5 Human Impacts on the Environment: Crash Course Ecology #10

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  • Hank gives the rundown on the top five ways humans are negatively impacting the environment and having detrimental effects on the valuable ecosystem services which a healthy biosphere provides.
    Table of Contents
    Ecosystem Services 00:51
    The Importance of Biodiversity 04:07
    Deforestation 06:42
    Desertification 06:49
    Global Warming 07:59
    Invasive Species 08:51
    Overharvesting 09:20
    Crash Course/SciShow videos referenced in this episode:
    Hydrologic and Carbon Cycles: • The Hydrologic and Car...
    Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles: • Nitrogen & Phosphorus ...
    Ecological Succession: • Ecological Succession:...
    Climate Change: • Climate Change
    Invasive Species: • Invasive Species: The ...
    Food Shortage: • The Bacon Hoax & the N...
    References:
    www.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservice...
    www.endangeredspeciesinternati...
    www.epa.gov/acidrain/effects/s...
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  • @ghostcat611
    @ghostcat611 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    Anyone watching in 2024

  • @Alyssa-wz8mx
    @Alyssa-wz8mx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1527

    Anyone else here 7 years later for online classes?

  • @thetandlcorner5010
    @thetandlcorner5010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +922

    _"Tina here. If you have no idea which one's are the 5. here!"_
    Deforestation 5:37 -6:55
    Desertification 6:56 -7:41
    Global warming
    7:42 - 8:44
    Nonnative species
    8:54 - 9:20
    Overharvesting 9:21 - 9:42
    _"If I am incorrect, tell me! Like if you want everyone else to see this!"_
    EDIT: _"Guys I know it's in the description but not everyone checks that, so here it is in the comments."_

    • @edgarn8084
      @edgarn8084 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      FriskPony you’re the goat🐐

    • @stellac8160
      @stellac8160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      omg thanks so much

    • @davidsarpong8042
      @davidsarpong8042 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      your a life saver thanks so much :)

    • @jadeemerge3770
      @jadeemerge3770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      tysm now i can do all my work lmao

    • @isabella-em3rt
      @isabella-em3rt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      life saverrr

  • @NataliaSchenone
    @NataliaSchenone ปีที่แล้ว +56

    wow this video has been up for 10 years , and we're living out everything he's explaining. At greater rates.

  • @bencorey8315
    @bencorey8315 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Hey! Biology teacher here: I always enjoy your videos, Hank, but this series on Ecology has been my favorite! Your masters in Environmental Science shows through your passion.

    • @babbletron8730
      @babbletron8730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hey ben its me, jack. I think you are stupid and should stop teaching.

  • @kai-zi9st
    @kai-zi9st 7 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    mann this is awesome. I admire how passionate he is.

  • @Damouse007
    @Damouse007 11 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The key is "few hundred thousand years."
    As he says in the video, the things we have been doing and the things that are happening are taking place at an astoundingly fast pace.

  • @highspacefox
    @highspacefox 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    these last three are the best in the series!
    thanks for all the work yall do @ crashcourse, love yall!

  • @savannahmeachum7027
    @savannahmeachum7027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I enjoy crash course videos more than other videos when learning or reviewing for things that they also happen to cover

  • @biamenezes7801
    @biamenezes7801 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This is an amazing video and I'll surely watch this again. The part when you show the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest was kinda sad to me, since the majority part is contained within my country.

  • @LookForwardtoLifeHeisTheLife
    @LookForwardtoLifeHeisTheLife 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for this 'basic' education on the problems that we (humanity) have caused. WE ALL NEED this info to understand the problems and, their poss solutions. PLEASE keep up the good work ! Keep spreading the news and, assisting mother Earth in such ways. TY !

  • @mjlock7338
    @mjlock7338 9 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    can we get a whole separate segment for environmental science?

    • @sunitamahadik7746
      @sunitamahadik7746 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Find out more about

    • @awesomeloren8174
      @awesomeloren8174 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      YESSS

    • @markocegn452
      @markocegn452 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      hello MJ Lock I saw your comment and see that you care about the environment and the climate therefore I wonder if you are open to see what we do and help us together do something concrete to improve the environment?

  • @Assasiinzz
    @Assasiinzz 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Its my Bio 4 exam on Friday and this show is so helpful for revision, im lucky to have it at the same time as my exams, thank you John and Hank

  • @ashleygonzalez6119
    @ashleygonzalez6119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow, this is such a great video. I learned that humans have caused so many problems to happen such as littering, cutting trees and etc. If we had to do what the environment does for us as of today it would take us longer and a lot more time. The ecosystems are a combination of old and new things that create the environment we are in as of today.

  • @amoolaassad4701
    @amoolaassad4701 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Tom. Iam having biology exam and u really helped me in taking few IMP points that may help mee.. Really thank u ❤️👏

  • @josephmorgan1595
    @josephmorgan1595 8 ปีที่แล้ว +657

    Who else has to watch this for there biology class?

  • @Tornair
    @Tornair 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love these Ecology episodes! It reassures me that this is what I want to do with my life.

  • @mikaelboman5553
    @mikaelboman5553 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for bringing youtube the best/most needed information out there!
    Cheers!

  • @EInc1000
    @EInc1000 10 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I'm addicted to these videos!

    • @zhongliangcai602
      @zhongliangcai602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ezra Grant , I only watch these because my mom tells me to XD.

  • @centmilli
    @centmilli 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    watching all these from New Zealand. The presenter is awesome.

  • @777anouchka
    @777anouchka 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Would you be able to make a video on the possible mitigations or human interventions that can help the ecosystem, the benefits this could do or the harm it could possibly do?

  • @matthewdangelo8908
    @matthewdangelo8908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i loved your video...i think the world needs more people like you...thanks a lot

  • @laurenfivecents
    @laurenfivecents หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    thank you for helping me this year in biology! human impact is my last test this year, wooo!! i’ll be back for my final next week

  • @mariagordon-lewis2802
    @mariagordon-lewis2802 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for your videos...You got me through biology... Grade: A...Now I need you to get me through environmental science...core concepts of John Muir, Rachael Carson and Charles Darwin...If you can recommend certain videos to me --I would greatly appreciate...

  • @viptechies1843
    @viptechies1843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Imagine watching this again and realize that the Amazonian Forest is almost gone due to extreme wildfire. And imagine how many biodiversities were eradicated due to that phenomenon.

    • @chococookies4
      @chococookies4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The plants will grow back due to secondary succession. The plants always get replaced, but the animals are who I am grieving for.

  • @NoelMarshall
    @NoelMarshall 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great Presentation, Thank You, please keep educating for all our sakes.

  • @DaehPhone
    @DaehPhone 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In the midst of these walls of text, I would like to say I love this man's voice.

    • @Nt3Hr
      @Nt3Hr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi its 7 years later its 2020 now

  • @mikem274
    @mikem274 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Lmao definitely another depressing yet entertaining and insightful episode of Crash Course. Thank you Hank!

  • @IsaacJennaithegenerous
    @IsaacJennaithegenerous 10 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    this needs 8 billion views.

    • @akshayrathore2882
      @akshayrathore2882 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      or just 'muricans. no one else is debating global warming

  • @PontusWelin
    @PontusWelin 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This isn't depressing! Not for me at least. It gives me a better understanding of these problems. And I NEED a better understanding. Please, please, please! Make more in depth videos about this subject!

  • @xanomaly1
    @xanomaly1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good idea on this two-parter! Thanks

  • @jessd6359
    @jessd6359 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thx, really helped me with my homework!

  • @protectamericasconsumers4219
    @protectamericasconsumers4219 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    All of these things are important for people to know whether you are a student or teacher. We have to be aware of what we are doing to the environment, for the long haul.

    • @Shimamon27
      @Shimamon27 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And how do you propose to make people care about anything other than their massive endless privileges?
      They want MORE not LESS.
      They will never give up their Hedonism, until there is nothing left to eat, and then they'll all enter into massive mental instability, and start killing each other by the masses.
      It'll be total carnage, and nobody will learn anything from the whole event.
      End of story, everybody loses.

    • @sonokoluvr
      @sonokoluvr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mindeer it’s the sad reality

  • @HelenaMaksyom
    @HelenaMaksyom 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you so much for this video!

  • @pijushbhowal6214
    @pijushbhowal6214 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really clear and appreciating explanation

  • @SHEensya
    @SHEensya 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crash course is awesome! Keep rockin’! 😍❤️❤️❤️

  • @Alfaneroruiz
    @Alfaneroruiz 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    really liking it your videos!!!! Thanks a lot for uploading such nice videos.

  • @keldibekkozhoev2910
    @keldibekkozhoev2910 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    thanks , this video helped me a lot on my project in school !!!

  • @moaadm4620
    @moaadm4620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for helping me right my essay.

  • @PreciousRareFind
    @PreciousRareFind 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You're phenomenal Hank, thank you for the CrashCourse. You made it all easy to understand =D Every little bit of effort helps. Will you make a video of ways we can help the Ecosystem and Climate. Thanks...

  • @WilliamLetzkus
    @WilliamLetzkus 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent series!

  • @jessieclass741
    @jessieclass741 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I wish everyone would watch this video. People don't realize how dependent we are on the environment. A lot of people think humans and nature are separate but that isn't true at all.

    • @user-fi5fd2ky6e
      @user-fi5fd2ky6e 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that is right. im sure alot of people know it is just that they dont have a reason to care...

    • @jessieclass741
      @jessieclass741 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True

    • @ishouldbestudying251
      @ishouldbestudying251 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jessie Class Did you write this comment just because your teacher told you to?

    • @jessieclass741
      @jessieclass741 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not at all. I wrote this comment because it's my honest opinion. I didn't even watch this for school, or because anybody told me too. I watched it because I honestly care about the enviorment.

    • @ibizanhound7891
      @ibizanhound7891 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Vegan Gains Actual Father What are you even talking about

  • @mariaalzarooni3995
    @mariaalzarooni3995 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you veeerrrrry much
    You saved me ... I didn't understand this lesson in the school and we have term exams tomorrow
    Thank you again

  • @GowanRavin
    @GowanRavin 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hank & co - please please please do a video on what we as individuals can do to reduce the negative human impacts on climate change, be it by wasting less, changing habits, getting out and campaigning or whatever. I try to do as much as I can but I often feel I don't know enough about the related issues to act effectively, and I'm sure your knowledge base could provide some very helpful pointers to us all ^_^

  • @DrMurdockKawfi
    @DrMurdockKawfi 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I feel like I need to mention that there are already logging restrictions in the rainforest. Nearly all the trees we use for lumber are grown on tree farms.
    The people cutting down trees in the rainforest are low income native populations who are trying to make farms and grow food for their families.
    If we help those people with better farming technology, less land will have to be cleared.

  • @amylowis4595
    @amylowis4595 8 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    People who don't study Biology or Ecology should be required to watch this video

    • @amylowis4595
      @amylowis4595 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +COOL GUY111 in defence of myself, this photo is 3 years old

    • @theguywholovespie2118
      @theguywholovespie2118 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Amy Lowis They should be required to watch it every day for a month.

    • @theguywholovespie2118
      @theguywholovespie2118 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      How about... no. :P

    • @amylowis4595
      @amylowis4595 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hey woah calm down everyone

    • @theguywholovespie2118
      @theguywholovespie2118 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Amy Lowis RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!!! XDD

  • @LearnEnglishESL
    @LearnEnglishESL 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good presentation... "We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions." -Shoghi Effendi, Baha'i Faith

  • @niguelmccloud4486
    @niguelmccloud4486 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this video was made 6 years ago and I'm just now learning about it

  • @pamelareinoso962
    @pamelareinoso962 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My University should be cutting you a check bc my professor literally quizzes us on your videos

  • @Shellewell
    @Shellewell 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When you said "we could never ever ever duplicate" my mind immediately went "getting back together."

  • @tebwebweterikaua8272
    @tebwebweterikaua8272 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i really like this cuz it helps us what to solve any problems that our environment face

  • @martinandthegreenguitar5183
    @martinandthegreenguitar5183 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video! Gotta show my kids!

  • @emmystein
    @emmystein 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm in university and I catch myself watching his science videos for fun....:p

  • @gaming_with_coral1705
    @gaming_with_coral1705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this thank you for your time and effort

  • @HollyBerkowitzHollyMBerkowitz
    @HollyBerkowitzHollyMBerkowitz 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great intro! Thanks!

  • @nikispivey3316
    @nikispivey3316 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    my 14 year old kid just started high school about a month ago and she has a environmental science class and she loves it

  • @pia_om
    @pia_om 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    haha awesome you guys did this so well :)!

  • @a.t.akayoungdrew667
    @a.t.akayoungdrew667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    "Thank you for watching another kind of depressing video of crash course ecology." 😂

  • @lucas5530
    @lucas5530 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's scishow dude! Thanks science teacher!

  • @kirstenanoukborger
    @kirstenanoukborger 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel is great!!

  • @detonatorJE
    @detonatorJE 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    please make a series on engineering!! :)

  • @masieldlc12
    @masieldlc12 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    "why is this stuff turning the earth into sausage" XD. XD. XD

  • @tonysintheattic
    @tonysintheattic 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    True enough. This was actually a pretty enlightening chat.

  • @crazyfett649
    @crazyfett649 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had to watch this for homework. I get what he is saying, but I almost fell asleep and I was counting down the seconds until it was over.

  • @theguywholovespie2118
    @theguywholovespie2118 8 ปีที่แล้ว +375

    SAVE A COW, A FEW TREES, AN ECOSYSTEM.
    GROW A POTATO.

  • @richardfrancis862
    @richardfrancis862 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I wonder what it's like now if this was in 2013. Also, who else is given an assignment with this for geo?

  • @carladillard2741
    @carladillard2741 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice.. love the links to the right ... neat

  • @laurenchristin8876
    @laurenchristin8876 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video!

  • @thelastEnderBender
    @thelastEnderBender 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    thanks this is going 2 hlp me on my report.

    • @Nt3Hr
      @Nt3Hr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cheese Whizard what did u get on ur report

  • @noahreed9091
    @noahreed9091 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    How does he talk for 10 minutes straight and keep his cool? I could never do that.

  • @ErichoTTA
    @ErichoTTA 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice stuff.

  • @nisbahmumtaz909
    @nisbahmumtaz909 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Posting a video? Dude, he has a freaking master's in this stuff.

  • @talyah23
    @talyah23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    And in August 2019 this video becomes incredibly sad that 6 years on we watch the Amazon being burned due to agriculture and our obsession with consuming meat/animals. We never learn and therefore deserve the extinction we are bringing on.

  • @awddwa6544
    @awddwa6544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    FACT: If all humans stop breathing, Earth will be saved.

    • @supaboi9
      @supaboi9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      God: Oh my god! Why didnt I think of that!

  • @sivashanker2727
    @sivashanker2727 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    you are the best!!!simply amazing

  • @yalnaazlakdawala1507
    @yalnaazlakdawala1507 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome !!💕

  • @koofaya
    @koofaya 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    In Poland we have increased the total area of forests from 20% to around 30% since WWIII. So it's possible to do something good for the climate and quality of living while still being able to make good profit out of it.
    For an example, we make a lot of furniture for Ikea. Currently we're having problems with overpopulation of boars (300,000 of them) so reforestation is not only good for wood but also for food... =)

    • @koofaya
      @koofaya 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** Yes, because we went to the future, seen all the shit, came back and planted loads of trees!

    • @laramads5101
      @laramads5101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      WWIII? You from the future or something? XP

    • @beatrizfitz8061
      @beatrizfitz8061 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nerd

  • @Imtortured
    @Imtortured 11 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I always thought desertification was when you got to the end of a meal and they brought you dessert and you where happy. Desertification.

  • @Matrinique
    @Matrinique 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    This needs more views....

  • @lmclaren8360
    @lmclaren8360 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I teach and this was an awesome video. Keep doing them.

  • @Biggreeniefun
    @Biggreeniefun 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Brilliant video!+! "When I say 'effect', I don't mean in a good way." Hah hah hah. Yes, this video is definitely depressing, but it motivates us to fight these changes as much as we possibly can!-!

  • @thechloeproject3514
    @thechloeproject3514 8 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    My teacher showed this video in class. It was good.👍

    • @thechloeproject3514
      @thechloeproject3514 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just in case you want to know it's a 6th grade class.

    • @erika-wp4ft
      @erika-wp4ft 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Whut. I'm Year 1 and teacher also showed this in class.

    • @claire5823
      @claire5823 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ...year 1?

    • @keii2596
      @keii2596 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Chloe Project 😂

    • @keii2596
      @keii2596 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Chloe Project 😂

  • @michellelopez5264
    @michellelopez5264 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Have you done one on how we can fix these problems?

  • @KennethGEade
    @KennethGEade 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well done! Speaks to the common man

  • @then0un
    @then0un 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hank, you mention cattle as the primary cause of deforestation (in the Amazon and globally) and desertification. I've been wondering if you're vegetarian.
    As a biologist, you know the industrial meat system is the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, desertification, ocean acidification, use of petrochemical fertilizers/pesticides (for animal feed), use of arable land & fresh water, and the bulk of environmental problems we're wreaking upon this earth.
    As one who has studied psychology, why do you think people are so opposed to switching to a more sustainable plant-based diet? There seems to be a lot of resistance.

    • @makaylamarshall9743
      @makaylamarshall9743 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Zortron culture, and it’s a really big overhaul to change one’s diet. I’m three years in still trying to change my diet and be primarily vegetarian

  • @martin_lopez9515
    @martin_lopez9515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Im seeing this in a class :D

  • @apurvaxess7595
    @apurvaxess7595 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    you'r doing a good job...👍

  • @1paupingson
    @1paupingson 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey! I just voted @TheCrashCourse in the shorty award! They deserve an award! :)

  • @DemirOmerSen
    @DemirOmerSen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    6:06 so true 😂

  • @rainbowkat1516
    @rainbowkat1516 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The environment is so strong yet so fragile.

    • @fancymushroom.
      @fancymushroom. 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the environment is strong, but humans are way more stronger than our environment could ever be...

    • @someone-ou3ht
      @someone-ou3ht 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      ecosystem is perfect and the imperfect humans are destroying it's perfection

  • @makaylamarshall9743
    @makaylamarshall9743 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And around the 4:30 mark, not only is biodiversity important, but functioning ecosystem cycles are also important. Gotta have all them carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles working together on top of high biodiversity for a fully intact ecosystem!

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My lazy professor linked our class to this video as well as other videos.

  • @VictoryDanDukor
    @VictoryDanDukor 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love these. Yes, they're a bit depressing but at least I'm informed on the shit we're doing to the world.

  • @alicethornburgh7552
    @alicethornburgh7552 8 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    I went to Humboldt State University to study Environmental Science, and this is incredibly dumb... At 0:25 he says that human activity "could be" responsible for the extinction of "nearly" 1,000 plant and animal species in the last 100 years. The real numbers are way higher than that. "Scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours. This is nearly 1,000 times the “natural” or “background” rate."
    Don't get me wrong, crashcourse makes some really cool stuff, I've seen it... But this guy made a 10 minute presentation on environmental science, and within 30 seconds he shows that he fundamentally misunderstands the magnitude of the crisis he's talking about. We're not just cutting down a few trees and changing the temperature a bit. We cut and burn 40 football fields of trees per minute. We redirect so much water and till so much soil that we have created deserts the size of countries.
    Misinformation like this makes me furious because it makes people think, "well if only 10 species a year have become extinct over the last 100 years, then maybe this is something we can solve next year if we just try a little bit harder. I'm sure that environmental group or whatever has it on lock..." People need to understand that by doing as much damage as we have, we have committed ourselves to fix it, and it's going to be expensive and controversial and it's going to take decades, and if we don't, this extinction event that we've created will continue to spiral out of control, decimating all the most beautiful things we know and love or want to discover.
    Want to know what happens when you cut down a very old tree? Here's a tree centuries old, and looks nothing like the other trees around it, and covered in a strange moss, and sweet smelling purple flowers. Only one species of bird in the forest is adapted to suck nectar from these flowers, touting a ridiculously long and otherwise impractical needle of a beak everywhere they go. When this tree falls, its flowers become extinct because they can only grow on that particular tree. The birds return to find the tree and its flowers dead, and they too become extinct... and the bugs that can only survive on the feces of the birds, and the fungus which only grows on the corpses of the poop eating bugs, and the bugs which only eat that particular fungus, and the spider which primarily eats the fungus eating bugs, and so on. The effects ripple through the forest, and hundreds or thousands of other species become extinct because of the felling of this one tree.
    You guys need to understand... We can't keep doing what we're doing and expect everything to be okay. Everything we love came from the rainforest- Chicken, bananas, strawberries, corn, wheat, prozac, marijuana, cocaine, opium, coffee, the list goes on- basically everything good comes from there, and what most people don't know is that's just the tip of the iceberg. We have yet to discover so much amazing food and medicine that exists in the rain forest, it would be a shame to lose it.
    Of course the rest of the world is also in jeopardy, but it isn't nearly as valuable, and I think this is the end of my soapbox. Look elsewhere for your education.

    • @theguywholovespie2118
      @theguywholovespie2118 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      YOU TELL 'EM

    • @tarnyred1793
      @tarnyred1793 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Maybe he meant "thousands".

    • @karimtabrizi376
      @karimtabrizi376 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think if people at least know the situation we all face that's a start. But if we idiots like Trump etc and OZ PM who deny this is an issue we are on a downward spiral.

    • @apearl420
      @apearl420 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Alec Thornburgh totally agree with you. We need to change our lifestyles and paradigms. Science and EIA should come before policy making but unfortunately it doesn't. Ex: the massive tar sands in Canada one of the worst planned irreversible environmental damage in the world under the Harper government.

    • @noahreed9091
      @noahreed9091 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Dang, this was more informative then the video itself.

  • @thealienbrothers9141
    @thealienbrothers9141 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks a lot & Healthy Wishes.

  • @leamilanovicwarisalie680
    @leamilanovicwarisalie680 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am in love with this man ❤️

  • @KoriKosmos
    @KoriKosmos 9 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    It's nice to be surrounded by happy plants and critters doing their 'business'... sure Hank, if you're into that?
    o_O

    • @LerriHelion33333
      @LerriHelion33333 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maan Meher Grow up.

    • @KoriKosmos
      @KoriKosmos 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lucas Hollands Do you honestly think that I care, its been 6 months and 8 days since I made this comment. Get a life before commenting on old posts.

    • @LerriHelion33333
      @LerriHelion33333 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maan Meher I'll comment on whatever post I bloody well choose.

    • @KoriKosmos
      @KoriKosmos 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lucas Hollands Sorry, are you still there?

    • @LerriHelion33333
      @LerriHelion33333 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maan Meher You have offended the culture of my people.

  • @TheJaredtheJaredlong
    @TheJaredtheJaredlong 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Out competing or out right eating"
    bravo to whoever wrote that line

  • @amandabisme13
    @amandabisme13 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    What studying for all of my bio tests consist of: Watch Scishow and crash course.

  • @ArmandoJustinChavez
    @ArmandoJustinChavez 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    From the journal Earth System Dynamics billed as “An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union” comes this paper which suggests that the posited AGW forcing effects simply isn’t statistically significant in the observations, but other natural forcings are.