Adamis - I Have Seen the Earth Change Season 2 (2010) Part 7 France
Travelling to 10 corners of the world, this series aims at showing locally through the people who experience it the concrete impact of climate change. Beyond the figures and graphics who are the people affected today in their daily activities by these change ? What choices are they facing and what solutions have they found to maintain a sustainable activity on the land of their ancestors? Witness the global changes from a local and multicultural perspective.
Part 7: France
In the Alps, the climatic change effects are 3 times higher than the world average. Moreover, it appears in densely inhabited territories. Since 2003, climate warming turned alarming. The changes in the weather (more rain and less snow) are leading to natural risks as avalanche, floods, and collapses The local inhabitants have to adapt their way of lives but also the European people who depend on the water coming out of the glaciers.