Why I don't care about 'Climate Change' | David Saddington | TEDxTeen
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- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. You don't care about climate change right? Because it's a bunch words of things that don't affect your daily life. Think again. In this provocative talk, Saddington gives us a new lens on climate change. It's a game changer.
Influencing UK government policy, establishing his own social enterprise and fronting a media campaign that reached over 3 million people are just a few of David’s achievements as a climate change activist since being impacted by a stark reminder of climate change as a teenager.
From a meeting with then Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street, he discussed the implementation of climate change on the national curriculum. Climate change is now an essential part of youth education and he has pushed to expand these education reforms worldwide.
As a Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leader, he has expanded his philanthropic and award-winning social enterprise, which has developed eco gardens across Northern England and within the historic grounds of Durham University.
David has acted as an environmental consultant for countless organisations and is a regular commentator on contemporary climate issues within academic arenas and international media outlets. He has studied the science of climate change at Durham University for 3 years and led a groundbreaking glacier survey expedition to Vatnajökull, Iceland. His most recent venture transformed the medieval Market Square of Durham City into an outdoor cinema to showcase the award-winning documentary Chasing Ice. He then chaired ‘Climate Change Question Time,’ where the public could grill world leading climate experts on the science behind the headlines and how to tackle the problem.
David believes that we must act as a species rather than via fragmented interests in order to tackle this remarkable global disruptor.
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SPOILER ALERT: He cares about Climate Change.
I assumed so because it's a Ted talk.
@@MikeHunt-xj5xf true
thank you
And doesn't want to miss out on the chance to make a fortune out of it. I think he has a good chance, he knows how to deceive.
Thank you!!! No need to waste my time on this mumbo jumbo political bull 💩!!!
I know what his point is and why the video is titled the way it is but sorry, it's a misleading title. The title should be 'Why We Need To View Climate Change in a Different Way.'
That title wouldn't gain half as many views.
RIGHT!! We should only study and convey the dangers of changing climate with our FEELINGS. Definitely NOT classical scientific study, because, well that doesn't work. IFI: International Feelings Institute
Classical scientific study does work. And Behavioural Science tells us that what people do or don't do is driven by their feelings. Your argument appears circular. The guy is spot-on scientifically regarding communicating with people regarding changing behaviours. Personally I am not CONVINCED of HUMAN-DRIVEN climate change BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT; there seems to be data both sides. But I am convinced of it ON THE BALANCE OF PROBABILITIES and think we need to take action on it now as well as action to mitigate possible NON-HUMAN-DRIVEN climate change too. Let's not put all our eggs in one basket on this.
ezza88ster When studying complex interactions like climate change you will never get beyond all reasonable doubt, that's the nature of it. If we could explain it 100%, we would also be able to fix it 100% immediately. But these are complex systems.
But what we know so far is, that humans are the biggest influence on climate change. How much EXACTLY? We can't tell and never will be able to.
Jeffrey leigh-jones True. It’s still misleading, though.
Watch at 1.5x playback speed. ;)
You're welcome.
i prefer 1.2, so i can think between words if you know what i mean.. but thanks for the advice, it wll be usefull in future!!!!
sort of spaced out somewhere he said "don't listen to science.."
No he says do not tell science, make sure the impacts,
so everyone uneducated does grasp the problem and taking it personal.
*****
What you mean by they ?
You are very uneducated related to this subject, is not a guess you did write it down by yourself.
*****
This is the result of what the facts do speak for, which are scientifically, when you want to bring an argument or a solution which will prevent earth from the Impacts of climate change and Mass-Extinction, I think everyone wants to hear, but this is reality and did already since a few years ago taking place to become emergency, specially in the Oceans on marine Life rapid Mass-Extinction is reality these days.
We are living in the 6th mass-extinction event in earth history since many years - so called the Holocene extinction, but it has become much worse by the anthropogenic climate change, we can say by scientific facts that the global temp will rise in a few less decades close to the 2 C Degree mark, which is by science far over the mark where the climate will start to collapse into a state of rapid world wide massive Extinction era, which can not be undone and not prevent anymore. We did already warm up earth to over 1 C degree by measurements and what we emit today plus the natural feedbacks are estimated to be 0,6 c - 1 C degree more which is already today been caused and locked-in for the near future.
So thus it is not wrong to talk about in this sense "World End", instead of a rapid, unstoppable 6th Mass-Extinction event in earth history, climate impacts are already today have massive impacts on nature, food and freshwater what will exponential rise in the next years and for some countries like Mexico, India.. already very devastating today.
So what I see that he is saying is
Governments and corporations have found a way to scare you into giving up your money. Also preparing you to the fact that they will run your life all the way down to how long you can heat your home and the type of food you eat.
Which we will not allow, right?
@@drbubonic4942 That’s why we eat meat and drive fuel powered cars.
Hmm .. so our job is to just shut up and get out of the way… ? How British …
That was a great talk. To everyone saying the talk is misleading - he's basically saying stop talking about the abstract details and start talking about the way it impacts humanity. A fair point.
So stop putting fumds on trying to change weather, just rediculous. Equip people somehow to be safe with the coming changes
But his talk about mudslides, forest fires and local weather aren't part of the Global Climate Change theory. The unequivocal fact is fewer people die from global weather disasters each year. This includes floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and fires. Today is October 8th and it is the 150th anniversary of the Peshtigo Fire, the worst wildfire disaster in recorded history by claiming 2000 lives. Nearly everything is getting better. The last 50 years of Luddite, anti-progress and anti-technology fear-mongering haven't proven any of their predictions. Capitalistic progress in China and India have raised hundreds of millions out of poverty. They don't care about a minor mudslide in your backyard which, frankly, could have been avoided by planting a few trees and better ground cover than mowed grass.
@@joelwillems4081 Climate change isn't a theory. It's fact. Go deny science elsewhere.
It's insane to say that all the scientists who have studied everything for years,that they are wrong,and then laughing as if it doesn't matter. It 🌎does.
@@guyfromthe80s92 Climate change is a fact its the Cause that not proven.
so, how much money has he been paid to say this. I strongly disagree with EVERY point he makes
The title says he has not been brainwashed by the Watermelons even though he has in fact has been brainwashed by the Watermelons.
I don{t care about climate change, but let me tell you why I care about climate change
yea I dont care at all about that stupid climate change, BUT climate change?? now THATS a deferent page!!
Not just that, “I don’t care about climate change, now let me try and convert you to the church of climate change where we pray to our lord and savior Al Gore, who showed us that climate change is the cause for: Inflation, natural disasters, the rise of Isis, and every problem ever!”
“Wait you want evidence? The science isn’t important let me give you an anecdote on how 1 single person of 7.6 billion might feel disadvantaged because their hometown is an average of 0.07 degrees hotter throughout the year.”
The last ted talk I watched on this subject, the speaker flippantly makes the case that capitalism is the cause of climate change and that communism is the solution...
Where does TED get these people? I hear more compelling arguments at my local food bank.
lol basically
well i mean.if man made climate change is real then his analysis is correct. capitalism makes countries wealthy, and prosperous while increasing life expectancy of humans. while communism makes everyone poor and removes hundreds of millions from the population so obviously "climate change" effects would be reduced.
Capitalism or communism does not make people getting rich or poor for the people who trade their affluence over the impoverishment of people in the country are at fault. Therefore, increasing the well-being of people in the country by increasing resilience to the ecosystem to improve socioeconomic condition in the country have to be the top priority of a nation.
DON'T THUMB DOWN the vid before listening to what he says ! he's actually NOT a climate change skeptic
Sceptical wetger we can change it. So stop making solar companys wealthy. One extreme weather event and all those solar panels turned to junk.
@drcatjk The climate killed almost half of the Pymouth Colony in 1620-21
Who do you think caused the dangerous climate back then?
@drcatjk Global and "word wide" are interchangeable, they mean the same thing. Your English is fine.
@drcatjk your Eng is just fine, although these are synonyms, 'worldwide' is used more when describing social events and connections that relate people or actions(in my own words) like a worldwide pandemic. 'Global' on the other hand is used more in planet Earth related subjects which describe connections between all life forms, biology, geology, geography, etc, like for example global extinction
Silly click-bait title.
Click bait titles gets a thumbs down on principle.
He was referring to being wrong about the impact of the statement. In effect how selfish people are.
X2 lol sooo selfish is climate^^ this guy
well judging by your commemt his click bait worked, he got your attention and you saw the video so his work is done
@@privateperson5054 How true, everyone is selfish except you and me.
@@brucefrykman8295
How is that your take away based on what I wrote ?
I asked myself if I love the nature. The answer was yes. Then I started to finde ways to help the nature and live with "her" and not against it. I've informed myself about the effects which my behavor have to the nature, some of them where pretty clear whitout reaserch. So I changed a lot. Important is, I do not do it because the GOV tell me so, I do not do it because other ppl tell me so. I do it because I want to do it.
*RE: "I asked myself if I love the nature. The answer was yes. Then I started to find ways to help the nature and live with "her"*
Nature will not repay you for your most generous gift to her; believe me on this, she's out to kill you and I guarantee she's going to succeed.
@@brucefrykman8295 Nature is just a part of everything. We too. We are energy, and we will be energy forever.
@@Groovethrough Of course Einstein said it best. Many people believe E=MC^2 describes the conversion of matter into to energy in a nuclear reaction but that's not what Einstein meant. What he meant was that matter actually IS energy, a whole lot of bundled energy. Perhaps even energy has a will. It's all way above my pay grade.
@@brucefrykman8295 what have you been smoking?!
Awesome. Nature is all of us. Climate action is for all of us
His lecture title is perfectly titled as a critique on the way we collectively detach ourselves from a big problem that we abstract and remove from our daily lives.
Climate change isn’t a big problem it’s barely a problem at all
Boring speech so let me sum it up for you: He does care about climate change; the title is to attract attention. He sees no hope in mankind reversing it (probably correct). He tells you then, without getting specific in any way, to figure out how it will affect you personally.
Thank you
Thank you
Dnt be rude ... He truly cares its just the way he executes might appear slow...
Climate always changes, and we do not affect it more than a tiddle. Carbon dioxide is not a major contributor to climate change, and water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas ... which we can do nothing about.
Shocking speech
Good ideas but the whole idea of the title made 0 sense when he told the audience the twist.
It is happening *now*
Yes. We should be talking about record floods all over the planet (in 2014: in Italy, France, Germany, India, Bangla Desh, USA, England...)... record draught in Turkey, in California, record wildfires in Sweden, California.... hottest temperatures in whole europe in every month exept august.
***** Calf slobbers. The hottest year I can recall was 1980, where nearly every record temp was broken day after sweltering day. 115 degrees in Memphis in the shade. A month of temps over 110 degrees in OKC. On and on. Three years prior "scientists" were warning us about the impending Ice Age. You people are as naive and gullible as they come. Wake the fuck up and ask yourself "is there money involved?" Damned right there is, your money.
eatenbytheweasel
We grownups are talking about *average* and *global* temperatures. You can now go back into the hole you've been playing in.
eatenbytheweasel exxon, koch brothers and russia are working on a oil deal in the arctic that'll net them over a trillion. you tell me where the money is and who's paying off the scientists like soon. yup, the koch brothers already have our money but they want more and more. being an environmentalist that has worked on the solution for 20 years i'll tell you there is no money in it. only people like al gore are in it for the money and the democratic party is in it for elections. the republican party are run by the koch brothers obviously and cannot in any way be trusted along with fox news.
when understanding the arctic learn from the scientists that study in the arctic -- ameg.me even though they're planning to turn the sky red thanks to all the jerks knowingly using a natural phenomenon that'll possibly kill us all to profit off of
+Pfc Parts Huh? "Checks from progressive socialists"? What the heck are you even talking about?
Nobody said anything about "American households" receiving checks from the Koch Brothers. The Koch Brothers spend their money establishing "think tanks" (i.e. Americans for Prosperity, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, etc.) which publish phony "white papers" aimed at discrediting legitimate climate science. Why? Because the Koch Brothers' fortune is derived from oil, and fossil fuels are the cause of climate change.
Of course, that's assuming you accept the overwhelming consensus of 97% of the world's climate scientists. (The other 3%? They're the ones writing the phony white papers for the Koch Brothers' think tanks.)
The rain extreme weather event is easily explainable by those who understand the Grand Solar Minimum. When the sun becomes less active, the sun blocks fewer cosmic rays. The increase in cosmic rays increases clouds closer to the earth. This gives us increased extreme weather. Increased cosmic rays also activate volcanoes. Japanese scientists said 9 of the 11 major volcanoes in Japan happened during Grand Solar Minimums.
Well, it's a really misleading title. Nevertheless, this man presents a great idea. People will only start caring about any issue if it affects them on a personal level.
It would be great if everyone could focus on the science of climate change and see it as the problem that it is. However, I think we all can agree that won't happen. Most people don't really care about science. The only way to get them to care is to show them the 'real-time problems.'
I assume a lot care a bit about the science but have their own facts to relax
It is a problem, but the solutions sounds worse.
@@jamisojo no
People care a lot about science if a doctor tells them they have cancer. If wildfires force people on the other side of the country out of their homes, it's caused by solar flares or is a government conspiracy.
Finally some sense in these comments.
I thought this was going to be along the lines of "I used to be really worried about climate change, but then I did the research on hurricanes, droughts and tornadoes, and learned that they aren't trending up. I am no longer worried." Was disappointed.
TED will never showcase the other side of the argument, it is pretty clearly biased about certain issues and even goes to the extent of censoring and banning videos.
Here are some instructions on how to think.
If it's hot one day - It's Man made global warming.
If it's cold one day - It's climate change.
If it's juuuust right for you one day - You got to be aware, because it might be man made global standard.
If you can't predict the weather even 2 weeks ahead - It's just "how the weather works"
If you can't make any of 12 000 climate predictions for 15 years ahead to work -It's a "pause" in the man made global warming.
If it's the most snowfall in 50 years - It's because of something that has to do with... you guessed it - Man made global warming.
If you don't feel guilty about breathing out co2 or to fart - you're a bad person.
If it's dark at night - it's because man made distribution of people on the planet is skewed so the rotation is out of order.
If it's a tsunami somewhere on the planet - It's because of co2 density buildup in the acid oceans that's pushing water ashore.
If someone doubt your information - Attack
If you're an mathematician and realizes it would take an 80% income tax level worldwide, and a complete consumption stop, to even scratch the surface of goals set for 2040 - You're a person that should be stoned to death as a heretic.
This cult is no different from the y2k freaks who believed the world would explode. Or the 2012 Mayan doomsday preppers.
Get over yourself.
SPOT ON !!!
It's the biggest hoax ever.
Doesn't increased CO2 levels cause higher crop yields? The signs of climate change we need to educate ourselves about is any adverse weather event. Well, we're in for a lot of climate change for adverse weather has been happening for all of earth's history.
+Ken Marriott
Adverse weather?There isnt been a tornado landing from the Mexico bay for 10 years!!!
Yes. The fear of adverse weather doesn't fit the facts.
Increase in CO2 levels increases crop yields but not by a significant amount. Not by any amount that would constitute higher CO2 levels as a good thing. Also, talking about crop yields, making more food doesn't really help us much since food waste is such a huge issue in the developed world.
This cycle has repeated time and time again throughout history. Carbon
levels rise, heat level rises correspondingly creating an ideal
environment, that being hot with high carbon levels and high levels of
storms bringing water into the central continents to feed to
rainforests. The over abundance of oxygen producing plants then begin to
deplete the atmosphere of CO2 and the earth begins too cool. It reaches
a point where plants are locked into the equatorial zones, the ice
sheets push down, and lower water levels cause droughts that exacerbate
the loss of plant life. Eventually, CO2 levels begin the rise, and the
cycle begins again. Climate change isn't bad, it's the natural order of
the world.
all the dislikes come from people who only read the title
How do you know this
Climate change doesn't affect me personally. The climate is going to do what it's going to do. I don't believe it's going to do anything genuinely unusual.
David,I think you make an excellent point. We are living too much in our heads when it comes to climate change. We are so engrossed in our internet connections, living in our air conditioned houses, and in our air conditioned cars... To people who are here criticizing your presentation :
Have you ever realized that heavy dark tinting on automobile windows which is now standard - was very very rare just 10 to 15 years ago? What do you think is happening?
Go outside, feel the air, feel the weather, look at what's happening in our world - in YOUR LIFE. Thanks - CC is not just a theory and science formula. GO OUTSIDE - enjoy the times that are good - and realize what we do influences our climate.
Message aside, there is just something about this guy and his demeanor that precludes me from watching this in its entirety.
And what is that..?
Mickeyislowd - he seems unexceptional.
He seems like he bases his views from emotional experiences.
The climate is changing!!! Help! Help!
- - Ok, I’ll help. What should I do?
Live unemployed with few possessions. Vote for whoever I tell you to and give me money!
- - Yeah, I’ll get right on that.
The flash flood you experienced was likely due to watercourses blocked with weeds. This arose through EU policies banning dredging. (Well, the actual problem was regulations which made it next to impossible to dispose of the dredged silt, but the effect was the same.) That, coupled with hill farming subsidies which have led to stripping of vegetation from uplands, leading to fast runoff of water.
Now, I ask you, who predicted catastrophic floods, when, and what relation do those organisations have to the regulatory bodies whose stupidity in preventing watercourse maintenance in a land which always has had heavy rainfall, led to these catastrophic floods?
Of course, you might wonder if it was actually stupidity. It did not surprise me at all when the floods were claimed to be proof of climate change.
My sympathy goes to all those who have lost their homes through this corruption. I myself narrowly avoided being one of their number. I sold rather than continue to take the risk on an uninsurable house in a street where two neighbours had been flooded out. On speaking to one of the local watercourse maintainers he made the situation clear to me. The house I sold at a reduced price has not since been flooded, and that is because the watercourses were cleared.
Round about this time I became interested in climate change, and with my scientific background I was not prepared to take propaganda or hyperbole at face value. The truth is there, but only for those who are prepared to seek it for themselves. Some aspects of that truth are, indeed, downright worrying.
Not only was he wrong, but he was wrong about why he was wrong, and remains wrong...
Lol
I knew before clicking that there was absolutely no way a highly biased organization like TED would give any airtime whatsoever to somebody with an opposing view but I clicked anyway! I really just wanted to hear how I knew he would wrap around to the typical extreme extremely polarized viewpoint. Maybe climate change is a fact but maybe it's not can we always need to be open minded. But in my experience, it's impossible for humans to be open-minded.
I don't care about climate change. I care about pollution in every form that it takes. I basically agree with him that we need to look at our actions and the impact on our land and food supply.
This is my view too. Climate change isn't the problem. As for man-made CO2 affecting the weather ... unscientific and unprovable. We ought to be talking about soil structure and habitat destruction, not CO2.
100%
@@suttonelms1 the fact that you said that climate change isn't the problem and that man-made C02 isn't affecting the *weather* proves that you hsve absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
@@suttonelms1 oh, what about jellyfish explosion and loss of 65% of all marine species?
well you should because your grandchildren wil not make it to Retirment. They will likely die from heat waves, food shortages and famine.
The more the co2, the greener the planet. Without co2 the planet dies.
Well and suscinctly said! The climatistas fear monger over 400 ppm CO2. The caution level in a submarine is 5000 ppm and 7000 ppm in a space capsule. The optimum for plant growth is about 1000 to 1200 ppm. Greenhouses know this. Their plants look so good because they generate CO2 to achieve 500 ppm.
sadly his title was meant to be shocking and make people want to listen to his talk, but instead made people which were not in the room live with him(and thus be forced to listen to the reasoning), to react with thumbs down and not actually watch the vid or listen to him
Wow! Look at the comments! We Americans really are stupid enough to deny the obvious!
Inaccurate computer models of climate should not be used to make major energy policy decisions.
With the horrible track record of computer models (modelers?) they shouldn’t be used to make any decisions on anything w/o independent testing and corroboration.
We literally have to give up every machine to really make a difference
Another clueless little boy that's swallowed the climate change lie.
An excellent outline on how we should communicate n engage the community about climate change
YOU'RE WRONG.
We shouldn't care about Climate Change. We shouldn't even care about how it specifically affects us. What we SHOULD care about is how we can positively affect it. Dwelling on past mistakes and finger-pointing only leads to negativity. Which is poison in these scenarios. It's what leads to politicians stubbornly denying it, etc. Positivity is more likely to lead to a realistic solution
Just looking at the quality of the comments, one can tell that communication about climate change has ways to go before a critical mass of people grasp the importance of the issue. I give the presenter my thumb up for trying a different approach. Whether or not he is onto something, at least he is doing something.
4:28
"I was wrong about education on climate change, we should care far less about the science."
If that doesn't sum up the entire climate change/global warming debate I don't know what does....
agreed. it was also called global warming until all their advanced uncapable of being wrong computer models that could not predict anything were wrong. now they changed to to climate change as if the climate has not been changing for oh i dont know.... forever.
What is there to "DO"?! Volcanoes put more pollutants into the atmosphere than all the autos and factories put together. Are we supposed to put corks in them? C'mon! There has been climate change throughout the life of the planet. At one time the globe was frozen solid, save the deepest parts of the oceans. Plate tectonics and volcanoes were all that saved the globe. During the age of the dinosaurs, there were no polar ice caps. That changed. We are just coming out of an ice age. That is changing but again. There are a lot of people making a lot of money preaching about this subject. Besides, how do we know this warmer environment will not be better. He speaks of wheat yields, etc. but does not mention the fact that the soils have been weekend due to mono-culture agriculture over the years. Perhaps, when this current change comes to fruition, wheat can be grown at more northerly sites, where the soils have not been depleted. These doomsayers will not be alive to see the subsequent results. No one will hold their feet to the fire for their predictions. So it is safe for them to espouse their views without repercussions when they are proven wrong.
Drought in South Africa is a naturally occurring Phenomenon. I have been here for over 60 years and watched them come and go. That is the African planet. The effect in Cape town is so devastating because the current government has made zero involvement in increasing the potable water infrastructure for over 20 years. During this time the population has increased many fold. Climate change is natural and we need to plan around it.
Is Florida underwater yet? its already 4 years past due. Why should I believe any of your claims when none of them have ever panned out?
I disagree with this idea. The science about climate change is really actually very important. Without the science we would be ill equipped to provide the appropriate knowledge to the engineers to correct the problem. Good engineers take science very seriously and personally, humans just don't have enough of them. The best thing to do is to educate people to do more engineering to create solutions where there are challenges. What if just about everyone in the first world were an engineer, just as much as everyone is currently literate? -->This is an idea worth spreading.
I agree, but we don't really have time to educate … well, who? The whole world to engineer level? Meaning a BSC or BA in Englineering? The thing is, we needed to make major structural, socio-cultural shifts in attitudes and behaviours a couple of generations ago. It's pretty much too late now. We can try and salvage the very worst effects, but really, there's an awful lot of pain and damage locked in to the inevitable warming en route to the homes near you now.
So what i think David is saying is: It's way too late to care about the minutae of scientific quibbling and latest scientific findings; the main point is we need to continue to make major structural changes on the international, national, and local (regional and suburban) scales, and as soon as possible, because AGW *is* affecting us right now in all these very personal ways (price of insurance, food, way increased risks, etc.).
Though I agree with your statement, what I have found when speaking to deniers is that the approach mentioned in this video actually helps makes some of these "global warming is an evil liberal conspiracy" people question their own thinking. For example, I was speaking to a friend that believed that all the data was fabricated no matter the amount empirical evidence and peer review research I showed him. However, when I mentioned that salt water marshes in Texas are already being taken over by black mangroves and that South Carolina, despite being a red state, is investing research into making their struggling peach crop more resilient to the recent warming that has put stress on yields, he was slightly dumbfounded. Sometimes it's more effective to point out the palm tree in the deniers back yard that couldn't grow there 25+ years ago than it is to show them numerical data.
***** people need the science to understand how to debunk the myths that the oil industry is pumping into the public... but I get what the kid is saying...for people to care, they need to see how it matters to them..."what can it do for me" comes to mind
If you use the all faculties of human intelligence and look closely at these challenges, you'll end up at a better solution than if you cut out science. What this guy is suggesting is mindless propaganda.
Michael L.: Sorry but that does not even make any sense. Perhaps you should return to elementary and high school to finish learning how to use English effectively in a written sentence, and then go to university to finish learning how to create and convey logic. Then come back to the discussion on global warming… if there is anyone left in society not already wiped out by famine, fire, drought, disease, or other disaster by then.
You'll need to give this speech in Mandarin.
Ten or twenty years from now people will watch these talks for laughs.
Waste of time telling you this. 20 years? Global food sources will run out before that. Starvation is our future.
If it's a waste of time, why did you waste your time? Assuming we're both here 20 years from now, and I'm confident we will be... (I'll be 92) let's make a side bet on it. I'll put up $20.
@@terrygrund6598 I don't understand why certain people here on TH-cam can't just make a coherent argument without needing to add insults and ad hominem attacks.
@@fromanabe8639 lmao u sure you're going to make it until 92? Just saying.
@@fromanabe8639 always the old people who don't care about climate change
He is difficult to listen too. His tone is annoying and his message is condescending. Water has been strategic since men have drawn boundaries on maps.
I first thought you were a climate denier, but you made a fair point. Sending you Love from Pakistan.
David, a brilliant and insightful speech. This idea of focusing on the personal consequences makes very good sense. Lets face it, our brains are simply not equipped to deal with such large scale threats such as climate change. Bringing the problem to a personal and community level gives us some chance to act.
Providing the threat is a real one. Which brings us back to the science, that, having read his blog he clearly knows little about.
The real threat is of Fraud and misinformation. All of the oceans are below average temperature and the ice of the North and South Poles is growing back like crazy. We have the threat of a solar Ice Age and the volcanic Ice Age. Climate change is a cover for weather Warfare and fake emergency social control. The Illuminati of talked about creating a climate disaster for hundreds of years. One guy was taken to court and went to jail for deliberately manipulating the climate data and said in court that lying was a rush. We can jail fraud like that fraud is a felony. A lot of the Heat and fires are microwave produced. You could read behind the green mask by Rosa Koire and harp Chemtrails and full-spectrum dominance of the Earth by Elana Freeland. The cover stories and the speaker are a part of psychological warfare
@@Airbnb2Video His points does work though. I never thought how climate would affect my food supplies and such. Currently researching on sustainability and this speech does open up a new world to me.
David Saddington this era of humanity will end and maybe the ones that will be after us will do a better job with this little blue planet :) There is no hope in the little humanity left in some of us, greed/money/possesions/materialism has taken the mind and the hearts of humans.Sad but true. Greeting from Romania :)
Humans can prevail and survive this. It's not too late. It's true. Greetings from England ;)
Exactly it’s the reason why I have no hope in governments taking action about it
"science isn't working, so we should make an emotional argument." If that isn't illustrative of contemporary political dialogue I don't know what is.
John Boulware people relate to stories that relate to them. Not numbers. Doesn’t have much to do with politics at all. More of a psychological/sociological thing actually
If you can’t beat em, join em 😂
Video has wrong title, should be Why I Care about Climate Change's effects on food costs and the environment etc. Whether the warming is going to turn down as some believe due to solar cycles is to be seen.
When is this downturn going to happen? What if it doesn't happen for 100 years? Whoops. Our bad. Should have mitigated. Kept waiting for the imminent downturn.
The corporations are just providing you, and me, with what, we desire, to live the lifestyles, we, are reluctant to change. Dave here, isn't going to give up all the fossil fuel items he uses on a daily basis. NOT LESS, GIVE UP ANYTHING THAT HAS ANY DEVELOPMENTAL FACTORS FROM FOSSIL FUELS! GO AFTER YOURSELVES! Please, take a moment and ask yourself, what's real?
5:08 and I’m still wondering what’s the point in this speech
Climate change also happens in nature, it happens in phases and there is plenty of history and evidence which document all of this. The point is, why are we not preparing people for the shock and how they will deal with learning to live in this new era of changing weather. I believe it is a worthy point as people are not prepared and not educated on what the impact could mean. I personally believe that the doubling of food prices over the next 10 years will be due to the battle for water and land in order to grow mono culture crops for bio fuels. The developing world is soon to be the No1 consumer by population on this planet and things are going to become very different for western civilisations over the next 150 years. I see 1000 years of dark ages coming and very little chance of the restoration of nature to where it was thousands of years ago.
Humanity should be striving for the complete restoration of nature yet we continue to chop down forests and cause desertification by practicing both arable and pastoral farming on a huge scale.
There are a million things we should be doing but we won't due to greed, power and basically these days due to capitalism. Hopefully the people of the future can find balance, somehow.
When I grew up I was preached at the God was the cause of all things. Today we are taught climate change is the cause of all things.
No Christians won't let you blame God for anything bad like cancer or childhood diseases and especially not global warming.
@@SCHEY101 Missing the point completely. Comment is about the current state of climate state ideology and not religion at all. Nietzsche said that when you find a simple cause (such as God) you are not thinking scientifically. Science is about integrity in the search, whether or not it supports your hypothesis or destroys it. Even if you support a position for a lifetime, then the evidence says you are wrong, admit it. Stop trying to explain new data away or altering the data to fit your belief. Doesn't matter whether it's creationism or global warming.
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The ideology of religion's is that their God is the cause of everything good but has nothing to do with terrible things, no matter what science says and that's never going to change unfortunately.
Climate change is the new religion. We're shifting from traditional religions but the psychological drive for it doesn't go away... it just shifted.
Sorry, this guy is hard to understand. Not just his speech patterns and accent but his whole premise.
What's so hard to understand about British? It's like English but with a tang
in uk, i was taught about climate change in 80's at my primary school, DAMN has he got a very good point! ... i expected to hate this, was quite resistant when i clicked 'play', now i love it!
Makes sense when you live on a small island in the ocean.
So, I reject the notion that human activity is a primary factor in climate change. I see far more impact on our climate from natural phenomena, including solar activity and cycles in the earth's elliptical orbit around the sun. Also, the climate has been changing well before there was an significant human industrial activity in the 19th century. In fact, there were periods in history during which the climate was warmer and also cooler than the present day.
Now, that said, I do agree that humans have a negative impact on our environment. We pollute the air, land, and sea that we all depend on. This is not good and we should certainly be better stewards of the one planet we have to live on.
But, as David Saddington suggests, this is not achieved by continually repeating the same old story about the climate. Firstly, that numbs people into inaction. Secondly, proclaiming a false message of man-made climate change does even more to push away those who object to the notion.
If you want more people to take action, then try focusing on the reality of human pollution and focus on that which is relevant to them. The biggest issue I have when I hear people crying about man-made climate change is that it's often in the context of pushing more government restrictions on businesses and economic growth. And, it's often coming from people espousing more left-wing ideals. So, it's pretty easy to tune that out and completely ignore anything they're crying about.
Yet, taking care of the environment isn't a political idea. It means being a good steward of our planet. Politics should be irrelevant.
Anyway, eventually, we'll be switching over to more renewable energy sources, regardless of man-made climate change activists. As nonrenewable energy sources become more scarce, they become more expensive. And, the technology for more renewable sources will advance and help make them cheaper.
An excellent source is nuclear energy. But, the same activists who often cry about man-made climate change also seem to be against the best solution to eliminate a great deal of CO2 emissions; interesting.
Obama is so scared and concern of rising sea level that he retires with a mansion in the sea side. Lol irony 🤡
It's not possible for humans to slow or stop climate change. Humanity isn't willing to go without, so, eventually, the climate will go on without humanity.
climate change doesnt mean end of humanity... it does only if we can cope with the challenges it bring with it and destroy each other in the process
Keeping It Reel first of all it was and still is called Climate Change this name is way older than the other things you named.
Secondly it wasn’t called Global cooling for the majority of the time. The first papers of Climate Change predicted Global warming, wich it did clearly 50 years later. After these papers a minority predicted the opposite, the Global cooling. But they couldn’t stay for long because of the overwhelming evidence of Global warming.
And third you can still use Global warming it is still describes the average Global warming of the earth. But people got confused because in some places it was getting colder or was cold and didn’t really take account what “average“ meant in case of Global warming. So they took the old name again Climate Change wich fits as well.
I would recommend you the TH-camr “Potholer54“ he is a science journalist. And explain in his videos false accusations about Climate Change far better than me. There’s a whole playlist debunking every sceptic Climate change argument.
He will even argue with you in the comment section and read every link you sent him, sometimes they are hilarious as there was one guy trying to debunk him with an Link to a paper study. The irony was that this link was supporting potholer54s video.
There’s also a video how you prove Climate change without these models and he don’t use the IPCC as his source for his videos, instead he take the published papers directly.
You're being more pessimistic than you should be, and you're missing the bigger besides. Over the next 20 years, the technological revolution we are currently undergoing will have a *far* greater impact on humanity than the changing climate will over the next century. If our species becomes extinct, it won't be because the planet is a few degrees warmer.
Keeping It Reel I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and guess that you're just apathetic. Climate change is real, there is no argument there. Temperature is getting hotter in summer and more brutally cold in winter, these massive hurricanes and tropical storms of unparalleled size, the ice caps melting. On that note, humans are not doing it. A loong time ago about 500 million years ago the CO2 ppm was about 7000ppm. Now it's just over 400ppm and people are losing their minds. Higher CO2 promotes plant growth which has happened over the past 35 years worldwide where Forrest and jungles are growing faster than ever in recorded history. The earth has been through 5 ice ages. That is a trend. Just like any other natural phenomena it will happen again. People fighting that is ok though right? Even though the whole argument with CO2 is we added it now it's ok to interfere with the earth healing itself. The earth will do what it has to so it keeps going. People are here for the ride. It doesn't hurt having renewable resources and energy because why use stuff that never comes back? Just dont think a world of green energy is going to save us.
Matthew Giles faster growing plants isn't necessarily better lol. First of all that only applies to C3 plants. C4 and CAM photosynthesis plants are actually at a disadvantage. This includes corn which is not only a staple food crop but a staple for biofuel production (ethanol). Second of all, C3 plants growing faster and producing more sugar is at the expense of nutrient density. This means that C3 crops humans eat are getting more sugary and less nutritious with increased atmospheric concentrations of CO2. That's definitely a downside. Plants are also affected by climate change because they cannot expand their range as rapidly as animals can, since they're immobile. As temperatures rise, the ideal range of plants will be further from the equator. Plants that don't adapt quickly enough will become extinct. Another way is through desertification. Deserts are EXPANDING, forests aren't getting bigger. Deserts = less green cover and very little biodiversity. Few plants are adapted to arid conditions but again, at this rate of change most plants won't be able to adapt genetically before becoming extinct.
I was so pleased to hear you mention the impact of animal agriculture!!!!!
Animals are delicious
@@jamisojo I love eating them
Animal agriculture cleans up the MESS of Plant Agriculture.
Your Welcome.
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You're pleased about having some of our food supply taken away are you? You're pleased over hearing fraud?
6:47 That sounds like an excuse totalitarian states would use. My parents lived through that already, no thx.
I feel like people are showing up, looking at the thumbs down on the top right, then thumbing up the top comments which are mostly critical and therefore perpetuating the trend... this is actually a good talk. He's pointing out that we need to talk about real everyday effects instead of using science speak. I love the science and want to hear it, but it's not what I should be talking to most people who aren't familiar with why they should care about climate change.
The climate has been changing back and forth since time immemorial ! And humans ain’t gonna do anything to stop it !
Unless I can go out to space and move that "light bulb" ie sun
deeply disappointed in TED. so many great talks, then this crap. utter waste of time.
+Joshua Eckhardt TEDx is not the same as TED ...
Yes Tedx is the leftists answer to TED Talks.
+WinstonSmith Actually, TEDx is a collaboration vehicle that is taken advantage of by a range of organizations in order to benefit from the TED brand. These organizations [edit: and their messages] are barely curated at all and their reliability and political allegiances vary pretty widely, and not just to the left.
WinstonSmith "leftists" is a shallow thinker's response to an actual question.
This isn't TED. Learn to read.
Where is the sceptical view on Ted Talks?
+Useful Music There isnt a skeptical view similar to how there is no debate at which the temperature of water boils.
+Krath
www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/chang/boiling/index.htm
He has persuaded me that climate change is boring
Children shouldn't mouth off about things they don't understand.
Another option is to wait until you become wiser, more educated, more skilled in your area of expertise...and then give a TEDx talk.
Did anyone actually watch the whole video? or did you just read the title and get upset!?? lol
No, I thought I'd give him the benefit of doubt.
Yeah; it's click bait, but he suggests a science topic should no longer argue scientifically but dogmatically. ....lol (?)
@@j.macjordan9779 Yes, but with science you are not able to convince the most people! I think it's fine to do so when it's backed by science!
I tried. But he was very slow, somewhat hard to understand, and pretty boring.
And in the end he completely contradicted the title.
Sorry kid, people are going to die of old age, obesity, smoking, and car wrecks long before they suffer from climate change.
@@jamisojo Loads of people are already affected by climate change. A quick search of UNHCR and the term climate refugees should tell you enough. It's very likely though that you, as I surmise hailing from a developed country, will die from affluence. In that you are correct, yet to extrapolate your situation to the rest of the world is not. Also, historically, climate change is not a new thing. Grazing in the middle-east caused desertification, which in turn reduced crop yields, etc. Currently the driving factor in global climate change are predominantly greenhouse gases, but all sorts of human activities will just compound the issue.
Oh, look -- yet another TEDx talk where the title is contradicted by the actual content.
Why can't speakers choose more accurate and honest titles for their talks?
I say his topic is completely accurate. He did say that he is worried about the yield of crops , the cost for his insurance . The people who do care about climate change and its effect on natural balance will go on doing the good work . This speech is for people who find the topic relatable to their way of living ( viewing climate change as a mystery and is long way down the road ) . The statistics on the yield and trade prices implies that climate change does affect our financial earning and people who care about their financial strength.....will try to reduce their carbon footprint . I tell with certainty that people who do care about the nature's balance won't be affected much by this video because if they do already care .....it means they are looking at it from 'the sustainability of our planet ' point of view and not by financial and lifestyle point of view . I can with certainty say that he also cares about the sustainability of our planet . I feel that he morphs to be one of the people who care less about sustainability and focus more on being happy each moment of their life
As long as people accept money for deluding the public no progress could be made. While we are discussing the pollution we forget the reason for it which is wrong economic model. A model which makes us produce and consume excessively destroying the nature in many aspects.
Just for the record, I don’t care about “climate change”.
Why? Humans are literally releasing carbon gasses causing glaciers to melt and sea levels rising. It is causing islands to shrink and causing costal areas to flood. I really want you to get educated on this topic.
subtitles ,mouth full of marbles
"Summer is coming"☀☀☀
Let me tell you about why I'm lying about my lecture title
He should have stopped with "I was wrong"
His ignorance of insurance is telling. ALL insurance payouts are subsidized by policyholders with no claim. 🤦♂️
I don't care about climate change in my own behalf, because I'm close to my 86th birthday (unless I'm unlucky enough to become a centenarian), but I do worry about the children. Unless the military/industrial forces of the World become less greedy and power hungry, Mankind is doomed.
I think the issue is often too overwhelming. I know it gets to me. Basically the extreme implication is that killing myself would make the planet better (no more carbon footprint). It would prevent torturous deaths of animals and children. But if we don't stand up for this cause with suicide - then we need to accept our duality. Accept that we will do a lot of wrong. And act towards improving things here and there within our own daily lives. Beating yourself up will likely just lead to more wrongdoing. Face the challenge realistically within your own life and still pay your bills - still have your goals - still take that flight to costa rica and increase your carbon footprint. But do some right along with it
The price of food continues to go down, severe weather events decrease, guess that computer model got it wrong?
Wes Stephenson.
Severe weather events decrease? Really? Have you anything to back that up with?
I thought so.
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I thought he was gonna say “because it isn’t real”
trees
the siberian tundra is melting. too late the next permian extinction event is nigh
Jack Hodgson 3 years later SNL does a rap song called “Trees”
I think we should not be closed to his views, he's got a point, guys. It is true that Global Warming and Climate Change is a complete academic topic, we need to make it more than academics. We need to bring balance. I strongly believe in the importance of the scientific study of Climate change so I suggest we bring about a balance cause many people don't really care about the science.
Let's forget about climate change and if it's true or not. Let's focus on pollution and try to reduce it. Many children in the class of my daughter have astma because of it. I smell the pollution each time I step out of my door.
Thanks for all your comments,,,they are very informative to the video,,,sometimes more,,,it helps alot of us understand the subject better,,it appears global warning or climate change is becoming a team sport,,,those for and those against,,, maybe becoming a religion,,and all with good points,,,people are becoming more aware which is a good thing,, my question is,,how come we don't discuss the topic on pollution,,radiation or fluoride,,,would the debate be the same as climate change or would we be more apt to agree,,,,did we forget Chenoble or the
three meltdowns at fukushima,,,still ongoing,,,so I wonder whether it matters if the tide goes up or down,,or it's hot or cold,,,when the planet is radiated and poisoned,,,in the end the weeds and the cockroaches will win,,,, we have to get along with nature,,not rule her,,,peace,,
Flouride?
If I were you I'd be more concerned about your tin hat.
@@jamisojo Bad attitude.
@@jamisojo you are downplaying the poisoning of fluoride that makes you a criminal oh, do you know that? Would you like to respond to me with some more fraud and incriminate yourself further? Do you get a part-time income for committing fraud?
Nuclear power plants are far more green than your classic Green energy source and coal sources. Just so you know.
The importantvthing to realise is that everything is controlled not by us..we are NOT responsible for the decisions made by the ruling elite driving toward their new world order ( I'll get the tin hat attack now😅)... Real Clean Energy solutions are repressed..no money to beade in cheap or free energy. Therefore this guy is just an innocent shill.. realise that all is controlled and all they want is more control . The climate change agenda is part of the plan to do that. Slavery and transhumanism in effect right now.🤖🤖🤖
This talk is so banal as to be insulting
He gave up school when he met Tory Blair and became a climate change evangelist. What a waste. 🤣🤣🤣😋
Seeing kids like this gives me hope for the future. Smart, well-informed and committed. There is so much willful ignorance in the 1st world (we who are most able to do something about climate change), it's refreshing to know there are some kids who care and are willing to work for change.
We can do NOTHING against CC! No matter what we do,nature goes ahead with doing what it must doing.Its all natural.
how about cutting co2 emissions?
As effective as dusting a pin compared to the size of the world.Useless!The upper vast majority of CO 2 in the air is nature born.
And its not proven still that CO 2 should warm the Earth.Anyway,we are heading to a mini ice age anyway.Despite the elevated CO 2..Because all our climate is fully depended by the Sun and that one is sleeping right now,thats why we are heading to a ice age.
yes that is true but it is not the problem, this co2 is absorbed by oceans and plants in the natural co2 cycle, the problem is that humans have unleashed an excess of co2 into this cycle that the oceans can't absorb, so year by year the amount of co2 in the atmosphere goes up, and is now higher then it's been during the last 800'000 years.
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Yeah,very convenient to go back only 800 thousand years!Because just before that the CO 2 was much more than we have now.And there was a ice age at that time,in fact in all ice ages there was was much more CO 2 than now!CO 2 is not the gas that rules the temperature,water vapor is,And clouds from water vapor are made by cosmic rays when the Sun has less radiation towards the Earth.So more vapor more cold.Less vapor less cold.So the Sun rules the climate on each planet in the solar system.
Why did they drop the Global Warming label?
Spouting platitudes doesn't change the facts that the higher the temperature the more water vapor.
The more water vapor the more precipitation.
The more precipitation in the northern latitudes, the more ice ---- and the cycle repeats itself.
So, I shouldn't try to prove anything I should just turn whatever my problem is into an emotional club to beat people into submission with. That's a great way to operate in a good and functioning society. I bet nothing ever goes wrong for people who do that. Not once ever.
Crops grow in relatively narrow temperature range. As temperatures rise we will experience more and more crop failures. A driving force for the refugee crisis are the crop failures in the Middle East. California, the 'breadbasket' is experiencing a major drought which is reducing crop yields there. With reduced water there is reduced amounts available for irrigation.
Laughing Dog, did you know plants are in the lowest range of CO2 for survival? Increased CO2 will cause plants world wide to grow more vigorously thereby adding O2 and H2O into the atmosphere.
California Drought? is also caused by all the politicians damming off the water ways. The environmentalist thought it was a great idea.... But the results of their thinking is showing us something different...
Personally, I'm still waiting for the predictions to come true
What predictions are you waiting for? You doubt the science or you mean you just don’t care or both. I was interested to hear from a sceptic where this type of view comes from
........the entire west coast of the USA was on fire last September, the entire state of Oregon had hazardous air for over a week, there were multiple record-breaking hurricanes in the southeast, all of Australia was on fire in January 2020, my dude what more do you need to see? This is quite literally just the beginning
Sir your house will be in fire unless you take steps to prevent it from happening.
"I'm still waiting to see my house be on fire"
@@helderboymh "Sir the back of your house is now on fire."
"Well I can't see the back so I don't believe you."
@@stardusstie I meant it more like that even if he was right that we had not seen it happen or predictions didn't come true yet, the logic they used is illogical.
For some reason I looked in a dictionary for "Immense but unjustified smugness, followed by tumbleweed moment," and it sent me straight to 3.10 of this video.....
You've never seen a real dictionary.
I’m have a debate in two days and unfortunately I was given the side of “why should students not care about climate change” does anyone have any good points on this?
How'd that go?
What 'talkers' do best is talk and this guy is an example... half way through i was thinking 'he hasn't yet really told me anything' so i gave up on it/him...
what did you expect him to do? change the planet immediately?
More CO2 (plant food) for the world, now!
Well, the plants don't seem to be hungry. Otherwise CO2 levels weren't rising.
@@Elite7555 So what about the rapid re-greening of the planet that is going on right now? Doesn't suit your narrative, right?
@@calysagora3615 Come on. It is obvious that previously frozen areas would now become green. That is not a new observation, it was clear from the start. Nonetheless, CO2-levels are rising, and dramatically so. And at the same time ever more rain forrest vanishes.
Calys Agora mold has a green tinge to it. Does that count as food? Have you looked at the planet recently? 25* celsius in Alert, nunavut Canada today where the average temp is 0 to -2 Celsius this is the arctic today. .
@@Elite7555 lol you speak as if that's not due to our choices but just a consequence of nature
You're right you did make me not care about climate change!
Lol
I'm moving to Mars. So no worries.
I do not think this guy did any independant research. Carbon comes after temp change - does not cause temp change. And CO2 is not a pollutant - it is a food.
Thanks for not putting the provocative, clickbaity title in context in the description.
Very inspirational video. I wish the US made climate change a part of its school curriculum
It already has fully indoctrinated all of our children and not just a few of our gullible adults.
oh it is im learning about it right now and doing a full essay on it :)
Yesterday in southern California it was sunny and warm - beautiful. Today it was seven degrees cooler and cloudy...OH NO! THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
He lost me half way through the melodramatic story about the rain storm
I understand what he is trying to do. Learning about its impacts bring message closer to home. We need more ways of actually teaching the everyday citizen what he or she can do to minimize the impact and how to move government in the direction the people want to go
Only if you can tell us when we are allowed to use fossil fuels.
I think it’s a smart way to make you care about climate change while you are interested in your personal interests.
My personal interest is to get the US government off my back. I can deal with the weather - it has no army of heavily armed bureaucrats.
I was surprised that this talk didn't conclude that all human action at this point cannot prevent human extinction just round the corner. THAT would have been true too. Yet I believe his interest in caring for people in these last years is quite important indeed.