To me, every day has been the same for 8 years. No car, no rush in life, minimal consumption, energy saving even though I don't pay for electricity (it's covered by rent), and I ultimately don't feel like a human anymore. I can not relate to what "the people" says or how they appear in news, SoMe, or if I go outside. Governments fighting all over the world for the smallest, most pity reasons, and we are just supposed to sit by and watch.. This comment got a bit off-track, but I'm shaken to my core. I don't understand the purpose of my existence.
@@radaldk There is no purpose. Survive, be grateful that you are healthy, be a good person, and spend time with your friends. The rest matters very little.
Kurtis, you doing important work and I‘m glad I found your channel. I think you give many people the hope to stand up an fight even if the goal seems so far out of reach. I always was kinda climate conscious but you really make me think more about possibility’s and alternatives and I want to thank you for that.
Cutting trees and storing carbon as wood in buildings or furnuture is actually awesome; we just shouldn’t cut more than what grows. Deforestation is mostly done illegally in countries where the legal framework or its enforcement is weak. Rather than planting trees, we could fix the latter issue. But there are no economic interests in doing so...
Not all petroleum products are burnt in the form of fuel. Some petroleum is used to make nylon ropes, climbing harnesses, nylon bags, nylon and polyester clothing, parts of your sneakers, the plastic housing on your camera, the plastic selfie stick holding your plastic camera, tents, backpacks, etc
Thank you Kurtis! As someone who has done my fair share of non-violent blockades of fossil fuel(ed) infrastructure I have been wishing so badly for someone with a large audience like you to *do* the thing themselves. You have so much influence and I am grateful you are using it in the right way. To get people out and be active. I commend that. Just one small criticism, the co-founder of XR you cited is a bit of a problematic figure and maybe not the best voice to amplify, even if you agree with this one specific statement. His comments on the holocaust has made many XR activists very angry and he is not a good representation on what XR stands for. imo. Kudos to you! Stay strong
@Sasha Da Masta Elon cares about this planet though. He once said that he doesn't mind if Tesla fails due to another company producing better and more environmentally friendly cars than Tesla because it would be better for the planet.
The age of information has convinced me that information in and of itself is useless. Plus, most people are WILLFULLY ignorant, they think its very cool not not learn things. What must happen is those with the information start organizing and making serious power grabs.
Keep going Kurtis. The action you are taking is completely rational, the actions of fossil fuel execs & politicians are completely irrational. I hope this pipeline can be stopped.
I love the comment section here, its so peaceful an constructive. It seems that everyone here thinks rationally and tries to understand your cause. Anyway keep up the protesting👍
What you are doing is inspiring. I hope your pessimistic view of the current state of the world does not take a toll on your mental health. You are awsome!
If we are serious about the climate crisis then dealing with our energy needs should be our top priority. As far as I can tell, a new energy network will have to rely on a large grid powered by big solar farms, wind farms, dams and so on (to be efficient). Anyone who talks about changing society to be more equitable sounds like they aren't taking the problem seriously. Unless sustainable solutions become so miniaturized and cost effective that everyone can easily afford them to provide for their own power needs (and thus equity is easily achieved), then we are looking at a system that will seemingly be best served by bigger institutions like corporations or governments (for better or for worse).
The government has really nothing to say if regarding business. But everthing that has set open like building: Solar farms Wind farms And dams Will be used regarding the benefits of the company's in question. But maby someday the government says, lets don't make junk for one time use, for the private. // But the big problem with solar/wind farms and dams. Is that: Solar farms gives un vegetable gounds for nearly 30 years, Wind farms kills allot of bird species and creates extra obstacles for flight/sea, Dams gives a lot of ecological disorder with openning and closing the valves.
anyone who says "just build the pipe, it's a safer way to transport oil" is totally missing the point that we should be doing everyhting we can do end our dependance on oil all together
I still wonder why most of his subscribers don't watch his videos anymore, Kurtis is doing a great job for the entire world and he still do not get the attention he deserves.
Kurtis in a tree fighting climate change. Keeping the oil in the ground. Carbon capture to put the carbon back in the ground, without exploding our energy consumption. Oceans are rising. Acidification. Let’s survive the great filter.
im subscribed with notifications turned on and i feel like thats the only reason im seeing this video. Its so gross that youtube doesn't push this kinnd of content
Glad to see more people taking action it's just a shame that those in power are those who profit most from oil. Love the new angle for this video but a bit of image stabilisation would have been great. Keep up the great work
In my opinion, we can't deal with climate change under capitalism. Capitalism naturally forces the kind of cut-throat competitiveness that makes it neccisary to use any advantage, however environmentally damaging, to survive.
Capitalism doesn't get in the way of *survival*. It's hard to make a profit when you're dead. People just need to realize that the consequences will be catastrophic on that level for a good portion of the world.
@@MisterNohbdy Simply realising isn't enough, we need to build a new society that addressess the isuses in capitalism that make enviromental sustainability impossible
@@crashcrafter3911 I would suggest we start by taking full democratic control of the economy and then transition towards a socialist in society where goods are fundementally produced for use and not exchange.
Why is this guy not a lobbyist or politician to push renewables, let's change our food production let's go electric vehicle wise and let's get batteries and solar panels on every rooftop and wind turbines built to suit marine ecosystems in many areas of ocean around the world, I mean the Pacific would be ideal half of it is classed as a marine desert, utilize the space, a fraction of it would be more then enough wind power.
Pretty funny, people have protest against nuclear energie. Without consideration that is really efficient and that you can use thorium instead of uranium. Also that die same reactor of uranium can also be used for thorium roods in combination with the rest product of uranium, It still needs same modification.
I was going to say "More power to you" but that's not the right thing to say to somebody striving so hard to get us all to reduce our energy footprint. Instead I'll say keep safe. Don't get too relaxed up there.
@@tiaxanderson9725 That's a false dichotomy. I agree we need to change how we produce energy but we also need to stop wasting it in poorly insulated housing, inefficient appliances, lights left on for no reason and so forth.
difflocktwo Big Oil didn't want us to know. they benifited from planting seeds of doubt and have done this since 1988 by using the same strategies as Big Tobaco did. this is not a conspiracy theory but a wellknown fact
hey kurtis, i live in the us and im not old enough to vote, i have veen having these conversations with everyone around me but it doesn't feel like enough. everything feels hopeless and all the people in power dont have my best interests in mind. is there anything else i can do?
Cars are still using oil and gas to run. Although there are some cars that use electricity the majority use fossil fuels to run. The problem is not the pipeline but the usage of the fossil fuels. If you want to make an difference stop driving and using plastics in general. The pipeline is not the problem. The usage of fissile fuels is. Even if you stop the pipeline fossil fuels will still be used and transported other ways.
Yes, and govts should be rapidly enabling aftermarket retrofit kits for vehicles to go electric and these should be super affordable rather than to make new billionaires or older billionaires have more, because they are not good at answering the question how many billions does it take to be a billionaire that evades the core concerns in anti trust hearings or debates that are scripted and avoided if they are not. There needs to be more of a most practical approach to solving challenges, and when i see china producing electric vehicles that are as low as 1000 dollars new, it becomes understood that the material costs are not that expensive, and for slightly more cost they can be designed to really last and not generate landfill, and can be designed with multi platform adaptability built in. Right now, electric vehicle manufacturers seem to expect people that need vehicles to somehow want to pay 1000 dollars for a new fender that really is only about 10 dollars worth of materials, and that is why people are remaining using their fossil fuel burners to get around, less during a pandemic though still trying to be stuck in traffic to try to raised funds to pay govts so they wont get arrested for loitering after being kicked to the curb for not being able to afford to pay rent or land taxes even. Those that have seem to have the sociopathic gene that dictates their viewing empathy as if a weakness instead of a more powerful strength. Yes, repair the planet via including its repairable inhabitants, if to be a better world for ALL tomorrow, ideally sooner, today. The graphene from the pencil is mightier than the sword, and your guitar is a good listener. Keep on rolling when you rock. -_- Here's some thought provoking audio visual: RUSH Natural Science 109,202 views•Aug 5, 2013 Still Kickin 2.24K subscribers Music creates feeling; Good music causes thought; Exceptional music inspires the soul... Ladies and Gentlemen ------ RUSH !! [HD]
A few big problems, most electric cars aren't: fast enough in charging, light enough, having enough range, cleanly produced, cleanly powered by green energy, cheap.
As someone who lives in Phoenix AZ I had really only considered the loss of habitable land as it relates to rising sea levels. This series really made me pause and consider the prospect of a summer that is even 7°F hotter on average, sitting at 114 today is miserable but 121 would be insane. Not even accounting for the fact that the average also accounts for some places experiencing lower low temps.
@@smoot2337 He answered that in a previous video. There's no real room around those two trees (he's suspended between two, not hanging from one), due to highways and the like blocking other options.
tbh I think nuclear power is the future, not solar and wind as there’s no where to store all the energy as wind energy isn’t very consistent. With nuclear and non renewable sources it’s a consistent energy flow. It’s what makes your light bulbs not go dimmer when there’s no wind!
The problem is we still rely on oil and we will for a while before we either run out or renewables or a replacement. Do you honestly think we can make solar cargo ships? Trains can be but America isn't set up to begin this. It would cost too much.
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If the algorithm is watching I would like it to know I am engaged
S Clair Same, just commenting so ist knows
I’m more engaged in this than my class I’m supposed to be paying attention to at the moment
The worst part is that we're speeding up; not leveling off or slowing down, speeding up!
More production, more money, more better.
To me, every day has been the same for 8 years. No car, no rush in life, minimal consumption, energy saving even though I don't pay for electricity (it's covered by rent), and I ultimately don't feel like a human anymore. I can not relate to what "the people" says or how they appear in news, SoMe, or if I go outside. Governments fighting all over the world for the smallest, most pity reasons, and we are just supposed to sit by and watch..
This comment got a bit off-track, but I'm shaken to my core. I don't understand the purpose of my existence.
@@radaldk There is no purpose. Survive, be grateful that you are healthy, be a good person, and spend time with your friends. The rest matters very little.
@@Z6D4C4 and maybe make sure other people can have that experience? By keeping our planet habitable?
@@difflocktwo minus the 'better'
Best of luck Kurtis, you're awesome.
The fact that we're in our own version of The Lorax, but like in between the Thneeds and realizing we're dumbshits for destroying the world..
Kurtis, you doing important work and I‘m glad I found your channel. I think you give many people the hope to stand up an fight even if the goal seems so far out of reach. I always was kinda climate conscious but you really make me think more about possibility’s and alternatives and I want to thank you for that.
Thanks for being in a tree Kurtis!
One word: Respect
Two words: Southpark s09e02
@@kasnakalle1543 omg lol
Respect!
Planting trees is good. But we need to stop deforestation and fossil fuel burning. Period.
Yes, because planting trees isn't the same as allowing forests to evolve and live. A forest is a living heuristic organism.
Cutting trees and storing carbon as wood in buildings or furnuture is actually awesome; we just shouldn’t cut more than what grows. Deforestation is mostly done illegally in countries where the legal framework or its enforcement is weak. Rather than planting trees, we could fix the latter issue. But there are no economic interests in doing so...
Not all petroleum products are burnt in the form of fuel. Some petroleum is used to make nylon ropes, climbing harnesses, nylon bags, nylon and polyester clothing, parts of your sneakers, the plastic housing on your camera, the plastic selfie stick holding your plastic camera, tents, backpacks, etc
@@donbrasz Yes, I know and it is shite polluting everything and is now in our bodies.
@@donbrasz which can be made from hemp
Commemting again to make this video recommended. You really deserve more than 170k
Thank you for doing this and being selfless!!!!
I respect you so much and I will do my best to save our planet. You have told me so many things I didn’t even think about. You inspire me, Kurtis!
Thank you Kurtis! As someone who has done my fair share of non-violent blockades of fossil fuel(ed) infrastructure I have been wishing so badly for someone with a large audience like you to *do* the thing themselves. You have so much influence and I am grateful you are using it in the right way. To get people out and be active. I commend that.
Just one small criticism, the co-founder of XR you cited is a bit of a problematic figure and maybe not the best voice to amplify, even if you agree with this one specific statement. His comments on the holocaust has made many XR activists very angry and he is not a good representation on what XR stands for. imo.
Kudos to you! Stay strong
Good luck, I hope your fight ends with something positive!
Thank you for doing what you do
Short term money goals will always fight against long term society goals, the needs of the wealthy fiscally trounce the needs of the many
Billionaires really shouldn't even exist if we want what's best for our society
@@crouton3455 unless they are called Elon Musk
@Sasha Da Masta Elon cares about this planet though. He once said that he doesn't mind if Tesla fails due to another company producing better and more environmentally friendly cars than Tesla because it would be better for the planet.
He still uses child labor in his mines so no he is a greedy asshole
ummmm no. The idea of "Delayed gratification" disagrees with you.
you always fight the noble fight. You're an inspiration, good luck!
The world seriously needs to come together and make more news about it, NOT MAKE NEWS ABOUT MEGHAN CLOSING A CAR DOOR!
True, but most people aren't deeply interested in these topics.
But like it, when they are beeing hyped ( content served to them ).
The age of information has convinced me that information in and of itself is useless. Plus, most people are WILLFULLY ignorant, they think its very cool not not learn things. What must happen is those with the information start organizing and making serious power grabs.
Keep going Kurtis. The action you are taking is completely rational, the actions of fossil fuel execs & politicians are completely irrational. I hope this pipeline can be stopped.
I love the comment section here, its so peaceful an constructive.
It seems that everyone here thinks rationally and tries to understand your cause.
Anyway keep up the protesting👍
Thinking about this makes me deeply deeply sad.
Carry on Soldier of the Earth!
What you are doing is inspiring. I hope your pessimistic view of the current state of the world does not take a toll on your mental health. You are awsome!
If we are serious about the climate crisis then dealing with our energy needs should be our top priority.
As far as I can tell, a new energy network will have to rely on a large grid powered by big solar farms, wind farms, dams and so on (to be efficient).
Anyone who talks about changing society to be more equitable sounds like they aren't taking the problem seriously.
Unless sustainable solutions become so miniaturized and cost effective that everyone can easily afford them to provide for their own power needs (and thus equity is easily achieved), then we are looking at a system that will seemingly be best served by bigger institutions like corporations or governments (for better or for worse).
The government has really nothing to say if regarding business.
But everthing that has set open like building:
Solar farms
Wind farms
And dams
Will be used regarding the benefits of the company's in question.
But maby someday the government says, lets don't make junk for one time use, for the private.
//
But the big problem with solar/wind farms and dams.
Is that:
Solar farms gives un vegetable gounds for nearly 30 years,
Wind farms kills allot of bird species and creates extra obstacles for flight/sea,
Dams gives a lot of ecological disorder with openning and closing the valves.
anyone who says "just build the pipe, it's a safer way to transport oil" is totally missing the point that we should be doing everyhting we can do end our dependance on oil all together
Oké, so what is a good opponent against oil.
There are a lot of oil based products out there, with pretty big companies.
I actually thought this shot was really cool and didn't mind the shakiness! Keep up the great work :)
The only way to win this is to make the cost for the company to building the pipeline greater than the profit. I don't think that can be done.
It will be difficult, but it can be done if enough of us really commit to making it happen.
Just bump’n the algorithm ... More videos like this need to go viral.
You make some great points.
Finally a youtuber with sources, and alot of it
I still wonder why most of his subscribers don't watch his videos anymore, Kurtis is doing a great job for the entire world and he still do not get the attention he deserves.
We have the technology now to make major change! We need action now not a hope of a magic technology to solve our problems
Kurtis in a tree fighting climate change. Keeping the oil in the ground. Carbon capture to put the carbon back in the ground, without exploding our energy consumption. Oceans are rising. Acidification. Let’s survive the great filter.
we could also build some nuclear power plants but it seems ppl are just to irrational to do so...
Thank you for doing this. Thank you for spreading information. Thank you.
Hang in there ! Keep your courage
you are awesome
Thanks for bringing more attention to this topic.
1:15 you forgot nuclear fission, the current less carbonaceous way to produce electricity
That should be on top of all these lists. But we're doomed. No one wants nuclear.
@@difflocktwo Couldn't agree more. We should be building modern reactors
This needs so much more attention!
No more oil!
Stay strong
im subscribed with notifications turned on and i feel like thats the only reason im seeing this video. Its so gross that youtube doesn't push this kinnd of content
Thank you Kurtis .
Thanks, keep it up!
Informative video kurtis. Thanks.
Kurtis, do you think nuclear is a good investment at this point? Also how have you been exercising up there?
money wins every time. wish I had your dedication and hopefulness
Thank you Kurtis!!
Yes kurtis! Thanks for this!
Yes this is a good video
Wow, this is amazing! Way to go
What do you think about nuclear energy as a substitute?
what can we do to help you personally 🥺 like a cashapp link or something??
Don't give up. This is important.
I got such an anxiety watching the ground below I barely could concentrate on the information itself
Nonetheless, respect!
Sorry! Trying to give people a sense of what it's like here 😮
needs more views, this whole series does
Thank you so much.
Glad to see more people taking action it's just a shame that those in power are those who profit most from oil. Love the new angle for this video but a bit of image stabilisation would have been great. Keep up the great work
In my opinion, we can't deal with climate change under capitalism. Capitalism naturally forces the kind of cut-throat competitiveness that makes it neccisary to use any advantage, however environmentally damaging, to survive.
Capitalism doesn't get in the way of *survival*. It's hard to make a profit when you're dead.
People just need to realize that the consequences will be catastrophic on that level for a good portion of the world.
@@MisterNohbdy Simply realising isn't enough, we need to build a new society that addressess the isuses in capitalism that make enviromental sustainability impossible
And what economic system would you suggest then? Capitalism has his downside but it is by far the best way of life for most people
@@crashcrafter3911 I would suggest we start by taking full democratic control of the economy and then transition towards a socialist in society where goods are fundementally produced for use and not exchange.
You mean unchecked capitalism.
Why is this guy not a lobbyist or politician to push renewables, let's change our food production let's go electric vehicle wise and let's get batteries and solar panels on every rooftop and wind turbines built to suit marine ecosystems in many areas of ocean around the world, I mean the Pacific would be ideal half of it is classed as a marine desert, utilize the space, a fraction of it would be more then enough wind power.
We need to use more nuclear power energy. It's clean and the most efficient. Renewable energy can't stand alone
Pretty funny, people have protest against nuclear energie.
Without consideration that is really efficient and that you can use thorium instead of uranium.
Also that die same reactor of uranium can also be used for thorium roods in combination with the rest product of uranium,
It still needs same modification.
More pipelines = more sunk costs = more incentive to keep going for years. Trucks can stop driving tomorrow. Tar sands are terrible.
how do you not have more subscribers?
thanks and well played !
Commenting to keep this recommended
I was going to say "More power to you" but that's not the right thing to say to somebody striving so hard to get us all to reduce our energy footprint.
Instead I'll say keep safe. Don't get too relaxed up there.
Our energy consumption doesn't necessarily have to go down, the source of our energy production needs to change
@@tiaxanderson9725 That's a false dichotomy. I agree we need to change how we produce energy but we also need to stop wasting it in poorly insulated housing, inefficient appliances, lights left on for no reason and so forth.
Great video bro
respect
Exxon Mobile, Shell, Chevron, and BP have destroyed the planet
They power everything we do.
difflocktwo they could have transitioned to sustainable energy, such as wind, ages ago. they are pigs.
@@namelastname4077 We didn't want them to.
difflocktwo Big Oil didn't want us to know. they benifited from planting seeds of doubt and have done this since 1988 by using the same strategies as Big Tobaco did. this is not a conspiracy theory but a wellknown fact
He's a hero
hey kurtis, i live in the us and im not old enough to vote, i have veen having these conversations with everyone around me but it doesn't feel like enough. everything feels hopeless and all the people in power dont have my best interests in mind. is there anything else i can do?
Eco terrorism.
@@difflocktwo i have considered that but its the least rational thing i feel like.
I'm really sorry you feel this way, I can relate. Joining a youth climate group might be an idea? Together we have power.
@@hollyexley People have been saying the same thing since the beginning of time.
@@hollyexley thanks, i think my friends are in one of those
Great work!!!
Great work! Good luck.
My only quibble is that, at 4:03, you said, "Nucular fusion". You know better than that!
keep fighting!
Cars are still using oil and gas to run. Although there are some cars that use electricity the majority use fossil fuels to run. The problem is not the pipeline but the usage of the fossil fuels. If you want to make an difference stop driving and using plastics in general. The pipeline is not the problem. The usage of fissile fuels is. Even if you stop the pipeline fossil fuels will still be used and transported other ways.
You're a badass
Yes, and govts should be rapidly enabling aftermarket retrofit kits for vehicles to go electric and these should be super affordable rather than to make new billionaires or older billionaires have more, because they are not good at answering the question how many billions does it take to be a billionaire that evades the core concerns in anti trust hearings or debates that are scripted and avoided if they are not. There needs to be more of a most practical approach to solving challenges, and when i see china producing electric vehicles that are as low as 1000 dollars new, it becomes understood that the material costs are not that expensive, and for slightly more cost they can be designed to really last and not generate landfill, and can be designed with multi platform adaptability built in. Right now, electric vehicle manufacturers seem to expect people that need vehicles to somehow want to pay 1000 dollars for a new fender that really is only about 10 dollars worth of materials, and that is why people are remaining using their fossil fuel burners to get around, less during a pandemic though still trying to be stuck in traffic to try to raised funds to pay govts so they wont get arrested for loitering after being kicked to the curb for not being able to afford to pay rent or land taxes even. Those that have seem to have the sociopathic gene that dictates their viewing empathy as if a weakness instead of a more powerful strength.
Yes, repair the planet via including its repairable inhabitants, if to be a better world for ALL tomorrow, ideally sooner, today.
The graphene from the pencil is mightier than the sword, and your guitar is a good listener. Keep on rolling when you rock. -_-
Here's some thought provoking audio visual:
RUSH Natural Science
109,202 views•Aug 5, 2013
Still Kickin
2.24K subscribers
Music creates feeling; Good music causes thought; Exceptional music inspires the soul... Ladies and Gentlemen ------ RUSH !! [HD]
A few big problems, most electric cars aren't:
fast enough in charging,
light enough,
having enough range,
cleanly produced,
cleanly powered by green energy,
cheap.
💚💚💚
How did they set up the tent thing in a tree canopy
As someone who lives in Phoenix AZ I had really only considered the loss of habitable land as it relates to rising sea levels. This series really made me pause and consider the prospect of a summer that is even 7°F hotter on average, sitting at 114 today is miserable but 121 would be insane. Not even accounting for the fact that the average also accounts for some places experiencing lower low temps.
Obligatory comment for the sake of the TH-cam algorithm.
Yeah Kurtis!
Woah. You’re a real one.
Companies find the path of least resistance where it makes the largest short term profit
Awesome!!!
What are the numbers that come up in the bottom right? [ 3 ]
References. They are links in the description if you want to fact check me or learn more 👍
@@ScopeofScience awesome keep up the good work man you're an inspiration to us all!!!
Keep it up!
snowpiercer directed by bong joon ho has made me very doubtful of geoengineering 😬
I'm a bit slow so apologies, but how exactly does camping in a tree stop the construction of a pipeline?
@Strange Catto But couldn't they just build it around the tree?
@@smoot2337 He answered that in a previous video. There's no real room around those two trees (he's suspended between two, not hanging from one), due to highways and the like blocking other options.
Honnestly i think nuclear fusion is the key to the electricity problem, like the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
I hope this works
All I can say is yes
Contributing to the algorithm
tbh I think nuclear power is the future, not solar and wind as there’s no where to store all the energy as wind energy isn’t very consistent. With nuclear and non renewable sources it’s a consistent energy flow. It’s what makes your light bulbs not go dimmer when there’s no wind!
This guy left his tent after a day and never stopped anything or in contact with the pipeline folks.
Planting trees gets you tree plantations....not forests.
The problem is we still rely on oil and we will for a while before we either run out or renewables or a replacement. Do you honestly think we can make solar cargo ships? Trains can be but America isn't set up to begin this. It would cost too much.
are you getting bored up there?
I am actually so so busy - which reminds me, its almost 1pm and I need to eat before a meeting :|
Let's make it pop in the algorithm...
...was Jacques Fresco right with the venus project...