A village displaced, a divorce and changing food. This Earth Day, see real stories of climate change through the eyes of national award winning environmental filmmaker, Nila Madhab Panda.
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00:27I saw Frontline Delhi main headlines about this very scary image of a hand
00:34bomb standing alone in the sea. So I went to search about it. I made a film
00:41called climate's first orphan. These were the evident cases of people which I
00:47would consider to be climate's first orphan as out of the seven villages three
00:52villages were already inside the sea these people have moved from the sea
01:04for last many years inch by inch by inch inch by inch and I started following the
01:09story in that lone hand form inside the sea is the hand form in 2005 we used to
01:15drink water which was middle of the village in one and a half decade I
01:20witnessed sea eating of four villages right in front of my eyes
01:30if you see Megha's divorce we have changed we have shown how a child's life
01:35changes because of the air quality the air quality itself changes your
01:42emotional and a relationship pattern in a city
02:01my son was seven years old I think it was 11 2011 or 12 and he was a sprinter
02:08one day it happened he started coughing and rigorously coughing and sneezing all
02:13the time and doctor said that he cannot send him out and my wife literally
02:17started fighting look you want to stay in Delhi you stay I'm leaving I'm taking
02:23my son to Bhubaneswar and I love the city but eventually it becomes a toxic
02:28city Delhi all sudden that there's so much of pollution
02:50so what the crop you get on the mountain so be it apple or dry fruits or anything
02:56and it's recently only two years back when I started traveling I was stunned
03:02to see some of the places where there was apples growing it's no more apple
03:08it's cabbage it's cauliflower bhindi because what has happened no we don't
03:14get that kind of snow anymore so it is not suitable for the land anymore for
03:20climate change is here it's real it's now