I have spent many sleepless nights recently thinking about the number of cars I have owned over the years and the arithmetic stuns me - the number is 23 and each weighed about 1.5 tons which totals at 34.5 tons. Add in the consumables like fuel and lubricants, coolant, tires and batteries and that adds at least another 3.5 tons to the total to bring it to 38 tons. And I am just one person who weighs about 168 pounds. I wonder where all my used vehicles are now and I feel as guilty as hell for all of my consumption as the vehicles probably represent less than half of my total waste in my lifetime. I have this sinking feeling that I and my fellow species members have totally stuffed this planet with our profligate waste. So, the word garbage does apply to me and my mates.
How so? If one just seems like some kind of acolyte for the politikal machinations of environmental issues, then it is possible they will be ignored or lumped into the overall cacaphony of digital noises. Actual meteorology, climate science and the chemistry regarding pollutants...is difficult to ignore. Atleast, then the problem is properly defined; and there is a hope that scientific advancements can solve the problem eventually. I am so tired of powerful fools choosing a social gaslight tactic instead of just being honest about their apathy/greed/opinions. Because atleast then they aint messin up the definition of problems...
We get it ffs, but most people aren’t as privileged as Bill to have time and money to worry about it.. We’re too busy working, dealing with inflation, raising our kids and trying not to go broke!! and all those hard working MEN who work in the oil and gas industry to bring you the luxuries u enjoy are working their asses off and get demonized because of their jobs! I’d love to see what Bill would do if all the oil and gas workers just quit working ! Every pretentious rich ignorant jerk would have a complete meltdown!!
Makes NO difference. China, India & nearby countries have ½ Earth's population & NO Environmental Guardrails. Long story short, Search: Inevitable(!) Near Term Human Extinction, aka INTHE ⚰️
@@paradoxlaboratories8005 tonite=informal Bologna, baloney Dare to be different or at least as in my case Webster dictionary challenged but Urban dictionary proud
Move back to glass and paper. It doesnt kill the planet, and it doesn't seep into your damn food and drinks. Anyone remember the Glass soda bottles back in the 80's? I could swear that it even tasted better coming from glass.
Except glass is heavy and needs more energy to be processed. Which then uses up more energy which is mostly oil and coal and such.... Yeah your genius idea is not a great as you might think. Most people who have to deal with decisions like that already had that idea ...
That is very possible. Human beings are very clever creatures though. It is beyond possible that we will genetically modify organisms to scrub out large amounts of plastic while serving a different function. The time for GMO's in complex systems is not here yet...however it is seemingly less crazy every day that passes... Proper ecology for now is necessary. Artificial coral reefs, scuttling of non toxic boats/objects to create ecosystem habitation zones. Limits on commercial fisheries. Incentives towards farming methods. Et cetera.
@@dozzer009 Plastics aren't all the same. The more complex plastics get dumped into a landfill by recycling companies that can't process them unfortunately.
@@SDZ675 I wish I could find the clip b/c I can't recall the details. Rogan talked on a podcast within the past few months about how Singapore has some process to destroy garbage w/o creating carbon emissions, something along those lines. It sounds like whatever they are doing, we should undoubtedly be doing it here.
Thank you Bill Maher for highlighting this critical topic. I live in New Zealand - a supposed 'Clean Green' country compared to so many others - on a small Island 35 mins by ferry from Auckland & although it hurts me to say our tide lines are filled with minute but detectable & not so minute plastics - from boating debris, from discarded rubbish, plastic nurdles, fishing debris etc. I see increasing numbers of the dead bodies of native sea birds who have succumbed to the direct fatal effects of plastic - having died of starvation due to plastic ingestion or lack for food sources - the flow on effects of other forms of pollution - run off from construction, storm water drains, commercial over fishing & more or been terminally tangled in discarded fishing line. The tipping point often spoken of in expert ecological circles has, I believe, been tipped & all I can think is I am glad I do not have children as I don't think I could feel optimistic about the local or global natural world, it's future & the devastation that has that has been left for them to deal with.
The guy is sitting there wearing plastic glasses, shoes, clothes in a plastic studio telling you how bad you are for using plastic. And you thought it was a good idea to get on your plastic phone and say good job bill?
We should be able to learn how to stop using so much plastic, when I was a kid we saw these super high tech things called water fountains. Then came Perrier, the high class water and now bottled water is everywhere.
Yeah, but the higher order animals have gone extinct. IT will take tens of millions of years for larger mammals to evolve from whatever survives - rats, mice, etc
Bill's life would be much easier if he simply recalled some of George's appearances on his show. The one where George talks of Conspiracies not needed when interests converge, for example, is a speech Maher should fuse into his brain. Knowing such things helps one in life, especially thebideologically motivated like Bill@@user49917
There's some misrepresentation in Bill's monologue. The Pacific Ocean garbage patch is nothing like as big as France. Also, it is around 80+ % spent fishing equipment like nets. Consumer plastics overwhelmingly don't get dumped in the Ocean, they get dumped in land fills. We are damaging the Oceans though. Ever since the 1980s I have always hated unnecessary use of plastics, and back then they were used far less. I have always thought the vast majority of plastic food packaging could be done with glass, papers or even wood.. eminently reusable or recyclable, or if dumped, bio degradable or not toxic.
We've been warned about this since the 70s. We knew we were going to ignore it and we did. So here we are. Remember people who did care were labeled as tree huggers and bleeding hearts. So accept the oceans fate because once we are gone, the planet will be able to heal.
As someone who has worked many years on cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage patch, I can safely say that 99% of the patch does not originate from western countries. This is the real reason the issue gets ignored. Its (Insert favorite IST here) to mention the true sources of the patch. Especially when confronting the true source countries that are largely responsible. The countries responsible for the patch do not care about the pollution they facilitate, and calling them out on a global stage only makes them dump even more into the ocean out of spite. We learned this fact all to well back in the late 90's.
@@falkwulf3842 You are right. Sadly, western countries, where many of the strongest democracies are, are still debating the course to take. If the debate was over, then we would be able to push for India and China to stop, but the see us bickering and continue under the banner "if the whites arent doing it, we will not bother".
That warning elluded me and my Navy. We were using the ocean as our dump back then. No one said boo about it. Mind you I was 17 and only interested in where my next beer was coming from. When you care enough to do something after you wake up and all around you even your loved ones don't care you get disheartened now and then.
Retired fish biologist here - he's right. Much of fish and aquatic biology today consists of the careful study and documentation of the degradation of lakes, rivers, streams and oceans, the collapse of fish stocks and radical, anthropologically caused changes in aquatic ecosystems.
Unfortunately, neither of the major political parties these days are willing to address it because both get their money from the businesses actively destroying it.
I'm an avid angler. The change I've seen in my local fisheries over the last decade is STAGGERING. I live in a state where a body of fishable water is never further than 30 mins away, but those waters are producing far less fish than ever before.
Here the chemicals in the water have absolutely destroyed things like crayfish, there is so much PFAS in the water that at times it creates a massive foam on top in corners on the bank. That destruction of food source in the fisheries is really creating a problem.@@BassWranglerPNW
Make Room! Make Room! (the book from where the movie was taken) was set in 1999. The movie was set in 2022. So time enough to go from eating excess plankton to plankton with flesh added to plankton-enhanced flesh to pure flesh. Heck, long enough to transition the flavor so that only those with active memories would remember what it originally tasted like.
Or buy a sturdy Nalgene bottle (or any reusable bottle) & use that. Refill it. Wash it from time to time - and keep using one bottle. I carry mine with me, & it's lasted for years.
@@user-gr9te5qw5e the last election proves that you are right. Trump is a proven enemy of the environment. Social media is a powerful way to reach a lot of people to encourage them to reduce their environmental footprint by using their own shopping bags, switching to a plant based diet, etc.
Glass is heavier and costs much more to ship. A better idea is to just fill your own beverage containers with your own damn water. Use a filter if needed. Buying water… I just can’t roll my eyes hard enough. But you’re right, you and I are on the same side.
As a Republican, I agree that the impact of garbage on the environment should be a priority issue. If the Dems won't do their "job", let's remember Teddy Roosevelt and make it our job.
Teddy Roosevelt of the progressive party? We don't have leaders like him anymore. He didn't let big businesses push him around. He'd be rolling in his grave if he saw Trump being elected.
Didn't point out where a lot of the plastic junk is coming from: China Trump may not care about the environment, but he might accidentally do something to help by reducing the amount of cheap plastic junk we consume
@@Michael-uc2pnhe would definitely do something. He has a team of wonderful people. How fo you know they're wonderful is because the dems hated them. Cause the dems = incompetence
Most people realize it - but most people are not at fault. Is actually millionaires who think they can lecture us while simultaneously polluting exponentially more than the average person. Doesn’t Bill brag about how he could never not a take a private jet?
@@LS-fd6tl you really think this guys aren’t smart enough to find loopholes and donate to candidates so in end those who are affected by these tax raises are the average person?
Hello from the Office of People who HAVE Been "Saying Something" for years and years with data-supported conclusions from massively underfunded marine science research projects. Thank you for continuing to inject clear communication on this issue into mainstream media. Please don't stop talking about the need to FUND SCIENCE.
Sometimes it's just the right voice heard at the right time. I wish more people would wake up to the environmental situation we have/are creating which will kill us in the end.
Glad to hear Bill bring up this subject. I watched Dr Sylvia Earl’s documentary where she had video footage of her dives from the 50s and 60s and then went diving at the same places today. The reefs and marine life are gone. It’s frightening how bad those locations look today compared to 60 years ago.
Did you know that 99.9% of polar bears die by starvation naturally ? They are the top predator with no natural competition besides their own… they will eventually get old, sick or have teeeth problems. And are not able to catch food and then starve to death. The “environmentalists” will then swoop in and take a picture and pretend that bear is starving because of you. It’s fake ! The polar bear population has grown 6x in 25 years … 🤡🌎
In the early 70's, under a Republican President, the EPA was formed, the "Pitch In" trash campaign worked, and an Indian cried on tv commercials, guilting us all into not littering. The message was essentially, "if you want clean water and clean air, then we have to clean up our environment". It was a simple message, a message that Republicans and Democrats could both get behind. Even into the 1980's with the recycle programs, it was working. And then the Democrats started telling everyone that farting cows and plastic straws were killing the planet. That global warming was man's fault and we were going to die by our own hairspray. That unless we shifted billions of dollars into companies that said they were "environmentally friendly", that the planet would be uninhabitable by the year 2010. That is when people started saying, "I don't care". Moral of the story, keep the message simple.
Farting cows have put so much methane into the world. I get it...they are delicious. I mean, factory farming of livestock is next level f'd up. However, there is nothing wrong with ranching and livestock...especially if we do not rapidly deforest areas so people can have some wood furniture that ends up in a garbage dump eventually, anyways.
This should be the top rated comment. You're exactly right. They politicized it, and worse, used it as an excuse to extort taxpayers. That was when many just wrote it all off. Even in this clip, Bill jokes that republicans are "for pollution". It taints his entire monologue.
Heres what I dont get. the left is always on about "beleive the science" and yet go on and on about denying science. For example, The demand we MUST get rid of CO2, except theres one nasty snag with that, well... 2. Its INCREDIBLY expensive, either in "recapture" or moving away from things that make it. Then the real big one? PLANTS NEED IT TO GROW. Guess what, WE need plants to eat, as do animals. CO2 is already at starvation levels for plants. You know what your weed grower does so you can get high all the time? provide a room with much elevated CO2 levels (we're talking like 3K PPM) to grow at a much accelerated rate. This includes trees that you're so torn up about us cutting down for things like lumber (NM that we have entire tree farms) so that we can build what you also cry about, no houses you can afford. And then the real damning part.... All this money is going into wind and solar power which are niche applications. If you REALLY want an electric utopia, you start investing in nuclear, and dont give me the crap about "it takes too long to build", guess what, Solar and wind aint there yet and likely wont be in the next 20 years either.
The takeaway is not that each of us shouldn't recycle but that we should create less demand for all that plastic. Don't buy single-use plastic water bottles for example. Bring your own shopping bags Etc
@@Jacob-nu4nd He pushed that woke agenda more than the GOP. He says don't hate the Trump supporters or call them deplorable. But they can get away with vile sppech and insults constantly. Snowflakes
“Plastics” is what George Bailey’s brother in ‘Its A Wonderful Life’ was trying to get him to invest in, and what his brother got rich off of, in the 40s, long before The Graduate.
Problem is even if the US eliminated all plastic, it would result in marginal improvement. Fixing this problem will require the Participation of every country on the planet. Good luck with that happening.
Hard to believe these days but countries have cooperated before to save the environment. The ozone layer is getting better. Air pollution is a much more minor issue. There's also SOME progress on greenhouse gas. We're on course for 3 degrees C of warming instead of 6 degrees C to who-the-fuck knows, back when I was young. Most countries cooperated. Only Iran and Russia haven't done anything. And we think of Russia as a superpower but their economy is the size of Mexico's now.
@@Morjensful It was Obama the eight years before Trump and Biden the four years since. Garbage in the ocean is a long term problem. Don't even try to make this a Trump thing.
Ironically the USA is leading the ocean cleanup. The main problem is most of it comes from Asia, so as the USA cleans it up it gets replaced by Asian countries at a higher rate. We spend billions cleaning up their mess that only grows over time.
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Okay Jenifer, read up on this. The US isn't responsible for even 1% of this problem. 80% of the problem is coming from Asia. In the Western Hemisphere, Mexico and Brazil are far worse polluters than US. I've been in costal waters in both nations and have seen this first hand.
"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them." 😅
Remarkable wisdom! Remember DJT reading his favorite poem 'THE SNAKE'? He's a liar, but he cannot help himself from telling us all his sneaky plans thoughout his BS "TALKS & ENTERTAINMENT SHOWS" iT'S NOT LIKE HE DIDN'T GIVE US CLUES! It was how he was bragging about what he was going to get away with. He has done that his WHOLE life!
Speaking of fishing, the fishing industry is a direct attack on the biodiversity in the ocean that bill mentioned. The fishing industry also makes the plastic pollution in the ocean much worse because a big percentage of the plastic pollution in the ocean is from discarded fishing nets
I’d like to know who thought replacing paper bags at the grocery with plastic bags was a good idea. Instead of 2 paper bags, I now need 15 plastic bags for the same amount of groceries. 15 plastic bags that don’t break down.
I wouldn't be surprised if the whole "plastic to save the trees" was a massive scam from the get go. Exhibit A: the plastic-type indicator symbol that "just happens" to look like a recycling symbol. It's the whole "salt is bad for you" said the sugar industry all over again.
They did. You people called it the woke Green New Deal. All Biden's policies on environment were called radical left wing policies. Faux News spent everyday fear mongering it's viewers' about anything done to save the environments, disparaging all the initiatives like going electric, wind turbines, solar energy, reducing carbon emissions, etc None you believe in climate change calling it a hoax. The EPA was stripped of most of it's authority to regulate the environment by the super majority conservative Supreme Court. So, don't here crying that the Biden and Harris could have done something, because they did or at least they tried through the regular legislative process but were always blocked by Republicans.
Well said Bill. C;cleanup is one thing, but getting people to embrace existing alternatives is another. Sadly it takes significant loss to inspire change.
It is not about people. It is about corporations and politicians. People use whatever is available and accessible. Politicians can make corporations produce and use more environmentally friendly materials. But neither would push in that direction because the number will go down. And that is a big NONO in the religion of capitalism.
@@SGGCREATIVES Politicians pay attention to what is important to the voters. If more of us showed them how important these issues were by our actions, our elected leaders would be more likely to enact laws to reduce plastic, ocean dead zones, and other environmental problems mentioned in the video. We should stop using single use water bottles, plastic grocery bags, eat a plant based diet, etc. Capitalism is here to stay, but corporations will only produce what we as consumers demand. When we stop buying animal products, they will breed fewer animals into existence to worsten ocean dead zones and deplete ocean biodiversty.
Existing alternatives are not new, just need to look back how most of the boomers were raised, society has grown lazy, strive for more convenience like packaged foods, drinks, fast foods, etc. Going back to self-sustaining food plots and basic canning skills. Perhaps some good will come out of the next Trump era with RFK pushing healthy America over profits. Let’s give it a try.
When I heard Trump and Vance won, the only solace I had was to think, well, at least the late night comedy shows will have the material write itself again because Trump says the dumbest things.
“The Ocean Cleanup” is trying to cleanup the floating ocean plastic. It is also working to stop garbage from entering the ocean by intercepting it in rivers. Seems like a good organization to support.
I wish the West would promote this company,considering they have invented river pollution systems because 90% of plastic comes from rivers into the sea.
This is not an excuse for pollution, but I believe that Earth has a way to correct itself. One extreme condition compensates the other. Humans may not survive the correction, but the Earth will heal.
@TheBrothergreen not me, nor many others. We don't vote. The corporations invented plastic and other destructive CHEMICALS. Revelation 12:12 Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Thanks for talking about the ocean, Bill. Setting aside the critical plastic issue, there is tech to remove CO² from the sea. It's called direct ocean capture. Captura is among the leading companies bringing it to market.
@@frapi5018the ppl who tipped the states in Trump's favor weren't looking at his behavior, they were looking at their groceries and gas prices and inflation and safety in their streets and immigration. They didn't think those conditions were improving for them. When you're the party in power saying you're not gonna change anything but the ppl are not feeling good about their life standards, they'll choose the other person. Happened in 08 when Bush ignored how the ppl were feeling economically and wanted to continue with an unpopular war. It happened in 2020 when the world was still hurting economically and wanted change. Kamala didn't have to be perfect, she had to be different from Biden. Plus she started way too late in the election process. If Biden stepped down and there was a primary where she won, the outcome might have been different.
It was over when they named a person who didn't get a single delegate last time she ran. This would be like if Republicans named Lindsay Graham as the nominee. He didn't get 1% in a single state.
Why? You do realize his carbon footprint is probably larger than that entire audience? I am willing to bet the amount of plastic waste his studio produces is massive. Here he is talking about waste, but I bet he doesnt do anything to help solve it. Typical lefty propaganda brainwashing. Rules for thee.
Literally tons of the plastic in ecosystems is a result of plastic manufacturing processes over a long function of time, and not so much the slow breakdown of plastic litter. If we are the river and the people who drink a bottle of soda: Then plastic manufacturers are the source of the pollution in the river. That industry is thoroughly unregulated and probably will remain so for the fore-seeable future. The best hope is to use less unnecessary plastics, and use more sustainable packaging of consumer products.
Yes, under Biden we are drilling/producing more oil than any other county with record numbers. I doubt Trump will change that but he will brag about it like it's that way because of him.
@@The1stDukeDroklar You do realize that plastic is made with oil right? And where do you think that oil comes from? Do you see the connection now or is going back to school a better option for you?
Actually studies show the single biggest plastic in the environment comes from paint and tires, two things that now contain lots of plastic additives and break down into microplastics, washing into the oceans No one is addressing it and given trump environmental records, no one in America will for a while.
Fact is, most of it, like 90%, comes from China, where you can find all of the most polluted rivers in the world. And yes, their Fishing fleet of 16,000 predatory ships.
And scientists say the garbage patch is actually good for marine life. Fish congregate around things that float in the ocean. You can get a whole ecosystem popping up around a single floating barrel in the ocean.
The planet will be here for a long, long, long time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the Earth plus Plastic. George Carlin
i've been saying this for years, bill - the ocean's coral is dying as a result of our actions. dead coral = dead ocean = dead planet. and, i think we're past the tipping point. have a great weekend, everybody!
Narcissism? It's the Cassandra complex. Foreseeing the future that's coming but doomed to be powerless to prevent it. Hooray for people who aren't so tired of being ignored that they still care. I gave up ages ago. The carrying capacity of this planet will shrink and humanity will shrink with it, climate change is going to kill untold billions over the coming centuries, best you can do as an individual is position yourself & your progeny to be survivors. I own an old V8 instead of an EV because I'm not so narcissistic I think what I do right now makes any difference, and (as someone who doesn't need to drive much) it costs me a heck of a lot less to buy and run
Actually, there are things being done to tackle ocean pollution, mostly from floating plastic products; a company started by an amazing Dutch young man called Boyan Slat, who has just turned 30, and it is called "THE OCEAN CLEANUP". Sadly, although they are well funded and extremely effective, if a handful of billionaires out there invested heavily in their goal to clean up the oceans, and now especially the rivers where a lot of the plastic comes from, we could see a significant change. The technology has been developed, and it's out there right now, but more funding could make a huge impact.
That sounds encouraging. I don't know much on the topic, I heard on Joe Rogan recently how I think Singapore has a process to destroy garbage without creating pollution, or something along those lines. It sounds like whatever it is they are doing, we would be better off doing it here. This is just a topic most people don't think of very often, I know I don't. But I'm glad Bill brought it up, it should be front and center among the top global problems.
@@jamesstover3259 If they can come up with a way to destroy/incinerate it w/o creating carbon emissions, that would be one really great idea. I wish I could find the Rogan clip referenced in my other reply, they are doing something in Singapore with all garbage I believe, that we should be looking at.
That project is near pointless because Asia dumps more trash into the ocean at a higher rate than that project can clean up. Until you get Asia on board with this ocean garbage mess, then nothing will happen.
Funnily enough, most plastics in use today can be replaced with already existing alternatives. It's just big corporations don't want to use them because it's more expensive for them. Grocery bag? What's wrong with paper bags? They can even put handles on them! They are easily compostable in your own backyard. Water bottles, they should have refill stations on every corner and encourage people to bring reusable bottles. Soap and laundry detergent can easily be packaged in cardboard. It's not that hard to eliminate most plastic we use in the grocery stores and at home. Yeah we would have to do something for medical technology, but a lot of everyday stuff we use right now can be eliminated.
Although the technology works it is way better to prevent the plastic from being in a river. There are litterally thousands of rivers and cleaning all of them will cost billions every year.
If you are getting yelled at by both sides you are probably doing something right. Thank you for being a bastion of critical thinking. I’ve seen a lot of quotes in here from Carlin. I always think of Lenny when you talk about 1st amendment absolutism. Comics have always played that crucial role, but it is getting harder and harder to find people who are both good at it … and not afraid. Kudos to you sir. And thank you for pointing out the recycling thing. I have been on that soapbox for nearly twenty years, and people (highly educated people) still think their Aquafina bottles are going to end up a chair or something. It’s the subject nobody WANTS to know about.
@@davidramirezf90 I'm not. I'm moving out of town to raise my own pastured chickens, grass fed beef/milk/butter and toxin free fruits and vegetables for my family. And eventually I'll have excess to sell to my neighbors, but for the masses that can't do that, RFK Jr is your only hope
Considering RFK is being positioned for a health role it's possible, but he's more likely to use such a position to peddle more anti-vaccine conspiracies and help cause some more disease outbreaks like he did in Samoa. Relying on someone like RFK who lies about dead children isn't your best bet, especially since I'd be surprised if the EPA survives the next 4 years.
THIS! A BIG mirror issue for us ALL! Ask not what your country (& life sustaining planet) can do for you... TY SO MUCH for clipping & sharing THIS part of the show!
Boyan Slat. No one knows his name. He's proactive. Greta, everyone knows her name, and yet, what does she actually do? Go on, google Boyan Slat everyone!
@@XYZ-bi9eb child free wont work. jd vance gets triggered and angry when people remain childfree. he will mandate people to have kids and will do anything to make this happens. while trump wont ban abortions, he can get around by increasing tax, ban contraceptives, ban porn, mandate people talk to women, etc.
Yeah, but in this case, "Mother Nature" will end up with no living plants or animals to rule over until the sun becomes a super nova. So, I'd hardly call that winning, even from her perspective.
This was a great lesson about garbage in the ocean that many people may not have known about. Hey Bill!!! You left out something very important. Could you please list the top countries that have contributed to the patch? Tell us where we rank on the list. Please tell the truth and not what you said near the end.
They are not “the major contributor” I don’t even know what that means. But if you mean the biggest contributor, that is textiles not tires. So you’re wrong all around
@@MadDragon75 Well, according to Horiba Scientific, tires contribute 28%, while textiles (nylon, acrylics, polyester etc.) contributes 35%. City dust contributes 24%. These are the main three contributors, the rest is below 10% each. Water bottles for example, are just easier to spot, hence why they seem to dominate the picture. A thing like city dust, are things that wear down due to abrasion (shoe soles and utensils made of plastic or synthetics for example)
The reason I don't care about the environment is because nobody talks about real, solvable issues that would actually make an impact. People really just want to live with ridiculous consumption habits and feel good about doing it. Good on Bill for calling it out, but he needs to go harder.
I know George Carlin talked about a number of things in detail that were completely unrelated to each other, but it all seems like everything he said is becoming true with a terrifying amount of accuracy. The more I see the different subjects and categories on the news recently the more his name comes to mind. It is constant.
I’m glad he brought up the environment, but…. Did anyone else get the feeling this was a case of “I’m going slightly off topic today because I don’t want to address the fact that I still predicted SHE would win, not HIM.” 😮 Admit you were wrong, Bill.
Did we (normal people) think about the planet when we started using "recyclable" plastics? I'd like to think yes. Did the plastics industry lie through their teeth for decades about how recyclable plastics are? Definitely yes.
Thank you , thank you Bill No one has to do a saturday night live thing. Bill makes fun of himself more then any program. Please keep up the work. Us the little people can see more clearly 🤗🤗🤗
Irony being that Maher just had a scientist on weeks ago that said for some reason The Great Barrier reef has gotten healthier recenty with no real explication of why. Its almost like we dont fully understand climate change/pollution. And even if we did. How are we going to crack down on Africa and Asia on their polluting?
Lol. Yes, we understand pollution, and greenhouse gasses, and microplastics. Spoiler alert: They're bad. We can measure emissions, track historical climate records, and accurately predict climate trends. And the whole "China pollutes, so we may as well do it to" is a pretty weak line of reasoning. You can tell that to your kids when they ask why you didn't do anything to protect their futures. You know very well what the outcome of all this is, and you make excuses because you're lazy and selfish. Same old story.
@LeonJohnson-yi3hg Same as I posted above. If your neighbor starts taking dumps on their front lawn, are you going to do it too, just because it already stinks outside? Try to have a little bit of morality, ethics, and self-respect. You can still do the right thing, even if other people aren't.
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Bill Burr said it best. Everything you ever owned is still out there somewhere.
Remember roller blades?
What a scary thought!
Came here to say Billy Rednuts was the first person I ever heard mention the floating garbage
I have spent many sleepless nights recently thinking about the number of cars I have owned over the years and the arithmetic stuns me - the number is 23 and each weighed about 1.5 tons which totals at 34.5 tons. Add in the consumables like fuel and lubricants, coolant, tires and batteries and that adds at least another 3.5 tons to the total to bring it to 38 tons. And I am just one person who weighs about 168 pounds. I wonder where all my used vehicles are now and I feel as guilty as hell for all of my consumption as the vehicles probably represent less than half of my total waste in my lifetime. I have this sinking feeling that I and my fellow species members have totally stuffed this planet with our profligate waste. So, the word garbage does apply to me and my mates.
One gay joke ruined that entire fad!
“The planet is fine the people are fucked.” - George Carlin
Man what are you talking about?
Thank you,Captain Obvious.
@@adamxx3 You never heard of George Carlin?
@@nickbarcheck1019 And they will NEVER look him up, no matter how much good he could do for their sanity.
@@McSeanald Say it again 👏
Plastic is in everything now our food, our soil, our Kardashians 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Wait, I thought the Kardashians WERE plastic!?
Was this joke from 2012? Is bill gonna talk about how heckin epic bacon is now or something?
In your replies.
Our balls.
@@jesssss7154 ohhh. i get the joke now.
Finally someone who gets it. When I say this to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.
How so?
If one just seems like some kind of acolyte for the politikal machinations of environmental issues, then it is possible they will be ignored or lumped into the overall cacaphony of digital noises.
Actual meteorology, climate science and the chemistry regarding pollutants...is difficult to ignore.
Atleast, then the problem is properly defined; and there is a hope that scientific advancements can solve the problem eventually.
I am so tired of powerful fools choosing a social gaslight tactic instead of just being honest about their apathy/greed/opinions. Because atleast then they aint messin up the definition of problems...
We get it ffs, but most people aren’t as privileged as Bill to have time and money to worry about it.. We’re too busy working, dealing with inflation, raising our kids and trying not to go broke!! and all those hard working MEN who work in the oil and gas industry to bring you the luxuries u enjoy are working their asses off and get demonized because of their jobs! I’d love to see what Bill would do if all the oil and gas workers just quit working ! Every pretentious rich ignorant jerk would have a complete meltdown!!
Same. It's beyond infuriating. Not one whisper of our existential crisis in the national dialog.
Makes NO difference. China, India & nearby countries have ½ Earth's population & NO Environmental Guardrails. Long story short, Search: Inevitable(!) Near Term Human Extinction, aka INTHE ⚰️
Thank you for making New Rules tonite about something more important than Trump.
Tonight*
Also, agreed. 👍
@@paradoxlaboratories8005 tonite=informal
Bologna, baloney
Dare to be different or at least as in my case Webster dictionary challenged but Urban dictionary proud
@@FeenixT is your faux outrage over a joke based on truth over already? Your operation mockingbird overlords stopped it?
Except that under Trump things will get exponentially worse
@@zren2023 T.D.S stage 5 is dangerous. Get help.
Move back to glass and paper. It doesnt kill the planet, and it doesn't seep into your damn food and drinks. Anyone remember the Glass soda bottles back in the 80's? I could swear that it even tasted better coming from glass.
It did. I was going down memory lane while watching this piece. We even got money back when we returned the bottles.
It did.
You can still get glass bottles in Australia.
I agree. Drinks from glass taste better.
Yep, not your imagination: drinks do taste better coming from glass bottles.
Except glass is heavy and needs more energy to be processed. Which then uses up more energy which is mostly oil and coal and such.... Yeah your genius idea is not a great as you might think. Most people who have to deal with decisions like that already had that idea ...
Sadly the average person couldn't care less about the ocean or the environment. As long as food and gas is cheap they're happy.
Such an invasive, toxic species we turned out to be.
The plants are happy. They like carbon dioxide. A lot.
People care about being able to eat.
Economics 101 - a man's gotta eat.
@ you eat plenty since obesity is 40% specially wide spread in the southern and mid western states.
Plastic will be the geological layer that defines our civilization to the future, like the layer richer in iridium defines the end of the dinosaurs.
That is very possible.
Human beings are very clever creatures though. It is beyond possible that we will genetically modify organisms to scrub out large amounts of plastic while serving a different function.
The time for GMO's in complex systems is not here yet...however it is seemingly less crazy every day that passes...
Proper ecology for now is necessary. Artificial coral reefs, scuttling of non toxic boats/objects to create ecosystem habitation zones. Limits on commercial fisheries. Incentives towards farming methods.
Et cetera.
Assuming there are people to read it.
Aliens could probably come and do stratigrafy idk...
¹1@@py_a_thon
He's 100% right on plastics. This is the real dilemma.
I’ve been recycling over 20 years. It’s sad to find out that most of it ends up in the ocean or landfill.
@@dozzer009 Plastics aren't all the same. The more complex plastics get dumped into a landfill by recycling companies that can't process them unfortunately.
@@SDZ675 I wish I could find the clip b/c I can't recall the details. Rogan talked on a podcast within the past few months about how Singapore has some process to destroy garbage w/o creating carbon emissions, something along those lines. It sounds like whatever they are doing, we should undoubtedly be doing it here.
@@dozzer009 you mean the environmentalists lied to you?
Look into the business Aduro, it’s a new technology that can fix the plastic problem. Ticker: ADUR
It’s *almost* cute that Bill thinks Americans care about the ocean. They don’t even care about their neighbors 😂
I bet half of Americans couldn't even point to the Pacific Ocean or Japan on a map.
I think his point was that people don't care when they should care.
@@Clark42EoC Stop being a hypocrite.
Don't worry about this. Trump will fix it!
the VAST majority of trash/pollution in the oceans and air is from China and India.
Thank you Bill Maher for highlighting this critical topic. I live in New Zealand - a supposed 'Clean Green' country compared to so many others - on a small Island 35 mins by ferry from Auckland & although it hurts me to say our tide lines are filled with minute but detectable & not so minute plastics - from boating debris, from discarded rubbish, plastic nurdles, fishing debris etc. I see increasing numbers of the dead bodies of native sea birds who have succumbed to the direct fatal effects of plastic - having died of starvation due to plastic ingestion or lack for food sources - the flow on effects of other forms of pollution - run off from construction, storm water drains, commercial over fishing & more or been terminally tangled in discarded fishing line. The tipping point often spoken of in expert ecological circles has, I believe, been tipped & all I can think is I am glad I do not have children as I don't think I could feel optimistic about the local or global natural world, it's future & the devastation that has that has been left for them to deal with.
Ahh from waiheke sorry you have to deals with fullers
The grandchildren of this generation are going to hate us
@@kjriwoutube we all feel it & rail against them. They are scathingly discussed daily in our local public Community Forums.
The guy is sitting there wearing plastic glasses, shoes, clothes in a plastic studio telling you how bad you are for using plastic. And you thought it was a good idea to get on your plastic phone and say good job bill?
We should be able to learn how to stop using so much plastic, when I was a kid we saw these super high tech things called water fountains. Then came Perrier, the high class water and now bottled water is everywhere.
Finally someone talking about this. Thank you.
As George Carlin put it, once humans are gone, even if plastic never biodegrades, the Earth with simply continue as Earth Plus Plastic.
Yes, it will. Unfortunately we have entered Idiocracy. Your appeal will fall on deaf ears.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, but the higher order animals have gone extinct. IT will take tens of millions of years for larger mammals to evolve from whatever survives - rats, mice, etc
Bill's life would be much easier if he simply recalled some of George's appearances on his show. The one where George talks of Conspiracies not needed when interests converge, for example, is a speech Maher should fuse into his brain. Knowing such things helps one in life, especially thebideologically motivated like Bill@@user49917
@@user49917 Yes but don't forget - Gatorade's got what plants need. Water is only for the toilet!
There's some misrepresentation in Bill's monologue. The Pacific Ocean garbage patch is nothing like as big as France. Also, it is around 80+ % spent fishing equipment like nets. Consumer plastics overwhelmingly don't get dumped in the Ocean, they get dumped in land fills.
We are damaging the Oceans though.
Ever since the 1980s I have always hated unnecessary use of plastics, and back then they were used far less.
I have always thought the vast majority of plastic food packaging could be done with glass, papers or even wood.. eminently reusable or recyclable, or if dumped, bio degradable or not toxic.
We've been warned about this since the 70s. We knew we were going to ignore it and we did. So here we are. Remember people who did care were labeled as tree huggers and bleeding hearts. So accept the oceans fate because once we are gone, the planet will be able to heal.
As someone who has worked many years on cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage patch, I can safely say that 99% of the patch does not originate from western countries. This is the real reason the issue gets ignored. Its (Insert favorite IST here) to mention the true sources of the patch. Especially when confronting the true source countries that are largely responsible. The countries responsible for the patch do not care about the pollution they facilitate, and calling them out on a global stage only makes them dump even more into the ocean out of spite. We learned this fact all to well back in the late 90's.
I thought libs wanted less people
"So accept the oceans fate because once we are gone, the planet will be able to heal.” And humans will all be gone.
@@falkwulf3842 You are right. Sadly, western countries, where many of the strongest democracies are, are still debating the course to take. If the debate was over, then we would be able to push for India and China to stop, but the see us bickering and continue under the banner "if the whites arent doing it, we will not bother".
That warning elluded me and my Navy. We were using the ocean as our dump back then. No one said boo about it.
Mind you I was 17 and only interested in where my next beer was coming from.
When you care enough to do something after you wake up and all around you even your loved ones don't care you get disheartened now and then.
Retired fish biologist here - he's right. Much of fish and aquatic biology today consists of the careful study and documentation of the degradation of lakes, rivers, streams and oceans, the collapse of fish stocks and radical, anthropologically caused changes in aquatic ecosystems.
Unfortunately, neither of the major political parties these days are willing to address it because both get their money from the businesses actively destroying it.
I'm an avid angler. The change I've seen in my local fisheries over the last decade is STAGGERING. I live in a state where a body of fishable water is never further than 30 mins away, but those waters are producing far less fish than ever before.
@frankrobbins8508 that's weird... I'm having the exact opposite experience.
Incorrect. I am an active fish biologist and we are pushing the limits on all barriers of the underwater ecosystems that help homosapians survive.
Here the chemicals in the water have absolutely destroyed things like crayfish, there is so much PFAS in the water that at times it creates a massive foam on top in corners on the bank.
That destruction of food source in the fisheries is really creating a problem.@@BassWranglerPNW
"The Planet isn't going anywhere...WE ARE".-George Carlin
In "Soylent Green" the Death of the Oceans was the reason we had to start Eating Ourselves!
Make Room! Make Room! (the book from where the movie was taken) was set in 1999. The movie was set in 2022.
So time enough to go from eating excess plankton to plankton with flesh added to plankton-enhanced flesh to pure flesh. Heck, long enough to transition the flavor so that only those with active memories would remember what it originally tasted like.
@godozo interesting take
That's why you learned yoga, to eat yourself.
Nice dystopian novel. Who wrote it??
Perhaps this is why Trump calls Hannibal Lecter a hero!
Using the sea as pantry and sewer. What could go wrong.
It’s like defecating on your cutting board.
🔥🔥🔥This is fine.😐🔥🔥🔥
@@shacktime
that's all in the poster's head...
@ I’m 56 and I’ve spent nearly all my life in the ocean. You obviously haven’t spent much time in it at all, “Aurora.”
@@shacktime us Navy. Stoopido 😊
As consumers we need to go back to buy glass instead of plastic bottles. We should also stop using water bottles and go back to the water jugs.
Or buy a sturdy Nalgene bottle (or any reusable bottle) & use that. Refill it. Wash it from time to time - and keep using one bottle. I carry mine with me, & it's lasted for years.
You expect commonsense from our society? Really? We are idiocracy. Watch that movie. We are in deep mess. Your idealism is right
@@JKB-ji6xl I do that too. Most people would be surprised how easy and convenient it is once you get used to it. The cost per use is negligible
@@user-gr9te5qw5e the last election proves that you are right. Trump is a proven enemy of the environment. Social media is a powerful way to reach a lot of people to encourage them to reduce their environmental footprint by using their own shopping bags, switching to a plant based diet, etc.
Glass is heavier and costs much more to ship. A better idea is to just fill your own beverage containers with your own damn water. Use a filter if needed. Buying water… I just can’t roll my eyes hard enough. But you’re right, you and I are on the same side.
As a Republican, I agree that the impact of garbage on the environment should be a priority issue. If the Dems won't do their "job", let's remember Teddy Roosevelt and make it our job.
Do you think the Republicans are going to do anything about pollution you are seriously delusional
Teddy Roosevelt of the progressive party? We don't have leaders like him anymore. He didn't let big businesses push him around. He'd be rolling in his grave if he saw Trump being elected.
Why is it the dems "job", ah that's right, republicans don't do work.
@@drewbrees22 😂😂😂 really? Wonder how he'd feel about the person who raised a BILLION dollars in campaign financing and ended 20 million in debt...
@@drewbrees22 He'd of left the galaxy if he saw Harris elected.
Good for you highlighting this Bill
@kellymckrill1313
He should have mentioned that the planet has created plastic eating bacteria.
Another Bill did it years ago: Bill Burr
Thank you for trying to wake up the world, Bill.
Didn't point out where a lot of the plastic junk is coming from: China
Trump may not care about the environment, but he might accidentally do something to help by reducing the amount of cheap plastic junk we consume
@@Michael-uc2pnhe would definitely do something. He has a team of wonderful people. How fo you know they're wonderful is because the dems hated them. Cause the dems = incompetence
The environment is the most important issue to everyone. Most people just don't realize it.
Most people do, they're just too lazy to do the least to fix it.
Nah, apparently the most important issue is who gives a penny!?
Would increasing our taxes help? 🤔
Most people realize it - but most people are not at fault. Is actually millionaires who think they can lecture us while simultaneously polluting exponentially more than the average person. Doesn’t Bill brag about how he could never not a take a private jet?
@@LS-fd6tl you really think this guys aren’t smart enough to find loopholes and donate to candidates so in end those who are affected by these tax raises are the average person?
Thanks for bringing this up @ last. Silence from the media has been Ungodly.
What would expect from an ungodly profession?
😢😢😊😊
Once Upon A Time... we used glass. It wasn't the consumer that disliked it.
Greed is the root of many kinds of evil.
Hello from the Office of People who HAVE Been "Saying Something" for years and years with data-supported conclusions from massively underfunded marine science research projects. Thank you for continuing to inject clear communication on this issue into mainstream media. Please don't stop talking about the need to FUND SCIENCE.
I’m in your camp. I’ve been treated like a pariah all my life for it.
@@shacktime Me too. :(
it is the lie and obsession of human induced climate change ending the mini ice age that has distracted from the serious threat to our oceans.
Sometimes it's just the right voice heard at the right time. I wish more people would wake up to the environmental situation we have/are creating which will kill us in the end.
@@seabeam 😔
Glad to hear Bill bring up this subject. I watched Dr Sylvia Earl’s documentary where she had video footage of her dives from the 50s and 60s and then went diving at the same places today. The reefs and marine life are gone. It’s frightening how bad those locations look today compared to 60 years ago.
Great reef is larger than ever
the reefs have grown planet-wide since then...facts...nice propaganda via cherry picking, that "documentary".
Did you know that 99.9% of polar bears die by starvation naturally ? They are the top predator with no natural competition besides their own… they will eventually get old, sick or have teeeth problems. And are not able to catch food and then starve to death. The “environmentalists” will then swoop in and take a picture and pretend that bear is starving because of you. It’s fake ! The polar bear population has grown 6x in 25 years … 🤡🌎
@tonypalmentera7752 100%
@@Dan16673Cherry picking the negative works for some.Denial is a strong instinct when you don't agree with factual data.
“The tuna sandwich at Subway is mostly Miracle Whip and hair.” 😂😂
This should be on billboards.
Whooping clowns were out in force again tonight on Bill's show
Nothing on the menu at Subway has any taste.
Don't eat there since they had the rapinoe woman in their commercials.
But, yes, nothing all that appetizing anyway.
In the early 70's, under a Republican President, the EPA was formed, the "Pitch In" trash campaign worked, and an Indian cried on tv commercials, guilting us all into not littering. The message was essentially, "if you want clean water and clean air, then we have to clean up our environment". It was a simple message, a message that Republicans and Democrats could both get behind. Even into the 1980's with the recycle programs, it was working. And then the Democrats started telling everyone that farting cows and plastic straws were killing the planet. That global warming was man's fault and we were going to die by our own hairspray. That unless we shifted billions of dollars into companies that said they were "environmentally friendly", that the planet would be uninhabitable by the year 2010. That is when people started saying, "I don't care". Moral of the story, keep the message simple.
Farting cows have put so much methane into the world. I get it...they are delicious.
I mean, factory farming of livestock is next level f'd up. However, there is nothing wrong with ranching and livestock...especially if we do not rapidly deforest areas so people can have some wood furniture that ends up in a garbage dump eventually, anyways.
The worst part is factory farming combined with deforestation.
This should be the top rated comment. You're exactly right. They politicized it, and worse, used it as an excuse to extort taxpayers. That was when many just wrote it all off. Even in this clip, Bill jokes that republicans are "for pollution". It taints his entire monologue.
Heres what I dont get. the left is always on about "beleive the science" and yet go on and on about denying science. For example, The demand we MUST get rid of CO2, except theres one nasty snag with that, well... 2. Its INCREDIBLY expensive, either in "recapture" or moving away from things that make it. Then the real big one? PLANTS NEED IT TO GROW. Guess what, WE need plants to eat, as do animals. CO2 is already at starvation levels for plants. You know what your weed grower does so you can get high all the time? provide a room with much elevated CO2 levels (we're talking like 3K PPM) to grow at a much accelerated rate. This includes trees that you're so torn up about us cutting down for things like lumber (NM that we have entire tree farms) so that we can build what you also cry about, no houses you can afford.
And then the real damning part.... All this money is going into wind and solar power which are niche applications. If you REALLY want an electric utopia, you start investing in nuclear, and dont give me the crap about "it takes too long to build", guess what, Solar and wind aint there yet and likely wont be in the next 20 years either.
Finally....The truth about recycling. Thankyou Bill.
FWIW PBS Frontline "The Plastic Problem" nailed this story back in 2020.
The takeaway is not that each of us shouldn't recycle but that we should create less demand for all that plastic. Don't buy single-use plastic water bottles for example. Bring your own shopping bags Etc
And Climate Town and other TH-cam infotainment creators spoke about it as well.
Penn and Teller's show"Bullshit!" called, well, bullshit on recycling back in 2004.
There's a reason it's the last one... reduce, reuse, recycle
Thank You Bill, for bringing the conversation back to serious issues
We've been told by many for decades, but often when Profit wins, Mother Nature loses. th-cam.com/video/7mez2k_fONo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=n2Qm2HRHjvZMOa-2
Which changes absolutely nothing but hey - talking is cheap.
Yeah, saving our oceans is a lot more important than the cost of living & illegal immigration that's for sure !
It won't be a meteor, it will be the plastics in the ocean that do the trick
A bit slower but very effective, hard to survive w/o oxygen.
I'm so sad to know that my beautiful offspring will suffocate from lack of oxygen and suffer from malnutrition all for the convenience of the hoards.
@@mnn1265Your beautiful offspring is part of the horde and so are you.
No it will be carbon
@@mnn1265 Studies say the decline starts in 2030
RFK Jr certainly isn't in favour of polution. Get on with the times Bill.
RFK Jr. is pollution - of the political kind.
@@JohnWerner-te5zy,
Because he’s gonna be in Trump’s cabinet? Are there any other reasons?
@@JohnWerner-te5zy TRUMP WON GET OVER IT SNOWFLAKE
The guy wants to take fluoride out of our drinking water. The guy is nuts.
@@arielsantomauro9558, have you heard of skeletal fluorosis?
Ha! Plastic ain’t going nowhere. Convenience is King. Profit incentive always wins. Humans kill. Always have, always will.
that is the truth!
Then humans go extinct sooner than later it seems.
Humans kill. Just like every other animal on planet Earth. What is your non-point?
We historians used to put it this way: “People are no damned good; never have been, likely never will be.”
We need government programs to get rid of it.
Nice to see him talking about the really important issues.
Hope he goes away from the whole Woke talk and goes back to being liberal
@@evankruse9407 Well he’s not gonna talk about Kamal toe getting her ass kicked that’s for sure 🤣
I was referring to the environment, not political personalities. I think you may have misunderstood me. @killasin303
@@Jacob-nu4nd He pushed that woke agenda more than the GOP. He says don't hate the Trump supporters or call them deplorable. But they can get away with vile sppech and insults constantly. Snowflakes
@@killasin303meanwhile, we hope you have a plan for retirement….its all going away for anyone less than 55
“Plastics” is what George Bailey’s brother in ‘Its A Wonderful Life’ was trying to get him to invest in, and what his brother got rich off of, in the 40s, long before The Graduate.
Yes, but the Graduate then used it as a metaphor to beat the audience with afterwards.
Not his brother, his rich classmate(like DJT)
Hee Haww
@@DNLDVID Right…Sam Wainwright.
Thank you for discussing this, people need to know, and be reminded of it, politicians mostly silent.
Perfect timing. Perfectly put. Unfortunately too true.
Problem is even if the US eliminated all plastic, it would result in marginal improvement. Fixing this problem will require the Participation of every country on the planet. Good luck with that happening.
I believe the US makes and uses the most plastic..
BINGO
Especially when mr Wooden Spoon has the organisational skills of a dead squirrel, which is essentially glued to his head.
Hard to believe these days but countries have cooperated before to save the environment. The ozone layer is getting better. Air pollution is a much more minor issue.
There's also SOME progress on greenhouse gas. We're on course for 3 degrees C of warming instead of 6 degrees C to who-the-fuck knows, back when I was young. Most countries cooperated. Only Iran and Russia haven't done anything. And we think of Russia as a superpower but their economy is the size of Mexico's now.
@@Morjensful It was Obama the eight years before Trump and Biden the four years since. Garbage in the ocean is a long term problem. Don't even try to make this a Trump thing.
🙌 Thank you Bill Maher!! For saying it again and again
Is good to listen to someone who is honest to bring up how we are destroying the environment without a care.
Great piece Bill, respect.
This was awesome Bill! You were on fire.
Yeah, all except carbon-capture technology...just plant TREES.
Americans prefer to argue about issues instead of finding solutions. The bigger the issue, the more they deflect.
You can't make sweeping generalizations about all of the people in a country; that's what they do in Russia!
Ironically the USA is leading the ocean cleanup. The main problem is most of it comes from Asia, so as the USA cleans it up it gets replaced by Asian countries at a higher rate. We spend billions cleaning up their mess that only grows over time.
Okay Jenifer, read up on this. The US isn't responsible for even 1% of this problem. 80% of the problem is coming from Asia. In the Western Hemisphere, Mexico and Brazil are far worse polluters than US. I've been in costal waters in both nations and have seen this first hand.
Kind of like Bill. Don't talk about how the Democrats have TOTALLY lost the narrative; just talk about more things that are out of our power...
You are truly the best.. Please lead us into finding a new leader.. I am all about nature lets cure the earth. I stand with Bill Maher
Looks like you are a sheep, you need to be lead by a new leader , wow
"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them." 😅
LOL- do you think the Democrat elite are "one of you"?
That’s a great quote. What is it from?
Ive been seeing this quote all over videos
@@pauldill8368It’s an old Turkish proverb
Remarkable wisdom! Remember DJT reading his favorite poem 'THE SNAKE'? He's a liar, but he cannot help himself from telling us all his sneaky plans thoughout his BS "TALKS & ENTERTAINMENT SHOWS" iT'S NOT LIKE HE DIDN'T GIVE US CLUES! It was how he was bragging about what he was going to get away with. He has done that his WHOLE life!
Thank you for bringing this critical issue to the attention of us.
The non-resiliency of coral reefs to temperature fluctuations and ph levels (acidity of coastal waters)...is a far more dangerous fact imo.
You know, for 5 minutes. We'll forget again before dinner.
I absolutely agree that plastic is killing us.
Indeed. Arguably the worst invention known to man.
All the tree huggers can get jobs fishing for plastic 🤣
How so ?? Yet another bald faced lie along with carbon cons...oil is natural and actually lets see any proof at all we are full of plastic lmao
Speaking of fishing, the fishing industry is a direct attack on the biodiversity in the ocean that bill mentioned. The fishing industry also makes the plastic pollution in the ocean much worse because a big percentage of the plastic pollution in the ocean is from discarded fishing nets
AI is telling me there's plastic and there is plastic. 😁
I’d like to know who thought replacing paper bags at the grocery with plastic bags was a good idea. Instead of 2 paper bags, I now need 15 plastic bags for the same amount of groceries. 15 plastic bags that don’t break down.
The Plastics Lobby?😃
Idk about ya'll but this one hit kinda hard.
Plastics were designed to save us from cutting down trees. Now saving the trees seems so trivial a problem.
Yeah, we always doing the "old woman who swallowed the fly" thing. Come up with a solution, and 35 years later find out it caused a worse problem.
Maybe saving trees is trivial in your limited mind.
@chicobicalho5621 The limited mind dishes out insults like soup.
I wouldn't be surprised if the whole "plastic to save the trees" was a massive scam from the get go.
Exhibit A: the plastic-type indicator symbol that "just happens" to look like a recycling symbol.
It's the whole "salt is bad for you" said the sugar industry all over again.
"We found a way to drown fish."
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this point...
Another favorite is that we're even pollution the near space with tons of junk
Seriously? You don’t know? Drowning fish isn’t funny.
Maybe Kamala and Biden could have worked on that also for the last 4yrs. Oh wait that’s trumps fault
They did. You people called it the woke Green New Deal. All Biden's policies on environment were called radical left wing policies. Faux News spent everyday fear mongering it's viewers' about anything done to save the environments, disparaging all the initiatives like going electric, wind turbines, solar energy, reducing carbon emissions, etc None you believe in climate change calling it a hoax. The EPA was stripped of most of it's authority to regulate the environment by the super majority conservative Supreme Court. So, don't here crying that the Biden and Harris could have done something, because they did or at least they tried through the regular legislative process but were always blocked by Republicans.
Her answer to this, and every other issue, was: "I come from a middle class family..."
Maybe Trump could have worked on it during his presidency? The problem with plastics has been around for a very long time.
Well said Bill. C;cleanup is one thing, but getting people to embrace existing alternatives is another. Sadly it takes significant loss to inspire change.
When it comes to the environment, losses can be permanent
It is not about people. It is about corporations and politicians. People use whatever is available and accessible. Politicians can make corporations produce and use more environmentally friendly materials. But neither would push in that direction because the number will go down. And that is a big NONO in the religion of capitalism.
Glass would be better alternative.
@@SGGCREATIVES Politicians pay attention to what is important to the voters. If more of us showed them how important these issues were by our actions, our elected leaders would be more likely to enact laws to reduce plastic, ocean dead zones, and other environmental problems mentioned in the video. We should stop using single use water bottles, plastic grocery bags, eat a plant based diet, etc. Capitalism is here to stay, but corporations will only produce what we as consumers demand. When we stop buying animal products, they will breed fewer animals into existence to worsten ocean dead zones and deplete ocean biodiversty.
Existing alternatives are not new, just need to look back how most of the boomers were raised, society has grown lazy, strive for more convenience like packaged foods, drinks, fast foods, etc. Going back to self-sustaining food plots and basic canning skills. Perhaps some good will come out of the next Trump era with RFK pushing healthy America over profits. Let’s give it a try.
Bill provides comedy relief.
He’ll have plenty of material for the next 4 years.
When I heard Trump and Vance won, the only solace I had was to think, well, at least the late night comedy shows will have the material write itself again because Trump says the dumbest things.
If Trump alllows any of the media save Fox News to keep existing.
@ yep
That's what you call comedy?
@@HaleyMaryYes I hope you are still laughing all the way to their special summer camp 😄
They never should have went from glass to plastic bottles !
“The Ocean Cleanup” is trying to cleanup the floating ocean plastic. It is also working to stop garbage from entering the ocean by intercepting it in rivers. Seems like a good organization to support.
I wish the West would promote this company,considering they have invented river pollution systems because 90% of plastic comes from rivers into the sea.
This is not an excuse for pollution, but I believe that Earth has a way to correct itself. One extreme condition compensates the other. Humans may not survive the correction, but the Earth will heal.
Yep. Massive asteroids and gigantic volcanic eruptions have nearly wiped out life on earth. But here we are.
It's one thing if humans want to wipe themselves out, but we don't have the right to take every species down with us.
And yet these maga people do care about abortion but don't care about humanity.
Bacteria and viruses don't care about plastics! 👍😁
This is called magic thinking. It’s anti-intellectual and embarrassing
I salute you Bill Maher, you know our priorities right! Chapeau monsieur!
Thank you Bill! Appreciate your commentary so much...timely,relevant,intelligent...always!
He was convince Kamala would walk all over trump
Bill a liberal elitist that just supports corporate democrats and ok for companies to to exploit workers as long as he can smoke weed
It's not 'we' who did this. It's the greedy, souless, powers that be who did and do this.
No, it's we. We voted them in, or voted their lackeys in.
@TheBrothergreen not me, nor many others. We don't vote. The corporations invented plastic and other destructive CHEMICALS. Revelation 12:12 Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Thanks for talking about the ocean, Bill. Setting aside the critical plastic issue, there is tech to remove CO² from the sea. It's called direct ocean capture. Captura is among the leading companies bringing it to market.
When they asked Kamala what she would do differently and basically said nothing, the election was over.
Oh please. Trump said the worst things ever and that’s fine. When it comes to Kamala she had to be sparkling perfect. The double standards.
That question is going to be a lot easier to answer after 4 years of Trump.
@@frapi5018the ppl who tipped the states in Trump's favor weren't looking at his behavior, they were looking at their groceries and gas prices and inflation and safety in their streets and immigration. They didn't think those conditions were improving for them. When you're the party in power saying you're not gonna change anything but the ppl are not feeling good about their life standards, they'll choose the other person. Happened in 08 when Bush ignored how the ppl were feeling economically and wanted to continue with an unpopular war. It happened in 2020 when the world was still hurting economically and wanted change. Kamala didn't have to be perfect, she had to be different from Biden. Plus she started way too late in the election process. If Biden stepped down and there was a primary where she won, the outcome might have been different.
@@frapi5018 That doesn't matter. Men and good women were done with toxic feminism, DEI policies, and dumb woke BS.
It was over when they named a person who didn't get a single delegate last time she ran. This would be like if Republicans named Lindsay Graham as the nominee. He didn't get 1% in a single state.
Kennedy: "I Spent 30 Years Trying To Get Mercury Out Of Fish... No One Ever Called Me Anti-Fish"
Gary Null pronounces them Kardations
Off topic? Bill, you are right on topic. We can't be reminded enough about this topic.
Thank you for saying something, Bill.
Why? You do realize his carbon footprint is probably larger than that entire audience? I am willing to bet the amount of plastic waste his studio produces is massive. Here he is talking about waste, but I bet he doesnt do anything to help solve it.
Typical lefty propaganda brainwashing. Rules for thee.
Say no to single use. Ban it now. Ocean Cleanup
Go back to reusable glass
He is right. Plastic is a huge problem. The amount of waste from a grocery shopping trip is insane.
Literally tons of the plastic in ecosystems is a result of plastic manufacturing processes over a long function of time, and not so much the slow breakdown of plastic litter.
If we are the river and the people who drink a bottle of soda: Then plastic manufacturers are the source of the pollution in the river.
That industry is thoroughly unregulated and probably will remain so for the fore-seeable future. The best hope is to use less unnecessary plastics, and use more sustainable packaging of consumer products.
Glad Bill brought this up.
Plastic is made from oil. Drill Baby Drill. We are not even trying to stop😢
Yes, under Biden we are drilling/producing more oil than any other county with record numbers. I doubt Trump will change that but he will brag about it like it's that way because of him.
oil is different from gas..and fraking is gas not oil..
solution is not less oil but less plastics, packaging.
@@ayalung1969 Stop spreading your bs.
@@myselfandeye3884 The use of plastics and drilling for oil are two completely different and unrelated subjects.
@@The1stDukeDroklar You do realize that plastic is made with oil right? And where do you think that oil comes from? Do you see the connection now or is going back to school a better option for you?
In Rwanda, every last Saturday of the month is Umaganda.. they go outside for 15-20 minutes & pick up the litter around your street.
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All of us should do that Eddie!
In which river do they dump it? Straight into Lake Victoria?
Perhaps they should EDUCATE children in school about this, no?
Yeah we have people who get paid to that here in Europe. I have no WTF is wrong in the US.
Also about 80% of the garbage patch is fishing debris from commercial fishing...
Actually studies show the single biggest plastic in the environment comes from paint and tires, two things that now contain lots of plastic additives and break down into microplastics, washing into the oceans
No one is addressing it and given trump environmental records, no one in America will for a while.
Fact is, most of it, like 90%, comes from China, where you can find all of the most polluted rivers in the world. And yes, their Fishing fleet of 16,000 predatory ships.
And scientists say the garbage patch is actually good for marine life. Fish congregate around things that float in the ocean. You can get a whole ecosystem popping up around a single floating barrel in the ocean.
@@bluesteel8376 where did you pull this from?
@@eeee8489his arse, of course!
Thank you Bill Maher for saying something!
Thank you
The planet will be here for a long, long, long time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the Earth plus Plastic.
George Carlin
Yeah I thought that too when I was 10
i've been saying this for years, bill - the ocean's coral is dying as a result of our actions. dead coral = dead ocean = dead planet. and, i think we're past the tipping point. have a great weekend, everybody!
pretty sure we can live without the ocean. i believe the biggest issue in today's world is rather the ethical problem
You’ve been saying it for years is narcissistic nonsense
Narcissism? It's the Cassandra complex. Foreseeing the future that's coming but doomed to be powerless to prevent it. Hooray for people who aren't so tired of being ignored that they still care. I gave up ages ago. The carrying capacity of this planet will shrink and humanity will shrink with it, climate change is going to kill untold billions over the coming centuries, best you can do as an individual is position yourself & your progeny to be survivors. I own an old V8 instead of an EV because I'm not so narcissistic I think what I do right now makes any difference, and (as someone who doesn't need to drive much) it costs me a heck of a lot less to buy and run
Thank you Bill. Needs to be emphasized.
Actually, there are things being done to tackle ocean pollution, mostly from floating plastic products; a company started by an amazing Dutch young man called Boyan Slat, who has just turned 30, and it is called "THE OCEAN CLEANUP". Sadly, although they are well funded and extremely effective, if a handful of billionaires out there invested heavily in their goal to clean up the oceans, and now especially the rivers where a lot of the plastic comes from, we could see a significant change. The technology has been developed, and it's out there right now, but more funding could make a huge impact.
That sounds encouraging. I don't know much on the topic, I heard on Joe Rogan recently how I think Singapore has a process to destroy garbage without creating pollution, or something along those lines. It sounds like whatever it is they are doing, we would be better off doing it here. This is just a topic most people don't think of very often, I know I don't. But I'm glad Bill brought it up, it should be front and center among the top global problems.
@@jamesstover3259 If they can come up with a way to destroy/incinerate it w/o creating carbon emissions, that would be one really great idea. I wish I could find the Rogan clip referenced in my other reply, they are doing something in Singapore with all garbage I believe, that we should be looking at.
That project is near pointless because Asia dumps more trash into the ocean at a higher rate than that project can clean up. Until you get Asia on board with this ocean garbage mess, then nothing will happen.
Funnily enough, most plastics in use today can be replaced with already existing alternatives. It's just big corporations don't want to use them because it's more expensive for them. Grocery bag? What's wrong with paper bags? They can even put handles on them! They are easily compostable in your own backyard. Water bottles, they should have refill stations on every corner and encourage people to bring reusable bottles. Soap and laundry detergent can easily be packaged in cardboard. It's not that hard to eliminate most plastic we use in the grocery stores and at home. Yeah we would have to do something for medical technology, but a lot of everyday stuff we use right now can be eliminated.
Although the technology works it is way better to prevent the plastic from being in a river. There are litterally thousands of rivers and cleaning all of them will cost billions every year.
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Level 0 civilization! 🍻
🎯🎯🎯 THANK YOU BILL 👏🏾
If you are getting yelled at by both sides you are probably doing something right. Thank you for being a bastion of critical thinking. I’ve seen a lot of quotes in here from Carlin. I always think of Lenny when you talk about 1st amendment absolutism. Comics have always played that crucial role, but it is getting harder and harder to find people who are both good at it … and not afraid. Kudos to you sir.
And thank you for pointing out the recycling thing. I have been on that soapbox for nearly twenty years, and people (highly educated people) still think their Aquafina bottles are going to end up a chair or something. It’s the subject nobody WANTS to know about.
RFK Jr. talks about pollutants all the time. Hopefully, they'll do something about it
They won't. Being hopeful for the wolf not to eat the sheeps isn't a strategy, is a surrender. Why are you surrendering for?
@@davidramirezf90 I'm not. I'm moving out of town to raise my own pastured chickens, grass fed beef/milk/butter and toxin free fruits and vegetables for my family.
And eventually I'll have excess to sell to my neighbors, but for the masses that can't do that, RFK Jr is your only hope
Considering RFK is being positioned for a health role it's possible, but he's more likely to use such a position to peddle more anti-vaccine conspiracies and help cause some more disease outbreaks like he did in Samoa. Relying on someone like RFK who lies about dead children isn't your best bet, especially since I'd be surprised if the EPA survives the next 4 years.
Thanks Bill for catching on too late for all your both sides-ism slowly getting better.
THIS! A BIG mirror issue for us ALL! Ask not what your country (& life sustaining planet) can do for you...
TY SO MUCH for clipping & sharing THIS part of the show!
Yesssss! Deeply happy that you addressed this!👏👏👏
Boyan Slat. No one knows his name. He's proactive. Greta, everyone knows her name, and yet, what does she actually do? Go on, google Boyan Slat everyone!
😢😢do we really want our kids to have kids so they will have to deal with what is coming 😢
child free is the way to go.
@@XYZ-bi9eb child free wont work. jd vance gets triggered and angry when people remain childfree. he will mandate people to have kids and will do anything to make this happens. while trump wont ban abortions, he can get around by increasing tax, ban contraceptives, ban porn, mandate people talk to women, etc.
Just like bill & hillary clinton, never ever accept the fact the the person staring back at you through the mirror is the one to blame.
Bullshit
Everyone shares the blame.
Hillary was the OG election denier.
Or was it Gore?
What is your solution to the dying oxygen levels in the ocean?
Everyone who eats fish is to blame as well.
Ah, the ego human have. Mother nature always wins in the end.
Yeah, but in this case, "Mother Nature" will end up with no living plants or animals to rule over until the sun becomes a super nova. So, I'd hardly call that winning, even from her perspective.
This was a great lesson about garbage in the ocean that many people may not have known about. Hey Bill!!! You left out something very important. Could you please list the top countries that have contributed to the patch? Tell us where we rank on the list. Please tell the truth and not what you said near the end.
"Eh. We can't see it like we can actually see that different person over there, so it can't be as big of a problem as they are..." -said humanity
*Tires* are the major contributor to microplastics.
They are not “the major contributor” I don’t even know what that means. But if you mean the biggest contributor, that is textiles not tires. So you’re wrong all around
@MrShanester117 I will be here for an apology when you find out I'm right, you are wrong.
Have an educated day.
@@MadDragon75 Well, according to Horiba Scientific, tires contribute 28%, while textiles (nylon, acrylics, polyester etc.) contributes 35%. City dust contributes 24%. These are the main three contributors, the rest is below 10% each. Water bottles for example, are just easier to spot, hence why they seem to dominate the picture. A thing like city dust, are things that wear down due to abrasion (shoe soles and utensils made of plastic or synthetics for example)
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Cant you feel the joy😊 of being unburdened by what was, the vibe is stimulating ❤❤❤
“Daily Beast”
Bill Maher: ah, perfectly credible source
The reason I don't care about the environment is because nobody talks about real, solvable issues that would actually make an impact. People really just want to live with ridiculous consumption habits and feel good about doing it. Good on Bill for calling it out, but he needs to go harder.
"The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution" --Frank Zappa
this sounds like a chemistry joke.
"This dance the Mudshark, is sweeping the oceean."
So sad and true. Whatever happened to glass??
I know George Carlin talked about a number of things in detail that were completely unrelated to each other, but it all seems like everything he said is becoming true with a terrifying amount of accuracy. The more I see the different subjects and categories on the news recently the more his name comes to mind. It is constant.
I’m glad he brought up the environment, but…. Did anyone else get the feeling this was a case of “I’m going slightly off topic today because I don’t want to address the fact that I still predicted SHE would win, not HIM.” 😮 Admit you were wrong, Bill.
Recycling is expensive, hard work and difficult. Do we really think about the environment when we throw away a coke plastic bottle? Not really.
Did we (normal people) think about the planet when we started using "recyclable" plastics? I'd like to think yes.
Did the plastics industry lie through their teeth for decades about how recyclable plastics are? Definitely yes.
Thank you , thank you Bill
No one has to do a saturday night live thing.
Bill makes fun of himself more then any program.
Please keep up the work.
Us the little people can see more clearly 🤗🤗🤗
Irony being that Maher just had a scientist on weeks ago that said for some reason The Great Barrier reef has gotten healthier recenty with no real explication of why. Its almost like we dont fully understand climate change/pollution. And even if we did. How are we going to crack down on Africa and Asia on their polluting?
Lol. Yes, we understand pollution, and greenhouse gasses, and microplastics. Spoiler alert: They're bad. We can measure emissions, track historical climate records, and accurately predict climate trends. And the whole "China pollutes, so we may as well do it to" is a pretty weak line of reasoning. You can tell that to your kids when they ask why you didn't do anything to protect their futures. You know very well what the outcome of all this is, and you make excuses because you're lazy and selfish. Same old story.
Sure but the ocean shit is a huge issue and other countries are also causing it
Never forget that, per capita, the rich countries produce much more pollution than the poor countries
@LeonJohnson-yi3hg Same as I posted above. If your neighbor starts taking dumps on their front lawn, are you going to do it too, just because it already stinks outside? Try to have a little bit of morality, ethics, and self-respect. You can still do the right thing, even if other people aren't.
@@Adam.Langton Good comparison.