital.
Director Isaac Nabwana is also called
"the Tarantino of Uganda" by his fans
because both love absurdly
exaggerated scenes of violence.
His ultra-low-budget action films
have long enjoyed cult status
among cinephiles around the world.
Their overtly political undertones
also ensure loyal followers.
He'll make a short film for us that shows
who is really in charge and who benefits
from solar energy.
Wow, an idea already!
-My real name is Joko.
-Okay.
But in the movie, I'm Ben.
Correct. The rich white man
from the North.
Solar.
We're gonna make more money.
Action!
-Cut.
-I fell.
Nobody expected me
to be that stupid, right?
I'm sure Isaac would have
preferred to work with a real actor...
If I can kick like that?
But he still managed
to get the best out of me,
or he'd beat me up.
But see for yourself.
-You are dead! Gone!
-I am dead?
-Yeah, you're gone.
-I'm already dead.
We just started filming.
Cut that tree! Cut down all these trees!
We'll build a big facility.
We're gonna change this place.
Stop.
-What do you think you are doing?
-We've brought development.
We are cutting these trees
to put an electric plant
and build a factory.
An electric plant and a bottle factory?
Nature has provided us with bottles.
Why don't you install solar panels
instead of cutting these trees down?
Solar panels? That's interesting.
We need this place.
We can even make more money.
You're right.
We are the authority here.
Cut down that tree.
We need this place.
Don't listen to this idiot.
You call me an idiot?
I said cut down that tree!
I'm a nature warrior!
Run! Run!
And while the filming dragged on a bit,
thanks to Joko's acting skills,
Dickens Kamugisha
made an appearance on set.
A renowned lawyer...
...and a successful
and feared political activist,
so much so that he and his team
ended up in prison for it.
He's here to explain to Joko
the brutal reality
behind many large solar projects.
Can we get the umbrella out?
-I have a handkerchief.
-Oh, you've got...
-Just do that. All good.
-Okay.
One thing that I really always wonder,
and wonder over here, too...
I'm in a country
where there's a lot of sun.
From my perspective,
centralized solar systems are a solution.
But you say it's not. Why?
The first thing is
centralized solar systems
are extremely expensive
for the majority of Ugandans.
Instead of investing
that money in a centralized grid,
it's better if you help each family
get a solar panel
so that they will be able to get power.
But most of the money the government
is using is borrowed from abroad.
And it appears
that those companies from abroad
don't invest in off-grid solar systems,
which are very small businesses.
They want to invest in huge businesses.
But what could be a solution for...
Or is there a solution
to install off-grid solar?
Of course, we are extremely happy
that there are initiatives.
There are smaller companies
that are investing in off-grid solar.
Unfortunately, those companies
are not supported by anyone.
And you're competing
with companies investing in the grid,
which are promised
huge returns on investment.
I believe that, you know,
leaders of this world,
people who have the power,
people who have money to invest,
people who have the technology,
they know that we must
address this crisis.
But they are selfish.
And you wonder why?
My journey is showing me
that you have to look closer
to find solutions to the climate crisis.
Who earns and benefits from it?
And who doesn't.
We hope that all these efforts...
-Yes.
-...will make an impact.
Yes.
We will make an impact.
Thank you so much for everything.
You're welcome.
And also that you
showed me all these places.
Of course.
By being here, seeing it by myself...
Yes.
-...and feeling it even more...
-Yes.
The picture got bigger for me
to really understand
that everything that we do
affects people around the globe.
Of course. Because the fact
that the problem is global,
we cannot just look
at Uganda as a single country
that is facing the crisis.
It's Africa at large.
The crisis is there,
but people are affected differently.
You can move around Africa
and you will get to see
how much people are suffering
and how much our youth
are willing to change the future.
Patience sends Joko on to Gambia.
When it comes
to the African environmental movement,
you can't get past the smallest country
on the continent.
Welcome to Gambia,
the smiling coast of West Africa.
That fits me perfectly.
Gambia has a very peculiar border
which is largely due to colonization
and it is what has earned
Gambia its nickname.
"THE SMILING COAST OF AFRICA"
When you look at the African continent,
it looks as if Gambia is smiling.
But that's not all that's smiling.
In fact, even the people here
have genuine smiles.
Usually, I fish on a regular boat
but it's great to be on this tourist boat.
We took a a tourist boat at my request.
I've been here like 1,000 times, but today
I feel special because of the boat.
Kemo Fatty is an activist, conservationist
and the founder of Green Up Gambia.
This is papaya, avocado, cheeseballs.
With his organization,
he encourages children, young people
and entire communities here
to take the future of the region
into their own hands
for the endangered coasts using nature.
Future environmental activists
are trained in the botanical garden.
If we don't already protect
what's existing,
it would be really tragic.
Oh, crazy! So you actually
saved this place?
-Yes.
-How did you do that?
Rigorous protests.
Rigorous protests. I like that.
With this, he wants to save the country
from environmental destruction
and in 2026, he plans to run for office
to become the Gambian president.
What is the biggest issue
for Gambia right now?
That would be the rising sea level.
Yeah?
With the rising sea level,
we have so much more to lose.
It has a cascading effect
on all other sectors.
Banjul, our capital city, where our ports
are at is at risk of inundation.
A 1.5 meter rise in sea level
will render half of Banjul uninhabitable.
And this is where we come in.
The coastal areas
are continually losing space.
But certain species of trees like coconut,
once they're around the seaside,
their roots interlock,
holding the sand in place
so that the waves
don't cause coastal erosion.
As a small country,
we do not contribute much
to global emissions
but yet we are the hardest hit.
Everything here is at risk
because of rising sea level,
climate change impacts.
Seeing all that here,
even though it's still there...
Imagining that it's all gone?
-Scary.
-Indeed.
What is your motivation?
At which point do you say,
"That's why I do it."
Well...
the reason I do all of these things
is because I don't feel comfortable
with what I see
in my own home and I decided
to do something about it.
When I was in high school,
my brother migrated to Italy
because he wanted
to go search for better farmland.
We have thousands of young people
migrating from this land
because they feel like
they can't make it here anymore.
It is a natural reflex
to find a way out, to find a solution.
Hundreds of years ago, the Europeans
were at the shores of this Atlantic.
They packed us in boats
to work on plantations.
Today, history is repeating itself.
Only difference is,
now we are doing it voluntarily
in much more harsh conditions
even than under the slave masters.
Because nobody even needs you to be alive.
Keep breathing. Come on!
We are expandable at any point in time.
So, I decided to be
the voice of the voiceless.
To stand up for these people
and explain to the world
that when you see
these young people jump in boats,
they are not economic migrants.
They are climate refugees.
You tell me whether
this is not a significant crisis.
Whether I should just sit and watch.
There has never been
any compelling action to act on climate.
This concern is a duty
I owe to my children,
to the great African heritage,
and even to the world.
This is why we do this job.
This is our motivation and our statement
and call to action for people
and young people everywhere
to join this crusade
for a better tomorrow.
Women in Gambia
are fighting for a better future.
One of them is Isatou Ceesay.
She is Kemo's great role model
and an icon for a whole generation.
Kemo is a young boy who is improving
the world and the environment.
I really respect him, the way he works.
He's a young boy. I'm an old woman.
Wherever I stop, I'm very happy that
Kemo can take it to the next generation.
Isatou Ceesay, also known
as Queen of Recycling,
inspires communities worldwide
to rethink how they treat themselves,
their environment and consumption.
In her homeland,
she triggered nothing less
than a peaceful, feminist revolution
and helped thousands
of women find fulfilling work,
a safe home, purpose
and unwavering self-worth.
We're globally interested in any waste
that is dumped in the country.
Metal waste, food waste, plastic waste.
You name it. We have a lot of ideas.
And what is it that you're doing here?
What do you call it?
-That's all from peanuts.
-Yes, peanut shells.
What we do here is that we train them
how to turn it into charcoal.
-Charcoal?
-Charcoal.
In the country here,
we use wood to cook. Firewood.
And we cut down trees for charcoal.
So, you take the waste
make it into charcoal,
so nobody has to chop down trees.
-You reverse the whole system?
-Yeah.
I always teach about climate change
and what it means.
In Gambia, 75% of the women
have never been to school.
They don't read newspapers.
They don't watch TV.
So they need to hear about it.
To learn about it.
To be able to feel scared
and then get ready.
In total, how many women
are working with you?
I would say more than 20,000 women.
-What?
-Globally, it's more than that.
It's more than that.
That was weird. Let's do that again.
Let's all understand
that we are one thing.
That is the Earth.
If you guys have problems, it affects us.
If we have problems, it affects you.
So, that is why learning from each other
will always make it better.
And then prepare the next generation.
You're my hero already.
Seriously. Because it's so simple.
Sometime you think the problem is so big.
You feel like...
I don't know where to start.
You have to start somewhere.
And take it from there.
Exactly.
-But no time to waste.
-No time to waste.
-Thank you, Joko.
-Thank you so much.
What I find crazy is how much energy
I feel from the people here.
Even if it's a small initiative,
people want to change something.
You have to start.
If we have a climate crisis
and we don't start to change,
then I don't see a future.
All the trees here are planted
by Kemo's girlfriend.
"5,000 coconuts, 1,000 other species
"between March 2020 and September 2022."
Ostend! I can't believe it.
Ostend is where I used to go
with my family for holidays
when we didn't have cash.
We always ate this tasty
frikandel speciaal with onion,
a bit of ketchup, a bit of mayo.
Yummy, I recommend it.
Ostend is not a very pretty town,
but it has great wide beaches.
But not for long either.
Climate change is coming.
It's also coming to the Netherlands.
When the sea level rises, there'll be
no more Netherlands or football.
Isn't Ostend in Belgium?
It is hope that ultimately
brings us here today.
We are trying to create
this unbroken chain of human cooperation
with one of the world's most audacious
climate change initiatives
which is the Great Green Wall.
What's that?
It's the largest
climate change project ever on Earth.
Once completed, the Green Wall
will be the largest living structure,
restoring about one 100 million
hectares of degraded land.
So...
-What?
-This is salvation for the Sahel.
You must see the Great Green Wall.
Isatou and Kemo made
a deep impression on me with their energy
and will to innovate.
We could change so much
if we were as persistent and confident
in addressing the problems
and didn't give up.
And now I'm really excited
about the Great Green Wall.
Colonel Gora Diop explains the status
of Africa's largest environmental project.
Together with many farms
in Senegal, he wants
to stop the spreading desert
of the Sahel zone.
How many trees did you plant?
By now, we've planted 25 million trees
in Senegal along
the line of the Great Wall.
The Great Green Wall
is a Pan-African vision
to combat desertification
and to promote socio-economic development.
The 7,600 km
runs through 11 African countries,
across Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad,
Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea
up to Djibouti.
Peace, development and prosperity
require that you make your own destiny.
Is it not time for Africa?
My mission is to contribute what I can
to make this vision a reality.
And when you come back in 5 or 10 years,
you will see that the Green Wall,
which seemed impossible
to many is a reality.
And the people live and flourish.
The Great Green Wall is expected
to restore approximately
100 million hectares of degraded land
by 2030, absorb 250 million tons of CO2
from the atmosphere
and create 10 million rural jobs.
It is not only the largest environmental
project in the world
and a powerful symbol of the pan-African
dream of independence,
self-determination and a dignified life,
it is a global symbol that
we can overcome the climate crisis
and build a better world
for future generations.
Even in such difficult places
such as the Sahel.
What did I actually find out?
I found committed people with energy,
many ideas, perseverance
and, above all, with more hope
than I have ever seen anywhere else.
On the other hand, I feel totally empty.
And this level of...
that you go there,
and plainly, just leave again.
That's what really bothers me.
You know what, Joko? It's not about you.
The focus you have right now
is on yourself.
How you feel.
What it did to you.
It's about the people who are there.
You need to bring the focus back to them.
The people, united,
we'll never be defeated.
My name is Jakapita Kandanga.
I am a youth activist from Kenya.
From Windhoek, Namibia.
-From Uganda.
-From Sudan.
-Nigeria.
-Ghana.
I'm a victim of climate change.
The most affected people
are underrepresented.
We live the disaster. We live the events.
I feel like our voices should be heard.
My vision of Africa is an Africa
that creates its own narration.
As an African, I want
our government to take action.
All the governments have to take action.
Value the lives of people
and the planet over profits
and fossil fuels.
Instead of investing in fossil fuels...
We cannot eat coal
and we cannot drink oil.
Please open your hearts,
and then act...
...for the billions of people
whose stories are not being heard.
The heartbreak and the injustice
is hard to bear.
It's very difficult to maintain hope
when you're constantly being confronted
with everything that's wrong.
But what gives me hope is seeing
how much other people care.
How much ordinary people want to help.
And it's so important to hold on
to that hope because...
without that hope, what do we have?
Our joint journey is still long
and the obstacles along the way
are man-made.
How can humanity act more responsibly
when it is economically much more
worthwhile to be an asshole?
IN THE NEXT EPISODE...