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Water – the greatest trigger for war
In the future, water will be the greatest trigger for wars worldwide. Why? Long periods of drought or extreme rainfall and flooding, caused by global overheating, threaten human life and social peace.
Drought
Brandenburg has been increasingly struggling with drought for several years. What heat and dryness do in Brandenburg and what role peatlands and Elon Musk play in this.
S.A.F.E. Kenya uses theatre, film, and education to bring climate change into focus. In rural Kenyan villages, they collaborate with communities to develop plays that reflect their own experiences—droughts, floods, loss of livelihood. Through interactive theatre, people get to explore solutions together, change the story, and build resilience.
Floods
Another extreme is torrential rainfall that floods entire regions, like in the Ahr Valley (North Rhine-Westphalia) in 2021.
In August 2022, Pakistan repeatedly suffered severe floods. One third of the country was underwater. Heavy rainfall is no longer rare in Pakistan, and here too climate change is the cause. After flooding, the soil becomes contaminated, which severely affects agriculture.
Virtual Water
Conflicts over water are not only revealed by weather events. Virtual water also plays an important role in all our lives. Virtual water refers to the amount of water used to produce goods and products.
Avocados endanger the drinking water supply in Chile
Avocados are deliberately marketed as a superfood. However, environmental pollution, water scarcity in the growing regions, and pesticides on our plates are the downside.
Once, the Aral Sea was one of the largest lakes in the world.
Today, it has completely dried up, leaving behind only a desert landscape.
This has been a catastrophe for the people living in the region.
But now, there are real plans to bring the sea back.
Privatisation
Let’s move on to another water conflict: privatisation. Imagine you live close to a spring. It gets sold, and you are no longer allowed to take water from it. Or suddenly, the drinking water supply of your entire community is at risk—or becomes extremely expensive.
The EU Commission is planning to privatize water supply. Learn in the video what dangers this entails and what it means when big corporations are allowed to gamble with drinking water on the stock market.
“Nestlé pumps groundwater and profitably bottles it in plastic. In Vittel and around the world, Nestlé is criticized for this system. How sustainable is Nestlé’s water?”
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The term “commons” refers to resources and land areas that belong to the general public. Using them is a fundamental right for everyone.
Speaker
Hello, I’m Tina. For many years, I have been involved with Global New Generation Berlin e.V., both as a mother and as a speaker.
For many years, my family and I lived in Berlin. Then we moved to a small village in Brandenburg with only 17 houses and 3 stork nests.
I studied Library Science and Central Asian Studies. Currently, I work as a speaker for Global Learning and Sustainable Development, among others for the school programme Education Meets Development (Berlin-Brandenburg). I offer workshops for children and adults on the SDGs, sustainability, climate change, and colonialism.
To be able to offer practical solutions in my workshops, I am also studying permaculture. Together with others, I founded an association in Wittenberge (Northwest Brandenburg) in 2021, and we run a permaculture community garden, which we open to everyone as both a garden and an educational space.
I love working as a speaker because it allows me to combine and share topics such as social coexistence, environmental protection, the common good economy, and global justice.
Funding
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