Three Steps to Cut Your Carbon Footprint 60% Today | Jackson Carpenter | TEDxAsheville
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- Not all carbon is created equal. Writer Jackson Carpenter argues that the power to stop climate change rests on recognizing different kinds of carbon - a shift in perspective that allows us to change the world without changing our lifestyles. Jackson Carpenter has ten years’ experience working on solutions to climate change and the development of alternative fuels. He is a climate writer and member of the Collider in Asheville, NC, collaborating with scientists and businesses to address climate change. He is a coauthor of the Collider’s Business of Climate Report, and his upcoming book Carbon retells the story of climate change from a unique perspective that illuminates the commonsense solutions at our fingertips. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Has anyone noticed how many thousands of office blocks in the cities leave their lights on all night with no one in them at all? This is a total waste of electricity and is going on night after night, ad infinitum.
For Real! At least have them install some solar on the roof to help out, but those lights are on all day AND night. Switch to skylights in other cities so there is no need for as much light in the day, and the solar can power them at night. It's still a huge waste of energy, but it's better. They could also get automatic switch off lights to switch off after an hour or two after closing. In the cities, the automatic shut off and some solar panels would go far. OR better yet, solar window blinds. They are window blinds with solar panels. If every window office had them, (and a few panels on the roof for good measure, maybe a giant solar water pump) and the automatic lights, we could save SO much energy.
We need to try them all to replace fossils
It drives me crazy!! The WASTE of resources. Ugh.
Individually it makes sense to turn off your lights, but the way the grid works we have baseload electricity such as nuclear that must be kept on and even at low demand times at night the electricity generated needs somewhere to go, like street lights and office lights, or it has to be sold to other neighbouring regions, we don’t yet have grid scale energy storage so it’s unfortunate it’s all wasted.
It’s important to note that having the baseload reliable energy in place prevents grids from having to fire up fossil fuel based plants which can be up and running much quicker and shut down quicker.
DetoxHealth good point but are they getting renewable resources from their provider?
11:53 - step one : change your energy provider to one that uses alternative energy, like solar, which doesn't use fossil fuels to cut carbon footprint by 15%
12:44 - step two: heating and cooling your home, most of which is run using electricity so refer back to step one. use products that don't create fossil fuels for non-electric heating. this is another 17%
14:24 - step three: switch your car fuel. use ethanol instead of gas/petrol, this requires an adapter which costs less than 300$ and takes less than an hour to install. use biodiesel instead of diesel, no adapter required. use an electric car, but make sure the electricity used to charge does't come from a source which doesn't release fossil carbon. reduces 32%
What about these changes in countries like India?
Thanks!
Ethanol comes from corn and corn is grown with fertilizers and the fertilizers are made from oil -- SO MUCH FOR THE GREEN CARBON CYCLE!
@@jillians9847 fertilizers were not made from oil in the U.S. until the mid-20th century. Natural sources of nitrogen and phosphate were used prior to WWII. Germany pioneered chemical fertilizer in the early 1900s. So when we beat them in WWII, we gained access to their production technology. But regardless of whether we use chemical or organic fertilizer, I'm not convinced that U.S. agriculture has the capacity to produce enough corn to replace petroleum on any kind of national scale.
Thx!
Im proud, my country (Iceland) is running on completely clean energy. Also we're turning co2 into rock (carbfix)
imcanada that sounds amazing. Why can't more countries start doing that?
@@la124 I don't know, many countries could if they wanted but it doesn't seem like many countries have any interest in it.
iceland rocks
We' re coming!
L A Corporate businesses are too hung over the income they’re getting.
Oxford University says you can do exactly that, 60% reduction of your carbon footprint with only ONE STEP: cut all animal products out of your diet!
Talking about climate change without acknowledging animal agriculture is not a luxury we can have anymore!
so true!
Interesting . What about lettuces? Have you done your research?
So if you do the things he mentioned plus not eat meat you cut 120% I call BS on your beef contribution.
JOEL CHAPMAN sure have!
Dan A, that’s not how percentages work. And you know that.
So far I found this to be one of the best contents on climate change. The way this man has explained about the climate change is phenomenal, especially the distinction between green carbon and fossil carbon.
at 13:10 you can see that food and stuff you buy is the biggest reason for carbon footprint and he doesn't even mention it. switching to a plant based diet should be prioritised in saving the planet
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His chart shows food as 14% of the average person's carbon foodprint. You can cut that a lot with a plant based or plant-heavy diet. He was shooting for the bigger things first.
Harder sell with peoples diets, he’s trying to get people to do “easier” less disruptive lifestyle changes first which can have a much bigger impact on climate action but people actually can live their regular lives
blackswift Food was literally the smallest item. Any two of those items combined will be bigger than the rest individually...
@@ElazarusWills Transportation is the biggest part though. You can cut 28% by loosing the car. And car are pure emitters, while animals are 100% recycling air carbon...
I like the science based explanation without making it an criticism of any one group of people’s lifestyle, great message to all of us and in a way we most people can understand yet still providing practical solutions.
This is a great explainer for anyone on either side of the political spectrum and will try and spread the message far and wide. People are lazy and don’t like change but these are actually not that hard to do on an individual level.
We have a future. Our children have a future and they deserve the world at its best and not how we throw away empty energy (like fossil carbons). It is a dangerous source, hazardous and yes, we do have the POWER to change.
Beautifully said bro!
Wood smoke is a pollutant. It IS about the smoke.
And the power is nuclear power!
Actually our children won't have a future if there isn't change
what is Future to Children and adults in Africa, Asia and Latin America who are starving. Its funny that Developed countries exploited us and now lecturing us to be mindful of Climate impact.
One of the easiest things people can do is reduce the amount of meat they eat, especially beef and lamb both of which have a substantial carbon footprint. Reducing meat intake is also good for your health and budget.
but didn't he say that animals are green carbon?
the easiest thing to do is to get rid of all the vegans, the very very slight reduction in population would help and the world would be a much better place. Also throw in neo-nazi's, now we're cooking.
@@TheFL6 I like your thinking.
People who eat meat don't run around screaming at vegans to stop eating vegetables ... all I ask is for the same courtesy from vegans in return.
Hit Reset Button lmfao what? You cant survive without vegetables and water. You can survive without meat and preservatives and food that lasts on shelfs longer than we are even alive. It makes a difference. Do you not understand in 10-15 years what will happen how everyone will die? If you could save your children and your family you need to quit joking around like this isnt real because its very very real. We are killing the planet. And there will be deathly consequences
@@Liv-dw6hb stop deluding yourself . Eating a veggie burger isn't going to solve climate change. Have another listen to this video...green carbon vs fossil carbon.
So if I eat a green carbon grown piece of meat and you eat a fossil carbon grown piece of vegetable, who has contributed more to the abatement of CO2 climate change, you or me???
This is hands down one of the best climate change (more to the point, what can I do to address climate change) videos I have come across.
Please send, share, recommend, distribute this video far and wide.
WOW! Finally, someone provides a scientific explanation of the topic. Well done! I am very keen on carbon management so your video sums it all up!
This guy is an expert? hello, 2019, animal agriculture is taking over the country.
Animal agriculture when properly managed can be part of the climate change solution and used to regenerate depleted topsoil. Its all about how the system gets run. Animal ag does not have to be a source of destruction. It is current management practices that are the issue. Also what he's talking about is pretty consistent with what gets taught in biology classes.
Surely it's the information that matters not the person delivering it. Any part you disagree with and why?
@@LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY Fact is people eat a lot of animal products and especially cows contribute a whole lot to climate change. Yes we could do a little bit of agriculture and do it in as sustainable way but then people would still have to eat plant based and only consume animal products a few times a week. Also about repairing damaged topsoils: you could let some animals free-range on it and don't use pesticides or anything and thereby kinda letting it rewild, OR you could actually let it rewild with wild animals. Right now we just definitely need to cut down beef and milk products drastically, because the Amazon is burning and people and animals are dying and we need to do something about it. If 7 billion people would eat plant based we would have a lot less of problem (also because countries in Europe for example can't produce the amount requested, so they have to ship in soy and other things by ship half around the world so we here in Europe can get 1€ beef hamburgers)
It’s hard to argue that eating cows is not bad for the environment. The main problem with cows is that you need to cut down forests to raise them - like what is happening right now in the Amazon basin. This releases huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Also, animals are 10 times less efficient than plants, which directly covert sunlight into food. We would need way less land to grow food if we stopped eating meat. Finally, cows release large amounts of methane gas, which is about 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas over 20 years as CO2. Avoiding beef products needs to be added to the list.
@@LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY 90% of meat in US is from factory farming. We literally can't produce the same scale of meat if we get rid of these bad practices.
I saw this video in school class.
Along with the logical explanation, it was good to give me hope by suggesting a way for us to act easily.
I hope there will be more people working hard for a better world, and I will too.
Clotheslines are cheap: no energy needed, 20 minutes to hang up, take down any time they are dry, no wrinkles, saves your clothes....(that "lint" on the dryer screen.... that's your clothes), they smell fresh, and a line can be strung up for $30.
I always use a clothesline makes sense
For all the good that reducing meat intake has be aware that having 1 less child is the equivalent of about 20 people turning vegan in terms of reducing carbon footprint
But after not having kids or having 1 fewer, going vegan or nearly vegan is the most beneficial strategy one can employ and we will need all the strategies we can employ to tackle this beast.
Nick Mendens you should start at home. Please don't have any children.
@@johannesswillery7855 Plenty of us haven't had kids. Your point?
@@constantbees2070 If you read my first sentence you will notice that I suggested Mr. Mendens to look into the mirror and reflect on his statement. It is easy to toss out ideas for the masses to follow but more unlikely that those throwing bombs to make changes themselves. One's very presence on this medium contributes to one's carbon footprint. It is not necessary to own a vehicle, condition the air in one's home, use electricity to live. One can easily bath in cold water and ride a bicycle. When an activist has taken drastic steps said activist has the right to criticize.
That philosophy is ruining Europe right now! Europe is being buried by the immigration of Islamists and their birthrates that is said to be 5 to 1 or even 8 to 1 by some. The exponential math will end Europe as we know it!
you missed being vegan
You missed the entire point of his discussion.
@@DanA-nl5uo Huge oversight because other than having less kids, eating a vegan diet is the #1 most impactful way to simultaneously help cool the planet and heal the Earth's ecosystems. Planting a trillion trees is the most impactful carbon sequestration strategy we have and while meat consumption is causing the deforestation of the Amazon, if everyone ate very low meat or vegan diet, we could reforest an area the size of the US with all the old grazing and livestock feed land we'd no longer need. A vegan diet only uses 20% of the land of an omnivorous diet.
@@karlwheatley1244 nothing you said addresses the fact that carbon from ff is the problem not carbon which was already in the biosphere.
You right eating meat contributes to more co2 than all three that he mentioned combined, how could he forget about that!!!
@@jayczech78 It represents almost nothing in terms of individual impact. In general the best you can do is 1- having no child 2- using no car 3- stop flying and in general consume less of everything.
Meat is a false saving: all the carbon emitted by the animals comes... from the air. All the cow carbon comes form it's feeding that captures carbon by photosynthesis. This carbon is constantly recycled in natural cycles. So if you consider net contribution, meat contributes for zero (minor the sequestration, plus the CO2-CH4 GWP difference).
The problem of Carbone increase comes from the fossile fuels consumption in general.
Animal agriculture is responsible for more emissions than the entire transportation sector combined. Plant based diet is the single best thing we can do. The UN has been clear on that.
Unless you feed the animals with coal and oil they will produce green carbon (aka stuff that was extracted from the atmosphere recently). This does not mean there are no issues such as deforestation and land use, but the burning of fossil fuel is the main issue.
The complete biosphere (all plants animals and so on) store around 500gt of carbon, the fossil fuels reserves are about 10.000gt of carbon. So we would need to increase the biomass volume by 20 times to compensate...
Agriculture has to change. Like vertical planting, that reduces the use of water by 95% and can be done without pesticides or gene manipulation. No meat of course, but lets not pretend that conventional agriculture is good. We also need to use trains in stead of cars and trucks. Like truck trains.
Vertical planting is impossible from an economic perspective for the near future because using humans to harvest more than a few levels is super cumbersome. What's really needed is an end to certain agricultural subsidies (esp on animal agriculture) and to move away from agriculture that relies heavily on pesticides, antibiotics, and petrochemical fertilizers. Ideally farms should also not be so big that they require these methods and can use manual labor instead of heavy machinery.
@@conorolive you wouldn't believe how many fruits and vegetables are harvested by humans... becauase a machine would destroy it...
They are called buses
Thank you, I've learnt so many unknown issues. Especially green carbon. Thanks again.
This video is an incredible source of information and inspiration! It was amazing to learn about the power of green carbon and how our choices can make a significant impact in combating climate change. And I gotta say the speaker's explanation of the carbon cycle and the difference between green carbon and fossil carbon was eye opening. I especially love how he emphasized in the end that we have the power to make a brighter and greener future. It was really empowering to know that each one of us can make a difference. In a way this video is a reminder that even small changes in our daily lives, like choosing reusable bags and consciously buying products can contribute to a more sustainable world.
Thank you for this talk.🙏
My teacher assigned this video and it really helped👍
After watching this video, I should also work on climate change to reduce my carbon footprint. As the speaker said, we should think of hope rather than despair in the face of climate change
The carbon cycle is well explained, but I could not disagree more with step 3) using bio fuel or ethantol. - Follow the first step (electricity provider renewable) Step 2 heating: it depends. In Vermont you can get wood, or in many European nations that are in the moderate climate zone, enough rain and mountain area to have a lot of forests. They have a tradition there to use wood for heating anyway, and the technology for it had a blast in the last 20 years.
So that PARTIALLY replace the use of fossil fuel. It is completely impossible to satisfy all our energy needs for heating with plants, not even close.
Avoid flying if you can, do car sharing, or drive with other people to work if you can or use public transportation.
Eat less meat. Especially beef (METHANE !! Co2 on steroides)
Stop eating fresh foods that are grown out of season in greenhouses that are heated !!
(there are claims that the carbon footprint is not as bad, if it is imported - as long as the fruits are not flown in).
Glasshouse tomatoes in winter have a large impact, because they need so much heat for growing them. (So if the U.S. imports them from Mexico or they are grown in California, that is O.K.
Buy one of those switch off plug strips. to avoid standby costs - it adds up.
Get a good water saving shower head for those long hot showers. (I am still searching)
Switch to quality clothes but buy less.
have an eye at hemp products (clothes they aregreat, very durable, like linen. Or insulation material ...)
Buy a car that uses less gasoline (no diesel). Or drive down a used car and have it repaired (human labour) waiting for the breakthrough in electric cars. There is a lot of "grey" energy that is used whenever something is produced. So being frugal and extending the life of things is a good idea.
Tip for Europeans: if you like to drive fast and overtake a lot - slow down - it might cost you 5 minutes more time to move your car with much less energy. (and less risk of accidents).
Satisfy your ego elsewhere or go to fun car race area on the weekend.
If you can insulate your home do so, that needs a LOT of energy. (quality with mineral wool, styrofoam is somewhat cheaper, but mineral wool is more stustainable, can be recycled, helps with fire safety. Grenfell tower fire anyone !) In Germany the trend is to have thicker brick walls, instead of styrofoam. Good quality, nice to live in also in hot summer.
Buy quality appliances, avoid throwaway products. (Grey energy ! the energy that is necessary to produce something, and the inevitable pollution that goes along. Even if it is produced in a country with high standards it DOES have an impact).
If you CAN build an earthbag home consider it. Building with "dirt" requires much less energy than building with brick, concrete. Plus they insulate well.
Thermal mass is not the same as insulation. "Dirt" is thermal mass, not insulation. So are bricks.
Wood fuel is horribly polluting. Many areas with air pollution problems have restrictions on wood burning for a reason. We should not be reverting to third world alternatives.
Meat that is sustainably produced in polyculture is carbon negative.
Hemp Crete everyone
@@stirrcrazyn1611 there is no such thing as carbon negative
@@spartancj1 carbon footprint is a scam
I checked his website with bio video he says “I’m not a scientist” he studied “Ancient Greek and Sanskrit”. Yeah it shows, this “green carbon” closed loop theory is completely unscientific. It’s extremely dangerous because people see the TED brand and immediately assume he must know what he’s talking about and use it as a reason to defend their bad choices. I agree that electricity usage etc is important , I already did step one and covert to 100% renewables but sadly most people will not do that and instead just use this video to defend eating loads of hamburgers.
THANK YOU
It's Tedx, not Ted. It's the cheapskate version of Ted for average people. Don't take it as holy grail of course.
Thanks. If anyone wants to know more about why “eating hamburgers” is unsustainable, they can look into my public available playlist on TH-cam “Know your Food”.
thaaaank youuuuu its amaaazing, you ARE a REAL teacher
Such a brilliant video. A good differentiation.
Gonna vote green next election 2019 in Norway.
voted green in my local municipality in Germany. Best decision ever. You guys are lucky, in Germany we have the very influential Auto industry.
@@maximaximilian9917 Are you sure that is worse than our dependency on oil though? I'm genuinly asking.
If they don't have full list of candidates, also consider becoming one
@stapme In Norway 99.8% of our electricity comes from hydro power, so that is what heats our homes and keep our society going, green energy. Green party wants to make Norway a battery for europe so that other countries can reduce the amount of fossil fuel dependency in their energy production.
I just revived a dead jeep. It gets 10 mpg. Its my daily driver. Thought i would let you know
Thank you Jackson!
He is giving us lots of good options! If we add this to agriculture changes I feel like we're golden :)
I can save you time:
1. Live in as small a space as you can, and share resources with others. This cuts your impact on the climate dramatically: in energy consumption, food waste & countless other ways.
2. Live car-free. Uber, Lyft & other modern services make this more possible than ever.
3. Eat as plant-based a diet as you can.
Living this way will save you much $$$ and enrich your life in countless ways as well as easing the burden on the planet.
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Why Uber or Lyft? You use a car still. Better to use public transport or bike.
@@hwitte73 When I lived in the US, I used public transport most of the time but would use Uber or Lyft when the temperature was over 100F and I had heavy shopping to get home. Now that I live in the UK, I don't have to worry about fainting from the heat while coming home from the shops. Better to use Uber occasionally than own a car.
@@constantbees2070
No, better use your car occasionally instead use Uber occasionally.
1. A car will use same amount of petrol from point A to point B no matter who is an owner.
2. Uber need to reach your house and won't park front of your office. This s extra CO2 YOU'RE emitted before even open the door and after you closed it. You're doing this every you use Uber instead your own car.
3. A car will use more petrol when transports 80 kg more (Uber driver). With millions of cars it makes difference.
Uber can be a solution for traffic but it's not for CO2 emission.
im so impressed to watch this video. i already knew how to reduce carbon footprint in simple ways but i didn't know in specific ways. im gonna try to reduce carbon footprint in these ways!
A great point to add is how much money we save making these changes. We pay less than half of the price of gas for ethanol (in France). Our tank costs 37 euros currently, compared to filling it with gas which would be 95 euros. Saabs after 2004 are already made to run on ethanol, but yes other cars will need to be altered, but it pays off quickly. Renewable energy (using EDF green) costs us about 1 cent more per KwH than fossil fuels/gas per KwH, which is a small margin for a huge environmental gain.
Ditch dairy and meat
@Steve W you don't have to get rid of all of it but cutting down will help.
This video makes me feel hopeful. We hardly need to change our way of life. We only need to look at whether fuel can produce green carbon, and use it.
Thank you watching now
After watching this video, I thought that we should practice reducing our carbon footprint in various ways, such as traveling by public transportation, bicycle, or walking instead of cars, using energy-efficient appliances, reducing unnecessary electricity use, recycling and reducing waste, reducing meat consumption and choosing vegetarianism, purchasing eco-friendly products, investing in carbon-neutral companies, and raising awareness and taking action on climate change.
Thank you, really
The biggest problem with this is that he suggests that "we" can fix it "without waiting for governments". Nope, we MUST have gov't initiatives AND regulation to actually stop/reverse global warming. Acting as an individual encourages us to remember on a daily basis WHY we need to vote and participate. I agree daily action is important, but it won't fix it unless that daily action is calling your congressman, senator, etc. Like-- every day. It's so hard, but necessary.
that is a really great talk, thank you for that! i don't have car and won't so in the next 10 years because i could not and would not wanna afford it. As long as i can go with Public transport and my bike i will do it. But for a lot of people a car is necessary and a change to suistanable energy would inevitably mean a big impact for the sake of peoples ability to influence the climate change. I still think that big industries and enterprises need to take action on their own too, slowly but steadily (hopefully faster) - Spread the possibilites!
We are screwed when people don't bring up animal ag when talking about carbon footprint.
There's also the whale pump, dealing with blue carbon. Interesting topic.
There’s also Wind Power which I get and it’s cheap, In the U.K. I get Green Star it’s easy to switch.
The phrase "everyone has the power to choose the future" was impressive.
In the future, I think that I should be interested in carbon emissions and reduce the use of fossil fuel products such as plastic bags.
And i will remember that our carbon emissions can have a positive and negative impact on our society.
Thank you for the good lecture
Oh, PLEASE. We were done with this biofuels nonsense a long time ago. Some things make sense, like collecting used cooking oil, but for the most part this is an environmental and nutritional disaster.
"It is a crime against humanity to convert agriculturally productive soil into soil which produces foodstuffs that will be burned as biofuel."-Jean Ziegler of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
And there is other misinformation, but the biofuel stuff is the main problem.
I have to wonder if Carpenter is on the payroll of some agribusiness outfit, or if he's just independently misguided.
We do have to go to renewables, but not in that form. Wind and solar MUST be the focus.
BTW I worked out an estimate of the effect of my LEDs, and it's not 0.2%, more like 1.5%. And I don't do that much illumination. So there's another claim that seems wrong to me.
And yes, as some have pointed out, the diet you eat, and the way we grow food, are huge issues, for the climate and in other ways. Changing that makes more sense than biofuels.
I appreciate your presentation.
I didn't know much about carbon neutrality, but now I know its importance thanks to you. From now on, I will also try to reduce the carbon that comes out in my daily life. Thank you.
Good talk
And what about being vegan? It’s the easiest way to reduce you emissions!
Not necessarily
Well he most likely doesn't want to cut out animal products himself, so he doesn't talk about the effects veganism has on your carbon footprint.
What FF company paid you to not understand the entire point of his talk?
@@DanA-nl5uo what did the meat industry pay you to not understand his comment?
@@Blackhuf nice try but the video clearly shows why the OP is wrong and not making a genuine argument.
85% of the carbon footprint comes from the industry and not from private homes.
Wow thats simple! Gonna do that
Cut down a tree. But only sustainable trees that you plant from a seed. In 30 yrs you get enough wood to heat your living room for 3 hours.
i live in tennessee on 8 acres. i heat with wood from my property. i have never needed to cut down a tree. there is enough deadfall to keep me supplied with firewood.
The lecture on carbon neutrality and carbon footprints was so good that I could understand more I want to take more classes like this
Does anyone have a link to the Union or Concerned Scientists Source that Carpenter uses?
Small correction. Fossil carbon production pretty much ceased by the end of the carboniferous era (400 million years ago), and was due to the evolution of white fungi, which was (finally) able to digest cellulose. Since then fossil carbon is only produced when rapid burial occurs which is relatively rare.
This video gave me a new perspective on global warming and carbon neutrality. Thank you for giving me a chance to think about many things.
I agree with a lot of this. For ethanol, it is worth looking carefully at the source. Were fossil fuel ferilizers used to grow the crop that is converted to ethanol? Were fossil fuels used to plant, tend, harvest, or transport the crop? And, in converting the crop to ethanol, is coal power used?
My only issue with what you are saying is we have stop fossil carbon. I do agree we need to start making the switch. But completely shutting down a huge industry instantly will be devastating on the communities they are in. Like mine and even though it's a community thriving because of them. I believe it's an amazing community and can still be the energy capital of the nation just has to slowly make the switch. I do appreciate how you presented your knowledge. My community can be put down just for its industry and in hateful ways. We are community of hard working people who are just doing the what has provided energy for people all over the nation. Do we have hard headed people who believe that it's not causing these issues and are afraid for their own livilihood being affected of course. The community has been able to do amazing things with the money from industry. Such as a fantastic community college that partners with the high schools allowing young adults to obtain college credits for free. Like many of the community members I am just anxious of our community being devastated by a dying industry. I hope the community will start realizing becoming part of the solution will keep our community or at least the ones who are not here just for the money and do not care what happens after there is less money to be had. All of this is coming from someone who has family working in the industry now or who worked it in past. I could be referred to as an oil field brat. Fact is my children have had amazing opportunities because of this industry. And change can be hard for people to accept especially when it involves their livilihood.
I didn't know about green carbon, I'm so impressed to know this simple act that can cut our carbon footprint 60%!😢
1. Save energy - think about it deeply and search the Internet for more suggestions
2. Sell your car if possible
3. If it’s not yet possible to sell your car exchange it for an electric car
Not only did he not mention how eating more plant based can help fight climate change, he basically said that because animals produce "green carbon", animal agriculture is not causing climate change.
It is so much more complicated than that. Eating vegan or even vegetarian is more efficient in terms of land, water, and fuel resources. Even a small change is beneficial, but educate and decide for yourself!! Best decision I ever made
A lot of the links in this website are dead. Weird.
Sir,how carbon footprint is correlated to sustainable development goals?
This is an important talk, it needs more views. Unfortunately it seems it's not saccharine enough to capture people's clickbaited attention which is too bad. This is important.
my philosophy is that if you can see with the light of (even if its not great) dont turn the light on. same with heating, driving and using electronics.
what about the part of the carbon cycle where shellfish turn co2 into calcium carbonate? How does that re-enter the "green carbon" cycle?
When I go to the store I don’t have a choice of different types of bags. Batteries that store energy isn’t green. The earth is stripped to get the materials. Solar companies are stripping the land to put up solar panels.
The ethanol option is nice ... just ... where and how the hellndo you get ethanol
Ethanol fuel is a bad idea. We should be using our land to grow food and forests, not fuel for our cars. If we seriously tried to convert from gasoline to ethanol we'd quickly get food shortages because we'd have to use so much land and water for growing corn to make ethanol.
Just stop driving cars as much. If that is not possible due to lack of alternatives, contact your local government. There
@@dlwatib The majority of corn around the world doesn't go to feeding humans directly. It feeds animals who are then slaughtered and fed to humans. We're using our valuable resources inefficiently because people value their taste over the life of an animal or the future of the human species. It's insane.
good explanation.
Jackson Carpenter - a direct question to you:
Wonderful talk, and it makes A LOT of sense. But can you explain how using green carbon (trees and plants) for energy/products won't affect the balance of the Carbon Cycle? Trees and plants are the part of the cycle that removes CO2 from the air, right? So If we start to use them more (and you know how we humans like to overdo), won't we reduce the cycle's overall CO2 removing potential since we're removing active plants/trees? So while the Green Carbon amount stays the same, wouldn't this create a lag in the cycle, resulting in more CO2 in the air? The only thing that makes sense is if we sustainably use the plants/trees without killing them. Is that what you meant?
He did explain. You MUST plant as much trees as you use, all the time. Never cut wild forests, only use trees you grew specifically to use for fuel.
“ God Bless”
Hey us vegans have already made a huge positive impact on the environment.
That's interesting. Where and in what way?
Telling everyone that you’re vegan is not considered a „huge impact“. Just saying.
@@petergoestohollywood382 ahahahaha true 👍
This beef jerky im eating rn is pretty good. You wanna peice?
Lmao
12:45 step 2
Maybe play all sports games during the day. Think of all the training etc played at night with floodlights on. The energy used from pee-wee to the pros is enormous. Government buildings across the world have their lights on all night, why?
There is just one problem with using biofuels in your car: it is said to raise crop prices because higher demand equals higher prices, so the theory is that if we make fuel out of our crops, the poor won't be able to afford it anymore eventually. It requires a whole new generation of producers to make up for the increased demand.
One also has to look at the whole production cycle and how much CO2 is released just making the product that is supposed to be more environmentally friendly. When looking at electric cars that way, they don't look as clean anymore.
The ideas in this video are basically good, but simplified.
a higher demand with a smaller product offering will raise prices. A higher demand with more product available creates a competitive market and will keep prices affordable (like carrots and potatoes, commonplace, always in demand). (Currently ethanol is 40-50% the cost of gas). He does answer your concern about electric cars though! He says the source is what matters, so of course you are totally right that an electric car won't be effective if the energy comes form burning coal, for example, but if you charge it with 100% renewable energy, that is green carbon.
Would there be any way to use a plant, flowers, weeds, or maybe even trees, etc to grow our electricity? That way we could adapt to more, effective, and more “green” electricity and our carbon dioxide would be taken up and changed/converted to oxygen from the plants. Now, the question is where would you get the electricity from, from the plants?
Not really but solar fuel is good
Yes. Make it into alcohol and power electricity from that. But it's not efficient.
Watching this video, I realized that humans emit a lot of carbon, and it was amazing to learn about fossil fuels. It seems to have helped change the environment.
Watching the video, I realized the seriousness of global warming even more. Global warming is influential enough to change our lives right now, but we are not responding adequately to it. As I said in the video, we still have hope, so we thought we should make a small effort first. Therefore, I will reduce the use of disposable products in the future, and prefer to use public transportation.
Overall okay! The percentages of contributors to climate change is mixed... animal agriculture or diet is a HUGE role in carbon footprint
I wonder about peesonal responsibility vs. systemic solutions
Biodiesel production in the US is less than 2 billion gallons per year. Diesel fuel consumption on farms in the US is more than that total, so even without counting fossil fuel fertilizers and chemicals to grow things, how would the other 45 billion gallons of diesel be produced that we currently use in the US? It takes water to grow plants too and many areas are running out.
Intermittent Fasting and reducing eating snacks (processed ones especially) can cut down on carbon foot print.
Is renewable expensive?
Kaye Chan is you mean that we should buy stuff with renewable energy as its primary source then the answer is not always yes.Stuff like those help the environment a lot but if you for example want to buy a car that uses renewable sources of energy but you already have a car then don’t buy it until your car really can’t function anymore as in there is no way to repair it,
If you don’t have a car however or your car is beyond repair then you should 100% buy a car that uses renewable sources of energy
Well, I never thought seriously about 'What happens if all carbon dioxide is disappear?'.
I thought vaguely, 'If all carbon dioxide is gone, earth will be better!' because I didn't know about 'Green Carbon'! I thought all carbon is bad carbon. Yeah, I did. BUT, now I know what different between 'Green Carbon' and 'Fossil Carbon'. Now I know that SHOULDN'T happen carbon dioxide gone. And I know what we should do. We reduce fossil carbon. And we NEED to increase using of the green carbon.
SO, I will follow by the STEP!
You wimpled of nuclear energy very badly. Do some research about each aspect of it please
Nuclear energy is actually way safer now, and there are projects that are making it safer and have zero waste now. But it has a bad rep and we need to switch to the zero waste Nuclear or it will never grow.
Skyler Ricketts nuclear has far too big a risk in terms of safety especially in times of war for it ever to be a good option.
@@la124 The thing is, just a quick google search will tell you nuclear is the *safest* energy source.
Fukushima shows us a different story. Uranium mine tailings are also not safe at all, and that radioactive dust often carries far on the wind. Processing plants are not safe either. The power plant itself may have been made safer, but what comes before and after it are not safe at all.
Current ethanol production is not green. Using precious farmland to grow fuel ignores the fertilizer, pesticides, water, transportation. Each of these inputs rely on fossil fuels. In addition 8 billion humans must be fed every day, before too long 10 billion humans. Well intended presentation which oversimplifies the situation. We can do better....
Yes agreed
Myth. Only half our arable land is farmland and only half of that is even cultivated so we could drastically expand production with no impact on food supply. There's huge capacity going unused because there just isn't a market for the extra bioproduct that would be produced, but if biofuel compatibility were a standard feature then there would be. Hunger doesn't come from under production but from repression, conflict etc.
14:37 Interesting declaring a VW bug a gas guzzler compared to 8 bangers of the same vintage.
Try make some calculation. How much electricity would the world safe if TH-cam did not show 2 long cermercials before you actuly watch thr important.
OUR PLANET IN OUR HANDS WE CAN SAVE OR DESTROY 🙏
In grocery store if you cut out all sugary and salty snacks, all meat and dairy, and you have barely a single thing to eat that won't require actual cooking at home :/
We can also make energy from water (hydroelectric) too !?
Right on, we do already.
I think that's what he meant when he said the moons gravitational effect on our tides.
@@chloeelimam3899 Most hydroplants have little to do with tides though. The energy stored as the potential energy of water "originally" comes from the sun evaporating the water at sea.
@@amanduswestin9211 oh really? That's super interesting, I don't really know much about hydroplants or how they work, could you link a video?
@@amanduswestin9211 also... if that's the case, what DID he mean about the moons gravitational effects on our tides?
The planet can't be fooled. >>>>>>> Population.
Can we make shoes and other thick "leather like" things out of that vegetable made plasic?
Or cork. Bought a cork handbag, looks like leather, waterproof and feels nicer than plastic. Cork trees need to have the cork taken off to flourish. Can get shoes,etc. too.
But if we don’t all go to zero percent we are all dead, so 60% is just farting in the wind 💨
What about consumption of meat ? Also, the consumption of food products ( coffee, chocolate, super foods, tropical fruits) in countries where is is not grown due to weather conditions ?
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They don't know whether to fight pollution or warming, and they are clearly not the same thing.
If they are concerned about warming, they should know that at 70%, the main greenhouse gas is water vapor. In that hypothesis, both the excessive warming and the release of greenhouse gases are equivalent in a nuclear plant and a coal plant.
On the other hand, the burning of vegetable fuels is neutral in terms of CO2 balance.
Love the message, but he is stating a bit to many «facts» that are wrong to have been working with this for 10 years
We need activism to stop the emissions of co2, We all need to plant trees or , Yes, these homes exist. The homes are called earth'ship homes. In taos, new mexico these homes are being built now. Using our intelligence and the laws of nature we won't need carbon emissions power. Let us do our best to redesign our cililization efficiently, cleanly and self sustaining. We are earthling because we were born from our mother earth. Let us take care of our mother earth she has always taken care us. GOD'S speed people.
Why aren’t more people watching this omg
Manage your life and your energy use as your personal responsibility. Wood smoke is a natural phenomena we all evolved to handle due to forest fires, it is atmosphere. Wood and charcoal is carbon neutral, it is the stuff we dig up that is a problem. If you can grow the wood on your own land, it is legit to use it to heat your house. The problems come when you live in a city where all the smoke crowds out the air. THAT is a local management problem for that particular city, NOT a societal problem. Movements and tribes and systems trying to solve everyone's problem are part of the climate change problem. I lean towards biodiesel myself and biodiesel does require a diesel engine that can handle it, biodiesel can cause problems in some diesel engines.
it's almost the end of 2019 and i see more SUV's, more big ships and big airplanes testing, all data pointing to a co2 emission increase, shops that are ALWAYS with lights on joyfully putting on the Christmas lights.. ...and a shitload of plastic everywhere..