How to reduce your carbon footprint by 80% | Matthew Tolley | TEDxTelford
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- Governments worldwide have committed to a target of reducing Carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. European countries are aiming to go further and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
But the actions governments are collectively taking don’t look like they will be enough to meet their own targets. Matthew Tolley’s talk shows how you can, with your individual choices, have the power to reduce your carbon footprint from around 12 tonnes per year to 2.5 tonnes per year, with
little or no lifestyle compromises, and without waiting for governments or businesses to take action. All the steps are simple, actionable and nearly all of them will save money too. Matthew is a qualified Energy Efficiency Assessor for domestic and non-domestic (commercial) buildings. His business helps schools, charities and businesses in particular to save money by shifting to energy saving technologies, focusing on measures with have a payback period of less than 2 years. Governments worldwide have committed to a target of reducing Carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. European countries are aiming to go further and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. But the actions governments are collectively taking don’t look like they will be enough to meet their own targets. Matthew Tolley’s talk shows how you can, with your individual choices, have the power to reduce your carbon footprint from around 12 tonnes per year to 2.5 tonnes per year, with little or no lifestyle compromises, and without waiting for governments or businesses to take action. All the steps are simple, actionable and nearly all of them will save money too. Matthew is a qualified Energy Efficiency Assessor for domestic and non-domestic (commercial) buildings. His business helps schools, charities and businesses in particular to save money by shifting to energy saving technologies, focusing on measures with have a payback period of less than 2 years. 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
I usually dont comment under videos but this is simply great! Thank you for all the insights and great framing of the topic.
That's enough to change my mind..
Thank you
Hi Matthew,
Loved your talk! I am happy to see these small changes are actually making a greater impact than I thought, your talk has motivated me to keep on the same direction. Is there more material or sources you would recommend I can read to get further understanding of the individual impact in carbon emissions?
Glad you liked it! If you do an internet search for 'Carbon footprint calculators' and try a few, you will notice patterns emerging, and hopefully find one you like. I hope that helps.
I was expecting to leave halfway through the video, but all of this was indeed very practical and reasonable! I personally am going to look at what type of lights I have and replace them with LEDs.
Very practical and well researched talk!
Using LEDs.
Most energy efficient appliance.
Switch to 100% renewable energy supply.
Installed smart controls for heat/AC.
Replaced old heat system with more efficient one.
Insulated home.
Flying less and using a train instead.
Instead of cycling, used bike, train, bus, walking.
Switched to electric car.
Switched to minimalism.
Purchased more things second hand and reused more.
More recycling.
Plant based diet.
(Another suggestion from the comments) Purchase locally instead of imported goods.
Thanks dude, Great talk. Educational and really nicely sayed. Mutch love and respect
Great, thank you for this!🙏
This is the most important video in entire youtube.
Proud vegan here😊
As most of the people won't agree for going completely vegan, we can atleast tell the large meat consuming countries to decrease their meat consumption by 1/2. The money that will be saved can be used initially to help meat farmers to find alternative professions as they will loose the work. Matthew toley , do you agree?
Well sadly you'll still have the violent conditions where animal suffer under factory farming. It's an important topic to look into if you're interested ("Land Of Hope And Glory" or "Eating Our Way To Extinction" documentaries)
If people would go meatless just a couple days a week it would help. I'm vegetarian, working on going vegan. It's difficult where I live but finally in beef country aka Oklahoma small rural areas we are starting to see dairy alternatives.
@@van3363 culture and tradition helps do it effortlessly ...in our tradition we shouldn't eat meat 2 special months of the year and no meat on fridays but a lot of don't care to follow traditions these days
My point here is to inspire individuals to move as quickly as possible to the lowest impact on the planet possible. The delays in passing these behaviours from person to person will create a de facto transition period for farmers.
Thank you ❤
Excellent
The reason cheese is addictive is that cows milk contains casomorphin an opiate like substance that is there to urge the calf to suckle frequently. Instead it is made into dairy foods
big brain!
@@ojtex47 Are you interested in how humans *really* did get a big brain? Hint: It is not man made in any way.
Kath, do you have any web links to show me that?
@@rolfpoelman3486 ummm no, its a meme
@@rolfpoelman3486 Go to Nutrition Facts. org. You will find the scientific research there.
So if you can't aford a car, ac, and vocations your already helping the planet ... 🙄
It makes one cry, that poverty can be appropriate!
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I'm ambivalent and even here I think there are a few ironies :that of the crops themselves being a carbon dioxide sink; that the Amazon being cleared correlates to huge animal-based diet demands.
The bigger issue is education and a halt on shipping buyers (by air, of course) across to world to acquire produce for local markets - educate people about the carbon cycle (and the water cycle) and not this drivel that one can simply pay to 'offset' usage and educate people about food production and seasonality - strawberries are *not* available 12 months of the year.
I'd love to see data on these elements
Recommend you watch the documentary 'Cowspiracy'.
You definitely need animal protein. It does not mean that you need very carbon-intensive beef meat every day. It can be eggs and poultry which are 10 times less carbon-intensive than beef. There you are: by just substituting eggs and poultry for beef, you reduce your food-related carbon footprint by about 90%.
Hey thank you for the amazing speech ❤️ I delivered it in inter Collegiate competition and won 1st prize 🏆❤️
I'm not sure how to respond to this! If you gave me credit, then thanks! 😊
@@matthewtolley6125 oh deff I gave you credits 👍🏼 it's a ppt competition so made ppt and delivered your speech
@AISHA ANSARI well thank you and well done! 😊
Very informative and well presented
I seen this game before, did it in the 70s, yer mental
No the solution is not replacing GOOD WORKING appliances which increases their efficiency every year like Fridge and washing machine. Just INSTALL SOLAR For the same amount of money you would have to buy a new appliance. Only buy new appliances when OLD one is not working.
If you listen carefully, that's what the speaker does actually say!
"To seriously shift our carbon footprint we need to shift to a plant-based diet." That may be effective on an individual level which is the subject of the talk, but it's not the most important way overall. France gets over 70% of its electricity from nuclear power and has the lowest per capita carbon footprint of any large advanced country.
Not to say that most of our food comes from our country itself and mid to short circuit distribution.
Plant based diet is meh, and make most people seriously depressed (they don't know how to feed properly, lack D vitamin and B12). Pushing people to seriously reduce red meat would be a good first step.
Are any of those countries 70% plant based? Not exactly a fair comparison
As far as I know, nuclear power is at least cleaner than fossil fuels, though there's still the downside of the wastes it produces. So France won't have a carbon footprint as big as you thought.
This is a good list of what needs to be done, but the framing that individual actions could be sufficient is incorrect. The speaker himself sites that Mr Smart needs certain changes from the government/collective in order to achieve his emissions reduction. Low carbon electricity production, public transportation, town composting are all changes that require infrastructure from the collective. A switch to plant based is the #1 thing anyone can do on their own to reduce emissions.
#1 thing? Besides ending your life of course, that would greatly reduce one’s carbon footprint 🤔
The point is that an 'average' person in the West could reduce their carbon footprint 80% without major pain or sacrifice. I make it quite clear that the remaining 20% requires society level actions.
1year later... 50°C summer in Canada 🙈
Hi Matthew, is it possible to consider the air we breathe a a commodity?
The states that would produce more oxigen by owning Forests And marine coasts would have more resources And in doing so would avoid destroying Solis for overbuilding or exploitation of farms
Think a few Less amburgher And same climate disasters!
Thank you.
To be sure . If we did see air as a commodity, we , the people,will end up paying for air through taxation
I don't think that line of thinking leads to any solutions.
2 things i am bad for, my cars and food.
I still think we need to reduce the population though.
Good video mind 100% true.
What about tropical fruits, coffee, chocolate and super foods imported into the Western countries from tropical regions to feed the western people ?
You missed the point that along with meat this is also a big contributer to their carbon footprint.
Solution would be for population to stick to what grows in their area.
You'll like the book 'How Bad Are Bananas'. Not as bad as you make out TBF.
i dont not have private vehicle, ac ---- i have bicycle use public transport and eat veg food most of the times, use led lights
Most of us don't practice and fear
I could relate to the fact that some of us have it
Some people do not believe in climate change I want to show them this video. We need to stop the climate crisis for the next generation
This individual carbon footprint will be different for several countries. Same with the coming social credit system points. Do you have more informations about, will products I buy or food I buy have a carbon and social credit point score on their package when I buy it?
This is necessary, without knowing that, you buying products and two days later you wonder why your carbon footprint is raised up or yoursocial credit point sar going down? This will bring humans in dangerous situations so that they get restrictions for using elecztricity, their internet, online access, on their bank account or buying foods, or you are blocked to travel with bus, train or something else.
Warning to mankind to change and survive but consumerism-based capitalism gets in the way...
The measures I recommend can be applied immediately. There is no need to "change the system" to implement them. There are some who want an excuse to do nothing and shift responsibility away from themselves. "The System" is their excuse.
I *would* adopt a low carbon lifestyle, they say, but what's the point until we change 'the system'?
This is an excuse, which leads to fatalistic conclusions and zero action.
The solution is for each of us to take personal responsibility for our decisions and purchases, and act to minimise our carbon footprint accordingly.
@@matthewtolley6125 unfortunately, some of the measures require systematic implementation. In underdeveloped countries, they're even considered illegal or there's State sanctioned support for the old, obsolete technologies and practices, thus making the zero emition goal a lot harder than it seems.
However, the aim is there and you are right, we should strive to accomplish it at the personal and nuclear family levels right away as possible.
Behaviour change alone can deliver nearly all of the carbon reduction measures I outline in this talk.
uqbar42 yeah but do you live in an underdeveloped country? What you’re saying doesn’t seem like it would stop you from doing what he said
@@sophianicole6188 personal measures are effective if most of the population voluntarly comply. Personally, I do these measures the best I can, but certainly I am part of a minority in a country that denies climate change at large. Proper science explanations to my country's population is needed to improve their knowledge in the first place, since several goverments in a row have taken an antagonistic stand on the matter.
I reduce my carbon footprint by holding in my farts.
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There are some part missing that actually prevents us from reducing our emissions by 80%.
1. The government builds roads, hospitals, schools, buildings etc. The government has a militiary. The government spends billions of dollars in the industry that produces carbon. We can't reduce that on our own.
2. It might sound easy to go by train or bus all the time. However if public transport is bad, you sometimes need 4 times as much time. That's something no one likes to do and most people won't do. So we need the government to improve public transport so that everybody can use it without these huge restrictions.
3. Electric vehicles are still expensive. Some people can't afford those. ( Some people can afford those but they prefer a SUV over a normal car. Most people will still buy the SUV because they don't want to change their live style for the climate.
4. You said that vegan products are the cheapest. Basically that's correct. However it's only correct if you really pay attention to your nutrition. For example it's really difficult to get proteins over vegan food. As soon as you buy "vegan" products that were produced to exchange the meat, these product get more and more expensive while often not providing the same nutrition levels as meat. So if you really want to eat vegan cheap, you need to put a loooooot of time into it. And as we know. Time is money. And most people are not willing to pay that time for the climate.
You have these problems in some other fields as well.
All these points clarify that politics and industry really need to shift their policies. Otherwise won't people are not willing or are not able to adapt the changes we need to reduce our carbon footprint. Saying that everyone can easily do it on his or her own is a myth and somehow frees companies from their responsibility to change things!
Edit: of course you should do everything, that is said in the video. However most people don't care enough to do that, because it costs time and money. So companies and politics need to change to induce REAL change
Continuing falls in battery costs mean EVs are around the same cost as engine based vehicles already, and will be cheaper in 2-3 years.
After 10 years of eating no animal products and now having 4 years of data about my daily food consumption, I have no problems getting protein, and neither does any other vegan. The only two nutrients to monitor carefully are Vitamin D (from sunshine) and Vitamin B12.
Won't the use of aviation increase global warming?
Yes that's why I recommend reducing it.
@DerpyMerpy 1 From what I have seen it is the same argument as bus public transport vs car. Sharing the transport undoubtedly helps. I would imagine you should factor in the overheads like airports, bus station etc. Sharing helps but it isnt the only part to this. Travel less and share when you can. I'm sure you can do maths to make planes more efficient but just cutting your holidays down to less frequent no matter how you travel is the bigger win.
@DerpyMerpy 1 the average mpg for vehicles is much higher than 24.7 in Europe and Japan. Flying also produces NOX emissions through high temperature partial combustion. Also the CO2 produced is higher in the atmosphere where it does more damage. Aviation has a much higher negative impact per person mile than terrestrial transport methods. So the correct calculation to use needs to allow for all these factors, not just fuel consumption alone.
@@DerpyMerpy 1 You travel a lot faster when you take a plane so a better way to do the comparison might be fuel per hour per person, rather than fuel per mile per person. I'd be interested to know what result you get when you do that.
Using the figures you've given (which I have not checked) and assuming an average speed for the car of 60 miles per hour (which I think is generous towards your point of view) 0.0238 pounds x 560 = 13.328 pounds per passenger hour (aviation) and 0.165 x 60 = 9.9 pounds per passenger hour (car)
So best take the bike or walk and enjoy the journey whilst not thinking so much about the destination. :)
Hence the need to transition to biofuels and electric for aviation. And shift to rail for land transport, especially powered by biofuel and electric, and especially high speed rail for mid distance intercity passenger traffic. Also maybe revive airships, perhaps powered by solar, and use nuclear powered ocean liners and cargo ships for trans-oceanic traffic.
Just eat less meat not necessary 0. Eggs and bacon in the morning, mcdonalds for lunch and then a big steak for dinner... That's too much. Just one time a day would really help reduce consumption without having to become vegan.
Look at the start again. Sea levels have barely risen half an inch in a century but they could rise metres in his lifetime? Impossible!
"Look at the start again. Sea levels have barely risen half an inch in a century but they could rise metres in his lifetime? Impossible!" A couple of thoughts.
First, sea level has risen 6-8 inches in the last century, not half an inch.
Second, sea level rise is ACCELERATING due to man-made global warming: It used to be 1.3 mm/year for a long time and is now almost triple that (3.7 mm/year, or one seventh of an inch). Thus, sea levels have risen half an inch in just the last 3.5 years. If rates triple again, suddenly it's rising an inch ever ~2 years. That adds up.
Third, this is non-linear change in which more warming and sea level rise triggers more and more reinforcing feedback loops, making sea level rise even faster than now. Sea level rise of one meter by 2100 is a more reasonable estimate, BUT, and this is a big BUT, the ice keeps melting faster than previously predicted and humans seem to now be warming the planet faster than previously predicted.
Take care.
I would cycle more if roads were made safer.
I've read electric vehicles to make and produce them causes way more damage
Do Darwin a, big favour, and try standing in front of my speeding tesla and see the damage caused... DW it will, probably, be zero. They're very clever t' lectric cars, the know when to stop, also when to not start...
Alternately why not just google your enquiry ? Just don't take any answer to heart x
In all honesty, I started as a climate change denier until I started hearing just absolute nonsensical things from other denialists like Tony Heller.
I stopped paying attention to social media, pundits, bureaucrats, and politicians.
I started reading the actual research papers (not blogs, videos, or independent publishers).
Climate change is not difficult to understand. Like weather, there are limited factors which affect climate. Understanding what they are and how they interact isn’t difficult.
Reducing CO2 is anti-green.. Not sure why these "smart" people do not understand this..
I'm sure this will cause a riot but you can also hunt to get meat instead of switching to plant based. Just another option for some folks. Great video.
Hunting is an option for only a tiny number of folks. Hunting is only sustainable for very small polulations in vast tracts of land - and even then it has to be controlled (permits and seasons) to avoid extinction. Most of us high-level consumers live in cities. London, Paris and Los Angeles can't be sustained by hunting!
If we all ate only game within one year the wild game population would be decimated. In five years it would not exist.
Not having children also helps to reduce your carbon footprint, humans really are not needed for the world to flourish 🎉
The facts don't support this suggestion. To feed 7.5 billion humans on grass fed beef would require 3 planet earths. For 7.5 billion humans to live on game would probably require 10 planet earths. When I last checked, we only have one.
@@matthewtolley6125 eventually we won't have enough plants to deed everyone either haha
After watching this video, I thought I should cut back on eating meat because these things are said to contribute greatly to the carbon footprint
Unfortunately, this sort of talk is likely to be oil and gas propaganda. While the suggestions are in themselves good, this lines up very neatly with a major highly funded push from oil and gas providers to switch the blame from them to the people.
Notice how in the beginning, he never really discusses industry, just the government and how it's failing to do it's part. He then basically waives that off as if it's of no value and then proceeds to focus the entire talk on how people are failing to solve climate change.
He lists simple, but extremely expensive solves to the problem. This is done intentionally because he knows most people won't be able to do it or if they have the money, are likely to earmark it for other things.
Basically, on these types of consumer blaming information sessions it's more important to make it so it is unlikely most people will follow them. This way, in the future, when climate change is discussed, they will likely shy away from the subject, because of the guilt they feel towards not doing their supposed part to fix things.
Also notice how targeted his talk is too. He's talking to home owners obviously, with suggestions like updating the heating system and the insulation. Renters can't follow any of his advice.
Also, he gives advice that in many parts of America isn't really possible or safe to follow. America has allowed the auto industry to have a lot of sway over how cities have been planned and built over the last century. Their desire to grow the auto market has had many impacts, like the sabatoge of public transportation to the lack of proper bicycle infrastructure, to the attitudes given from decades of commercials and planted articles. So, doing things like using public transport, biking, and walking can be impossible for huge sections of the population. Tonnes of cyclists and pedestrians are killed or injured by drivers all the time in many cities. Suburbs are spread out so much that such activities are also not reasonable due to the lengths of time it would take to travel to necessary destinations.
No, it sounds reasonable but it's intentions are the opposite. To prevent people from seeing the real fixes to climate change and to demoralize them from trying.
The reality is that for most problems here, the government taking action is vital. Pushing for better city design is vital. Pushing for better public transit, dedicated safe bicycle lanes all across whole cities, walkable shared residential and commercial neighborhoods, incentives to leave single family homes to muliunit buildings which are far more energy efficient. Those are all things people on their own can't do, but they could put pressure on their governments to do them.
What's more, individual's collective climate impact is small compared to industry. People really need to apply pressure to force change in green house polluting sectors of industry, and again, individuals are woefully ill prepared to take that task on.
Be realistic, it's not yours or my fault that climate change is happening and don't let sweet talkers convince you otherwise. We are living the lifestyles we were taught to live, that industries sold to the public through trillions of dollars of advertising over the course of more than a century. It is their fault. We will have to make changes, but those changes are going to have to be pushed through by the government, with their people holding their feet to the fire.
Thank you for posting this. It’s very enlightening to someone like me that is trying to learn about climate change and ways to do better. Keep spreading the word!
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And nobody did what he said lol
First comment
Fourth comment? You have to be quicker next time.
Is the target audience for this talk children under the age of eight?
the target audience is any age
Deforestation isn't done purely for the purpose of clearing land for crops, what nonsense; talk about stealing arguments to justify your results, it wasn't a bad lecture before that. I guess animal consumptions' by product of producing leather belts and shoes do not matter to this guy, as long as we stop eating steaks. We can save the planet by eating salad that's covered in toxins and pesticides and full of oxalates, at least when we die earlier, then we reduce our carbon footprint. What drivel.
All lies.
I prefer my big juicy steak.
You can still reduce your carbon footprint by 50% implementing the other money saving, energy saving steps. :) 😊
And also, having your big juicy steak fewer times a year rather than getting rid of it completely still helps reduce your footprint. And it may even give you more happiness that way!
Do you still prefer your big juicy steak when your house is flooded and society is collapsing?
Hahaha what a big joke that climate change 😂😁😂
It's not very funny for Australia right now.
@@matthewtolley6125 yes I understand that of course. But almost all fire's caused by people
@@appie666 Yeah, you're right. Climate change is caused by humans
@@eleah519 no I said the fires are caused by people. The earth does what he wants with the climate for thousands and thousands of years.
@@appie666 You mean last year an abnormal high amount of people just decided to burn down Australia's forests? Or what would you say is the reason for the increase of the fires (and other natural disasters)?
Reduce it? I'm lookin' to increase it!!
climate change is just one of many delusions to come