Hydropower is a bit like the ‘boomer’ of renewable technology which needs to catch up with the times. While it produces more renewable energy than all other sources combined – it has a terrible social and environmental record. And an even more uncertain future. What does this grandfather of renewables need to do to stay relevant for the new gen? Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal Video Editor: Aditi Rajagopal, Henning Goll Editor: Michael Trobridge We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #Hydropower #ClimateChange #RenewableEnergy Read more: A brief history of hydropower: https://www.hydropower.org/iha/discover-history-of-hydropower Development banks and hydropower project: https://ceeca-bhr.org/online-media-briefing-how-development-banks-enable-harmful-hydropower-projects/ Example of corruption from Bosnia-Herzegovina: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00027-014-0377-0#/page-1 Climate change and hydropower in the Amazon: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S095937802100162X Reducing impacts of hydro – solutions from the Amazon: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12179-5 Hydropower expansion without building new dams: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2f18/meta Chapters: 00.00 Intro 01.25 Hydropower: Grey zoned 03.38 Heavy on the planet 05.37 Same sh*t, new decade 07.04 Power dynamics of power 08.05 The climate paradox 09.03 Hydro sans dams? 10.35 New generation: ‘Boomer’ hydro going Gen Z