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Description: The effects of climate change are a daily reality in the Peruvian Andes. With the help of Saúl Luciano Lliuya, one community is fighting back.
The effects of climate change are a daily reality in the Peruvian Andes, where glacial floods threaten and sources of clean water disappear. One community is fighting back.
SENTINELS is the story of people living with climate change in immediate, specific ways. As Andean glaciers melt, Lake Palcacocha expands and the countdown to a devastating glacial flood advances. Experts fear the lake’s natural dam will soon break, inundating the city of Huaraz downstream and putting 100,000 lives at risk. As the city races to prepare for the deluge and struggles to maintain clean water sources, ordinary people take extraordinary steps to save their community, their homes and their planet.
Saúl Luciano Lliuya, with the help of a German organization, is suing one of the world’s biggest carbon-emitting companies, RWE , for climate change damages to Huaraz and the surrounding region. His wife, Lidia, works tirelessly tending crops and caring for animals on land threatened by climate change. His children, Brandon and Gleysie, are coming of age in an environment where lives and livelihoods are at risk.
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