To be alive at a moment in history where my own species is knowingly and willingly destroying everything that came before it for the past 4 Billion years is a heart-breaking "reality check". I have had 73 years to marvel at LIFE's wonders, and now a short time left to rue Man's blunders. Is that a blessing or a curse?
I have seen, in 1991 for my first time, the living coral in Indonesia. I was amazed! It was so colorful, and alive. 8 years after that, the first Niño came, and 90% of that beauty was gone. The new generation can not experience what I saw. And reading your words, I wonder, how was the Earth in the 50's 60's and before that? And about our power over the planet, and our shortsightedness to handle this power... I don't see the Hollywoodian happy ending for us.
@@nikoulph im only mid 30s and I was saying to my brother in law how I remember all the bugs and beetles everywhere when I was a kid, every xmas we would have beetles everywhere we called them xmasbeetles everyone knew about them and would play with them I honestly dont think ive seen a single one for over 15 years and in the past your entire porch would be covered in them
The Earth itself is a survivor. That's the only silver lining. I doubt human folly will actually destroy it. Earth has successfully renewed herself many many times over after cataclysm, with 99.9999 % of living forms evolving and then going extinct in time, to be replaced with new forms. Humans will not destroy planet Earth but they, and all they have imagined and created, seem doomed for destruction. That is heartbreaking, given our incredible creativity, singular abilities, wealth of knowledge, etc. Earth herself will heal and reach a new equilibrium with newly evolving life forms, but the unique human experience and human awareness only we enjoy, will be lost forever. 😢
I've lived in So. Cal. most of 63 years. Birds are gone, except for crows and hummingbirds. A couple months ago, brown pelicans were in a die-off with bodies littered on our beach. Spiders around my house are mostly gone. Lizards in garden gone. Raccoons, and possums, formerly regular visitors, gone.
@Frank F Kling TERRA FIRMA? That translates in latin to - 'solid earth' - The landmasses. So a more appropriate title to your piece would be - AN ALIEN ASSESSMENT OF EARTH's BIOSPHERE - which encompasses ALL ecosystems of the planet Earth - the landmasses (Terra Firma) and the oceans - all marine ecosystems.
Greetings from Finland! I often hear that previous generations were more in tune with nature but I beg to differ. My grandparents on both sides, born between 1900-1920 thought nothing of shooting everything that moved, dump rubbish in lakes and think of pesticides as a really brilliant thing. In the 1970-80´s rubbish littered roadsides and today plastic is EVERYWHERE, in local parks, National Parks, on beaches by the Baltic Sea ( and the Baltic Sea is a complete waste ground by now ) We are so completely waist-deep in rubbish and garbage that I wonder how future generations are going to clean that up. And one of the biggest problems in my opinion is overpopulation. Politician say oh no, we need more people to keep the economy going, but I say this is THE problem, problem no. 1 And nothing is going to happen until we reach a complete disaster..... Sorry for this, great interview though.
"I wonder how future generations are going to clean that up." They're not. A future species of archeologists will find a layer of plastic, toxic chemicals and chicken bones amongst the human bones, and conclude that the chickens poisoned the humans.
No kidding! Finland 🇫🇮 is very big on forestry isn't it! My school went in '86 but I had no interest, how wonderbar that they want to teach Quebecers to destroy like Europe, my parents were the same, people need to see outright destruction to be fazed and pulled out of their bubbles! Stay strong!
When people state that in the past people were more in-touch with nature, they were not referring to those that have lived over the past two thousand years, or even ten thousand years... The human trait of anthropocentrism grew exponentially with the rise of the first civilisations.
You're right. Planet Earth can support 4 billion people. It currently has 8 billion. There is nowhere for humanity to go. The politicians encourage families and babies even in the midst of the 6th mass extinction. The politicians are delusional and corrupt and are leading us to certain near term extinction by 2030.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO The most comprehensive *meta-analysis* conducted to date with 119 countries, shows avoiding animal products is the *"SINGLE BIGGEST WAY"* to reduce our environmental impact. -Oxford University
When I went up to Thorpe to study Biology in 1970, I had no idea what was to follow. 60% of all wild animals have since disappeared, not to mention the precipitous decline in forest, ocean and wild land biodiversity.
"Human Exceptionalism" is our species "Achilles Heel". Religious and political ideologies have encouraged us to unthinkingly believe that the Earth is "all about us". In reality homos sapiens are just another species, slightly more intelligent than a chimpanzee. Compared to the rest of the nature world we like to imagine ourselves as geniuses. Even our ancient philosophers and priests assured us that "Man is the center of all things" and that Man shall "have dominion over all the Earth...", when, in reality he is just one more expression of LIFE. Certainly slightly more intelligent than the rest, but just stupid enough to end it all.
Yeah, I think it depends on what your definition of intelligence is. Most human animals would not be able to survive in the wild. Also, human animals are the biggest threat to the planet and most destructive species on it.
I have a fundy Christian friend who says that she is looking forward to the end. The end will be horrific. But she will be in her celestial theme park in the sky.?
I know exactly, precisely, what you mean. When I observe certain creatures now, I realize..(at the same time)... I'm also witnessing their passing. I can sense it vanishing, right before my eyes.
Legal and illegal logging still goes on inside protected areas of jungle worldwide! Planting a few saplings in scotland to compensate for a massive teak tree in the tropics is a joke...
And also forest fires. With climate being hotter, there will be more of them. Millions of hectares burn here in Russia every year. No amount of planting trees can compensate for that
First year ever in my life to have no skylarks ,fieldfares ,swallows , swifts ,butterflies (ok theres one or two) yellowhammers , siskins , greenfinches ,frogspawn ,bullfinches doing ok i think because lots of incomers planting mini orchards . Its shocking . This in a place where 30 years ago you had to be careful where you stepped for squashing something . Rats are doing well but are raiding nests like never before . This in rural SW Scotland . Newts seem to be doing ok but first year ever no dragonflies and mayflies over the ponds and i can cycle to work without being blinded by insects when i normally have to put a net on ...the canary has died .
In Southern California the rodents are the bulk of the remaining wildlife. Reasons I see..outside of their ability to go to deep ground in a heatwave, are that their predators have all been wiped out. Either intentionally as is the case with snakes, because they’re dangerous. Or unintentionally as is the case with owls. Because we’ve cut down their forest habitats. And filled their hunting meadows with endless miles of tract housing, concrete, blacktop highways and strip malls. And put miles of barbwire fencing throughout their flight path. What we do is consume everything in our path. What any flourishing species does. And that’s just what the rodents are doing now too. No fresh green food lives through a 120F heatwave. When those events happen, every year now: The birds, insects and large mammals either succumb to the heat or starve in the tinder dry deathscape that remains afterward. Only the rodents do fine, living underground and eating the roots of the few trees that haven’t died yet. FYI one gopher can devour the entire rootball of a young tree in about one week.
I don't know why nobody told you How to unfold your love I don't know how someone controlled you They bought and sold you I look at the world And I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake We must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps
Paul's comment on weather whip lashing is so bang on. Here on Vancouver island Canada we have been going from one extrema to the other for a number of years. Summer in Oct, record breaking heat is going on right now. Last summer heat domes, 50C in B.C. Mega drought now for many years. The hole of the west coast down to Mexico. Very rich biodiversity is dyeing!
I'm a chick forest technician from Montreal! I'd worked for the cities and The Minister but left my career in disgust in '88, I majored in Sylviculture. My whole life, talking about this always falls on deaf ears, planting milkweed decades ago meant going to war with neighbours here, how petty!
I live in Vermont and the decline is to me staggering. I'm no scientists but I wish more people would see this. I talk about it all the time no one seems interested. Where's our June bug. I miss those guys our little angels.
Even when the ship down there will be certain people who still be singing and drinking and in denial . The English are very good at this even though when we know we’re outnumbered even when we know it’s a done deal We know we’re going to die , we will have a cup of tea and a chat about anything . There’s a guy called Kevin Anderson who knows government ministers from the British government and they said yeah we know it’s all gonna go down but we don’t want to tell the people because we don’t think they could handle it Kevin said how arrogant this is why they’re still doing what they’ve always done old habits die hard so they still invest in oil all this green stuff is just a hoax and it doesn’t work what we’ve done is we blocked in tipping points that we cannot reverse which is going to cause extinction of the human species just wait until the worldwide famine hits This will be the first major consequence and after that it’s all downhill fast so live well you might want to listen to Paul Beckwith on the global thermal conveyor belt system all the best
Come to my youtube channel Clime Aware more content to be added. Can I ask what changed to your Climate? I am in Western Washington and last year our state got slammed by a record flood that did enormous damage. The moisture came out of the south pacific warming pool. Months before that the mega heat wave that saw temps of 108 to 117F between Portland and Vancouver BC. 1,450 people died from heat waves.
Wow, now that you mention it , you’re right I haven’t seen one in years. Fireflies have been plentiful though,here on a farm by a wetlands in NJ, all insects seem to be going , I’ve actually missed the mosquitoes
Toledo Ohio Metro Parks built a “new” wet land park, called Howard Marsh (HM). I saw over 100 Golden Plovers at HM pre-covid. A couple from Quebec were at HM and they explained to me that over 15 years of them coming to the area of HM, the most GP they ever saw were FOUR. He added, if you build the habitat, the animals will come. Quite impressive.
As I scan the stands of quinoa, yacon, Ashitaba and many other ancient heirloom food plants in my biodiversity garden here on the north coast of California I realize further how these ancient heirlooms will ensure the survival of my community. I highly suggest others trial multiple varieties of indigenous plants in their gardens. As a lifetime biodiversity researcher I am amazed what's possible. Quinoa leaves, for example, are 14.7% complete protein, the only vegitative replacement nearly equal to meat. Blessings on all as we face systemic failure and global crisis...a spiritual "emerge- and- see"... Compassion sees the best response Fearless love...☆ "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing." - Raymond Williams
Agreed. Except the Raymond Williams quotation... I would argue to be 'radical' is to divest in hope and invest in REALITY - regardless of whether socially acceptable or palatable.
Same story here in Austria. Songbirds are disappearing. Bees, butterflies, and many other insects as well. Amphibians are having a hard time. Can we fix this? That's the question, isn't it?
Only if we first fix the problem of corporations, investors, and so-called "leaders" who seem to value profits over people. In particular, profits from fossil fuels.
It's us against them, people hate bugs (I don't) and would rather poison the whole area with non-native plants than feed the birds with a healthy habitat's bugs, shame on them!
I'm over sixty and have lived a life of moving around the states, ten years ago I moved back to the central north woods four to five decades later and noticed the lack of wild life right away and then about five years ago really noticed the lack of insects. I called the wife over to a field of flowers to check it out, she's from this area, and standing there looking for activity it felt like being in a Outer Limits episode and ever since there still is next to nothing flitting around.
Same exact experience here. I'm 76. One problem is that people who reached adult-level awareness during the last 15-20 years see most of this as "normal". They have known no different. Life experience has a large effect on the sense of urgency when the change occurs over decades rather than years. Weather changes from year to year is just "noise" with respect to the climate system.
I lived in Yukon wilderness year round for over 50 years. In early summer you had to put on a headnet to go outside because otherwise you would be attacked by hordes of mosquitos. They would be on the outside of the screen door, and you could hear their whining. There were probably hundreds of them on that one screen, waiting for their meal. Now, very few mosquitoes. Similarly, black flies were a constant annoyance in summer, but they too have diminished greatly. For humans, that's a blessing, but of course it's bad news for bug-eating birds and whatever other creatures eat them. I have also not heard the frogs croaking away in spring in their pond for years. And the swallows are gone. Even the Canada Jays seen to have been affected by the climate changes, at least I believe that to be the cause. There were always young jays around in spring, making their racket demanding food that their parents would bring them. This past summer, there were no young jays around our place, and only a few of adults here and there. Likewise for the usual influxes of birds returning north. There would be so many birds chirping away in the morning that it would wake us up at dawn. No more. The little lake we were on was a magnet for all kinds of ducks. Not anymore. Spiders seem fewer, as do ants. They used to use our garden hose on the ground as their highway. Saw hardly any last summer. The patches of permafrost in some of our bogs seem to be melting and turning into swamps. When you have lived in the same place all year round for decades, you really notice these changes over time. It might vary from year to year, but I'm convinced that the changing climate is the ultimate cause. And it is heartbreaking.
For those who still doubt ... It’s really quite simple. Warmer planet. Warmer water, warmer air => heavier humidity, heavier rain, heavier floods. Hotter topsoil, hotter air => more evaporation, more drought, more wildfires. Hotter environment => less ice, less albedo, much less ice. That's the way it works. Evidence is now everywhere. Expect more of the same.
Some groups of animals require large numbers to live. When their numbers drop even to what to us seems like many, they can't make their community work.
Another brilliant summary presented by Regina, Peter & Paul. So, what can we learn e.g. from the First People in Australia ... They mastered to survive on this continent at least 60,000 + years. To be provocative: How do our survival KPI's are stacking up against their long-term performance?
You are obviously not aware that the first people of Australia burnt all woodland down that is now desert - it was easier than hunting for the animals would just run out of the woods to be murdered instead of having to be hunted.
Watch all your vidios I'm no longer in denial and I do believe my generation will be the last I'm 69year old and what I'm seeing now with Nature is not normal it's happening so fast I do believe our time is short.
@@juliebarks3195 my garden failed this year. Even the plants that are native to this area did poorly. I hope it was my fault. I have always been good at listening to plants but I couldn't hear them this year.
At the age of 60, you would obviously not be the last generation .... Given the generations following. BTW - I'm 64... And have been - 'in the loop' of understanding biospheric dynamics most of my adult life. I agree though... That our time is short - an order of decades - but more importantly, that the current ongoing mass extinction is likely to be Earth's FINAL MEE, given the extent of deleterious anthropogenic influence on the biosphare in general.
Regarding the ideas of chauvinism and man's attitude of dominance over nature. I believe it's the ROOT CAUSE of our ecological overshoot, and that it will be the most difficult to "fix".
No bugs on my windshield when I drive, haven't seen a hawk all year, squirrels are missing, few bugs, no honey bees this year, no frog songs, few cardinals, just about everything is gone or nearly gone. But especially heartbreaking for me, the monarch butterflies are flying south in ones and twos in rare sightings. They used to go over in small flocks. No insects in my garden and half my plants flowered but bore no peppers, tomatoes or any fruit.
Perhaps, at least partly because, many are ignorant, when it comes to the biodiversity of the natural world. They don't miss, what they never appreciated to begin with. There's no conscious connection to the web of life.
To Late to stop this, however we may be able to slow the change. Today the only choice is to STOP fossil fuel use beyond reason. Then we may have time to adapt to the extinction event and mitigate and save as much as we can.
@@wobblybobengland that’s not going to do it! Ending global military spending,and making war on climate change is the only answer. What’s the chance of that ? 🥵
Excellent presentation. You are all correct. We are in the process of collapse, hitting tipping points we can't recover from, and we need to do everything we can humanly possible to reverse what's going on.
Hi Jonathan you say we are in collapse and we must do everything we can there’s nothing really to be done there’s enough tipping points already triggered which will send the planet to hell I think this is the point most people don’t understand or they’re in denial, what people don’t realise collapse will be in full swing in Just a few years from now based on Thwaites glacier and Arctic summer sea ice and a global thermal conveyor belt called Amok, Which by the way has been studied for 15 years and on a graph 4 to 0 it is in between one and 0 to stop there is worldwide famine right there you can make a rough estimate on when the conveyor belt will stop when Thwaites glacier that will go and when the Artic summer sea ice is gone sorry I don’t have time to go in all the detail but these three things will be all gone relatively soon summer size is supposed to go 2023 2024 according to graphs by NOAA. Thwaites glacier 3 to 5 years and the thermal conveyor belt a few years within a decade there’s so many other things we could talk about like the the ocean becoming a carbon dump it can only take so much same as all the plants on the Earth Well we did 20 years ago we’re experiencing now The person who was the canary in the coal mine who everybody hated disagreed with him although he was just pointing out other peoples scientific papers are now singing his praises and there’s others who just will never accept it because how can such an important species as our self go extinct well when the plants go and the animals go we go to that it’s just round the corner Paul Beckwith does a great tutorial on the thermal conveyor belt Dr Guy McPherson four years ago his lectures are worth listening to so you might as well live well right now and I wish you the best
@@millennialmindset3624 how i pay rent then? landlord is commercial and has like 100 services for the building. lets start with far easier ideas! ban on cars cows rocket launches militaries gas leaf blowers and all forestry equipment. bam climate change solved
Yep. I just drove from Atlanta GA to Rochester NY and I didn’t have to clean the windshield once. Not even when I arrived. Not at all. Thanks for the video.
A great video for your mental health .. waiting to see if this great group of scientists are going to show some compassion and create a video that offers solutions to the masses on how to survive .. @ least in the short term. Sad
The terms inventory, assessment and conservation towards biodiversity is so large that in our lifetime we are able only to achieve "a dot" in a book, but we are loosing pages right in front of our lives. We are in a loosing fight.
Part of that "domination" over the animal kingdom can be blamed on "god" giving man "dominion" over all the creatures and plants. This, I think, justifies man's actions, in his own mind.
Nice to see these great minds trying to warn us all. We're one of those species next on the list... The AI of youtube won't let you get the visibility we need ya having
A speculation just occurred to me. A species can be a reservoir for micro-organisms that are unhealthy for humans. Can there also be another species that is a reservoir for micro-organisms beneficial for humans, in that those beneficial micro-organisms may keep a harmful micro-organism in check or contained in a specific region.
An infamous study that's over 40 years old now showed how healthy Indian subjects living in India had a small intestinal microbiota that produced plenty of B12 right where it was absorbed, whereas Indian subjects subjects eating more or less the same diets in England lacked this part of the microbiome. So yes, we are meant to be constantly immersed in a rich soup of interacting microbes, because under those conditions there will always be those perfect for their own niches preventing parasitical and otherwise harmful microbes from proliferating. We see this in successful food webs as well, that when the microbial quality of soil is rich and diverse, plants become extremely resistant to pests naturally without there being any necessity for pesticides or other toxic garbage at all, and the same goes for us humans. We are children of the rainforest, we are literally as much a part of that environment as bees and flowers are part of the same superorganism. See the writings of Tony Wright for an immersive delve into more of this type of information.
It is said that bees produce honey that has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antibacterial properties, keeping potentially harmful micro-organisms at bay.
Yes I have seen myself as just another animal for some time, ever since I reconciled and understood the lie of religion. Surely, only those who don’t understand evolution, would think they are apart from animals.
These superbly informative, and heartfelt videos, have a surreal feel to them. I also think there are many people watching, who know exactly what I mean. To me, there's not a scintilla of evidence, so far, to indicate that we even have the ability to save ourselves, or to seriously preserve the biodiversity of this jewel of the Solar System. This is obviously a planetary "emergency", but apparently "naked apes" lack the "free will" that we so readily assign to ourselves. We're just another animal, but one with a complex brain, that, more and more, appears condemned to short term survival value. We can't even get along with each other, never mind care enough to save our fellow earthlings, from our own folly. That goes for me too, lest anyone think I speak from an "ivory tower."
95% of humans say they care about nonhuman animals, yet 95% of humans kill/eat nonhuman animals on a daily basis. Humans have a cognitive dissonance problem for sure. I do believe the planet would be better off without us. 🌍☮️♥️
We are ruled over by devils who have all the power etc to change the way we do things, but they are unwilling. Instead they wish to reduce our numbers via climate change. Beating up on the public is not the way forward. We need to get together and force change. Also, we can agree to have less children. The most important thing is to fix the Ozone layer.
We DO have the ability to save ourselves, but the answer lies in the soil. Healthy soil is the best absorber of CO2 on the planet today and turns it into plants. We have destroyed more than half the viable soil since the industrial revolution. Restoration of the soil has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last 30 years in small projects in Africa and South America by restoring water tables with landscape changes, using cattle to feed the soil with intensively managed grazing, ground cover to retain water, companion planting, no chemicals, Etc. etc. A mobilisation of the poor and through education facilitated by technology and funds from the 'first world', take over the desert land and restore it worldwide, and at the same time create viable, sustainable communities for millions of impoverished people. But this requires cooperation and a change of mindset away from profit at any cost. Ruined land is worthless so it steps on no toes and its restoration will end poverty and give the rest of us a future. It is a no brainer. The only change in energy policy at this point should be the ban of fracking which is accelerating the climate break down as it contributes, not just Methane but Ethane, which has a much more blanketing effect than Methane into the atmosphere (it is a building block of plastic and much more valuable than oil) Once methane is released from peatlands in the Arctic, we are toast, so releasing vast quantities of it with fracking is suicide! So, those two changes may be our ONLY chance for a future. But nobody wants to know or even cares...We will get what we deserve...Life on the planet will survive us.
Biodiversity is certainly collapsing, and the food crop plants presently under extreme stress from extreme temperatures threaten an imminent famine which will have an immediate & devastating impact for humans, very soon.
To get all governments to enforce a system of humility is the conundrum. I'm heartbroken to see it extremely far from possible. I'm not religious in any way, but I actually pray for humans to clue up yesterday.
Basically the problem is over population -six billion of us is simply too much -world population must be drastically reduced to about half a billion or so -but how will this be achieved?To quote the great Spanish cellist Pablo Casals -"the situation is hopeless but we must take the next step!"
Over population presents us with an opportunity to radically review the way we organise ourselves. To arbitrarily 'decide' that 'we' have to get rid of 5.5 billion people is at once facile and disrespectful. Who 8s going to decide who is to live? What will be the criteria for survival? You know others in history have already tried this final solution approach and it will never end well. It is our consciousness which largely determines our actions. We are encouraged in the idea that we are individually inconsequential and our actions insignificant when exactly the reverse is true. Every little thing we do makes a difference .... butterfly wings flapping. Nature, or the planetary life collective and the greater universe have their own ways of correcting imbalance, deciding who lives or dies is NOT our primary function so please .... rebuild the Georgia Guidestones somewhere else .... there's plenty of room, plenty of food, we have the ability to cherish and enhance this earthly paradise rather than destroy it. This is the only lesson we need to learn and all else follows naturally. It's so simple, why do humans make it so hard and complicated?
Human population will collapse by itself when food harvest collapse, wars will start over resources helping kill off large groups of people. Its coming in the next 5-10 years for sure
no. overpopulation is not the problem. there are 1.4 billion cars - 3 times the mass and 100x of times the footprint of humans. military 'exercises' involve near-constant flights for hours, on a daily or weekly basis, for the fun of commanding oligarchs. Defund militaries. Ban cars. Ban gas leaf blowers. Ban mechanized forestry equipment, including chainsaws. The planet can sustain humans, not this excess of printed machines.
It doesn't matter how you power human civilisation, either. Our lifestyles have underpinned our demise. Sushi? Yeah! But only if you caught the fish underwater with a spear, and revered the catch, didn't waste a single ounce and realised it was a twice a year event...
An even better example than the Great Barrier Reef is to simply look at tropical equatorial rainforests, the most biodiverse ecological systems on the planet by a wide margin, where mutualistic symbiosis is the hallmark of existence. This is the very cradle of mankind as a species, and we were always meant to be cooperative and to live in harmony with the other species around us. People should look into the writings of Tony Wright as to why humanity has become so deranged as to destroy the very forests that gave us our unique human characteristics in the first place, and why we're ruining everything virtually everywhere we go.
I'm going to guess that Mr. Wright targets man's believe that it has a divine right to use the earth's resources for whatever purposes it wants, without so much as a hint of guilt or remorse over what is being done to other species and to the future of the human species.
Thanks for yet more information about killing whatever is left of the biodiversity of the planet. While the info that is gathered about a sixth mass extinction ior about other apocalyptic scenarios resulting from climate changes, the true nature of the origins of all these problems is seldom, if ever, discussed. How for instance can we expect the political brass to legislate conservation when most are elected to promote jobs and healthy economic growth? It's simply not in the cards, nor even possible. What we need to do is to identify the problem more, and its consequences less.
your appeal is never more emphatic nor tone-edged with measured anger - but Regina - your patience, as mine - is completely drawn-down, now bankrupt [liquidated]. What remains is to manage despair
Humans have to go,and we will,but the damage done is gigantic,and continues even when we are gone. What happens to the power plants and the spent fuel rots ,when the power goes down ,they have to be maintained.
Nature is self destructive as well, its just that the processes are too slow for us to notice. We need to start talking about the planet we want to create not 'saving the planet' which is nonsensical and only gives munitions to the deniers.
Live your lives according to your belief system. Take your personal resonsibility and STOP using fossil fuel or whatever you believe. Start TODAY. How much you are willing to sacrifice of your present comfortable life will show if you all are serious or just simple hypocrites.
"to be human is to be the most dependant animal" - very true...look at all the flash floods this year! Our technological society really depends on not having catastrophic weather all the time.... And no, didn't hear about the sea turtles....the oceans are gonna end up being all squid and jellyfish. Of course one feels compassion for the fisherfolk too, but we've all had to adapt to changes in the law....
Humans aren't naturally over-destructive, just lose to our ignorance. I'm sure whoever thought to import rabbits to Australia was merely ignorant of the fact there were no natural predators there to contain them.
While a "bottom up" response would be best, I just don't see it happening (especially in the US). The small number of views for any important videos related to the climate catastrophe reflects this and I've noticed this for years already. So it really comes down to the wealthiest and highest emitting countries to jointly declare a climate state of emergency where the climate experts dictate policy, not politicians. But the chances of that happening look to be very small, except for maybe a few European countries (hopefully Canada also). But China, Russia, and especially the US won't take this action, along with many others (e.g. Germany) that could and should. Hopefully we have 20 or more years before the shit really hits the fan, I certainly hope so.
We really don't know how long we have got as individuals because some regions & populations are being impacted by weather extremes earlier & more harshly than others. Even those niches which are last to be eliminated by hothouse earth scenarios (with clean-ish water & able to keep growing food), are just as likely to succumb to any of: invasion of desperate climate migrants, background chemicals poisoning, oceanic anoxia, aerial pollution, sea level rise, nutrition deficiency/disease & potentially the effects of nuclear conflict or numerous Chernobyl/Fukushima incidents. Global population rising by 80,000 per day compounds all the other problems.
@@mikeharrington5593 Mike, if my math is correct the human population is growing by over 200,000 people a day. I think we have a net million increase every 4.5 days or so. Otherwise, I agree with all your sentiments.
@@PatrickBronson yeah thanks, I checked Worldometer before posting the comment & was surprised how low the figure was. I must have hit the wrong page then, because today it confirms your 200K/day
My hope resides a bit in science fiction -- if we stop fossil fuel emissions NOW then future scientists will have a lab which isn't flooded, and resources to innovate things we haven't imagined yet. THAT is my hope.
Could you please focus on solutions rather than dwelling on confirming papers? How about vacuuming insects to feed chickens or trading toilets for compostable ones?
Thank you for this video. It was my expanding knowledge and reverence for the living world that caused me to go vegan. The amount of harm and suffering we cause to billions of animals while devastating ecosystems, all for our own pleasure, is heartbreaking. Veganism is in line with values of kindness, compassion, and having a smaller ecological footprint.
Correct extension is near and we should get our house in order. we have to have standards that includes respect and love all living forms of life on this planet.
Worms gone in NW GA since spring and I’ve been looking entire county fields and forest Nothing bigger than a grain of sand BUT soil teeming with tiny life more than I’ve seen in a handful …centipedes looking animals and nematodes and very tiny Crops quit producing with warm nights…no okra here for 2 yrs and tomatoes ripening smaller No okra in stores or farmers market past two years locally -degreed published old horticulturist
I think that as a result to climate change, we need to end the idea of invasive species entirely. Instead, what we see as invasive needs to be represented by the term Environmental refugees. Of course some species must remain as invasive for the damage they will do, but here in Maine we have a new immigrant, a Steller's sea eagle from Russia which fled the wildfires and showed up here, and has remained here as the terrain and temperature are similar. The big Ice cube (Greenland) is close enough to provide some colling effects and so far this year we have avoided the worst of the heat, so the Eagle has remained. A new climate refugee.
Paul, your wrong... man did not live intimidated by the world... ...Paleo-man did not live with a mindset of "Eat or be Eaten." ...We lived with, in, understanding, and respecting our environment. ...Paleolithic bones show a healthy, strong relationship proceeded us foolish modern wimp's. ...We have lost a volume, about the size of a lemon, from within our brains... Evidently, it was the wisdom-center.
Most creatures have to live around water. They took all the ponds away so now creatures have nothing to drink. Even insects need a drink. Creatures dying from pure thirst.
Peter there is more of a sink from the dry the dry the dry. Literally sucking the moisture out of the environment now. I feel it a ND see it. Does any body realize this at the meetings you go to? Is there any talk about the negative sink that's there gobbling up moisture? anybody?
Sigh, I don't eat sushi... and I am careful in what I do eat. The problem is so much more than just what humans eat in what needs to be done for a solution.
They always say we ,I have no say in what large Corporations do or the Government.....and spare me the get out and Vote ,its the money system of debt etc thats the problem ,the boat has to go out to get fish to pay the debt on the boat etc etc etc
Hypothesis Insect decline related to their respiratory systems not coping with higher CO2…ie lower O2….and/or evapotranspiration function having problems with Atmosphere water holding capabilities increasing Maybe at a certain growth stage No grubs in soil locally
Your logic is fallacious. When CO2 levels were MUCH higher in past epochs, insects were much larger along with many other organisms. We are, historicallly in a dearth of carbon dioxide and have come perilously close to such low levels that no plant life can survive. It is literally the gas of life. Neither is it the most significant factor controlling global temperature nor is it a pollutant. Water and celestial factors are the real controllers not humans. We just naturally trash our environment because collectively we are rather stupid and gullible. Many have addressed this fact for both good and ill. We have confused and obfuscated the real issues with pseudoscience and gobbledygook. There are helpful things we CAN do and outcomes we can positively affect and efforts in these matters should be encouraged (as opposed to being enforced upon us). There are things we can do nothing about and these should simply be accepted and embraced. Reestablishing these differences should be a priority. Instead, there are the usual bad actors painting themselves as our saviours whilst pulling strings in the background for their own selfish ends and until we collectively acquire common sense, nothing is going to improve and nature will take its course.
Thank you. I subscribed to your channel. Imagine! What if the ancients were correct in suggesting that there is a natural balance of powers between the seas, land and the skies and between animal, vegetable and mineral. Perhaps we should be wary of invading and pillaging others realms, for there are sure to be consequences.
Thank you for this video. It is important that people understand how this will effect everything. Would you please do some research on climate engineering and help me understand what "THEY" are spraying all over the world. This is an important part of the equation that is ongoing and that you are not acknowledging in this discussion.
It's so obvious what's happening out there to me, maybe it's because I'm middle aged LGBT and have no kids of my own that it's possible to look into the abyss. It must be so much harder for hetronormative people with families to comprehend the full enormity of whats going on.
The first person to create an oil furnace turned on the thing for a day to see what kind of pollution it would cause. The air was fine. So he left it running every day. That oil furnace ran for 200 years. After he died, the family spread, creating thousands more oil furnaces, combustion engines, machines that would in turn run for 200 years each, just as their parent's. The government, normally present to remove groups of malignant and dangerous people, became part of the family. And the air was fine. Now we have 1.446 billion cars and growing. The air is no longer fine.
I get it extinction........no joke. However, our leaders and politicians and others, do not seem to care. "We need less not more consumerism. We need to take care of our home planet earth and all life forms.
What’s important now is to unpack how this collapse is going to go , who gets effected 1st, how does it take shape , it needs to be thought out , because hoping the world leaders will do something , anything , is a loosing bet 100% 4 sure.
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To be alive at a moment in history where my own species is knowingly and willingly destroying everything that came before it for the past 4 Billion years is a heart-breaking "reality check". I have had 73 years to marvel at LIFE's wonders, and now a short time left to rue Man's blunders. Is that a blessing or a curse?
I have seen, in 1991 for my first time, the living coral in Indonesia. I was amazed! It was so colorful, and alive.
8 years after that, the first Niño came, and 90% of that beauty was gone. The new generation can not experience what I saw. And reading your words, I wonder, how was the Earth in the 50's 60's and before that?
And about our power over the planet, and our shortsightedness to handle this power...
I don't see the Hollywoodian happy ending for us.
@@nikoulph im only mid 30s and I was saying to my brother in law how I remember all the bugs and beetles everywhere when I was a kid, every xmas we would have beetles everywhere we called them xmasbeetles everyone knew about them and would play with them I honestly dont think ive seen a single one for over 15 years and in the past your entire porch would be covered in them
The Earth itself is a survivor. That's the only silver lining. I doubt human folly will actually destroy it. Earth has successfully renewed herself many many times over after cataclysm, with 99.9999 % of living forms evolving and then going extinct in time, to be replaced with new forms. Humans will not destroy planet Earth but they, and all they have imagined and created, seem doomed for destruction. That is heartbreaking, given our incredible creativity, singular abilities, wealth of knowledge, etc. Earth herself will heal and reach a new equilibrium with newly evolving life forms, but the unique human experience and human awareness only we enjoy, will be lost forever. 😢
I've lived in So. Cal. most of 63 years. Birds are gone, except for crows and hummingbirds. A couple months ago, brown pelicans were in a die-off with bodies littered on our beach. Spiders around my house are mostly gone. Lizards in garden gone. Raccoons, and possums, formerly regular visitors, gone.
And that is just the life we can see, worse still is the extinction of the microscopic organisms upon which all other life depends.
It's happening in NY too. I only noticed insects disappearing I the last couple years.
@Frank F Kling TERRA FIRMA? That translates in latin to - 'solid earth' - The landmasses. So a more appropriate title to your piece would be - AN ALIEN ASSESSMENT OF EARTH's BIOSPHERE - which encompasses ALL ecosystems of the planet Earth - the landmasses (Terra Firma) and the oceans - all marine ecosystems.
Made another pondliner pond for the remaining amphibians. Hardly any frogs or spiders or insects are visible.
Greetings from Finland! I often hear that previous generations were more in tune with nature but I beg to differ. My grandparents on both sides, born between 1900-1920 thought nothing of shooting everything that moved, dump rubbish in lakes and think of pesticides as a really brilliant thing. In the 1970-80´s rubbish littered roadsides and today plastic is EVERYWHERE, in local parks, National Parks, on beaches by the Baltic Sea ( and the Baltic Sea is a complete waste ground by now )
We are so completely waist-deep in rubbish and garbage that I wonder how future generations are going to clean that up.
And one of the biggest problems in my opinion is overpopulation. Politician say oh no, we need more people to keep the economy going, but I say this is THE problem, problem no. 1
And nothing is going to happen until we reach a complete disaster.....
Sorry for this, great interview though.
"I wonder how future generations are going to clean that up."
They're not. A future species of archeologists will find a layer of plastic, toxic chemicals and chicken bones amongst the human bones, and conclude that the chickens poisoned the humans.
No kidding! Finland 🇫🇮 is very big on forestry isn't it! My school went in '86 but I had no interest, how wonderbar that they want to teach Quebecers to destroy like Europe, my parents were the same, people need to see outright destruction to be fazed and pulled out of their bubbles! Stay strong!
You can't have growth without a growing population.
Billionaires need billions.
When people state that in the past people were more in-touch with nature, they were not referring to those that have lived over the past two thousand years, or even ten thousand years... The human trait of anthropocentrism grew exponentially with the rise of the first civilisations.
You're right. Planet Earth can support 4 billion people. It currently has 8 billion. There is nowhere for humanity to go. The politicians encourage families and babies even in the midst of the 6th mass extinction. The politicians are delusional and corrupt and are leading us to certain near term extinction by 2030.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO
The most comprehensive *meta-analysis* conducted to date with 119 countries, shows avoiding animal products is the *"SINGLE BIGGEST WAY"* to reduce our environmental impact. -Oxford University
When I went up to Thorpe to study Biology in 1970, I had no idea what was to follow. 60% of all wild animals have since disappeared, not to mention the precipitous decline in forest, ocean and wild land biodiversity.
"Human Exceptionalism" is our species "Achilles Heel". Religious and political ideologies have encouraged us to unthinkingly believe that the Earth is "all about us". In reality homos sapiens are just another species, slightly more intelligent than a chimpanzee. Compared to the rest of the nature world we like to imagine ourselves as geniuses. Even our ancient philosophers and priests assured us that "Man is the center of all things" and that Man shall "have dominion over all the Earth...", when, in reality he is just one more expression of LIFE. Certainly slightly more intelligent than the rest, but just stupid enough to end it all.
Very well said. 💯 percent ageee.
Yeah, I think it depends on what your definition of intelligence is. Most human animals would not be able to survive in the wild. Also, human animals are the biggest threat to the planet and most destructive species on it.
I have a fundy Christian friend who says that she is looking forward to the end. The end will be horrific. But she will be in her celestial theme park in the sky.?
Our world and the animal world, remember that distinction?
I witnessed a monarch butterfly 🦋 the other day and was brought to tears.
Saw one earlier today - beautiful - but, so few of them!
I know exactly, precisely, what you mean. When I observe certain creatures now, I realize..(at the same time)... I'm also witnessing their passing. I can sense it vanishing, right before my eyes.
@@heidibrault1313 If you plant butterfly weed in your yard or even on a deck, you will see many and even caterpillars and cocoons.🐛 🦋😁
The solution is simple, make way for nature in your yard, she's nowhere else to go!
Legal and illegal logging still goes on inside protected areas of jungle worldwide! Planting a few saplings in scotland to compensate for a massive teak tree in the tropics is a joke...
Everything we do lately seems to be a joke.
And also forest fires. With climate being hotter, there will be more of them. Millions of hectares burn here in Russia every year. No amount of planting trees can compensate for that
First year ever in my life to have no skylarks ,fieldfares ,swallows , swifts ,butterflies (ok theres one or two) yellowhammers , siskins , greenfinches ,frogspawn ,bullfinches doing ok i think because lots of incomers planting mini orchards . Its shocking . This in a place where 30 years ago you had to be careful where you stepped for squashing something . Rats are doing well but are raiding nests like never before . This in rural SW Scotland . Newts seem to be doing ok but first year ever no dragonflies and mayflies over the ponds and i can cycle to work without being blinded by insects when i normally have to put a net on ...the canary has died .
So terribly sad. Do you know if rats may be in plague, taking nests etc or affecting the birds you mentioned?
In Southern California the rodents are the bulk of the remaining wildlife. Reasons I see..outside of their ability to go to deep ground in a heatwave, are that their predators have all been wiped out. Either intentionally as is the case with snakes, because they’re dangerous. Or unintentionally as is the case with owls. Because we’ve cut down their forest habitats. And filled their hunting meadows with endless miles of tract housing, concrete, blacktop highways and strip malls. And put miles of barbwire fencing throughout their flight path.
What we do is consume everything in our path.
What any flourishing species does.
And that’s just what the rodents are doing now too.
No fresh green food lives through a 120F heatwave.
When those events happen, every year now:
The birds, insects and large mammals either succumb to the heat or starve in the tinder dry deathscape that remains afterward.
Only the rodents do fine, living underground and eating the roots of the few trees that haven’t died yet.
FYI one gopher can devour the entire rootball of a young tree in about one week.
Humans aimed for and encouraged a stagnant environment, war is on, we must win for nature!
Phytoplankton collapse in the tropical Atlantic is really a gut punch... One of my favorite songs has become "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you
I look at the world
And I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake
We must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
Paul's comment on weather whip lashing is so bang on. Here on Vancouver island Canada we have been going from one extrema to the other for a number of years. Summer in Oct, record breaking heat is going on right now.
Last summer heat domes, 50C in B.C. Mega drought now for many years. The hole of the west coast down to Mexico. Very rich biodiversity is dyeing!
The collapse is now accelerating
I'm a chick forest technician from Montreal! I'd worked for the cities and The Minister but left my career in disgust in '88, I majored in Sylviculture. My whole life, talking about this always falls on deaf ears, planting milkweed decades ago meant going to war with neighbours here, how petty!
I live in Vermont and the decline is to me staggering. I'm no scientists but I wish more people would see this. I talk about it all the time no one seems interested. Where's our June bug. I miss those guys our little angels.
Even when the ship down there will be certain people who still be singing and drinking and in denial . The English are very good at this even though when we know we’re outnumbered even when we know it’s a done deal We know we’re going to die , we will have a cup of tea and a chat about anything . There’s a guy called Kevin Anderson who knows government ministers from the British government and they said yeah we know it’s all gonna go down but we don’t want to tell the people because we don’t think they could handle it Kevin said how arrogant this is why they’re still doing what they’ve always done old habits die hard so they still invest in oil all this green stuff is just a hoax and it doesn’t work what we’ve done is we blocked in tipping points that we cannot reverse which is going to cause extinction of the human species just wait until the worldwide famine hits This will be the first major consequence and after that it’s all downhill fast so live well you might want to listen to Paul Beckwith on the global thermal conveyor belt system all the best
I haven't seen a firefly for years here in PA
Come to my youtube channel Clime Aware more content to be added. Can I ask what changed to your Climate? I am in Western Washington and last year our state got slammed by a record flood that did enormous damage. The moisture came out of the south pacific warming pool. Months before that the mega heat wave that saw temps of 108 to 117F between Portland and Vancouver BC. 1,450 people died from heat waves.
Wow, now that you mention it , you’re right I haven’t seen one in years. Fireflies have been plentiful though,here on a farm by a wetlands in NJ, all insects seem to be going , I’ve actually missed the mosquitoes
Forests burned for electricity
Toledo Ohio Metro Parks built a “new” wet land park, called Howard Marsh (HM). I saw over 100 Golden Plovers at HM pre-covid. A couple from Quebec were at HM and they explained to me that over 15 years of them coming to the area of HM, the most GP they ever saw were FOUR. He added, if you build the habitat, the animals will come. Quite impressive.
I'm a chick forest technician from Quebec, we know nature!
As I scan the stands of quinoa, yacon, Ashitaba and many other ancient heirloom food plants in my biodiversity garden here on the north coast of California I realize further how these ancient heirlooms will ensure the survival of my community. I highly suggest others trial multiple varieties of indigenous plants in their gardens.
As a lifetime biodiversity researcher I am amazed what's possible. Quinoa leaves, for example, are 14.7% complete protein, the only vegitative replacement nearly equal to meat.
Blessings on all as we face systemic failure and global crisis...a spiritual "emerge- and- see"...
Compassion sees the best response Fearless love...☆
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."
- Raymond Williams
Talk to people about how bad things are and you're seen as a fanatical nut case, a fear mongeler, absurd!
Agreed. Except the Raymond Williams quotation... I would argue to be 'radical' is to divest in hope and invest in REALITY - regardless of whether socially acceptable or palatable.
Same story here in Austria. Songbirds are disappearing. Bees, butterflies, and many other insects as well. Amphibians are having a hard time.
Can we fix this? That's the question, isn't it?
Only if we first fix the problem of corporations, investors, and so-called "leaders" who seem to value profits over people. In particular, profits from fossil fuels.
It's us against them, people hate bugs (I don't) and would rather poison the whole area with non-native plants than feed the birds with a healthy habitat's bugs, shame on them!
I'm over sixty and have lived a life of moving around the states, ten years ago I moved back to the central north woods four to five decades later and noticed the lack of wild life right away and then about five years ago really noticed the lack of insects. I called the wife over to a field of flowers to check it out, she's from this area, and standing there looking for activity it felt like being in a Outer Limits episode and ever since there still is next to nothing flitting around.
Yes. Exactly.
Same exact experience here. I'm 76. One problem is that people who reached adult-level awareness during the last 15-20 years see most of this as "normal". They have known no different. Life experience has a large effect on the sense of urgency when the change occurs over decades rather than years. Weather changes from year to year is just "noise" with respect to the climate system.
@@RussCR5187 I'm with you. At 72, there is much I miss.
I lived in Yukon wilderness year round for over 50 years. In early summer you had to put on a headnet to go outside because otherwise you would be attacked by hordes of mosquitos. They would be on the outside of the screen door, and you could hear their whining. There were probably hundreds of them on that one screen, waiting for their meal.
Now, very few mosquitoes. Similarly, black flies were a constant annoyance in summer, but they too have diminished greatly. For humans, that's a blessing, but of course it's bad news for bug-eating birds and whatever other creatures eat them. I have also not heard the frogs croaking away in spring in their pond for years. And the swallows are gone. Even the Canada Jays seen to have been affected by the climate changes, at least I believe that to be the cause. There were always young jays around in spring, making their racket demanding food that their parents would bring them. This past summer, there were no young jays around our place, and only a few of adults here and there. Likewise for the usual influxes of birds returning north. There would be so many birds chirping away in the morning that it would wake us up at dawn. No more. The little lake we were on was a magnet for all kinds of ducks. Not anymore. Spiders seem fewer, as do ants. They used to use our garden hose on the ground as their highway. Saw hardly any last summer. The patches of permafrost in some of our bogs seem to be melting and turning into swamps.
When you have lived in the same place all year round for decades, you really notice these changes over time. It might vary from year to year, but I'm convinced that the changing climate is the ultimate cause. And it is heartbreaking.
For those who still doubt ...
It’s really quite simple.
Warmer planet.
Warmer water, warmer air => heavier humidity, heavier rain, heavier floods.
Hotter topsoil, hotter air => more evaporation, more drought, more wildfires.
Hotter environment => less ice, less albedo, much less ice.
That's the way it works. Evidence is now everywhere. Expect more of the same.
It's really not that simple at all.
Some groups of animals require large numbers to live. When their numbers drop even to what to us seems like many, they can't make their community work.
Another brilliant summary presented by Regina, Peter & Paul. So, what can we learn e.g. from the First People in Australia ... They mastered to survive on this continent at least 60,000 + years. To be provocative: How do our survival KPI's are stacking up against their long-term performance?
Mr brother in law made his money in mining, he's an Aussie, a Greta hater and climate change denier, I will never visit there!
You are obviously not aware that the first people of Australia burnt all woodland down that is now desert - it was easier than hunting for the animals would just run out of the woods to be murdered instead of having to be hunted.
We have killed most life in the soil of industrial farmed land
Watch all your vidios I'm no longer in denial and I do believe my generation will be the last I'm 69year old and what I'm seeing now with Nature is not normal it's happening so fast I do believe our time is short.
Similar age. My apple trees and flowers are dying.
@@juliebarks3195 my garden failed this year. Even the plants that are native to this area did poorly. I hope it was my fault. I have always been good at listening to plants but I couldn't hear them this year.
At the age of 60, you would obviously not be the last generation .... Given the generations following.
BTW - I'm 64... And have been - 'in the loop' of understanding biospheric dynamics most of my adult life.
I agree though... That our time is short - an order of decades - but more importantly, that the current ongoing mass extinction is likely to be Earth's FINAL MEE, given the extent of deleterious anthropogenic influence on the biosphare in general.
Experts: "We have no choice, these are the actions we must take"
Capital: "nah"
Earth: "Fuck ya then"
Physics rules
Ghia rules. We are just ticks on her back, soon to be shrugged off like dog shakes off fleas.
It's a disposable planet. When earth is used up we can send it to the landfill and have a new one delivered. Buy now, pay later.
Regarding the ideas of chauvinism and man's attitude of dominance over nature. I believe it's the ROOT CAUSE of our ecological overshoot, and that it will be the most difficult to "fix".
My son's a nurse, he sees loving and fixing as natural as can be!
No bugs on my windshield when I drive, haven't seen a hawk all year, squirrels are missing, few bugs, no honey bees this year, no frog songs, few cardinals, just about everything is gone or nearly gone. But especially heartbreaking for me, the monarch butterflies are flying south in ones and twos in rare sightings. They used to go over in small flocks. No insects in my garden and half my plants flowered but bore no peppers, tomatoes or any fruit.
Had the Vatican not issued Papal Bulls of 1430&1452 … we proly would not be in this dire situation.
Why are so many people asleep when the earth is falling apart around us? Why can I see it, feel it, and they can't.?
I feel the same , it really is odd how blind and unaware most citizens seem to be !!
Perhaps, at least partly because, many are ignorant, when it comes to the biodiversity of the natural world. They don't miss, what they never appreciated to begin with. There's no conscious connection to the web of life.
I think it's easier for many to just look away rather than face the truth.
They do not care.
this concept of biophobia is itself western in thinking. for indigenous societies nature was seen as a friend and relative, not a threatening monster
It is mostly capitalistic in thinking. And western societies were not capitalistic for most of history
Crazy times we're in
To Late to stop this, however we may be able to slow the change. Today the only choice is to STOP fossil fuel use beyond reason. Then we may have time to adapt to the extinction event and mitigate and save as much as we can.
Go vegan and ride a bicycle like me.
@@wobblybobengland that’s not going to do it! Ending global military spending,and making war on climate change is the only answer. What’s the chance of that ? 🥵
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Excellent presentation. You are all correct. We are in the process of collapse, hitting tipping points we can't recover from, and we need to do everything we can humanly possible to reverse what's going on.
Hi Jonathan you say we are in collapse and we must do everything we can there’s nothing really to be done there’s enough tipping points already triggered which will send the planet to hell I think this is the point most people don’t understand or they’re in denial, what people don’t realise collapse will be in full swing in Just a few years from now based on Thwaites glacier and Arctic summer sea ice and a global thermal conveyor belt called Amok, Which by the way has been studied for 15 years and on a graph 4 to 0 it is in between one and 0 to stop there is worldwide famine right there you can make a rough estimate on when the conveyor belt will stop when Thwaites glacier that will go and when the Artic summer sea ice is gone sorry I don’t have time to go in all the detail but these three things will be all gone relatively soon summer size is supposed to go 2023 2024 according to graphs by NOAA. Thwaites glacier 3 to 5 years and the thermal conveyor belt a few years within a decade there’s so many other things we could talk about like the the ocean becoming a carbon dump it can only take so much same as all the plants on the Earth Well we did 20 years ago we’re experiencing now The person who was the canary in the coal mine who everybody hated disagreed with him although he was just pointing out other peoples scientific papers are now singing his praises and there’s others who just will never accept it because how can such an important species as our self go extinct well when the plants go and the animals go we go to that it’s just round the corner Paul Beckwith does a great tutorial on the thermal conveyor belt Dr Guy McPherson four years ago his lectures are worth listening to so you might as well live well right now and I wish you the best
Nothing happens until the monetary system is abolished
@@millennialmindset3624 how i pay rent then? landlord is commercial and has like 100 services for the building.
lets start with far easier ideas! ban on cars cows rocket launches militaries gas leaf blowers and all forestry equipment. bam climate change solved
Yep. I just drove from Atlanta GA to Rochester NY and I didn’t have to clean the windshield once. Not even when I arrived. Not at all. Thanks for the video.
A great video for your mental health .. waiting to see if this great group of scientists are going to show some compassion and create a video that offers solutions to the masses on how to survive .. @ least in the short term. Sad
there are no 'solutions' to the exponential crop losses. This is time to brace for impact and to save what can be saved
This is so important. Thank you
The terms inventory, assessment and conservation towards biodiversity is so large that in our lifetime we are able only to achieve "a dot" in a book, but we are loosing pages right in front of our lives. We are in a loosing fight.
Part of that "domination" over the animal kingdom can be blamed on "god" giving man "dominion" over all the creatures and plants. This, I think, justifies man's actions, in his own mind.
Nice to see these great minds trying to warn us all. We're one of those species next on the list...
The AI of youtube won't let you get the visibility we need ya having
A speculation just occurred to me. A species can be a reservoir for micro-organisms that are unhealthy for humans. Can there also be another species that is a reservoir for micro-organisms beneficial for humans, in that those beneficial micro-organisms may keep a harmful micro-organism in check or contained in a specific region.
An infamous study that's over 40 years old now showed how healthy Indian subjects living in India had a small intestinal microbiota that produced plenty of B12 right where it was absorbed, whereas Indian subjects subjects eating more or less the same diets in England lacked this part of the microbiome. So yes, we are meant to be constantly immersed in a rich soup of interacting microbes, because under those conditions there will always be those perfect for their own niches preventing parasitical and otherwise harmful microbes from proliferating. We see this in successful food webs as well, that when the microbial quality of soil is rich and diverse, plants become extremely resistant to pests naturally without there being any necessity for pesticides or other toxic garbage at all, and the same goes for us humans. We are children of the rainforest, we are literally as much a part of that environment as bees and flowers are part of the same superorganism. See the writings of Tony Wright for an immersive delve into more of this type of information.
It is said that bees produce honey that has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antibacterial properties, keeping potentially harmful micro-organisms at bay.
Yes I have seen myself as just another animal for some time, ever since I reconciled and understood the lie of religion. Surely, only those who don’t understand evolution, would think they are apart from animals.
These superbly informative, and heartfelt videos, have a surreal feel to them. I also think there are many people watching, who know exactly what I mean.
To me, there's not a scintilla of evidence, so far, to indicate that we even have the ability to save ourselves, or to seriously preserve the biodiversity of this jewel of the Solar System. This is obviously a planetary "emergency", but apparently "naked apes" lack the "free will" that we so readily assign to ourselves.
We're just another animal, but one with a complex brain, that, more and more, appears condemned to short term survival value. We can't even get along with each other, never mind care enough to save our fellow earthlings, from our own folly. That goes for me too, lest anyone think I speak from an "ivory tower."
95% of humans say they care about nonhuman animals, yet 95% of humans kill/eat nonhuman animals on a daily basis. Humans have a cognitive dissonance problem for sure. I do believe the planet would be better off without us. 🌍☮️♥️
100%. We aren’t so different from other animals, just slightly more abstract in our abilities, that’s all. But our moral value is no higher.
Yep I concur
We are ruled over by devils who have all the power etc to change the way we do things, but they are unwilling.
Instead they wish to reduce our numbers via climate change.
Beating up on the public is not the way forward. We need to get together and force change.
Also, we can agree to have less children.
The most important thing is to fix the Ozone layer.
We DO have the ability to save ourselves, but the answer lies in the soil. Healthy soil is the best absorber of CO2 on the planet today and turns it into plants. We have destroyed more than half the viable soil since the industrial revolution. Restoration of the soil has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last 30 years in small projects in Africa and South America by restoring water tables with landscape changes, using cattle to feed the soil with intensively managed grazing, ground cover to retain water, companion planting, no chemicals, Etc. etc. A mobilisation of the poor and through education facilitated by technology and funds from the 'first world', take over the desert land and restore it worldwide, and at the same time create viable, sustainable communities for millions of impoverished people. But this requires cooperation and a change of mindset away from profit at any cost. Ruined land is worthless so it steps on no toes and its restoration will end poverty and give the rest of us a future. It is a no brainer. The only change in energy policy at this point should be the ban of fracking which is accelerating the climate break down as it contributes, not just Methane but Ethane, which has a much more blanketing effect than Methane into the atmosphere (it is a building block of plastic and much more valuable than oil) Once methane is released from peatlands in the Arctic, we are toast, so releasing vast quantities of it with fracking is suicide! So, those two changes may be our ONLY chance for a future. But nobody wants to know or even cares...We will get what we deserve...Life on the planet will survive us.
Thank you three for your continuing efforts to tell the truth about the current situation with all life around us.
Biodiversity is certainly collapsing, and the food crop plants presently under extreme stress from extreme temperatures threaten an imminent famine which will have an immediate & devastating impact for humans, very soon.
To get all governments to enforce a system of humility is the conundrum.
I'm heartbroken to see it extremely far from possible.
I'm not religious in any way, but I actually pray for humans to clue up yesterday.
not gonna happen especially with all these wars kicking off, also China is upping its coal use by 300m tones this year alone
The loss of biodiversity on our extraordinary planet is the ultimate sin of our 21st century wealth seeking society.
Climate activists give them selves an exemption for the harm they do because they are climate activists.
Basically the problem is over population -six billion of us is simply too much -world population must be drastically reduced to about half a billion or so -but how will this be achieved?To quote the great Spanish cellist Pablo Casals -"the situation is hopeless but we must take the next step!"
There are seven point seven.
Over population presents us with an opportunity to radically review the way we organise ourselves. To arbitrarily 'decide' that 'we' have to get rid of 5.5 billion people is at once facile and disrespectful. Who 8s going to decide who is to live? What will be the criteria for survival? You know others in history have already tried this final solution approach and it will never end well. It is our consciousness which largely determines our actions. We are encouraged in the idea that we are individually inconsequential and our actions insignificant when exactly the reverse is true. Every little thing we do makes a difference .... butterfly wings flapping. Nature, or the planetary life collective and the greater universe have their own ways of correcting imbalance, deciding who lives or dies is NOT our primary function so please .... rebuild the Georgia Guidestones somewhere else .... there's plenty of room, plenty of food, we have the ability to cherish and enhance this earthly paradise rather than destroy it. This is the only lesson we need to learn and all else follows naturally. It's so simple, why do humans make it so hard and complicated?
Human population will collapse by itself when food harvest collapse, wars will start over resources helping kill off large groups of people. Its coming in the next 5-10 years for sure
no. overpopulation is not the problem.
there are 1.4 billion cars - 3 times the mass and 100x of times the footprint of humans.
military 'exercises' involve near-constant flights for hours, on a daily or weekly basis, for the fun of commanding oligarchs.
Defund militaries. Ban cars. Ban gas leaf blowers. Ban mechanized forestry equipment, including chainsaws. The planet can sustain humans, not this excess of printed machines.
It doesn't matter how you power human civilisation, either. Our lifestyles have underpinned our demise. Sushi? Yeah! But only if you caught the fish underwater with a spear, and revered the catch, didn't waste a single ounce and realised it was a twice a year event...
Revere and spear seems oxymoronic. Can one "revere" and spear a human?
@@PleaseDontEatAnimals mirrors are available at the store with the forty acre parking lot.
An even better example than the Great Barrier Reef is to simply look at tropical equatorial rainforests, the most biodiverse ecological systems on the planet by a wide margin, where mutualistic symbiosis is the hallmark of existence. This is the very cradle of mankind as a species, and we were always meant to be cooperative and to live in harmony with the other species around us. People should look into the writings of Tony Wright as to why humanity has become so deranged as to destroy the very forests that gave us our unique human characteristics in the first place, and why we're ruining everything virtually everywhere we go.
I'm going to guess that Mr. Wright targets man's believe that it has a divine right to use the earth's resources for whatever purposes it wants, without so much as a hint of guilt or remorse over what is being done to other species and to the future of the human species.
Thanks for yet more information about killing whatever is left of the biodiversity of the planet. While the info that is gathered about a sixth mass extinction ior about other apocalyptic scenarios resulting from climate changes, the true nature of the origins of all these problems is seldom, if ever, discussed. How for instance can we expect the political brass to legislate conservation when most are elected to promote jobs and healthy economic growth? It's simply not in the cards, nor even possible. What we need to do is to identify the problem more, and its consequences less.
We need the next generation to have the guts to do things properly!
your appeal is never more emphatic nor tone-edged with measured anger - but Regina - your patience, as mine - is completely drawn-down, now bankrupt [liquidated]. What remains is to manage despair
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The regenerative power of nature really is astounding. But of course the trauma has to stop before the healing can begin...
There are too many people on earth for regeneration to take place.
Humans have to go,and we will,but the damage done is gigantic,and continues even when we are gone.
What happens to the power plants and the spent fuel rots ,when the power goes down ,they have to be maintained.
Nature is self destructive as well, its just that the processes are too slow for us to notice. We need to start talking about the planet we want to create not 'saving the planet' which is nonsensical and only gives munitions to the deniers.
Live your lives according to your belief system. Take your personal resonsibility and STOP using fossil fuel or whatever you believe. Start TODAY. How much you are willing to sacrifice of your present comfortable life will show if you all are serious or just simple hypocrites.
"to be human is to be the most dependant animal" - very true...look at all the flash floods this year! Our technological society really depends on not having catastrophic weather all the time....
And no, didn't hear about the sea turtles....the oceans are gonna end up being all squid and jellyfish. Of course one feels compassion for the fisherfolk too, but we've all had to adapt to changes in the law....
phenology
the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life.
Humans aren't naturally over-destructive, just lose to our ignorance. I'm sure whoever thought to import rabbits to Australia was merely ignorant of the fact there were no natural predators there to contain them.
While a "bottom up" response would be best, I just don't see it happening (especially in the US). The small number of views for any important videos related to the climate catastrophe reflects this and I've noticed this for years already. So it really comes down to the wealthiest and highest emitting countries to jointly declare a climate state of emergency where the climate experts dictate policy, not politicians. But the chances of that happening look to be very small, except for maybe a few European countries (hopefully Canada also). But China, Russia, and especially the US won't take this action, along with many others (e.g. Germany) that could and should. Hopefully we have 20 or more years before the shit really hits the fan, I certainly hope so.
We really don't know how long we have got as individuals because some regions & populations are being impacted by weather extremes earlier & more harshly than others. Even those niches which are last to be eliminated by hothouse earth scenarios (with clean-ish water & able to keep growing food), are just as likely to succumb to any of: invasion of desperate climate migrants, background chemicals poisoning, oceanic anoxia, aerial pollution, sea level rise, nutrition deficiency/disease & potentially the effects of nuclear conflict or numerous Chernobyl/Fukushima incidents.
Global population rising by 80,000 per day compounds all the other problems.
@@mikeharrington5593 Mike, if my math is correct the human population is growing by over 200,000 people a day. I think we have a net million increase every 4.5 days or so. Otherwise, I agree with all your sentiments.
@@PatrickBronson yeah thanks, I checked Worldometer before posting the comment & was surprised how low the figure was. I must have hit the wrong page then, because today it confirms your 200K/day
Canada has the highest per capita pollution.
My hope resides a bit in science fiction -- if we stop fossil fuel emissions NOW then future scientists will have a lab which isn't flooded, and resources to innovate things we haven't imagined yet. THAT is my hope.
Yes for the people we need to care.
Very poor land management.
Very very poor indeed.
I've spent my whole life fighting industrialism.
There is no winning.
Prepare yourselves.
Thanks
Could you please focus on solutions rather than dwelling on confirming papers? How about vacuuming insects to feed chickens or trading toilets for compostable ones?
There can be no legitimate discussion on the climate from any perspective without first and foremost stopping climate engineering operations.
we are so screwed
Thank you for this video. It was my expanding knowledge and reverence for the living world that caused me to go vegan. The amount of harm and suffering we cause to billions of animals while devastating ecosystems, all for our own pleasure, is heartbreaking. Veganism is in line with values of kindness, compassion, and having a smaller ecological footprint.
Money is energy. Energy is power. Power is addicting. We love our cars and mobility. Money impresses our children.
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Correct extension is near and we should get our house in order.
we have to have standards that includes respect and love all living forms of life on this planet.
The evolutionary advantage of intelligence and technical skills -
ladies and gentlemen, dear gods:
The human species!
Worms gone in NW GA since spring and I’ve been looking entire county fields and forest
Nothing bigger than a grain of sand BUT soil teeming with tiny life more than I’ve seen in a handful …centipedes looking animals and nematodes and very tiny
Crops quit producing with warm nights…no okra here for 2 yrs and tomatoes ripening smaller
No okra in stores or farmers market past two years locally
-degreed published old horticulturist
What about the river Dolfin that was extinct for 20,000 years and is not flourishing again?
it wasn't extinct then, was it? LOL
I think that as a result to climate change, we need to end the idea of invasive species entirely. Instead, what we see as invasive needs to be represented by the term Environmental refugees. Of course some species must remain as invasive for the damage they will do, but here in Maine we have a new immigrant, a Steller's sea eagle from Russia which fled the wildfires and showed up here, and has remained here as the terrain and temperature are similar. The big Ice cube (Greenland) is close enough to provide some colling effects and so far this year we have avoided the worst of the heat, so the Eagle has remained. A new climate refugee.
Paul, your wrong... man did not live intimidated by the world... ...Paleo-man did not live with a mindset of "Eat or be Eaten." ...We lived with, in, understanding, and respecting our environment. ...Paleolithic bones show a healthy, strong relationship proceeded us foolish modern wimp's. ...We have lost a volume, about the size of a lemon, from within our brains... Evidently, it was the wisdom-center.
Let the future begin...............DUST
This is how all ends
humanity motto, si vis pacem, para bellum, that is where i believe we are locked in. An old time story.
For of 🌳🌱❤3love ty for sharing my beautiful spirit sister
Most creatures have to live around water.
They took all the ponds away so now creatures have nothing to drink.
Even insects need a drink.
Creatures dying from pure thirst.
I wasn't expecting Chewbacca to get a shoutout.
Arkists unite!
"Leave room for nature".
"Leave room for nature".
Tuna has a high mercury content, for this reason alone it should be avoided
I heard someone say they only ate fish when they were low on mercury.
Not forever. Only until the cause of extinction is gone. After that biodiversity will recover
Peter there is more of a sink from the dry the dry the dry. Literally sucking the moisture out of the environment now. I feel it a ND see it. Does any body realize this at the meetings you go to? Is there any talk about the negative sink that's there gobbling up moisture? anybody?
Sigh, I don't eat sushi... and I am careful in what I do eat. The problem is so much more than just what humans eat in what needs to be done for a solution.
They always say we
,I have no say in what large Corporations do or the Government.....and spare me the get out and Vote ,its the money system of debt etc thats the problem ,the boat has to go out to get fish to pay the debt on the boat etc etc etc
Hypothesis
Insect decline related to their respiratory systems not coping with higher CO2…ie lower O2….and/or evapotranspiration function having problems with Atmosphere water holding capabilities increasing
Maybe at a certain growth stage
No grubs in soil locally
Your logic is fallacious. When CO2 levels were MUCH higher in past epochs, insects were much larger along with many other organisms. We are, historicallly in a dearth of carbon dioxide and have come perilously close to such low levels that no plant life can survive. It is literally the gas of life. Neither is it the most significant factor controlling global temperature nor is it a pollutant. Water and celestial factors are the real controllers not humans. We just naturally trash our environment because collectively we are rather stupid and gullible. Many have addressed this fact for both good and ill. We have confused and obfuscated the real issues with pseudoscience and gobbledygook. There are helpful things we CAN do and outcomes we can positively affect and efforts in these matters should be encouraged (as opposed to being enforced upon us). There are things we can do nothing about and these should simply be accepted and embraced. Reestablishing these differences should be a priority. Instead, there are the usual bad actors painting themselves as our saviours whilst pulling strings in the background for their own selfish ends and until we collectively acquire common sense, nothing is going to improve and nature will take its course.
Thank you. I subscribed to your channel.
Imagine! What if the ancients were correct in suggesting that there is a natural balance of powers between the seas, land and the skies and between animal, vegetable and mineral. Perhaps we should be wary of invading and pillaging others realms, for there are sure to be consequences.
Thank you for this video. It is important that people understand how this will effect everything. Would you please do some research on climate engineering and help me understand what "THEY" are spraying all over the world. This is an important part of the equation that is ongoing and that you are not acknowledging in this discussion.
I only eat plants. It won’t save the planet, but it’s something I can control. Not much else.
Did Paul B. Just say X cetera?
thanks
It's so obvious what's happening out there to me, maybe it's because I'm middle aged LGBT and have no kids of my own that it's possible to look into the abyss. It must be so much harder for hetronormative people with families to comprehend the full enormity of whats going on.
The first person to create an oil furnace turned on the thing for a day to see what kind of pollution it would cause. The air was fine. So he left it running every day.
That oil furnace ran for 200 years. After he died, the family spread, creating thousands more oil furnaces, combustion engines, machines that would in turn run for 200 years each, just as their parent's. The government, normally present to remove groups of malignant and dangerous people, became part of the family. And the air was fine.
Now we have 1.446 billion cars and growing. The air is no longer fine.
Have you heard of the turtles defecating plastic? That's what they were eating plastic, plastic was the norm food source, this is no joke!
I get it extinction........no joke. However, our leaders and politicians and others, do not seem to care. "We need less not more consumerism. We need to take care of our home planet earth and all life forms.
I thought Peter is the director of climate emergency
Peter is the director of 'Climate Emergency Institute' → www.climateemergencyinstitute.com/
What’s important now is to unpack how this collapse is going to go , who gets effected 1st, how does it take shape , it needs to be thought out , because hoping the world leaders will do something , anything , is a loosing bet 100% 4 sure.
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