Clip from "A Dangerous Future", Episode 108 of Years of Living Dangerously [Video]
Publisher: Showtime
Author(s): The Years Project
Date: 2014
Topics: Renewable Resources
Countries: Yemen
In this clip, Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Friedman takes a chopper to Sana'a, the first major city in Yemen to run out of water. He concludes his investigation of three Middle Eastern nations-Syria, Egypt, and now Yemen-to witness how climate change can be a stressor that can take a volatile political situation and push it over the edge.
In episode eight, Matt Damon takes viewers on an investigation into the impact of extreme heat on human health and mortality. With a focus on startling new research from leading scientists and researchers, Damon uncovers the ways in which climate change and rising temperatures are becoming a public health emergency locally, nationally and globally. Michael C. Hall journeys to the low-lying deltaic country of Bangladesh where rising seas are expected to submerge 17% of the nation. Hall explores the prediction that by 2050, the migration of upwards of 150 million people worldwide will be the single most worrisome impact of our climate-changed future.