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Syria: Risking lives and the environment for oil

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It's not just extreme weather that's posing a threat to the planet. Conflict, too, is having a huge effect on the environment. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

More than a decade into the war in Syria only small areas of the north of the country remain outside the control of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

These regions are dominated by a patchwork of militant groups who have managed to hold out against the government in Damascus, bringing the conflict to a stalemate.

In the countryside around Aleppo, basic necessities are in short supply and as winter continues to bite, diesel for generators is in high demand

And it's a demand that is taking a huge environmental toll

Filmmaker Fadi al-Halabi visited the men and boys who are risking their lives to keep the fuel flowing, but may be destroying other livelihoods in the process.
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